The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-07-10

over, as some poi which had evidently
| dropped from a container was seen
now and then. The men who were
with Miller were Evanston, Gunther,
| Bluhm, Thoene and Johnson.
The party followed the trail through
| some thick brush, and after walking
| long distance they came across a
! camp, which had evidently been left
in n hurry. Some fresh orange peel
was found on the ground, a piece of
| fish wrapped III ii leaves, two bags of
/ taro, one bag of piai, some salt and a
/ coat containing two cartridges. There
were some sleeping places, which in
/ dictated that at least sight persons had
| slept there last night.
After everything was examined
word was sent to Major Pratt, who
was searching with his party in
a different direction, and his men re-
| paired to the newly-discovered camp.
! When he arrived he came to the con-
clusion that Koolau and his family
| had been living at that place and that
when they heard the soldiers coming
they ran further up the side of the
mountain, not even remaining long
enough TO take any food with them.
The rest of the story is told in the
words of Corporal McAulton: "By all
appearances Koolau and his family
must have left when our searching
party came upon them. We found
loaded cartridges which they must
have dropped when they loaded their
| rifles. By the appearance of the camp
there must have been eight or nine
persons who camped there last night.
"By a thorough search we found a
new trail which led US across a small
creek. The path took us up a steep
ridge, to height of about 500 feet at
least, until we struck a straight cliff.
"Pratt ordered one or two men TO
volunteer for the purpose of finding
out where the trail led to. Evans
ton and Anderson agreed to go. They
both started to climb the ridge, fol-
lowed by Miller and some soldier
whom 1 could not distinguish. An
derson gained the top and shouted
down, Boys, / have got the TRAIL
He hardly had the words out of his
mouth when two shots were fired
simultaneously. Evanston dropped
on top of me, while in turn dropped
on Pratt; Miller fell on all of US. The
next thing / knew L was among a lot
of vines rolling down the ridge, as L
could not get foothold.
ave then retreated, and while we
were on our way to the camp where
the police headquarters were, firing
on the ridge, where Koolau was
located, was kept up for fifteen min
utes. Johnson soon Joined us and re-
ported that he fell down from the rock
and rolled down the ridge. He did not
stop rolling down the ridge until he
reached a gulch-a distance of about
800 feet. He lost his gun and cap, and
is badly bruised. We retreated as far
as the camp where the leperS slept
l., L., 4 III TO-
port at headquarters for reinforce
ments.n
During conversation with Me-
Aulton, it was learned that Koolau is
entrenched on a ridge on the Waimea
side of the valley. He is resting on a
sort of tableland on which there is q
large rock which protects him from
rifle balls. He is situated in such
way that he can shoot every man who
attempts to get near him. AS it was
the soldiers were about twenty feet
from him when Anderson was shot.
The next information to reach
Camp Dole was Of a more pleasant
nature. 1t was to the effect that
Manuia and the four missing lepers
were on their way to the valley. Soon
after the party was seen descending q
hill on the Hanalei side. They were
accompane ed by William Kinney and
the two natives who were sent to
search for them. The lepers We're
found on the trail near Haena. They
surrendered willingly, as they bad
nothing TO eat for about twenty-four
hours. They had but one rifle and one
revolver with them, which were left
at Kinney's place. The lepers soon
reached the camp, and were given
something to eat, after which they
were placed in hut under guard.
The following is list of the lepers:
Kala, age % (l.); Kali, age 10 tk.);
Meliaka, age Is w.; Nihoa, age a
(k.). Manuia, the fifth one, is not a
leper. He is married to Meliaka, and
is detained as witness to the murder
of StolZ.