Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-06-19
SAMOA INFECTED
WITHSMALLPOK
Quarantine Officers at This
Port May Take Special
Precautions

The United States quarantine medi
cal officials at the port of Honolulu
may be called upon to take special
precautions in guarding against a pos
sible infection of smallpox from the
Samoan Islands with the arrival OF
the Oceanic liner Sonoma, due here
on or about July IL.
With the arrival of the Canadian
Australasian liner Mariana from
Suva came the report that a Chinese
Immigrant steamship with a thousand
or more coolie laborers aboard arrived
at Apia, Samoa, with smallpox aboard
The steamer was freighted with Chi
nese, under contract to labor on
Samoan plantations, three members
Of the party having died of the
scourge before arrival.
: At Apia the authorities promptly
put the steamer in quarantine and she
had TO anchor outside the reef, no
communication with the shore being
permitted. Several patients who were
down with the disease were segre-
gated In a punt, which is lying well |
off the land in an adjoining bay. 1t is |
said that .three more have died since
arrival.
The Samoan natives are naturally \
anxious. and a mass gathering attend
ed on DR.. Schultz, the German gov
ernor, and requested him to order the
ship and her passengers to return to
China, and not permit anyone to
land
Armed patrols are guarding the
shore to prevent anyone from the
ship surreptitiously landing
The American authorities at Page
Page, Tntuila, are taking no risks
and have declared Apia an infected
bort.
Many Steamers Turn Mauiward
Maui is to be the objective point
,f lovers Of sport on July Fourth; and
With the aid of the Inter-Island s. N. ii
Company the visitors will be able to Ii
zee the best races Maui can provide Ii
1t very little cost. The company has !
Manned three different trips, one to II
include the races only for which a |
rice of nine dollars will be charged. 4
Another will include a visit to lao I
ALLEY the day after the races andl
he third takes in the ascent of the j
'reat Haleakala crater, the cost of lC
which viii be thirty-nine dollars as z
gainst nineteen dollars for the lao N
ALLEY trip
Holders of tickets will be carried in j
automobiles from the steamer to the D
iaui Hotel where breakfast will be .
eryed and provided with picnic E
inches TO be discussed at, the track. H
airs will carry them through the val NJ
y and to Idlewild where a rest will NJ
c had and the trip continued on M
orseback to the summit from which +,
he grand sunrise will be had. The
sturn to Honolulu will be by the r
for those who make the W
alley and crater trips, arriving in u
onolulu early Sunday morning. The al
Dmpany is booking passengers at the ~
ueen street office. r!
audine Eack From Maui ~.
The Inter-Island steamer C1audine y
rs the only coastwise arrival at the r
irt this morning. this vessel return u.
g with a miscellaneous cargo includ- n
E shipments of hogs, horses, 2Spon- 4
ons, so casks taro, crates chickens O.
ID ISL packages sundries. ~,
Pnrser killing reports moderate "
nds and seas on the voyage. A
lall list of cabin aud decq passen- ia
rs arrived from Maui ports. &c
eIch Will Take Sugar. N;
The bark Andrew Welch is to be -
pplied with full shipment of SUI
r, destined for Pacific coast refn- N
es. This vessel is expected to sail ~.
San Francisco on or about July A. Or
e Andrew WEIGH arrived here with Nj
Ich mainland cargo and supplies for III,
government half dozen pas, 10
lgers have been booked for the Os
lst in the sailing vessel. Lie
- Sui
rhe repair to road leading to the
ckfeld wharf will be much appre-
ted by hundreds of pedestrians who 1e.
daily required to pass that way in ~