The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-05-28
Los Angeles Officials Positive None
Are Fitting Out There.
VIEWS OF FoRmEK RESIDENTS.
Old Story That ThurstOn Is in Favor of
Restoring the Monarchy VOlney
Ashford DenOuncss the Government.
Olympia Coming other News.

Los ANGELES, May l4-Chief OF
Police Glass has received a letter from
| Honolulu stating that Los Angeles or
vicinity has been selected as the head
quarters for the operation of a section
of the rOyalist faction which is seeking
to overthrow the Hawaiian Republic.
The letter reads as follows:
CHIEF OF POLICE, Los Angeles, Cal.
| DEAR SIR: | have received infOrma-
| ton that a filibustering party is beikg
formed at or near your city for the pur-
pose of Overthrowing this Republic.
I know that $l50,000 have been sub
| scribed here for that purpose. Please
investigate and inform me as soon as
| possible, that 1 may be able to give
this Government timely warning.
There are signs of great activity here
| among the rOyalists, and L think we
shall soon have trouble. Awaiting an
early reply, l am yours truly,
a. d. MCEVOY,
Secret Service, Hawaiian Islands.
Chief Glass has investigated the
matter and has replied that he finds
no sign of the reported fiIlbustering
expedition in this vicinity.
Chief Glass stated that the efforts of
his office to unearth the filibusters in
Los Angeles had been without success,
and that he was inclined to regard the
letter as hoax.
United States Marshal Covarrubias,
who, being of Castilian descent, has
large acquaintance among the Mex
lean and Spanish elements, as we'll as
among Americans, laughed at the
idea. It is possible, but not probable,
hot for iZiF hop hf1t
1 don t believe they are. How could
any body of men get out of here with
out attracting attention."
I Los ANGELES, May 17.-There is
plotting in Los Angeles against the
Hawaiian Republic, but nothing has
yet been accomplished so far as known
and the matter has not yet reached
stage where the police can take action.
Tn fact, the parties to the plots are un-
known except to one or two people who
disapprOve any efforts in that line and
regard the affair as wild speculation.
RumOrs of plots were first thought
to have grown out of the efforts of
well known real estate agent to form
company of Americans to go to the
islands 10 sustain by force of arms not
the rOyalist side, but that of the Re
public, and some correspondence was
carried on to that effect with President
Dole, who replied courteOusly to these
offers of assistance, but expressed be-
lief in the ability of his Government
to hold its own without extraneOus
assistance.
It is said that Dole subsequently had
reason to doubt the good faith of his
correspondent, and from this it was
suspected that the letter of A. D. Nc
Evoy, the alleged agent of the secret
service department in Honolulu,
warning the chief of police in Los An
geles that efforts were being made to
raise party of filibusters here, had its
origin.
Chief Glass was seen by the Chron-
icle correspondent today and the letter
of Mr.. McEvoy was brought forth for
inspection. While on paper bearing
the imprint of the MarshaPs office, it
was not dated and the paper might
have been five years old and procured
in other than the regular official way. |
The envelope bore the legend, ODE |
partment OF the AttOrney-General," |
but the Marshal's Office does not neces- |
sarily use these envelopes, so that the |
covering and contents need not have |
come from this Office.
The letter was written in an un-
skilled hand, and some of the common
est words were misspelled, plainly |
stamping the writer as illiterate.
Former residents of the islands now |
in Los Angeles are few, but they fol- |
low affairs there with Zest. Joe Wise |
man, agent for the acknowledgment |
of labor contracts at Honolulu some |
where between the seventies and eight
les, said: sI know of no efforts to
a party here, but from infOr
nation [ have received l know that
before the end of the year the mon
archy will be restored" This infor--
nation, he said, came to him from
the islands.
DR.. Hogan, at one time a member
of the Board of Health of Hawaii and
uperintendent of the insane asylum
at Honolulu, said: "My sympathies
are all with the natives, though Dole
and others of the Government are per-
sOnal friends, and [ believe that Kai-
ulani, whom | knew when she was
still child, will be able to reconcile
all differences. 1t would never do to
put the old queen back. Yes, it would
be the easiest thing in the world to
raise almost any number of men here,
men who know nothing of either side,
but who would go into it for the mere
Do you know Of such parties, doc
tO'?' queried the correspondent.
"No, [ don't" was the reply, but
his answer was evasive The doctor
was sanguine that an effort could sue