The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-26
LETTERS FROM WILLIS.
Further Details of the Uprising OF
Hawaiian H0ya1ists.

Hawaiian ROyalists.
WASHINGTON, Jan. S.-In the last Ha-
waiian mail which reached the State De-
partment there were but two dispatches
from Minister Willis, dated Jan. and IL.
One speaks Of further immigration OF
japanese coolie laborers. and the other
adds details to the facts contained in the
minister's telegram received from San
Francisco last Monday. The first of the
dispatches is dated Jan. 5, and Is as fol-
lows:
"Sir-The preliminary examination In the
Messrs. Bush, Nawahi and Crick-the last
named an Englishman-were committed to
await trial in February. Messrs Weed
and Tinker were discharged. There have
been many rumors of instruction, some
of which appear to have been well found
ed. Several persons were arrested yester-
day and others are under surveillance. The
community whole has not been dis
turbed by these events and business does
not seem to have been interrupted.
THE English war vessel hyacinth left
port week ago. and there Is no national
ship here at present. The departure of the
Hyacinth had been postponed from time to
time on petitions of English citizens.
New immigration companies have been
formed In Japan, one of which has just re-
cruited five hundred laborefs who arrived
yesterday the steamer Bentala. The
shipments of Japanese goods continue,
averaging recently thousand tons per
steamer
In the second letter, dated Jan. H. Mr..
Willis, after repeating the telegram he had
sent describing the attempt at revolution,
continues as follows:
"As reported to you in my number 70 of
Jan. 5. there have been for several weeks
actual encounter took place. A squad of
government police CHawaan) accompanied
by Deputy Marshal Brown. Hon. c. l..
Carter and several others, undertook a
search for arms on the premises of d half
white named Bertemann, who resides
Waikiki beach, about five miles from the
center of this city. The searching party
was fired by royalists secreted in a
bath house near by, resulting in the wound
Hon. Charles l.. Carter. After more firing,
the royalists retreated to tue crater of an
extinct volcano, Diamond Head, from which
they were the following day dislodged by
the government forces. They are to-day
reported to be surrounded in the adjoin-
ing mountains without supplies and reduced
to thirty men.
ION the morning of the 7th inst, martial
law was declared, since which probably
them are three ex-Attorney- generals and
other prominent persons representing vari-
Gus nationalities. Many of these arrests
have been. as the government officers
state, precautionary. / have the assurance
of the Attorney general that the cases of
the United States citizens under arrest will
be promptly investigated and justly dealt
with.
I'm the telegram I have quoted the re-
mark OF HTeSlUenI OOie ludl lie was BTdLl-
fed at the absence from port of any ma
tional ship. 1T gave his government he
said, an opportunity to prove It's ability
would most probably insure permanent
peace. Similar views, as I have heretofore
reported, were expressed by Minister Hatch
when the Philadelphia was about to de-
part.
THE number of rolayistS under arms was
not probably half large first reported;
OF foreigners (white) there are not half a
dozen. The feeling indicated by the news
paper slips inclosed is for extreme meas
against all involved, but thus far moth
ing has been DONE