The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-07-15
NOTES FROM
MA|NLk AND
The Queen and FER
PIans---WireleSs
Dreams.
Especial to The Advertiser ,

(SnPCiaI TO I0e AONSA IAo14 ~
SAN FRANCISCO. July s.-ForIner
Queen I.iliuokalani returns on tne
steamship China to her beloved Hawaii
aooo,nnanie5 by the young Hawaiians
who compose her unpretentious suite'
The Queen has been at the CairoT'iia
Hotel for several days, and is under
stood to be in fair health. She has re-
fused all requests for interviews mace
hv ranorters and correspondents. and
has secluded herself while at the note,
In my last letter l mentioned that
had been told the Queen had snail
honae of receiving anything from Con
eress for her crown lands claim De
Iieve nv informant spoke without
Knowledge. as L was assured yesterday
nv an intimate of the Queen that she
feels certain that the visit OF the CON
eressional investigating committee 10
hawaii this summer viii result In ner
getting a large appropriation
1 understand that the Queen Will en-
terrain the junketing congressman Ia
royal fashion. and while making IL
plain that her fortunes are at a low eoo
for a former monarch, YET WIN SLslls
10 expense to impress the visitors with
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charms of the Islands.
Robert wilcox is friendly with one or
| two of the deIega to- and viii also as
| sist the members in their Investigations
of conditions. Wilcox told me When ne
was here that he looked for big Things
| RI grow out of the committees report,
land that he believed the Dole adH'nls-
t1ation would be censured despite Pres
| ident Roosevelt's unqualified approVal
| of the Governors conduct of his Office
| QUEEN IN SAN FRANCISCO.
| OF the Queens visit in San Francisco
| the Chronicle says:
v Former Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii
A arrived here from the East yesterday
/ morning and is a guest at the Callfor-
mia Hotel. She has been in Washing
L ton during the last several months EN-
fdeavoring to persuade Congress that
| the United States government ought TO
paw her for the crown lands or HaWall
| talran hy if or restore them to her pos
1 session. The only action taken that
has any bearing on the claim or the
| former monarch was the adoption OK
resolution by the Senate, sfirectlng the
Senate Committee on Paclnc lslaiaoS
and Porto Rico to visit the islands DUR
ing the recess of Congress and to inves-
tigate. among other matters, various
| questions pertaining to the crown
Hands. The resolution directs the COM
| mittee to ascertain the area, condition,
louality and value of the lands, the rents
and other proceeds received there1roin
since January II. 1898; whether or not
| the former Queen now possesses any
legal or equitable title or interest IN the
! same and whether she has any claim
against the United States by reason
| of having parted with her title TO the
property -,
Il friends that she is satisfied the Senate
| committees investigation Will estaDhsn
her claim to the lands in dispute, winch
include some of the most valuable sug-
ar plantations in the islands. she VII
sail for the islands on the steamer chi
ma next Tuesday.
FAKE WIRELESS RUMOR.
1t is stated by leading mining week
Ily that John d. Spreckels will connec
san Francisco and Hawaii by wireless
; | telegraphy. and that he has expert
now a. work planning the system. L
| is; said that so strongly is he conVInce'
of the feasibility of the scheme he re
fused to take any stock in the proposed
cable to Honolulu" This statemen
must mean that ne took no particula
interest in the cable laying, for 1t /
not likely that he was asked to tax
any shares in the enterprise as John w
Mackay has plenty of money to hnanc
the cable. and besides the rich Com
mercial Gable Company is back OF IT.
Undoubtedly Spreckels takes dee
interest in wireless biography, an
there is probably truth in the assertio
| that he Will try to reach HAWAII VII
the system. Just now. however, Spreck
els is so involved in political and busi
ness worries that he can have nc tim
for minor things. Governor Gage
suing him for criminal libel for article
| published in the San Francisco Cal
vhich Spreckels owns. his brothers ar
fighting him in the courts, and ocean,
| stncL, Is erraa tlY danreSSed.