The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-10-23

October 10 for Honolulu.
list of the names of the members OF
| the Customs Department has peeh
passed around among the men, each
man filing out blanks left after his
name and thereby indicating whether
ar not he has registered, what his polit-
zeal proclivities are and other facts OF
like nature.
The American schooner. Helene, Cap
tain Christensen, arrived in this port
Yesterday morning from San Francisco
with 1000 tons of general merchandise
consigned to W. G.. Irwin and Company
The Helene was sixteen days making
the trip down. Five crystallizers for
the Honolulu Plantation Company,
weighing ten tons each, are included in
the cargo. On deck the Helene brought
thirty-two horses for Gus Schumann
and twenty horses and six mules for j.
Mackenzie Two hundred hogs were
also deck passengers.
The mules that are going to China
and Manila on the German transport
Bosnia and the United States transport
Leelanaw had lots of fun in San Fran
cisco. While putting the animals aboard
Burnett Claiborne was kicked on the
knee, A. T Nichols was kicked in the
face, William H. Davis got lacerated
wound on the cheek and Harry Davies
was kicked in the stomach. When the
fourth call for the Harbor Hospital am
bulance came within half an hour the
doctors began wondering what had
happened and one of them went to the
transport wharf to investigate. He
found in one case that it was too much
oats and in another too much whisky.
The steamer Jeanne is on the Union
Iron Works drydock. All of her shoe
and part of her keel are gone. The
rudder frame and rudder are also gone.
She will be overhauled and ready for
sea again in a few days.
The Mail Company's steamer City of
Para is on the drydock at Hunters
Point, San Francisco, being patched up.
Her stem is all rust-eaten and shoe"
will have to be put over thirty feet
of it in order to make the ship sea-
worthy. Besides this, new pintles and
bushings have to be put in the rudder
and the ship thoroughly overhauled.
The City of Para is not the only one
of the Mail Company's fleet that needs
an overhauling.
y COOL MILLION.
VICTORIA, B. c., Oct. 10.-The next
steamer from Skagway will bring ST.,
shipment was made by the Dawson
branch of the Bank of British North
America, the boxes containing the pre-
cious metal being placed on the steamer
Sybil, which left the Klondike capital
prior to September 80.
| The steamer Zealandia, which left
Dawson on the Both, made the trip in
three days and a half, passing the Sybil
and all the other boats on the river.
Some of the ZeaIandia's passengers ar
rived here by the Danube this evening
bringing news of the big shipment made
/ by the bank. They say there will be
several more large shipments during
the present month, as the banks are
endeavoring to send out as much of the
gold as possible before the close of
navigation
This will not be long, for although the
Zealandia, one of the larger vessels
made a very quick trip, the water was
falling fast, and the captain considered
the trip the larger steamers were then
making would be the last for this sea-
son. The smaller vessels may run for
a couple of weeks longer and will be
able to clear up all the freight offering
for Dawson. There We're over 100 pas
sengers on the Danube.
QUARTERMASTER SUSTAINED.
| WASHINGTON, Oct. Judge Advo-
cate General Lieber has given an opin-
ion that the right of extra territoriality
does not apply in the case of military
transports of the United States in the
waters of a foreign country. The ques-
ton arose in the case of Melvin G.
Scott, fireman on the transport
Thomas, who while that vessel was at
INagasaki, was charged with having as
saulted Japanese boy. He evaded ar
rest, and took refuge on board the
| transport. The japanese authorities
demanded htrf 70 IN,
Sawtelle, the army quartermaster in
charge of the vessel, declined to give
him up. 1t was held by the Japanese
authorities that as the Thomas was not
IAN armored vessel Scott was subject
to the rules of international law apply
ing to merchant ships. 1t was also con-
tended that Scott was not an enlisted
man of the United States service, being
simply member of the merchant crew
ION the Thomas. Captain Sawtelle was
notified that the japanese authorities
would send force of men on the
Thomas to enforce their demand for the
surrender of Scott. Captain SaWteIle
replied that such an effort on the part
of the japanese would be resisted by
force of arms In addition to its regu-
lar crew, the Thomas carried a small
force of soldiers, in command of Cap
tain Sawtelle
Fortunatee a clash of arms was
InOmaS
from Nagasaki before the local authori-
ties could carry their threat into effect
The Thomas arrived in San francisco
about the first of September, and the
case involving an important principle
or international law was submitted tc
the law officers of the War Depart
Iment.
In his opinion General Lieber sustains
the legality of Captain Sawtelles &C.
tlon IN refusing to surrender Scott 70
the Japanese authorities General Lie
Der holds that an army transport, while
not an armored vessel, is ship in the
service of the United States Govern
lnent, and that her officers and crew ar,
Exempt from the Jurisdiction of foreign
courts the same as officers and crews q
sels).
,AIthough Scott escaped from this pre-
uicament, he is not likely to go entiraI,
Tree. Since the case arose it has hea,
ascertalned that he is a deserter fron