Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-08-05
WITH \ COWBOY ARMY.
Hawaiian Filibusters Hoped to
 Restore Queen Lii.
ANOTHER ALLEGED PLOT EXPOSED.

and Divide Up the SpOilss
 SAN FRANCISCO Aug. 5.-The Chron- icle prints the following story exposing an alleged plot to restore Queen Liliuokalani and loot Honolulu. Rudolph Spreckels, youngest son of Claus Spreckels, is said to be backing the scheme:
 One of the best equipped and most dan gerous filibustering expeditions ever fltto1 San Francisco on Saturday. Its object is or was to take the Hawaiian republic by force of arms, restore to the throne ex- Queen Liliuokalani, and divide money and goods worth approximately $20, GOO, GOO among some 900 freebooters picked up by ones and twos in western America.
 The active agent of the conspirators Is W. P. Morrow, native of Connecticut, aged 31 years, and he was recently resi- dent of Grass Valley, Cal. He is still in San Francisco under surveillance, so that the federal authorities can get him if they want to do so.
 The .headquarters of the f1libusterinR expedition has been at I'll Bush street, a dingy fiat fronted boarding house. There the agent of the conspirators has been re- ceiving day and night motley crowd of men who respond to his cautiously worded advertisements published in the city and elsewhere.
 Morrow admitted when he was forced into a corner and told that the game was up that he had been engaging men to go into Hawaii and overturn the republic.
 He had told before to a reporter that the thing was to be done, and had stated plainly who the men were and what was to be done and had stated plainly who the men were behind the scheme. Among them he mentioned one of the exiled Ashfords and he declared that Rudolph Spreckels was the man with the money who was backing the project. Spreckels, he said, had already concealed a large number of rifles on the island of Maui, so that they would be ready when the flli- busters reached the islands.
 Advertise For Men.
 The first local intimation of the expedi- tion appeared in an advertisement few days ago. The advertisement which led to the discovery of the filibustering scheme appeared in a morning paper on Tuesday, July 8. It reads:
 "Timbermen and hunters wanted to es- cort prospecting party. Good pay to good men. State age. Fare $16. Address Box ], 1859, Examiner office.''
 A Chronicle reporter answered this ad- vertisement, and in few hours received the following typewritten reply:
 ''We want men for an expedition, and there will probably be some fighting in the interest of g, ,OOO people with less than 1000 to oppose. them.
 "Only a small organized body>to beat, not exceeding TOO, who amount to only little as soldiers, being newly recruited and officered by civilians without capaci- ty or discipline. Pay, $25 and upward per month, according to what you can do; al- so grant of enough fruit or coffee land in bearing to fix you for life. You will have to furnish rifle and ammunition. If prospects suit you, answer, and a meeting can be arranged"
 It was easy to see what this meant. The 5000 people are the royalists and the natives of the Hawaiian Islands. The 5000 are the people who are loyal to the Dole republic. The reporter then arranged an interview with MT. Morrow, and called upon him at the boarding house on Bush street. The expedition was discussed and the reporter evinced desire to join it.
 Have you any idea of the goal of this expedition?" he was asked.
 The Chronicle reporter said that he thought it might be Salvador.
 That is a mistake" was the reply. "The scheme is to restore the queen of the Sandwich Islands to her throne. We will enlist 200 to 400 men from here and take sailing vessel from this port within ten days or two weeks. We have given out false information as to our starting point, telling people that wo were to start from the north to Alaska or some other north. ern port. We shall, however go from here in about ten days. It will cost $16 to buy the necessary outfit of clothes and ammu- nition, arms etc.
 Booty For the RevOlutiOnists.
 
 ters of the landed property in the islands, and the proposition is if the expedi- tiOn is successful, to distribute the cap- tured property to the sadherents and send Dole and his supporters out of the islands without cent. The standing army con- sists of 120 men and 10 officers besides a militia of 5S0 men. The armament of the standing army is six gatling guns, which are stationed at the palace.
 'In the city of Honolulu the Dole gov ernment claims 5000 adherents, and of these 5000 there are 1000 who are friends of the rOyaliStS, and out of the 120 men who make up the standing army we claim to have five men who are ready to do the bidding of the revolutionary party, and out of the militia we can command the services of 90 men.
 'The proposition is to capture the five steamers that ply between the islands, and then approach Honolulu and capture the revenue office and bank of Bishop & Co.,, there being from $500, 900 to $500, 900 in the revenue boxes and bank. "The proposition in regard to the queen Is to place her on the throne as & mere fig urehead, the head of the revolutionary party to be in control of affairs.
 Rudolph Spreckels has planted 1000 stands of arms to be used by the revolu- tionists on the island of Maui.
 "The Spreckels have little use for the provisional government. They could fur nish arms to the natives except that the natives could not use them, and to this fact attribute the failure of the last up- rising.
 ''In the party that is to leave from here are three 7r tour men who are acquainted with every inch of the island. Among them is VOlney B. Ashford, the head of the present affair in name. I say in name because Ashford is partly to blame for the l last affair. We have an attorney who is giving us advice and who Is to accompany the expedition. His name is Bashford. In regard to the makeup of the party there are 500 men, nearly all cowboys from New Mexico, Arizona and Texas, and most of them are here." Morrow said that the natives and peo- pie in the islands would welcome the rev. olutionary party, and, as he expressed it, would consider it like getting out O1 hell into heaven" to have the government ! a monarchy again.
 The Plan of Action.
 'The first point after landing will be to take the fire alarm system. and the next point will be the telephone system in order to cut off communication, said Mir. Morrow. Next will be the police station, where there are only about 20 men, whose arms and amn1unition are on the 0pper | foOrs while the men are down below. Next would be the palace, where the gat- ling guns are stationed on piazza. We also depend on some of our spies to crip- pie couple of the gatling guns. Next we shall take the government building,