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CLAIMS OF AMERICAN

CITIZENS

APIA, IN THE SAMOAN ISLANDS

MESSAGE FROM THE
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

TRANSMimNO

REPORT FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE CONCERN-
ING CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS GROWING OUT
OF JOINT NAVAL OPERATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES
AND OREAT BRITAIN IN AND ABOUT THE
TOWN OF APIA, IN THE SAMOAN
ISLANDS, MARCH, APRIL,
AND MAY, 1899

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January 10, 1913. — Read, referred to the Committee on Claims

and ordered to be printed

WASHINGTON
1913

■■'fj 3 0J937

LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL.

To the Seriate and the House of Representatives:

I transmit herewith a report by the Secretary of State of the
action taken by him in pursuance of the act of Congress approved
June 23, 1910, authorizing and directing him to ascertam the
''amounts due, if any, respectively, to American citizens on claims
heretofore filed in the Department of State, growing out of the joint
naval operations of the United States and Great Britain in and
about the town of Apia, in the Samoan Islands, in the months of
March, April, and May, 1899, * * * and report the same to
Congress/'

Accompanying the report of the Secretary of State is the report
of the officer who, pursuant to the Secretary's direction, visited the
Samoan Islands for the purpose of collecting evidence regarding the
claims mentioned. Of the total amount of American claims, of
about $64,677.88, payment of $14,811.42 is recommended by the
agent. This finding is approved by the Secretarjr of State, who
submits for the consideration of Congress the question of an imme-
diate appropriation for the payment of the claims recommended.

Wm. H. Taft.

The White House,

Wa^hingtonj January 10, 1913,

3

LETTER OF SUBMITTAL.

The Presidei^: I have the honor to submit, with a view to its
transmission to Congress, the accompanying report, together with
copies of the evidence collected, relative to the action taten by this
department in response to the act of Congress approved June 23,1910
(Public, No. 244), authorizing and directing me to ascertain the
''amounts due, if any, respectively, to American citizens on claims
heretofore filed in the Department of State, growing out of the joint
naval operations of the United States and Great Britain in and
about the town of Apia, in the Samoan Islands, in the months of
March, April, and May, 1899, * * r* and report the same to
Congress. For carrving into effect this act there was appropriated
in the diplomatic ana consular appropriation act approved March 3,
1911, the sum of $750.

Pursuant to my instructions of April 15, 1911, Mr. Joseph R.
Baker, of the solicitor's office of this department, visited the Samoan
Islands during the summer of 1911 and remained there for about two
months collecting evidence regarding the claims in question. Under
date of October 12, 1911, i&. Baker submitted his report in the
matter, including recommendations as to the amount properly pay-
able, if any, on each of such respective claims. This report and the
evidence in writing collected by Mr. Baker have been carefully con-
sidered by the department, and the conclusion has been reached
that the amounts indicated by him are to be regarded as equitably
due the various claimants.

In this connection it should be said regarding claim No. 9, that of
Charles F. Netzler, that notwithstanding the fact that his testimony
as given before Mr. Baker appeared to show that his naturalization
as an American citizen was obtained illegally, he was given another
opportunity on December 23, 1911, when he was examined before the
American consul at Apia, to establish that he had been properly
naturalized under the provisions of section 2174 of the Revised Stat-
utes relating to the naturalization of foreign seamen who, after declar-
ing their intention to become American citizens, have served for
three years on an American merchant vessel.

The testimony given by Mr. Netzler before the consul shows that
he declared his intention of becoming an American citizen in Sep-
tember, 1876, and that his only subsequent service on an American
naerchant vessel was from that month until November 18, 1877. In
view of this fact it would appear that Mr. Netzler's claim should be
rejected.

By decision given at Stockholm October 14, 1902, by His Majesty
Oscar II, then King of Sweden and Norway, to whom tne matter had
been referred by the convention of November 7, 1899, between the

G I^TTEE OF STJBMITTAIi.

United States, Great Britain, and Germany, it was held that the
Governments of the United States and Great Britain were responsible
for the losses caused by certain military action^ found by tne arbi-
trator to be unwarranted, in the Samoan Islands m the sprmg of 1899.
namely: (1) The briiiging back of the Malietoans (to the island of
Upolu) and the distribution to them of arms and ammunition; (2)
the bombardment; (3) the military operations on shore; and (4) tibe
stopping of the street traffic in Apia. There was reserved for future
decision ''the question as to the extent to which the two Governments
or each of them may be considered responsible for such losses.''

However, such further decision was never made nor.reguested, inas-
much as it was agreed upon by the United States and Great Britain
that each Government should pay one-half the amounts found to be due
to the citizens or subjects of otherpowers and should deal alone with
the claims of its own nationals. Following this agreement, all of the
claims were submitted to Messrs. Crane and Richards, agents repre-
senting the United States and Great Britain, respectively, and the
joint report of such agents was transmitted to the department by the
American ambassador to Great Britain in his dispatch No. 1174, of
August 14, 1903. In this report the agents took the ground that to
entitle them to be paid the damages in question must be shown to
have been the direct result of said military operations. Inasmuch,
therefore, as the great majority of the claimed losses appeared to have
been caused by ''looting and pillaging by the Samoan natives," it
was held that there was no liability on account of such losses. Upon
this theory but one American claim was recommended for payment
by the agent of the United States, who made a separate report on the
j^erican claims, and in respect to the German claims, aggregating
$110,000, it was said that the maximum amount properly payable
thereon was not more than" $6,000 or $7,000.'' It was added, "We
understand, however, that it is desired to arrive at some compromise,
if that be possible; and, after giving the matter the fullest considera-
tion we beg to suggest that an offer should be made to the German
Government, in the first instance, of the sum of $25,000 in settlement
of all claims, and that the offer should be accompanied by a criticism
of the claims based on the observations in the report."

Following this report an offer of $25,000 in full settlement of the
German claims was made to that Government, which rejected the
offer, protesting against the conclusions of the said agents on the
ground that the provisions for arbitration did not "say that the losses
must have been immediately caused 'by' such military action, but
that they must have been suffered 'in consequence' of said action,"
which latter, it was stated, was the case with the majority of the
German claims.

After such refusal the German claims were again submitted to the
agents, Mr. Crane representing the United States and Mr. Hurst rep-
resenting Great Britain. The report of these agents was forwarded
to the department by the ambassador to Great Britain on August 18,
1904, and it was stated therein that inasmuch as it was improbable
that the German Government would reconsider its refusal to accept
$25,000 in order to avoid the expense and trouble of submitting the
claims to the said arbitrator, a step which it was intimated by the
German Government that it woulci take if a diplomatic settlement

LBTTESB OF SUBMITTAL. 7

could not be made, it would be well to increase the offer to S40,000<
The report continued:

As the British and American Govemments have been found to be at fault, th^
ckiihs might be established on a more Hberal basis and a different standard of liability
adopted to that which we believe to be correct.

And that —

Assuming that the German Government were able to produce further evidence in
support of those items and claims that we regard as at present insufficiently proved,
we think it is possible that tfiey would recover as much or perhaps rather more ttisiSt
the sum of $25,000 now oi^ered.

The report concluded thus :

It must be borne in mind, however, that if a settlement is effected with Germany
on this more liberal basis other countries will be entitled to expect similar treatment;
and British subjects and American citizens may also demand equally favorable treat-
ment.

The German Government, after an interchange of several notes on
the subject, finally, on or about March 31, 1905, signified through the
German ambassador in Washington its acceptance of the offer of
$40,000 in full settlement of the claims, and thereafter Congress
appropriated as the moiety of the United States in payment thereof
the sum of $20,000.

The French and Danish claims were also resubmitted to Messrs.
Crane and Hurst, and upon their report the respective sums of
$6,782.26 and $1,520 were paid thereon. Congress appropriated in
each case for the moiety oi the United States, as it did also in the
cases of the Swedish and Norwegian claims, upon which were paid,
respectively, $750 and $400. In connection with these payments
attention is invited to the following documents: Senate Document
160, Senate Document 85, House Report 4414, House Document 612,
all of the Fifty-ninth Congress, first session; and House Document
864, Sixtieth Congress, first session.

The department is advised that after its contribution to the pay-
ment of tne said claims of persons of other nationalities the Govern-
ment of Great Britain several years ago reimbursed its own subjects
in the sum of £3,645 for similar losses.

It appears to follow, then, that the American claimants alone, as a
class (aside from the native Samoans), remain unpaid for the losses
suffered in these Samoan troubles, and it would seem that the equi-
ties of the situation require that provision should be made without
delay for such payment where it is shown to be deserved.

In this connection, it should be said that the investigation by the
department reveals that, generally speaking, the American claims
are of the sajme character as those oi other nationahties, and that,
in the settlement of such other claims, the strict limitation proposed
by the said report of the first United States and British agents was
not followed, but that there was a more liberal basis of settlement.
In other words, it was apparently considered in making such pay-
ments that, under the said decision of the King of Sweden and Nor-
way, the United States and Great Britain were justly responsible
for damages inflicted during the war which followed the interven-
tion by those Governments in Samoan affairs by Samoan natives
upon the property of foreign residents located within the war zone.
It is believed that this being the test applied in paying foreign claims,

8 liETTEB OF SUBMITTAli.

it is a fair and reasonable view to take in passing upon the American
claims, most of which come within this category. It is felt by the
American claimants^ and not without some cause, that there has been
an unwarranted delay in the consideration of their claims. As will
be noted; the total amount of the American claims is about $64,677.88
and the total amount recommended for payment is 14,811.42.

In conclusion, to show by an eyewitness the condition of affairs
in Samoa immediately after the war in question, I desire to quote the
following extracts from the report of Hon. Bartlett Tnpp, the
American representative upon the commission which composed affairs
in Samoa following the war:

The country surrounding Apia indeed had much the appearance of a battle field
at the time of our arrival * * *. The Bhells from the war vessels, fired to dislodge
&e forces of Mataafa, had left their marks upon the houses and plantations surround-
ing the town and within a radius of 3 miles from the inner harbor, while the lawless
acts of looting and foraging parties from eiliier camp had left them a scene of devasta-
tion and desolation which always succeeds the invasion of armed forces of savage and
civilized men * * *. The white people whose homes had been pillaged and who
bad sought refuge in Apia, imder the guns of the men-of-war, despondingly awaited
ev^its which might again bring peace, and the inhabitants of the unhappy town,
whose houses had been imluckily struck by the shells of a friendly fleet, and who
sought shelter upon the shore, were about equally divided in their words of censure
lor the hostile forces of the natives and the vessels of their own fleet. (Foreign Rela-
tions, 1899, pp. 621, 622, and 649.)

Respectfully submitted.

P.C.Knox.
Department of State,

Washington, January 9, 1913.

CLAIMS OP AMERICAN CITIZENS— APIA IN THE 8AM0AN ISLANDS,

Department of State,

WasMngtoUy October IS, 1911,
The Secretary of State,

Washington, D, C,

Sir: Having reference to your instructions of April 15 last, wherein
you directed me to proceed to the Samoan Islands for the purpose of
investigating the alleged claims of American citizens heretofore filed
with the Department of State, growing out of the joint naval and
military operations of the United States and Great Britain in the
vicinity of Apia during the months of April, May, and June, 1899, and
having made such investigation to report thereon, I have the honor
to submit the following report regarding the investigation I made
pursuant to your instructions.

In conducting this investigation valuable assistance was rendered
by Mason Mitchell and by Norman H. Macdonald, respectively,
consul and vice consul of the United States of America at Apia. Mr.
Macdonald's long residence in Samoa, the active part he took in the
events out of which these claims arose, and his familiarity with prop-
erty values in Samoa by reason of his occupations as land surveyor
and planter, made his services in the matter particularly valuable,
and he evinced the utmost williagness to extend all possible aid in

the investigation.

HISTORICAL HAPPENINGS.

For a better understanding of the events out of which these claims
arose, I have set forth briefly the important happenings in Samoa
during the few months immediately preceding the war which took
place in the spring of 1899, as these happenings are chronicled in the
records of the American consulate at Apia.

MaUetoa Laupepa, who had been for some years King of Samoa,
died August 22, 1898. Prior thereto it had been decided by the
powers governing Samoa to bring back from exile on other islands in the
South Pacific, Mataafa, the leader, and other chiefs who had been
sent away some time previously because they had engaged in a re-
bellion against the established government, and the German ship
Bussard had been dispatched for this purpose. This return was
contingent upon a promise by Mataafa that he would abstain from
participation in Samoan politics, which promise he gave, and was
accordmgly brought back to Samoa on September 19, 1898, or before
a successor to Malietoa Laupepa had been chosen by the Samoan
people, which right was theirs under the Berlin act of 1899, in which
the United States, Great Britian, and Germany outlined the future
government bi Samoa.

On or about December 12, 1898, the adherents of Mataafa certified
to Chief Justice Chambers, of the supreme court of Samoa, consti-

10 CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

tuted by the Berlin act, that Mataafa had been elected King. Shortly
thereafter a protest was lodged with the court against the recognition
of Mataafa as King upon the ground that no election had been held
according to Samoan laws and customs. In this protest it was stated
that such an election would soon be held,* and accordingly, in a few
days, it was certiJBed to the court that the election had taken place
and that Tanu Nafili, the young son of the late Malietoa, had been
elected King.

Each party appears then to have submitted the contest to the
chief justice for decision in accordance with the following provision
of section 6 of article 3 of the Berlin act:

In case any question shall hereafter arise in Samoa respecting the rightful election
or appointment of king or of any other chief claiming authority over the islands, or
respecting the validity of the powers which the King or any chief may claim in the
exercise of his office, such question shall not lead to war, but shall be presented for
decision to the chief justice of Samoa, who shall decide it in writing, conformably to
the provisions of this act and to the laws and customs of Samoa not in conflict there-
with, and the signatory Governments will accept and abide by such decision.

The chief justice began the hearing of the case on December 19,
1898, and on the 31st of the same month announced as his decision
that Mataafa had not been elected King according to Samoan laws
and customs, and that, moreover, he was ineligible to hold the office
because of his prior rebeUious conduct as recognized and set forth in
the protocols of the Berlin act. It was held, on the other hand, that
the election of MaUetoa Tanu was legal, and therefore that he was
King. The Mataafan people, who appear to have constituted a lar^e
majority of the Samoans, seem to have made preparations in antici-
pation of such a decision, for on the dav following its rendition they
came in large numbers to the village of Apia, attacked the forces of
Malietoa Tanu, and after one day's fighting drove the latter out of
the village and into boats which, tor purposes of protection, clustered
about the British war vessel Porpoise j which was in the harbor.
Some Uttle disorder and looting naturally followed, and that this
might be checked it seems that the consular representatives of the
United States, Great Britain, and Germany, together with the com-
manders of the British and German warships in the harbor, met and
agreed upon the organization of a so-called provisional government,
in which some recognition was given to the Mataafan forces in that
13 chiefs of this party were formed into what appears to have been
a sort of advisory council with authority over the natives. One
Raffel, a German who had been president of the municipal council
of Apia by appointment under the Berlin act, seems to have been
chosen as president of this advisory council with powers that, so far
as ascertainable now, appear not to have been clearly defined.

The exact nature and scope of this provisional government are not
now apparent, and perhaps were never readily de&iable, as such gov-
ernment seems to have been organized hastily and informally as a
means of bringing order out of the existing confusion. At any rate
there seems to have been a sharp diflFerence of opinion as to such
matters among the foreign representatives in Samoa, for it is stated
in the records of the American consulate by the then Consul General
Osborn that this Government was in no wise to interfere with the
functions of the officials acting and appointed under and by virtue
of the Berlin act, whereas Raffel soon after assuming the duties of
president of the advisory council declared vacant the office of chief

CLAIMS OF AMEKICAN CITIZENS IN APIA^ SAMOAN ISLANDS. 11

justice of Samoa and shortly thereafter proclahned that he himself
would exercise the duties of the latter office. It does, however,
appear to have been understood by the parties to the agreement
that it should remain in force until the interested powers had passed
upon the question of sustaining or voiding the said decision of Judge
Cnambers, although no such review of the decision seems to have
been contemplated by the Berlin act.

Thus matters rested until the arrival, on March 6, 1899, of the
United States warship Philadelphia, Admiral Kautz commanding.
The native forces of Mataaf a had largelv dispersed and MaUetoa Tanu
and some of his principal adherents had oeen banished to nearby
islands.

On March 12, 1899, Admiral Kautz issued a proclamation in eflFect
repudiating the provisional government and ordering the followers
of Mataafa to disperse to their homes. This order seems not to
have been obeyed, and on March 15, 1899, the American and British
warships began bombarding the outskirts of Apia, in which large
numbers of the Mataafans were located.

THE WAR.

Begun by this bombardment, the war seems to have continued
intermittently until April 25, 1899, prior to which, or on April 23,
a proclamation was issued to Mataafa and his forces notifying them
of the expected early arrival of commissioners sent by the three
interested powers to adjust the difficulties which had arisen. This
was followed two days later by a proclamation warning Mataafa
that if his forces were not by the following day removed from cer-
tain specffied territory they would be fired upon wherever found in
Samoa. Mataafa replied on the same day that he would obey the
order, and it appears that he did so.

As to the events of the war itself, it may be said that sailors and
marines from the warships which have been mentioned, and from
one or two other British warships which in the meantime came to
Samoa, were landed in Apia and stood guard over the main street
thereof, which runs along the beach, and that from time to time,
accompanied by the so-c«3led ' 'friendly' ' natives, who appear to have
been outnumbered about five to one by the '^hostiles,'' the Americans
and British penetrated for short distances into the interior of the
island, on one of which expeditions they were ambushed by the
Mataafans and lost 12 white men killed, mcluding a commissioned
officer from each of the white forces. Periodically «dso the war vessels
bombarded those points where the Mataafans were supposed to be
located and steamed up and down the coast throwing shells into the
native villages and destroying the boats of the Mataafans.

As to the accomplishments of the war, the following extracts from
the diary of Consm General Osborn will give somethmg of an idea:

After all has been done, it must be conceded that we are acting on the defensive;
that all houses and buildings in Apia except those of the main street which extends
around the beach are abandoned and that a large portion of even those abandoned
and that many of the inhabitants of Apia, including white people, dare not remain
in their houses and are staying at Nulinuu Point in native huts and under cover of
the men of war and are living principally upon native food. (Date of Apr. 10, 1899.)

We are holding the main street in Apia, while practically all the other parts of this
island at least are in the possession of the hostiles. (Date of Apr. 15, 1899.)

12 CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

EVENTS FOLLOWING THE WAR.

On May 3, 1899, the commission of three men sent bv the interested
powers arrived in Apia and immediately set to work to straighten
out the tangled situation. On June 10, 1899, the commission pro-
claimed that the decision of the chief justice declaring Malietoa
Tanumafili to be King is considered by tne high commission to be
valid and binding. However, the proclamation recited further that
Malietoa had voluntarily resigned as King and that the commis-
sion had decided to abolish the office.

The peaceful efforts of the commission were entirely successful and
resulted in a surrender of most of the firearms held by the natives
and in the establishment of a stable white government, followed
several months later by a division of the islands between the Ameri-
cans and the Germans, Great Britain taking compensation elsewhere
for her interests in Samoa.

THE CLAIMS.

It seems to be clearly established that, generally speaking, the
property of foreign residents in and about Apia, back from the beach,
was looted by the Mataafan forces which held all of the surrounding
country. In particular does this seem to have been true as to the
American and British residents, since, of course, a special enmity
existed against them. All foreigners, it seems, were obliged to leave
their homes in great haste at the beginning of the bombardment, both
to avoid its effects and also, in the case of the Americans and British,
to avoid the retaliatory measures of the Mataafans. The fugitives
appear to have had little time or opportunity to remove their effects
and in general to have taken with them no more than they could carry
in their hands. In their absence, which necessarily continued for
five or six weeks, during which time their homes were surrounded by
hostile natives to the number of 5,000, it may probably be truthfully
said that the personal effects and furniture of these people which they
left behind were very largely destroyed or carried away by the natives,
while the sustenance of so large a native army almost necessarily
entailed the destruction of the edible live stock of the foreigners and
all of their growing fruit and other food products.

It appears to be clearly established also that the Mataafans con-
structea large numbers of forts in the country surrounding Apia, and
that, partly to secure material for those forts and partly to remove the
obstructions to the views thereof, some trees of various kinds were cut
down.

Another source of damage to the property of foreigners was the
so-caUed ^'friendly" natives or Malietoans, whose number on the
island of Upolu, on which Apia is located, was augmented by many
others brought from the warships from other islands of the oamoan
group. These natives had to obtain food for themselves and were
also apparently not above an occasional looting of foreigners' prop-
erty.

As to the responsibility for this damage, it may be said that whollv
apart from the decision of the King of Sweden fixing such responsibil-
ity upon the Americans and British, it would seem clear that the moral
responsibility for at least the acts of the Malietoans must rest upon
the Americans and British under whose officers they were servmg.

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CLAIMS OF AMEBICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. 13

Furthermore, it seems quite clear that had it not been for the reopen-
ing of the war by Admiral Kautz there would have been little, if any,
looting hj the Mataafans.

The third cause of the damage done in the war was the direct
action of the military and naval forces engaged on the part of the
Americans and British. Some of the claimed American losses are
traced to this cause, and of course there can be no question as to the
responsibility for damages which can be proved to come under this
head.

It has been found very difficult to ascertain, after the lapse of 12
years, exactly what losses were suffered, and this has been true not
only to the distance in time but to the additional facts that a con-
siderable proportion of the original claimants are dead; that others
have removed from Samoa; that necessarily many of the witnesses
are part-blood or full-blood Samoans, whose testimony, and especially
that of the full bloods, is notoriously somewhat unreliable; that
memaries of men in the Tropics are not considered generally as good
as of those living in more temperate regions; and since the witnesses,
other than the claimants, seem as a rule to be biased in favor of the
claimants either because thev are related thereto or because they
merely wish the claimants well in their efforts to obtain money from
a distant Government which it is felt has not acted with sufficient

romptitude in the matter of investigating and settling these claims.

t seems to be the general opinion in Samoa that by reason of this
delay which has seemingly forced the claimants, or most of them, to
contract with attorneys to push their claims, the United States Gov-
ernment has been seriously derelict in its duties, and it must be
admitted that there is considerable force in this view of the matter.

It was with the greatest difficulty, therefore, that any considerable
degree of exactness could be obtained as to an estimate of the losses
sustained by the claimants, or any of them, and it seemed that this
could only be secured by supplementing in various ways the availa-
ble written evidence. This was " attempted to be done partly by
visiting the several places at which the damages were alleged to
have been suffered, and in cases where such damage was said to
have taken the form of trees destroyed by judging from the present
size and number of the trees upon the places something about the
probability of the loss, if any, in this regard. The inspection of the
premises in question, the size of the buildings, the furnishings, etc.,
also seemed • to tend to give one something of an idea of the circum-
stances in tangible property of the same person in the same place 12
years ago. The intervening years have, it is understood, been peace-
ful and fairly prosperous ones in Samoa, and it was felt that ordina-
rily a claimant who had lived there during these years could, gen-
erally i^eaking, have recouped his losses suffered in the war and be
now in at least as good cirumstances as then.

It is recognized, of course, that the above means of judging is
very faulty and, therefore, some confidence was placed upon the
statements of a few apparentlv disinterested and truthful persons
who were residents of Samoa at the time of the war and well acquainted
with their fellow residents at that time, the latter's means, mode of
living, and tangible property possessed, as well as in some cases with
the probable amount of losses. These persons for obvious reasons
did not desire to present their testimony in the form of affidavits or

14 CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

depositions, but it is believed none the less to be worthy of much
credence.

As will be seen, therefore, the written evidence which has beea
obtained is not by any means the whole case or even, perhaps, the
most important part thereof. In considering the recommendations
allowance shoula be made for this, and it should be remembered
that each case has been the subject of some careful investigation
Outside the record.

SMgking generally, it may be said that the clauns show evidence
of exaggeration; in some cases to great extent. The idea of the
claimants, as admitted by some of them, seemed to be to appraise
the articles claimed for at what it would have cost to replace them,
and in making such estimates the claimants seem generally to have
given themselves the benefit of every doubt.

Several claims were made for property alleged to have been dam-
aged or destroyed at' a considerable distance from Apia, ranging
from 10 to 25 miles, and it is beheved that unless exceptional cir-
cumstances seem to warrant such action such claims should not be
allowed, inasmuch as by the terms of the agreement referring the
matter to the King of Sweden for arbitration the responsibility was
limited to the military and naval operations ^^in ana about Apia."
As a matter of fact tnere were no military operations except in the
immediate vicinity of Apia, and the naval operations outside of that
zone were limited to a few trips of war vessels up and down the coast
when an occasional shell would be thrown on shore and a native
boat burned. On this point it may be said that the report of the
British agent, upon which the British claims were paid almost exactly
as recommended, shows that no claims were allowed for any losses
outside of Apia and its immediate neighborhood.

Elements m some of the claims are those of loss of time or possible
profits. It is believed that no allowance should be made for these
problematical losses. No such allowances were made, it appears, in
the payment of either the British' or German claims.

Careful consideration was attempted to be given to the question
of the citizenship of the claimants. In several cases, in each of which
the claimant was alleging citizenship by reason of birth abroad to
an American father, it appeared that the claimant was unable to
present any evidence as to his citizenship, and, moreover, had never
registered as an American citizen at the consulate in Apia, as was
the general custom through many years prior to 1899. In these
cases it is recommended that no compensation be paid by reason of
the defects in proof of citizenship.

In some other cases the proof as to American citizenship is not
clear, but it does appear that the claimants have long been regis-
tered as American citizens at the consulate, and in these cases it is
believed equitable to permit the doubt as to citizenship to be resolved
in favor of the claimant by virtue of such registration.

Particular attention has been given for several reasons to the
claim of H. J. Moors. He is the only claimant who asks for com-
pensation (in the sum of $20,000) by reason of confinement during
the period of hostilities. In this connection it should be said that
it is understood that three German subjects were so confined and
presented claims for damages therefor, which claims were allowed
in the sum of about $500 each.

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Judged by the records of the consulate in Apia, extracts froin
which are appended to the evidence in Mr. Moors's case, his conduct
for some time prior to the war in oiiestion seems to have been such
as to render fairly imputable to nim some responsibility for the
resistence to the decision of, Chief Justice Chambers, which found
expression in the so-called January war before mentioned. Fur-
thermore, Mr. Moors's course after that time and up to the period
of the second war, and, indeed, during that war itself, seems to have
been in opposition to practically all of the other English-speaking
people in Samoa.

According to his own statements, Mr. Moors was the chief adviser
of Mataaf a during the troubles preceding the war, and there appears
to be reason to believe that he held some communication with the
latter during the war itself, notwithstanding that Mr. Moors was,
during this period, confined to his home by order of Admiral Kautz.
As to the effect of all this on the question of any compensation to
which Mr. Moors may otherwise appear entitled (beside his afore-
said claim — ^his is the largest claim for property loss), that, of course,
is not for me to say. For more extended reference to this subject
see the report on the claim of H. J. Moors, No. 12.

Claim No. 1.

MRS. JONAS M. (liTIA) COE AND CHILDREN.

The claim which makes the strongest appeal to the sympathies is
that of Mrs. Jonas M. Coe and children.

As shown by the records of the American consulate at Apia, Jonas
M. Coe was born in Troy, N. Y., and died in Apia in 1891. He lived
long in Sampa, accumulated considerable property, and for a num-
ber of years held the position of American consular agent at Apia.
. By will recorded in the consulate, which it appears was, at the time
of Mr. Coe's death, the only formality required to give said will full
force and validity, Mr. Coe devised the property on which he had
lived, known as ^^Solapo,'' to his wife so long as she lived or remained
Jiis widow, with the remainder to their three children, now Mary
Eliza Allen, Nelly Huch, and Robert Coe.

The consular records show that the marriage of Mr. and Mrs.
(Litia Luimotulalo, a Tongan) Coe took place on August 20, 1881,
and it seems that the ceremony was performed by the consul. The
births of their said three children are recorded in the consulate as
having occurred in the order named above on June 6, 1882; Febru-
ary 27, 1884; and July 1, 1886.

On or about March 31, 1899, in the midst of the war then raging
intermittently, the members of the Coe family were hastily ordered
out of their house and took refuge on a man-of-war which was in the
Jiarbor. It appears that they were not then allowed time or oppor-
tunity to remove any of their effects. A day or two later, as Mrs.
Huch testifies, she was permitted to come ashore and go to the house
to endeavor to secure some clothing and bedding. She found, how-
ever, that almost everything which had been in the house had been
-destroyed or stolen, and was only able to obtain of the articles
desired two pillars. It appears that some of the outbuildings on
the place had also then been destroyed. A day or two thereafter

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the house and other buildings were burned by order of the British
officer commanding in that part of Apia. This event is thus referred
to in the diary kept by American Consul General Osbom during this
period and now in the consulate.

At 6 o'clock this morning * * * also the house of Mrs. Coe, widow of Jonas M.
Ooe, who was at one time United States consul, was burned * * * being situ-
ated between the United States and British consulates, and the burning was ordered
aa a mil itary necessity. (Date of Apr. 3, 1899.)

Mr. Osborn makes further reference to this matter in o, dispatch
to the Department of State dated January 26, 1900, in part as
follows :

Some of the claims are just, in particular the claim of the family of J. M. Coe, once.
United States consul here, whose hourie and household goods were burned by British
soldiers by order.

The family have since been living in a poor native shack among the ruins of their
former home.

It appears that on April 27, 1899, Mrs. Coe lodged with Mr. Osbom
a claim of $4,672 for damages for this loss suffered, and that on August
8, 1899, at the instance of J. H. Mulligan, formerly American consul,
who had come to Apia to act for the claimants, she estimated this
loss at $5,242, including some articles which were not mentioned in
h^r first schedule of losses. It developed, however, during the pres-
ent investigation that Mrs. Coe, who speaks very little English, had
no knowledge nor even any definite idea as to the values of this
property, and it is quite apparent that the estimates she made as to
such values were suggested to her by others. It seems clear that she

E laced an exaggerated value upon many of the articles claimed to
ave been lost or destroyed. There are also some other discrepancies
between these Usts or estimates and the testimony brought out at the
present time.

Hugo Gebauer, the only witness who testified for the Coes as to
property values and whose house, situated next to that of the Coes,
was also destroyed at about the same time and for the same reason,
estimated the value of the main dwelling house of the Coes at $3,000;
the furniture, exclusive ol books, of which there seems to have been
a considerable number, at $1,400; outbuildings, at $175: besides a
large Samoan house, which was destroyed, the value of which he
does not know. He does state, however, that this house was built
of breadfruit wood, and it may be said in this connection that the
cost of building such houses as this Samoan house seems to have
been appears to range from $150 to $500, or even more.

It seems that the dwelling house of the Coes was about 30 years
old, but in good condition; that it was large for Samoa, contaming
7 rooms; and that it was much better furnished than the majority of
the homes of white residents in these islands. Taking into consid-
eration all of the circumstances of the case, it is believed that an
allowance of $4,000 for these claimants would be reasonable.

When this claim, with aU other claims arising out of the war m
question, was submitted to the American and British agents. Crane
and Hurst, in London, it was reported upon unfavorably, by reason
of the fact, as stated, that after the death of Mr. Coe his widow had
married a Samoan and thereby lost her American citizenship. The
apparent authority for this finding is in an affidavit of Nelly Coe
(now Mrs. Huch), dated August 9, 1899, and evidently prepared by
Mr. MulUgan, in which she is reported as saying that at the time of

CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. IT

the war there was residing in the Coe house ''her mo therms second
husband by a customary marriage/' It will be noted that this man
is not referred to as a Samoan, and Mrs. Huch explains that the ref-
erence was to one Capt. Kaross, a German, who was then living with
her mother. Mrs. Much also explains the said statement contained
in her affidavit by saying that at the time of making the affidavit
she was not very familiar with the EngUsh language and was not able
to make herself clearly understood by Mr. Mulligan and that she
sigmed the affidavit prepared by him without knowing its contents.
(She was then but 15 years of age.) Careful inquiry in Apia appears
to disclose that Mrs. Coe has not remarried since the death of Mr.
Coe, but that she did, for a time, cohabit with said Kaross.

However, discussion as to whether or not Mrs. Coe has remarried
seems beyond the point, since it would appear that she, being a Ton-
gan woman with, it is understood, some Samoan but no white blood,
did not acquire American citizenship by her marriage to Mr. Coe.

Section 1994 of the Revised Statutes, which became law on Febru-
ary 10, 1855, reads as follows:

Any woman who is now or may hereafter be married to a citizen of the United
States, and who might herself be lawfully naturalized, shall be deemed a citizen.

It was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in Kelly
V, Owen (7 Wall., 495) that the language of that act limits its apph-
cation to ^^free white women.''

Later, the act of July 14, 1870 (16 Stat. L., 256) having extended
the benefits of the naturalization laws to Africans, it was held that
the above law applied to free white persons or persons of African
nativity or descent (Leonard v. Grant, 6 Sawy., 603).

Still later, or by act of August 9, 1888, it was provided that every
Lidian woman, member of any Indian tribe iu the United States or
any of its Territories, except the Five Civilized Tribes ia Indian
Territory, who might thereafter be married to any citizen of the
United States, should become by such marriage a citizen of the
United States.

There appear to have been no other or further extensions of the
benefits of this law, and therefore it would appear not to cover the
case of Mrs. Coe, who is brown in color, and a Polynesian by race —
both Tongans and Samoans belonging to that race, to which also belong
the Hawaiians, one of whom was denied admission to American citi-
zenship since he was neither a white person nor a person of the
African race. (In re Kanaka Nian, 6 Utah, 259.) The court said:

We are of opinion that the law authorizes the naturalization of aliens of the Cau-
casian or white race and of the African race only, and all other races, among which
are the Hawaiians, are excluded.

It is believed, however, and especially in view of the very merito-
rious character of this claim, that the full amount recommended
should be paid for the benefit of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Coe,
bom in lawful wedlock, and concerning whose American citizenship
ia 1899 there would appear to be no doubt.

The claimants herem have submitted a power of attorney signed
in the presence of District Judge Schlettwein, of Apia, giving au-
thority to EmU Huch, the husband of the claimant rfelly Huch, to
receive any moneys which may be paid them on account of this
claim, and to acknowledge receipt thereof on their account.

73180—H. Doc. 1257, 62-3 2

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Claim No. 2.
st. louis planting co.

This concern was a copartnership composed of two native-bom
Americans, Cyrus Scott and Henry Achatz, and two British subjects,
F. E. Syddall and H. Cuthbertson.

The claim as originally made was for £456 lis. 8d. for losses at a
store at Falefa and for £160 for losses at a store in Tiavea. The
claim is now reduced by an item of '* Copra recovered at Falefa since
claim was sent in tons 5, 10, 0, at £10-7-6 or £57-1-3. ''

This claim was presented to the British Government and the
report thereon of the agent, C. J. B. Hurst, upon which the British
claims were settled, reads thus:

The claimants in this case are a syndicate composed of four persons, two of them
are British subjects, two are American citizens. As the two Governments have ar^
laneed each to deal with the claims of their own nationals, His Ma|estv's Government
couM not under any circumstances be liable for more than half this claim.

This claim was sent in to the British consul on the 13th May, 1899, and a duplicate
ii said to- have been sent on the same date to the American consul general.

The amount of the claim is £616, lis. 8d., mostly for stock in trade and copra looted
from two stores at Falefa and Tiavea by the Mataafans. The claimants appeared
before Maj; Mair, and he found that the losses were Proved to the extent of £490;
there is no documentary evidence in support of the claim.

There is nothing to show that the' looting was in any way a result of the unwar-
lanted British and American military action, and the position of the stores which are
some distance to the eastward of Apia rendered improbable that such was the case.
It is therefore recommended that no grant be made.

Thomas Trood, the British vice and acting consul at Apia, under
date of July 8, 1911, furnished the claimants with this memorandum:

In a dispatch from the foreign office, London, dated 5th April, 1906, the following
occuTK '* With. regard to the St. Louis Planting Co. (No. 7), it does not appear that
there was any necessity for the claimants to have left their store during the nostilities,
and it would seem that if they had not done so no damage would have taken place.
As two of the four persons composing this firm are American citizens, inquiries are
being made to ascertain whether the United States Government paid any compen-
sation to them, and unless they did, the previous decision will be adhered to."

In his testimony given on the present investigation Cyrus Scott,
who was in charge of the Falefa store at the time of the war, gave a
circumstantial account of his leaving the store on H. M. S. Porpoisfi
which, as he says, had come into FSef a and bombarded the village.
This testimony was apparently submitted to meet the above objec-
tions of the British Government to the allowance of the claim. On
the other hand, Edward F. Allen, the pilot who appears to have
accompanied the Porpoise on practically all the trips which she made
during the war, testified that the onfy time the Porpoise went to
Falefa during the war was on a mission to rescue Scott, who was
reported to be in danger; that no bombarding was done at this time;
that it was found that Scott had already left the place, although a
half-caste Samoan, who was found on shore, stated to the officers
of the Porpoise that there had been no unfriendly acts committed
by the natives in that section.

