The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-09-08
TWO ARE KILLED AND
THREE ARE WOUNDED
Bark Ceylon Brings ALL Concerned Captain
Spencer Is Charged With
Murder

War has been declared. waged and
ended on Laysan Island.
Conquerors and vanqulshed. both. ar
rived in port yesterday afternoon on
the bark Ceylon-except the dead
The dead, japanese. leaders Of the
rebels. repose in lonely graves on the
isolated Isle
-Four against forty-those we're the
odds four white men hghting desper-
ately against forty infuriated japanese.
And the white men conquered.
II was on the evening Of Saturday.
August itth. Just three days after the
bark Ceyiou from. Honolulu had arrived
there with stores that the insurrection
took place.
MURDER THEIR PLAN.
Tho forty japanese rose in "a body. de-
tcrmined 70 annihilate all the white
people on the Island and run things to
suit themselves. captain Spencer. over
seventy years of age. took warning in
time Bidding his wife to remain in
safety in their house. the brave old
man called his son and Captain SPILL
ner late % the Honolulu mounted
/ patrol and the engineer. Luhrs By name
around him and together they went
out 90 talk 20 the mob which had gath
cred between the white mems house
and the japanese quarters
II captain spencer wanted % know
what the trouble was. why IL was that
the japanese were dissatisfied and why
they gathered thus threatenlngly.
The Leaders 20 the mob answered de-
family. cursing the aged captain and
bis friends and shouting something e
: che effect chat they were free American
. ciuzeus and wouldn't work any NOR,
on the Island but would behave there.
: after az best suited themselves. They
threatened the white mems lives. They
= we're carrying nags and waving then
: exCltedly and were armed with knives
clubs stones and cutlasses made o
hoop-iron sharpcned
DEFENDING THEIR LIVES
: They made movement towards tn
, platform upon which Captain Spence
= and his friends stood. The white mel
whipped cut their revolvers. Old Cap
a tain spencer headed the white men
9 lie raised a six-shooter Ia either hand
The drst man who steps upon thi
platform shall die" shouted captain
|. spencer.
shoot away" cried the mob and a
- "a signal from the leader charged al
together Tor the platform. Though the.
: moved quickly. Captain Spencer's trig
ger fingers moved quicker. Eigh
= times his rcvolvers spoke and the
]. spoke 10 the point Pistols In hands o
J. the other white men also had somethin
30 10 say.
TWO ARE KILLED
!. Two 20 the Japanese dropped dead
j, They were the foremost In the charg
and were the leaders of the rebellion
Three others fcil helpless. sorei
wounded. 10 was night time when th
nchting occurred. about 8 o'clock .
y y the evening. Had IL been by dayllgh
!, more japanese must have been kilie
Il Tor then would the aim OF the defend
J. ers have been more effective.
s This business-like handling % IN
firearms aSed the japanese and afts
= that u was not such a difficult matte
!, O. round them up and put them a
= aboard the bark Ceyion where CAPITAL
- WIier took charge of them. thirty
Ie eight In all. and put them below b,
Ie tween decks and placed them und.
- guard.
The foregoing II the story gathere
a last night from the white men
le RESULT OF CONSPIRACY
when the Ceyion left Honolulu n,
: long ago with stores for Laysan ISLAM
sr she carried ten japanese to be added !
Z the laborinr force on the Island. Al
curdiuE 90 an accounts ~ vas thes