The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-08-19

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early last evening, fourteen days
from San Francisco, and brought
one days later news.
The Chronicle Of the 4th inst.
deyotes FIVE columns to a filibus-
tering story said to be local plot
to restore ex-Queen Lii and an
elaborate plan for destroying the
Hawaiian Republic.
"One of the best contrived and
most dangerous flibustering expe-
ditions ever fitted out on American
soil was uncovered in San Fran
cisco yesterday. It's object is-or
waste take possession of the Ha-
waiian republic by force Of arms,
restore to the throne ex-Queen
Liliuokalani and divide lands,
money and goods worth approx
mately $27,000,OOO among some
200 freebooters picked up by ones
and twos in Western America.
'The active agent of the conspir-
ators is w. p. Morrow, a native of
Connecticut, aged 81, and, he says,
recently a resident of Grass Valley.
He is still in San Francisco, under
surveillance, so that the federal
authorities can get him If they care
to do so.
at was easy to see what this
meant. The 10000 people referred
to comprise the royalist and native
population of the Hawaiian ISL
ands. The 5000 are the people
who are loyal to the Dole Republic.
"Seven hundred troops stand for
the uniformed regulars and militia
who are between the republic and
its enemies. The coffee and fruit
land is either the vast domain for
merly known as Crown lands and
susceptible of coffee and fruit Guilt
walton, or the estates which the
revolutionists of January last pro-
posed to confscate from the defeat
ed foes of the monarchy-the men
who own $27,OOO,OOO out of 1884,
100000 worth of island property.
The advertisement which led to
the discovery of the filibustering |
scheme, appeared in the S. f. Ex-
aminer of July 30th. It reads:
'Timbermen and hunters to escort |
prospecting party; good pay to good
men; state age; fare SIC. Address
box 1859, Examiner office"
An answer to the above adver-
tisement brought the following
typewriter reply:
eve want men for an expedition in
which there will probably be some
in the interest OF $4,000 peo-
pie, with less than 5000 to oppose
them. Only a small organized body
amount to only little as soldiers,
being newly recruited and Differed
by civilians without capacity or dis
fiPay will be S25 and upward per
month, according to what you can do;
also a grant of enough fruit or coffee
land in bearing to fix you for life.
You will have to furnish rife and
ammunition. If prospects suit you,
answer and a meeting can be arrang-
ed. Box 1859, Examiner office"
The headquarters of the filibus-
tering expedition has been at III
Bush street, a dingy, fat-fronted
clearinghouse. There the agent
of the conspirators has been re-
day and night, a motley
company of men, who came in
response to his cautiously worded
published in this
city and elsewhere.
Morrow admitted last night
when he was forced into a corner
and told that the game was up,
that he had been engaging men to
go to Hawaii and overturn the lit
tie republic. He told how the
thing was to be accomplished and
stated plainly who the men were
behind the scenes. Among them
be enumerated one Of the exiled
and he declared that
Spreckels was the man
with money who was backing the
project.
Spreckels, he said, had already
concealed a large number of rifles
in the island of Maui, so that they
would be ready when the filibusters
reached the islands.
In an interview Morrow said:
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 a sail
ing vessel from this port within ten
days to two weeks.
at will take about $40 to buy
The necessary outfit of clothes and
ammunition, arms, etc.
''The Dole Government owns
three-quarters Of the landed prop
srty in the islands and the PROPOSE
ton is that if the expedition is sue