The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-06-23
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. NAVY OFF MEXICO
Describes Conditions at salina
Cruz Tells Of, Rescue Of
w. Marion simms.

Thomas Dunn, better known in Ho.
nolulu Us Admiral Tommy Dunn in
writing TO a friend from salina Cruz
gives an interesting description Of con.
iitions as he found them there. Mr..
Dunn left Hawaii last April, after q
residence of thirteen years, during
which he proved himself valuable
member of the local navy yard force
Arriving in San Francisco nc was as
signed to the cruiser Albany as pay
clerk. His letter is as follows;
81. s. s. Albany, salina Cruz, oxaeoeo,
Mexico, May q.
Here We are after few rush calls
here and there along the Mexican coast.
The town noted above has as many cleo
trie lights visible at night from the
outer hnrbor as our own dear Honolulu,
but the inhabitants have nearly all va
mooscd upon our arrival
Business at stancstill.
"The federal garrison troops and the
British consul are about all that re-
main. The railroad is at standstill,
the American. Hawaiian Steamship
Company having transferred its bust.
ness temporarily to the Panama route.
They have a fine drydock and sew
eral immense warehouses Of very up
to.date pattern. Large locomotive
cranes and wharves are lying idle. IL
Is n pity that so much capital invested
for good, legitimate business should
become as nothing through the efforts
Of a clique, Of Mexican bandits. have
no faith In any Of them--v villa. Car.
rama, Huerta and the much-talked- of
Iapata with his band OF Indians.
Savage in Warfare.
''The Federals under Huerta control
all the southern part Of Mexico, and
believe me they get everything out OF
the land they are on as well IS every
thing on top of II. When they could
not bleed the peaceful and industrious
Tehuantepec Indians Commonly spoken
Of AZ 'Tehuanas' any more, they
rounded up all the young bucks and
able-bodied ones and shot them down
without even giving them luau before
the shoot.
ron May II w. Marion simms had
been a prisoner FIVE days at Salina Cruz
and they took good care that he re.
eeived nothing and a half TO eat--sO
on the morning Of the 18th, the day
after we arrived, be made his getaway
about four O'Clock in the morning and
by the judicious use OF few pesos
reached the end Of the breakwater
where our steamer picked him up and
brought him ont to the ship. He waI
both surprised and pleased to find me
on the boat and it took a couple OF
days for our surgeon 10 bring him
around TO a normal condition. We have
him on board still and he leaves fol
San Francisco tomorrow on the San
Juan.
~ fixed him up with some necessa-
ries and he is feeling in good shape
now.
short Wait for orders.
"Aftcr had reached Frisco and
had been there four days received
telegraphic orders to proceed immedi.
ately TO Puget Sound and report aboard
the Albany. We left Puget Sound two
days later and steamed down tho coast
at twenty-one-knot clip calling a,
San Diego for coal. We then proceeded
20 Mazatlan. On the way we fell il
with the German steamer Maria with
| 1885 refugees from Manzanillo. Thu
American consul was with them and
they only succeeded in getting away
through the very vigorous action OF
the German consul. The Mexicans even
tried to set FIRE to the Maria and they
burned the American consulate to gel
the Yankee papers. They demanded
them but our German cousin had them
all stamped with big seal tBerlin =
$50 for once they were ont of luck
"Wc have the Mexican gunboat
Guerrero bottled up in the river and IL
it is decided that we must go to war
mean real war, why we will as a
matter Of course capture the Guerrero
as wen as the town. The hhrbor with
its craving drydock; excellent ware
houses, railroad equipment, locomotive
cranes, etc, would make fine naval
base and hope we will be able 70
present it to Uncle Sam as our part
Of the struggle.
"This is fine ship and they picked
out a good seasoned crew and officers
to take her ont and you bet we n deli.
yer tho goods II we get a chance,
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