The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-13
OLD GLORY RAISED.
Floats From the Top of the Highest
Mountain.

| Vancouver, B. c., Aug 12.-The royal
mail steamer Aorangi arrived this after
noon from Sydney N S. w. and We'll
lington. New Zealand via Honolulu.
Among the passengers on the Aorangi
was Miss Maud Jeffries, a well known ac-
| tress.
Hawaiian news up to August is
brought by the Aorangi; On that day
! in regard to the flag raising. He said:
Il have just received my instructions
and will confer with Admiral Miller very
coon. can assure you, however, that
there win be nothing done until Friday
and probably later. That is all l can say
just now"
the highest point of the island of Oahu,
Hawaii. This was accomplished by Judge
Nv. F. Frear. Garrett Wilder and Walter
Dillingham;, with a native guide who
made the ascent of the peak.
EX-Queen LiliuOkalani Is reported TO
have said: I have done the best could
for my people. Now that the islands are
annexed there is nothing to do but TO
submit and make tie very best out of the
situation. My feelings in the premises
are well known, and 1 do not care TO dis
ycuss the matter at length.
SICK SOLDIERS.
There are "a United States soldiers in
the hospital at Honolulu. Seven of them
are more or less seriously ILL., The num-
Der at the Red Cross hospital on August
was 10. OF these 13 We're in bed. Five
two of the Red Cross patients are con-
valescent and expect to be sent home by
steamer Glengary, due from Yokohama
for San Francisco. August 10 They are:
James LAWN of company d. Twenty-third
regiment, L. S. A; ana Guy d. Boynton
of the Fifteenth Minnesota volunteers.
At the Queens hospital there are nine
boys in blue Two are quite bad cases.
One has pneumonia and the other menin-
gifts. The latter is Mr.. Prather. lie -
gaining strength slowly but requires the
greatest of care.
BUSINESS IMPROVING.
The Honolulu Bulletin says:
Now that the islands are a part and
parcel of the United States, a change is
beginning already to be felt in the bust
ness community Within a month there
tiVes of eastern and California business
firms here looking over the. situation.
While the payment of the japanese
claims was humiliating to the govern
rsnt, yet being at the request OF the
United States government and meant as
a compromise to facilitate, annexation. the
liberation, decided to yield. without ad-
hitting that the government was in the
wrong.
Complaints come from the boys on the
City OF Puebla about the condition of that
vessel and the great need of thorough
cleaning before starting out for Manila.
A story comes from one of the officers
on the City of Ptfebla that one of the sol
diers, while on the way to Honolulu. hac
not had . mouthful to eat for Is hours.
He stole loaf of breau and was cour-
martialed and fined $40. The California
boys aboard the transports are looking
for the men who sent back to the states
reports of outrageous doinGs of the boys
in blue on the first transport to Manila.
They say it had such an effect on the
powers that the men were put under the
very strictest orders to refrain from loud
noises on board ships or on. shore. They
must not cheer. They should not even
wave old Glory- The worst part OF the
whole thing is that not a cent of their
two months pay will be given the men
for fear that they Will create trouble ~
the town.