The San Francisco call., 1895-12-20
Morrow of Oakland and DR.. Un.
derwood May Serve Five
Years on the Reef.
REPUDIATED BY ROYALISTs.
Their Scheme of Revolution Said to
Have Been Backed by
Lottery Concern.

HONOLULU, HAWAII, Dec. 12.-On the
9th inst. arrests were made of two men
who are now in prison without bail
charged with conspiracy to overthrow the
Government. The names given by the
prisoners are w. T. Sheridan and Dr. Un-
derwood Sheridan is understood to be
the same person as Morrow of Oakland,
who not long ago figured in the California
papers as organizing filibustering expe-
ditlon.
These men landed here about SIX weeks
ago from a sailing vessel. They have been
short of money, Underwood getting en-
ployment in putting up refrigerator works.
They have been faithfully shadowed since
their arrival, until ample evidence has
been secured of their having approached
number of persons with proposals to CO.
operate with filibustering expedition to
be landed here.
They have generally met with cold re-
ception, no Royalists desiring to engage in
another attempt to overthrow the Dole
Government.
1t is learned from high authority.
though not fully verified, that these men
have been seeking to secure from Liliuoka
lani pledge, if restored, to license a lot
terry in Honolulu. 1t is supposed that
some lottery organization has promised
them funds to equip an expedition if they
can secure such a promise from the eX-
Queen.
1t is probable that the two men will get
five years Imprisonment on the reef. The
United States Consul sees no ground for
interfering in their behalf This affair
seems unlikely to affect favorably the de
sired release of Quick and the other five
political prisoners.
Minister Willis has presented to this
Government a claim from Ritman for
SIS, 900 damages. Ritman and White were
exled last February for having cast Ger
tain iron shells which T. B. Walker filled
with dynamite. The Government expects
to furnish full evidence of Ritman's COM
plicity with the late insurrection.
Earthquake shocks of considerable force
awoke sleeping persons in Honolulu at II
P. NJ, on the 8th inst, and at 3 A. NJ, on
the 9th. Four lighter shakes interviewed.
No damage was done. Clocks generally
stopped and few dishes were broken.
Steamers lying at Mahukona and KaiIua
on the west coast of Hawaii were smartly
shaken. BY rather imperfect telephone,
fifty miles from Kau, it was learned that
eight severe shocks were experienced al
Punaluu harbor. Experts here believe
that an eruption is working upward to
an outlet on Mauna Loa. 1t is nine years
since the last eruption, and another is
fully due. Two plantations in Kau will
be imperiled which turn out 1900 tons
of sugar. Their CHIEF danger is from dam
age to machinery from the earthquakes.
Justice r. F. Bickerton of the Supre me
Court died on the 10th inst.
There was no foundation for the report
sent from here Novem Der 20 that Dole,
Wilder and Brown were to proceed to
Washington Decem ber 19 in order to work
for annexation. These gentlemen heard
no whisper of such plan until it was re-
ported back from San Francisco.
Late repeated assertions of President
Cleveland's intention to recommend the
annexation of Hawaii, conditioned on the
consent of the native people, are received
with jubilation by the enemies of annexa-
ton. A leading Senator intimate with native
sentiment declares that no possible effort
can ever convert the natives to the belief
that annexation will be anything but rob-
bing them of their country. Another
prominent man says that the British
enemies of American influence have
thoroughly poisoned the native mind
against annexation, and that such propo-
sition to submit the question to the native
vote is simply playing into the hands OF
the British enemies of Americanism in
Hawaii.