The claimant presents no evidence as to the alleged loss at Tiavoa
and only the testimony of said Scott as to the loss at Falefa. One
item of the claim^ for over 22 tons of copra alleged to have been taken
away from the store premises, appears somewhat open to suspicion.

Falefa and Tiavoa are located, respectively, 15 miles and 20 miles
east of Apia, and there were no military operations in that section

CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. 19

during the war; it seems to be at least very questionable whether
there were any naval operations.

Under all the circumstances, it is recommended that no allowance
be made on this claim.

Claim No. 3.
estate of chene p. harrington.

Chene P. Harrington is also the original claimant referred to in
claim No. 4 below. It appears from the records of the American
consulate at Apia that this claimant was bom in Camden, Me., on
April 13, 1855, and that this was his last place of residence in the
United States, which he left on November 24, 1883; that he died at
Apia on March 25, 1909, leaving surviving him, as th© testimony
in the case shows, a wife, who was a full-blooded Samoan, and a
number of children. The records of the consulate seem to show
that Mr. Harrington was married to this woman on November 17,
1888.

Mr. Harrington submitted two claims for losses at his place in
Lotopa, Apia, suffered in the war of 1899, one dated May 20, 1899, for
$685, and the other dated July 15, 1899, much more detailed and
including additional items, for $873.75. The articles reported lost
included furniture, clothing, pigs, fowls, taro, and yams.

It appears from the testimony that at the time of the war Mr.
Harrington had a place of 5 or 6 acres on which he lived with
his faimly in a small European or wooden house; that on this place
he raised food for his family; that there was also on the place a native
Samoan house of fair size.

It would seem to be established that just prior to the war Mr.
Harrington had on this place four or five large pigs worth $20 or $25
apiece, about 40 fowls worth about 25 cents each, several ducks of a
value of $1 each, a considerable patch of taro and another of yams.

As seems to Have been the invariable rule with families possessing
white blood and inhabiting the section in which Mr. Harrington
lived, which was in possessio;i of the Mataafan forces during the war,
his familv abandoned the place, came to the beach at Apia, and th^re
remained during the war. Their departure was probably hurried by
reason of the first bombardment of the warships, which began with
ve^ httle notice.

Directly after the war it appears that the live stock and food on
this place was missing, that the Samoan house had been broken down,
and the European house somewhat damaged, while its furniture had
either been taken away or broken up.

Upon a visit to this place, upon which the family of Mr. Harring-
ton, still resides, there was disclosed the foundation upon which a
Samoan house had apparently stood, and many of the window panes
of the main house were missing and, as Mrs. Harrington explained,
had not been replaced since the war. The furniture of the house at

{)resent is scanty in the extreme, and according to what could be
earned, had never been much better.

It seems highly probable that the damage claimed, or some of it,
was done by the Mataafan forces, as thev generally looted the places
of white people in this section. Some of it may also have been done
by the MaUetoans, as during the war they made expeditions from
time to time into this neighborhood.

20 CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

As in practically all of the claims^ it seems that the claimed losses
in this case are exaggerated, and it is believed that $300 would fairly
cover the loss sustamed at this place.

There was submitted in this case (Exhibit A) a certified copy of the
appointment on June 18, 1910, by the German court at Apia of
Efmil Huch, of that place, as guardian for MoUga Harrington, widow of
C. P. Harrington, and for the six minor children of this couple. It ap-
pears also that Mr. Harrington left surviving him one or more
children of adult age. Regarding this and other claims in which the
origmal claimant is deceased, Judge Schlettwein, of the said court,
which is. officiallv known as^^Der Kaiserliche Bezirkiricht in Apia,
Samoa,'' advised me that if the United States Government was in
doubt as to the persons entitled to. receive any money awards which
might be paid in settlement of these claims, such payments could be
made to the court, which would disburse the money according to law.

Claim No. 4:
harrington & hugh.

At the time of the war Chene P. Harrington, a native-born American
citizen, and Emil Huch, a German, were copartners doing business
as l^htermen in the harbor of Apia; that is to say, conveying cargo
to and from vessels, which by reason of the lack of wharfage facilities
and the shallowness of the water, were then and are yet compelled
to load and unload at a distance of perhaps one-eighth of a mile from
the shore.

It seems to be clearlv estabUshed by the evidence that a lighter
belong^g to this firm, oi about 15 tons capacity, was at the time of the
war lying on the beach in the vicinity of the British consulate and that
it was deliberately damaged, so as to be useless, by shell fire from a
British man-of-war in the harbor, presumably because it might have
afforded shelter from which hostile natives might have fired upon
the sailors and marines guarding the beach.

The claim made in this connection is for $800 for the loss of the
lighter and $100 ^^loss sustained through being deprived of its
services.'' The testimony seems to show that this lighter cost about
$700 or $800, and that it was comparatively new. Mr. Huch swears
that he put in a claim to the German Govenunent for one-half of the
loss sustained by the damage to this lighter and that $212.50 was
allowed and paid to him on this account. The written statement
of the imperial German governor of Samoa on the subject of this claim,
made to me in response to my request therefor in writing, is as follows:

The firm of Harringtx)n & Huch declared their total loss to be 11,167.50, of which
Emil Huch as a German subject claimed half, viz, 1583.75 from the German treasury.
His claim was assessed by the commission of claims investigation at $507.37, paid to
him after 25 per cent had been deducted.

It is concluded from this statement that this firm claimed from
the German Government for other losses than that of the Kghter.
As to the said deduction of 25 per cent, it was explained to me
verbally by the German officials tnat the total amount of loss which
the said commission found to be sustained by German subjects was

CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. 21

greater than the sum paid to the German Government by the United
States and Great Britain, in accordance with the settlement agreed
upon, wherefore it became necessary to make deductions from the
amounts found properly payable to the individual German losers.

It may be proper to say in passing that this claim was the only
American claim recommended to be paid by Commissioner Crane,
before mentioned. The recommendation was for the payment of $500
for the entire claim.

Assujning, then, as he testifies, that Mr. Huch received $212.50 for
his one-half share of this loss and that his actual loss on this account
had suffered a 25 per cent deduction, it would seem that such actual
loss was estimated by the German commission at about $265.63,
which it is believed is a fair estimate. It is, therefore, recommended
that this amount be paid to the estate of Chene P. Harrington (who
died about two and a half years ago) on this account.

See claim No. 3 as to the guardianship of the Harrington heirs, etc.

Claim No. 5.

PETER C. ULBERG (ESTATE OF).

This claimant appears to have been born in Norway and it is alleged
that he was naturalized in the United States. His son testifies that
the claimant's naturalization certificate was lost or destroyed during
the war in question. The records of the American consulate at Apia
show the lollowing entry under the heading ^'citizenship,'' ap-
parently made in the year 1889:

No. 22, Peter Christian Ulberg; place of birth, Norway; date of birth, January 19,
1832; last place of residence in the United States, New York; date of last leaving the
United States, 1869; county, court, and State of naturalization. New Orleans, La.,
United States Court; date of naturalization, 1853.

These records show that all of the claimant's children have been
registered in the consulate as American citizens at least since 1889.
It is stated by one of Mr. Ulberg's sons that his father remained an
American citizen up to the time of his death, which occurred in 1899,
shortly after the war. It seems fair then to assume the American
citizenship of the claimant when this claim accrued.

The claim as originally made was for $1,500, but the family of the
claimant have preserved no copy of the claim and are unable to
testify positively as to the various items comprising it. It appears,
however, to be well established by the testimony mat the claimant
lost 4 horses, 3 cowis, several pigs, a number of fowls, perhaps 40 or 50,
some clothing and furniture, and a considerable number of coconuts,
and that a Samoan house of his was destroyed.

An inspection of the premises showed that the present furniture of
the house is' scanty, and the widow of the claimant, who was at home
at the time of the inspection, admitted that some of the larger articles
of furniture, such as two chests of drawers, were possessed by her
husband before the war.

It is believed that $500 would adequately reimburse the claimants
for the pecuniary loss they suffered in this war. It does not appear
that the claimant left a will or that any settlement of his estate has
been made.

22 claims of amebican citizens in apia, samoan islands.

Claim No. 6.

church of jesus christ of latter-day saints.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Samts is claiming com-
pensation for damages to three of its mission properties in Samoa, to
wit: One thousand one hundred dollars for damages to the church
and mission building at Fa^alii and the loss of books, records, and

f)apers in said buildmgs, besides the eflFects of the missionaries therein
ocated; $160 for the destruction of a branch meeting house at
Matautu, Apia, and furnishings and books therein, and $20 for
damages to a house at Pesega.

The church property at Fagalil, which was located about one-half
mile outside of the municipality of Apia, was in the midst of that
section where the Mataaf ans were encamped during the war, and the

frincipal battle of the war was fought in that immediate neighborhood.
t seems fair to conclude, therefore, from a general knowledge of the
situation that this property suffered considerable damage during the
war. It is understood that this property is not now occupied by the
church and has changed considerably in appearance since the war^
and consequently no mspection of it was made.

At the tune of my investigation there was no representative of this
church in Samoa who had been there in 1899, but five such repre-
sentatives now residing in the United States who were locatea in
Samoa in said year have filed affidavits with the department setting
out the loss as above stated. Furthermore, two reputable witnesses
who were examined in Apia testified that they were very familiar
with these properties of the church before the war, and visited them
immediately after the war, and they described the damages there
suffered during the war in full corroboration of the claim as filed.
Indeed, one of these witnesses estimated the monetary loss to the
principal one of these properties at a somewhat higher figure than
was claimed.

The item of $120 in this claim for trunks and contents thereof
destroved evidently refers to the personal effects of the missionaries^
and while it is apparently very modest in amount, it seems doubtful
if it should be included in a claim made by the church itself.

Taking everything into consideration it is considered that an
allowance of $1,100 would fairly meet the equities of this case.

Claim No. 7.
chables f. metzler.

This claimant asks for compensation in the amount of $1,403.62
because of losses ^alleged to have been suffered on three. properties in
the municipality of Apia, namely, Pesega, Notootua, and Taufusi.

On the face of the evidence given, it would appear that the natu-
ralization of this claimant was procured by fraud. He produced a
certified copy of his record of naturalization issued by the United
States district court, district of California, showing that he was
naturalized on April 20, 1886, having declared his intention on August
10, 1876, to become a citizen of the United States. This certificate
recites that the witnesses swore that the claimant had resided in the

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United States for the five years last past. On his recent examina-
tion, however, claimant admitted that he had never resided in the
United States, but said that smce 1867, with the exception of about
three years, or between 1875 and 1878, spent at sea, two of which
years were on an American merchant vessel, he had continuously
resided in Samoa, and that he went up from Samoa to San Francisce
to be naturalized. Claimant further stated that he declared his
intention to become an American citizen in order that he might
serve as an officer on an American merchant vessel and that he saned
on such vessel for two years thereafter.

It was my first impression that this claim should be rejected
because of tne apparent fraud in the naturalization of the claimant,
but maturer reflection leads me to believe that it is possible that,
notwithstanding the above-mentioned recitals in his naturalization
certificate, the claimant may have secured naturalization, and legally
so under section, 2174 Revised Statutes, which provides for the
naturalization of foreign seamen who, after declaring their intention
of becoming American citizens, shaU have served three years on an
American merchant vessel.

The claimant is an, old man and not very intelligent, and it k
therefore thought possible that even though it appears from his testi-
mony that after making his declaration of intention, he served but
two years on an American merchant vessel, he may have so served
for three years and have complied with the other requirements for
naturalization under said law.

The claimant has therefore been called upon to produce further
and more detailed evidence regarding his naturalization, and it is
recommended that unless he shall establish within a short time that
he was naturalized according to law, his claim be rejected.

Claim No. 8.
william blacelook.

William Blacklock, who was for many years American vice consul
at Apia, and during a part of that time also acting consul, submits
three separate claims, namely, one of $1,161.25 for damages to his
property in Apia, principally his residence, Tanugamonono, the
rumishmgs ana clothing therein, and live stock on the place; one of
$261.27 for damages to nis trading station at Saluafata, 9 or 10 miles
from Apia, and one of $1,053.75 for damages to his trading station
at Aliepata, 25 miles from Apia.

Mr. Blacklock now resides in Sydney, Australia, and although he
had ample advance notice of the recent investigation of these claims
in Apia, he did not appear in person at the investigation, but instead
sent as his representative Herbert Brown, of Apia, who holds a general

Eower of attorney to act for Mr. Blacklock in relation to the latter's
usiness affairs in the island of Upolu, upon which Apia Is located.
A certified copy of this power of attorney was submitted (Claim-
ant's Exhibit C), as was also a copy certified under the seal of the
Douglas County circuit court of the State of Oregon, by the clerk of
the court, of tne naturalization of Mr. Blacklock, by that court in
May, 1880.

24 CLAIMS OF A3CEBICAX CITIZENS IX APIA, SAMOAX ISLAXDS.

The only witness produced on behalf of this clainiant who wpeared
to have any knowledge as to the losses sustained by him on his Apia
properties was his divorced wife, a fuU-blooded Samoan woman, who
was living with him at the time of the war, and she testified to the
general destruction of live stock and movable property at the claim-
ant's residence, located about a mile in the rear of the beach. It
seems to be established by tRe testimony of this witness and of the
witness Armstrong, that among Mr. Blacklock's losses was that of
a race horse which had cost him £37 two vears before.

It appears that in 1899 Mr. Blacklock was a man of considerable
means and it was apparentlv ascertained by inquiry in Apia that the
furnishing in his home, his live stock, etc., were of excellent quality.

It seems, however, from the testimony of Eklward Hall, given with
respect to the claim of )Irs. Alexander (Laulii) Willis that on the morn-
ing of the first bombardment )Ir. Blacklock sent a wagon to the resi-
dence of Mrs. Willis to remove some of her effects to his store build-
ing on the beach in Apia, and it would appear that if this were so,
Mr. Blacklock would certainlv have attended to the removal to a
place of safety of some of his own property. In this connection, it
mav be said that the speech of people in Apia credits Mr. Blacklock
witli having been one of the chief advisers of Admiral Kautz in.
urging the warlike action which was taken by the latter and it would
seem reasonable to beUeve that Mr. Blacklock would therefore have
had as early notice as any one in Apia of the proposed bombardment
and should have governed himself accordingly. His late wife,
however, swears that she left the house humecUy because of the
bombardment and took nothing with her.

As supporting Mr. Blacklock's claim of losses on his Apia property
appears the folK>wing extract under date of May 17, 1899, nrom the
diary of Consul General Osbom:

For instance Vice Consul Blacklock and Mr. CamitherB were among the most promi-
nent Tann men, but their places have been badly despoiled not by the Mataa^ forces
but by the Tanu men.

It seems to me that much weight should be given to this contem-
porary testimony of the consul general and largely on the strength
of this, it is reconmiended that $600 be allowed on this part of Mr.
Blacklock's claim.

With regard to Mr. Blacklock's claimed losses at las Saluafata
station, it seems pertinent to consider the testimony of Edward F.
Allen before mentioned, as*to the naval operations in and about this
village. Mr. Allen says:

On March 22, we fired shells from the Philadelphia's launch into Saluafata and the
nearby place of Soloeota and took boats away. We burned certain houses in Saluafata.

This would seem to indicate both the presence of hostile natives
at Saluafata and the probability of retaliatory measures against the

J)roperty of Americans by such natives. With regard to this claimed
oss at Saluafata, Mr. Blacklock submits an ex parte affidavit by
James P. Harper, now of Sydney, who was in charge of this station
at the time of the war.

In view of the said naval operations, it would seem that the United
States might well be liable for the loss which it appears very probable

CLAIMS OF AMBKICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. 26

that Mr. Blacklock sustained at Saluafata, and it is recommended,
therefore, that he be reimbursed for this. in the amount of $200.

The case appears diffeient with regard to the claimed loss 'at
Aliepata, 25 miles from Apia. It is certain that there were no
military operations on this part of the Island and Mr. Allen testifies
that there were no naval operations. With regard to this feature of
the claim, the only evidence presented (if it can be called such) is an
unsworn statement in writing by one Labein, who it seems was in
charge of Mr. Blacklock's Aliepata store at the time, and who relates
that it was broken into by natives and goods removed to the extent
o^ about $800 worth. From all that appears this may have been an
ordinary case of burglary which might nave happened at any time.
It is recommended that no allowance be made on this feature of the
claim.

The total allowance recommended on Mr. Blacklock's claim is
therefore $800.

Claim No. 9.

JAMES SCHUSTER (ESTATE OF).

This claimant originally asked for damages in the amount of
$556.50 for the destruction of a small wooden nouse, a Samoan house,
everything that was contained in those houses, plantation imple-
ments, coconut treeSj and a number of pigs and fowls. On March 4,
1902, he amplified his claim to the extent of $110 iFor a horse and
cow, making a total of $666.50. Claimant died in the spring of 1911,
aiid for a long time previous thereto and also prior to 1899 was regis-
tered at the American consulate in Apia as a native-born American
citizen. On this point there was introduced in evidence also what

Eurports to be a certificate made by the collector of the port of New
►edford, Mass., dated Deceinber 7, 1852, to the fact of the claimant's
birth in New York City and to his American citizenship.

At the time of the war claimant with his family resided on a small
plantation at NaUe, about 6 miles from Apia and in the district con-
trolled and held by the Mataafan fo'Tces during the war. It is stated
by members of claimant's family that they were obliged to flee from
tneir pjace through the active hostility of the Mataafans, and there is
no reason to doubt that such was the case. They state that during
their absence from home the Mataafans destroyed practically all of
the property on this place, and inquiries made seem generally to con-
firm this statement.

With regard to this claim, it seems pertinent to add that the witness
Allen above referred to testifies that there was bombarding in the
vicinity of the Schuster home and that ' ^ a cutter from the Phiuidelphia
threw several one-pound shots into this house. ^'

It appears that claimant was not in good circumstances at the time
of the war, but on the other hand his claim is correspondingly modest.
For instance, he asks but $70 for the destruction of his wooden house,
which although very small could hardly have been worth less than
that amount. It is believed that there should be paid on this claim
the sum of $500.

It does not appear that any court proceedings have been had rela-
tive to the settlement of the estate of Mr. Schuster.

26 claims of american citizens in apia, samoan islands.

Claim No. 10.
charles fruean, sr.

This claimant is asking $1,472.50 for damages to plantation prop-
erty at Papautu, in the outskirts of Apia, and to his house and furnish-
ings in Apia, very close to the beach. Examination seems to disclose
that the damages to his Apia property, or most of them, were suffered
during the first, or January, war, when the Mataaf ans captured Apia,
and it appears highly probable that all of this damage was done at
that time.

Claimant, who says that he was bom in Samoa of an American
father and a Samoan mother, was told that he should produce evi-
dence of the alleged American citizenship of his father and of the
marriage of his parents, but he failed to do so. He admitted that he
had never been registered as an American citizen at the consulate in
Apia, nor had any of his family so far as he knew. An examination
of the records of the consulate appear to show no entries of registra-
tions, births, marriages, or deaths of any of the Fruean family, and
in view of this fact and since claimant failed to prove his American
citizenship, it is recommended that the claim be rejected.

Claim No. 11.
william wallwork.

The original claim submitted by William Wallwork aggregated the
amount of $724.25 for horses, pigs, fowls, cocoa trees, loss of time,
and a gold headed cane. Upon the recent investigation he claimed
for additional articles to the value of about $150. |

Mr. Wallwork testified that he was 64 years old; that he was born
in England and came to the United States when 2 years of age,
remaining there continuously until he had reached the age of 32.
He submitted (Exhibit A) a copy, certified to by the officials of the
court, of the naturalization, on* September 25, 1851, by the '4ate
district court, now court of common pleas, for the county of Phila-
delphia, Pa.,'' of his father, William Wallwork. It would appear,
therefore, that according to the provisions of section 2172 of the
Revised Statutes (U. S. Comp. Stat., 1901, p. 1334) this claimant
became a citizen of the Unitea States by virtue of the naturalization
of his father, and the records of the American consulate at Apia
show that the claimant has long been registered there as such citizen.

When the war broke out, Mr. Wallwork resided at Fasitoo, about
15 miles from Apia, and he testifies that he was forced to leave his
home at this time and come to Apia because of the threats of the
host'de natives. In this he is corroborated to some extent by the
witness Frost and the witness Allen, the latter of whom recalls that
Wallwork was brought to Apia at this time on the British man-of-war
Porpoise, and also testifies that several places in the near vicinity of
Mr. Wallwork's residence were bombarded by the man-of-war. It
would seem, then, that Mr. WaUwork was justified in considering
that safety required that he should leave his home and that the
naval operations conducted in that vicinity were such as to render

CLAIMS OF AMEBICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. 27

the United States and British Governments at least morally responsi-
ble for the loss suffered by Mr. Wallwork.

The corroboration of the claimant's testimony as to his loss is that
given by the witness Frost, who says that he saw the natives killing
Wallwork's pigs, stealing from his nouse, and cutting down his cocoa
trees. Furthermore, it was apparently ascertained that the vicinity
of Mr. Wallwork's home was the landing place of hostile natives^
who came over to the island of Upolu in large numbers during the
war from the neighboring Island of Savaii; and it seems highly prob-
able that Mr. Wallwork, as an American citizen, did suflFer losses at
the hands of those natives, against whom his fellow countrymen were
fighting.

Eliminating from this claim those items not included therein at
the time when it was ''heretofore filed'' in the Department of State,
and also an item of $300 for loss of time, the claim is brought down
to about $425, including about $1.25 each, which is charged for some
200 cocoa trees. Mr. Wallwork testifies that these trees were 3
years old, and impartial testimony secured in Apia seems to indicate
that cocoa trees of this age were worth at that time in Samoa about
60 cents each, although it is true that the cultivation of cocoa in
Samoa had then but recently begun, and the value of the trees was
largely a matter of opinion.

It would appear that $250 would be a fair compensation for the
losses of Mr. Wallwork.

Claim No. 12.
harry j. moors.

Mr. Moors's first cla^m is for $20,000 damages because of confine-
ment in his home and other alleged indignities during the period of.
hostilities, or, as he states, from March 17 until May 5, 1899. He
seems to have been so confiiued by order of the British and American
authorities, presumably because of his just previous activity in
Samoan politics, especially as an admitted friend and adviser of
Mataafa.

Before proceeding to a consideration of Mr. Moors's claim it has
been thought proper to give some attention to this political activity
on his part, and accordingly there are appended to the evidence in
his case a number of extracts from the records of the Apia consulate,
which appear to show that in the opinion of Consul General Osborn
and Chief Justice Chambers, as well as in that of the British consular
and naval officials then in Samoa, Mr. Moors's advice was largely
responsible for the coup d'6tat of January 1, 1899, by which the Ma-
taafan forces gained possession of Apia and forced the reorganization
of the Government of Samoa. That same opinion also charges Mr.
-Moors with activity in support of claimed illegal acts of the so-called
provisional government tnen formed, and it appears to be the firm
oelief of many of the present English-speaking residents of Apia that
during the period of the war itself Mr. Moors, although confined to
his house, was in more or less constant communication with the
Mataafan leaders through messengers arriving and departing from
the rear entrance to his home. Indeed, it is said that one such sus-

28 CLAIMS OF AMEBIC AN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

pected messenger was captured by the guards while seeking an en-
trance to the house, although it is not understood that any conclusive
evidence was obtained to show that this person was in fact a messenger
from Mataafa.

In this connection, it should perhaps be said, in fairness to Mr.
Moors, that these activities of his were apparently not inspired by
any conscious disloyalty to his county, of wnich he seems to be a de-
Voted citizen, but tnat they seem to have been due partly to his con-
stitutional tendency to take much interest in whatever events are
happening about him, and partly to his long friendship for Mataafa
and his sincere beUef that the latter was the real choice of the Samoan
people for the kingship, and that no technicalities of law should be
permitted to defeat that choice.

The following reference to Mr. Moors is found in the report of Ad-
miral Kautz, dated April 6, 1899, a copy of which was transmitted
to this department by the Secretary of tlie Navy on May 13, 1899:

Indeed the whole trouble in Samoa is due to the action of German officials and Grer-
man subjects, assisted by one American citizen, J. L. (sic) Moors by name, who has
been a trader and politician in the Samoan Islands for the past 20 years. Mr. Moors
claims to be loyal and certainly he is not as prominent as he was. (This would appear
to be a facetious but veiled allusion to Mr. Moors's confinement.)

No other reference to Mr. Moors is found in the reports of Admiral
Kautz which seem to be on file in this department.

These apparent facts as to Mr. Moors s conduct during the time in

S'uestion are presented, then, that it may be considered what bearing,
any, they have upon his claim for damages arising out of this war.

There is no doubt that Mr. Moors was confined as he states, and it
also appears that during such confinement it was the nightly custom
of his guards to place under an outbuilding near his house explosive
material connected by wires with the guardhouse, so that this out-
building could readily be blown up in the event of the appearance of
hostile natives in its vicinity. Whether or not such explosion, if it
liad occurred, would have damaged the residence of Mr. Moors or its
occupants does not clearly appear, but he avers that he and his family,
then consisting of a wife and five young children, suflFered very much
mental anguisn because of what they considered the likelihood of
Buch damage.

In his Exhibit IB, which sets forth the alleged circumstances of
his confinement, Mr. Moors states that during this time he was '* al-
lowed to communicate with no person or persons whatever save those
living with and constituting his own family.'' This statement, how-
ever, is considerably modified by the testimony he gave^ on the recent
investigation, in which he states that two or three times persons
Were brought to him by the guard, in whose presence he talked with
such persons; that he sent several letters to Admiral Kautz and Capt.
White of the Philadelphia^ and that he received and answered tne
letters coming for him from outside the islands. The witness Hether-
ington also testified that he communicated with Mr. Moors by letters
handed to the officer of the guard, who in turn transmitted, the an-
swers to the witness.

It is a further grievance of Mr. Moors in this connection that he and
his family were several times taken out of the house while the war-
ships were bombarding and compelled to remain for some time ex-
posed to the ^'hot sun," the reason for this being that the ammunition

CLAIMS OF AMEKICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. 29

used was defective and it was feared that fragments of shells might
strike the house.- He also complains of insults and odium cast upon
htm by his guards and, in general, of harsh treatment.

In connection with this part of Mr. Moors's claim, it may be said
that in another part he has made claim for all property losses alleged
to have been suffered by him during the war, and, in any event, had
he been at liberty durmg this time, he could hardly have avoided
such losses of property as he suffered.

It is alleged in Mr. Moors's behalf that by reason of this imprison-
ment he suffered a considerable diminution of popularity among the
English-speaking people of Samoa, which resulted in a loss of trade
which he had formerly had with American men-of-war calling at Apia
and ultimately led to the discontinuance, at different times, of four
stores which he had conducted on the American islands of the group.
Regarding this claim, it may be said that about the only American
man-of-war which has called at Apia since the war is the gunboat
stationed at the Pago Pago Naval Station, Island of Tutuila, oa
which island were located three of these four stores, and it is under-
stood that Mr. Moors became somewhat unpopular in this section
because of charges which he filed with the American Govemnaent
(in 1902?) against Admiral Tilley, commanding at said station.
This incident is said to have had more to do with Mr. Mobrs's loss of
trade in American Samoa than his war experiences.

Along these lines, it might also be said that it is understood that
by reason of his championship of the Mataafan side of the kingship
controversy, which course led to his imprisonment, Mr. Moors became
a hero and a martyr in the eyes of the adherents of that chieftain^
who, as aforesaid, comprised a large majority of the Samoan people^
and that this greatly redounded to Mr. Moors's financial betterment
after the war, inasmuch as the admiration and sympathy of the Mataa-^
fans took the practical form of trading with their benefactor. This
probably compensated him amply for any loss of trade which he may
nave suffered in American Samoa.

Mr. Moors was undoubtedly confined as aforesaid because the
American admiral commanding in those parts deemed that it would
be unsafe to permit the former to be at large where he might, through
plottings and advice to the enemy, be a menace to his f eUow country-
men, then at war with the natives. In other words, his confinement
was deemed necessary as a matter of protection to the American
forces in Samoa, and it must be said that the apparent previous
activities of Mr. Moors lent reasonable support to this position of
Admiral Kautz. It would seem that as a war measure, tne confine-
ment of Mr. Moors might well be considered justifiable. Under all
the circumstances, therefore, it is not recommended that any award
in damages be made to Mr. Moors on this feature of his claim. He
may be truly said to have brought this confinement upon himself by
his previous course in opposition to his fellow Americans in Samoa,
including the official representatives of his country.

Moreover, it seems doubtful whether a claim of this character
properly comes within the meaning of the word ^'losses'' as used
in Article I of the Convention of November 7, 1899, submitting to
arbitl^ation the question of responsibility therefor.

Property losses.— Mr, Moors's other claim is made up of a number
of losses, aggregating about $10,000, alleged to have been suffered

30 CLAIMS OF AMEBIOAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

on various properties. As to the bearing upon this feature of his
claim of the peculiar circumstances in which Mr. Moors was involved
•or in which he involved himself during the troubles in question, that
is a matter which is perhaps worthy of consideration. However this
may be, there is presentea below a detailed report and recommenda-
tion upon the various items making up this claim. Taking these up
in the order in which they are presented in his Exhibit A, it is found
that he claims $65 for damages to a cottage at Matautu, Apia, and
loss 6f its contents. Among the items specified are $15 for wearing
apparel, $9 for three gold rings, which articles Mr. Moors testifies that
he bought and presented to a 'Voman friend.'' This cottage was
situated directly on the beach at Apia, and as it was not occupied
during the war, it may have been looted, as Mr. Moors claims, either
by the ' ^friendly " natives or by the sailors and marines. Mr. Moors's
testimony on tnis point is uncorroborated, except by Hetherington,
who states that he knows that Mr. Moors had this place before the
war; that it was then simply furnished, and that it was refurnished
after the war. It is recommended that $25 be allowed on this item.

The next item is that of $200 for boats and lighter damaged by the
waves and sun. Concerning this item Mr. Moors was only able to
recall the case of the lighter, of seven tons capacity, which he states
was beaten by the surf during the time of his imprisonment, when he
was not allowed to care for his property. He is corroborated as to
the damage to the lighter by Mr. Kenison, a carpenter, who endeav-
ored to repair it and found it could not again Be made serviceable.
This charge does not appear excessive, even assuming that there were
no other boats damaged.

Mr. Moors also asks the sum of $93.90 for damages to a fence around
his Apia store and for goods spoiled in the store during the time it
was closed by order of the authorities. The items of this charge
appear somewhat excessive, and it is recommended that the sum of
$75 be allowed on this account.

The next item is that of $100 for copra, which Mr. Moors states he
was compelled to sell disadvantageously because of his imprisonment.
As the element of prospective profits enters into this item, it is recom-
mended that it be disallowed.

For the same reason this recommendation is made as to the next
item, for the closing during the war of Mr. Moors's stores at Apia,
Aliepata, Leone, Pago Pago, Manua, and Fasitoo. Mr. Moors figures
that his store business averaged $10,000 per month and the profits
about 20 per cent. Therefore, because of the closing of his stores
from Marcn 15 to Mav 1 he asks $3,000. It appears m this connec-
tion, however, that tnis period is not an '* average" one in Samoa,
but that from a weather standpoint it is the worst period of the year,
known as the hurricane season, during which very little copra is made
by the natives. Inasmuch as copra is about the only article which
the natives have for sale, and as they do far the greater part of the
buying from the stores, the trade of the stores naturally falls oflf very
much during this period, to an extent estimated by impartial wit-
nesses at from 40 per cent to 50 per cent. Moreover, a considerable
part of the profits of the storekeepers in Sampa is derived from the
resale of this copra purchased from the natives. In connection with
this feature of the case it should also be remarked that all of these
stores of Mr. Moors, except those at Apia and Fasitoo, were located
from 25 to 150 miles from Apia, three of them having been on other

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islands, and that these distant stores were not affected by the war,
except in so far as it was impossible to send supplies to them from the
main store at Apia.

A large part of Mr. Moors's claim is for losses on his plantation of 60
acres, known as Papalaloa, and as to some or all of those losses his
testimony is corroborated to a considerable extent by the witnesses
Richardson, Forsell, and Kenison. This plantation is located in the
heart of the territory which was occupied by the Mataafan forces,
and as it contained at this time a large amoimt of growing fruit,
it appears also to have been the object of frequent forays oy the
Mahotoans. There seems to be no reason to doubt, then, that consid-
erable damage was done hjere, and such is the testimony of presum-
ably impartial witnesses. Among this claimed damage is about $1,400
for wire fences, tools, stock, and vegetable garden. The items
making up these amounts appear somewhat exaggerated, and an esti-
mate based upon a consideration of each item makes these damages
about $1,160.

Another factor in the plantation claim is that of $1,100 for loss of
bananas ''from 15th March until 15th July.'' Since the hostilities
terminated on April 25, this period appears much too long. More-
over, there is an element of prospective profits in this item, since the
bananas are estimated at 37i cents a bunch, whereas, it appears that
the price paid for them in Samoa at this time was 25 cents per bunch.
It seems that Mr. Moors was at this lime the only exporter of fruit
from Samoa, and he adniits that the business was a good deal of a
gamble. No fruit is now exported because other islands, raising a
sufficient quantity to supply the available markets, are much nearer
to such markets. It is fair to say, however, that in 1899 there was
faster steamer service (by the Spreckles Line, now discontinued) to
the principal market. It is believed that $400 would be a fair com-
pensation for the loss in bananas.

Most of what has been said with reference to the claim for bananas
applies equally to the claim of $600 for pineapples, and it is recom-
mended tnat $225 be allowed on this account.

As to the items of $42 for ornamental trees, $50 for a shotgun, and
:$250 for the cost of putting the place in order after the war, it is be-
lieved that these are not much exaggerated, and $275 is recommended
for these items.

The other element of plantation damage is that of cocoa trees,
of which it appears by the evidence supplied by Mr. Moors, the
A/vitness Richardson having been employea to coimt the trees de-
stroyed, that there were so destroyed 330 one-year old trees, 317
two years old, and 89 three years old. It shoula be stated respect-
ing this item that presumably impartial persons stated that Mr.
Moors did suffer a loss of cocoa trees at the hands of the hostile
natives, these trees being situated along a main thoroughfare, the
Tivoli Road, and the object of their destruction being to guard
agaiast the use of such trees as cover by the sailors and marines.
In his original statement of losses, Mr. Moors estimated the value of
these trees at $1, $2, and $3 for trees respectively one, two, and three
years old. In the recent investigation he changed this estimate to
60 cents, $1.20, and $2, respectively. Impartial evidence, however,
£xes such values at 25, 37, and 50 cents, respectively, and on this
point it should be stated that it appears that cocoa trees do not come
into successful bearing in Apia until they are six years old. It may

32 CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

also be pertinent to add that Mr. Moors is now gradually removing
his cocoa trees from this plantation and replacing them with coco-
nuts, and it is understood that his experience with raising cocoa here
has not been a successful one from a financial standpoint. Estimating
this claimed loss at the figures last given for individual trees, it is
recommended that $249.79 be allowed thereon. This brings the total
recommendation for plantation losses to $2,308.79.

Another item, of Mr. Moors's claim is for loss at the Tivoli Hotel,
owned by him, the furnishings and supplies in which it appears were
jointly owned by Mr. Moors and G. W. Partsch, the latter of whom
was managing tne hotel. In 1899 this was probably the leading hotel
in Apia and is situated in about the center ^of the beach portion of the
village, and it seems well established that the hotel suflFered consider-
able damage during the war, being ostensibly closed at this time, but
probably more or less occupied by the sailors and marines at diflFerent
times. The claim for damages to the building and fixtures, including
an item of $200 for the closmg of the hotel for repairs after the war,
aggregates about $700. It includes also, in the revised claim, an
item of $50 for damage to a large mirror ^' worth $200 '' (in the origi-
nal claim this item was $180). This mirror still hangs over the bar,
and is apparently not of sufficient size to have ever been worth $200.
Moreover, its present condition, with a crack in the middle, the result
of contact with a bullet, is such as to make it an interesting adver-
tisement for the hotel. Furthermore, it was ascertained on the evi-
dence of an evewitness that this bullet found its billet, not in the wa^
in question, out in the January war of the same year. It seems
altogether likely, also, that other damage to this building ascribed
to bullets was suffered in the January war. After a careful scrutiny
of the items comprising this feature of the claim, it is recommended
that $390 be allowed thereon.

Another claim affecting this hotel property is that made by the
firm of Moors & Partsch for supplies and furnishings, iacluding $450
for the closiQg of the house for six weeks. This aggregates $1,046.50,
and was presented to th^ German Claims Commission on behalf of
Mr. Partsch. This commission found that losses were suffered almost
to the amount claimed. Eliminating the said amount of $450 for

f prospective profits, it is recommended that Mr. Moors be paid $275
or his share of this loss.

The remaining item is that of $228.60 for damages to the store at
Fasitoo and goods stolen therefrom. This is the store which the
daunant William Wallwork managed, and reference is made to the
discussion of his claim, supra, as much of that applies with equal
force to this feature of Mr. Moors^s claim. Testimony as to this
claimed loss was given by Mr. Wallwork and Mr. James Frost. One
hundred and seventy-five dollars is recommended for this claimed
loss of Mr. Moors.

