The Hawaiian gazette., 1894-04-13

hepFeIucS1 IrOn the S2n FRANCISCO
Chronicle.
late Brigadier-GeneraI SAMSON, who
was killed in India Captain SAMSON,
3 brother, was q noted insurgent Off
Ger under Balmsceda and died fight
ing in Chile The present Captain
SAMSON OF Hawaiian notoriety holds
s commission in the English yeoman
cavalry.
When the half-breeds and Indians,
headed by Louis Rel, rebelled against
Canadian rule in 1855 SAMSON went to
the front IS correspondent for the
Toronto Mail, buying the place of a
volunteer in Steers trooper scouts, a
company which saw the hardest fight
ing OF the campaign. SAMSON was in
eight engagements, and was awarded
medal for bravery and herOism.
For five years he hes assumed the
role OF sOcisl lion and club man, and
on the 1r~t announcement Of hI- mil
itsry aspiration il WzS rather difficult
TO recognize the bold buccaneer in the
erstEhile club iOunger and gentleman
Of leisure
On his return to Vancouver a Chron-
icle correspondent interviewed San
som. Opening 8 drawer in his office
desk. he pointed 10 a large number Of
letters, saying These were received
from officers and sons of officers Of the
United Ststes army offering advice
and, in one or two instances, money;
from Canadian officers and volunteers
offering their services snd advice, and
one l. from 8 general in the Brit
ish army. / will read you portions
Of it."
The extracts said: II was pleased
TO see by newspaper dispatches that
you were enlistiug men for service in
Honolulu on behalf Of HaHaii's
queen You are not committing any
breach Of international Law, as the
queen Who i sovereign, has q right
70 raise trO0T=, aud foreign subjects
have a right 10 go 10 Honolulu and
enlist in the service Of the queen. II
were = young man / should like
nothing better than 70 20 TO the front
with you"
The signature. genuine or not, was
that Of 3 man famous the world over.
SAMSON also showed letters from
prominent HOuoiu.b ROyalists whose
names zre constantly before the
public, but their contents he kept se-
eFet
yes" said SAMSON, Il have had
practical offers Of assistance, a fully
equipped vessel and a persOnal and in
diTIduzl promise Ct so volunteers and
several thousand dollars ia money. /
have done nothing because my sup
posed friends whom / trusted exposed
some % my plans and the Provisional
Government sized some q my letter..
At present. any decided action would
@ premature"
a II Battle, IN. Hawaiian Consul
here, has asEeI me ia vain [ deny
the newspaper reports Mr. Neon
nell, agent q tie Provisional Govern
meut, came all the way % Vancouver
% diss1zde me ~ suggestions, covert
threats and inuenda-, To abandon nv
ALLEGED military scheme.
"Ye, IL il true that q number Of
veterans and eK-SOgrhEesr REBELLION
men have embarked by the CznadIsn-
Australian steamers for Hawaii They
are there 10 - ready if the call 10
arms l. given. / Will 20 % Honolulu
and will send nny card 70 President
Dole sc Traveller 80 = strange land II
/ an refused = lzE1i8g I stall land
anyway.
+" II ! am put In prison I shall appeal
% the British Government a. . Brit
ish subject
zlo not after BOiOriety. I have
ueen offered SEQ for the exclusive
privilege d s-iling ny photograph,
and have declined
.fO1 zsk me If 7 sm going 10
attempt 10 r=iH.fste the Queen. Well,
i an not PREPARED 70 answer that;
Esit and SER