The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-26
Reports of Recent Outbreaks Among
Natives Were Untrue.
KEEPING THEIR PROMISE
GOVERNMENT CARRIED ON
WITHOUT HITCH.
Claims For Damages Being Presented
By Foreign misunderstanding
Are Leaving Apia-Young and
Handsome Princess Who Wants
Allowance From Three Powers.

San Francisco, Aug 25.-The steam
ship Alameda arrived today from
Samoa and brings the following cor
respondence to the Associated Press:
Apia. Samoa, Aug. 11.-When the
commissioners LEFT here it was feared
by many, natives and foreigners alike,
that serious trouble might Immediately
ensue; but such has not happened.
Both factions are quiet and say they
will keep so.
The Mataafa party sent a large del
egation into Apia since the Badger
departure. Tnis delegation met the
three consuls, sitting as provisional
government, and assured them again
of the desire OF Mataafa and his fol-
lowers to keep the peace. Nothing lur-
Their took place at the meeting.
The provisional government Is being
carried on without any hitch SO far by
the three consuls. OF this body Luther
Osborn. the American consul general
is chairman. He is also the actnS
chief justice of Samoa and continues
to act as the United States consular
representative. DR.. Solf, as president,
claimed the office of chief justice, ana
has referred the whole matter to the
German government. He was, how
ever, persuaded ultimately to withdraw
his resignation, which he had written
TO the commissioners, and accept the
holding Of the office by Mr.. Osborn.
Mr.. Osborn declined to accept the
judgeship unless Dr. Solf was willin-
for him to act, and the doctor having
given way removed all difficulties.
Mataafa, who has been seriously i'll,
is now better
Claims For Damages.
Compensation claims of Britishers
are being inquired into by Major MAR,
under instructions from Mr.. Eliot
They will amount to about $4,000. 1t Is
claimed here that the three powers are
bound legally and morally to see that
compensation is paid for losses during
the late disturbances to the foreign
residents in these islands. Who pays
that compensation is quite beside the
question, and must be agreed upon be-
tween the powers.
Under the Berlin treaty the three
powers made certain declarations which
were and are tantamount TO guaran
teeing the safety and security of life
and property to their subjects and
citizens. The whites have not been
belligerents during the late war, and
many of them Were prevented from re-
naming in their homes or returning to
the same by the naval authorities, who
wished to have no impeachment or him
drance to military operations. Under
these circumstances the whites feel
that they have right TO ask and OBJ
tain compensation from the united
treaty powers.
The collier Aberenda. with coal for
American warships and material for
the pier being erected at Pago-Pago,
arrived yesterday.
Warships Are Leaving.
The British warship Tauranga left
last week, and the only men-of-war in
the harbor are the Cormoran Germany
and the Torch (British). H NJ S.
Pylades is expected here any day, to
take the place of the Tauranga
1t is not believed that any organized
fighting will take place between the
rival parties. but in some places there
is bitter feeling, which may result in
small parties coming to blows. Chief
Justice Osborn has imposed sentences
of hard labor on three or four natives
for having firearms in their possession
after the date of the proclamation by
the high commissioners prohibiting the
possession of firearms by Samoans.
Princess Faamuu, young and hand
some princess and the only daughter
of the late King Malietoa and only
sister to the eX-King Tanu, and who
has been educated as an English woman
in Fiji, is forwarding a petition asking
the three powers to grant her an al
lowance on the grounds that she has
been educated to take her part as a
princess, and now that her father and
brother are not in kingly positions she
is not in possession of sufficient means
to live as educated and is a burden to
her Fijian friends