Honolulu Republican, Volume IV, Number 495, 12 January 1902 — STEAMER AMERICA MARU ARRIVES FROM SAN FRANGISCO ON TIME [ARTICLE]

STEAMER AMERICA MARU ARRIVES FROM SAN FRANGISCO ON TIME

Brings Only Three Passengers for This Pori Milan Band Conies Back on tlie Kioan-Anoilier Circular From Hie Treasury Department Concerning Forcing SailorsCnt in Coast Steamer Bales.

The Toyo Risen Kaisha Co steamer Arnert'a Mam arrived off port at an • ally hour yesterday morning and do. w I at h o'clock at the Pnclflc Mail •I. k She left San Frau< Iseo about an hour Itefore the Alameda but was detained outside by the order* of the directors of the company to keep the veaiiel running on schedule time. Foli,,wme those orders. Captain arrive! here on schedule and not not abend of lime as bad been the for iiht custom For two days previous to r« a< bing Honolulu, the vessel experlenced bad weather. For the last i Wit day I a heavy swell was running whr b made if impossible for ber pas- ■ -tigers to get any sleep. The vessel rolled worse than at any other time in her history, Cui-mt llemiss was greeted with a sail surprise ou his artival at fc*au Francisco on the last trip home. Ills mother Mrs. llemiss. had died shortly before the arrival of the vesHvl. Among the pas, ngers by the Maru is Miss K Hansen who is bound for

Hongkong She comes all the way from Norway, and by some mistake her baggage was left behind. She goes to Japan to become the wife of a sea captain. There is also on board a party of oil experts who are going to Yokohama In the interest of the Standard Oil Company. The America Mam brought only three pasengers for this port. They are; W. F. Browning. F. W. Fox and Mrs F \V Fox. She is commanded by Commander !' H. doing with the following staff of officers. Ernest Bent, chief officer; C. Thornton, chief engineer, L. E. Bt miss, purser; H. D. Haixhurst. surgeon, and N. E Kesley, freight clerk. The Japanese liner has seven stowaways on board besides five deported Chinese and 180 sterage Oriental passengers. Aboard the America Marti is a Japanese oiler who. during the last voyage ot the vessel, was the victim of what might have proved to be a fatal stabbing affray. Yamaha is his name

and bis assailant was a Japnaese employed in the fireroom of the vessel. Several days after leaving Yokohama the men were under the influence of liquor and had some words which led to blows. During the quarrel the fireman drew a knife and attacked Yamada. stabbing him in the thigh, in the left arm and slashing him across the heart. But for several other members of the crew who went to his assistance. Yamada might have been stabbed to death. He was laid up in the ship's hospital for several days, with twenty-four stitches taken in his wounds. He is on board the vessel now. rapidly recovering, and it is not likely that any charge will be preferred against the man who did the stabbing. The America Maru sailed for the Orient at 6.30 yesterday afternoon, taking but little freight at this port, and the following passengers; E. Edwards. A. \V. Raphel, Chas. Dutton. John H. Lang. Net Black and M. G. M cLane.