Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-12-11


sails for Manila about SaSturday
morning.
S. S. Nippon Maru. arrives from San
Francisco Friday at 10 a. m. and sails
for Yokohama at > p. m. same day.
cotfins Concealed 6eauteous Maids.
When four Chinese slave girls we
csEtured coming off the Nippon Maru
at San Francisco, il was believed that
ttey had been secerted in the coal
lnnkers during the voyage from
Shanghai to that city. Customs In.
spector Verney while searching the
ship for opium discovered what lie be.
Eeved was the hiding place of the
girls. He found in the rice locker on
the steerage deck on the starboard
side a nook covered with a Chinese
coffin, which had been turned upside
down and placed in a hole in pie
o. mats of rice and concealed by mats
Ct rice piled on top of it.. Ill.,
Parts OF, crsss worn by Chinese
women and toilet articles were found
under the coffin. 49,
The only person who had Key to
this room, according to a statemen;
made by ycrney to Deputy United
States Surveyor Charles A. Stephens,
was .hc Chinese cook of the steerage,
VINO occupied q room opposite the rice
locker with Lsun9 Moon, the Chinese
interpreter, under arrest for attempt.
ing to smu5slo the women into this
country. rt4 IS
The matter We token up FOR inves.
tigatior by Special Treasury Agent
W. II. Tidwe'l, with a view OF securing
evidence that would warrant the ar
rest and prosecution of the cook.
Hamburg America Line After Coast
Business.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 17.-H. F.
TJorgeloh, Pacific coast manager for
the neutrality-suspicious. Steamship
Company, said today that his company
would close negotiations in few days
for docking facilities on San Franciseo
bay for branch service of steamers
between the Pacific coast, the Orient
and Europe.
George Geise, the companys Shang-
hal manager, he said, will arrive here
PR badly next week To- complete the
Dorgeloh's announce
.ment follows a years investigations
made by the company of Pacific coast
commercial, photographic and dock
age conditions. Options have been Sc
cured here on a number of possible
sites for docks. .
Mare Island May Build Navy E
Tankers
WASHINGTON, Nov. S0.-The Mare
Island Navy Yard probably will get
the contracts to build two fuel oil
ships for the Navy authorized by Con-
gress at the last session with an APP
preparation of s1.140,000.
The Mare Island and the Brooklyn
yards have submitted preliminary es-
Inmates of the cost of building the two
ships to the Navy Department and the
Mare Island estimate is the lower.
The act requires that at least one
of the ships be built on the Pacific
Coast Because the Mare Island bid
is the lower for the two ships, the
contracts for both vessels may go to
San Francisco The exact figures of
the bids are withheld by the depart
ment. ~ III -.r>....-. -....s -. ~
American Sailor Murdered At shang-
hal. * ......... 4. H..
SHANGHAI, November 1S.-As the
result of brawl in the Hongkew
quarter last night an American sailor
named Willis, belonging to the U. S. s.
Rainbow, was stabbed, and death en-
sued. ..... =. 49,"
The alleged burderer in one of a
party of Dutch sailors from the cruis-
or Holland, but at present there is
only circumstantial evidence which
does not fix the guilt upon an individ-
uaL
An inquest has been opened and aG-
journed.
Burned Cargo To Gain Port.
The British steamer Lord Curzon,
before reported at Yokohama in dis
tress was short of coal The steamer,
UOullu ITOUl EuSSl OOuHu 10 hOJl, Hdu
emptied her bunkers in the fight with
Lao weather encountered all the way
across. To keep up the fires part of
the cargo was sacrificed. The Lord
Cu,zon arrived at Yokohama under its
own power, and was not towed in as
first reported, but the fires in the fur
mace were made from Oregon pine and
Tot from hlooE 6ia nnn6S
Fish Clog Pumps And Vessel Stops. =
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. Captain
Crossely of the British steamship Car
acas, which arrived here today. re-
ported at the Maritime exchange that
the ship had been delayed n The
straits of Magellen because the pumps
became clogged with hundreds OF live
fish. The vessel was nearly put OFT o:
commission. according to Crossley. So
great was the danger of delay IN that
vicinity, with more and more OF the