To recapitulate, the recommendations on Mr. Moors's claims for
property losses are:

Matauda cottage $25. 00

Ligjiter 200. GO

Apia store : 75. 00

Plantation 2, 308. 79

Tivoli Hotel property 565. 00

Fasitoo store.*. 175. 00

Total 3.348.79

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Claim No. 13.
michael j. scanlon.

On May 13. 1899, Michael J. Scanlon filed with Consul General
Osbom a claim in the sum of $3,810, and on June 3, 1899, a further
claim for $1,400 for losses after the first-mentioned date, all for
damages done by the Mataafan people to his property at Falcula,
about 6 miles from Apia. Since there were no military or naval opera-
tions during the war in question, after April 25, 1899, the latter claim
may be disregarded, as the United States Government could not well
be held responsible for damages sui.ered so long after that date.

This claimant was apparently born in Samoa in 1850, of a Samqau
mother and Jeremiah Scanlon, who died many years ago, and who
was registered in the American consulate at Apia as a citizen of the
United States. This claimant was also so registered, at least as early
as July 25, 1889, and the consular records state that his parents were
married in Apia in January, 1838, by "Rev. Lucovino, R. C* It
would seem, then, that the claimant's American citizenship has been
sufficiently made out for the purposes of this claim. This claimant
died in 1909, leaving a will in which he appointed his son, Michael,
as executor, and the estate is in process of^ settlement in the German
court at Apia, some objections having been filed therein to said will
by the children of his first marriage.

The evidence submitted in this case is not very satisfactory, con-
sisting, besides that of the said Michael Scanlon, jr., only of that of
two native Samoans. The comparative remoteness from Apia of the
claimant's place made it seemingly impossible to secure the testimonv
of white persons as to his loss. However, Mr. Trood, the acting British
consul, who was in Apia at the time of the war, volunteered the infor-
mation that by reason of the fact that the claimant served as inter-
preter and spy for Admiral Kautz during the war he incurred the
enmity of the Mataafans and suffered much property loss at their
bands.

It seems very clear that this claim is grossly exaggerated. For
instance, a visit to the property in question and inquiries made of
claimant's wife, who was not called as a witness, revealed that her
recollection was that her husband lost two or three cows during the
war, whereas he is charging for ^'14 head of cattle, $700.'' It also
appeared, by reason of the presence of a considerable number of large
coconut trees on the place, that the claim for such trees cut down was
too large.

As bearing out the claim in some respects, there were inspected
what appeared to be the foundations whereon had formerly sat two
small European houses and one or two Samoan houses, and a weU
jBlled up with stones, which it is alleged was done by the Mataafans.

It seems to be fairly well established by the evidence and by inquiry
that the claimant possessed a considerable number of pigs at the titne
of the war, and there is every reason to believe that whatever live
stock he may have had at this time was destroyed by the Mataafans
as well as wnat furniture he possessed.

It is believed that the losses suflFered by this claimant, notwith-
standing the distance of his residence from Apia, were sufficiently the
direct result of the American and British naval and military opera-
tions to entitle him to some compensation, and it is submitted that
$900 would be a fair amount therefor.

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34 claims of american citizens in apia, samoan islands.

Claim No. 14.
william r. pettibone.

This claimant asked for $1,499.76 for damages allied to have been
suffered at the Apia Hotel and at a beer garden about a mile back
from the beach, which places he appears to have been managing at
the outbreak of the war, and for a number of horses said to have been
taken from him by the hostile natives. Loss of prospective profits
^eems to have made up a large part of the claim, which is supported
only by the affidavit of the claimant.

This claimant left Samoa some time ago on a vessel bound for the
United States and is reported to have been lost at sea, although no
very definite information could be obtained on this point. The rec-
ords of the consulate at Apia bear this note opposite the claimant's
registration: '' Returned to the United States March 11, 1905.''

At any rate, claimant's wife seems to have been married in 1905 to
Thomas Brighouse, of Apia, to have had a child by that marriage, and
to have died in 1908.

Mr. Brighouse appeared before me on behalf of said child, Mona,
who, he said, was living in England. He stated then and at a later
date that he had endeavored to obtain evidence as to the alleged
losses of this claimant, but had been unable to do so. Still later Mr.
Brighouse advised me that he had discovered two witnesses and would
produce them, but he failed to do so.

It was afterwards ascertained from an inspection of the records of
the American consulate that WilUam Blacklock apparently had an
assignment of this claim made by Pettibone, and accordingly Herbert
Brown, heretofore referred to as being Mr. Blacklock's attorney in
fact in Apia, was advised of this and invited to produce evidence to
support the claim. He said that he had no advices on the subject
from Mr. Blacklock and did not know that he would be able to find
any evidence regarding the claim, but that he would endeavor to do
so. He produced no such evidence, however.

Under the circumstances, it is recommended that no allowance be
made on this claim.

Claim No. 15.

william harder.

Mr. Harder claims $1,453.15, principally for clothing, household
furniture, tools, and horses, alleged to have been stolen by natives
from a house on the Vaitele plantation, 5 miles from Apia, on which
Mr. Harder was then employed as carpenter and overseer, and for
tools stolen from the place owned by claimant at Lotopa, Apia, and
damage to trees thereon. . * . .

The claimant, a native of Germany, introduced in evidence a copy,
certified on May 22, 1878, by the court which jgranted it, of nis
naturalization as an American citizen in the District Court of the Fourth
Judicial District of the State of California, in and for the State and
county of San Francisco. It appears from the records of the Ameri-
can consulate at Apia that on June 2, 1892, the claimant was regis-
tered as an American citizen in that consulate.

This claim is supported by the evidence of claimant's wife, a half-
caste Samoan, and, in a general way, as to the Vaitele losses, by the

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evidence of Cons tan tine Tiedeman, a fellow employee there in 1899,
and now employed by the German Government m Apia; and as to the
Lotopa losses, by Carl PuUock, who, at the time of the war, lived on
Mr. Harder's place at Lotopa, and now resides in Apia, in such ill
health that he was unable to come to the consulate to give his testi-
mony, but sent a statement in writing. Mr. PuUock appears to
have a good reputation in Apia, and inquiry seems to reveal that he
lost about everything he had on this Lotopa place during the war.

Mr. Harder admits that he charged for articles claimed to have
been lost what they cost, and it appears somewhat peculiar that
since he went back to the Vaitele plantation during the war after he
first left it at the beginning of the war, having thus two opportuni-
ties of taking away therefrom clothing of his wife and family, that
he should have left so much clothing at this place as he claims.

Furthermore, his claim of $150 for the bananas taken from 6 acres
of land is believed to be much too large, as is the charge of $160 for
163 coflPee trees about 2 years old. Neither bananas nor coffee had
in 1899, or since, much value in Samoa.

It is concluded, then, that Mr. Harder's claim is considerably
exaggerated, and that $600 would compensate him for the losses
suffered. This opinion was confirmed by a inspection of Mr. Har-
der's said place at Lotopa, which he is now inhabiting.

Claim No. 16.
peter paul.

Peter Paul put in a claim for damages to Consul General Osborn
on May 7, 1899, in the sum of about $1,900. On July 13, 1899,
through J. H. Mulligan, attorney, he submitted a claim which had
increased to $2,434.98, and, as developed in the present investiga-
tion, his claim has now grown to $2,773.25. The damages are
alleged to have been suffered at his plantation property in tne sub-
urbs of Apia and at his residence in that village.

Claimant was born in Germany, and asserts that he was natural-
ized in the State of Nevada in 1878; that his naturalization certifi-
cate was destroyed in a fire, and that the records of the court of
naturalization were also destroyed by fire, so that he could get no
copy of the certificate. To support this last assertion, Mr. Paul
introduced in evidence what purports to be a letter dated July 12,
1888, from the clerk of the White Pine County (Nev.) court, which
appears to show that Mr. Paul made an effort to obtain from said
clerk a copy of his naturalization record, and also tends to show the
destruction of the records of that county as claimed by Mr. Paul.
In the records of the American consulate at Apia it appears that the
claimant was registered as an American citizen on August 16, 1897,
and that he was naturalized on November 20, 1878 in Hamilton,
White Pine County, Nev. Said entry in the consulate bears the
following note:

This entry is in correction of an omission made by Consul General Sewell, it being
shown to my satisfaction that Mr. Paul has always been regarded as an American
citizen.

The consular records also show that Mr. Paul was married on
June 11, 1889, by William Blacklock, acting United States consul.

86 CLAIMS OF AMEBICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

and in the entry of this marriage Mr. Paul is referred to as a citizea
of the United States. The records also show that on September 5,
1888, Mr. Paul was by the same consul divorced from nis former
wife, and that he was in 1889 appointed by the said consul as Ameri-
can commissioner on the joint commissioQ to lay out the boundary
lines of the municipality of Apia. It would seem, then, that Mr.
Paul's American citizenship in 1899 is sufficiently proven for the
purposes of this claim.

In connection with the previous reference to the growth of Mr.
Paul's claim, it may be said that in one item alone, the alleged damage
(;0 his plantation fence, the increase in the second over the first claim
is from $71 to $375.

Witnesses Rubeck and Docmuller testified to knowledge of some
losses suffered by Mr. Paul on his plantation, as did the witness Ripley
regarding those on Mr. Paul's Apia residence.

Mr. Paul admitted on the witness stand that he had charged for
the articles claimed to have been destroyed or damaged the full
amount which it would have cost him to replace these articles, and
his manner on the witness stand, the examination of the claims them-
selves, an investigation of his said premises, and inquiries made
seemed to reveal that this claim is grossly exaggerated, even in the
first schedule filed, both as to the quantity of the losses and values
placed upon the articles claimed for.

At the time of the war Mr. Paul does not seem to have been regarded
in Samoa as a planter, but it appears that he had then cleared a few
acres of land on his suburban property to raise a food supply for his
family, while always residing in Apia and working at his trade as
carpenter.

In connection with his claim for plantation damages, it is to be
noted that the claimant submitted through Attorney Mulligan an
affidavit of the said witness Ripley to the effect that the latter had
made a careful count of the number of trees destroyed on Mr. Paul's
plantation, which count tallied with the estimate made in Mr. Paul's
claim. During the present investigation Mr. Ripley swore that he
made no such count and did not know . how many trees were so
destroyed.

As to the' damages claimed to have been done to Mr. Paul's resi-
dence in Apia, it may be said that this place is located but a very-
short distance from the beach, which all through the war was patrolled
by British and American guards, and it is understood that in general
little damage was done to property in this section. It is believed
that $500 would fairly compensate Mr. Paul for the damages he suf-
fered in this war.

Claim No. 17.

ALEXANDER A. WILLIS (ESTATE OF) AND WIFE, LAULII J. WILLIS.

These two claimants are asking damages in the amount of $1,51 1.83
for losses alleged to have been suffered at their residence property in
Motoctua, in the suburbs of Apia, and in the amount of $184.75 for the
destruction of two native houses near the beach in Apia. In addition,
Mr. Willis has made a claim for damages in the sum of $313 for the
destruction of carpenter^s and architect's tools said to have been
located in a shop at his residence.

CLAIMS OF AMEKICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. 37

The claimant, Alexander A, Willis, appears to have been born in
New Brunswick, Canada, and naturalized in the United States. He
died in Samoa on September 16, 1903. His wife, the claimant, Laulii
J. Willis, said she thought his naturalization certificate was at her
present place of residence in Pago Pago, Island of Tutuila, and said
that she would produce it if found. She failed to do so, however,
and being a fuU-blood Samoan woman, it is quite probable that she
has no defuiite idea as to the location of such certificate. In any
event, Mr. Willis was registered as an American citizen in the Apia
consulate on June 3, 1896, and the record states that he was natural-
ized on September 14, 1884, in the superior court at San Francisco,
Cal., and that he obtained certificate No. 150.

Mrs. Willis referred to two residents of Apia as having knowledge of
her losses during the war, but each of these persons disclaimed any
such knowledge.

Mrs. Willis testified that the Samoan houses in question were
willed to her by her brother, but produced no evidence on this point.
Inquiry developed that these houses were located in a Samoan village,
and that the legal title to the land in that village, including the
houses thereon, was in the chief of the village, according to Samoan
custom. It seems also to be Samoan custom and law that a native
woman marrying a white man loses her equities in the family or village
property. Moreover, it would seem that Mrs. Willis did not acquire
American citizenship by her marriage to Mr. Willis. (See the dis-
cussion as to citizenship of Mrs. Coe, claim No. 1.) For these reasons
it would appear that no payment should be made on this feature of
the claim.

Mr. Willis appears to have been at the time of the war the leading
carpenter in Apia and to have received large wages in the regular
employment of the so-called German firm. His house was a very
good one and appears to have been well furnished.

It appears from the testimony of Edward Hall, who Uved with the
Willises in 1899, that Mrs. Willis had an opportunity to remove some
of her furniture by wagon before the first bombardment and did so
remove a portion of it, and that the losses in the way of furniture at
this place were small and that very little damage, if any, was done to
the house itself or to the outbuildings. It seems, however, that the
claimants lost a horse, a cow and calf, several pigs of different sizes,
and a number of fowls, besides some household effects. It is believed
that $250 would be a fair sum to pay for the damages sustained by
the claimants at their residence property. Relative to the owner-
ship of this property as between Mr. and Mrs. Willis, it is stated by
Mrs. Wilhs tnat her husband presented to her these various articles.
It seems certain, however, that they were bought and paid for by
Mr. Willis, and from the fact that the claim in question is made in the
names of both him and his wife, it would appear that they considered
themselves joint owners of this property. It is believed, however,
that the small amount recommended for payment should not suffer
any abatement by reason of the fact that Mrs. Willis was apparently
not an American citizen in 1899, but that this amount shoulcl be paia
to the estate of Mr. Willis.

As to the third feature of the claim, that for the tools of Mr. Willis,
it may be said that the evidence shows that he had some of his tools

38 CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

at his place of employment and that some which remained at his resi-
dence were not taken or destroyed. There seem, however, to have
been some losses on this account, and it was learned that generally
the natives stole tools when opportunity offered during the war. it
is therefore recommended that $100 be paid on this item.

The recommendation in this case, then, is for the payment of $350
to the estate of Alexander J. Willis.

It was stated by Mrs. Willis on her recent examination that Mr.
Willis left a will which was probated in the court of Pago Pago,
American Samoa, but inquiry of the court officials apparently shows
that she was mistaken on this point. It does appear, however, that
Mr. Willises estate was administered in that court and that the admin-
istrator, E. J. Mooklar, was discharged as such upon a final settlement
of his accounts on September 17, 1904. It was stated by Mr. Mooklar
that there were no claims presented against this estate. It is under-
stood that in anticipation of the payment of an award to the estate of
Mr. Willis upon this claim, Mrs. Willis has taken steps to have another
administrator appointed.

Claim No. 18.

john bruce.

John Bruce made a claim for $163 before Consul General Osborn in
1899 for the loss of a wooden house and household effects by native
looting.

His recent testimony, supported by that of two full-blood Samoans,
is to the effect that the American guard moved half of his wooden
house to the beach as a place of shelter and broke down the other half
of the house and partially destroyed claimant's Samoan house to use
the material for fuel. He also claims to have lost some pigs. The
cost to him of the property destroyed claimant puts at from $400
to $500.

The claimant, who was bom in Samoa, alleges that his father was a
negro, born in America, that his mother was a Samoan, and that his
parents were legally married. He was unable, however, to produce
any evidence in support of these allegations, nor does it appear that
eitner the claimant or his father was ever registered as an American
citizen at the Apia consulate or that the marriage of claimant's
parents or the birth of claimant himself was ever so registered,
although in cases of American citizens registrations of such events
were apparently the usual custom.

It is a tradition about Apia that the father of this claimant was an
'^American darkey," and the claimant himself has removed to the
American island of Tutuila, as be says, because he is an American.
To all intents and purposes, however, he is a Samoan, speaking but
little English, although he shows some traces in his appearance of
negro blood.

Both because of the discrepancies between the claimant's past and
present statements regarding has claim and because of the f^-ilure of
proof as to his American citizenship, it is recommended that this
claim be not allowed.

claims of amebican citizens in apia, samoan islands. 39

Claim No. 19.
george scanlon.

This claimant is asking $548.50 for the loss of a Samoan house, a
quantity of lumber, three horses, a cow, calf, and chickens, and some
coconut and other trees, at his place in Lotopa, Apia, and some pigs
at his place in Sogi, Apia.

The claimant has long been registered as an American citizen at the
consulate in Apia, and is now chief of police at Pago Pago, under the

fovemor of American Samoa. He was born in Samoa and his father,
eremiah Scanlon, who died 19 years ago, was registered at the con-»
sulate as a native-bom American. The claimant s mother's name is
given in the consular records as Faatei, a Samoan, and it is recorded
that his parents were married in January, 1838, by '^Rev. Lucovino,
R. C.,'' this claimant being a brother of the above-mentioned claim-
ant, Michael J. Scanlon.

The claimant put in evidence an extract from the records of the
Roman CathoUc Church at Apia, purporting to show the marriage of
his parents. However, the date of this marriage and the name of the
bride apparently show that this record refers to a later marriage of
claimant s father.

The only witnesses who testified in behalf of the claimant were his
brother and sister. He referred to a prominent resident of Apia as
having knowledge of his alleged losses, but that person disclaimed any
such knowledge.

It appears, however, to be established by information obtained
from the British consul and others that the Mataafan people, on
account of services rendered by him to the American and British
forces during the war, were especially bitter against this claimant and
that these natives, therefore, did all possible damage to his property.

Inquiry also seemed to bear out his claim that he had a largo
Samoan nouse on his Lotopa property, which was destroyed during
the war. The testimony also appears to corroborate his claim of
other losses suffered at this place, which is situated in the territory
v/hich was in possession of the Mataafan forces.

As to the claimed losses at the Sogi place, the claimant's sister,
v/ho says she was living on this place at the time, testifies that she
saw '^ friendly '' natives steal some pigs from this place.

It is believed that the claimant is fairly entitled to compensation
in the sum of $400.

Claim No. 20.

WILLIAM m'mOORE, SR.

William McMoore, of the island of Tutuila, bom in Samoa, who
asserts that his father was bom in the United States, claims $100,
made up of two items, one of $60 for a house alleged to have been
burned by the Mataaf ans and the other of $40 for money stolen from
the house by the incendiaries.

This claimant offered no proof of the citizenship of his father or of
the marriage of his parents, his mother having been, as he claimed, a
British haTf-caste, which marriage, he says, was recorded m the
American consulate at Apia. The records of the consulate do not

40 CLAIMS OF AMERICAlSr CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

appear to bear hini out on this point, nor do they seem to show that
eitner the claimant's father or himseW was ever registered there as an
American citizen.

Furthermore, the story of the burning and lootijig, as told bv the
claimant and his son, the ojdy witnesses, appears highly improbable
in the light of history. Claimant says that nis house was located but
a short distance from the beach at Apia, and it seems to be estab-
lished that at no time during the war in question did the Mataafan
people come in any force so close to the beach, much less bum any
house in this section. Inquiry of white persons who in 1899 Hved
very close to the place where the claimant says his house was located
(on land belon^g to natives) discloses that they have no recollection
of such happenings as he relates, and are positive that no such events
took place in this war. Some looting was done in and about the
beach in the so-called January war of 1899, and if the claimant
suffered any damage of the kind he claims during the year 1899 it was
undoubtedly in this first war.
. It is therefore recommended that this claim be rejected.

Claim No. 21.

THOMAS B. COFFIN (ESTATE OF).

This claim, conspicuous for its modesty, is for $227 for the destruc-
tion, at Solosolo, 5 or 6 miles from Apia, of a house, one room of which
was occupied as a store; of all of the contents of the house; and a
number of pigs. The records of the Apia consulate show that Thomas
B. CoflSn was long registered there as an American citizen, bom in
Nantucket, Mass., and that he died about six years ago.

The only witness who testified as to the loss was Mary Kohlhase,
a daughter of the claimant by a Samoan mother, and herself practi-
cally a Samoan, speaking Uttle English. She stated that her father^s
house was destroyed by fire caus^ by a shell thrown from either a
British or American warship while bombarding the village, and that
his pigs, to the number of about 50, were kifled by natives landed
from the ship. The house, she says, was a three-room wooden
structure, with a thatched roof, and one room, used as a store, con-
tained a stock of provisions and print cloths, while in the other
two rooms was household furniture.

The testimony of Edward F. Allen, before mentioned, would seem
to argue strongly for the probable truth of Mrs. Kohlhase^s evidence.
Mr. Allen stated that he fcaew the claimant and where the latter had
lived, and in answer to an inquiry as to his recollection upon the
question of whether or not claimant's house was struck by a shell
when the warships were bombarding Solosolo, said:

I think no shells were thrown in there, but there were shots from the 1-pounder
of the Philadelphia's launch which may have struck the place; I don't know about
this. We did, however, bum a lot of houses there, but don't know whether Coffin's
was one of them.

Mr. Allen was also asked as to his knowledge of the killing of any
pigs belonging to Mr. Coffin by natives landed from the warships,
and in reply to this question he said :

I know we did kill pigs which were running around in any of the villages where we
landed. Don't know about Coffin's.

CLAIMS OF AMEBICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. 41

It would seem, therefore, that the inherent probability of the
justice of this claim was sufficiently made out to warrant the recom-
mendation of an allowance thereon. Moreover, the modesty of the
claim argues in its favor. It is, therefore, recommended for payment
in the amount claimed, $227..

It appears that the estate of Mr. Coffin is in the hands of the German
court at Apia, which has appointed Frederick Stimsner as ^ardian
for Mr. Conin's minor son, Mrs. Kohlhase being the other heir. In
this as in other cases of the decease of the claimants it would seem
that any allowance made should be paid into the court for distri-
bution.

Claim No. 22.

DAVID S. PARKER (ESTATE OF).

This claim is for $1,449, and the damage is alleged to have been
suflFered at the claimant's residence in the municipality of Apia, a
considerable distance in the rear of the beach. The house is said to
have been somewhat damaged; much furniture, including a piano,
ruined; a quantity of live stock lost, and damage done to coconut
and other trees upon the place, which comprised about 15 acres of
ground.

Long prior to 1899 Mr. Parker was registered in the Apia consulate
as an American citizen, bom in the State of New Jersey; and the
records also show that he died in Apia two or three years ago.

Although it appears that she had several weeks' notice of the com-
ing to Samoa of an investigator of these claims, the widow of the
claimant departed from Apia upon a pleasure trip on the steamer
which brought me there, and sne did not return during my stay.
Her apparent lack of interest in the claim was explained by acquaint-
ances as due partly to the fact that she is in good financial cu'cum-
stances and partly because, being a Samoan woman, she is not thrifty
in business affairs.

However, two witnesses were examined relative to the damages
suffered on the Parker premises, and it appears from their testimony
that Mr. Parker, who was a man of large means for Samoa, occupied
a good house in 1899, which was well furnished; that the veranda of
this house was considerably damaged during the war; that much of
the furniture in the house was damaged, including a piano and a
valuable cook stove, which were ruined; that Mr. Parker also lost
three or four horses, about the same number of cows, and some fowls,
and that his place generally was somewhat damaged. It appears,
however, that prior to the first bombardment, in anticipation of
trouble, Mr. Parker removed to the vicinity of the beach at Apia
some of the smaller articles of his household effects.

The testimony given as to the good quality of Mr. Parker's house-
hold furnishings in 1899 was apparently corroborated as the result of
inquiries made of impartial persons with some knowledge of the facts.

The sum of $500 is recommended as an allowance upon this claim.

Mr. Parker's estate is in the hands of the German court at Apia.

Claim No. 23.

BEN PETER (ESTATE OF).

This claimant asks for $115 for the loss of a cow and calf, 18 fowls,
and 2 boxes of clothing.

42 CLAIMS OF AMEBIGAN CITIZENS IN APIA^ SAMOAN ISLANDS.

It seems that claimant was a Hawaiian by birth; that he resided
in Samoa in 1899, and has since died; and that his son, Peter Peter,
now resides in Honolulu and asserts that the claimed losses were
suffered. It does not appear that the claimant or any of his family
was ever registered at the Apia consulate as an American citizen,
and no information was apparently obtainable in Samoa as to the
claimed losses.

In this connection it may be said that it seems that the claimant
was on August 12, 1898, a resident of Samoa. It does not appear
whether or not he was on that date a citizen of the Republic of Hawaii,
so as to entitle him to have claimed American citizenship under the
provisions of the act of Congress of April 30, 1900 (31 Stat. L., 141,
eh. 339), '* Providing a government for the territory of Hawaii, '' which
sets forth (sec. 4) that aU persons who were citizens of the Republic
of Hawaii on August 12, 1898, are citizens of the United States and
citizens of the Territory of Hawaii.

Because of the lack of proof of the claimant's American citizenship
in 1899, and also as to the claimed damages, it is recommended that
no allowance be made on this claim.

Claim No. 24.

walter ray martin.

Walter Ray Martin, or Mortineau, as his name appears on the
records of the Apia consulate, where he was prior to 1899 and in that
year registered as a native-born American citizen, is asking for
$603.75 as compensation for the loss of household effects.

This claimant appears to have been at the time of the war prac-
ticing dentistry in Apia. Some time after the war he left Samoa
and IS now reported to reside in the Philippine Islands.

It seemed unpossible to obtain any definite information in Apia
regarding these claimed losses, but it was apparently learned that at
the outbreak of the war the claimant was living at the residence of
the family of his wife, a part-blood Samoan, in the outskirts of Apia,
and that, not maintaining a household of his own, he presumaoly
had few household effects. It is understood that since the claimant
left Samoa his wife has married a native Samoan and does not now
reside upon the island of Upolu. It is recommended that no allow-
ance be made upon this claim.

Claim No. 25.

alfred fruean.

This claimant is a brother of Charles Fruean. (See claim No. 10.)
He appeared at the consulate during the early part of the recent
investigation, but after the notices of the hearings nad been sent out,
and announced that he had not received a notice. This was not
surprising, inasmuch as his name did not appear upon the list of
claimants made up in the department, and thought to be complete.

An inspection of the consular records, however, appeared to show
that this claimant had filed a claim for damages not long after the
close of the war, and accordingly he was instructed to appear at the

CLAIMS OF AMEBICAN CITIZENS IN APIA^ SAMOAN ISLANDS. 43

time which had been appointed for his brother Charles. He did not
so appear then nor at any subsequent time.

The defects as to the proof of citizenship which exist in the claim
of Charles Fruean are undoubtedly equally present in this case.

RecapUuUUion of claims and reoommeruiati(m8.

Claim
No.

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

26

Claimant.

Mrs. Jomus H. Coe and children

St. Louis Planting Co

Chene P. Harrington

Harrington & Huch

Peter C. Ulberg

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

Charles L. Netzler

William Blacklock

James Schuster

Charles Fruean, sr

WiUiam WaUwork

Harry J. Moors (for confinement)

Harry J. Moors (property losses)

Michael J . Scanlon

William R. Pettibone

William Harder

Peter Paul

Alexander A. WiDis and wife

John Bruce

Geoiige Scanlon

William McMoore, sr

Thomas B. Coflin

Davis S. Parker

Ben Peter

Walter Ray Martin

Alfred Fruean

Total.

Amount
claimed.

$5,242.00

0)

873.75

450.00
1,500.00
1,280.00
1,403.62
2,476.27

666.50
1,472.50

874.25

20,000.00

10,000.00

5,210.00

1,499.76

1,453.15

2,773.25

2,009.58

« 460. 00

100.00
227.00
1,449.00
115.00
603.75

"64,677.88

Amount
recom-
mended.

$4,000.00
None.
300.00
265.68
500.00

1,100.00
None.
800.00
500.00
None.
250.00
None.

3,348.79
900.00
None.
600.00
500.00
350.00
None.
400.00
None.
227.00
600.00
None.
None.
None.

14,811.42

I £399 10s. 5d.

s About.

The testimony in duplicate and all documents relating to each
individual case are transmitted herewith inclosed in separate jackets,
each labeled with the name and number of the case, and there is also
transmitted a miscellaneous jacket containing evidence and docu-
ments relating to the claims in general.

Appended hereto are copies of your said instruction of April 15,
1911, of the act of Congress approved June 23, 1910, authorizmg and
directing you to ascertain the amounts due American citizens on these
claims and of the diplomatic and consular appropriation act approved
March 3, 1911, including an appropriation for carrying into enect the
said first-mentioned act of Congress.

I have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant

Joseph R. Baker.

April 15, 1911.
Mr. Joseph R. Baker,

Department of State, Wdshingtnon, D. C.

Sir: Referring to the act of Congress approved June 23, 1910,
authorizing and directing me to ascertain the amounts due, if any,
respectively, on the claims hereinafter mentioned, and to the appro-
priation made for that purpose at the last session of Congress, and
contained in the diplomatic and consular appropriation act, I hereby
designate you as agent on behalf of this department and direct you

44 CLAIMS OF AMBBICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

to proceed to the Samoan Islands and there investigate the alleged
claims of American citizens heretofore j&led in this department grow-
ing out of the joint naval operations of the United States and Great
Britain in and about the town of Apia in those islands in March,
April, and May, 1899, and covered by the provisions of the "Con-
vention between the United States, Germanv, and Great Britain,
relating to the settlement of Samoan claims, concluded November
7, 1899, and the decision thereunder by His Majesty Oscar II, King
of Sweden and Norway, given at Stockholm, October 14, 1902.

Having carefully and thoroughly investigated said alleged claims,
you will make to this department a full and complete written report
of your investigations, mcluding in your report the documentary
evidence, properly certified,, upon which it is based.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

P. C. Knox.

[Public— No. 244.]

[S. 7158.]

AN ACT Authorizing and directing the Department of State to ascertain and report
to Congress damages and losses sustained by certain citizens of the United States
on account of the naval operations in and about the town of Apia, in the Samoan
Islands, by the United States and Great Britain, in March, April, and May, eighteen
hundred and ninety-nine.

Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of' America in Congress assemlled, That the Secretary of State
be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to ascertain the amounts
due, if any, respectively, to American citizens on claims heretofore
filed in the Department of State growing out of the joint naval opera-
tions of the United States and Great Britain in and about the town of
Apia, in the Samoan Islands, in the months of March, April, and
May, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and covered by the provi-
sions of the '^ Convention between the United States, Germany, and
Great Britain relating to the settlement of Samoan claims,^' concluded
November seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and the deci-
sion thereunder by His Majesty, Oscar II, King of Sweden and Nor-
way, given at Stockholm, October fourteenth, nineteen hundred and
two, and report the same to Congress.

Approved June 23, 1910.

[Public— No. 452.]

[H. R. 32866.]

AN ACT Making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the
fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twelve.

Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled y That the following sums be,
and they are hereby, severally appropriated, in full compensation for
the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June
thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twelve, out of any money m the

CLAIMS OF AMEBICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. 45

Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter
expressed; namely:

INVESTIGATION OF CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS FOR LOSSES IN
SAMOA IN EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND NINETY-NINE.

For carrying into effect the act of Congress approved June twenty-
third, nineteen hundred and ten, for the investigation of claims of
American citizens for losses growing out of the joint naval operations
of the United States and Great Britain in and about the town of
Apia, in the Samoan Islands, in the months of March, April, and
May, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, the King of Sweden by an
international award having found the United States and Great
Britain to be responsible for such losses, seven hundred and fifty
dollars.

NO. 1. MBS. JONAS M. COE AND CHILDREN.

LiTiA Coe:

Caroline Johnston bemg duly sworn as interpreter.

Q. How many times have you been married ? — A. Once.

Q. To whom? — A. Jonas M. Coe.

Q. When?— A. 1881.

Q. By whom were you married ? — A. American Consul Dawson.

Q. Bfad Mr. Coe been married before ? — ^A. Yes.

Q. How many times ? — A. Twice. Once by the British consul and
once by the American consul.

Q. What were the names of these wives ? — A. Hi^ first wife was Sa
and the other was Lui.

Q. Are either of these stUl living? — ^A. No.

Q. Do you know when they died ? — ^A. No.

Q. Were either of them alive when you married Mr. Coe ? — A. Both
dead.

Q. Do vou know what children Mr. Coe had by either of these
wives? — ^A. Five living by the first wife — Emma Kx)hlbe, in Sydney,
New South Wales; Henry, in New Britain, an island near to New
Guinea; William, in the rhilippines; Phoebe Parkison, in New Brit-
ain; one dead, Johnny. He died about 1882. By the second wife
he had five children who are living — Carrie, who was married, but is
now divorced and insane; Mary Ann, married, in New Britain to a
man whose name I don't know; Lizzie; Grace, married in New
Britain; don't know her husband's name; and Laura, married in
America — California. Don't know in which place Laura lives nor
the name of her husband. He had no other children by his second
wife living in March, 1899.

Q. How many children had you and Mr. Coe ? — ^A. Four; three liv-
ing and one dead.

Q. What are the names of the living? — A. Maiy Eliza Allen, Nel-
lie Huch, and Robert Coe are Uving in Apia. Adelia died about 20
years a^o.

Q. Did you remarry after the death of Mr. Coe ? — ^A. No.

Q. There is an affidavit on file in Washington purporting to be made
by your daughter Nellie, in which it is stated that at the time your

46 CLAIMS OF AMEEICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

house was burned, in March, 1899, you were then living with a Samoan
to whom you had been married according to the native customs.
What do you say as to that? — ^A. That's wrong. I can swear that
I never married after Mr. Coe's death.

Q. Were you living with a Samoan in March, 1899, or at any other
time after your husband's death? — ^A. No; I never lived with a
Samoan.

Q. How do you account for the statement I have indicated to you
as made by your daughter? — ^A. I don't know anything about it.

Q. 'Do you want to say anything further on that point? — A. No.

Q. Where did you live in March, 1899 ? — ^A. In my house at Ma-
tautu, Apia.

Q. What, if anything, hanpened to your house during that month —
A. It was burned by the wnite men.

Q. Just describe what occurred. — A. When the bombardment
started from the warships, my children and I came to the American
consulate, and the American soldiers told us to go home. Then a
British officer drove us back again to the American consulate. That
night we went back home and slept under the beds because shots were
going aroimd the house. The next day a British officer and an Amer-
ican officer drove us out of the house, pushing ua with their guns, say-
ing to us if we didn't go out of the house tney would shoot us, and
that they were going to bum the house so that they could see around,
that nobody would nide behind it.

Q. Was that all that was said to you on this occasion? — A. Yea.
. Q. Was anything said to you about its being a German house ? — A.
They said that they were going to bum the house because it was a
German house, and we said, ''No; it is an American house.'*

Q. Do you know of any reason for their saying it was a German
house ? — A. Because I was living with a German — Karrass. He was
away in a boat at that time.

Q. Were you married to him ? — A. No.

Q. Did you take anything with you when you were driven out ? —
A. Nothing but house dresses which we wore.

Q. Wlio were living with you in the house then? — ^A. I and my
two childien, NeUie and Robert, three Tongan women, my father,
and two boys, Mr. Coe's grandchildren, sons of Lizzie, his daughter.

Q. Anybody else ? — ^A. That's aU.

Q. Did any of these people take anything with them out of the
house — A. Nothing but what they wore.

Q. What time of day was this ? — A. About 10 in the morning.

Q. Where did you go then ? — A. We went on the German man-of-
war.

Q. Why did you go to the German man-of-war? — A. Because it
was nearest to the shore and we were frightened.

Q. How long did you stay on board? — A. About two weeks.
About every two days the boat of the war vessel took us ashore for
the day because they were afraid of having fever on board, and
brought us back at night.

Q. Did you go back to your house at all ? — A. No.

Q. Did you see your house burning? — A. Yes; we saw it from the
boat.

Q. When was that ? — A. About two days after we went on board,
about 6 o'clock in the morning.

CLAIMS OF AMBBIOAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. 47

Q. Could you see it plainly? — A. Yes; we saw it burn to the
ground — looKed through glasses.

Q. Do you know, of your own knowledge, how the fire started ? —
A. I don't know, but supposed the British and American guards.

Q. What furniture was there in the house ? — A. A glass case in the
parlor filled with books; piano; chiffonier; harmonium; 2 very big
mirrors you could see your whole body in; 2 sofas which unfolded for
beds; 2 music boxes; 3 sewing machines, 2 hand and 1 treadle; 1 big
chest of drawers; 2 rocking chairs; 2 long chairs for lying down; 4
cane chairs, large; 8 small chairs; 4 smaller mirrors; about 10 large
pictures and photographs; 4 shaggy mats; the chiffonier was filled
with all kinds of plates and glasses, knives and forks and spoons, a
little box that we kept our money; 25 sovereigns were in it at this
time and Mr. Coe's gold watch, and our jewelry, 2 chains with lockets,
about 5 gold brooches, 6 gold rings; big round table; very big
chandelier in center of the room; 2 lamps on each side and 1 big
one in the middle; a large rug all over the parlor floor; 2 big
clocks, gilded; 2 smaller tables in the corners. That's about all in
the parlor.

