People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-04-04
FROM HONOLULU!
MARTIAL LAW DECLARED OFF
MARCH 10.
Bismarck Holds up Well He Receives
Visits From Prince Hohenlohe and 9th
er Distinguished Personages--Great Fire
In Milv aukee.

San Francisco. March 27.-The steam
er Australia arrived from Honolulu to-
day Hawaiian advices contain no
reference TO the demand for the recall
OF Minister Thurston by Secretary
Gresham. 1t is not known II the gov
eminent has received the message.
Martial law was declared off March Is.
A law has been passed to the effect that
persons deported on account of con-
nection with the recent rebellion will
not be permitted to return at airy fu-
ture time.
Among the passengers on the Au-
stralia was Joaquin Miller, the poet
Of the Sierras.
The poet left Honolulu suddenly with
no other baggage than a copy Of his
poems. His intended departure was
Kept secret as he says he was afraid
the ofticials Of the government would
put him In prison. Miller is very bit
ter against the men in control in Ha-
wall. He denounced the treatment ac-
corded the political prisoners as bar
Darous in the extreme and saws that
men are dying in prison for want of
air and proper food. He predicts that
a fiilibustering expedition will be or
ganized to go TO Honolulu and rescue
the political prisoners. When asked if
he was done with Hawaii, the poet
said:
i have not begun. l am going to
wait and see who goes down there and
liberate those men. Possibly they may
be set at liberty when their captors
get badly scared, for they are awful
towards. If they do not liberate them.
to the very last and lowest of political
prisoners, and then return the lands
appropriated from the natives and the
queen under the name of crown lands.
L shall go to Japan. ! am no stranger
at the Japan court. ! thing | shall
only have to state the case and promise
political rights to the oppressed 90
900 contract slaves of Japan down
there, to get an iron clad.
GOOD THING IN 1T.
There are hundreds Of good men
down there kept in the vilest prisons by
men who betrayed a woman and robb-
ed her, and there is plenty Of gold and
Kingdom waiting for whoever will
liberate those good men. The soldiers
down there will not fight for Dole.
They won't fight to keep the men in
prison. 1t is not humane. In fact they
are all falling out l doubt If Dole has
any friends at all who are not under
pay as civil or military officers or in
some way selfishly interested in his
oligarchy. There has been nothing
nearly SO monstrous since the reign OF
terror"
Miller makes an appeal for books TO
be sent to the political prisoners as
they have nothing to read and unless
they have something to divert their
minds they may go mad.
OF the ex-queen, Miller says: "Of all
those who participated in her arrest
and trial and Of all that was said and
done the only Christian was that poor
dusky old woman in the midst Of hun
dreds OF cruel men. The only Christian
act or utterance came from her"
He says that Major Seward, Colonel
Ashford, T. W. Walker and other white
traitors are confined in cells only five
by eight feet. Two men are in each cell
They are allowed an airing two hours
during the day. Theaverage tempera-
lure In the cells Is about so degrees.
PURELY ON BUSINESS.
Samuel NJ. Damon, the Honolulu bank
er, who is also minister of finance in
President Dole's cabinet, was also
among the passengers on the Australia
When seen by a reporter Immediately
upon his arrived here Mr.. Damon de-
clared that he knew nothing Of the re-
ported misunderstanding between Sec
rotary Gresham and Minister Thurs
ton, or Of Greshams demand for the
recall of Thurston. He declined to dis
cuss the probabilities Of the situation.
When it was learend that Mr.. Damon
was passenger on the steamer it was
considered probable that his visit here
had some connection with the ThurstOn
Gresham incident, but he declares that
his Is purely business trip. He will re-
turn on the next steamer.
Advices received from Honolulu TO-
day report an attempt to burn the
American whaling bark Grakhead Cap
tain Shorey. The vessel was fired while
lying at wharf in Honolulu. Three
of her sailors, William Bresley, Eiker
EnkOwter and William Gehman were
arrested on a charge of arson. 1t was
asserted that they fired the whaler to
avoid going to sea on her. They were
finally released but refused to return
to the whaler, and when the Australia
sailed they were in Jail again. The
bark was pumped pretty nearly full
of water before the fire could be ex-