The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-07-29
HiIo and the Whole Island Of Hawaii Are
EnveIopedin a Dense Smoke.
Navigators Hundreds of Miles Out
at Sea Seriously Inconvenienced
by the Clouds Of Smoke Caused
by the Volcanic Eruption-Ki1-
auea Also Showing Indications
Of an Active Eruption.

HONOLULU, July 81, via San Fran
cisco, July 2S.-The volcanic eruption
on Mauna Loa is still in full blast.
Th lava flow is apparently filling up
the table land between, near the HUI
muula sheep ranch. Hilo and the
whole island of Hawaii are enveloped
in smoke. Vessels encounter dense
clouds of smoke hundreds of miles out
at sea, and navigators are seriously in
conVenienced. Kilauea is also smok-
ing freely and the indications are that
this volcano will soon be in active
eruption. Frank Davey has returned
from visit to the volcano. He says
there is series of eight craters. Five
OF them We're dead. but appeared to
have been active quite recently. One of
the others was belching forth smoke
and fire and molten rocks of great size.
According to Davey, the rocks were as
big as horses and went SO high that
they cooled before falling to the ground
again.
1t took Davey and his party fifteen
hours to ascend the mountain from the
active crater to the summit. where
their horses were left. Two men be-
came delirious on the way for want
of water. The trip is described as a
terrible one in the extreme. All
around the top of the mountain it was
cold. At the crater it was very hot.
The extremes were such as would
knock almost anybody out.
j. S. Pratt was caught on a knoll high
up on Mauna Loa, on two sides of
which the lava was flowing. The sun
rx-oc o.1xy
which way to go and spent the night
there as desperate chance, as he
thought, of life. He sat up all night
and watched the lava flow. When
the fumes were blown his way be
would have to lie down on his face 20
keep from suffocating. Next morning
he found his way out by following back
down between the two flows.
August 18th the first anniversary of
the day on which the American flag
was raised over this country will be
observed as a holiday throughout Ha-
wall. This was decided upon at a re-
cent Cabinet meeting. There will be a
grand reception and ball in the Execu-
tive building. The Government ex-
poets that citizens will unite to have a
day program of sports and other
events. President Dole said it was de-
sired to make the day memorable one.
Senator c. D. Clark of Wyoming,
who is visiting the islands, in a re-
cent interview said: There is not a
member of Congress that has anything
in mind for Hawaii but the most liberal
form of government. You are not
merely assured of a territorial form of
government, but you will have local
privileges here that the Territories re-
Gently admitted to the Union were for
hidden. You may tell the people of
tn islands that their fear of a colonial
government is without founda ton.
know whereof l speak. Not a man in
Congress wants to see such a form of
government for Hawaii and President
Mckinley, an enthusiast of Hawaii, is
of the same mind
Sugar planters and Government Off
Gals are worried over the decision CT
the Hawaiian contract labor system
now going on in the United States.
They deny that the laborers are treated
as slaves, and while admitting THAI
the contract system will eventually
have to be abolished, insist that under
present conditions, they have no other
recourse.
The transports Connemaugh and City
of Para have arrived here on their way
to Manila.