Q. How many bedrooms were there? — A. Four; two big ones and
two smaller.

Q. What was in each of these rooms — A. In one bedroom was a
big double bed, large mirror, 1 marble-topped table, Mr. Coe's desk,
marble-topped washstand and set, two smgle beds, three boxes for
clothes, Chinese boxes of camphor wood, one big and two little
ones. On each bed were sheets, pillows, and mattresses. There
were two large cane chairs. That's all in the one large bedroom.

In the other big bedroom, one double bedstead, mattress, sheets,
and pillows, one marble-topped table, one washstand, marble-topped,
set for washing, jug and basin, one mirror about 3 feet long [indi-
cated by her hands], three small chairs, one sword which bdonged
to Mr. Coe, two long spyglasses. That's about all in that room
except mats which were on the floor in every room.

In each of the two small bedrooms there was a double bedstead
and washstand and table, both of which latter were marble topped,
and two boxes of clothes, the same as in the big rooms, about three
small chairs in each bedroom, and one small bed for a child. In
these rooms were bundles of fine mats and tapas, one bundle of
common mats. There were about 50 fine mats.

In the dining room there were lots of crockery and dishes on shelves,
four or five big standing lamps, big lamp for dining table, four bundles
of small axes for the black boys to work with, and bundles of working
knives, big dining table, meat safe, 1 cask of beef, box of washing
soap, two ladies' saddles and one man's saddle, tinned meat and
salmon and fruit. That's about all in the dining room.

Q. What other buildings were on the place ? — ^A. Big kifchen of
two rooms, bath house, fowl house, three Samoan houses.

Q. Were these Samoan houses old or new ? — ^A. About a year old.

Q. What became of aU these buildings? — A. There wasn't a
building left when I got back to the place after the war — all burned.
Didn't see them burning myself.

Q. What else was there on the place ? — A. Ten very big pigs from
Tonga, 12 imported fowls, about 50 or 60 Samoan fowls, 5 turkeys,

48 CLAIMS OF AMEBICAK CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

about 60 ducks, a big turtle, 2 horses. In the bathhouse were two
big tubs, large stove in the kitchen, new, which we had had only a
week, and a big table.

Q. What became of this live stock ? — A. It was all gone when we
got back.

Q. Did you ever recover any of it ? — ^A. Not a thing.

Q. Did you receive any compensation from any person or Grovern-
ment for the loss suffered ? — ^A. No.

Q. To whom did these buildings belong? — ^A. To me.

Q. How did you acquire it ? — ^A. By Mr. Coe's will.

Q. Have you the will or a copy, duly certified? — ^A. Yes; Mr.
Huch has it. I think there is a copy in the consulate.

The records of the consulate were here inspected, and in the mis-
cellaneous record book, D 8, was found copied the will of Jonas M.
Coe dated February 11, 1885, which contains this provision:

Firstly, I give, devise, and bequeath unto my wife, Litia Coe (so lone as she remainB
my widow), and unto my children by her my land at Solapo and the whole of the
premises, including the dwelling house and all houses on said land, together with all
furniture, goods, and chattels.

Q. Where is Solapo ? — A. That is the name of the place where my
house is.

Q. That is, is it the name of your property itself? — A. Yes.

Q. Have you ever declared allegiance to any other Government
than the United States ? — ^A. No.

Q. Have you ever done anything to cause you to lose your United
States citizenship ? — A. No.

Q. Did you taKe any part in the war during which your house was
burned, for or against either side ? — ^A. No; 1 took no part.

Q. Were you strictly neutral? — ^A. Yes.

Q. Why (udn't you take the money you have spoken of when you
left your house ? — A. Because the guards were pushing and kicking
us out.

Q. Do you know anything about the values of the property you
claim to have lost? — ^A. No.

Q. Is there anything further you wish to say about this case ? — ^A.
Nothing; only that of the three Samoan houses I have spoken of, one
was a big one and the other two smaller.

Hugo Gebaubr:

Q. How long have you lived in Apia? — ^A. Twenty-seven years.

Q. Where did you reside in Apia m 1899 ? — A. In Matautu, Apia,,
in the house just west of Mrs. J. M. Coe^s residence — a few rods away.
Had lived there about four years.

Q. Did you pass the Coe house daily going to and from your
business? — ^A. 1 did.

Q. State whether or not you frequently entered the Coe house
which Was burned ? — A. I did.

Q. Have you had experience in building houses in Apia? — ^A. Yes;
I have been a contractor on such work. Was such between 1886 and
1893. Know at that time the value of building materials and labor.

Q. Please briefly describe the Coe house which was burned. — ^A.
This house consisted of 7 rooms besides the hall, with concreted
veranda all around the house. The house itself was about 60 by 45
feet outside dimensions, with an 8-foot wide veranda.

CLAIMS OF AMEKICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. 49

Q. Please describe the outbuildings. — A. There wa,s a bathing
house, a^.out 8 by 8 feet, a cook house, 12 by 9, a big Samoan house.

Q. Wliat material was the main house ? — A. Of weatherboards and
rustic, to hold the boards tog^Uher, with a lining Cif pine.

Q. What material was used in building the cook house and l:athing
house? — A. The same as the main house.

Q. What material was used in building the Samoan house ? — A. It
was a Samoan reception house, built of bread-fruit wood, and thatched
with sugar-cane leaves.

Q. Wliat do you know, if a,nything, of the age of these buihhngs ? —
A. I do not know except that all but the Samoan house werC^. ouilt
wh< n T came to Samoa.

Q. What, in your opinion, was the value of the main dwelling house
at the time it was burned? — A. $3,000.

Q. What, in your opinion, was the v^Jue of the cook and bathing
housrs at the time thry were burned? — A. $175.

Q. What, in your opinion, was the value of the Samop«n house at
th"* time it was burnd? — A. I could not tell.

Q. Were all th^se buildinsjs burned at the same time? — A. Yes.

Q. Please describe briefly the furniture in the main dwelling house. —
A. I have been in the parior often, in Mr. Coe's study often, and have
looked in the bedrooms. The house was all well furnished, mostly
imported furniture. The parlor contained very good sideboards,
piano, large library, mostly bound in pigskin, covering all of one side
of the parlor, hundreds of volumes of books, classics, etc., chiffon-
niers, rocking chairs, sofas, pictures, small tables. The whole room
was filled with pretty furniture; native mats covered the chairs and
tables. In Mr. Coe's study was a good, large, American desk, good
office chair, book shelves and books, safe, copying press, chairs, and

Eictures. The bedrooms appeared to be well furnished with good
edsteads, mosquito services, wardrobes. There was also a sewing
machine in the parlor. In the Samoan house were bundles of fine
mats and tapas.

Q. State whether or not you have purchased a good deal of furni-
ture in Apia. — A. I have.

Q. Were you familiar with the value of furniture in Apia at the
time of the burning of the Coe house ? — A. I was.

Q. What, in your opinion, was the value of the furniture in the
Coe house when it was burned? — A. $1,400, exclusive of the books,
whose value I don't know.

Q. Do you care to say anything further about the case ? — A. No.

Q. W^as your house next door to Coe's burned at about the
same time as the Coe house? — A. Yes; within 24 hours, by the com-
bined British and American forces.

Q. Did you present a claim because of the burning of your house ? —
A. Yes; to the German Government.

Q. What was the amount of your claim? — A. $4,600 for house,
furniture, and outhouses.

Q. What amount was paid upon your claim ? — A. $4,600: I would
like to add that Mr. Coe's premises were inclosed on the front and
sides by a picket fence.

Q. Was this fence destroyed at the same time as the Coe houses ? —
A. Yes.

Q. What was the frontage and depth of the lot of the Coes? — A.
About 300 or 400 by the same depth.

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60 CLAIMS OF AMEEIOAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

Q. Were you familiar with the value of such fencing in 1899? —
A. Yes.

Q. What, in your opinion, was the value of the Coe fencing which
was destroyed? — A. About $100.

Henry M. E. Huch.

Q. How long have you lived in Apia? — A. Since 1883. Con-
tinuously.

Q. Were you familiar with the premises of Mrs. Jonas M. Coe prior
to and during March, 1899? — A. I passed the place often and was
inside- the house once or twice.

Q. Please describe briefly the main dwelling house? — A. It was
-about 60 feet long by 40 feet deep, with a veranda about 10 feet wide
along the front; don^t remember whether it extended along the sides.
The house contained seven or eight rooms. There were some out-
buildings, but I can't tell what they were. It was one of the largest
houses here in Apia.

Q. Can you give any details about the furniture of the main
house? — A. I only know that it was well furnished.

Q. Did you present a claim for the loss or destruction of your
property in Apia during March, April, or May, 1899. — A. I did, to the
German consul, for damage to my house and destruction of furniture.
The amount of my claim was a little more than $1,100.

Q. What amount was paid upon your claim? — A. About $950.

Q. Have you any interest, direct or indirect, in the Coe claim? — A.
Only that I am married to Nellie, the daughter of Jonas M. Coe and
Mrs. Coe, the claimant.

Q. Is there anything further you care to say about this case ? — A.
No.

Kennison :

tj. How long have you lived in Apia ? — A. All my life.

Q. How long have you been engaged in carpentry work? —
A. Ever since 1 was able to work.

Q. What experience have you had in building and repairing
houses? — A. Have been doing this all my active liie; am a master
tjarpenter.

Q. Were you familiar with the property of Mrs. Jonas M. Coe, at
Matautu, Apia, prior to March, 1899?^ — A. I was passing by this
property three or four times a day for much of my life. Looked
t)ver the house once with a view to making some rcpa-irs on it.

Q. Please describe the house briefly as it stood just prior to March,
1899. — ^A. The house was about 40 by 50 feet, with verandas all
around it, good-sized cookhouse, bathhouse, and bread-fruit Samoan
house.

Q. What, in your opinion, was the value of these properties at
the time of their destruction? — A. I can give no estimate upon
this, but know that the buildings were all in good condition.

Q. What do you say about the life of houses such as that of
Mrs. Coe, in and about Apia? — ^A. A house protected by verandas
will last 100 years, if the verandas are kept in good condition. The
verandas protect the house and it is only the outside half of the
verandas which will wear away.

Q. Do you care to say anything further about the case? — A. No.

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Christian Hellesoe:

Q. How long have you lived in Apia? — A. About 30 yeare.

Q. Were you living in Apia throughout the month of March,
1899 ?— A. I was.

Q. Did vou see the burning of the Coe house in that month? —
A. I did, from a distance of about three-fourths of a mile. Don't
remember the day of the month.

Q. Did you shortly after the burning visit the scene thereof? —
A. I did.

Q. What was the condition of the place at this time of your visit ? —
A. All the buildings on the place were burned to the ground and part
of the place was destroyed.

Q. State whether or not you often passed the Coe house before
it was burned. — ^A. I did.

Q. Please describe briefly the main dwelling house of the Coes. —
A. It was about 40 by 50 feet in size, with a veranda around it.

Q. Do you know anything about the age of the house? — ^A. I
don't know, except that it was built when I came to Apia.

Q. Are you able to give any opinion about the value of the house
or its furniture? — A. No; I am not.

Q. Is there anything further you care to say about the case? —
A. No.

Robert Coe:

Q. What is your mother's name ? — ^A. Litia Coe.

Q. What is your father's name? — A. Jonas M. Coe.
, Q. Where did you live in March, 1899? — ^A. With my mother in
^atautu.

Q. Do you remember being driven out of your house . at that
time? — A. No.

Q. Do you remember seeing the house burn? — A. Yes.

Q. Where were you then ? — A. On board the man-of-war.

Q. Who were living in your house before it burned? — ^A. My
mother, myself, my sister, Mrs. Huch, and Karrass, but at the time
of the burning he was away. That's all.

Q. Do you remember what was in the house ? — A. No ; I was only
a schoolboy then.

Q. Is that aU you remember about the case ? — A. Yes.

Q. Did your mother, so far as you know, ever marry again after
your father's death? — A. No.

Q. Is there anything more you want to say? — A. No.

Upuse :

Caroline Johnston being sworn as interpreter.

Q. Do you remember the war in March, 1899? — A. Yes; I was
then boatman for the British consulate.

Q. Was that next to the house of Mrs. Coe? — A. Yes.

Q. Did you see Mrs. Coe's house burn? — A. Yes.

Q. How*^ did it get on fire ? — A. I saw the British and Ainerican
guards set it on fire. They poured kerosene on it first, I think. I
saw them light matches and set fire to it. I was then standing in
the yard of the British consulate.

Q. Was the house all burned to the ground? — A. Yes.

Q. And all the other buildings on the place? — A. Yes.

52 CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

Q. Were they all burned on the same day ? — ^A. Yes.
Q. Did you see any furniture moved out of the house before tlie
fire? — A. No. Evei-ytliing in the house was burned.
Q. Is that all you Know about it ? — A. Yes.

Tagoa:

Caroline Johnston being duly sworn as interpreter.

Q. Do you remember the war which started in March, 1899? —
A. Yes. I was the boatman at the American consulate.

Q. How far is that frcm where ii.rs. Jonas M. Coe lived at the
time ? — A. There is one place in between — Gebauer's.

Q. Did you see Mrs. Coe's house burn? — A. Yes; from the Ameri-
can consulate.

Q. Did you see it set on fire? — A. No; I did not see that.

Q. Who was around Mrs. Coe's house at the time, if anybody? —
A. The white men — British and American guards.

Q. Did they appear to be making any effort to put out the fire ? —
A. No. They just let it burn.

Q. Did you see any furniture moved out of the house before or
during the fire ? — A. No. I think it was all burned.

Q. E)o you know anything more about the case? — A. That's all.

Mrs. HucH.

Q. Where were you born ? — A. In Apia, Samoa.

Q. State whether or not in March, 1899, you were a citizen of the
United States? — ^A. I was, through my father, Jonas M. Coe, who
was born in the United States ana died as an American citizen.

Q. When and where did your father die ? — ^A. In 1889 or 1890, ia
Apia.

Q. How long had he lived in Apia ? — ^A. I don't know, but a good
many years ago.

Q. Who is your mother ? — ^A. Litia Coe.

Q. When were your father and mother married? — ^A. In 1880 or
1881.

Q. Do you know by whom they were married? — A. I think by
American Consul Dawson in the consulate.

Q. When were you married and to whom? — ^A. 1905, to E. Huch.

Q. What is his nationality ? — ^A. German.

Q. Are you still living as his wife ? — A. Yes.

Q. Were you ever married to anyone else? — ^A. No.

Q. Were you married in March, 1899? — A. No.

Q. Were you then living at home ? — A. Yes.

Q. Where was your home then ? — ^A. In Matautu, Apia.

Q. Who else was living in your family then? — ^A. My mother
Litia Coe, my brother Robert Coe, my half sister, Lizzie Coe, who
was a daughter of my father by another wife, some Samoan relations
of my mother — her grandfather and some cousins — native girls about
3 — and two men.

Q. Was your mother remarried after your father's death? — A.
Not legally married but she was living with Capt. Karrass, a German
subject, for about two years prior to March, 1899.

Q. Your affidavit on file in Washington shows that you swore
that in March, 1899, your mother was living with a Samoan husband
to whom she was married according to the native custom. What
do you say about that? — ^A. I don't remember anything about that.

CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. 53

Q. Do you now swear that she was not then so married and living
witn a Samoan husband ? — A. I do.

Q. Was there anything unusual happened in Samoa in March,
1899? — ^A. There was a war between Mataafa on one side and the
English and Americans on the other side.

Q. Did your family suffer any loss or destruction of property
during that time ? — ^A. Yes.

Q. When was that ? — ^A. Some time in March.

Q. What was this loss or destruction? — A. The American and
English guards, under command of a British officer, burned our
house and all our property.

Q. Please state oriefly what occurred at this time. — A. The officer
and some of the guards came into our house early in the morning,
probably between 7 and 8, and told us to go out of the house, and
told us otherwise they would fire and kill us all. We then went on
to the American consulate, and later in the day we were sent back
to our house. The next day, early in the morning, the same people
came into our house and drove us all out, saying they would shoot
us if we didn^t go, and that they were going to bum the houses down,
so that they could see from the British to the American consulates,
between which our houses were located. Thev pushed my mother
out with their guns, and we all followed and went on board the
German ship, the Laeke. Two days later, we saw the houses burning,
from the ship. First the outhouses were burned, and the same day
the main house was burned. The second day, after we went on
board ship, I came ashore and went into the house and saw that all
the furniture was broken and smashed to pieces. The clothing was
all gone, and I could only secure two pillows. They were the only
things not destroyed.

Q. When you were ordered out of the house the second time did
you take anything with you? — ^A. No; we were refused permission
to do so. Everything was immediately nailed up.

Q. How soon after you visited the house, as you stated, was it
burned ? — ^A. The next day.

Q. You stated in your affidavit, to which I have referred, that the
soldiers who ordered you out of your house told you that it was a
''German house,' ^ which was a reason for burning it. Do you remem-
ber their saying that? — A. Yes; they told us that; but we answeried
that it was an American house.

Q. Do you know of any reason for their saying that ? — A. It may
have been because Capt. Karrass, a German, made his home there.

Q. Had there been any fighting about your house prior to the burn-
ing? — ^A. No.

Did you see any of the Mataafa warriors about there? — A. No.
Did you or any of the people living in your house, take any part
in the war for or against any party or faction, furnish any supplies or
information to any contestants? — A. No.

Q. Did you and your family, so far as you know, remain strictly
neutral during the war ? — A. Yes.

Q. Please describe briefly your main dwelling house, which was
burned. — ^A. It was about the size of the American consulate, but not
SO high from the ground, with a veranda about 8 feet wide all about
the front and sides of the house and most of the back. There were
seven rooms — four bedrooms, a parlor, dining room, and hall.

54 CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

Q. Please state what furniture was in the house. — A. There was a
piano, American make, of large size, in good condition, and in use, a
Dig library which belonged to my father, consisting of several hundred
books, big chiflFonier of dark wood, a big chest of drawers, a large side-
board wim four looking-glasses on it, two sofas, one large and several
small tables, several rocking chairs, a han^ng lamp, several enlarged
photographs and some paintings, and a large mirror hanging upon
the wall.

Everv bedroom had a bedstead, a chest of drawers with mirrors.
In one bedroom was a large writing desk. In each bedroom was also
a bureau, all the bedsteads, mattresses, and bedding.

In the dining room was a large square table, cupboard for dishes, a
provision safe, about eight dining-room chairs.

AH the windows and doors in the house were fitted with curtains.

In the hall were three clocks, standing about 2 feet high, two sewing
machines. Domestic make, two large wooden chairs, and a small
table.

The parlor contained a large rug, and there were Fiji mats all
through the house in each room.

In the chiflFonier were complete sets of crockery, knives and forks,
about 3 dozen of each and of spoons were put awav, besides about 1
dozen for every-day use. There was also a bundle of fine Samoan
mats, 40 or 50 in number, known as letoga, which are highly valued
by the Samoans, which had been presented to my father, and 4 le Sina
or shaggy mats, made in Samoa, 4 or 5 bundles of common mats^
about 10 in a bundle. There was also a large amount of clothing
belonging to each one of the family.

Of jewelry we had 3 gold chains with lockets, 5 brooches, and a
bracelet, all gold, 4 gold rings, and 3 pairs of earrings.

In the kitchen we had a large cookstove with all cooking utensils
and tables.

Q. What other buildings were there on the place ? — A. There were
three water tanks, one square and two round ones, a cookhouse, and
bathhouse. There were two rooms in cookhouse, one lai^e kitchen and a
bedroom, probably about 30 feet long bv 12 wide. The bathhouse
was about 10 feet square, containing 2 tubs of iron enameled. There
was also a fowl house and a pigsty. We had about 25 chickens and
10 pigs, aU of which were lost at this time, as were 2 horses for riding
purposes.

There was also a Samoan house of hardwood, not breadfruit. It
was a large, good native house.

Q. Are you able to state what were the values of any of this prop-
ertv at the time of the destruction ?— A. No ; I am not.

Q. To whom did all this property belong at the time of its destruc-
tion? — ^A. My mother, Mrs. Coe.

Q. How did she acquire the ownership? — A. By the will of my
father she was to own the property as long as she remained his widow
or until she died. If she married or when she died, it was to go to us
three children.

Q. Was this property known by any particular name ? — A. Solapo.
That was just tne name of our own place.

Q. Does your mother continue to live on this place ? — ^A. Yes.

Q. So far as you know, have any court proceedings been had re-
garding the settlement of your father^s estate? — ^A. No.

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CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. 55

Q. Do you remember about there being a sword in your mother's
house before the war? — A. Yes; one belonging to our father.

Q. Do you remember of a necklace being mere? — A. Yes; it waa
my mother's. It was locked up in a box

Q. Did you look for it when you went back to the house the day
after you left to go on the man-of-war? — ^A. Yes; the little box that
it and the other jewelry was in was lying there empty. I couldn't
find any of the jewelry.

Q. Did you ever locate it afterwards? — ^A. No; never heard any-
thing about it.

Q. Do you remember making an affidavit regarding this case in
1899? — A. I made one before Mulligan, but at that time I didn't
understand or speak English weU. I had trouble in understanding
him, and I couldn't explain well to. him. There was no interpreter
present.

Q. You seem to have stated in this affidavit that the house was set
fire to as we stood about the house, while you have now stated that
you saw it burning from the ship a day or two after you left it.
How do you explain the discrepancy? — A. That must have been due
to a misunderstanding.

Q. In this affidavit of yours and in a statement and affidavit pur-
porting to have been made by your mother there is no mention of a
piano. How do you account for that? — A. I am sure there was a
piano in the house. I don't know how to account for not mentioning
it, except that we forgot it. There were also two music boxes which
played upon winding. . -

Q. Don't you think that a piano would be one of the first things you
would have been likely to mention ? — A. It must have slipped out of
our minds.

Q. In your mother's statement it is said that the property was
'* burnt of otherwise" destroyed on the 16th of March and 3d of April^
1899. What do you say about that? — A. I think the kitchen was
burned the day we left the house first and the house afterwards.

Q. Was there one or two weeks between the burnings ? — A. No. I
remember that the kitchen had been burned the day I came ashore to
get things from the house, as I have stated, and it was the second day
after that when the house was burned.

Q. How do you now account for these discrepancies between your
present statement and those contained in your affidavit and your
mother's statement ? — A. It is because I couldn't understand Mr.
Mulligan well and couldn't explain well to him. I had to interpret
for my mother also, as there was nobody else around to do so. I
didn't know what Mulligan wrote on the paper. I just went and
signed.

Q. Is there anything more you want to say about this case? — <
A. No; I think not.

Q. Did you or any of your family ever recover any of the property
that you liave mentioned ? — A. No. We heard afterwards that some
of the guards took some stuff aboard that was in our house.

56 CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

Mrs. Jonas M. Coe et al., Exhibit A.
J. R. B., vice consul, U. S. A.

POWER OF ATTORNEY.

We, the undersigned, herewith give our power of attorney to the merchant, Emil
Huch, of Apia, to act for us in behalf of the war claims of the United States Govern-
ment of America, to give any legal information and to receive any moneys and to
acknowledge the receipt of same on our behalf.

Apia, 12 August, 1911.

(Signed) Litia Coe.

M. E. Allen (bom Coe).
Nellie Hugh (born Coe).
Robert Coe.

I hereby testify that the above signatures were made in my presence.
Apia, 12 August, 1911.

Schlettwein,
The Imperial District Judge.

NO. 2. ST. LOI7IS PLANTING CO.

Edward F. Allen:

Q. Where did you live in March, 1899? — A. In Apia or on board
the men-of-war.

Q. What part, if any, did you take in the war which broke out in
that month m Samoa? — A. I acted as interpreter, pilot, and adviser
to the British and American commanding officers.

Q. Was there any bombardment from these vessels of the coast
east and west of Apia? — A. Yes.

Q. To what extent? — A. On March 18 the Porpoise bombarded
Malie, Falcula, Afega, Salioamoa, Utualia, and Falioasiu. At the
.same time the Philadelphia fired on Viausu. On March 20 the Por-
poise put some shells in Fasitootai. On March 21 we brought 10
native (Mataafan) boats from Falefa to Apia. On March 23 we fired
shots from the Philadelphia's launch into Saluafata and the near-by
place of Sole solo and took boats away. We burned certain houses in
Saluafata, Lufi Lufi, and Faleapuna. In addition to that I went one
day on the Royalist to Sclosolo, and we landed a party of friendly
natives and burnt some houses. On March 31 we went west from
Apia on the Porpoise with the launch of the Philadelphia and burnt a
boat at Satupuala.

On one occasion after that when I wasn't along the Royalist shelled
in the vicinity of Fasitooti and Leulomoaga. That is all the bom-
barding which was done in Upolu outside of the harbor of Apia, except
at Fagalii on Aprl 1. I wasn't along then.

Q. Were you present on all these occasions with the exception you
have made? — A. Yes.

Q. Was there any bombarding in the vicinity of Aliepata ? — A. Not
to my knowledge.

A. And you would have known if there had been? — A. I should
think so.

Q. Was there any at Fasitoo? — A. I think not; but that is very
close to Fasitooti and Leulomoaga.

Q. Was there any at Tiavoa or vicinity? — A. None.

Q. Did you know Thomas B. Coffin, of Solcsolo ? — A. Yes.

Q. And where he lives ? — A. Yes.

CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA^ SAMOAN ISLANDS. 57

Q. Do you remember whether or not his house was struck by a
shell? — ^A. I think no shells were thrown in there; but there were
shots from the 1-pounder of the PJiilddelphia^ s launch which may
have struck the place. I don't know about this. We did, however,
burn a lot of houses there, but don't know whether Coffin's was one
of them.

' Q. Do you know anything as to any pigs belonging to Coffin which
are said to have been killed by the friendly natives landed there ? — A.
I know we did kill pigs which were running around in any of the
villages where we landed. Don't know about Coffin's.

Q. Did you know James Schuster, of Malie, and where his house
was? — A. Yes.

Q. Do you know if any damage was done to his house by shell or
shot from the war vessels ? — A, A cutter from the Philadelphia threw
several 1-pound shots into this house.

Q. Do you know of any damage done by war vessels to William
Blacklock's store at Saluatata? — ^A. None.

Q. Was there any bombarding at Tiavoa? — A. No. We went
ashore once at Tiavoa and found that the natives had not damaged
the store of the St. Louis Planting Co., as had been reported to us.
The man who had been in charge there had left there, but the natives
-showed us that the store had not been interfered with.

Q. Was there anj^ bombarding at Falefa ? — A. No.

Q. Do you know if any damage was done by natives or otherwise to
the store of the St. Louis Planting Co. at that place? — A. I never
heard that there was and don't think there was.

Q. Was the Porpoise at Falefa during this time, except as you have
stated? — A. No.

Q. Do you remember bringing Cyrus Scott away from Falefa on
this occasion? — A. No; but I know the members of this company
that he belonged to gave us much trouble with their stories of danger
to themselves, which we found did not exist.

Q. Do you remember bringing William Wallwork away from Fasi-
too on the Porpoise 'i — A. Yes.

Henry Achatz:

Q. Where were you born? — A. Bristol Township, Minn., United
States of America.

Q. State whether or not you are a citizen of the United States. —
A. I am.

Q. Have you ever declared allegiance to any other government ? —
A. No.

Q. Have you ever done anything to cause you to lose your Ameri-
can citizenship ? — ^A. No.

Q. When did you leave the United States? — A. In 1895.

Q. When did you first come to Samoa? — A. In 1896.

Q. How long have you lived in Samoa? — ^A. Since 1896.

Q. State whether or not your residence in Samoa is temporary or

I)ermanent. — A. If I could sell out I would leave. Can't tell how
ong I will stay.

Q. State whether you intend to return to the United States to
live. — A. Can't tell. If I leave Samoa, will go to Honolulu to live.
Q. Were you in Apia, Samoa, during March, April, and May,
1899?— A. Yes.

58 CLAIMS OF AMEBICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

Q. What was your occupation or business during that time? — ^A.
I was one of four partners engaged in storekeeping. At that par-
ticular time I was m charge of a vessel running in connection with
the store.

Q. Who were your partners, and what was their nationality ? — A,
Cyrus Scott, an American, and Messrs. Syddall and Cuthbertson,
British subjects.

Q. Of what country were you a citizen in March, April, and May,
1899? — A. An American citizen.

Q. Please state whether anything unusual occurred in Samoa.during
those months. — A. There was a war between the English and Ameri-
cans and natives on the other.

Q. Was any of your property injured or destroyed during that
action? — ^A. Yes.

Q. State by whom and how it was destroyed or injured. — A. I
don't know.

Q. Can you state the items of the property destroyed? — ^A. No;
not exactly. I was not at the station for some time before the
occurrences.

Q. Have you ever received any compensation from any source on
account of such losses ? — A. I have not.

Q. Where was the property located ? — A. At Falefa and Tiavea.

Q. Where is Falefa with reference to Apia? — A. About 14 or 15
miles east.

Q. Where is Tiavea with reference to Apia? — A. About 20 miles
east.

Q. State whether or not, during the entire period of the military
operations, you took any part whatever, directly or indirectly, with
or against either side, element, factor, or person engaged in or
having a part in said operations or disorder. — A. I did not, except
that 1 offered my services to the American side, but was told I was
not needed.

Q. Did you otherwise maintain a position of strict neutrality? —
A. I did.

Q. Can you say what is the total amount of your claim ? — A. For
the company, I think about $3,000.

Q. Is there anything further you care to say about the case? — A.
Nothing.

Syddall:

Q. What nationality are you ? — A. British.

Q. Where did you reside in March, April, and May, 1899 ? — ^A. In
Savaii; about eignt months previous thereto I was employed in the
store of the St. Louis Planting Co. at Tiavea. Left about eight
months before the war.

Q. At the time you left Tiavea what stock had the company
there? — A. Clothing, prints, provisions, and hardware amounting
in value to about $150.

Q. Did you have anything to do with the preparation of the claims
of the company for losses in the war of 1899 ? — A. No.

Q. State wnether or not a claim was presented to the British
authorities for one-half of the loss suffered. — ^A. Yes; it was.

Q. Was the claim allowed ? — ^A. No.

Q. What ground wm given for refusing to allow it ? — A. That the
distance of the property lost from Apia was too far and it was not

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seen what the hostilities had to do with the matter, and also because
it was not proved that Merrers Scott & Syddall were forced to leave
the station.

Q. What is your relationship to the Syddall who was a member
of the firm ? — A. Brother.

Q. After the refusal of the British authorities to pay the claim did
the company have further correspondence with them regarding it ? —
A. Yes.

Q. What reply was made by such authorities? — A. I submit a
copy of. the reply from the British consul. Will present an official
copy if desired. Copy received and marked ''Claimant's Ex. A.''
(Witness requested to furnish official copy.)

Q. After the conclusion of the war were you employed by the com-
pany and familiar with its affairs? — A. les; for about 15 months.

Q. Is there anything more you care to say about the case ? — A. No.

Cyrus Scott:

Q. Where were you born? — A. In Washington County, Ohio.

Q. State whether or not you are a citizen of the United States. —
A. I am.

Q. State whether or not you have ever declared allegiance to any
other country. — A. I have not.

Q. State whether or not you have ever done anything to cause you
to lose your American citizenship. — A. I have not.

Q. When did you leave the United States? — A. In 1886.

Q.. When did you first come to Samoa? — A. In 1897.

Q. How long nave you lived in Samoa? — A. Since 1897.

Q. State whether or not your residence in Samoa is temporary or
permanent. — A. Temporary.

Q,, State whether or not you intend to return to the United States
to live permanently. — A. I expect to.

Q. Where were you during the months of March, April, and May,
1899? — A. In Falefa, about 15 miles from Apia.

Q. What was your business at that time? — A. I was trading or
storekeeping, under the name of St. Louis Planting Co., with Henry
Achatz, an American citizen, and Messrs. Syddall and Cuthbertson,
British subjects. Each of us had a one-fourth interest in business.
We had stores at Falefa, Tiavea, and Savaii.

Q. Of what country were you then a citizen? — Ai- Of the United
States.

Q. State whether or not anything unusual occurred in Samoa
dunng those months. — A. There was a war on between the Mataafa
forces and the Americans and British.

Q. Was any of your property destroyed or injured during that
time? — A. Yes.

Q. By whom or how was the destruction caused? — A. I was not
there at the time but the Mataafa people are supposed to have done it.

Q. State by items such of your property as was destroyed or lost
of injured, giving the damages suifered hj each item.

Q. In what form was the copra for which you claim ? — ^A. It was
dried coconuts thrown loosely into copra house.

Q. What did the stock in store consist of? — A. Tinned meats^
clothing, lava-lavas, and general merchandise.

Q. How did you make up your claim of loss? — A. I took my books
away with me when I left Falefa, during March, 1899. These books

60 CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

showed what I had bought and what I had sold. The balance of the
goods remained in the store where I left it. When I returned to the
store, as soon as peace was declared, I went right back to Falefa and
found all my stock of merchandise had been carried away. As to the
copra, I entered upon the books each amount as it was purchased.
My books showed the total amount which was in the sheds when I
left. My recollection is that all of this copra was gone when I re-
turned to Falefa. About 3 tons of this was afterwards recovered,
but I have forgotten how.

Q. About how long a time elapsed between your leaving Falefa
until you returned there as you have stated ? — A. At least two months.

Q. How far is Falefa from Apia? — A. About 15 miles.

Q. Have you personal knowledge about your claimed loss at
Tiavea? — ^A. No; 1 have not. Mr. SyddaU was in charge there.

Q. Describe the boat for which you make claim. — A. It was 50
feet long and 8-foot beams, capacity about 3 tons, a sailing craft.

Q. mien did you buy that boat?— A. In 1897.

Q. How much did you pay for it? — A. $175.

Q. What was the conaition of the boat when you returned to
Falefa? — A. It was broken, dried up in the sun, and utterly useless
for carrying, copra . After much repairing, we were able to use it in
loading the ships but found it unsafe for that, even.

Q. State whether or not you have ever recovered any of the articles
lost or destroyed, except as stated. — A. Nothing whatever.

Q. Have you ever directly or indirectly recovered compensation
from any source for the loss or damage suifored, as stated ? — ^A. No.

Q. How did you become the owners of the property in (juestion ? —
A. Our company leased land at Falefa and erected a building thereon.
At Tiavea we rented the building. We were in business in these
places nearly three years prior to 1899.

Q. State whether or not vou maintained a position of strict neu-
trality?— A. I did.

Q. Is there anything further that you care to say about the case ? —
A. No; I think not, except that tlie war broke our company up in
business and we were obliged to dissolve partnership and go to work
for others. Our indirect losses were more than our direct ones.

Q. What damage was done to your buUding at Falefa? — A. The
partition lumber was taken out of the house and carried away, so were
the doors, wind(>Ws smashed, veranda — small one taken away.

Q. What was the size of your place at Falefa? — A. Can't say ex-
actly, but it had 3 rooms, store, bed room, and sitting room.

Q. How much did the house cost you, to your last recollection ? —
A. Probably about $300; can't say exactly.

Q. Did you repair the house after the war, and if so, at what cost ? —
A. Yes; we repaired it, but as to the cost can't say definitely. Have
no remembrance.

Q. What were the circumstances of your leaving your Falefa store
in March, 1899, to which you have referred? — A. During the month
H. M. S. Porpoise arrived at Falefa. I was off to the ship for informa-
tion. Capt. Sturdie said that Mataafa had practically declared war
with the United States and Great Britain, and we are going to give
him hell. I said, ^'For God's sake don't do any shooting around
here, as I will have to get out, and my goods and copra would all go.''

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Capt. Sturdin said, ^^This is no time for personal matters. Just stand
aside. I am going to fire that ffun.^' I said, ^^ Don't, for heaven's
sake, fire in there, as there are omy women and children. If you fire,
I certainly can't remain in Falefa, and the Samoans will take every-
thing." Capt. Sturdie ordered the bombardment, and about a dozen
guns were fired. I again told Capt. Sturdie I could not remain in
Falefa. He said, ''Well, I will take you to Apia." He sent some one
ashore with me to get my things, but I could only get my books and
a change of clothes and come to Apia in the warship. I asked Capt.
Sturdie if he could give me some assistance to get my goods away.
He refused. I asked him if the warship would be going back to
Falefa, and if so I would try to get my goods away myself. He
would give me no information.

St. Louis Planting Co.'s Exhibit A.

J. R. B., vice consul U. S. of A.

[Memorandum for Mr. Lyddall from T. Trood.]

Apia, July 8, 19V -

In a dispatch to me from the foreign office, London, dated April 5, 1906, the fol-
lowing occurs:

"With regard to the St. Louis Planting Co. (No. 7) it does not appear that ther« was
any necessity for the claimants to have left their stores during the hostilities, a^d it
would seem that if they had not done so no damage would have taken place. Aa two
of the four persons composing this firm are American citizens, inquiries are being
made to ascertain whether the United States Government paid any compensation to
them, and unless they did the previous decision will be adhered to."

T. Troop.

St. Louis Planting Co.'s Exhibit B.

J. R. B., vice consul U. S. A.

British Consulate,
Apia, Samoa, July 18, 1911.

