The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-01-19

prominent Royalists were arrested, in
Guiding the editor of the Holomua,
which paper has suspended, the bust
ness manager being since arrested.
Some excitement was occasioned dur
ing the afternoon by the appearance
Of two strange barks and two small
schooners off port The steamer Clau-
dine and tug Eleu, with fifty men and
two cannonS, went after and searched
them but no contraband of war was
found.
w. A. Kinney, a prominent lawyer,
with his party, including four ladies
and two gentlemen who were passing
through the rebel Zines were detained
from Sunday afternoon until released
by. government troops on Tuesday after
noon.
Up to p. m. Tuesday, thirty-four Of
Honolulus prominent Royalists, not in
Guiding natives. were under arrest.
AT midnight the remaining rebels
were being pursued in every direction
by small squads of police, the troops
returning to the barracks during the
night, their torn clothing and dilapi-
dated appearance Showing the effects
of their hard trip.
The steamer Ke Au Hou, which was
sent to the islands of Maui and Hawaii
! to ascertain the condition of affairs
there, has returned with the news that
everything was quiet. The inhabitants
knew nothing OF the revolution and
were not even informed of it by those
on the steamer. But one trusted agent
Of the government, Hon. H. p. Baldwin,
went ashore on either island.
A government spy who had been sent
! TO the rebel camp returned on Tuesday
ait 10 p. m. stating that he had sue
ceeded in reaching the camp and gain
ing the confidence Of the natives.
There were about $50 under command
| of Robert Wilcox, who claimed to have
1000 men with plenty of arms, pro
! visions, etc. Sam Nowlein, with 70
more, was said to be within a short dis
! lance away.
The Rebel Programme.
The rebel programme was to march
to Punchbowl and capture the powder
magazine located there.
| The spy'S story caused two companies
OF volunteers to occupy Punchlbowl be
fore midnight. One field piece was
taken along.
At noon on Wednesday there were
163 prisoners in Jail, about 100 being
prisoners of war.
During the afternoon heavy firing
was heard from Manoa valley. AT 4
p. m. a company of sharp shooters
and another Of the citizens guard
drove the rebels from the ridge down
wards, while the companies and bat
terry from the Punchbowl were in pos
session of the other side of the valley.
The rebels were llemmed in with no
| possible escape except by hand to hand
climbing for about 1000 feet The low
est estimate of the rebel force is 60,
the highest, 200. At %. m. a courier
drought word that one rebel had been
killed, one mortally wounded and six
captured. At midnight another rebel
was killed.
Carl Widemann, son of Lilioulxalani' s
latest envoy to the United States, has
been missing since last Thursday, and
it is believed he viii be among THE
killed. No casualties on the govern
ment side.
Two prisoners from the seat of waI
were sent in yesterday. One is a, half
white carpenter named Poole, who says
he left the Wilcox party the night be.
fore. When captured he had a Win
chester and 100 rounds of cartridges.
None of the Wilcox party had had
anything to eat since Monday except
guavas and a, bullock they had killed
Poole said Wilcox had thirty qneen yet
The rest of his party were either
wounded, dead, deserted or taken plds.
oners. Another capture was Arthur
Fitzgerald.
| Struggling prisoners were Drougn'
in during the afternoon, and at thi.
time it looks as though, with the excep
ton of Wilcox and his band of thirty
the Wilcox contingent of rebels have
: been wiped out. "a cavalry company
is being organized. The city is quiet
both banks and many of the store.
; have resumed business. a few arrests
have been made in town on suspicion
January Ii, p. m.-The steamship
Alameda arrived from the colonies a.
S a. m. No one is allowed to go OF
board on any pretence. she is to sal
at p. m.
Nothing new from the front to tht
present time.
The eX-queen's premises are unde1
police surveillance. Her Washington
place residence was raided on Monday
and a quantity of arms confiscated
What action viii be taken in her cas-,
cannot be ascertained.
The Chilean man-of-war Esmeralda
flying the Venezuelan flag, has arrived
: here.
John T Waterhouse, a millionaire an,
the oldest merchant in Honolulu, Il
: dead.