The San Francisco call., 1896-01-22
Tourists by the Hundred Going
to See The Most Gorgeous
Spectacle.
CRIsToFoRo COLOMBO COMING.
The Italian Warship With the Duke
degli Abruzzi Aboard Will Remain
Here Some Time.

hONObOAOf hANA1ls Jan. 1O.-LaJS
news received from Hawaii by yesterdays
steamer shows that the eruption in the
crater of Kilauea still continues. Man
ager Peter Lee of the Volcano House
telephoned to the purser of the steamer
Hall just prior to her departure for
Honolulu that the volume of lava IN the
crater was still increasing and that it had
reached within 200 feet of the top of the
pit, which is the level of the floor of the
main crater.
Lee expected that in less than week,
if the rise continued the lava would be
flowing into the main crater itself, which
is situated directly below the Volcano
House and is three miles in diameter and
900 feet deep. When this happens the
view from the verand2s of the hotel at
night Is simply magnificent and awe
inspiring.
Hundreds of people have already gone
to the volcano from Hilo and other places
on Hawaii. and every steamer from Homo
lulu is crowded with sightseers. The Ala
media is expected to bring lot of tourists
tomorrow, and they will certainly be in
big luck. a big excursion is being planned
10 leave here next week, and among the
party will be Mrs. Kate Field and THE
Calls correspondent.
The Italian corvette Cristoforo Colombo
sailed for Vancouver on Monday last at
a. N. The Duke degh Abruzzi, or, as he
was called here, Prince Luigi of Savoy,
was the recipient of much attention here
in the shape of dinners, concerts and
dances. The Cristoforo Colombo goes to
San Francisco from Vancouver, and will
stay there one month, and possibly longer.
This is official and the long stay is caused
by much-needed repairs to the vessels
machinery.
The special election for Senator from the
island OF Hawaii has turned out to be a
tie, from which contest will result.
There were 419 voters entitled to vote for
Senator on the island, and only 254 votes
were cast, of which H. L. Holstein of Ha-
waIi and Alexander Young of Honolulu
each received 127. The latter is manager
OF the HoEolulu Iron Works and wealthy
sugar planter OF Hawaii, and was the Gov
ernment and planters candidate. Hol-
stein came over on this mornings steamer,
and claims the election on the ground that
votes were cast for Young in one of his
plantation precincts which should have
been thrown out for Irregularities. Under
the law here he has thirty days to contest
by filing a petition for q recount or review
of proceedings in the Supreme Court 1t
Is likely that the imbrogiio will end in the
biggest island in the group being short one
Senator in the next Legislature in Febru-
airy, as in the event of a new election being
ordered fOrty-fve days notice must be
given by the Minister of Interior.
Carl Klemme, the exile who came back
without a permit, pleaded guilty IN the
District Court, but on motion of the Attor-
ney-General sentence was suspended. 1t
is not likely that anything will be done
with him, and he already talks of going
into business here. In the meantime he
IS out on $1,000 bonds
In the Admiralty Court the Henrietta
and all her opium, stores, sails, etc, have
been condemned. It was determined to
burn the captured opium in the furnaces
OF the Government tug and feed the refuse
to the fishes, but an appeal to the Supreme
Court by Hartwell & Thurston, the attor-
neys for the vessel and crew, has stopped
all proceedings for two or three months.
The captain and crew of the vessel are in
jail, being unable TO give bail.
DR.. bowie, late of the Belgic and now a
passenger on the Coptic, denounces the
charge that any case at all embling
cholera occurred on the BeIgic last Aug
ust. President Smith of the Board of
Health states on the contrary that they
have the strongest evidence that such
fatal cases did occur on that ship; also
that Chinese passenger, while being
taken from the Belgic to the quarantine
on a scow, contaminated the harbor water.
dying the next day, his attendant diving
soon after, before any alarm of cholera
was given. A week later cholera began on
the shore adjacent.
a strong movement is in progress for
the coming season of the Legislature to
license the importation of opium and its
sale to Chinese only. Many honorable
men favor this for the reason that the
present illicit Importation and traffic ex-
erts a very corrupting influence upon
officers of the police and customs. The
President and Cabinet believe that anv
legalizing OF the traffic must increase the
consumption.