The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-02-08
ARGUMENT FOR HAWAII
Annexationists Make Capital
Out of the Eastern Situation.
IMPORTANCE OF COALING STATION.


sentatives Live at the Same Boarding
House and Many Complications Result.
Reed Favors an Early Adjournment.
WASHINGTON. Feb s-[Special. The
friends of the annexation of Hawaii have
made point on their adversaries by using
as an illustration the experience of the
German and Russian fleets In the far east
ern waters. 1t will be remembered that
the cable dispatches told us a few days ago |
that the Russian fleet at Port Arthur war |
badly hampered by lack Of coal. Japa-
nese contractor who had undertaken 90 |
supply the fleet had defaulted on his con- |
tract, and the big ships were left without |
| fuel About the same time came news that |
| the feet of Prince Henry of Germany. |
| which had sailed from the fatherland with
| such a flourish of trumpets, had been
| stalled in the Indian ocean on account of
| o lack of fuel AS matter OF fact the
| German fleet had been compelled TO de-
pend upon the courtesy of England for
| fuel at various points along the route
| These facts have served to bring TO the
| front the very great importance of having
coaling stations in various parts of the
world where it Is expected fleets are to
maneuyer.
Great Britain long ago realized this,
| and the result is that all over the world
that nation has immense supplies of fuel
for her battleships and cruisers. No other
| power approaches England in the complete
| ness of arrangements for coaling, outfit
ting, repairing and cleansing the bottoms
| of naval vessels, no matter where they
| may be, and no other nation approaches
England in control of independent cable
lines for direction of the fleets in time of
war.
The friends of annexation have turned
these facts to account by making the ar
gument that Hawaii would be worth very
much to the United States as naval coal
ing and QUILTING station, if for nothing
else. In this view they are supported by
| the best naval authorities. 1t Is agreed
| that Honolulu could be fortified so that it
would be in no more danger of capture by
| an enemy's fleet than any other American
city Our ships would have the immense
advantage that they could steam out to
mdocean and there recoal, while the enc
| my's fleets would have consumed the coal
which they carried by the time they had
reached Hawaiian waters. The only way
in which they could regain this loss of ad-
|. vantage would be by capturing Honolulu,
, and while the naval authorities admit
Honolulu might fall they pertinently OBJ
serve that il would be better for this coun-
try perhaps to have Honolulu than San
Francisco fall into the hands of the enemy.
Too Much johnson.
, There is one boarding house in the city
| of Washington which has a case of too
; much johnson. 1t Is a modest but com
} Portable house on Twelfth street, where
? | both the .Johnsons of the house Of repre-
l Il..ly he
e other from Indiana, have their habitat
| The number of mistakes which occur be
$ tween too much johnson in one house II
] something amazing and occasionally thu
a mixtures are of q most laugbable sort.
0 This reminds me that there is grea
s number of duplicate names in the house
Whenever the roll is called, we hear TIT
1 same names called over and over again
There are in the house two Bakers, TIVE
Boutelles, three Clarks and two each o
g Cochran, Cooper, Curtis, Fowler, Gil
s lett, Howard, johnson, Jones, Lewis
r Norton, Pierce, Stevens, Stewart, Stone
Taylor, Walker, Wheeler, White, William
Q and Young. For once the Smiths do no
enjoy the honor of leading all other names
8 in the house. There are four Smiths, bu
: there are also four Henrys.
9 1t is a remarkable fact that every lette
|
= | excepting only / and X The column Il
: represented by Mr.. Zenor. When hous
: roll is Called the spectators in the gallerie
never fail to laugh at some of the ode
:. names. Mudd and Booze are sure to brint
: forth litter, while Sauerhering, Louden
:. slayer and Cow herd produce smiles. Blu
!. what's in a name? 1t happens that ever.
:, | one of the gentlemen bearing these odt
!. ). names Is a fine fellow with good recors
- Of public service behind him.
These are most discouraging days To-
seekers after consulships. They go to thu
Z state department with their mouths NIGEL,
fixed for enjoying some plum like n SINUS
c place in sunny France worth 81, 500 o.
: 200 year, with nothing much to d.
Il and plenty of time to do it in. But this i
e what they find to be available: Port Row
an, Ont, 1870 year; st. Pierre island
!. $3.50 year; st. Georges, BERN uda, $2S
q a year; Durango, Mexico, $3.50 year; Ii
: Paz, Mexico, $500 a year; Saltillo, Mexico
n $500 a year, and Tenerife, Canary is
y lands, $500 year. Inasmuch as a consu
a has to pay his own expenses to and from
= his post of duty, 1t Is easy to figure on
that If man were to accept one OF thes
distant posts, spend four years there ant
e be as economical as possible in his expend
It itures he could return without spending
e more than $500 or $500 in addition to hi
IS pay. But even then he would have to In
e cur the risk of dying Of yellow fever o
l. some other contagion and never coming
l. back at all.
,e A Terse Cablegram.
l. A few days ago the state department
t. officials were much puzzled by cable
is gram which they received from consu
It in distant part of the globe. 1t consist
cd Of but single word, and Its brevit
J. was supposed to be due to the fact that tn
l. cable rates from that country are some
e thing like 81. 80 word. The messag
N read, yellow" That was all. The stat
h department people were ut loss at frs
to know what the consul meant. The
" guessed he wanted New York newspape
,e or that he had used some code word no
,e put down in the department records o
70 that he was dissatisfied with his post ant
II was trying to characterize 1t In slang Blu
II In the end they concluded he meant to In
=, | f<~,,, xba,,, that vellovv fever had brOkp 1