The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-01

arms. What IL cost the rest of us to
answer that question rightly no man
who has never been through a similar
experience may ever know
In the mean time the revelutionists
waited for Willis to issue orders To
land the bluejaekets, and day and night
from the roof of the Queens palace.
which they still continued to occupy.
they kept their glasses focused on
the decks of the cruisers. 1t was nc
last the deposed Queen herself, how
ever, who made it impossible for the
United States to accomplish what it
had undertaken.
The Queen had somewhat iniudieious-
~ announced her determination to be-
head the leaders in the revolution as
soon as she regained her lost throne,
and the list of those upon whom She
proposed to confer this mark of special
recognition fell into the hands of one
of the spies in the employment of the
revolutionists. This list contained the
names of President Dole, Chief JUS
tice Judd, Col. Soper and others, and
it was with mingled emotions, says Mr..
Hosmer, that he recognized his own
name included with the elite.
The names were given to Minister
Willis, who at once resumed negotia-
tions with the Queen and urged upon
her the necessity of granting an am
nesty. The Queen refused to consider
the proposition. At length, thoroughly
out of patience ON account of her atti-
tude with reference to this question.
Minister Willis compiled new report
for President Cleveland g consideration
and announced his purpose to take no
further action until he again heard from
Washington. A few weeks later the
cruisers were withdrawn, and on July
4. 1894, the Provisional Government re-
solved itself into the Republic of Ha-
wall.
Queen Lil's Last Plot.
The final attempt of the Queen to
place herself back on the throne prob
ably failed chiefly through accident.
Agents of the Queen had planned to
enter the Central Union Church during
the Sunday evening service, Jan. 6,
1895, and at given signal to hurt
bombs to the floor of the church from
the balconies. Previous to this ii was
proposed to land arms at Diamond
Head, a vofcsdfe pshiHshIa 56tf5d fht6
the harbor at some distance from the
city, and then, firing off their rifles
and thus terrorizing the inhabitants
of the city, the Queen s men planned
to advance along the highway that
skirted the shore of the harbor to the
city. The advance into Honolulu was
timed to coincide with the bomb throw
ing in the church and in the confusion
the Queen Is forces planned to take the
strategic points in the city and to place
the Queen back in the palace.
BY the merest accident the approach
of a strange sloop to Diamond Head
on the Sunday evening of the attempt
ed massacre attracted the attention Of
two young officers of the Republic,
Charles Carter and James B. Castle,
and these two with a couple of native
policemen rode out toward the Head
for the purpose of making an investi-
CATION. They had approached to within
a short distance from the Head, when,
without the slightest warning, they
were fred upon from ambush. Carter,
who was the son of Hon. Fl. A. p.
Carter, formerly Hawaiian Minister to
Washington and at one time dean of
he Washington diplomatic corps, was
fatally wounded.
With the aid of the policemen Castle
in getting to cover with Car
.er in a nearby house, and by good for
,une a house in telephone eommuniea-
ion with the city While Carter was
n his death agony Castle was calling
he government offices, and within an
lour or two the government forces
we're again under arms and had every
,n1o hn Nv faA
The would-be bomb throwers were cap
ured with the bombs in their posses
ion before they succeeded in reaching
he church.
It is not at all to be wondered at,
Ieclares Mr.. Hosmer, that the Mikado
hould covet the possession by the
United States of the Hawaiian Islands.
Japan in Envious Mood.
"At this time, the walls back of my
library shelves at the college were lined
With rifles, says Mr.. Hosmer, "and
t. was for such emergencies at this
ime that we had them stored in all
arts Of the city, ready for instant
sc. -
There is no danger that Japan win
o to war with the United States in
he very near future, he thinks. "At
ONE not far distant day, when the
government Of the Mikado has com
lenced to recuperate from the terrific
rain upon its finances incident to the
rar with Russia, I am inclined to the
elief that war with that nation is
tern possibility that should and must
the sober consideration of the
Tnited States. And it is well that our
eople should bear in mind that Japan
ould take Hawaii and the Philippines
t the present time with comparatively
tile effort
"With the completion by the United
tates of the plans for the fertilization
f its possessions in the Pacific, now
nder way, however, and with large
aeific feet, the Mikado may discover,
he gets ready to go to war, that the
tuation has materially altered.
Mr.. Hosmer believes that much OF
he recent ill-feeling in Japan toward
he United States has grown out or tine
of the terms of the treaty
{ Portsmouth. When the Japanese en-
ovs returned home they were nearly
obbed by the public because they had
Of secured more favorable terms from
ussia. and they squared themselves
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