Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-07-26

company was mustered IN IN 1904 With
the following officers: r. p. Cum
minis, first lieutenant, and James ID.
Dougherty, second lieutenant.
Strike at lahaina.
In the same year, shortly follow
| ing the organization OF the signal
corps. news was received in Honolulu
| that a strike had taken place ON the
Pioneer plantation at Lahaina. Maui,
and provisional company was hast
lily organized and dispatched tc the
scene of the trouble. During the
strike. the officers and men sent from
Honolulu paid more than 500 out OF
their own private funds in order to
meet the government expenses neces-
sariIy incident TO the duty which
they were called upon to perform,
while the Maui company paid 4 like
sum for the same purpose. This
money was never refunded TO those
furnishing 1t. The expenses met were
properly these of The territory and
the incident presents the peculiar
spectacle of tie national guardsn.en
not only being compelled TO render
service to the government but TO
largely subsist themselves while rem
dering that service, and TO pay the
expenses of the government incident
thereto.
Upon the arrival of the Honolulu
detachment at Lahaina, guards were
posted and a conference held by the
manager OF the plantation with the
high sheriff, Captain Samuel Johnson,
commanding officer of the company,
and Captain William e. Bell of ~,
company. Following the conference
the strikers We're informed that the
business of the plantation was to be
carried ON and would be continued
TO be carried on even Though force
had to be used to prevent inferfer-
enee on the part of the strikers. The
strikers soon saw the futility of at
tempting to interfere and the orderly
transaction Of business was soon re-
stunned. following which the militia
company returned to its home sta
ton, plus experience but minus dol
lars.
In 1906 Company Al was mustered
out of the service and two years
later the signal corps was changed
to an Infantry company and took "A"
as its letter of designation. During
the same year Company ii was also
mustered cut. In 1908 new COM
pany was organized at Laiaina, Maui.
under the letter designation Of a."
with the following commissioned Off
GERS: Samuel KeliiRoi, captain: John
w. Searle, first lieutenant. and Will
liam X kaluakini, second lieutenant.
Congressional Party.
On May IA. 1907, the steamer Mex
lean left the port of Honolulu for
the island of Maui, having on board
the congressional party which was at
that time touring the islands with
Acting Governor A. L. G.. Atkinson
The steamer also carried a deiach-
ment of the national guard of Ha-
wall under the command of Second
Lieutenant Arthur w. Nicely, which
was charged with the duty of the
transportation and subsistence OF
the congressional parry which was
en- route on a trip to and. the ascent
of Haleakala The detachment, after
making arrangements for the party
following ifs arrival on the Valley
Isle, sent detail to the summit Of
the mountain, which detail had camp
erected and meals prepared upon the
of the cold weather, the detail
worked throughout The night. gather
ing firewoQd with Which to keep the
large camp fire going. At sunrise
the guardsmen prepared breakfast
and otherwise looked after the COM
fort of the party The detachment
of the guard which remained behind
in Kahului, and the detail at the
summit. succeeded in getting In some
signal practice by exchanging mes
sages by Photograph. The service rem
dered by the detachment won i'll
much praise and favorable comment
from the members of the congression-
al party.
Quarantine Service.
By permission of the United States
marine hospital service, military
and quarantine hospital was establish
ed on Quarantine Island by the Ma
tional Guard of Hawaii March g.
1910. The new post was under the,
vi StiptdE1 "A ~. 0tnCldIl,
N G. H., the territorial bacteriologistI
and member of the staff of the Unit
ed States marine hospital service in
Hawaii He was assisted by corps
of doctors and nurses, and military
guard to keep the quarantine camps
properly maintained. This quarantine
was established for the purpose of
taking care of various parties of Rus.
sian immigrants who, in coming to
Hawaii, had contracted a number of
infectious and contagious diseases
such as measles, mumps, chicken-pox,
eyrsipelas, spinal meningitis and
whooping cough. In the emergency,
the national guard was called upon to
assist the board Of health and to care
for and subsist the immigrants under
the direction of the latter organiza-
tion On November 5, 1911, the ma
tional guard was again called on to-
assist the board of health, and estab-
lished quarantine station in the Ka-
lihi district for the purpose of pre-
venting the introduction into Homo
lulu of yellow fever This station was
e. E 1t IL,