The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-05-04

The cook on the barkentine Hawaii
had few concise, if unprintable, re-
marks to make yesterday regarding
the statements made by Captain WIKI
ander in The Star. The cook empnat-
ically denied that he had ever at
tempted to strike the captain with a
knife. He admitted that the captain
had called him all sorts of names one
day, and then he challenged the cap
tain to fight it out on the deck He
told the captain the private opinion
that he harbored of him, which, of
course, was not very flattering. The
captain refused to fight, and then the
cook made some caustic remarks
concerning his bravery.
"As for trying to poison him." co.
tinued the cook, that's lie | nev-
er had any trouble on any ship in my
life before, and l would not have had
it on board here if it had not been
for the captain himself The whole
trouble is he wanted to get rid of
the men on board at Chill, and
wouldn't help him. He wanted them
to leave the ship, so he would not
feed them properly. He thought in
this way that they would leave, and
then he would save their wages, near
! ly two and a half months, from the
, United States to Chill, and then he
would take on a new crew at the
rate of S17 or SIS a month as against
| $25 under the United States laws.
But it didn't work. He offered me
twenty-five pesos to leave. He said
he could not get along with me, but
the captain of the Amazon liked me,
and was willing to take me if | would
join his ship, but | refused to go.
Didn't Try Poisoning.
about that poisoning: How could
I try to poison him? The mate and
he sit at the same table together, AMI
the food is the same for all The
captain takes his, and if I were to
put poison in the food, | might poi
son the chief mate, the second mate,
the carpenter, or worse still, myself.
Parenthetically, it might be remarked
here that there was not word said
about attempted poisoning in The
Star, nor did the captain say any
thing about it.
"The whole trouble is" continued
the cook, the captain wanted to get
rid of us all, and we wouldn't go. |
never tried to stab anybody in my
life, and I never will. If I ever get
into fight with anybody I use my
hands, but if the man is too big for
me, then l would knock off his can
with anything that l could get. But
] never used a knife.
Stay With the Ship.
I'VE do not want to go and leave
the ship The carpenter and my
self, the first and second mate, are
going to stay with her until she gets
to Aberdeen. We signed for the
round trip, and we are going to make
it. This is Hawaii, not the Pacific
Coast We have no kick coming, aX-
cept that the food was not as set out
by the government list, but those fel-
lows had no right to go shooting off
their faces about the captain not be-
ing thorough navigator. That has
nothing to do with them at all. All
want is that you correct his state
ment that I tried to knife him, be-
cause he told an adjectival lie when
he said that, and I didn't try to poi
son him either.
"The crew are perfectly sensible
in not wanting to go any farther, as
they are going to join the union, and
then if they were not paid the union
wages. why there would be trouble
so they are quite right in quitting
now"
The carpenter concurred in all that
had been said, and stated that every
thing was satisfactory, apart from the
fact that the government scale of
food had not been handed out.