Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1907-05-31

ers, menaced by mutineers, threatened
by gales, but he has the courage and
abandon of a corsair. With a deter
mination that nothing appears to be
able to break, he has been operating in
Berlng Sea ever since the United States
passed the act intended to preserve the
seals from extinction.
Latest Act of Piracy.
In Chinese waters coastwise steam
ers are never safe from pirates. The
latest act of piracy was the capture Of
the British steamer Sainam by Chi
nese, near Canton. The buccaneers MUIR
dered the Rev. DR.. Macdonald, four In
dian watchmen, while the commander,
Captain Joslin, was seriously wounded,
and Chinese named Ho was cut so
badly that he had to be sent to WI
chow. AS usual the band of pirates es-
capped, taking with them about $4,000
and some ammunition.
The robbery was planned with great
skill, and appears to have been organ
lied by some one well acquainted with
what was going on in the provincial
treasury. In turn, some one connected
with the pirates must have warned the
provincial authorities.
In some manner the news that the
Chinese provincial authorities intended
to ship $4,000 in silver by the Sainam
leaked out, when the ship sailed from
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for at the last moment it was with
held. However, some Of the pirates
took passage at Canton, others came on
board at Kun Chuk and Kan Kong,
and mixed with the other native pas
sengers. While the ship was nearing
Samohui several long Chinese junks
came alongside. When they tied up to
the steamer, the pirates on board the
Sainam made a signal for the upris-
ing.
The uprising was ingeniously devised
There appeared to be disturbance
among the Chinese passengers on the
lower deck. Four Indian watchmen on
guard rushed forward to quell 1t, but
as soon as they laid hands on the man
who appeared to have been responsible,
they were attacked by the pirates, who
used revolvers and knives with rapidity
and certainty.
In few minutes the Sainam was in
the hands Of the Chinese, who began a
systematic search for loot. They dis
covered the $4,000 had not been placed
on board, but they made off with all
the money and valuables they could
find, and broke open doors, windows,
boxes, during their hunt for treasure.
Then they all dropped over the side
into the waiting junks and put off.
Captain Joslin, although seriously
wounded, took charge of the ship and
brought her into Canton. There he re-
ported the attack, but the Chinese gun
boats were tardy In leaving. The Chi
nese gunboat commanders always ap-
pear to fear they might catch the pi-
rates. So the British river gunboat
Moorhen was dispatched up the river
, but, as usual, the pirates escaped.
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, eers in the Pacific. These are the
"blackbirders," the slavers which still
, continue in business among the islands
, In Polynesia, Micronesia and the scat.
tered and unfrequented spots in the an.
, tipodes.
One of the mort notorious of these
blackbirders was a certain CAPTAIN Ha.
, bernick of the schooner Samoa. The
Samoa, about three years ago, captured
about 1900 natives on one of the isl
! ands in the Solomon group and sold
' them to work In Samoa. These island
. ers, while not sold into slavery as II
: once was practiced In this country and
the West Indies, were practically slaves
: just the same. They are not slaves IL
! one sense Of the word, but their chance
Of being freed Is very slight. They