Extract (relating to claim of the St. Louis Planting Co., Samoa, for losses sustained
by them during the disturbances there in 1899) copied from the foreign office dispatch
No. 3 (11059), dated April 5, 1906:

(Copy.)

"With reg^d to the St. Louis Planting Co. (No. 7) it does not appear that there was
any necessity for the claimants to have left their stores during the hostilities, an4 it
would seem that if they had not done so no damage would have taken place. As two
of the four persons composing this firm are American citizens, inquiries are being
made to ascertain whether the United States Government paid any compensation to
them, and unless they did the previous decision will be adhered to."

I, T. Trood, acting British vice consul at Apia, Samoa, do hereby certify that the
preceding is a true and verbatim copy of that portion of the said dispatch which refers
to the said St. Louis Planting Co., and, further, that in foreign office dispatch No. 1,
dated May 12, 1905, I was directed by the foreign office to furnish to all parties
interested information of this nature.

In witness whereof I have hereunto attached my hand and the consular seal the
18th day of July, 1911.

[seal.] Thomas Trood,

Acting British Vice Consul for Samoa.

62 CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.
NOS. 3 AND 4. C. P. HABBINGTON AND HABBINGTON & HITCH.

Ch. Mugele :

Q. How long have you lived in Samoa? — A. 22 years.

Q. Where in Samoa were you living in March, 1899 ? — ^A. At the
Vailtgle plantation, about 2 miles outside Apia. I had at that time
just bought a place at Lotopa across the road from Mr. Harrington's.

Q. Did you visit Mr. Harrington's place at Lotopa before March,
1899 ? — A.*^ Yes. I was there every Sunday and sometimes on week
days.

Q. Just describe, briefly, what property he had then before the
war.— A. There was a house about 24 feet long, one parlor and one
bedroom in front and two bedrooms in the rear. There were a lot of
chairs, tables, and pictures in it. A sofa and sewing machine. He
had some fowls; four or five pigs.

Q. When did you first see the place after March, 1899 ? — A. We all
came into town by orders of the admiral about the middle of March
and stayed there about a month and a half. Then I went back to
the plantation, and two days afterwards went to look at my place
and Mr. Harrington's in Lotopa.

Q. Just describe, briefly, what you saw about Mr. Harrington's
place then. — A. There was nothing in the house. Everything was
m the yard — chairs broken, boxes and everything else. AH the pigs
and fowls were gone.

Q. Was all the furniture damaged? — A. Yes; it was no more use.

Q. Can you say anything definite as to the value of the furniture
before its destruction ? — ^A. No.

Q. Were the pigs full grown? — A. Yes.

Q. What, in your opinion, were they worth I^A. $20 or $25 each.

Q. What, in your opinion, was the value of Mr. Harrington's
fowls? — A. There were about 30 or 40 of them, worth one shilling
or sixpence apiece.

Q. Do you know who did this damage at Mr. Harrington's ? — A. I
did not see it done, but it was probably done by both factions of the
natives, as the Mataafa people were encamped m that neighborhood
during most of the war, and sometimes the Malietoa people would
make expeditions to this section from the town.

Q. Have you any interest, direct or indirect, in this claims? — ^A. No.

Q. Was there any Samoan house on this place? — ^A. Yes; one fair
sized house and a small house.

Q. Did you see these on the occasion of your visit after the war ? —
A. No. They were broken down.

Q. Did you ever see a spyglass at Mr. Harrington's? — A. Yes; he
had a long glass there.

Q. Did you see that when you visited the place after the war ? —
A. No; it was not there.

Q. Was there any taro planted on this place before the war? — A.
Yes; about half an acre.

Q. What was the condition of this after the war when you first
visited the place ? — A. It was all gone.

By Witness. There were also two boxes of tools on the place before
the war, as Mr. Harrington was quite a carpenter, and these were all
carried away.

CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIa/sAMOAN ISLANDS. 63

MoLiGA Harrington:

Caroline Johnston, being duly sworn, acted as interpreter for the
witness, Moliga ^arrington.

Q. How long have vou lived in Samoa ? — A. All my life.

Q. Are you the widow of Chene P. Harrington? — ^A. Yes.

Q. When were you married to him? — A. In 1888.

Q. By whom were you married ? — A. By W. Blacklock, American
vice consul, in the American consulate.

Q. Were you ever married before that? — A. No.

Q. Is Mr. Harrington dead; and if so, when did he die ? — A. About
two years ago.

Q. Have you remarried since his death? — A. No.

Q. Have you, since his death, registered as an American? — A. No.

Q. Were you living with Mr. Harrington as his wife in March, April,
and May, 1899?— A. Yes.

Q. How many living children have you and Mr. Harrington ? — A.
Seven.

Q. Give their names and ages. — A. Ada, married to an American at
Pago Pago, known as Elie, about 21; Carrie, unmarried, 19; Eli, 17;
George, 15; Arthur, 10; Joe and Frank, twins, 2^.

Q. Are all of these children living with you except Ada? — ^A. Yes.

Q. Was Mr. Harrington married before he married you? — A. I
don't know.

Q. Did Mr. Harrington leave any other children except these you
have mentioned? — ^A. Yes; one, Willie.

Q. How old is he? — ^A. I don't know. He is a grown man.

Q. Where does he live ? — A. Somewhere in America; I don't know.

Q. Do you know who Willie's mother is? — ^A. Yes; Leaia, a
Samoan woman.

Q. Is she alive? — ^A. Yes.

Q. Is Willie older than any of your children? — A. Yes.

Q. Did Mr. Harrington leave a will? — A. No.

Q. Was any action taken in the court regarding the settlement of
your husband's estate? — A. Yes; Mr. Huch was appointed guardian.

Q. Do you know anything more about the settlement of the estate
except that Mr. Huch was appointed guardian? — ^A. No.

Q. Are you a full-blood Samoan ? — A. Yes.

Q. Where did you live in March, 1899? — A. At Lotopa, on our
place.

Q. Did you leave the place when the war broke out? — A. Yes; I
came to Mulinuu.

Q. Was the place left without anyone there ? — A. Yes.

Q. How long before you went back there? — A. When the war was
over; in about two months.

Q. What was there in the house when you left it ? — A. Four beds,
three or four tables, eight small chairs and two rocking-chairs, one
sofa, washstands, basins, one hanging lamp, four small lamps, two
chests of drawers with looking-glasses, knives, forks, spoons, crockery;
how many, I don't remember.

Q. What buildings were there on the place then ? — A. The dwelling
house — four rooms, kitchen — and Samoan house.

Q. What live stock were there? — A. About 8 big pigs and some
small ones, about 100 fowls, 30 ducks. That's all.

64 CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA^ SAMOAN ISLANDS.

Q. -What did you see on the place when you went back after the
war — with reference to the conaition of the house and furniture and
stock? — A. All the windows and doors were broken, and the locks.
All the furniture was broken u}i — notliing left in the house. Didn't
see any furniture left inside or outside. Ihere was no live stock left
on the place. All the mats were gone. The Samoan house was all
destroyed.

Q. Did you then continue living in the house ? — A. Yes.

Q. Where did you get furniture from? — A. We bought them from
Mrs. Decker.

Q. Did you or your husband take any part for or against either
side or faction in the war ? — A. No.

Q. Have you ever done anything by which you may have lost your
American citizenship ? — A. No; nothing.

Q. Is there anytning further you care to say about this case? —
A. We lost taro and yam, which was planted on the place before the
war, and the clothing of ourselves and our children, just the dresses
we went off in were saved, we also lost two sewing machines, one
treadle and one hand, and two accordions. One stove was broken
and pans and pots carried off. We also lost two fine mats, also a
lot of common or Fiji mats — about 40.

Q. Did you go out to your place, after the war, as soon as Kr.
Harrington and Mr. Huch did? — A. No; some days afterwards.

Q. Did your husband have a spyglass at the house? — A. Yes,
about a foot long — one you pull out.

Q. Is there anything further you remember about your losses? —
A. That's about all.

E. Huch:

Q. How long have you lived in Apia? — A. Since 1883.

Q. Did you live here in March, 1899? — A. Yes.

Q. What was your business at that time ? — A. I was a lighterman —
loading and unloading merchant ships in the harbor.

Q. Did you have a partner in business? — A. Yes; Chene Packard
Harrington.

Q. What boats did your firm own at that time, if any? — A. Four
lighters and three cargo boats.

Q. Did anything unusual happen in Apia at that time? — A. About
March 18 we got notice from our Governments that the town would
be bombarded and that we should leave our homes. We then left
our homes and went down town. About 1 o'clock the bombardment
started and lasted an hour or so. Occasionally on other days later
there were some shots fired from the ships, llie bombardment was
done by the American boat Philadelphia and two British boats — one
the Royalist.

Q. Did your firm suffer any loss or destruction of property by the
bombardment? — A. Yes; a lighter.

Q. When did this happen ? — A. Some time in March — a few days
after the first bombardment.

Q. Did you see this yourself? — A. Yes; I saw it from the German
man-of-war Laeke^ on which I was aboard, in the harbor, less than a
quarter of a mile from the shore, just in front of where my lighter was.

Q. Just describe what you saw. — A. About 8 o'clock in the morn-
ing I saw two shots fired from one of the English men-of-war, one of

CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. 65

which struck the beach within 1 foot of the lighter, and the other
right in the center of the boat.

Q. When, after that, did you come ashore to look at the lighter ? —
A. The next day after it was struck.

Q. What was the condition of the lighter then? — A^ It was all
broken up — the floor was all busted up and the sides started loose,
and the most of the knees which strengthen the sides were broken.

Q. Did yon afterwards make an effort to repair this lighter? —
A. Yes, we made an effort, but it was no use. We could never use
it and we broke it up.

Q. Describe the lighter. — A. It was a 15-ton lighter, about 40 feet
long by 12 feet wide.

Q. How old was it ? — A. About a year old.

Q. Did you have it built yourselves? — A. Yes; we had a carpenter
build it. We bought the lumber and hired the carpenter to con-
struct it.

Q. Do you remember how much the lumber and labor cost you ? —
A. About $800.

Q. What interest in the lighter had you and Mr. Harrington?— A.
We each owned a one-half interest.

Q. Did you put in a claim to any Government for your share of the
loss? — ^A. Yes; to the German Government.

Q. Was any award paid to you on this account? — A. Yes; 850
marks, or $212.50.

Q. Did you or Mr. Harrington, so far as you know, take any part
for or against any party or faction which was engaged in the fighting
which took place in and about Apia in March, April, or May, 1899 ? —
A. No.

Q. Were you and Mr. Harrington, so far as you know, absolutely
neutral in these matters ? — A. Yes.

Q. Have you any interest, direct or indirect, in the Harrington
estate's claim on account of the loss of this lighter? — ^A. No.

Q. Did you visit Mr. Harrington's place at Lotopa previous to
March, 1899? — A. Yes; very often.

Q. Just describe briefly what property he had out there. — A. He
had a 4-roomed main house and a separate kitchen. There was a
complete stock of furniture throughout the house. He had other
outhouses and a Samoan house. He had some pigs there, how many
I don't know, and a number of fowls. His land was planted with
bananas, coconuts, and cocoa. There was also a taro patch.

Q. When did you first see this property after the war? — A. As
soon as the war was over I went out there.

Q. Just describe what you saw there then. — ^A. AU the furniture
was broken — some lying outside — doors and windows smashed in;
clothing was all gone. All the chickens and pigs were gone. The
Samoan house \yas entirely destroyed. Everything in the main
house was demolished and good only for firewood. All the knives,
forks, cooking utensils, and crockery were gone. There wasn't a
whole piece of any household goods left on the place.

Q. What, in your opinion, was the value of the said pigs of Mr.
Harrington ? — A. About $20 to $30 each.

Q. What, in your opinion, was the value of the said fowls of Mr.

Harrin^on ? — A. From 1 shilling to 50 cents apiece according to size.

Q. Did you at that time own pigs and fowls of your own in Apia

73180— H. Doc. 1257, 62-3 5

66 CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

and know their values? — A. Yes. There were also some ducks on
Mr. Harrington's place, which were carried away. These were worth
from $1 to $1.50 each.

Q. Have you any interest, direct or indirect, in any of this Har-
rington claim ? — A. No.

Q. Is there anvthing further you care to say about this case ? —
A. No.

G. W. Partsch:

Q. How long have you lived in Apia ? — A. Continuously since 1889.

Q. Wliat was your occupation in March, 1899 ? — A. I was running
the Tivoli Hotel.

Q. Did anything unusual occur in Apia in that month? — A. Yes;
there was a war between the natives led by MaUetoa and Mataafa and
the British and Americans were fighting on the side of Mataafa.

Q. How long did the war last ? — ^A. About 2 months.

Q. Were you here in Apia during all that time ? — A. Yes.

Q. Did you know C. P. Harrington at that time? — A. Yes.

Q. Did he reside in Apia at that time ? — ^A. Yes.

Q. What real property had he here at that time? — ^A. He had
about 9 or 10 acres at Lotopa, with a house on it, in which he resided.

Q. What, if any, other business had he at that time ? — ^A. He was
engaged in the lightering business in the harbor — unloading and
loading ships which, by reason of the shallow water, could not
approach near to the shore.

Q. Do you know anything about the destruction of a lighter
belonging to Mr. Harrington during the war? — ^A. I saw such a
lighter lying on the beach at Matautu, Apia, on or about March 18,
1899. One side was smashed out, and the bottom was badly broken.
It was no use any more.

Q. Could you tell what caused this damage ? — A. I judged it had
been done by shell fire.

Q. How large was the lighter ? — A. It was a big lighter; must have
been about 15 tons. It was strongly built.

Q. Have you ever had anv experience in building lighters? — ^A.
Yes. I have been manager oi several firms which built lighters while
I was employed by them. Have also sold lighters at auction.

Q. Do you know the value of lighters in 1899? — ^A. Yes.

Q. What, in your opinion, was the value of the lighter of Mr. Har-
rington when it was destroyed ? — A. $700 or $800. This is what it
would cost to replace it.

Q. Were you familiar with Mr. Harrington^s place at Lotopa prior
to March, 1899 ? — A. Yes ; I was out there every Sunday up to the time
of the troubles.

Q. When did vou first see the place after the war ? — A. I went out
there immediately, as I had a place near by, and went to see that one;
stopped at Mr. Harrington's.

Q. Did you see any evidence of damage done at Mr. Harrington's
place; and if so, what? — A. The windows were broken in, the doors
torn off and broken up. The cook house was and the

native house burned up ; everything eatable was removed. There was
a general destruction of property.

Q. Do you know what furniture Mr. Harrington had prior to the
war? — ^A. It was not elaborately furnished, but he had fairly good
furniture in the five roolns of the house.

CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. 67

Q. Was this furniture badly damaged when you saw it after the'
war ? Just describe the condition of the furniture when you saw it. —
A. The chairs were broken up. The dishes were all gone, as well as
the kitchen utensils.

Q. Did Mr. Harrington have any live stock on the place before the
war? — ^A. Yes; he had some few fowls, 50 or 60, of which he was
proud; probably 4 or 5 pigs.

Q. Have you any interest, direct or indirect, in this claim? — ^A.
None at all. Not related to any of the Harrington family.

Q, Is there anything further you care to say about the case ? — A.
No; except that I was a member of the commission which was
appointed by the German Government to pass upon the claims of
Germans growing out of this war.

Q. Do you know anything as to who did the damage at Mr. Harring-
ton's place ? — ^A. Only that it must have been done by the Mataaf a
natives, as their headquarters were all about there.

Q. What do you .know about the bombardment by war vessels
during the war? — A. The Royalist j British, and the Phil(ideh)hia,
American, and several other British vessels were bombarding off and
on during the troubles, throwing shells over the town into the bush
to subdue the Mataaf a people.

Estate of C. P. Harrington, Claimant's Exhibit "A."
J. R. Baker, vice consul, U. S. A.

BEOLAUBIOTE ABSCHRIFT.

[Bestallung fuer einen Belstand.]

Der Kaufmann Emil Huch von hier ist der verwitweten Frau Moliga Harrington
von hier als Beistand fuer die Ausuebung der elterlichen Gewalt ueber die minder^
jaehrigen Kinder (1) Carrie, (2) Eli, (3) George, (4) Tuli, (5) Josef, (6) Francis, bestellt.
Dem Beistand ist gemaess section 1693 B. G. B. die Vermoegensverwaltung ganz
uebertragen worden.

Diese Bestallung ist dazu bestimmt dem Beistand als Ausweie zu dienen. Sie ist
deshalb sorgfaeltig aufzubewahren und in alien Faellen, in denen der Beistand eines
Ausweises bedarf, namentlich im Verkehre mit Behoerden, mitzubringen und vor-
zulegen. Nach Beendigung des Amtes des Beistandes ist die Bestallung dem Vor-
mundschaftsgprichte zurueckzugeben .

Apia, den 18. Juniy 1910.

Der Kaiserliche Bezirksrichter.

[Stempel.] gez. Schlettwein.

Vorstehende Abschrift stimmt mit der Urschrift ueberein.

Apia, den 14- August y 1911.

[seal.] .

Gouvernementssekrelaer.

NO. 6. PETER C. ULBEBG.

Henry Ulberg:

Q. What was your f ather^s name ? — A. Peter Christian Ulberg.

Q. Was he the original claimant in this case? — A. Yes.

Q. Where was he born ? — A. In Norway.

Q. Is he living or dead? — ^A. He died on June 11, 1899.

Q. Of what country was he a citizen then? — A. Of the United
States.

Q. How did he become a United States citizen? — ^A. He lived in
the States a while, I think.

68 CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

Q. Do you know when he left Norway ? — ^A. I could not tell.

Q. Do you know when he came to tne United States ? — ^A. No; he
and his brother, Henry Otto Ulberg, came to the States about the
same time. This uncle has been living in Oakland, Cal., for a long
time. He has a boarding place or a hotel there.

(The witness here submits a paper under the seal of William
Churchill, United States consul general at Apia, January 7, 1897.)

Q. I show you this paper and ask you what it is? — A. It is my
certificate of registration as an American citizen.

Q. How did your father acquire his United States citizenship? —
A. By naturalization.

Q. Do you know in what court he was naturalized ? — A. No.

Q. Do you know when he was naturalized ? — ^A. No.

Q. Do you know how long he lived in the United States? — A. I
don't know.

Q. Do you know when he came to Samoa ? — A. He had been here
over 30 years when he died. He was then 6.9 years old.

Q. Do you know where his naturalization certificate is? — ^A. He
lost it in the war. It was in a little box which he left in his house,
and the box was gone when the war stopped.

Q. Do you know whether, after his naturalization, he declared
allegiance to any other country? — A. No. He was an American up
to the time of his death. All his children are registered in the Ameri-
can consulate at Apia.

Q. Do you know whether your father came directly to Samoa
from the United States? — ^A. Yes; he was sailing on a vessel and he
stopped off here and remained.

Q. To whom was your father married in Samoa ? — A. Soogaf ai, a
Samoan woman.

Q. Is she still liviug ? — A. Yes.

Q. Did they live together up to the time of your father's death ? —
A. Yes.

Q. Was that his only marriage, so far as you know ? — ^A. That was
his only marriage here in Samoa.

Q. Do you know if he was married before he came here ? — ^A. No,
he was not, so far as I know.

Q. How many children had your father and mother? — ^A. Eight.
One, Otto, died two or three years after the wai, unmarried. Those
living are Catharine, married to Albert Fries, myself, second, Peter C,
Maria, married to Fred Betham, Olaf, Caroline, unmarried, and
Frederick.

Q. Has your father's estate ever been settled in court or any pro-
ceedings taken to that end ? — A. I think not.

Q. Did your father leave a will? — A. I don't know.

Q. Who are the present owners of the property left by your
father? — ^A. It has not been divided. Think it is now in the hands
of the German court.

Q. Were you in Apia duriug March, April, and May, 1899? — ^A.
Yes.

Q. What was vour occupation at that time ? — A. I was salesman
for the German nrm — in charge of their retail store.

(^. What, if anything, occurred at Apia of an unusual nature,
durmg those months? — A. That was the time that hostilities broke
out between the combined forces of England and America, and the
Mataafa party.

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Q, About when did the hostilities start? — A. I think on March 15,
when the first bombardment started hj the English and Americans.

Q. How long did the fighting contmue? — A. About four or five
weeks.

p. Did your father have any property injured or destroyed by
this fighting ? — A. Yes.

Q. State, by items, such of his property as was injured or destroyed,
giving the value of each item destroyed and the amount of loss
suflFered on each article injured. — A. I am unable to do this, as we
forwarded our statement of loss to the American consul, Osborn, and
we afterwards gave our copy to Mr. Carruthers, a lawyer here whom
we employed to prosecute the claim. He is now dead and never gave
us back our copy. I don't know where this copy is.

Q. Were you living at your father's home when this war broke
out? — ^A. Yes.

Q. Do you remember what property your father had then? — A.
We had a seven-room house, one parlor and five bedrooms and a
storeroom, besides a big Samoan house, a kitchen about 12 by 16
feet, partly boarded with a thatched roof, a copra house of wood
about 16 by 30.

Q. What was contained in your main house ? — A. Seyen or eight
chairs, I think, three or four bedsteads, all iron but one, which was
wooden; two chests of drawers; a fancy chiffonier; lamps; cooking
utensils; crockery; boxes; three sewing machines, one hand and two
treadle; knives and forks for a big family.

Q. Were all your family then residing at home ? — A. All but my
two married sisters.

Q. What was there on the place in the way of live stock? — A. Six
horses, three head of cattle, a lot of pigs, all sizes; probably about
100 fowls and ducks.

Q. When did you leave your father's house during the war? — A.
After the bombardment started ; I was down town and was prohibited
from going back to the place.

Q. When did you next see the place? — A. When peace was de-
clared, about four or five weeks after.

The Witness. The next day after the bombardment I went to see
the American officer in charge of the land forces, luansdale by name,
and told him that my parents and brothers and sisters were out at
our place, which was in the midst of the bombardment, and he gave
me permission to go out and bring them to town. On that morning
my mother and youngest sister had come rnto town, with nothing
but the clothes they wore. I then sent brother Olaf out to bring
my father and brother Peter into town. The notice or pass from
Lansdale said they must come in immediately. My father and
brother then came into town, my brother on horseback and my
father in a wagon with a Chinaman. They brought nothing with
them except what they had on. They had to be in town by 12
o'clock noon and had no time to bring any property in.

Q. When did you next see the place? — A. Four or five weeks
afterwards.

Q. What was the condition of the place then? — A. The windows
and doors were all gone. The Samoan house was burned down. The
kitchen was entirely destroyed, as was the fowl house. All the fur-

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niture was gone; we could find nothing. AU our clothing, jewelry,
and cooking utensils were gone. They used up all the coconuts.
Some breadfruit trees were destroyed. There were also some pro-
visions which were taken away.

Q. Do you know who did this damage? — A. I don't know. I
suppose both the Mataafa and Malietoa forces. The Mataafas had
a grudge against the Americans and would do any harm they could
to their property.

Q. State whether or not your father or his family ever recovered
any article lost or damaged. — A. I think two horses were recovered
over a year afterwards, but they were almost worn out by the
natives. Also a gun, but this was damaged — almost useless.

Q. State whether or not you have ever received any compensation
from any person or Government for the damages suffered. — A. No.

Q. State whether or not you or any of your family, during the
entire period of these mQitary operations, took any part for or against
either side or faction engaged therein. — A. No; we had nothing to do
with those affairs.

Q. State whether or not all your family maintained a position of
strict neutrality. — A. We did.

Q. How many acres were there in your father's place in question ? —
A. About 90 acres.

Q. How much under cultivation? — A. I think about one-half of
the place was covered with full-bearing coconut trees.

Q. Do you know what was the amount of the loss or damage suf-
fered by your father in this war? — A. I think about $1,500.

Q. Did you assist in making up the claim ? — ^A. Yes.

Q. When was it made up? — A. Right after the war. We took
stock of the whole property and put down our losses.

Q. Did you estimate, in making up your list, what it would cost
you to replace the articles lost or damaged ? — ^A. We put the articles
down at what they cost us.

Q. Were all the articles lost those belonging to your father? — ^A.
No; some were my brother's and my own. The gun was my own,
and cost me $30 or $35 about a year before the war. We claimed
for six horses, but we got back two. One hol^e lost was mine;
three of these were my father's.

Q. Do you know the value of your father's horses? — ^A. I think
$60 to $80. They were plantation horses.

Q. What other property had you at the place except the horse
and the gun ? — A. My clothing.

The Witness. When I said that we estimated the loss on different,
articles at what they would cost us, I meant what they were worth
then. We aQowed tor wear and tear in making up our estimates.

Q. Is there anything else you care to say about this case ? — A. No.

Q. Whose were the two horses that were recovered ? — ^A. One was
mine and one was my brother's.

SooGAFAi Ulberg:

Caroline Johnston, being duly sworn as interpreter.

Q. How many times have you been married ? — A. Once.

Q. What was your husband's name ? — ^A. Peter C. Ulberg.

Q. Is he living or dead ? — A. Dead.

Q. When did he die?— A. Just after the War of 1899.

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Q. Did vou ever hear your husband speak of living in the United
States? — A. Yes.

Q. Did he always claim to be a citi7en of the United States? — A.
Yes.

Q. Where did you live in March, 1899? — A. On my land at
Tulaele.

Q. What buildings were there on the land ? — A. A dwelling house
of about six rooms (European) , a copra house, kitchen, and a Samoan
house.

Was this dwelling house new or old? — A. Quite a new house.
Do you know when it was built ? — A. We had just finished it
before the war broke out.

Q. What was in it at that time? — A. Tables and chairs; don't
remember how many. One big mirror, about two big clocks, and
a lot of other things; but I have forgotten. Two sewing machines,
one hand and one treadle; three bedsteads, boxes with clothes in,
chests of drawers, washstands; some fine mats, but only two were
taken, and two shaggy mats.

Q. Did you have any live stock on the place? — A. Yes; pigs and
fowls — don't remember how many; three or four cows, some horses —
I don't remember how many; that's all.

Q. What did you raise on the place at this time? — A. Coconuts,
breadfruit, and bananas.

Q. Did you remain on the place during the war ? — A. We left as
soon as the bombardment started — ^went to Sogi, Apia, and stayed
there until the war was over.

Q. Did you then return to your place ? — A. Yes.

Q. What did you see there then? — A. Just the empty house; the
copra house was broken — some of the posts were cut off and the floor
smashed. The Samoan house was burned.

Q. Was the Samoan house large or small ? — A. Large.

Q. What else did you see ? — A. All the live stock was gone.

Q. Where was the furniture ? — A. It was all lying about broken and
destroyed, and so was the crockery.

Q. Did you fix up any of the furniture? — A. No; we couldn't use
any of it afterwards.

Q, Do you know who did this damage ? — A. No.

Q. Did you ever recover any of the property which was lost ? — A.
No; not a thing.

Q. Did you know anything about the value of tliis property ? — A.
No.

Q. Did your husband or any of your sons take part in the war ?—
A. No ; none of them.

Q. Did you ever receive any compensation from any person or
Government on account of this loss? — A. No.

Q. Is there anything more you care to say about the case? — A.
No; I don't remember anything more.

Caroline Ulberg:

Q. Where did you live in March, 1899 ? — A. In Tulaele, about a
mile from Apia, at the home of my father, Peter C. Ulberg,

Q. Do you remember anything unusual happening at that time ? —
A. The bombardment from the ships started on March 15.

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Q. Did you remain at your home after that i — A. I left my home
the next morning and went to Apia and stayed there until the war
was over.

Q. How long did you remain away from home ? — ^A. About two
months.

Q. When you went back home what did you see ? — A. The doors
and windows of the houses were all smashed and there was nothing in
the house. The pigs, fowls, and horses were all gone. Some, of the
furniture was lying around the yard, but all broken. All my clothes
were gone. We had three sewing machines and they were gone.
We found only broken chairs and boxes.

Q. What furniture did you have in the house when you left ? — ^A.
There were seven rooms with large veranda, four bedrooms, dining
room, parlor, and kitchen — all furnished with chairs, tables, chests
of drawers; there was a sofa and three beds, and clothing for my
mother, myself, and three younger children.

Q. What did you take away with you when you left ? — A. Only the
clothes we wore. We had to swim through the bav to get to Sogi —
my mother and the three boys and I. We were afraid to stay home
any longer, as the natives were all p.round us.

Q. Do you remember about how much live stock you had on the
place? — A. No; I can't tell the number, except that we had about
3 or 4 cows and about 50 fowls. There was 1 big pig, I know, and
about 10 other pigs, I think, of different sizes.

Q. Was there any other damage done to your father's place, so far
as you remember? — A. They cut down a few coconut trees.

Q. Anything else ? — A. That is all I remember.

Q: Do you know anything about the values of the articles lost ? —
A. I don't.

Q. Do you know who did this damage? — A. The natives of the
Mataafa party, I suppose.

Q. Were any of these articles which were lost ever recovered, so far
as vou know ? — A. No.

Is there anything more that you care to say? — A. No.

Do you remember the first war in January, 1899 ? — A. No.

CONSTANTIN TlEDEMAN!

Q. How long have you lived in Apia ? — A. Twenty-six years.

Q. Did you live here in March, 1899? — A. I was then manager of
the Vaitele plantation, about 3 miles from town.

Q. What, if anything, unusual happened in March, 1899? — A. On
March 15 the natives, under Mataaia, had orders to leave Mulinuu.
On the same day Mataafa and a lot of his people came through my
place and told me they had to leave as the Americans would shoot.
At 10 o'clock that day the bombardment started and shells were
thrown over my place until 4.30; one shell struck mj veranda as I
sat there. Others struck the kitchen. I had no notice of the bom-
bardment other than what the natives told me.

Q. Did you remain on your plantation after this ? — A. The next
day we had orders from our manager in Apia to leave the plantation,
and I then brought my family to Apia.

Q. How long did you stay away ? — A. Three or four weeks, I think.

Q. Did you know Peter C. TJlberg before this time? — A. Yes; I
always passed his place when I went to Apia.

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Q. Had he been living there long? — A. Yes, for many years; but
his house was new at the time of the war.

Q. Did you ever enter his new house ? — A. Several times.

Q. Describe the house as to the size and number of rooms. — A. In
the main house I can remember about seven rooms and veranda
around.

Q. What was there in the house ? — A. I can only remember that it
was well furnished — every room, and especially the parlor. Can't
tell what the articles of furniture were.

Q. Do you know what live stock he had around the place ? — A. I
saw there, about two or three months before the war, I think about
five horses which I supposed were Mr. Ulberg's, and once I saw there
three cows; a couple of pigs were always running around, and some
fowls, I don't know how many. That's about all I saw there.

Q. When did you first see this place after the war? — A. About the
end of April I called in at this place, I think it was. This was after
all the fighting was all over.

Q. What was the condition of the place then? — A. The windows
were all broken and not much was left of the furniture. A large
Samoan house which had been there was burned down.

Q. Was the Ulberg family living there then ? — A. Yes.

Q. Can you give any idea of the value of the property damaged or
destroyed at the Ulberg place ? — A. No.

Q. Do you know who did the damage ? — A. No.

Q. Do you know when it was done ? — A. No.

Q. Have you any interest, direct or indirect, in this claim ? — A. No.
Nothing.

Q. How long was your own plantation idle during the war ? — A. I
think three or four weeks.

Q. Was Mr. Ulberg's place under cultivation ? — A. Yes; all imder
coconuts.

Q. Is there anything more you care to say about the case ? — A. No.

Albert Fries:

Q. How long have you lived in Apia ? — A. Twenty-five years.

Q. Did you live here in March, April, and May, 1899? — A. About
2 miles from the town of Apia.

Q. Did vou know Peter C. Ulberg at that time? — A. Yes; I was
his son-in-law.

Q. Did you live near him at the time in question ? — ^A. Less than
hall a mile. I had to pass his place several times each day going to
and from town.

Q. Where was his place? — ^A. Tulaele, about 100 yards outside the
municipality.

Q. State whether or not anything unusual happened in Apia in the
spring of 1899. — ^A. War between Samoans and EngUsh and Amer-
icans. '

Q. When did this war start? — A. Don't know exactly; it was
before Easter.

Q. When it started were you living on your place in the suburbs ? —
A. Yes.

Q. Did you remain there during the war ? — ^A. I left my place when
the war started and came to Apia and stayed until the war was over.
I stayed in Apia for nearly a year.

Q. About how long did the war last? — ^A. About two months.

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Q. Whether or not you often visited Mr. Ulberg's place before the
war? — A. Yes.

Q. How long had he been living there then? — A. It was a new
house, just finished. He had only been there a short time,

Q. How large was the house? — A. A big house; six or seven ordi-
nary sized rooms.

(j. What was in the house? — A. All the rooms were furnished —
partly new and partly old. There was one parlor, with the usual
furniture, wardrobes, chairs, and tables. .

Q. What else was there on the place ? — A. There may have been a
copra house; I don't remember. There was a smaU fowl house.
Nothing else.

Q. What live stock was there on the place ? — A. There were several
milk cows, perhaps 3 or 4 horses, some pigs — I don't know how
many — and some fowls, 30 or 40, more or less.

Q. Was the place under cultivation? — A. Yes; all in bearing
coconuts.

Q. When did you first see the place after the war ? — A. Must have
been the end of May.

Q. What was its condition then ? — ^A. All the windows were broken.
It was very dirty. It wasn't quite empty. There was a little broken
furniture lying around. Most of the furniture was either gone or
broken. I don't remember to have seen any good furniture around.
Some of the veranda posts were cut by knives. Don't remember any-
thing about the fowl house. Didn't see any stock around. That's
all I know.

Q. Do you know of your own knowledge who did this damage ? — ^A.
No.

Q. Do you know how many acres there were in Mr. Ulberg's
place ? — ^A. Twenty acres.

Q. Is there anvthing more that you care to say about the case ? —
A. No ; except that alter the war tne land was in bad shape for want
of weeding and care. A lot of copra was lost by reason of the fact
that the nuts weren't gathc^red at the right time, and some, perhaps^
were stolen by the Samoans.

Peter Ulberg:

Q. How long have you lived in Samoa ? — A. Ever since I was born.

Q. Where did you live in March, 1899? — A. With my father, at
Tulaele.

Q. When did you first hear about any disturbances during that
period ? — A. On March 15, 1899, I heard cannon firing. I was work-
ing in the fields, and then came to the house. Toward the next
morning my mother, three younger brothers, and sister started
through the swamp for Apia, because they were afraid of the bom-
bardment and the natives. About noon of that day my brother
Henry sent my father and I out a note, telling us to leave the place
at once as the ships were going to bombard our place. When the
note came my father and I were hiding under the river bank to keep
out of the way of the shells. I had trouble to get my father to go,
but finally that same morning we came to town. A Chinese neighbor
was going to town with a wagon and I got him to take my father in.
I rode on horseback myself.

Q. What did your mother and brothers and sisters take with them
to town ? — A. Nothing but what they had on.

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Q. Why did they not take anything? — A. Because they were
afraid, and didn't know if they could get through.

Q. What did you and your father take ? — A. Nothing but what we
wore.

Q. Why didn't you take something with you ? — A. Because I had
the house locked and the natives were all around, and I knew if I
unlocked it they would run in and steal. We had notice to leave at
once and didn't have time to get our horses, which were out in the
fields.

Q. How long did you stay awaj from the place ? — A. About five
weeks.

Q. Did you then return to live on the place ? — A. Yes.

Q. Just describe the condition of the place when you got back. — «
A. All the doors and windows were gone. There was nothing we
could use. All the green and ripe coconuts were taken away, 6 horses
and 3 head of cattle were gone, also about 100 fowls, a lot of pigs,
about 10 or 12 big ones and some little ones; also 2 breech-loading
guns, 1 my brother's and 1 mine. All our furniture was destroyed;
I had to go to work to make some new furniture. All the cooking
utensils were smashed up or taken away. It's a long time ago, and I
don't remember.

Q. Do you know who did this damage ? — A. No.

Q. Did you ever recover any of the property lost ? — A. Two horses,
but they were almost useless. That's all I remember.

Q. What part of this property was your own ? — A. Two horses and
my clothing.

Q. Do you know what were the values of the property so lost or
destroyed ? — A. At the time we made out our claim just after the
war we put down what the property was worth, then some of it was
old and some new.

Q. Are you able to state now what these values were ? — ^A. No.

Q. What was the age of your house in March, 1899? — A. Part of
it had been built within six months and the balance was a little over
a year. Wehad fixed over our old house at this time, just using what
of the old lumber was good.

Q. State whether or not any of your family have ever received any
compensation for this loss or damage from any person or Govern-*
ment. — ^A. No.

Q. State whether or not you or your father took any part in this
war, for or against either side. — A. None.

Q. What was the value of your father's horses ? — A. $50 o» $60
eacn, or perhaps more. They were work horses.

Q. What was the size of your house? — A. 36 by 16 by 10, with
veranda all around. Three rooms in main house with balance on the
veranda.

