The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-03-25

es the old song of Fifteen Men on a
Dead Mans Chest from which Steven
son quotes, only in this case it was
not Cookies throat was marked be-
like it had been gripped by fingers
ten,' for cookie, or at least the ships
baker YVES the man who did the kill
/ ing.
While the Foohng Suey was down in
/ southern ATTITUDES on February 3 there
was a forecastle brawl in which Will
liam X. Swan, the baker, produced
gun and shot Oscar r. Nelson sea-
man. The unfortunate man died at
once and was buried at sea with full
| honors. The murderer was put in
/ irons below where he nursed his re-
morse until, five days later on Febru-
/ Gry 10, when he was taken on deck,
he broke away from his guard and
jumped overheard He went down in
! his manacles and was drowned before
/ he could be reached. Luckily the
Foohng Suey had fair weather and the
shortage in the crew was not serious
ly felt except by the skipper Captain
Willett discovered, after he had his
baker in irons, that he was the only
other man on board who could cook
and bake, so between his other duties
he found it necessary to roll up his
sleeves and conduct operations in the
galley
The bark cleared from New York
November Is and has on board $500
tons of general merchandise consign-
ed to T. H. Davies & Co, Apart from
the double tragedy the voyage was
without incident and the Foohng Suey
came into port in excellent form.
MORE AUTOS ON HoNoLULAN.
| When the Honoulan arrives from
San Francisco tomorrow morning she
will bring in Is more automobiles to
add to the prosperous showing of the
town. The Matson steamer also car
ries 2093 tons of general freight, q
passengers, 49S bags of mail, So eX-
! press packages and 3S5 tons of cargo
for Kahului,
The wireless report from the Homo
/ lulan announces that there are four
passengers and % bags of mail on
board for the Makura which will prob
ably get away Wednesday afternoon
for Australia These people will just
about fill up the last vacancies on the
Australian boat.
ZEALANDlA NOT HEARD FROM.
Although the Canadian-Australian
steamer Zealandia is due tomorrow
from Sydney and Suva, the local
agents have not been able to get in
touch with her and may not hear any
thing until she is sighted off port.
The difficulty of getting in touch with
anything coming from the south
through the Kahuku station is well
known, so the Zealandia's silence is
not regarded as ominous. 1t is gen.
orally believed that the Waianae
range interferes in some way with
the transmission of wireless mes
sages to vessels coming from Austria
lia In one instance Davies & Co. re-
ceived their report from a steamer
coming from Australia by way of one
of the cruisers lying at Hilo which
picked up the wireless and forwarded
it.
The Makura has reported by wire
less that she will be in port from
Vancouver Wednesday morning at
o'clock.
WlLHELMlNA BACK FROM HILo,
The Matson steamer Wilhelmina re
turned from Hilo, where she has
been loading with 37l7 tons of sugar
from the big island. Before sailing
for San Francisco on Wednesday the
Wilhelmina will load about 1900 tons
more besides a cargo of other island
products.
The tourists who did not get away
in the Sierra and Mongolia seem 10
have determined to go back in the
Wilhelmina en- masse. For several
days every available cabin on the
steamer has been booked, there is a
generous waiting list and the appli-
cants who are willing to sleep any
where are applying to the agents to
; find them hunks even if they have to
dislodge the crew. The obliging Off
GERS of the Wilhelmina have already
resigned themselves to sleeping on
sofas this trip. There are to be about
seventy-fve steerage passengers on
board as well as all the cabin passen-
gers the vessel can carry.
WlNKLEMAN SHORT A MAN.
The lumber barkentine Mary Win
kleman, Capt M. Cristoffersen, arrived
this morning from Eureka with 500.
600 feet of redwood lumber and tied
up at the foot of Fort street. The
windjammer reported good weather
and voyage without incident, but
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