Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-04-24
REFUSED TO LET
SOLDIERS LAND.
Hawaiian Board of Health Wants
No Smallpox Patients,
FOUND ON THE FITZPATRICK
"uome Rule"Party Changes Its Name
10 "Independens Home Rule
Republican Party.

Honolulu, T. H., April F.-(Via San
Francisco,April 4)-The transport Kill
patrick arrived here on the 18th from
San Francisco, with two cases of small
pox on board, and several cases OF
mumps and measles. She Is In quar-
antine outside the harbor, and will not
leave Honolulu until she has been
thoroughly cleaned and fumigated. All
the soldiers on board VIII be trans
ferred to another vessel, while the
steamer Is cleaned. The Honolulu board
of health has refused to allow the men
to be landed here as proposed by the
army officers, and the latter will prob
ably charter the Schooner Mary d. Fos-
ter, as a hospital ship, to quarter the
men while the transport Is freed from
danger of further infection.
Lieut.. Thomas N, Cobb, Jr., OF the
Twenty-ninth infantry one OF the
smallpox patients, landed at quarantine
island from the transport Lawton, died
early on the morning of the 18th. He
was taken i'll while on the way from
Manila.
The strike among employees OF the
Honolulu iron works still continues,
and the company is sending lot of its
contracts to San Francisco, as II Is
unable to I'LL them now. BY the Mari
posa about 500, 900 worth of work that
was to have been done In Honolulu Is
sent to the coast.
The ship Henry Failing ar
rived at Kahului last Saturday,
after voyage Of 1852 days from
New York. She put In at the Falk-
land islands In distress with her crew
sick, and was delayed there several
months, After leaving there she took
the Cape Of Good Hope route to
Hawaii. Her trip is said to be the
longest on record from New York TO
Hawaii.
The natives Home Rule" party has
changed its name TO Independent Home
Rule Republican party, In accordance
with the suggestion made by Delegate
Wilcox, that the natives Join the Re-
publican party. Wilcox Is now a Re-
publican, and a majority Of the lead
ers OF the Independent party OF the
last campaign have followed his
change.
The native leaders, however, refuse
TO affiliate with the local Republican
party and organization. They have
turned Republican but want to pre-
serve their own party locally. They
show signs of Joining the antl-Dole
faction OF the Republican party, and
tho nett election may see them aligned
with the whites who oppose Dole.
The session OF the first territorial
legislature il now drawing TO an end
and u IL admitted that the Home Rule
program Is dead. Not one OF the many
radical and important measures which
the majority intended to pass mas
reached the governor, and none OF
them will go TO him until after the M
tieth day OF the session, after when
his power OF veto is absolute.
The house has killed the bill to give
the ex-uueen $4,000, owing to dis-
covery that the measure was Illegal
other bills for her pension are before
the house, but they will not pass till
the end Of the session. when the gov
ernor has the final say. An act To set
aside $4,000 for the use Of the delegate
nj washington Is also before the house
Gov. Dole's appointments, appropria..
lions and other routine matters WIZ
Occupy much OF the time from. now on.
The Home Rulers are pledged IN
caucus to vote against confirmation OF
some OF the appointments.
The failure OF the Home Rulers 10
enact legislation in spite OF their over
whelming majority Is attributed 20
their unwlllingness TO follow any ieader
ana 10 the constant employment OF
their time in trivial discussions. one
veto, OF n deed tax bill. has come from
the governor. and several bills nave
been signed. ,.n.a
The liquor dispensary law was killed
in the senate. BY vote OF B TO !. tne
subject was laid over for consiuers-
ton OF the next legislature, two years
from now.