The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-08-26

reduce me to seaman, and l told him
to go ahead, but he could not get any
body to enforce his orders on me.
He Was the Law.
He said, 4 am the law and the
Judge and the executioner aboard
ship
AT o'clock next morning l went
on deck as usual. l was attacked with
l asked him for medi-
cine, and he said he had none. l got
so l could hardly do anything and still
got no medicine.
Then he got three sailors in my
watch so that they were insubordinate
to me all the time and told me when |
gave them orders to go and do it my
self.
He was trying to trap me into do
ing something so that he could get a
complaint against me into his log.
But no matter how he cursed me, l
made no answer And what he told
me to do / went straight and did.
I'VE arrived at Tocopilla, Chile,
fifty-six days from Seattle. The sail
ors were paid off, but he refused to
pay me, putting me to unloading our
big cargo of lumber with the natives.
l was given the choice of going to
work or going ashore and into Jail. He
kept me aboard twelve days unloading
lumber. was hobbling around on
one leg and did not do much work.
Didn't Get His Money.
Then he saw the captain of the
port and got him to agree to take me
ashore. He owed me 1854. He paid
me $62, not enough to pay my fare
even to Panama, as he we'll knew.
He said: I am the American con-
sui at Tocopilla. If you have any
complaint to make against me you
will make it to me-
81 met a pilot who advised me to go
tC the American consul at Iquique, 1870
miles away. So got a steamship and
went to Iquipue. The consul demand
ed an explanation, and the old man
sent a statement, supported by two af-
fidavits, that | was no seaman and had
not been mistreated in any way The
consul advised me to send my charges
to Seattle, and got me a quartermast-
er's berth on the Tricolor
To-day the men in the district at
torney's office treated me very courte-
ously, but the shipping commissioner
was very abusive, and treated my as
sertions as a joke, apparently.
THE master of the BIakely was }.
W. Manka. In Seattle he bought a
crew of six sailors and a mate. He
paid SIS a head for the mates and
$50 head Tor the sailors the same as
he would buy bunch of cattle.
"Of these amounts $25 each was
charged up against the mates as an al
lotment, and 1898 against each of the
sailors for clothing that they never
received. The rest was charged up
against the ship by the captain. The
amounts charged up against us the
captain divided with the crimps.
THE old man made no secret of this
aboard. The money paid for us was
known as blood money. He would
shout to sailor, L do not see why |
ever paid 1913 blood money for you.
THE fact that blood money had
been paid for us was common talk on
the ship. The use of blood money is
common talk among sailors along the
Seattle water front, While we were
lying at Port Townsend Mclntire told
me of shanghiaed men drowned there
trying to swim ashore.
"One night | said: Captain, how
much did you pay for me?"
He said: I paid too much
When persisted he finally told me
that he had paid $75 for me and rued
his bargain.
Il charge the United States ship
ling commissioner with being Access
sorry to the crime. If he was not blind
he must have had cognizance of the
facts in the matter.
Since | got into Seattle on the Trl-
color / met Tommy Wilson in the
street He threatened TO kill me if 1