The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-12-01
TROOPS TURN HOMENARD.
yEw WORKERS. bound FOR MA.
yILA. GLAD TO START BACK.
Transports Alameda and Australia
Vow Crossing the Pacific From
Honolulu - Batch of News II
BrOught In by Liner Mfowera.

PORT TOWNSEND, Nov. 53.-Lats
Honolulu advaces have been received by the
steamer Aiowerea, via Victoria, as follows:
The New York regiment mas been orCsr-
ed home from Honolulu One hundred men
were 10 leave BY the steamer Australia on
Tuesday. November -. and 30 were 10
follow a req days later on the Alameda.
This viii practically clean Up the camp.
TIE fex remaining men viii be gotten of
on the earliest vessels thereafter. The
New Workers might hava remained IN
Honolulu. but they contracted typnoad
fever and hundreds were under the doc
tor care When the Miowsra left carpen-
tiers had begun building hunks On tao
Australia and Alameda Al the soldiers
viii bunk In the sieerage save the officers.
who viii be given cabin rooms There -
great rejoicing among the New Workers
who are homesick and glad Of the change.
Shortly before the Mfowera lief, Honolulu
two ships came into port with flags at half
mast. The G. +. 6eargant lost her first
officer to sharks and Capt. Dow OF the
ship Planter. died of dysentery while his
ship was bound from the Lysan islands TO
Honolulu with gsetno. The body was pre-
served in brine and brought to Honolulu
from where IL win be shipped 10 San
Francisco for interment. William Noring,
the first mate or the G. f. SeaTgent, fell
overheard one day cart from Honolulu
while at work on the rigging. a life buoy
was thrown him and he swan a while to-
ward the vessel. when Suddenly he was
seized by a shark and dragged under the
water.
The big batch OF GaIicians who struck
while working on the Oahu sugar planta-
lions. have each been sentenced for three
years. They were working under contract,
signed by them. although they did not
knog It's meaning. Al prisoners will be
put 10 breaking rock al the government
quarrieg.
Private Fl. W Greene and Carl Andrews
citizens of Hawaii for their services on
November 70. They were walking along
King street when they saw 1--we wire
laying across the thoroughfare. One man
stationed himself at either side OF the wire
and allowed no one near IL. A number OF
vehicles returning from the city were
stopped BY them and had ii not been for
them large number OF lives would have
been lost.
Sloop volinte, from San Francisco,
which reached Honolulu end which Is said
an opium smusgler. The crew give out the
sole object of the trip as adventure.
The American clipper ship Republic has
returned to Sydney for the second time
in distress She returned shortly before
the Miowera sailed. leaking seriously. She
MAS bound 10 Honolulu from New Castle
With 80 tons OF coal and had gotten as far
az Iasnan sea when she began 10 leak.
Capt. Hunter. Of the steamer city of Seat
tie. reports having encountered heavy
nail storm While crossing the straits this
afternoon. Halls.onss as large as an egg
fell. the storm lasting only a few min
ute~, when the sky became clear.
There are said TO have been 300 cases
OF typhoid in Honolulu when the Mowera
left. Permission has been received at
Honolulu from Washington TO abandon
Independence park as hospital site as
soon as other quarters car, be fitted up.
Surgeons OF the camp and hospital are
afraid that the site is too low for health
during tho comparatively wet winter
months. In obedience TO instructions from
~ "A
Der y the erection of new hospital build
Ing In the Nuuanu valley. The structure
Will be forty-five feet wife by i60 feet long.
IL viii have side kitchens. surgeons and
piete accommodation for ali sick soldiers
in Honolulu. Col. Rubin says: Were
II not Tor transient patients with which we
have to deal. We would not be damned
for room. Our own situation can be ham
died with comparative ease. It must be
remembered, though. that there are nearly
100 patients left here by the various trans
ports. AS fast as possible We will relieve
the congestion by sending convalescents
home. That. too, heretofore has been the
matter. The last China steamer on which
We expected to send quite number would
not take man. for the reason that IL was
already crowded with passengers from the
Orient ! expect To be able 10 get OF IA
good number by the Australia next week"
Hawaiian planters have contracted with
the American Sugar Refinery for the sale
OF their entire sugar output of the islands
for the next two years, excepting only
bout I5,fui tons, which viii be shipped 20
the refinery at Crockett. Cal. An amount
Sufficient for the American companies at
san Francisco win be held at that place.
the rest 10 bc forwarded TO New York 10
be used there in competition with independ-
ent reiinerles.
we have sold out TO the trust" said
II leading planter. hut II was case Of
We could not help ourselves our arst
overturee were 70 the Arbuckles We wan
ted 10 uatyonize independent refineries and
were open III eur opposition TO the trust
hut the Arbucklss would not bay and the
American Sugar Refinery held out in
tiucemen;s which no one else was prepared
To meet"
\ big demonstration took place when the
steamer Newport sailed for Manila The
Hawaiian hand played many patriotic airs
| Three days later another demonstration
| Mas held on the occasion OF the transport
Pennsylvania sailing Tor Manila with Kan
SaS troops.