Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-12-31
TO ASK
LAWMAKERS FOR
LANDS OF CROWN
Story is Old One But Princess
Says She viii Delay No
Longer; Says viii Go to
Washington and Personally
Present Her Case

Princess" Theresa ovana Wilcox
Belliveau Is Seint to take . little trip
soon She Is going TO Washington,
where. with the possible assistance OF
Representative s. J. Nichols OF South
Carolina, she hopes to have congress
approve her claim to the haWaiisn
crown lands.
1t is an old. old story-that Of The
resas claim TO the crown 1ands-but
now she comes forward aud declares
she is going TO put the matter off n1
| longer; that she is going to WashtIs'
ton as soon as she can stratghten oil
some local affairs.
The princess" claims that Kameha'
lmeha v died intestate, and that the
only real heirs of the lire are herself
and her aunt, Mrs. Elizabeth K. Pratt.
when my former husband, Robert
Wilcox. was living" said Theresa TO-
day. we put in a claim before coll
gress for the crown lands, and 1t il
still there The late Queen Liliuo
kalani was the last Hawaiian ruler and
was therefore entitled to the income
from the crown lands. But now that
she is dead the property should rightly
60 to the heirs OF Kamehameha, and
these heirs, | claim, are Mrs. Pratt
AMI myself. suppose that in the
meantime some Of the crown lands
have reverted to the government.
Kapiolani park Is part OF the prop
erty, and It belongs to the city and
county. But intend to 90 TO congress
and fight for these lands as one Of the
heirs Of the ,Kamehamehas. All Hs-
waiians here know that we are the
heirs to the crown lands"
Princess" Theresa laughs at the
story published in / morning paper
that some one Is going to make 4
raid" on the Bishop estate. 80
Il suppose the person referred to in
that article IL myself" says Theresa.
I'm not trying to break the estate.
She was asked II the Gore lot did, NO:
belong to the Bishop estate.
at certainly does not" she re-
sponded. .. :..
The princess" claims. however,
that the Bishop estate holds some Of
the Kamehaneha v property.
AT one time was going to bring
q suit to recover some OF the Kameha-
meha v property" she continued. as
much of Il was going to waste. /
might still bring the suit. But | am
going to settle this crown lands mat.
ter first" -. .,. Z
The first story regarding "Prineess'
Theresa's proposed fight against the
Bishop estate and the recovery Of thu
crown lands was published in the
Star Bulletin some three years ago.
Commenting on the story OF the con,
templated raid" on the estate AttoI,
ney Clarence H. Olson, one Of its ceua
sci. says:
'It's the old story that has been
going around Honolulu for the last
several years. As far as know there
ID nothing to it." =.
princess Theresa says that Coz.
gresham Nichols is now representing
her in the Gore lot matter, the crown
lands affairs, the Kanehameha v
property activity and the queens win
tangle.
"Peeple say that the 1917 will Of this
queen is fraudulent, says Theresa.
Let them talk. They may And out
sooner or later = =, IS
Just when the ''prineessn will leave
for washington is not known. She 10
not quire sure herself! But she dc.
clares II viii be soon. : u, #E..
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