Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-06-09
AFFAIRS In HONOLULU
A Plot to Blow Up tie Bar
rack Frustrated.
THEY THINK 1T is ANNEXATION

Provisional Governments Talking of Re-
taliating on SprecxeIs-His Loan Paid
BY Subscr, ption &C. organizing Citizens
Guard-AH'airs in Samoa.
HONOLULU, June 1, via SAN Francisco,
June 9.-No one knows how or why, but
the fact remains that the annexation
party of Hawaii have settled in their own
minds that the United States is going to
establish a protectorate over the is ands.
Annexation, except as something in the
future, is now discussed; the cry annex
tion," or nothing, no is onger heard. 1t is
reported that Minister Blount has dropped
hint that a protectorate is the thing to
look for. If the constant protestations OF
the royalists are to be believed, they have
no intention of making a move until af-
Ter the decision of the United States is
known.
So far, Claus Spreckels has not gained
much by his efforts to embarra3 10 the gov
ernment financially. Min ster of Finance
Damon betruys no concern about the mat
ter. Retaliation is now being discussed.
There is talk of st piping the subsidy of
81, 600 per month paid to Spreckels'
when the Oceanic line WAS of great value
to Hawaii, but now the new Ca a lian Pa
Citc line the Pacific Mail and the Occi
dental and Oriental steamship companies
make Honolulu port of call, and the an
neXationists do not deem the Oceanic line
essential to their p: osperity.
Honolulu had genuine dynamite scare
last night. During concern ut the Ha-
waiian hotel at which most of the peeps
q tn Lad
saw three men acting in suspicious man
ner near the OK Queens residence on Wash
ington Place. When ordered to halt two
of the men drove off in a hack and the
third ran away i'll the darkness Near
where the man on foot was seen the Off
GERS discovered three dynamite bombs AMI
Il small bottle of illuminate of mercury.
Company E. of the Volunteers was called
out Immediately and guarded the palace
and barracks all night.
II is thought by officers of the Provi-
sional government that the bombs were to
have been used to blow up the barracks in
which the Provisional army was sleeping
President Dole when sen stated that lie
thought that the finding of the bombs
was proof of the reported conspiracy to
| restore the Queen, did Attorney Gen
| eral Smith. The Royalsts are indignant
| at the assertion.
panies has been in progress of orsanizl =
| tion very quietly during the past few days.
About 800 have already joined Several
hundred Springfield rifles for their use ar
rived on the Monowai.
The 500. 900 loan to the government by
Claus Spreckels, the immediate payment of
which was demanded May 20, was all
subscribed among business houses on the
| 1sG inst. in about 20 minutes.
o1-DIs, h,I int !
Queen on May 81, when, it is believed, he
proposed to reinstate her on the condition
of her giving him 30-yer leases at low
rates on large tracts of crown lands adj
| jacent to his sugar estates and elsewhere.
| He expects that annexation will put those
| lands out of his reach by cutting them up
for white settlers. His proposition was
not accepted
Although no official news has yet been
made public it is stated that the govern
| ment has received private letters from
Washington assuring them that pro-
| tectorate will be declared By the United
| States.
Ex-Queen Liliuoknlani is preparing a
| lengthy statement to be given to Minister
| Blount. In it she recites the history of
her short reign, the causes leading to her
| downfall, and gives her views as to I'M
| business of her treatment by the Provi.
sional government.
| Among the passengers on the steamer
| Alameda, which brought this despatch WAS
| Rev. Thomas Spurgeon, who, aft er Il stay
of two days in this city, will go to Chca-
| so, where he will hold "a two weeks revi-
val with Mr. Moody. Mr.. Sturgeon then
leaves for London, where he will assume
charge of the Tabernacle formerly occupied
by his father.
Capt Fisher of the German gunboat
| Sperber, came up from Samoa. He says
| that the affairs there are in a very unset
tied state, and that another outbreak is
| liable to occur at any time.