The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-01-10
RED|V|VUS \. N. WEAVER
THE DASHiNG COMMODORE IN
HONOLULU.
Is a Through Passenger on the Ala
media Going once more to the Samoan
Islands-His Career.

on the passenger list of the Alameda
bound for Pago Pago appears the
names of IN. NJ. Weaver and valet"
Bert Peterson states however, that this
Weaver is none other than his erst-
while friend the famous Commodore
Nicholas J. Weaver Who the valet is
Peterson does not attempt to state.
This visit of the Commodore brief as
it is, recalls the rather stirring times
attending his last call at the port OF
Honolulu. Some time in September Of
1899 Weaver came here In the yacht
Norma. He was accompanied by a
handsome woman, whom he introduced
as his sister-in-law. In any even Wea-
yer had not been here for very long
before the hoodoo which seems to have
pursued him on that trip made it's ap-
pearance in the form of a bottomry
attachment against the Norma. Some
body in Singapore had instituted the
suit and claiming that Weaver was in
debted to them for a good sized
amount. Weaver protested that the
matter had been settled long before
and the attachment was the result of
mistake. Whether that was the
truth has never been positively proved
to many but in any event Weaver left
the boat and went to San Francisco.
What he did there or who he saw are
merely incidents of the mans career.
His trip proved successful though for
he returned after a brief absence, with
sufficient money with which to settle
the claim against him. or at least with
some sort of authority by which the
suit was dismissed and the yacht re-
leased. Bert Peterson hardened unto
the voice of the tempter and seeing
vast opportunities for making money in
( the romantic South Sea Islands, decid-
ed to join forces and alas, finances with
the Commodore. So they sailed away
one day, Peterson. the Commodore and
{ the sister-in-laW, and dropped anchor
in Apia. There the men secured op-
tions on some Samoan land for the pur-
pose of starting a cocoa plantation on
a large scale.
Peterson evidently learned something
of the real character of the Commodore
at Apia. At Honolulu there had been
various rumors of the high life and ad-
VenturOus career of the Commodore in
Asiatic ports but as Weaver always
denied them. there was more or less
doubt as to their truth. This knowledge
of Weaver must have been far from
satisfactory to Peterson for he left the
Commodore and went to Auckland and
sydney, finally returning here last
| year.
Weaver got along fairly well however
until he reached Auckland There
| funds ran low. Weaver managed 10
! raise the wind through loan made to
I him by woman. The woman loved
| the Commodore much but she loved her
dough" more for when she heard that
Weaver had departed to Sydney, she
pursued him. At Sydney the yacht
was attached and it's owner finally
abandoned her and returned to the
| United States. According to last ac-
counts Weaver was possessed of plenty
| OF money and intended going to the
| South Seas and making more.
Qn,.t i
! torney today regarding the advisablity
of instituting attachment proceedings
| against Weaver. 1t was finally decided
| to make a formal demand upon the
Commodore for $500 the amount which
| Peterson claims is due him. Should this
fail of response Peterson will probably
! institute action AGAINST Weaver in the
| Pago PaPo courts. Peterson insisted
the Alameda this afternoon to inter
view Weaver.