The Wilmington daily Republican., 1895-08-05

aged 81, and, he says, recently a resident
Of Grass Valley, Cal. He is now In San
Francisco under police surveillance so
that the federal authorities can get him II
they want to do So
The headquarters of the fllibustering
expedition has been at I'll Bush street,
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 q 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 Ash
fords, and he declared that Rudolph
Spreckles was the man with the money
who was backing the project. Spreokles,
he said, had already concealed large
number OF rifles on the Island Of Maui,
SO that they would be ready when the fill
busters reached tho isladds.
The first local intimation Of the expedi-
tion appeared In an advertisement few
days ago. The advertisement which led
to the discovery of the fllibustering scheme
appeared In morning paper Of Tuesday,
July 80. 1t reads:
"Timbermen and hunters wanted to es-
cort prospecting party; good pay to good
men; state age Fare, el8."
A Chronicle reporter answered this ad-
vertisement and in a few hours received
the following typewritten reply:
1--WE want men for an expedition, and
there will probably be some fighting in
the interest Of 10000 people with less than
5000 to oppose them. Only small organ
lied body to beat, not exceeding 700, who
amount to only little as soldiers, being
newly recruited and offlcered by civilians
without capacity or ditcipline; pay s25
and upwards per month, according to
what you can do; also grant of enough
fruit or coffee land in bearing to fix you
for life. You~will have to furnish rifle
and amunition. II prospects suit you,
answer and meeting can be arranged -
Tho reporter then arranged an inter
view with Mr.. Morrow, and called upon
him at the boarding house on Bush street.
The expedition was discussed, and the re-
porter evinced desire to join 1t.
Have you any idea Of the goal Of this
expeditionf" he was asked.
The Chronicle reporter said that he
thought 1t might be Salvador.
THAT is 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 geople that we were to start from
the north to Alaska or some other north
ern port. We shall, however, go from
here in about ten days.
In the party that Is to leave from here
10 four or five good mon who are ac-
quainted with every inch of the island.
Among them are Volney B. Ashford, the
head Of the personal affair in name. I
say in name because Ashford Is partly to
blame for the last affair.
In regard to the makeup of the party,
there are about 200 men, nearly all cow
boys from New Mexico, Arizona and
Texas, and most of them are here"
''The first point after landing will be to
take the fire alarm system and the noxt
point will be the telephone system, in
order to cut off communication. Next
will be the police station, where there are
only about twenty men, whose arms and
ammunition are on the upper floors while
the men are down below. Next would be
the palace where the gatling guns are
stationed on a piazza. We also depend on
some of our spies to cripple couple of
the gatling guns. Next we shall take the
government building, which is guarded by
only twelve men. After capturing these
points We will leave men to guard them.
We think that we ought to capture the
city within half an hour, as the points are
weakly guarded
Morrow was seen yesterday by de-
tive and closely questioned. He admitted
that he was hiring men for filibustering
expedition, and said that he received $3.50
month and expenses for this work. In
spite of the exposure Morrow was very
cool, and said the federal authorities had
no terrors for him. He had not committed
any over act, and they did nothing except
watch him