The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-07-10
Verified Report that Filibusters
Are Coming from Puget Sound.
Large and Small Ammunition Sent to
the Sound by Rail VIII be Taken on
Board the Schooner G.. w. Watson
Outside Cape Flattery-To Beat Malls

The Seattle, Wash, Post-lnteIl1-
gencer, in its issue Of June 25th,
prints the subjoined story concern
ing a filibustering expedition
which started from that place the
following day. The report has
been verified by private letters re-
ceived in this city by the Coptic /:
The schooner G.. w. Watson, which
cleared from this port at the local
custom Office yesterday with 575, 900
feet of lumber and also shingles for
Honolulu is not as innocent as she
looks, according to information from
an apparently reliable source which
reached the Post-Intelligencer yes
terday. If she succeeds in her pur-
pose her cargo may be the cause of
more bloodshed in the island re-
public.
According to the informant, who
has every means of learning accurate
facts, large shipment of field pieces,
small arms and ammunition has been
made to the Sound by rail, and is
either stored or cached at points along
the Sound in the vicinity of Everett
and Whatcom. After the Watson
rounds Cape Flattery she will dump
her big cargo of lumber into the sea,
and a large and accountable number
of sloops and schooners of small size
will mysteriously sail seaward from
near the points named, bearing the
new cargo for the Watson after her
lumber cargo has gone overheard.
She will then head for small island
in the Hawaiian group: which has
been selected and is peculiarly adapt
ed to the landing CT the cOntraband
cargo. Then, if she succeeds, an in
surrection may be expected at any
time.
a Crew of Fighting Men.
The Watson arrived at Port Town
send some three weeks ago, and one
of her sailors stated that she would
load lumber at Port Gamble, but she
went to Port Blakeley instead. A
well trained sailor applied there to
the captain for work, but was refused.
He, however, discovered the fact that
the boat had very large crew, COM
posed not only of sailors, but men
who understand something else be-
sides, and that thorOughly-thea art Of
filibustering. In fact no man was
wanted who was not up to the bust
ness and in sympathy with Queen
Lii, and of that kind none too many
could be had.
The Watson, however, did not load
a cargo at Port Blakeley, but upon the
pretext that there were too many yes
sells at the mill she was towed over to
this port and loaded at Kerry's mill.
1t was probably the intention to try to
get her secret cargo aboard here, but
it now transpires that she had not the
opportunity.
She is a trim built, fast-sailing,
three-masted schooner, and will make
good time when she gets under way.
Hoping to Beat the Mail.
The south bound Northern Pacific
train which left here yesterday after
noon at l o'clock to connect with the
California train at Portland, carried
the last mail which can catch the
next mail steamer from San Francisco
to Honolulu, and the schooner was
very cleverly held here and not
cleared until after that train had gone.
She tried to get to sea quickly, in the
expectation that, with fast sailing
and fair winds, she could beat the
mail steamer to the islands. She
will then have the advantage of keep
ing any Information that might have
started to the Hawaiian Government
in the rear until the scheme could be
we'll under way, and perhaps carried
out in full.