The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-12-13
BACK FROM
MORMONDOM
A.FernandeZT Talks
About the
Queen.
ENTERTAINED BY
COLONEL DICKEY
Secretary Aimoku Denies That
LiliuokaIani is Seeking Pay
ment for Crown,Lands.

Abraham Fernandez ~Teturned to
Honolulu yesterday from Salt lake
City, Utah, where he attended the fall
conference of the Mormon church of
which ne is an elder of the stake in
Hawaii. MI. Fernandez has much to
tell of the visit of. Queen LiliuGkalani
to the Mormon capital. She arrived at
a most opportune-time as nearly all tie
Hawaiians who nave become converts
to the Mormon faith and taken up their
residence in Utah, were present at the
conference, and the greetings between
the sovereign and her people were most
affecting. The Hawaiians gathered
wherever it was known the Queen was
to be seen. and they were permitted to
be present in a body at the reception
given in the famous Bee Hive house by
the Mormon church officials.
II was one of the committee appoint
ed 70 meet the Queen at Ogden said
Mr.. Fernandez. I'VE did no. Know un-
til just before she left San Francisco
that she was TO pay a visit - her peo-
pie in Utah, and we therefore gave her
a surprise when we met her at ogden.
She was escorted to Salt Lake City AID
had her apartments at the Kenyon no
tel. Wherever the Queen went she was
an object of interest. The fall confer
ence Of the church was in pros IS and
there were thousands Of the Saints
present from all parts Of the Rocky
! Mountain region. The Hawaiians were
present in large numbers. It was 4
fine sight to see them greet He- Majes-
ty at the reception in the Bee Hive
house, where all the church iignitaries,
the Governor and prominent e' pie
were gathered to do her honor. Tho
Bee Hive house, you know, was once
the residence of Brigham Young.
There was also an organ recital
given in the Tabernacle in honor Of
L.iliuokalani. There were fully 1900
people gathered in the great building at
the time. After the public recital there
was also a private recital at which
none but the Queen and invited per-
sons were present. Several Hawaiian
selections were rendered, not the least
OF which was Hawaii Ponoi.'
People are very curious 10 see the
Queen, and this was the cause of a
singular incident. The Queen was n
Salt Lake but two days and & half. Ev-
identity all the people did not know that
she had taken her departure, for my
wife was constantly taken for the
Queen. which necessitated many ex-
plantations.
1.-The Hawafians colony in Utah is
distributed in several sections, most of
them. however, having settled on faroos
in Skull valley, In Western Utah. There
are a few around Salt Lake and some
work in the smelter at Murray, near
Salt Lake. They seem 10 be doing fair
ly well, and their crops are average
ones"
Mrs. Fernandez and two daughters
remain in Salt Lake. while his son Ed
win has entered the Brigham Young
Academy al Provo, one Of the impor-
tant educational institutions of Utah
conducted under Mormon patronage
THE QUEEN AT OMAHA,
The Omaha world-Herald has the
following:
Queen L~iliuokalani, the last royal
ruler of the Kingdom of Hawaii, and
the fading remnant of the Kanakas on
their native islands, was the guest OF
Omaha friends for a few hours last
evening, between the departure or
rains She and her party arrived over
the Rock Island from the west at AID
p. m, and following q Geographic in
vitation to go driving and take dinner.
Colonel and Mrs. j. j. DiCkey met the
party at the train. At first the Queen
declined the invitation by telegraph,
but later, as she was treasured of the
ample time permitted by the delay be-
tween trains, she accepted. So with her
party, and Colonel and Mrs. Dickey,
and Mr.. and Mrs. Umsted and Mrs.
McDearruon of St. Louis. she was driV-
en- 10 the Omaha Club. where the party
enjoyed dinner with their Omaha
friends.
With the Queen is her maid, Miss
Myrtle HeleIuhe. which is often sacri-
~legiously corrupted into "Hallelujah,
and two young ~collegians from Homo
lulu. Joseph x. Aea and John d. Anna
ku. both bright looking young Hawaii
ans. proteges of the Queen who is TAX
ing them around to see the world that
is not bounded by the Island horizon.
Upon her arrival at the union pas
senger station. nearly half an hour was
passed in exchanging calculations and
discussing the approaching dinner be
tween the Queen and heE Omaha
friends. Then she was escorted into
the ladies' waiting room and from the
bering' TO gaze upon royalty, as many
followed into the waiting room as it
would hold, and in the crowd was thir-
~ men who disregarded the rigid rules
hat men must keep out of the ladies'