The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-03-10
MAGAZINE At FORT
SHAT ter BROKEN
Two Revolvers and CARTRIDGES
St0len---A Soldier Is
Arrested.

Taylor and Detective Reeves were seer
coming down the gangplank with 8
man evidently much under the infiu.
ence of liquor, in the uniform of the
! army hospital corps. The rumor flew
from mouth to mouth that the mar
/ was a very desperate fellow, and q
crowd of several hundred surged
around the trio as they reached the
wharf
While the man was not quite so des-
perate as rumor credited him with
being, his arrest was an important
matter. His name is Frank Harpe
and he is hospital corps man sta
toned at Fort shafter. He broke into
the Fort Shafter arsenal and maya
| zine and stole two army revolvers and
| a considerable amount of ammunition
The theft was discovered early yes
terday morning. Just what led the
authorities at the post to fix the crime
on Harpe is not known. He was alb
/ sent from the post without leave at
| the time and word was sent to the
police to look out for and arrest him.
| The notification included the state
/ ment that he frequented Iwilei
! There is evidence to Indicate that
| Harpe intended to get away on the
| Sherman, and he might have succeed
| ed, Notwithstanding the fact that he
was being looked for if his drunken
/ ness had not led him into foolish ac-
tions. He was at the steamer and
| the Hawaiian band was playing. He
insisted on some soldiers dancing to
the music. When they refused, he
drew one of the stolen revoivers from
inside his trouser belt, and proceeded
to make the soldiers about him dance
la the tenderfeet of wild west towns
He was quickly disarmed, and the fact
that ne had this gun subjected him at
once to suspicion. He was put in the
brig of the ship and word sent to Fort
Shafter Fort Shafter at once sent
word to the police, and the man was
turned over to Chief Taylor and taken
to the police station. 1t is supposed
he sold the other revolver for money
to get away with.
He was too drunk to be able to give
any account either of himself or of
the occurrences WITH Wn1cn he Is con-
nected. Very little is known of him
at Fort Shafter. He enlisted there last
August, having, as one of the men at
Fort Shafter expressed it. dropped
off here from one of the transports"
He is now in cell at the police sta
ton. He has staring him in the face
the serious charge of burglary from
the united States War Department.,
besides minor charges against army
regulations. The prospects seem to be
good that he may serve time in the
military prison at Alcatraz,
Later in the evening he sobered up
some and told Chief Taylor that he
had left Fort Shafter with the inten~
ton of deserving and quitting the SER
ifce for ever; he was tired of it, and
had had ten years of it,
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atas in the Philippines, and half
dozen or more Filipinos, wives of
Twenty-fourth infantrymen were on
the after deck of the Sherman when
she sailed away. The postoffice did not
despatch mail by the Sherman, APP
parently figuring that it should not
reach San Francisco ahead of the Ala
media The wireless of the Sherman
kept up communication with the wire
less station at the Naval station until
a late hour last night. Communica-
ton may be resumed this morning.
ENTERPRISE AND WIRELESS.
SAN FRANCISCO, March IA
wireless message was received last
night from the steamer Enterprise,
which left here at 4 o'clock yester-
day. The message read: Raining,
with very rough sea. Eighty miles
from the hghtship" The Enterprise
is bound for Hilo.
THE S. N. CASTLE.
The barkentine S. n. Castle, well
known in these waters, arrived in San
Francisco February % with a load of
copra from Page Page.
THE DIX AT MANILA.
The transport Dix which sailed from
here January 10 for Manila, is report
ed in the San Francisco papers as ar
irving at Manila February 10.
MOVEMENTS OF SHIPPING.
ADATO, Br. S. s., from Newcastle for
Eleele, Feb. %.
A J. WEST. Am. schr, from Grays
Harbor for Hon, Feb. 26.
o. S. s, DowdelI, ar. Hon. /
from S. F., March s.
ALASKAN, All. S. s, from Hilo for
Salina Cruz, Feb. 27.
ALICE COOKE, Am. schr., from Hon |
for Seattle, March 4.
Am. schr., from Taltal for |
Hon, Feb. %.
AORANGI, CA. s. s, Phillips, from |
Hon. for Sydney. Mar. T.
AMIRAL FOURICHON, FIR. s. s, Ia |
lone, ar. s. F. from Hen. Jan. %.
AMY TURNER. Am. blk. Warland. |
from s. F. for Hon, March 4.
ASTRAL, Am. sp., Durham, ar. at
Hon. from Norfolk, Feb. 10.
ALBERT. Am blk, ar. HiIo from Port
Gamble. Mar. 8.
ANDY MAHONEY, Am schr., from
Grays Harbor for Hon, Mar. 5.
ASIA. P. NJ. S. s.. ar. Yokohama from
Hon