The Witness. When we stayed in Apia during the war we all
stayed in one room, and it was very uncomfortable for my father, who
was old ; some nights when they were going to shell the town we had
to go on board the man-of-war and sit on canvas chairs all the night.
When we got back home my father was so worn out by what he had
suffered and so broken-hearted by what he saw of the wreck of his
home, that he immediately got sick and died in about a month and
a half.

Q. Is there anything further you care to sav about the case ? — A»
No.

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NO. 6. CHUBCH OF JESUS CHBIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS.

A. Kenison:

Q. How long have you lived in Samoa? — ^A. All my life.

Q. Where did you live in March, 1899 ? — ^A. In Apia.

Q. What was your business at that time ? — ^A. Carpenter.

Q. What, if anything, unusual took place in Apia at that time ? — ^A.
There was a war between Mataafa and Malietoa, the latter assisted
by the British and Americans.

Q, How long did this war last I — A. Two or three months.

Q. Were you familiar with the properties of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter Day Saints in and about Apia in March, 1899 ? — ^A.
I visited their properties at Fagalii, Matautu, and Pesega every
Sunday up to the outbreak of the war.

Q. Where was their Fagalii mission with reference to Apia? — ^A.
About one-half mile from Apia.

Q. Are Matautu and Pesega within the municipality of Apia? — A.
Yes.

Q. Please describe the houses of the church at Fagalii. — A. The
dweUing house was about 40 by 20 feet, containing about 5 rooms,
besides attached kitchen about 16 by 20, all built of lumber, with iron
roofing. Then there was a church about 40 by 16 feet, with European
posts and bamboo about the outside — ^partly native construction.

Q. What, in your opinion, was the value of the dwelling house in
March, 1899, prior to the war?— A. $1,200 to $1,500.

Q. How old was it? — A. About 5 years old.

Q. What, in your opinion, was the value of the church building at
the same time? — ^A. $600 or $700.

Q. About how old was the church building ? — A. About 2 years.

Q. When did you see this property after March, 1899? — ^A. As
soon as the guards permitted people to go about, after the war, I
visited this property.

Q. What condition was the property in when you visited it ? — A.
The doorposts, corners of the house, and veranda posts were hacked
with axes, the back part of the veranda partly torn away, floor of the
Veranda torn up and partly carried away, three or four water tanks so
hacked as to be useless, the doors and windows broken to pieces with
axes, the lean-to destroyed. The church was damaged in that all the
bamboo was cut down so that the entire building was open to the
elements. The cookhouse was broken to pieces and all the doors and
windows carried away. The fences were Knocked flat to the ground.
All the church books were carried away or destroyed. Everything
which the missionaries had there was carried away.

Q. When, after the war, did you first visit the Matautu property of
the church ? — ^A. At about the same time.

Q. What property had the church at Matautu prior to the war ? —
A. A house, partly of Eul-opean and partlj^ of native lumber about
30 by 18 feet, one end used for dwelling of missionary and the other for
church purposes.

Q. What was the condition of this property when you first visited it
after the war? — ^A. The house was gone. Could see nothing of it.

Q. What, in your opinion, was the value of that house? — ^A.
About $150.

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\

Q. Do you know anything about the furnishings of the house ?— A.
I do not.

Q. When did you first visit the church property at Pesega, after
the war? — ^A, About two days after I visited tne other properties.

S. What was the condition of that property at that time ? A. I
d not tell much about this, as some of the damage had been
repaired when I visited it.

Q. Do you know by whom this damage was done ? — A. I do not,
as at that time I was aboard ship in the harbor.

Q. Have you any interest, direct or indirect, in this claim? — ^A.
None, except that 1 am a member of the church in question.

Q. What experience have you had in building and repairing houses
in Apia ? — ^A. I have been all my life in that business in this section.

Q. What, in your opinion, was the amount of damage done at the
church property at Fagalii? — A. I made no careful examination of
place as, because of the war, which I was afraid might break out
again, I made but a short stay there on the occasion of my visit.
Can give no opinion on this point.

Q. Is there anything further that you care to say about this case ? — ■
A. Nothing.

Q. What as you say about the life of houses in and about Apia ? — •
A. A house protected by verandas will last 100 years if the verandas
are kept in good condition. The verandas protect the houses and it
is only the outer half of the verandas which wears away.

Charles Thomas Taylor:

Q. How long had you lived in Apia ? — ^A. Almost all my life.

Q. Where did you live in March, 1899, previous to the war? — A.
In Apia.

Q. What was your business at that time ? — A. Trading.

Q. Were you f amUiar with the properties of the Church of Jesus
Chnst of Latter-day Saints in ana about Apia prior to the war in
March, 1899? — ^A. I was familiar with their properties in Fagalii
and Pesega but didn't know much of their Matautu property.

Q. Please describe briefly the mission building in Fagalii. — ^A. It
was about 50 by 35 feet. Then there was a church building about
40 by 30 feet. The house was of European construction and the
church partly European and partly native.

Q. When did you first visit the church property at Fagalii after
the war? — ^A. I think about June 30.

Q. What was the condition of the house at that time ? — ^A. Both
the buildings, and especially the mission house, were badly hacked
with axes or knives, a large and small tank were rendered useless-
pierced through with holes; the fences were all pulled down as was
the wharfing; the lean-tos were pulled down. AH the doors of the
church were carried away, and all the sides and framework was
pulled to pieces. A lot of books were lying outside the building
torn to pieces.

Q. Wnat do you say about the damages to the Pesega property ?—
A. I saw this property just before I visited Fagalii, and saw there
was a small amount of damage there; mud ana refuse was strewn
about the place, and veranda posts were hacked; some windows
were smashed in. One of the elders of the church visited this place
with me, and we tried to make an estimate of the damage done. We
figured it at either $15 or $25.

78 CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

Q. What experience have you had to qualify you to estimate the
damage dotie to the church property at Fagalii? — ^A. Have had
about four years' experience as a salesman for Mr. Moors, during
which time i sold considerable lumber. Never had much experience
in building operations.

Q. What, m your opinion, was the amount of damages done to the
mission house at Fagalii ? — A. About $700 or $800.

Q. What, in your opinion, was the amount of damages done to the
church building at Fagahi? — A. About $100 or $120.

Q. What, if anything, do you know about the furnishings in the
Fagalii property of the church? — ^A. I went twice a week to this
property Just prior to the war as I was engaged in translating the
church bible into Samoan.

Q. What property was there in the house at this time ? — A, There
Was quite a fine hbrary there — about 500 books. There was also a
lot of boxes containing clothing.

Q. Do you care to say anything further about this case? — ^A. No.

[Filed by Penfield & Penfleld, Mar. 16, 1910.]

Pesega, Apia, Samoa, April 20, 1908.

War indemnity claim of the Samoan mission of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter
l)ay Saints, for damages to property during the Samoan War of 1899.

Losses sustained at Fagalii. between the dates of Mar. 15 and Mar. 27, 1899:

Damages to mission house (house partly destroyed) $630

Damages to church building 136

12 trunks with their contents carried away 120

Books from mission library destroyed or missing 90

Records and valuable papers destroyed or taken 125

Total losses at Fagalii $1, 100

Losses sustained at Matautu, Apia:

Branch meetinghouse burned 100

Bed and furnishings at same place 15

Household furnishings 20

Books and school supplies 25

Damages to house at Pesega, Apia 20

180

Total losses at Fagalii, Matautu, and Pesega 1, 280

Thos. S. Court, power of attorney for Joseph F. Smith as trustee in trust for the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

[Filed by Penfield & Penfield, Oct. 29, 1910.]

United States of America,

State of Utah, County of Salt Lake, ss:

Ernest Wright and F. Eugene Morris, being severally duly sworn, each for himself
deposes and says: ' That he is a citizen of the United States of America, over 21 years
of age; that on and prior to the 15th day of March, A. D. 1899, he was a missionary for
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, with headquarters at FagaUi, Upolu,
Samoa. That on or about the said 15th day of March, A. D. 1899, by order of the
commander of the military and naval forces of the United States at Apia, affiant left
the headquarters of said mission and went to Apia, where he was detained by the mili-
tary authorities for several weeks. That as soon as he was permitted to do so he vis-
ited the headquarters of said mission and found that the mission building and church
had been wrecked and partially destroyed; that all the doors, windows, sashes, and
frames had been torn out; the floors had been torn up and the fixtures in the house

CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. 79

and church destroyed, so that nothing but the shell of the house and church remained;
the walls being marked up and disfigured; and all the trunks, library, books, papers,
and personal property on the premises had been removed or destroyed and was never
afterwards recovered.

Affiants further say that they are familiar with the items of the war indemnity
claim presented by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, for damages done
to the property at the Samoa mission during the war of 1899, as follows: -

Losses sustained at Fagalii between the dates of Mar. 15 and Mar. 27, 1899:

Damages to mission house (house partly destroyed) $630

Damages to church building 135

12 trunks with their contents carried away 120

Books from mission library destroyed or missing 90

. Records and valuable papers destroyed or taken 125

Total losses at Fagalii $1, 100

Losses sustained at Matautu, Apia:

Branch meetinghouse burned 100

Bed and furnishings at same place 15

Household furnishings 20

Books and school supplies 25

Damages to house at resega, Apia 20

180

Total losses at Fagalii, Matautu, and Pesega 1, 280

That the damages mentioned in said claim were actually sustained, and that every
item thereof is true and correct. That in no instance is any charge made greater
than the damage actually sustained, and in most instances the damage was greater
than the amount stated in the claim.

Affiants further say that they had personal knowledge of the character and value
of all the property mentioned in the claim, and that in every instance the same was
damaged to the amount stated therein.

Affiants further say that they were acquainted with the branch meetinghouses at
Matautu and Pese^, which were burned at or about the time aforesaid, and that the
damage to said buildings and the property destroyed in connection therewith amount
to the sums stated in said claim and more.

Ernest Wright.
F. Eugene Morris.

Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 28th day of September, A. D. 1910.

Harvey J. Jones,

Notary Public.
My commission expires March 8, 1912.

[Filed by Penfleld & Penfield, Nov. 17, 1910.]

United States of America,

State of Utah, County of Utah, ss:

William L. Worsencroft, being first duly sworn, deposes and says, that he is a citi-
zen of the United States of America, over 21 years of age and resides at Payson, Utah
County, State of Utah; that on and prior to the 15th day of March, A. D. 1899, he
was president of the mission of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, with
headquarters at Fagafii, Upolu, Samoa, and Ernest Wright, F. Eugene Morris, Alfred
D. Hendricks, and Clare W. Reid were also missionaries for the said church at said
place. That on or about the said 15th day of March, A. D. 1899, by order of the
commander of the military and naval forces of the United States at Apia, affiant
left the headquarters of said mission with the said Ernest Wright, F. Eugene Morris,
and others, and went to Apia, where they were detained by the military authorities
for several weeks. That as soon as he was permitted to so do, afifiant visited the head-
quarters of said mission and found that the mission building and church had been
wrecked and partially destroyed. That all of the doors and windows had been torn
out and the floors and fixtures destroyed: the inside and outside walls of the building
had been marked, hacked, and disfigured, and all the trunks, books, library, papers,
and personal property on the premises had been removed or destroyed and were
never afterwards recovered.

80 CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS, IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

Afi^nt further says that he prepared the war indemnity claim for the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, which was presented for damages done to property
at the Samoan mission during the war of 1899, the items of said claim being as foUows,
to wit:

Losses sustained at Fagalii, during the months of March, April, and May, 1899:

Damages, to mission house (house partly destroyed) |630

Damages to church building 135

12 trunks and their contente carried away 120

Books from mission library destroyed or missing 90

Records and valuable papers destroyed or taken 125

II, 100

Losses sustained at Matautu, Apia:

Branch meeting house burned 100

Bed and furnishing at same place 15

Household furnishings 20

Books and school supplies 25

Damages to house at Pesega, Apia 20

180

Total losses at Fagalii, Matautu, and Pesega 1, 280

That the damages mentioned in said claim were actually sustained ; that every item
thereof is true and correct, and that the said damages were caused by the unlawful
naval operations' of Great Britain and the United States in Samoa in March, April,
and May, 1899; that in no instance is any charge made greater than the damage
actually sustained, and in most instances the damage was greater than the amount
stated in the claim. That affiant had personal knowledge of the character and value
of all the property mentioned in the claim, including the contents of all the trunks,
and that in every instance the property was damaged to the amount stated in the
claim.

Affiant further says that he was well acquainted with the branch meeting houses
at Matautu and Pesega, which were burned during the period aforesaid, and tha(
the damage to said buildings and the property destroyed in connection therewith
amounts to the sum stated in said claim.

William L. Worsencroft.

Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 19th day of October, A. D. 1910.

Justin A. Lqyelbss,

Notary Public.
My commission expires March 5, 1912.

Identical affidavits made by:

Ernest Wright and F. Eugene Morris, residing at Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County,
State of Utah. Subscribed and sworn to before Harvey J. Jones, notary public,
October 19, 1910.

Alfred D. Hendricks, residing at Richmond, Cache County, Utah. Subscribed
and sworn to before George G. Hendricks, notary public, October 19, 1910.

Clare W. Reid, residing at Provo, Utah Coimty, Utah. Subscribed and sworn to
before Joseph F. Farrar, notary public, October 24, 1910.

Nathaniel G. Stringham, residing at Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah.
Subscribed and sworn to before Leo E. Penrose, notary public, October 19, 1910.

CLAIM OP THE CHURCH OP JESUS CHRIST OP LATTER DAY SAINTS.

Burton Kent Famsworth appeared as representing the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter Day Saints, at the American consulate, on June 8, 1911, upon the occasion
of the hearing of the claim of the church against the United States, and explained
that he was not in Samoa at the time of the losses in question and therefore could
not testify in the matter, but desired his appearance to be noted.

He further stated that none of the missionaries of the church who were in Samoa
in 1899 Avas now in these islands.

CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. 81

NO. 7. JAMBS SCHUSTEB.

James Schuster:

Q. Where were you born ? — A. In Samoa, island of Upolu.

Q. What relation, if any, are you to James Schuster, the claimant
in this case ? — A. He was my father.

Q. Is your father living or dead ? — A. Dead.

Q. When and where did he die ?^ — A. Four weeks ago at Apia.

Q. What was his age when he died? — A. About 82 years old.

Q. Of what country was your father a citizen ?— A. Of the United
States.

Q. Where was he born ? — A. I don't know.

(At this point the records of the United States consulate were
consulted, and in the book entitled '^Register of American Citizens,
Deaths, Births, and Marriages" was found this entry. '*No. 35-
Date of registration, March 5, 1890. James Schuster, New York
City, place of birth. June 12, 1827, date of birth. New York City,
last place of residence in United States; 1851, date of last leaving
United States."

Witness then produces a paper and submits it for inspection and
asks that it be received in evidence.)

Q. I show this paper and ask you what it is and where you got it. —
A. In a box that mjr father gave to me.

Q. I shall mark this as ^^ Exhibit A" and attach it to your deposi-
tion, if you have no objection to my taking it to Washington. — A. i ou
may keep it.

Q. So far as you know, did your father ever declare allegiance to
any other country or in any way lose his American citizenship? —
A. No.

Q. Do you know when your father came to Samoa? — A. No.

Q. Do you know how long he lived here? — ^A. No.

Q. Where did you live in March, April, and May, 1899? — ^A. At
MaUe, on my father's place.

Q. Who else lived there then ? — A. My mother and my brotherai,
Alfred, George, and Thomas, and two sisters; Emma married to a half-
caste Fiji, Eta; and Anna married to a white man, I forget his name.
At the time when the war started my brother Alfred and I came t©
Apia. The others stayed on the place at Malie.

Q. When did you go back to the place at Malie ? — A. When the war
was finished, we went back to Malie.

Q. What did you see when you got back to your father's place ? —
A. I see nothing — all gone, kill everything — cut all the coconut and
breadfruit, house burned down, furmture all gone.

Q. How far is the place from Apia ?— A. About 6 miles west.

Q. What was there on the place when you left it at the beginning
of the war ? — A. A lumber house of two big rooms, with chairs, boxes,
beds, some Samoan things — mats, etc. — many pigs, about 150 pigs^
large and small.

Q. How much land was there on this place ? — A. About 9 acrea.

Q. Do you know anything else that you had out there at your
father's place before the war ? — A. That's all I know.

Q. Do you know what the house was worth ? — A. $100.

Q. Do you know what the pigs were worth ? — A. Some of the sow*
were worth about $20 each.

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82 CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

Q. How many sows there? — A. About 100.

Note. — The witness appeared to be unintelligent and not to be possessed of a good
memory. J. R. B.

Q. Is there anything more you care to say about this case ? — A. No.

Vai Schuster:

Q. Where did you live in March, 1899? — A. In Malie, on my
Ikther-in-law's place.

Q. To whom were you married then ? — A. James Schuster, jr.

Q. Did you stay on this place all through the war ? — ^A. We went
qS to Malua.

Q. Why did you leave ? — A. Because the Mataaf a people started
to take our things and chased us off. They said they would kill us.

Q. By what means did you travel when you left the place? — ^Al
Some by boat and some by land.

Q. Did you take anything with you ? — A. Nothing but the clothes
we wore.

Q. Why did you not take away other property ? — A. Because we
were frightened; the Mataaf a people were all around.

Q. What buildings were there on the place when you left it? —
A. A wooden house with two rooms, covered with thatch, and two
Samoan houses — large. That's about all.

Q. What was in these houses? — A. One or two beds, one sofa,
two or three chests of drawers, about two tables, chairs, I have
forgotten how many; boxes of clothes, don't remember how many.
A lot of other things, but I have forgotten what; a lot of mats, one
sewing machine, and one music box.

Q. Who owned all these things? — A. My husband's father.

Q. Was there any live stock on the place, and if so, what? —
A. Pigs and fowls, I don't know how many. That's all I remember.

Q. How long did you stay away from the place ? — A. About three
months.

Q. What did you see when you went back to the place ? — ^A. Just
the bare ground; all the houses were burned. Nothing was left of
what had been in the houses. The pigs and fowls were all gone.

Q. Do you remember whether there were any horses or cows on
the place when you left it? — A. Yes; there were three cows and
about three or four horses.

Q. To whom did they belong ?— A. All to the old man, Mr. Schus-
ter, my husband's father. When we got back to the place they were
all gone.

Q. Was any of this property recovered so far as you know? —
A. I think he got one horse back; none of the cows.

Q. Is there anything more you care to say about this claim? —
A. That's about all.

Mary Schuster:

Mary Schuster, witness on claim of James Schuster.

Caroline Johnston was duly sworn as interpreter.

Q. Where were you born ? — A. In Samoa.

Q. Are you a full-blood Samoan ? — A. I am half Samoan and half
British.

Q. What was the name of your husband, if you had any?-
A. James Schuster.

CLAIMS OF AMEKICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. 88

Q. Is he living or dead ? — A. He died about one month ago.

Q. When wereyou married to him? — ^A. Long time ago; was married
to him by Jonas M. Coe.

(The records of the American consulate were here consulted, and
in the book entitled * ' Register of American Citizens, deaths, births,
and marriages,'' was found this entry, heading * 'Marriages " : ' 'No. 10.
Date, January 3, 1868. James Schuster, 46, New York, N. Y.
Place of birth, United States. Citizenship. Residence, Samoa.
Mary Collins, 21. Birthplace, Samoa. Citizenship, Samoa. Resi-
dence, Samoa. Witnesses, William Collins, Michael Scanlan.")

Q. Were you married to any other man ? — A. No.

(^. Did you live with your husband from the time of your marriage
until he died ? — A. Yes.

Q. Where did you live when the war started, in March, 1899? —
A. At MaUe.

Q. Who else lived in the place ? — A. My husband, James Schuster,
my sons, James, Alfred, Thomas, George, and my daughter Annie.
My daughter Emma was in Fiji, married to a half-caste Fijian, named
Campbell.

Q. Were these ^11 of your children at the time ? — A. Yes.

Q. Are they all living now ? — A. Yes.

Q. Is Annie married now? — A. Yes; to a Britisher, Jepman, and
lives in Fiji.

Q. What happened of an unusual nature, if anything, in March,
1899? — ^A. Mataafa was fighting with the Britishers and Americans.

Q. Did you remain on your place during the war ? — A. We stayed
there until the Mataafa people troubled us, and then we went to the
missionaries' place at Malua, Mr. Newell's.

Q. How long was this after the war broke out? — A. About two
weeks.

Q. Had there been anv damage done to your place when you left
it? — A. Yes; the Mataafa people had started taking things from our
place.

Q. What was there on your place when the war broke out? — ^A. One
wooden house — two rooms, parlor and one bedroom — and two
Samoan houses — ^large. There was also* a separate kitchen and
another little wooden house we used for dining.

Q. What did these buildings contain at this time ? — A. Two chests
of drawers, 2 sofas, 3 big cane chairs and some small ones — about 5 —
2 boxes full of clothes, 1 sewing machine, 1 phonograph, about 40
common mats for floors, about 6 fine mats, 2 bedsteads, with pillows
and bedding; a lot of Samoan things, kava bowls, and tap as, car-
pentry tools, crockery and glasses, 1 hanging lamp and 4 small lamps,
2 saddles. Have forgotten most of the things.

Q. What live stock was there on the place ? — A. About 20 big pigs
and a number of small ones — don't know how many; ducks and
fowls, but I have forgotten how manv; 4 cows, about 4 horses. That
is about all I remember. In those dlays my husband did everything.

Q. When you left the place to go to the missionaries did you take
anything with you oflF the place ? — ^A. No; we took nothing, because
the Mataafa people chased us off the place; we went off in a little
boat and these people swam after us, but didn't catch us.

Q. When did you see the place after that ? — ^A. Soon after the war.

84 CLAIMS OF AMEBIOAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

Q. How long were you away from the place at this time? —
A. About two or three weeks. A white man came to make peace,
and so we came back.

Q. Describe the condition of the place when you got back. — ^A. All
the coconuts and breadfruits were cut down and all the houses and
everything that had been in them was burned. We left an American
flag flying over the place, but when we came back that was gone. All
the ducks, pigs, horses, and cows were gone.

Q. Was any of this property ever recovered by your husband or
you ? — A. No; the Mataaia people started to take our horses before
we left.

Q. Do you know anything about the value of the property in ques-
tion? — ^A. No; my husband knew everything about that.

Q. Did all of this property belong to your husband, or was some of
it property of your sons ? — A. Some of it belonged to my sons.

Q. Do you Know which was your husband's? — ^A. No; but the
boys left everything to their father; he had charge of it aU.

Q. Have you any intention of going to the United States to live ? —
A. No; I am too old.

Q. So far as you know, did your husband ever, diiectly or indirectly,
receive any compensation from any person or Government for the
damages in question?— A. No; we never received anything.

Q. Did your husband take any piart in the war on either side ? —
A. No; he did not like the Samo£ins and took no part.

Q. Is there anything further you care to say about the case? —
A. The Samoan house was burned before we left by the Mataaf a men,
and they threatened to cut our heads off if we didn't stop the ships
from bombarding. They dragged my husband out of the house by
his clothes,

Edward F. Allen:

Q. Where did you hve in March, 1899? — ^A. In Apia, or on board
the men-of-war.

Q. What part, if any, did you take in the war which broke out in
that month m Samoa ? — A. 1 acted as interpreter, pilot, and adviser
to the British and Amierican commanding officers.

Q. Was there any bombardment from those vessels of the coast
east and west of Apia ? — ^A. Yes.

Q. To what extent? — ^A. On March 18 the Porpoise bombarded
Mails, Faloula, Afega, Salieamoa, UtuaUa, and FaUeasiu. At the
same time the Philadelphia fired on Viausu. On March 20 the Por-
poise put some shells m Fasitootai. On March 21 we brought 10
native (Mfttaafan) boats from Falefa to Apia. On March 23 we fired'
shots from the Philadelphia's launch into Saluafata and the nearby
place of Solosolo and took boats away. We burned certam houses
m Saluafata, Lufi Lufi, and Faleapuna. In addition to that I went
one day on the Royalist to Solosolo, and we landed a party of friendly
natives and burned some houses. On March 31, we went west from
Apia on the Porpoise with the launch of the Philadelphia and burned
a boat at Satupuala.

On one occasion after that, when I wasn't along, the Royalist
shelled in the vicinity of Fasitooti and Leulomoega. That is aU the
bombarding which was done in Upolu outside of the harbor of Apia,
except at Fagalii on April 1. I wasn't along then.

CLAIMS OF AMEBICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. 85

Q. Were you present on all these occasions with the exception you
have made ? — ^A. Yes.

Q. Was there any bombarding in the vicinity of Aliepata? — ^A.
Not to my knowledge.

Q. And you would have known if there had been ? — ^A. I should
think so.

Q. Was there any at Fasitoo? — ^A. I think not, but that is very
close to Fasitooti and Leulomoega.

Q. Was there any at Tiavea or vicinity ? — ^A. None.

Q. Did you know Thomas B. CoflBn, of Solosolo ? — ^A. Yes.

Q. And where he lives ? — ^A. Yes.

Q. Do you remember whether or not his house was struck by a
shell? — ^A. I think no shells were thrown in there, but there were
shots from the 1 -pounder of the PhiladelpMa^s launch which may
have struck the place. I don^t know about this. We did, however,
bum a lot of houses there, but don't know whether CoflSn's was one
of them.

Q. Do you know anythinoj as to any pigs belonging to CoflSn which
are said to have been killed by the friendly natives landed there ? — ^A.
I know we did kill pigs which were running around in any of the vil-
lages where we landed. Don't know about Coffin's.

Q. Did you know James Schuster, of Malie, and where his house
was? — ^A. xes.

Q. Do you know if any damage was done to his house by shell or
shot from the war vessels ? — ^A. A cutter from the Philadelphia^ threw
several 1-pound shots into this house.

Q. Do you know of any damage done by war vessels to William
Blocklock's store at Saluaiata ? — ^A. None.

Q. Was there any bombarding at Tiavea? — ^A. No. We went
ashore once at Tiavea and found that the natives had not damaged
the store of the St. Louis Planting Co., as had been reported to us.
The man who had been in charge there had left there, but the natives
showed us that the store had not been interfered with.

Q. Was there any bombarding at Falefa ? — ^A. No.

Q. Do you know if any damage was done by natives or otherwise
to the store of the St. Louis Plantiag Co. at that place ? — ^A. I never
heard that there was and don't think there was.

Q. Was the Porpoise at Falefa during this time, except as you have
stated? — ^A. No.

Q. Do you remember bringing Cyrus Scott away from Falefa on
this occasion? — ^A. No; but I know the members of this company
that he belonged to gave us much trouble with their stories of danger
to themselves, which we found did not exist.

Q. Do you remember bringing William Wallwork away from Fasitoo
on the Porpoise ? — ^A. Yes.

Charles Taylor:

Q. I show this paper and ask you what it is ? — ^A. This paper was
written by James Schuster the claimant. It was handed to me by
him about three months ago. He said that I was to look after it, as
his sons were ilUterate and he thought he was about to die. He said
the paper was the list of the property that he lost during the war of
March, April, and May, 1899. He said he gave the original over to
the authorities just after the war, having been requested by the Eng-
lish and American officers to make out such a list.

86 CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

Q. Are you familiar with Mr. Schuster's handwriting ? — ^A. Yes.

Q. Have you seen him write? — ^A. Yes, often; he used to send me
notes saying he wanted various little things, such as tea, sugar, etc.

Q. Is this paper you hold in his handwriting ? — ^A. Yes.

Q. I shall mark this as ^'Exhibit B " and attach it to the deposi-
tions and take it with me if you have no objections. — A. You may
take it.

Q. Is there anything else you care to state ? — ^A. No.

Q. Is Mr. Schuster now dead? — ^A. Yes. He died five or six
weeks ago.

James Schuster, Claimant, Exhibit A.
J. R. B., V. C, U. S. A.

PBOTECTION — united states op AMERICA.

State of Maseachusetts. No. 1701. District of New Bedford.

I, William T. Russell, collector^ of the district aforesaid, do hereby certify that
James Schuster, an American seaman, ae^ed 23 years, or thereabouts, oi the height of
5 feet 7i inches, dark complexion, dark nair, native bom at New York City, has tiiit
day produced to me proof m the manner directed in the act entitled '^ An act for tiie
relief and protection of American seamen," and pursuant to the said act 1 do hereby
certify that the said James Schuster is a citizen of the United States of America.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 7th day of
December, in the year of our Lord 1852.

[seal.] Wm. T. Russell, Collector.

James Schuster, Claimant, Exhibit B.
J. R. B., V. C, U. S. A.

hous burn down.

horded house $70. 00

Sofer 12. 00

bed Sted 10.00

5 Chars 10.00

1 Chester draws 15. 00

1 ditto 18.00

10 Tumblers 2.00

1 lamp & Globe 3. 00

Ismal 1.00

Maderson 2. 00

14 tin panikers 2. 00

1 tee pot 1.00

1 Coffee ditto 1. 50

15 qt. Kerosene 2. 00

7 knives forks 2. 00

8 spuns 1. 50

1 Chest 4.50

flor & Sloping mats 4. 00

1 teeKetle 1.00

lot ods & ends 1. 50

1 Saddle bridle 12. 50

2 boat mast 2. 50

20feetbord8 1.00

Nails for weyer fens 2. 00

10 fathom weyer for mast boat 2. 00

2 Iron Crow bars 3. 00

1 Tule chest 5. 00

2 Saws 4.00

4 marling spike 4. 00

3 Chilles $3. OO

1 gun Nipple 1. 50

1 brase & bits 5. OO

1 pinchers 1. OO

2 nils 2. 50

2 hamer 2. OO

Nails Cms LOO

4 pare hinges 4. OO

2 Punch 2.0O

2 fishing spade 1. 50

1 wite wash brush 1. OO

1 paint ditto 1. OO

2 parm Needles 1. 50

2Tarnove 3.0O

1 Cocknut Craper 1. OO

1 draw knife 1. 50

2 0vs 3.0O

1 milk jug 50

1 tin Cases 50

2 hats 2. OO

1 large axe 2. 50

10 empty bags 2. OO

2 plane 3.00

1 stone gar 1. 50

musick box 10. OO

sowing machine 8. OO

1 money box 1. 00

1 glafs plate 50

1 Coffee mill l.OO

1 stelard 4. OO

CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. 87

1 ballance ditto $1. 50

2 pare boots 3. 50

reading books 4. 00

1 Reaaor LOO

1 Spictle LOO

1 Nature bild house 14. 00

weyer destroyed 10. 00

1 ditto Native 12. 00

Iditto 6.00

Cook house 4. 00

hen-coop 2. 00

6 boat pines 3. 00

Iron for mast 2. 00

1 box bucles 2. 00

1 table 5.00

1 Safe 2.00

pigs & fowls.

6 large Sow 90.00

Iditto $20.00

small pigs.

41 pigs 40.00

46 fowls 12. 00

small Cocconuts.
trees 2 years old.
large trees bearing,
bread fruit trees bearing,
tarro Cavmu.
sugar Cane.

Bonnanes 50. 00

March 4, 1902 reported

in addition to the above amt of. . . 556. 50

One horse 60. 00

One Cow 50.00

666.50
667. 50, $1, error.

James Sghustbr, Claimant, Exhibit C.

J. R. B., V. C, U. S. A.

Know all men by these presents: That T, I. Schuster, of the town of Fuseho, district
of Aannu, on the island of tjpolu, have made, constituted, and appointed, and by these
preseiits do make, constitute, and appoint, J. P. Woodworth, esq., of the port of Apia,
on the island of Upolu, my true and lawful attorney to perform and transact the follow-
ing business, viz, to piesent to the honorable United States naval court, now convened
at Apia, my claim against the Samoan Government, and in my name, place, and stead
to ask, demand, collect, and receive all moneys due me from the aforesaid Government,
giving and granting unto my said attorney full power and authority to perform aa
and every act and thing whatsoever requisite and necessary to be done in and about
the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as I might oi could do if personally
present, with full powei of substitution and revocation, hereby ratifying and confirm-
ing all that my said attorney or his substitute shall lawfully do or cause to be done
by virtue hereof.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, at the port of Apia, on the
17thdayof April, 1875.

I. Schuster [seal].

Witness —

Jonas M. Coe.

American Consulate at Apia., Samoan Islands:

On this 17th day of April, A. D. 1875, before me, S. S. Foster, United States consul^
personally appeared I. Schuster, known to me to be the person whose name is sub*
scribed to the within instrument, and acknowledged to me that he executed the same.

Witness my hand and official seal.

[seal.] S. S. Foster,

United States Consul,

I heteby certify that the foregoing power of attorney has been duly recorded in the
archives of the United States consulate at Apia and designated "Record Book D,
No. 5, folio 490."

[seal.] Jonas M. Coe,

Acting United States Consul,

United States Consulate, ApiOj October SO, 1876,

I hereby transfer and assign the within power of attorney to W. Williamson, to per-
form every act and deed in the aforesaid power of attorney, to collect and receive
money and every other act granted in the aforesaid power of attorney as fully to all
intents and purposes as I might if personally present.

J. P. WoODWORTH.

Port op Apia, November 6, 1875.

Witness —

David Kinison.

88 CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

NO. 8. WILUAM BLACKLOCK.

Edward F. Allen :

Q. Where did you live in March, 1899 ? — A. In Apia, or on board
the men-of-war.

Q. What part, if any, did you take in the war .which broke out in
that month m Samoa ? — ^A. 1 acted as interpreter, pilot, and adviser
to the British and American commandmg officers.

Q. Was there any bombardment from those vessels of the coast
east and west of Apia ? — ^A. Yes.

Q. To what extent? — ^A. On March 18 the Porpoise bombarded
Malie, Falcula, Afega, Salieamoa, Utualia, and FaUeasiu. At the
same time the PTiiladelphia fired on Viausu. On March 20 the Por-
poise put some shells m Fasitootai. On March 21 we brought 10
native (Mataafan) boats from Falef a to Apia. On March 23 we fired
shots from the PTiiladelphia' s launch into Saluafata and the near-by
place of Solosolo and took boats away. We burned certain houses
m Saluafata, Lufi Lufi, and Faleapuna. In addition to that, I went
©ne day on the Royalist to Solosolo and we landed a party of friendly
natives and burnt some houses. On March 31 we went west from
Apia on the Porpoise, with the launch of the PTiHadelpJiiaf and burnt
a boat at Satupuala. On one occasion after that, when I wasn't
jalong, the Royalist shelled in the vicinity of Fasitooti and Leulo-
mooga. That is all the bombarding which was done in Upolu out-
side of the harbor of Apia, except at Fagalii, on April 1. I wasn't
along then.

Q. Were you present on all these occasions with the exception
you have made? — ^A. Yes.

Q. Was there any bombarding in the vicinity of AUepata? — ^A.
Not to my knowledge.

(J. And you would have known if there had been ? — ^A. I should
think so.

Q. Was there any at Fasitoo? — ^A. I think not; but that is very
elose to Fasitooti and Leulomoega.

Q. Was there any at Tiavea or vicinity ? — ^A. None.

Q. Did you know Thomas B. Coffin, of Solosolo ? — ^A. Yes.
- Q. And where he lives ? — ^A. Yes.

Q. Do you remember whether or not his house was stnick by A
shell? — ^A. I think no shells were thrown in there, but there were
shots from the 1 -pounder of the PMladelpTiia^s launch which may
have struck the place. I don't know about this. We did, how-
ever, burn a lot oi houses there, but don't know whether Coffin's was
one of them.

Q. Do you know anything as to any pigs belonging to Coffin which
«re said to have been killed by the friendly natwes landed there ? —
A. I know we did kill pigs which were running around in any of the
villages where we landed. Don't know about Coffin's.

Q. Did you know James Schuster, of Malie, and where his house
was? — ^A. Yes.

Q. Do you know if any damage was done to his house by shell or
shot from the war vessels? — ^A. A cutter from the Philadelphia
threw several 1-pound shots into this house.

Q. Do you know of any damage done by war vessels to William
Blacklock's store at Saluafata ? — A. None.

CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. 89

Q. Was there any bombarding at Tiavea? — ^A. No. We went
ashore once at Tiavea and found that the natives had not damaged
the store of the St. Louis Planting Co., as had been reported to us.
The man who had been in charge there had left there, but the natives
showed us that the store had not been interfered with.

Q. Was there any bombarding at Falefa? — A. No.

Q. Do you know if any damage was done by natives or otherwise
to the store of the St. Louis Planting Co. at that place? — A. I never
heard that there was and don't think there was.

Q. Was the Porpoise at Falefa during this time, except as you have
stated? — A. No.

Q. Do you remember bringing Cyrus Scott away from Falefa on
this occasion ? — A. No; but I know the members of this company that
he belonged to gave us much trouble with their stories of danger to
themselves, which we found did not exist.

Q. Do you remember bringing William Wallwork away from Fasi-
too on the Porpoise? — A. Yes.

.A.PELE .

Caroline Johnston bemg duly sworn as interpreter.

Q. Have you ever been married; and if so, to whom? — A. Yes; to
William Blacklock, vice consul.

Q. When were you married to him ? — ^A. Don't remember.

The records of the American consulate were here inspected and in
the book entitled '^Register of citizens, deaths, births, and marriages"
was found this entry, under the heading '^Marriages'':

No. 52, February 17, 1887, William Blacklock and Apele; witnesses, T. Kenah and
E. I. Bumham; ages of parties, respectively, 30 and 17; birthplace, respectively,
Australia and Samoa; citizen^ip. United States and Samoa; residence of both, Samoa.

