The San Francisco call., 1898-10-01
Alp lDitiol Voyage, in Wbich Sol Berliner lad His Skull
 Fractured.
Arrests Made by tbe Coptoin, Followed by Suits for FoIse Imprisonment opd the Tying
 Up of the Steamer.
Special Correspondence of The Call.

HONOLULU, Sept. 23.-The steam ship City of Columbia, which arrived here September 10 from Seattle, is in
 the hands of the Marshal and tied up
 under four libels aggregating SPA, ,936 Criminal proceedings were also brought
 against its master, Walter s. Minor
 for assault and battery and false inn priSonment, and after the testimony was all in, Deputy Attorney General Dole asked that the proceedings be nolle pressed, which was done.
 Then followed the libels, in which the plaintiffs were allowed to prosecute without filing a bond. and the ship refused the privilege of going bottomry bond, in order that the vessel might proceed to its home port.
 The admiralty suits were the result of a fight on board the steamship. which occurred on Sunday evening. September 4. Solomon Berliner of San Francisco, a member of the Rosa America Comedy company, which was en route to the islands, had his skull fractured and received several scalp wounds He and B. H. Colgrove of Washington. D. C., had quarreled, clinched and fell on the hurricane deck. Whether Berliner received his injuries by falling on a cleat or was struck on the head with an iron belaying pin by Colgrove will always remain mystery. Berliner's condition was considered ser ious for twenty-four hours, and Cap tain Minor placed Colgrove under ar rest. His brother, Russell Colgrove. former associate manager of the steam ship company, Mrs. Solomon Berliner and daughter, Rosa, were also put in irons as being accessories to the crime. The Colgroves spent the night in the forecastle, and the women were locked in a second-clasS state room under a guard.
 At Hilo the matter was reported to the United States Consular agent. who held an investigation and discharged the prisoners.
 Russell Colgrove was the first to seek redress at Honolulu. He libeled the ship for s15,O00 for false imprisonment, and his suit is now being tried. Rosa Berliner, who has frequently appeared on the vaudeville stage in San Fran cisco. and is extensively advertised here as '"The California Magnet" claims $5000 damages for being assaulted and maliciously imprisoned. B. H. Col grove, who was recently deposed as the agent for the company at Honolulu. demands 5000 for breach of contract, and Harvey Johnston, lessee of the bar. wants $2936 for losses he sustained for having his place of business closed during the voyage and in port.
 Although the vessel has been here ten days overtime. but two witnesses have been heard in the first suit. The pas sengers are being detained against their will, and have made demand upon the | company that thev be sent to San Francisco on the first outgoing vessel. | The Columbia has no funds and can do nothing for them. The United States | Consul was also appealed to in vain.
 The City of Columbia is on its initial trip to Honolulu, the object being to es- tablish, if possible, commercial rela- tions between Puget Sound and the Ha- waiian Islands, but the proposed new line has met with no encouragement whatever at this port. In fact Homo lulu and San Francisco interests are so closely allied that the business men