The record-union., 1899-10-16
HORSES FARED
RATHER BADLY.
Those Which Were Shipped on the
Steamship Centennial
Were in Poor Condition When the Vessel
Reached Honolulu.
They Arrived at the Island Port,
Stimulants Having to be Re-
sorted to to Sustain Life.

| SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 15-The
| steamer Gaelic brings the following ad-
vices from Honolulu under date of Oc-
| tober Sth:
| 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 a search to
be made for five soldiers of the hospital
! corps stationed here, who had slowed
| 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 Sixth Artillery Batteries, sta
toned here, have lost between twenty
and thirty men in the last few days
by desertion. All the soldiers here are
anxious to go to Manila. The men think
that they can steal aboard a trans
port and on arrival report to the Off
| GERS of the Sixth at Manila and escape
with slight punishment. The soldiers
are willing to stand thirty days in the
guard house for the sake of getting to
| the scene of the war;
The British ship Antiope, which has
here for months longer. Captain Muir
ray, who owns and commands the yes
sci, desires to take her to the Sound
for a cargo of coal, but she is held here
by the agents Of W. T. Grace & Co.
who have made claim against her
on account of the Captains refusal to
accept a charter they made for her.
They demand So, 400 damages alleged to
have been sustained as a result of his
action. The case is likely to be set
tied in the courts here.
The transport Centennial arrived
from San Francisco on the 9TH. She
brought 800 horses, sixty of them
hanging in sings, and ready to die
from simple exhaustion. Two of them
died after reaching port. The horses
had been at sea for eight days, each
one fastened to 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
avoided
The horses started as fresh spirited
animals, brought from Nevada and
Oregon. They arrived thin and jaded,
a large proportion of them only kept
alive by stimulants. About twenty gal
Ions Of alcohol We're given to the horses
during the CentenniaPs trip. The ami
mails We're unloaded here, and will be
turned out to pasture until the return
of the transport from San Francisco.
The Cabinet recently considered a
petition for the Planters Association to
eliminate clause in the immigration
rules requiring that 10 per cent. of all
contract laborers brought into the
country shall be Europeans or Ameri-
cans. The point is that a bond is re-
quired for the compliance with this
rule, and the same bond is forfeited if
the proportion named is not adhered
to. The planters want this bond re-
quirement annulled. The Government
decided that, while the planters had
acted in good faith in their endeavors
to secure American and European la
borers, it did not feel that it had the
authority to eliminate the clause re-
ferred to. holding that the authority
rested with the Legislature once.
The matter of the salvage claim of
the Wilder Steamship Company against
the bark Colusa has been settled out
of court for $4,000. The bark recently
went ashore at Kahului, and was saved
by two Wilder steamers.