The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-10-11

With the members Of the Twenty
first Infantry on board, returning from
eighteen months active service in the
Philippines, the army transport Logan
reached port yesterday morning, sailing
again in the afternoon. The voyage from
the Orient had been made in good time
and without any accidents or casualties
among the eoo persons aboard. Among
these is the youngest stowaway ever
carried by any OF the transport fleet.
being the three-year-old son of a negro
soldier, having been taken aboard with
the idea that there need be no formaiI-
ties connected with his transportation,
but which the rules required to be list
ed as a stowaway and subject to the
dire penalties Of the effense. There
were no irons observable. however,
when the pickaninny was on deck dur
ing the stay in port
The 21st Infantry earned an enviable
name for itself while on service in the
Far East, having been stationed on the
Island of Samar and recently having
supplied some companies for Leyte,
where active service against the Pula-
James was seen. In one engagement, in
which Company z was engaged, the
Pulajane chief Daguhob was captured
and 100 of his men killed, effectually
breaking up the. band.
AT the present time there are few OF
the regulars doing the kind Of patrol
duty at first assigned to the 2lst, TINS
work being given over to the constap-
ulary. recruited from the natives, and
which is. in the words of one of the
officers of the regiment, very useful
except when there is something to do
One of the exciting experiences of the
regiment in San1ar consisted in gong
through a typhoon last fall, which
swept the island killing 300 people ana
destroying an immense amount OF
property. The barracks of the 2lst was
included among the buildings torn
away by the wind and one member of
the regiment lost his life among. the
falling tirnbers.
The orders received for the regiment
in Manila were TO go to Fort Logan,
in Colorado, but IL is expected that
other orders separating the companies
VIII be received on their arrival at San
Francisco. due 10 the shifting around of
the mainland regiments incidental to
the Cuban trouble.
While at Manila the Logan was the
first vessel to tie up at the new gov
eminent dock there. From this point
she took all the freight disembarked
, from the transport Sheridan.
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o'clock. taking mail. it being decided
that owing to the delay of the s. s.
Ventura she would be the first vessel
to arrive at San Francisco.
SHIPPING NOTES.
The following sugar on Kauai is re-
ported: v. K, 1900 bags; w, SEQ; ID.
IA x. 22299; G.. & r., 1408.
The ensign of the transport Sheridan
was at halfmast yesterday, following
the order issued at the Naval Station
in honor of the memory of the late
Rear Admiral Train.
Yesterday the lines securing the hulk
Melanethon to the transport Sheridan
We're east off, the list in the transport
having been overcome and there being
TO further danger of her turtling
The steamer Mikafala arrived yes
terday morning from Nawiiwili with
952 bags of sugar, 100 bags of taro and
a large amount of sudnries. Captain
Thompson reports good weather
throughout the trip.
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