The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-09
TRIANGULAR FIGHT.
Is Attracting Attention of Poll
ticians in Hawaii.

Honolulu, Oct. 2 via San Francisco,
Oct. BY the steamship Australia to-
day the city Of Honolulu sends 50, 300 for
the aid of the people of Galveston, Tex
The money was raised in a day after
a meeting of the chamber of commerce
was called and subscription lists were
opened
Hawaii's three-cornered political fight
is now fairly started, Republicans, Dem
oerats and independent home rulers all
having tickets in the field. The inde-
pendents have flung to the breeze at
their headquarters q banner bearing
the picture of King Kamehameha I, the
great hawaiian monarch who first
conquered all the islands The two
American parties claim that this is
another proof that the Hawaiian party
is carrying on an anti-White campaign
The Independents will hold their regular
nominating convention next Wednesday
when they will put their full ticket in
the field. There is no doubt, however,
about the nomination of r. W. Wilcox
for congress.
The registration board is having a
good deal of trouble in making rulings
on disputed points.
The supreme court has ruled that the
men who have no other homes than on
the interisland steamers are not entitled
TO register and vote. This depriveS over
so men in Honolulu of their votes.
The wholesale merchants of Honolulu
drummers- They say they do not want
drummers sent to the islands, and by
today's mail all the leading firms of
the Pacific coast are notified that such
is the sentiment of the Hawaiian firms.
The resolutions adopted threaten that
firms that do not regard the wishes of
the firms here will be boycotted in Hon
oluIu
The drain of money collected by the
custom house here continues, and local
bankers have decided that there is no
way, under the present United States
laws, to stop ii. Every month the Gus
tom house collects from $50, 600 to $780,
600 and sends it to the mainland for
duties, and as it is paid by Honolulu
firms the drain on the gold in the coun-
try is very heavy.
Congress will be asked to relieve the
situation by allowing the sending of
drafts instead of gold, as is required
by the laws now.
No news has been received of the miss
ing ship Wachusett, long overdue from
Newcastle, and it is generally supposed
that she is lost. Several vessels that
left Newcastle long after the Wachusett
have arrived here.
Wireless telegraphy still continues to
be a failure here. The longest channel
between any of the islands is only 81
miles, with nothing intervening, while
all the other ocean distances it is neceS-
sary to cover are less than 80 miles
Up to this time, however, the wireless
telegraph company has not been able
to make the system work.
The destruction of forest lands on the
islands is being generally looked upon
as a cause of the decline in rainfall, and
it is proposed by some that the matter
be placed in the hands of congress un-
less the local authorities find a way to
stop the destruction of the timber.
F. D. Gamewell, president Of the Uni
versity of Pekin, is a passenger on the
steamship America Maru, arriving here
today from the Orient en- route to San
Francisco. 1t was he who had charge
of the Notifications during the recent
siege at Pekin. President Gamewen is
emphatic in his opposition to the Rus
sian policy of withdrawal from China.
He says that such a policy would be
suicidal for the powers and would be
accepted by most Chinese as proof that
the foreigners had been driven out The
Chinese, says Gamewell, would think
that those who did go to Pelzin only
went there to pay tribute TO the imperial
government.