The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-16
ANXIOUS FOR FIGHTING
Soldiers Stationed at Honolulu
Want to Go to Manila.
MANY ARE DESERVING
Men Willing to Undergo Punishment in
Order to Be at the Scene OF Action.
Horses Receive Cruel Treat
ment-Hawaiian Advices.

| San Francisco, Oct. 15.--The steamer
| Gaelic brings the following advices
| from Honolulu under date of Oct. s:
| The hospital ship Relief and the
| transports Tacoma, Sherman and Grant
have all departed for Manila. Previous
to the departure of the Tacoma the
military authorities caused search to
be made for FIVE soldiers of the hospi-
tai corps stationed here. who had stow
ed themselves away on board the ship
in the hope of getting to Manila. 1t Is
thought that the other two missing men
are on the Tacoma.
The 9Th artillery batteries stationed
here have lost between 20 and 80 men
in the last few days by desertion. All
the soldiers here are anxious to so to
Manila The men think that they can
steal aboard transport and on arrival
report to the officer Of the 9Th at Ma
Mia and escape with slight punish
ment. The soldiers are willing to stand
80 days in the guard house for the sake
of getting to the scene of the war
The British ship Antiope, which has
been in port since July 3, will be sta
toned here for a month longer Cap
| tain Murray, who owns and commands
| the vessel, desires to take her to the
| sound for a cargo of coal, but she ls
| held here by the agents of w. r. Grace
| & Co., who have made a claim against
| her on account Of the captains refusal
! to accept a charter they made for her
| They demand $3,400 damages alleged to
| have been sustained as a result of his
action. The case is likely to be settled
in the courts here.
The transport Centennial arrived
from San Francisco on the 5th. she
brought 300 horses, 60 of them hanging
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exhaustion. Two of them died after
reaching port. The horses had been at
sea for eight days. Each was fastened
to a stall just wide enough and long
enough for its body. For eight days
the suffering animals had no sleep nor
rest whatever. They stood and kept
balance with the rolling of the ship. a
few days more and many deaths from
exhaustion could not have been avoid
ed. The horses started as fresh, spir-
tied animals. brought from Nevada anc
Oregon. They arrived thin and .jaded
| a large portion of them only kept alive
by stimulants. The animals were un
loaded here and will be turned out tt
| pasture until the return of the trans
port from San Francisco.
The cabinet recently considered a pc
tition from the Planters association tt
| eliminate a clause in the immigration
| rules requiring that 10 per cent. of al
contract laborerS brought into tn;
country shall be Europeans or Amer
cans. The point is that bond is re
qured for the compliance with thi:
rule, and the same is forfeited if tn,
proportion named is not adhered TO
The planters wa1rt this bond require
ment annulled. The government decided
that, while the planters had acted /,
good faith in their endeavOrs to secur
American and European laborers it dit
f-1l t,s,l 4 his h rytt
eliminate the clause referred to, holdin!
that the authority rested with the leg
islature only
The matter of the salvage claim o
the Wilder Steamship company agains
the bark Cousa has been settled out o
court for $1,000. The bark recently wen
ashore at Kahului and was saved b.
two Wilder steamers.