Q. How long did you live with Mr. Blacklock ? — ^A. About 20 years.

Q. Did you reside with him in March, 1899 ? — A. Yes.

Q. Where did you then live ? — A. On my place in Apia, Tanuga-
manono.

Q. Are you divorced from Mr. Blacklock? — A. Yes.

Q. When were you so divorced ? — A. About four or five years ago.

Q. Have you since remarried? — ^A. Yes.

Q. To whom ? — A. To a Samoan, Fulu, by a Samoan preacher and
judge, Asi.

Q. To whom did the house on this property at Tagunamanono
belong in March, 1899 ?— A. To Mr. Blacklock.

Q. And the furniture ? — A. To Mr. Blacklock.

Q. What do you remember about anything unusual which may
have happened in March, April, and May, 1899 ? — ^A. There was a war
between Malietoa and Mataafa. Do not remember how long it
lasted ?

Q. Did you remain on your place all through the war ? — A. I was
there when it started, but when the bombardment began I went on
board the man-of-war.

Q. What did you take with you ? — ^A. Nothing but what I wore.

Q. Why not ? — A. Because we left in a hurry as they were starting
to bombard.

Q. How large was the house in which you then lived ? — A. Four-
roomed house, European style.

90 CLAIMS OF AMEKICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

Q. Were there any other buildings on the place ? — ^A. There was a
kitchen, and a house for the ^' black boys/^ the lower part of which
was used as a stable, and one Samoan house.

Q. What furniture was there in the dwelling house? — ^A. Four
rocking chairs, about 12 small chairs, 2 small tables and 2 large ones^

1 sofa, 1 marble top washstand, 2 bedsteads, 3 boxes of clothes for
myself and four children, 6 saddles, 1 hanging lamp, 5 small lamps,

2 lanterns, a lot of knives and forks (do not know how many), 1 hand
sewing machine, 2 fine mats, and 7 big tai)as, 14 common or Fijian
mats, 3 bracelets, 1 silver and 2 gold, 1 gold brooch, also 30 shillings
in a box, bedding and blankets for a number of beds. That is all I
remember in the main house.

Q. What was in the kitchen? — A. Crockery, pots, pans, kettles,
ana a stove, axes, knives, and buckets, some provisions, keg of beef,
tinned meats and salmon. That is all I remember.

Q. What was in the other buildings? — ^A. Nothing I remember.

Q. What live stock, if any, was there on the place ? — A. About 70
fowls, 4 pigs, 2 large and 2 small, some ducks, 4 horses; but none
were taken.

Q. When did you first see this place next? — ^A. As soon as the war
was over I went back and Uved on the place.

Q. Describe the condition of the place when you went back? — A.
All the doit's and windows were broken. The veranda posts and
blinds were chopped with axes. All the chairs and furmture were
broken, all the Doxes and clothes were carried away, those things
that they could not carry away they chopped and destroyed. There
was some furniture there but it was all oroken to pieces. Just the
horses were saved. I do not remember anything else. The tanks
were chopped up with axes. All the fowls and pigs were gone.

Q. Do you know who did this damage? — A. The Mataafa people,
which were around there.

Q. Did you recover any of the things that were taken away ? — A.
We got back a box in which we kept photos, nothing else.

Q. Do you know whether your nusband was ever paid for any of
this loss ? — A. I do not know.

Q. Do you know whether your husband, Mr. Blacklock, took anv
part in this war? — A. No; he took no part; neither did I — only took
care of my children.

Q. Do you know anything about damages to Mr. Blacklock's
property at Leone ? — A. Only that a race horse of his was killed then
at the time of the war.

Q. Do you know about damages to any other property of your
husband^s at this time? — A. No. By the way, I lorgot to say
that two music boxes were taken from my house during the war.

Q. Do you know anything about the values of the property you
have said was lost or destroyed? — A. No.

Q. Did you ever visit your husband's station at Aleipata? — A. I
know he had one there, but I never went there.

Q. Did you ever visit his station at Saluafata? — A. Yes; several
times, but do not remember when.

Q. Who was living at your home, if anybody, at the time of the
war ? — A. My father and mother, who are dead now, and my two sis-
ters, who are living.

CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. 91

Q. Is there anything more you care to say about this case ? — A. I
forgot to say that I had two fine mats which were lost and a Sundays
hat and some shoes — that is about all.

Hekbekt Brown:

Q. For whom do you appear ? — A. William Blacklock, one of the^
claimants.

Q. What authority have you for such appearance? — A. This
power of attorney dated at Sydney, New South Wales, March 10, 1911.

(The witness here produced a document purporting to be a full
power of attorney, signed and sealed by William Blacklock, in the
presence of J. P. Harpjer and C. A. Lawrence, and giving the said
Herbert Brown authority ^^To generally act for me m Upolu in all
matters. '^ The witness states uiat he desires to keep this original
document and promises to procure and leave with me a certified
copy thereof.)

Q. Where does Mr. Blacklock now reside? — A. In Sydney, New
South Wales, but he is in business also in Pago Pago, island of Tu-
tuila — has a large store there.

Q. How long has he resided in Sydney ? — A. About four years.

Q. Do you know where he was born ?— -A. I believe in Australia.

Q. Do you know of what country he is a citizen? — A. United
States of America.

Q. Do you know how his citizenship was acquired ? — A. By natu-
ralization.

Q. Do you know on what date he was naturalized ? — A. May 10,.
1880.

Q. Have you his naturalization certificate ? — A. I have a certified
copy of it.

Q. I hand you a paper and ask you what it is ? — A. A copy of the
naturalization certificate of William Blacklock, certified to oy T. R.
Sheridan, clerk of circuit court in and for Douglas County, State of
Oregon.

Q. I shall mark this as '^Exhibit A'' and attach it to your deposi-
tion if you have no objection to my taking it to Washington. — A.
You may take it.

Q. Do you know when Mr. Blacklock first came to Samoa? — A»
About 23 or 24 years ago.

Q. Do you know how long since he left the Island of Upolu ? — A.
About seven years ago.

Q. Do you know when he removed to Sydney? — A. About four
years ago for his health's sake. He had been too long in the country,,
the doctor told him. He is the present postmaster at Pago Pago.

Q. Have you any further evidence to present on behalf of Mr^
Blacklock? — A. I have some exparte affidavits.

Q. I show you this paper and ask you what it is ? — A. An exparte
affidavit by Mr. Blacfelock, and also one by James Porter Harper.
They are bound up together, setting forth in detail Mr. Blacklock's
claimed losses by reason of the military and naval operations of the
British and American forces in and about Apia in March, April, and
May, 1899.

Q. I shall mark this as ' ^Exhibit B '^ and attach it to the deposition,,
if you have no objection to my taking it to Washington. — A. You
may take it.

Q. Did you live in Apia in March, 1899 ? — A. Yes.

92 CLAIMS OF AMBKICAN CITIZENS IK APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

Q. What do you know about anything unusual which may have
happened at that time? — ^A. There was a war which started about
March 17, between the British and Americans on one side and the
rebels on the other side, which lasted about two months.

Q. What can you say generally as to the damage done to the
property of white residents in and about Apia during that war? —
A. At that time I was laid up with a sore foot, and didn't myself
see any of the damage.

Q. Do you know anything personally about the claim* of Mr.
Blacklock, or the losses claimed to have been suffered by him at this
time ? — ^A. Nothing personally, only that I have understood that his
residence at Tanugamanono, Apia, was occupied by the Mataafa
people during the war and they built forts on it, which forts I saw
some months afterwards.

Q. Is there anything more that you care to say about the case ? —
A. No.

Q. How far is Aleipata from Apia ? — ^A. 24 miles.

Q. How far is Saluaf ata from Apia ? — A. Nine or ten miles.

George A. Armstrong :

Q. Where did you live in March, 1899 ? — ^A. In Blacklock's store
in Apia.

Q. What was your occupation then ? — A. Salesman for Mr. Black-
lock.

Q. Were you familiar with the place where Mr. Blacklock lived at
Tagunamanono ? — ^A. Yes; I lived there for a short time *m 1891, and
was there occasionally on a Sunday thereafter.

Q. How long before the war, in March, 1899, were you there last ? —
A. Perhaps as much as five months.

Q. What property did Mr. Blacklock have on that place at this
time? — ^A. A dwelling house of five or six rooms, kitchen, stable,
outhouses.

Q. What kind of a house was it ? — A. A good house in every way.
Comparatively new.

Q. What furniture was there in it? — A. It was good furniture —
nearly all American oak chairs and tables, with iron bedsteads. I
couldn't give the articles of furniture.

Q. Do you know anything about the live stock on the place? —
A. He had a number of imported fowls and imported pigs, and an
imported racehorse, four saddles for himself, wife and two children;
buggy, road cart, and harness. Don't remember whether there were
any cows there. The horse was a good one — I bought it for him
myself in New Zealand. It cost him £30 there; then there was £7
freight, besides duty.

Q. How long before the war did you buy it? — A. About two years
before the war. It was 5 years old then.

Q. Do you remember any music boxes in the house? — ^A. No; but
there was a sewing machine, I recall.

Q. Did you go up to the place soon after the war? — ^A. I can't
teU now whether I did or not.

Q. Then, you don't know whether Mr. Blacklock suffered any loss
by the war? — A. Not of my own knowledge, but natives have told me
that the horse was shot.

Q. Is there anything else that you care to say about the case? —
A. No; I think not.

CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. 93

William Blagklock — Claimant's Exhibit A.

J. R. B., vice consul, U. S. A.

At a regular term of the circuit court for Douglas County, Greg., begun and held at
Roseburg, in said county on Monday, the 10th day of May, 1880, at which were pres-
ent Hon. J. F. Watson, judge; S.H.' Hazard, distnct attorney; T. R. Sheridan, clerk;
F. P. Hc^an, sheriff, the following proceedings among others was had on Tuesday
May 18, 1880, it being the eighth judicial day of the term, to wit:

admission of WILLIAM BLACKLOCK.

Now at this day comes into court William Blacklock, a native of Australia and
moves the court to be admitted a citizen of the United States, And it appearing to
the court that said William Blacklock came to America in his infancy, that he nas
been more than five years last past, not including his infancy, a resident of the United
State8-;-and it appearing from the evidence of J. C. FuUerton and T. R. Sheridan
that said William Blacklock is a man of good moral character and attached to the
principles of the Government of the United States, That it has been bona fide his
intention to become a citizen of the United States for five years last past. Thereupon
the said William Blacklock upon his oath doth say that he will support the Constitu-
tion of the United States, and doth absolutely and forever renoimce all allegiance
and fidelity to all and every foreign prince, potentate, state, and sovereignty wnatso-
ever, and particularly to Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, of whom he was a late subject.

It is therefore considered ordered that the said William Blacklock be and hereby
is admitted a citizen of the United States and entitled to all the rights and privileges
extended by law to naturalized citizens.

Record signed:

J. F. Watson, Judge,

Attest.

T. R. Sheridan, CUrh.
State of Oregon, County of Douglas y ss:

I, T. R. Sheridan, clerk of the circuit court in and for Douglas Coimty, State of
Oregon, do hereby certify that the above is a true and correct copy of the admission
of William Blacklock to become a citizen of the United States, as compared by me
•with the original of record and in my custody, and the whole of said original. .

In witness whereof I have set my hand and official seal Jime 13, 1887.

[seal.] T. R. Sheridan,

Clerk of Circuit Court in and for Douglas County ^ State of Oregon.

William Blacklock. — Claimant's Exhibit B.

J.R.B. V.C. U.S.A.

In the matter of claims of William Blacklock for compensation for losses sustained and
damages resulting from the bombardment oi Apia^ Samoa, in 1899.

I, William Blacklock, a citizen of the United States, do hereby certifj^ that the losses
and damages sustained by me resulting from the bombardment of Apia in 1899 amount
to the sum of 12,476.25, as shown by .the attached schedules marked "A. 1," "A. 2,"
''A.3.''

That the kinds and amount of property lost or injured are faithfully described and
set forth in the attached schedules aforesaid.

That the entire amount of the claim does now and did at the time when it had its
or^in belong solely and absolutely to me.

That I have never received any sum of money or other equivalent or indemnifica*
tion for the whole or any part of the loss or injury upon which the claim is founded.

[seal.] W. Blacklock.

(William Blacklock.)

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 9th day of June, 1911.

E. Verne Richardson,
Vice and Deputy Consul General of the
United States of America at Sydney j Australia^
(Consular stamp . )

94 CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

In the matter of claims of William Blacklock lor compensation for losses sustained and
damages resulting from the bombardment of Apia, Samoa, in 1899.

I, James Porter Harper, of Sydney, Australia, do hereby certify thiat in the years
1898 and 1899 I was in the employ of said William Blacklock in chaise of his Saluafata
station near Apia, Samoa.

That the losses and damages sustained by him resulting from the bombardment of
Apia in 1899 as set forth in Schedule A-2 (included in attached documents) amounting
to $261.27 is true and correct, and the kinds and amount of property lost or injured are
faithfully described and set forth in the said schedule.

James Porter Harper.

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 9th day of June, 1911.

[seal.] E. Verne Richardson,

Vice and Deputy Consul General of the
United States of America at Sydney ^ Australia.
(Consular stamp.)

W. Blacklock's war claims.

Aliepata Station, A-3 $1, 053. 73

Saluafata Station, A-2 26L 27

Tanugamanono property, A-1 1, 161. 25

2, 476. 26

Schedule A-1 . — Statement of claims of William Blacklock referred to in attached certifi-
cate; kind and amount of property losty injured, stolen^ and destroyed fronnfi or belonging
to his private residence at Tanugamanomo in the municipality of Apia.

1 bureau $12. 00

1 dining table 8.00

1 set drawers 10. 00

1 oak cupboard, 3 compartments 15. 00

4 dining chairs, $1.25 5. 00

2 rocking chairs, $3 6.00

1 cane deck chair 5. 00

1 child's table and chair 4. 00

1 basket trunk 7. 00

2 camphor wood trunks, $7 and $10 17. 00

1 hjana sewing machine, new 15. 00

5 lamps and hangings, $1 3. 00

1 music box, large 25. 00

1 music box, small 5. 00

1 work basket and contents — scissors, etc 5. 00

2 box irons $1 2.00

1 side saddle, English, almost new, pigskin 25. 00

1 child's saddle, bridle, cloth, etc 12. 00.

1 dozen, more or less, floor mats, almost new 20. 00

1 dozen, more or less, bed mats, new 15. 00

:20, more or less, Fiji, Rotumah, Line Island mats, new * 50. 00

2 dozen Tapa on beds, new 15. 00

1 Fao mat, new 8. 00

2 fine mats, "le Toga " 30. 00

7 large sheets, new, at $1 .75 12. 25

4 common sheets, at $1 4. 00

4 pillow cases, at 75 cents 3. 00

1 silk India bedspread 10. 00

3 blankets — 2 double and 1 single 10. 00

2 Mosquito curtains and canopies, at $6 12. 00

3 tablecloths, at $2.50, 7. 50

1 table cover 2. 50

1 table cover : 1. 00

2 large bath towels, at 75 cents 1. 50

5 smaller bath towels, at 50 cents 2. 50

4 feather pillows, at $2.50 10.00

1 trunk of clothing, etc 30. 00

4 dresses 10.00

A trimmed hats 10. 00

CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. 95

6 lava lavas $2. 50

1 gold brooch 12. 00

1 pair silver bracelets 8. 00

6 large fancy gilt photo stands, at |2.60 15. 00

8 smaller pnt)to stands, at 75 cents 6. 00

3 photo albums, at |2 6. 00

1 pair pictures and frames (Cleveland and wife) 10. 00

Xot photographs (can not be replaced) 10. 00

1 pair blue flannel pants 3. 00

1 blue flannel coat 5. 00

1 suit pajamas 2. 50

1 pair slippers 1. 00

Other clothing : 10. 00

Brushes, combs, and glass, etc 5. 00

Lot knives, forks, spoons, etc 5. 00

Lot dishes, etc 10. 00

Lot cooking utensils ; 10. 00

1 meat safe destroyed 5. 00

€ bamboo blinds, at $2 12. 00

1 tank, 600-gallon 20. 00

Poors broken 10. 00

Windows broken , 15. 00

Locks smadied 5. 00

Coat and hat hooks smashed off 2. 00

IRoof damaged, iron cut and torn off 5. 00

liOt of tools, etc., viz: Spades, shovels, crowbars, pitchforks, hoes, rakes,
axes, hatchets, hammers, saws, grindstone, whetstone, monkey wrenches,
vise, wire stretchers, nails, staples, screws, paints and oils, brushes ,
ladders, chain, rope, leather collars, wire netting, scythe, grass hook,

knives, brace and bits, screw drivers, chisels, bell, etc 50. 00

Tences cut down, wire and labor repairing 25. 00

Crates smashed, timber, posts, and labor 30. 00

15 padlocks, 8 chains 8. 00

About 80 imported and thoroughbred fowls 30. 00

3 pigs 25. 00

1 cow in milk 50. 00

1 race horse, L40/-/-, imported 200. 00

Labor repairing damage to land through building forts, etc 30. 00

Labor repairing damage to house and outbuildings 20. 00

Damage to house and fences on land near Apia called Leone 25. 00

Loss of rent of house in Apia, 1 month, at $8 8. 00

Loss of rent of house and store in Matautu, 2 months, at $10 20. 00

1, 161. 25

Schedule A. — Continued statement of claim of W. Blacklock referred to in att^iched cer-
tificate; hind and amount of froverty losty injuredy stolen^ or destroy ed^ from or belong^
ing to his trading station at Saluafata, on ike Island of Upolu, Samoa.

Front door and lock and spring bolts $7. 00

1 pane glass .25

2 window fasteners .25

Till, Tucker's alarm 2. 50

Iron safe 30. 00

2 door bolts 1. 00

1 pane glass .25

2 door locks 2. 00

1 stepladder 2. 50

600-pound platform scale 22. 00

2 steelyards, at $2.50 5. 00

2 cobra shovels 2. 00

1 rake .75

1 yam spade 1- 00

1 handsaw 2. 00

lax 1.25

1 shingle hatchet .75

3 tablespoons .50

1 screw driver .50

96 CLAIMS OF AMEKICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS,

1 small funnel $0. 13

1 drum coal tar 2. 00

1 roll wire netting (ullage) 2. 00

1 ladder, common 1. 50

1 zinc bucket .75

Piece rope .50

4 rowlocks 1. 00

3 12-foot oars, $1.75 5.25

1 anchor and chain 6. 00

1 boat 25. 00

1 bracket lamp 1. 50

1 stand lamp .50

1 counter scale , 2. 50

1 glass showcase 30. 00

3 linen window blinds and spring rollers, at |1.50 4. 50

3 mats 1.50

Can opener .25

4 knives, good quality 1. 50

4 forks, good quality .50

2 spoons .15

3 teaspoons .25

5 soup plates .75

3 dinner plates .50

4 cups and sauceip .75

1 sheath knife. .25

1 large knife .37

3 pie dishes .75

1 pie plate .12

1 agate baking dish 1. tX)

1 coffeepot 1. 00

1 fry pan .50

2 saucepans, $1.50 and $2 3. 50

1 teakettle 1.50

1 zinc bucket 1. 00

2 stools 1. 50

1 broom .50

1 stove complete 15. 00

1 piece pine, 3 by 4 by 24 1. 00

2 sheets 8-foot iron 2. 00

1 tall woodhorse 3. 00

1 hammock and hooks 4. 00

1 cupboard 5. 00

Hock 1.00

5 padlocks 2. 50

1 gate 5. 00

Damage to fence 5. 00

Labor repairing damage 15. 00

Expenses in connection with the breaking into and plundering the premises,

twice sending men from Apia to close the place 20. 00

261. 27

Schedule A-3. — Continued statement of claim of W. Blacklock, referred to in attached

certificate; kind and amount of property hat, injured, stolen, or destroyed from or
belonging to his trading station at Aleipata, on the island of Upolu, Samoa.

5 kegs beef, $3 $15.00

13 cases kerosene, $2.50 32. 50

Household stock — groceries from pantry 12. 50

12 axes, $1.25 15. 00

24 ax handles, 25 cents 6. 00

1 case soap 6. 00

1 case, J pound, meat, 12 dozen, $1.50 18. 00

1 dozen 14-inch knives, $6 6. 00

J dozen 20-inch knives, $12 6. 00

1 dozen ''pipe" knives, $9 9. 00

1 case Florida water, $3 3.00

10 bottles machine oil destroyed, $3 2. 50

CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. 97

Perfumery, assorted lot, destroyed $15. 00

} dozen umbrellas, $2.50 15. 00

3 dozen umbrellas and parasols, $1 each 36. 00

12 lamps, various, 75 cents 9. 00

Paints, assorted lot 5. 00

42 sais Samoan tobacco, $1 42. 00

1 bag shot 3. 00

12 fiflh spears 4. 00

5 dozen, } pound, beef and salmon, off shelves, $1 .50 7. 50

25 fish lines, 75 cents 18. 75

30 yards velvet, 50 cents 15. 00

40 yards llama, 16} cents 6. 66

500 yards common print, 8J cents 41. 66

300 yards calico, 8J cents 25. 00

Ink and stationery destroyed 5. 00

40 yards flannelette, 16} cents 6. 66

1 dozen leather belts, 50 cents 6. 00

80 yards clifton drill, 12i cents 10. 00

1 dozen sheaths, 25 cents each 3. 00

2 dozen chemises, best, $9 18. 00

Freight on goods removed to Apia to prevent them being stolen, and return-
ing them 15. 00

Passage for agent hrom Aleipata, he being threatened by the natives, and
' back, then return to Apia, in connection with the breaking into and

plundering the store 15. 00

Loss in busmess through having practically to close for 3 months, with

expenses running on, per monm, $200 600. 00

1, 053. 73

William Blaceloce — Claimant's Exhibit C.

City op Sydney, State of New SoiUh W(des, Australia:

Be it known that on the 10th day of March, 1911, before me, Charles Albert Lau-
rence, a notary public practicing in Sydney, at the Mutual Life Buildings, George
Street, personally came William Blacklock, to me known to be the individual de-
scribed m and who executed the attached power of attorney, and acknowledged the
same to be his act and deed.

C. A. Laurence,
Notary Public in Sydney ^ New South Wales.

Gesehen im Kaiseriich Deutschen General- Konsulat in Sydney zur Beglaubigung
vorstehender Unterschrift des Hiesigen oeffentlichen Notars.

C. A. Laurence.

Sydney, den 16. Maerz 1911. Der Kaiseriich Deutsche General- Konsul.

I. V.

(Srempel) gez. Bunz. Gebuehr nach Pos. 20 des Tarifs M 10,.- sh 10/- No. 37.

This is the power of attorney referred to in the annexed certificate.

C. A. Laurence,

Notary Public,

POWER OF attorney.

Know all men by these presents that I, William Blacklock, of the city of Sydney,
New South Wales, Australia, have made, constituted, and appointed, and by these
presents do make, constitute, and appoint, Herbert G. Brown, of Apia, Samoa, merchant,
my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name, place, and stead, to deal with all
lands in Upolu, Samoa, whereof I am or may be in any way entitled or interested, to
sell or lease the same or any part or parcel thereof, for such a sum or price, and on
such terms, as to him shall seem meet, and for me and in my name to make, execute,
acknowledge, and deliver good and sufficient deeds and conveyances for the same.
To ask, demand, recover and receive any or all sum of money which may be due or
which shall become due and owing to me, and to take all lawful ways and means for
the recovery thereof. To execute and deliver sufficient disehaiges and acquittances
thereof. To generally act for me in Upolu in all matters, giving and granting nnto my
said attorney full power and authority to do and perform all and every act and thing,
whatsoever requisite and necessary to be done, as fully, to all intents and purposes,

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98 CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

as I might or could do if personally present, hereby ratifying and confirming all that
my saidattomey shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue thereof.

In witness whereof I have nereunto set my hand and seal the 16th day of February
in th^ year 1911.

(Signed) W. Blacklock.

Die vorstehende Abschrift wird hiermit beglaubigit.

Apia, den 13. Juli, 1911. Der Polizei-Vorsteher, I. V. [Signature illegible].
Signed and sealed in the presence of —

(Signed) J. P. Harper,

Clerk to W. Blacklock.

C. A. Laurence,
Notary Public in Sydney, N. S. W.

William Blacklock — Claimant's Exhibit D.

J. R. B., vice consul, U. S. A.

Per "Namua." Aleipata, 17 July, 1911,

Dear Mr. Brown : Yours of the 13th July to hand on the 15th instant re American
Grovemment commissioner. I am sorry to say that neither Mr. Laban nor myself will
be able to come. Mr. Laban only returned nere on the 12th after a lengthy visit to
Apia. At the time the store was broken into I was in Apia and although afterwards
I made out W. B.'s claim I can not now recollect much about it. I remember this
much, that he promised to pay me my wages, $80 for the two months wasted, when he
got his claim settled, and if ever the claim is paid I shall expect to eet it.

Herewith I send you particulars of the looting, signed by Mr. Laban, which should
be of use to you in support of W. B.'s claim.

Yours, truly, J. Turner.

W. Blacklock store at Satitoa, Aleipata, looted and damaged during the last war.

Store broken into by natives from Falefaa smashing a panel out of the front door and
creeping through. Goods removed to the extent of about 1800, very little of which
was recovered, and that at ^reat personal risk to myself, who followed the boat contain-
ing them to Samusu, where it had stopped in consequence of the rough weather, and by
the aid of the Chief Tuisiloo (now dead) ^t back what little they had not made on
with or destroyed, as also some meat buried in the sand and spoiled . The damage inside
the store was considerable, show case smashed and emptied, and meat tins — of which
they had eaten the contents — filled with excrement and put therein, prints thrown about
and damaged. Four days afterwards natives from Vasau entered the store and carried
off all the meat.

W. Laban.

Aleipata, 17ik July, 1911,

Witness:

J. Turner, Aleipata.

NO. 9. CHABLES L. NETZLEB.

Aloff Roback.

Q. Where did you live in March, 1899 ? — A. In FagaUi, just outside
the municipality of Apia.

Q. Did you tnen know the claimant, Charles L. Netzler? — A. Yes.

Q. Did you know of any property what he then owned in and about
Apia?— A. Yes; he had some land in Pesega and some at Taufusi.

Q. What buildings, if any, did he have on the Pesega place ? — ^A.
A two-stpry dwelling house of four rooms.

Q. Any other buifiings ? — ^A. No.

Q. Do you know what he then had in this house ? — ^A. I was along
there nearly every Sunday and remember that the house was full of
furniture, he was living there. He had sofa, chairs, box fuU of glasses,
tables. All the four rooms were furnished ; there was one sitting room,
two bedrooms.

CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS, 99

Q. Did he have any live stock on the place at this time ? — ^A. Yes ; he
had four or five pi^s and some fowls; ao not know how many.

Q. Was the land around the house under cultivation ? — ^A. Yes, all
of it; m coconut trees, breadfruit, taro, and bananas.

Q. How much land ? — A. I do not know.

Q. Did you see this place during the war? — ^A. Yes; the Sunday
after the battle at Fagalii, which occurred on April 1, 1899.

Q. What did you see there then ? — ^A. Everything in the house was
smashed, bedsteads, chairs, tables, glasses — all broken up. There
was not a whole piece of furniture left. The window panes were
broken and the doors broken up, the bedclothes were lying all
around the floor.

Q. Any damage to the house except the doors and windows ? — ^A.
No.

Q, Did you then see any live stock on the place ? — A. No ; nothing.

Q. Do you know who did the damage ? — A. No.

Q, Did you see Mr. Netzler\s property at Taufusi soon before the
war? — ^A. Yes; a week or two.

Q. How much land did he have there ?— A. I can not tell.

Q. What buildings were on this land ? — A. One, of two rooms, used
as a dwelling house; it was a wooden house.

Q. Do you know what was in the house just before the war? — A.
No.

Q. Any live stock on this place then? — ^A. Yes; a lot of pigs and
fowls.

Q. Do you know to whom they belonged ? — ^A. To Netzler.

Q. Was he working the place himself ? — ^A. Yes.

Q. Was the place under cultivation ? — A. All of it in coconuts,
breadfruit, and bananas.

Q. Did you see this place during the war? — A. Yes; on the same
day I saw the Pesega property.

Q. What was the condition of the place then ?~ A. The house was
all broken open, the windows and doors were smashed, there was
nothing whatsoever in the house. The fowls and pigs were all gone.

Q. Do you know who did the damage?— A. No.

Q. Do you know anything of the values of the property which was
damaged or destroyed as you have stated ? — ^A. No.

Q. Have you any interest, direct or indirect, in this claim ? — A. No*

Q. Is that all you know about this claim? — A. Yes.

Q. Did you notice anv damage to the crops or trees on either of
these properties? — ^A. No; I did not take any notice.

Caroline Netzler:

Q. Are you the wife of the claimant, Charles L. Netzler? — A. Yes.

Q. How long have you been his wife ? — A. Twelve years.

Q. Were you living with him as his wife in March, 1899 ? — A. Yes.

Q. Where ?— A. In Apia.

Q. What property did he own at that time, if any? — A. He had
land at Pesega, lilotootua, and at Taufusi.

Q. Do you know how much at either place? — ^A. No.

Q. Did he have any buildings on the land at Pesega at the time ? —
A. A house with four rooms and a fowl house and pig fence.

Q. Who lived there then? — A. A black boy and nis wife.

Q. What was in the house ? — A. Furniture, chairs, tables, and sofa;
a bedstead.

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Q. Was there any liye stock on the place ? — A. Yes; pigs and fowls;
do not know how many.

Q. Was the land under cultivation ? — A. Yes; there were coconut
trees, breadfruit, bananas, and taros.

Q. What buildings, if any, were on the Motootua place? — A. A
two-room wooden house and shed.

Q. Who lived there ? — A. A Samoan man and his wife.

Q. What was on the land? — A. Trees, coconuts, bananas, bread-
fruit, and cotton.

Q. What was in the house ? — A. Some photos and chairs.
. Q. Anything else ? — A. No.

'Q. Any live stock there? — A. Yes; fowls, pigs, and horses; do not
know how many.

Q. Who owned all the property ? — A. Mr. Netzler.

Q. Did not any of it belong to the people who were living in these
houses? — A. No.

Q. Was there any building on the land at Taufusi? — A. A little
house.

Q. Who lived there ? — A. A black boy and his wife.

Q. What WAS in this house? — A. I do not remember; did not go
in the house.

Q. Was there any live stock on the place? — A. ?i^.

Q. What was on the land ? — A. Breadfruit, coconuts, and bananas.

Q. Did you see the Pesega property soon after the war ? — ^A. About
a week afterwards.

Q. What did you see there then ? — A. Everything was smashed up;
the sofa, tables, and chairs were taken away, and so were all the fowls
and pi^.

Q. How soon after the war did you see the Motootua property ? —
A. At the same time,

Q. What did you see there? — A. Just the same as at Pesega.

Q. How about the Motootua property; when did you see that? —
A. At the same tune.

Q. What did you see there? — A. The posts on the veranda were
broken.

Q. Anything else ? — A. No.

Q. Do you know anything about who did all this damage you have
described? — A. No.

Q. Do you know anything about the value of the property which
you said was damaged and destroyed ? — A. No.

Q. Is there anything more that you wish to say about this case ? —
A. No.

Q. Are you a Samoan ? — A. Half-caste.

Charles Netzler.

Q. Where were you born ? — A. In Denmark. When I was 7 years
old, I went to Sweden.

Q. Were you naturalized in Sweden ? — A. I took the oath of alle-
giance when I shipped on a Swedish vessel in 1859.

Q. State whether or not you are a citizen of the United States. —
A. I am.

Q. How did you become a citizen of the United States? — A. By
naturalization.

Q. In what court were you naturaUzed? — ^A. In San Francisco.
I have forgotten the name of the court.

CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. 101

Q. In what year were you naturalized % — A. In 1886.

Q. Have you your naturalization certificate? — A. I haven't it
here. It is at home. [Witness at this point sent his wife home for
the certificate.]

Q. Have you since your naturalization declared allegiance to any
other Government ? — A. No.

Q. Have you done anything to cause you to lose your United
States citizenship? — A. Nothing; but that I haven't tne money to
return to the United States to live.

Q. When did you leave the United States after naturalization? —
A. In 1886.

Q. When did you come to Samoa? — A. In 1867.

Q. How long did you stay there ? — A. Off and on for about eight
years, sailing sometimes.

Q. Where did you go then? — A. I went sailing. Had no house;
lived on board ship.

Q. How long did you continue sailing ? — ^A. For about three years,
or until 1878.

Q. On what vessels did you sail? — A. On a German vessel out of
Samoa, on a British ship from Sydney, New South Wales and on
an American ship, Ada May, from San Francisco.

Q. For how much of the time were you on this American vessel ? —
A. About two years.

Q. After 1878, where did you go? — A. I started business in Apia.

Q, How long did you continue in that business? — A. Until 1901.

Q. Then, when you were naturalized you lived in Apia? — A. Yes.
I went up to San Francisco to be naturalized.

Q. When did you declare your intention to become a citizen of
the United States ?— A. In 1876.

Q. Where have you lived since 1901 ? — A. In Samoa.

Q. Have you ever resided in the United States ? — ^A. No.

Q. State whether your residence in Samoa is temporary or per-
manent. — A. I believe it has got to be permanent, i am too old to
go away, and haven^t got the means.

Q. State whether or not you intend to return to the United States
to live permanently. — A. No; I do not.

Q. State whether or not your residence abroad is solely or prin-
cipally as a representative of American trade and ccmmerce. — A. It
is not.

Q. State whether or not your residence in Samoa is for the pur-
poses of education. — A. It is not.

Q. Is your residence in Samoa for reasons of health ? — A. In one
wav it is, for if I should return to the United States I should die in
a snort time. I could not stand the change of climate.

Q. Have you ever, during your residence in Samoa, had an inten-
tion of returning to the United States to live ? — A. Yes ; in the early
part of the nineties.

Q. What prevented you from going? — A. My store was burned
down and I lost all my property, as my eight houses were burned at
the same time. My insurance was very small. My loss was about
$10,000 and insurance was $3,012. This was in 1895.

Q. How did you prove your case to entitle you to naturalization ? —
A. it was necessary for me to declare my intention to become an

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American citizen that I might act as officer on American merchant
vessels.

Q. Do you understand that such service entitled you to such
naturalization ? — A. I was under the impression that it did.

Q. Did you ever reside in the United States ?— A. No.

Q. Were you in Apia, Samoa, during the months of March, April,
and May, 1899 ?— A. Yes.

Q. What was your business at that time ? — ^A. General-storekeeper.

Q. Of what country were you then a citizen ? — A. Of the Umted
States.

Q. State whether or not there was anything unusual occurred in
Samoa during those months ?— A. Yes. Mataafa and Malietoa were
fighting and the British and Americans were helping Malietoa.

Q. Was any of your property injured or destroyed in that war ? — ^A.
Yes. Three different kncfa.

Q. State bv whom it was injured or destroyed? — ^A. Some of it
was destroyed by the Mataafa people about the 15th or 16th of March.
About two or three weeks after other damage was done to my property
by the Malietoa people. I did not see this done myself, but have
heard and suppose this to be the case.

(^. State by items such of your property as was injured or damaged
giving the value of each item ?

The witness here presents a paper giving such itemized statement,
sajdng that he swears that it is the copy of the estimate of his
claim made soon after the losses were suffered, that the original which
he has now changed a little omitting some items for which he does not
now care to charge, was made up by him immediately after the war,
when he went around to his properties and noted down the losses.
He asks that it be received in evidence. [Received and marked
"Claimant's Exhibit A."]

Q. How many pieces of real estate had you in and about Apia in
March, 1899? — ^A. Three; at Pesega, Motootua, and Taufusi, all in
the municipality of Apia.

Q. How mucn land did you have at Pesega? — A. About 3i acres.

Q. Have you now your naturalization certificate ? — ^A. Yes.

Q. I hand you herewith a paper and ask you what it is ? — ^A. My
naturalization certificate.

Q. I also mark this as " Exhibit B '' and attach it to your deposition
if you have no objection to my taking it to Washington. — A. You
mav take it, if the consul will give me a certified copy.

Q. Did you have a house on your Pesega place ? — ^A. Yes; a $1,500
house.

Q. Are you claiming for damages to the house ? — A. Only for a few
panes of window glass.

Q. How many rooms in the house? — A. Four rooms downstairs
and one half story above 4 feet high with roof running to a peak.

Q. Did you live there ? — A. I had lived there but moved to town
in 1897. Left my furniture at Pesega in charge o£.a native caretaker
and his wife.

Q. Were they working the place for you ? — A. Yes.

Q. Why did you leave such articles as a watchmaker's regulator^
sextant, charts, etc., at Pesega? — A. Because after being burned out
in town, I thought these articles were safer in Pesega.

CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. 103

Q. How much, respectively, did the regulator and sextant cost
you ?— A. $30 and $38.

Q. Is it true that you are charging for all these articles what they
cost vou ? — A. No; 1 am allowing for wear and tear for those articles
which are subject to that.

Q. Do you think you could have sold the regulator and sextant for
what they cost you ? — ^A. Perhaps not.

Q. How much did you pay for the microscope ? — A. $5.

Q. How much for the rifle? — A. About $10, and $5 more to the
Government for importing it.

Q. How much did you pay for the four-wheeler ? — ^A. $50.

Q. How much did you pay for the meerschaum pipes ? — ^A. I think
$5 each.

Q. What arrangement did you have with this native who was living
in your house? — ^A. He was paid $10 a month and raised food for
himself and also for me; brought it to me in Apia.

Q. What size taro patch was there? — ^A. Aoout one-fourth of an
acre.

Q. About how many taro plants will grow on an acre of ground ? — A.
Six thousand or seven thousand.

Q. How many coconut trees on this place? — A. About 100.

Q. How long before the war had you seen your Pesega place ? —
A. About a week.

Q. When, after the war, did you first go there ? — A. Went out there
before the war was finished several times — four or five.

Q. What did you see when you first entered the house ? — A. Part
of the furniture was carried away and all the rest was broken up.

Q. Did you see your regulator then? — A. Yes; all broken up.

Q. Did you see your sextant then? — A. No; it was gone.

Q. Did you save anything then? — A. I think only a few photo-
graphs.

Q. Why could you not have gone out and saved property before ? —
A. Because the natives were camped all around the place. I did not
go untU the Mataafa forces had withdrawn farther back.

Q. Did you have any notice of the beginning of the war? — A. No;
only there were rumors that there was to be a bombardment by the
British and American vessels. This bombardment started the war.

Q. Why did you not go out to save your property after hearing the
rumors? — ^A. We could not get any natiyes to work for us. They
were all getting ready for war, and besides we were excited and didn't
think of these things.

Q. And yet you say you had your best furniture and belongings at
Pesega? — A. Yes.

Q. How large was your place at Motootua ? — A. Eighteen acres.

Q. House on it in 1899, March? — ^A. Yes.

Q. How large? — ^A. Sixteen by twenty-four with two verandas;
European house.

Q. When did you buy this place?— A. In 1889 or 1890.

Q. How much did you pay for it? — A. $100 an acre, and put up
the house and fences on it.

Q. How much under cultivation? — A. All of it in coconuts.

Q. Who was living on this place? — A. A native and his wife —
working it on shares for me.

104 CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

Q. Did you visit the place often before the war? — A. Yes; I often
went there to work, and every Sunday I went out.

Q. How much copra did you have on this place in March, 1899 ? —
A. I couldn^t tell; hadn^t weighed it, but I think about 2 tons.

Q. How much would get for it ? — A. I would sell it to the traders
for about 2J cents a pound.

Q. How many nuts did you get from this place in the spring of
1899?— A. About 3,000 a month.

Q. What did you do with these ? — A. Made them into copra, sold
them to planters for new planting, and fed them to hogs.

Q. How much copra did you get from 1,000 nuts? — A. About 500
pounds. These nuts were better than the average.

Q. How much land did you have at Taufusi? — A. About 5 acres.

Q. When did you buy that?— A. In 1887.

Q. How much did you pay for it? — A. Paid $450, and put im-
provements on it before March, 1899, to the value of about $750.

Q. What buildings did you have on it? — A. Small European
house about 12 by 24, and a chicken house about 8 by 12.

Q. Did you visit this place shortly before the war? — A. About a
month.

Q. Did you visit this place during the war? — A. Yes. About a
week after the hostilities ceased.

Q. Describe what condition you found the place in. — A. Three
veranda posts were gone, doors and windows had disappeared, all
fences were cut down, chicken house was all gone. Didn't take
notice of trees cut down.

Q. Your original claim includes the items of nuts and fruit trees at
Taufusi. Do you wish now to claim for these? — A. No; I am only
claiming for these items at Taufusi: One fowl house, lean-to, veranda
posts, doors, shutters, fences, and gates; total, $96.

Q. In your items of claims for such articles as shears, lamps, etc.,
are you cnarging what the articles cost you ? — A. No; I am deducting
about 20 per cent for wear and tear.

Q. Have you ever, directly or indirectly, recovered any article
lost? — A. No; none that is charged for.

Q. Have you ever received, directly or indirectly, any compensation
from any person or Government for the damages referred to? — A.
No.

Q. State whether or not, during the entire term of the war or mili-
tary operation in question, you took any part for or against any fac-
tion, or party engaged in or having a part in such operations. — A. I
did not.

Q. State whether or not you maintained a position of strict neu-
trality. — A. I did.

Q. Do you know anything further that you care to say about this ? —
A. Nothing, except tnat I became a citizen of the United States in
good faith, and iir there is any doubt about it now, there wasn^t in
1899. I had American protection then. I would have put in my
dlaim as a Swede, if I had not supposed myself an American. I could
not put in my claim as a Swede when I had foresworn allegiance
to the King of Sweden. If I had been a Swedish subject, my claim
would probably have been paid long ago.

CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. 105

Charles Fredrick Netzler being duly sworn testified as
follows :

Q. What is your full name ? — A. Charles Fredrick Netzler.

Q. Where were you born ? — A. Flannsburg, Denmark.

Q. What year?— A. 1844.

Q. When did you first come to Samoa? — A. 1867.

Q. Had you resided in America before that time ? — A. I never
resided in America before that time.

Q. Have you ever resided in America since that time ? — A. I have
never resided in America, only on board of a ship off the shore.

Q. You have testified before in the matter or your claim that you
served on board of the Ada May, an American vessel from San Fran-
cisco. How long did you serve, and between what dates ? — A. I left
here on board of the Ada ifoy July, 1876. I returned on board of the
Ada May to Samoa in November, 1877.

CJ. In what capacity did you serve on board of the Ada May ? — ^A.
Chief mate.

Q. What voyages did you make on that vessel? — A. Four voy-
ages.

Q. What was the length of time of each voyage ? — A. Four months
and a half.

Q. How long did you serve as chief mate on board of the Ada
May'i — A. Eighteen months.

Q. Who owned the Ada May at that time? — A. David Parker,
Thomas Dixon, of Samoa, and tne Jennings Bros., of San Francisco.

Q. Were all these parties American ? — A. No; Dixon was a Britisher,
Parker & Jennings Bros, were Americans.

Q. Did she fly the American flag? — A. Yes.

Q. Was she registered and where? — A. I presume she was regis-
tered in San Francisco.

Q. Upon the termination of your service aboard the Ada May did
you receive a certificate of discharge and good conduct? — A. I did,
and have it here [thereupon exhibited said discharge].

Q. Have you ever served on any other merchant American ves-
sel ? — A. No, sir.

Q. Did you ever make out your declaration of intention to become
an American citizen ? — A. I did in San Francisco as soon as we arrived
from Samoa in September, 1876.

Q. Up to that time had you served upon any American ship before
your arrival from Apia? — A. No, sir.

Q. When you presented yourself to the court for naturalization as
an American citizen upon what ground did you claim such naturaliza-
tion? — ^A. On the ground of my declaration of intention papers.

Q. Did you present to the court your certificate of discharge and
good conduct from the Ada Mayl — A. I did not; I was not asked.

Q. How long were you connected as chief officer with the Ada
May'i — A. About 18 months.

Q. Since returning to Samoa in 1877 at the termination of your
service on board of the Ada May^ have you ever resided in the United
States of America? — A. No; only traveling through en route from
San Francisco to New York. Only once.

106 CLAIMS OF AMEKICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

Charles Netzler, Exhibit A.

J. R. B., vice consul, U. S. A.

Pesega estate.

Furniture, 1 Wiena Sofa, $10; 1 Wiena rocker, |10 |20. 00

2 Arm chairs, $10; 4 chairp, $8 18. 00

Damage to Iron Bedstead, $5; damage to Watchmakers* Regulator, $30 35, 00

1 Lot charts, $40; 1 Sextant, $38 78. 00

1 Am. Sadie, $20; 1 Am. Sadie cloth, $3; 1 Bridle, $1.50; 1 Whip, $0.75. ... 25. 25

Dam. to Harnes, $15; to hand cart, $5;to 4 Wheel buggy, $0.50 20. 50

1 Grate, $5; dam to Vire fences and posts, $5 lOL 00

2 Lamps (1 Hanging, $3; 1 Hand, $0.50) 3. 50

6 Pots, $6 ; 1 Fry pan, $1 7. 00

9 clarret glasses, $6.75; 6 Tumblers, $0.75; 17 Plates and Cups, $2:25 9. 25

3 Vegetable dishes, $1.50; 2 Meat dishes, $1.50 3. 00

4 Panes Window glasses, $2 ; 1 Teaketle, $2 4. 00

1 Tesching Rifle, $9; 500 Cartridges, $5 14. 00

1 Pigion holes for writing desk, $15 1 Night comode, $8 23. 00

1 Side sadle dam., $10; 1 Mikroscope, $5 15.00

Tools. 1 Monkey wrench, $1; 3 Saws, $31; Plane, $1.25; 6 Chissels, $7.25. 12. 50

1 Square, $1; 1 Hammer, $1 2.00

80 Chickens, $5; 2 Meershaum pipes, $8 13. 00

Ix)st Knifes, forks, and spoons 3. 75

3 Bed mats, $0.75; 2 Bed mats, $2.50; 2 pillows, $2; 1 sheet $0.50 5. 75

1 Jug, $0.75; 2 pots, $4; 2 Buckets, $1 ' 5. 75

3 Spades, $3.25; 3 Axes, $4.25; 1 Horse rope, $0.75 8. 25

6 Mats, $2.25; clothing, $5; 3 Hats, $2.25 »; 50

4 Plates, $l;lEnam. Cup, $0.25 1.25

1 chest of drawers, dam. , $5; 4 Decanters Cristal, $8 13. 00

3 pairs Wind curtains, $4.50; 2 curtain poles, $5 9. 50

1 pc. 6x6x20 Redwood, $4.20; 1 Ladder, $3 7. 20

1 4-wheel work wagon destroyed, $50 50. 00

1 Bak pan, $0. 75; 6 coll. glas lanterns, $3 , 3. 75

1 Tin 2B Meat, $0.25; 1 do. Fruit, $0.25; 1 do. Sardines, 12i 62i

1 Bar Soap, $0.25 25

432. 07i

LOSSES IN THE WAR, 1899.

Motootv/1 estate,

6 panes of glas, $3; 3 door locks, $3 $6. 00

1 Veranda post 2. 00

Cutting to pieces and shifting Sched 20x60 50. 00

3 gates, $15; 1 600 Gall. Tank, $35 50. 00

Damage to vire fences and posts 50. 00

Loss of 2 Horses, $25, $10 35. 00

Loss of 13 fulgrown pigs, $130; 15 young, $45 175. 00

Loss of 178 chickens 44. 00

Loss of 2 Sadies, $25; 1 do. cloth, $2; 1 Bridle, $5 32.00

Loss of 3 Spades, $3; 1 Crowbar, $1.50; 3 pictures, $4.50 9. 00

Loss of crockery, Plates, dishes, $2.25; 4 Basins, $0.50 2. 75

Loss of 3 Knifes 1. 00

Loss of Tools, 1 Hamer, $1; 1 Saw, $2; 1 Virestrainer, $2.50 5. 50

Loss of 2 Axes, $2.50; 1 Lot Nails, $1 3. 50

Loss of 20 Btls Coal oil, $1; 1 Gros Matches, $0.75; 4 Horse ropes, $1 2. 75

2 Mosquito screens, $6.25; 1 Bed stead, $10 16. 25

4 Bars Soap, $1; 1 Fowling piece (Shot gun), $5 6. 00

1 Native cook house, $5; 1 Shed, $5 10. 00

2 Tarroas, $10; $1.50 11. 50

3 Lamps, $1.50; 1 Lantern, $1.25 2. 75^

20 Sheets (old) Corr. Iron, $2.50; Krib, $1.75 4. 25

2 Charcoal Irons 2. 50

522. 75

CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. 107

TaufvM estate.

1 Fowl house, $20; or Dam. to dwell house Lean to^ $8 $28.00

4 Verandah poets, $4; 1 Door, $2; Shuters, $2 8. 00

Damage to Fences and gates 60. 00

96.00

Lose of imported fruit trees, $20; Samoan do., $23 43. 00

Loss of produs Motootua 275. 00

Loss of produs Pesega 20. 00

295.00
797. 75
595. 39
-96.00

Total 1,403.87

Charles Netzler, Exhibit B.
J R. B., vice consul. United States of America.

United States of America.

RECORD OP naturalization.

In the District Court of the United States for the District of California.
In the matter of the naturalization of Charles Frederick Netzler.

Be it remembered, that on this 20th day of April, A. D. 1886, being a day in the
April term, A. D. 1886, of said court, Charles Frederick Netzler, a native of Sweden,
an alien, and late a subject of the King of Sweden and Norway, appeared in said
court and applied to be admitted a citizen of the United States of America, pursuant
to the acts of Congress in relation thereto: and having then produced and exhibited
to the court a certified copy of his declaration of intention to become a citizen of
the United States of America, made in the fourth district court, city and county
of San Francisco, Cal., on the 10th day of August, 1876, and proved by tJie oaths of
A. A. Hooper and D. S. Parker, citizens of the United States; his residence within
the United States for the last five years and his residence within the State for the
last year and by said witnesses and other satisfactory proofs that he is entitled to
be made a citizen of the United States: and having on oath then declared before
said court that he will support the Constitution of the United States of America,
and that he doth absolutely and entirely renounce and adjure all allegiance and
fidelity to every foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty whatever, and par-
ticularly to Oscar II, King of Sweden and Norway, of whom he has hitherto been
a subject.

Whereupon it is ordered by the court that said Charles Frederick Netzler be ad-
mitted, and he is hereby adjudged and declared to be a citizen of the United States
of America.

In open court:

Geo. M. Satin,
United States District Judge, District of Nevada, Presiding.

Attest:

Southard Hoffman,

Clerh of said District Court,
Clerk's Office, United States District Court,

District of California, ss:

I, Southard Hoffman, clerk of the District Court of the United States for the Dis-
trict of Csdifomia, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true, and correct
copy of a record now remaining in ray office.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court,
at San Francisco, the 20th day of April, A. D. 1886, and of the independence of the
United States the one hundred and tenth.

Southard Hoffman, Clerk.

[seal.] J. S. Manley, Deputy Clerk

108 CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

NO. 10. CHABLES FBTJEAK, SB.

Bessie.

Q. What do you know about the claim of Charles Fruean against
the United States growing out of the naval and military operations
in and about Apia in March, April, and Majr, 1899 ? — ^A. I am a relative
of Mr. Fruean's family and often visited him at his places at Papauta
and Apia.

Q. How long before the war had you been to this Papauta place ? —
A. Between the first and second wars.

Q. Was there any damage done there by the first war ? — ^A. One of
the houses was cut down m the first war, and some of the coconut
trees were also cut down.

Q. What did you see on the place on the occasion of the visit you
have mentioned? — A. Pigs ana fowls, taro and kava; don't know
how many of any, and there was one house still standing. The mats
were there and everything inside the house was all right. There
were some coconut trees.

Q. When did you see the place after the second war? — A. Right
after the war.

Q. Describe the condition of the place then? — A. The house was
all gone, the taro and kava, pigs and chickens were all gone, and most
of the coconut trees were cut down. All the furniture of the house
was gone.

Q. When did you last see the Apia house of Mr. Fruean's before the
second war? — A. Was there every few days.

Q. Was any damage done to the house in the first war ? — A. Some
posts were broken and windows and doors.

Q. Was this damage repaired before the second war? — A. Yes.

Q. When did you see this place after the second war? — A. Right
away afterwards.

Q. What was its condition then ? — A. The doors and windows '
were broken and the floor damaged by axes.

Q. Is there anything more you care to say about the case ? — A. No.

Charles Fruean.

Q. Where were you born? — A. In Apia.

Q. State whether or not you are a citizen of the United States. —
A. Yes.

Q. Have you ever declared allegiance to any other Government ? —
A. No.

Q. State whether or not you have done anything to cause you to
lose your American citizenship. — A. No, sir.

Q. How was your citizenship acquired? — Because my father was
always recognized as an American citizen.

Q. Do you know where he was born? — A. Boston, Mass.

Q. When did he come to Samoa? — A. Before any religion came
here, before 1833.

Q. Is your father living or dead ? — A. Dead.

Q. When did he die? — A. About 30 years ago.

Q. Where ? — A. Here in Samoa.

Q. What was your mother's name ? — A. Mary Ann.

Q. What race was she ? — A. Samoan.

Q. Were your father and mother married ? — A. Yes.

CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. 109

Q. When ? — A. Don't know the date, but they were married, so I
understand, bv Mr. Stair, a missionary.

Q. When did your mother die ? — A. About 20 years ago.

Q. Did they bve together as husband and wife up to the time of
your father's death? — A. Yes.

Q. Were you ever registered as an American citizen, in the Ameri-
can consulate at Apia ? — A. No.

Q. Are any of your family, so far as vou know? — ^A. No.

Q. Have you any evidence as to the place of birth of your father ? —
A. No, sir.

Q. Have you any evidence of the marriage of your parents? —
A. No.

Q. Have you ever seen any letters received by your father from
the United States? — A. Yes; from his brother, Sargeant Fruean,
his sister. Sarah Fruean, and his brother's son, Edward, written just
after the Civil War *m Ainerica. These told about Sargeant being in
the war and coming out without a scratch.

Q. State whether or not your residence in Samoa is temporary or
permanent. — ^A. Permanent.

Q. Were you living in Apia, Samoa, in March, April, and May,
1899?— A. Yes.

Q. What was your occupation at that time? — A. Planting.

Q. Of what country were you then a citizen ? — A. Of the United
States.

Q. State whether or not anything unusual occurred in Samoa dur-
ing those months. — A. Yes; a war between Mataafa and Malietoa,
in which the English and Americans fought for Malietoa.

Q. Was any of your property injured or destroyed in that war ? —
A. Yes.

Q. State by whom it was so injured or destroyed. — A. The Mataafa
party.

Q. Where was this property located? — ^A. Some in Papituta, a
suburb of Apia, and some m Apia itself.

Q. What land did you then own, if any, in either of these places ? —
A. Ten acres here in Papauta and about an acre here in Apia.

Q. What buildings, if any, did you have on either of the places? —
A. Two Samoan houses in Papauta, and a European house in Apia.

Q. How did you become the owner of these places ? — ^A. I bought
the one in Papauta from a German, and the one in Apia belonged to
my wife.

Q. About when did you buy the land in Papauta ? — A. About 1892.

Q. How much did you pay for it ? — A. $200. It was then all bush
land; not any of it under cultivation.

Q. State by items such of your property as was destroyed, giving
the value of each item so destroyed.

The witness here presents a paper and asks that it be received in
evidence.

Q. I show you this paper and ask you what it is? — ^A. This is a
list which I recently made up, giving my best recollection of all my
losses.

Q. Where was all this property located at the time of the war ? —
A. The carpenter tools, boat, meat safe, crockery, treadle sewing
machine, and most of the clothing was in Apia. The balance at
Papauta.

110 CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

Q. Where did you live when the war started ? — ^A. I lived in Papa-
uta, but we came down to Mulinuu about a day before the war started.
The word came out from the Admiral for aU the people in the bush to
come to town.

Q. Did you see any fighting men around your place before you
started? — A. No; but we met them on the road on the way down.
(By witness:) I mean to say that the day before the fighting started
I caB&B. to Apia from Papauta^ and the next day I left my Apia house
and went to Mulinuu to get out of the way of the shells.

Q. Did you bring anything with you from Papauta to Apia? —
A. I brought all our clothing,

Q. Anything else ? — ^A. No.

Q. Why not ? — ^A. We might have brought the mats, but we though
they would be safe, as they were put up m the tops of the houses.

Q. Who were living with you at Papauta at the time ? — ^A. Only
me and my wife; aJl tTie children were m Apia.

Q. When did you next see your plantation? — A. When the war
stopped, in about two months.

Q. What was the condition of the place then ? — A. The houses were
smashed flat to the ground; the taro and kava was all gone; so were
the mats, pigs, and fowls — everything.

Q. How long did you stay in Mulinuu ? — ^A. All. through the war.

Q. Did your house in Apia remain closed during all this time?
A. Yes.

Q. Where was this house? — ^A. Just back of Pettibone's hotel,
which fronted the beach.

Q. Why didn't you live in your house during the war ? — ^A. Because
no one was allowed to live in a house back from the beach.

Q. When did you go back to your house in Apia? — A. When the
war was over.

Q. What did you see there then ? — A. Everything was smashed up.

Q. Didn't you lock the house when you left? — ^A. Yes.

Q. How, then, did anybody get into your house? — ^A. They
smashed the doors and windows down.

Q. Weren't there soldiers about there then? — ^A. Yes.

Q. Now, wasn't it in the first or January war that your Apia house
was damaged ? — ^A. Some in the first and some in the second.

Q. Did you lose any clothes in the first war ? — A. Yes.

Q. Out of your house in Apia? — A. Yes..

Q. Did you lose any tools in the first war ? — ^A. Yes; aU of the tools
were gon e in the first war.

Q. Was vour boat for which you are claiming lost in the first war ? —
A. In the nrst war.

Q. How about the crockery and cooking utensils ? — ^A. All lost in
the first war; I remember now, and the machines.

Q. How about the damage to your dwelling house ? — ^A. That was
done in the second war — doors and windows smashed down.

Q. Where did you and your family stay during the first war? — ^A.
At Peter Fabricius's house.

Q. All left your own house ? — A. Yes.

Q. Did you ever recover any of the property lost from your plan-
tation? — ^A. No.

Q. Did you ever receive any compensation therefor from any
person or government? — ^A. No.

CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA^ SAMOAN ISLANDS. Ill

Q. Did you take any part in either of these wars, for or against any
side or faction ? — A. No,

Q. How long had you been living on the plantation when the war
broke out? — ^A. About 10 years.

Q. When you moved there, did you start planting right away? —
A. Yes.

Q. What did you plant ? — ^A. Coconut, breadfruit, yams, cocoa,
and taro.

Q. How much taro had you when the war broke out? — A. Never
counted.

Q. How manj^ coconut trees had you then? — ^A. Three hundred
and fifty trees — -just started bearing.

Q. Alter the first war did you buy crockery, cooking utensils for
your house in Apia? — A. Yes.

Q. Did you buy as much as you lost? — A. No.

Q. Did this boat for which you claim belong to you? — A. No; to
my son.

Q. Is there anything more that you care to say? — A. No.

Q. Was any damage done to your plantation property during the
first war? — ^A. No.

Charles Fruean, Jr. :

Q. What relation are you to the claimant Charles Fruean? — ^A,
Son.

Q. Where were you born ? — A. Apia.

Q. Have you always lived here ? — ^A. Yes.

Q. Did you live m Apia in March, 1899 ? — ^A. Yes.

Q. What was your occupation then ? — ^A. Carpenter.

Q. Who owned the house, the house you then lived in ? — ^A. My
father.

Q;;^ Did he own any other property in this vicinity at that time ? —
A. Papauta.

Q. How long beforjB the war in March, 1899, did you see this prop-
erty at Papauta. — A. Went there almost every day.

Q. What property did he have out there when this war started ? —
A. A big Samoan house, chickens and pigs, lots of them, big patch of
taro, yams, big patch, coconuts, breadfruit, and bananas, over 40
fine mats, think over 100 floor mats, plates, dishes, meat safe, 2 sewing
machines — 1 treadle and 1 hand, boxes for clothing.

Q. How soon after the war did you go up there ? — ^A. The first day
after.

Q. What did you see there then? — ^A. Nothing there; no houses,
breadfruit and coconut trees girdled or cut down. Bananas all eaten.
Pigs and fowls all gone, no taro, no kava, no yams. Not all the
coconut trees were damaged or the breadfruit.

Q. Do you know who did this damage? — A. No.

Q. Do you know about the value of the property damaged? — ^A.
Counting our work on the land, and all our food taken, I think about
$1,000.

Q. Did you build the house which was destroyed? — A. No.
Hired some Samoan carpenter.

Q. How much did it cost you ? — ^A. $500 — over that.

Q. Where did you live at this time of the war ? — ^A. In Apia.

Q. Was there any damage done to the place where you lived in
the second war ? — ^A. Yes.

112 CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

Q. To whom did the property in the house belong ? — ^A. Some to
my father and some to me.

Q. Did you live in the house during the war? — A. No; we went
to Mulinuu.

Q. What was in your house when you left ? — ^A. Big bed, and live
or six boxes of clothes, tool box containing carpenter tools, house
was all furnished throughout.

Q. How many rooms in this house ? — A. Three.

Q. Did you come back to the place during the war? — ^A. Yes;
sometimes with American and English soldiers.

Q. What was the condition of your property when vou first saw it
after you went to Mulinuu? — ^A. Evervthing was taken out of the
house, all gone. There wasn't a thing left in the house.

Q. The carpenter's tools belonged to you ? — A. Yes.

Q. Can you tell which of this property was yours and which was
your father's ? — ^A. No.

Q. What was your mother's name? — A. Mary, a Samoan.

Q. Is she living or dead ? — A. Dead.

Q. How long has she been dead ? — ^A. About seven years.

Q. Can you furnish evidence of the marriage of your father and
mother? — A. Yes; from the British consul.

Q. Did you ever recover any of the property which you have said
was lost? — A. No.

Q. Have you ever received any pay from any Government or
person therefor ? — A. No.

Q. Did you take any part in this war? — A. I joined the British
and American forces and fought with them during the war.

Q. Is there anything more you care to say about the case? — ^A.
That's all.

E. Hall.

Q. What do you know about the claim of Charles Fmean against
the United States for losses growing out of the war in March, April,
and May, 1899? — A. When the war broke out I lived about a mile
from his Papautu place and about seven minutes walk from his
Apia place. The people I lived with were relatives of Mr. Fruean
and I frequently visited both of his places with them.

Q. How long before the war did you last visit his Papautu place ? —
A. About a month.

Q. What property did you see there then? — A. He had some
coconut trees, plenty of taro, some pigs, don't know how many,
some fowls, couldn't say how many, two fair-sized native houses;
don't recall anything else.

Q. How soon after the war did you see the place? — A. Between
two and three months.

Q. What did you see then ? — ^A. The houses were torn down — all
gone; saw broken crockery. The taro was nearly all gone. Didn't
notice about the kava. The chickens and pigs were gone.

Q. Do you know by whom this damage was done ? — ^A. No.

Q. Do you know anything about the value of the property claimed
to have been lost or destroyed ? — ^A. No.

Q. How long before the war did you see Mr. Fruean's place in
Apia ? — A. About a week.

Q. What kind of a house was that ? — ^A. Three-roomed European
house.

CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA^ SAMOAN ISLANDS. 113

Q. When did you first see this after the war? — ^A. I was up there
during the war, and the place was all damaged then.

Q. What damage appeared to have been done ? — ^A. The windows
and doors most of them were smashed, and there were a few chests
lying about.

Q. Were there any coconut trees standing on the Papautu place
after the war? — A. There were a few standing.

Q. What did you see of any crockery, utensils of cooking, and
tools at the Apia house between the first and second war ? — ^A. There
were some crockery and utensils there and a chest of tools belonging
to Charley Fruean — ^he was doing carpenter work.

Q. Is there anything more you care to say? — A. The second war
was the one in which most of the damage was done. There wasn't
much damage done in the first war because they went back to live
there afterwards, in the Apia house.

Q. How much time elapsed between the first and second wars ? —
A. About two months.

Charles Fruean, Claimant's Exhibit A.

J. R. B., V. C, U. S. A.

List of my losses sustained during the war in Samoa of 1899, and which I now hurnbly
present before the U. S. Commissioner Baker, representing the State Department.

1 . 2 large Samoan houses^ at $120 $240. 00

2. 2 treadle sewing machines, at $25 50.00

3. 1 hand sewing machine, at $15 15. 00

4. 40 ie toga fine mats 312. 50

5 . 6 large pigs, at $20 120. 00

6. 2,000 taro 10.00

7. 6 laige chests full of clothing and containing other valuables, at $40 240. 00

8. 100 fowls, at 25 cents 25.00

9i 1 acre kava plantation 25. 00

10. Plantation of breadfruit, coconuts, and bananas 100. 00

11. 1 large chest of carpenters* tools 100.00

12. Iboat 100.00

13. Papa mats, at 25 cents 25. 00

14. 1 meat safe 10.00

15. Crockery ware and other cooking utensils 50. 00

16. Damage to dwelling house 50. 00

1, 472. 50
NO. 11. WILLIAM WALLWOBK.

William Wallwork.

Q. Where were you born ? — ^A. I believe in Manchester, England.

Q. State whether or not you are a United States citizen? — ^A. I
was, but don't know whether I am now or not.

The Consul. The authorization of his registration is pending at
present.

Q. How did you become a citizen of the United States? — ^A.
Through my father's naturalization. I went to the United States
when I was 2 years of age.

Q. How long after that did you remain in the United States ? — A.
Until I was 32.

Q. Have you any evidence of your father's naturalization ? — ^A. My
father's naturalization paper, wnich is here at the consulate.

Q. What was your last place of residence in the United States ? —
A.Ji^San Francisco.

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114 CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

Q. Where did you go from there ? — A. To Samoa.

Q. Have you lived nere ever since ? — ^A. Yes.

Q. I show you this paper and ask you what it is? — A. It is my
fatner's naturalization certificate.

Q. I shall mark this as ''Exhibit^A" and attach it to your deposi-
tion, if you have no objection to my taking it to Washington. — ^A.
You may take it. ^

Q. State whether or not since your naturalization you have de-
clared allegiance to any other Government than the Umted States. —
A. No.

Q. Is it your understanding that you became a citizen of the United
States upon attaining the age of 21 by virtue of your father's natu-
ralization? — A. Yes.

Q. Did you ever yourself make any declaration of intention to be-
come a United States citizen? — ^A. No.

Q. Did you ever vote in the United States? — A. Yes; in Philadel-
phia, when Grant first ran for President.

Q. Did you then exhibit your father's naturalization certificate ? —
A. Yes; and was allowed to vote by the election official.

Q. Have you ever done anything to cause you to lose your Ameri-
can citizenship ? — ^A. Not that I know of.

Q. When did you leave the United States ?— A. In 1877 or 1878.

Q. State whether your residence in Samoa is temporary or perma-
nent. — ^A. I am not sure about it's being permanent. I want to go
back to the United States to live.

Q. Is it your intention to return to the United States to live per-
manently? — A. I couldn't say whether I would live there perma-
nently, because I am too old to work.

Q. Were you in Samoa during the months of March, April, and
May, 1899?— A. I was.

Q. What was your occupation at that time ? — A. A traider.

Q. Of what country were you then a citizen? — A. Of the United
States.

Q. State whether anything unusual happened in those months. —
A. There was a war between Mataaf a on one side and Malietoa and the
English and Americans on the other.

Q. Was there any of your property injured or destroyed in that
war? — A. There was.

Q. State by items such of your property as was destroyed or lost,
givmg items. — ^A. Two horses, valued, respectively, at $50 and $40;
2 hogs, $50 for the two; 10 pigs, weighing from 10 to 20 pounds,
$40; a lot of fowls, probably over 25, a shflling each; 2 guns, one a
sporting rifle, cost $55 to make, brand new, value $50, the other
gun, a breechloader, an old gun, fowling piece, $20; a number of
cocoa trees, don't know how many, about 200 or 300, about $1.25
apiece; a gold-headed walking cane, $18. That comprises all of
the property I lost except an acetylene plant, which I value at $50.

Q. What else are you claiming for? — A. Two months' loss of
time, at $150 a month.

Q. Is that all of your claim ? — A. Yes.

Q. Did vou buy these 2 horses? — A. Yes.

Q. For now much? — ^A. Don't remember.

Q. About how old were they ? — A. About 6 years each.

CLAIMS OF AMEKICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. 115

Q. Where did you get this walking cane? — A. Mr. Moors made
me a present of it.

Q. What did your acetylene plant consist of ? — ^A. It was of gal-
vanized iron, standing outside the store, on a veranda.

Q. How much did it cost to make it? — ^A. Can't tell.

Q. Did you make such plants for sale ? — A. Yes.

Q. How much ? — ^A. $60 for that size.

Q. How much profit would you make at that figure? — A. Might
have made $20. Can't say exactly.

Q. How do you arrive at the estimate of $300 for lost time ? — ^A.
That is estimated on what I was earning just previous to the war.
I was conducting a bakery on my own account besides trading for
Moors.

Q. Did you remain at Fasitoo all through the war? — ^A. No. I
had to get away.

Q. When did you leave? — A. In the middle of the war. I left
by the Porpoisej British man-of-war.

Q. Why did you leave ? — ^A. I was afraid to stay ; afraid of my life.

Q. Were the natives in jour vicinity threatening you at this
time? — ^A. No; but the natives coming from other districts.

Q. What experience did you have that made you afraid? — ^A. The
natives passing through said to me almost every day that they were

foing to cut my head off, and the friendly neighbors said that the
ostfles would be likely to do it.

Q. Please describe the circumstances of your leaving. — ^A. I went
with my wife and little boy as far as Leulumoega, 1^ miles away.
The British and American boats were going down the coast firing
into every village as they went along and tney eot down as far as
Leulumoega and landea marines and threw shells. They went
further down and set fire to all the native boats they could find.
Before this I had waded out to a steam launch with my boy and got
aboard, and was taken to the man-of-war, the Porpoisej and that
brought me to Apia.

Q. Did you carry anything away with you? — ^A. No; I was too
much of a hurry.

Q. Why didn't you take the walking stick? — ^A. That was taken
before.

Q. When ? — A. Early in the war.

Q. Stolen out of your house ? — ^A. Yes.

Q. Do you know who took it ? — rA. No.

Q. Are you sure it was stolen in the war ? — A. Yes.

Q. When did you go back to Fasitoo? — A. Just as the war was
closing. I got into a canoe and went back.

Q. How long was that after you came here ? — A. A month or two.

Q. Where did you stay during that time ? — A. In Mulinuu.

Q. Did you have your wife and son with you? — A. No; she
stayed at home. They wouldn't touch her. She was only afraid for
my son and me.

Q. How were you fed at Mulinuu ? — A. Mr. Carruthers, a British
resident of Apia, brought food, and we foraged in the bush.

Q. What condition of things did you find when you got home ? —
A. Found that all the articles mentioned in my claim had been
taken away, and nearly all my cocoa trees were cut down.

Q. About how old were those trees ? — ^A. Three years.

116 CLAIMS OF AMEMOAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

Q. Do you know who did this damage ? — A. No.

3. Didn't your wife see it done? — ^A. Yes, some of it; but she
d not tell who did it, as the natives were all painted black at
the time. If it hadn't, been for an old chief living near by and a
relation of my wife who lived in Savaii and came over and stayed
at my place, they would have taken the whole of the store.

Q. Did you ever recover any of this property which was lost ? —
A. No.

Q. Did you ever receive any compensation from any person or
Government for the losses you suflFered ? — ^A. No.

Q. Did you take any part in the war for or against any side or
faction? — ^A. No; my part was to get out of it.

Q. Were you strictly neutral ? — A. Yes.

Q. Is there anything more you care to say about your case? —
A. No.

James Frost:

Q. Where did you live in March, 1899? — A. In Fasitoo, next to
Mr. Moor's station.

Q. Did you know WiUiam Wallwork at that time ? — A. Yes.

Q. Where did he then live, with reference to you? — ^A. Just along-
side.

Q. What property, if any, did he have there then ? — ^A. He had
about 4 acres oi ground, all planted in cocoa, and a store.

Q. Did you stay in Fasitoo throughout the war ? — ^A. Yes.

Q. What did you see, if anything, which happened to Mr. Wall-
work's property during the war? — A. I saw the natives killing
WallworK's pigs, and saw them going into his house and take things
out, meat and salmon. I saw them dso cutting his cocoa trees down.

Q. Was that after Wallwork went away? — A. No. I went away
with him and came to Apia.

Q. Then you didn't know what happened at Fasitoo after that ? —
A. No. I stayed at Apia.

Q. Is there anything more you care to say? — ^A. No.

Irving C. Hetheeington:

Q. Did you live in Apia in March, 1899 ? — A. Yes.

Q. What was you busmess then7 — A. Accoimtant with H. J. Moors,

Q. Did you then know William Wallwork? — A. Yes; he was
trading for us at Fasitoo.

Q. That is, he was selling goods in your store there? — A. Selling
goods and buying copra, both on a commission basis.

Q. How far is Fasitoo from Apia? — A. About 15 or 16 miles west.

Q. Did you know of your own knowledge, what happened to Wall-
work at that time? — A. No.

Q. Do you know of your own knowledge, what commission Mr.
Wallwork was receiving from Mr. Moors? — A. Ten per cent of the
gross sales and $1 per thousand pounds for the copra he bought
for us.

Q. Is there anything more that you care to say about the case
now? — A. Nothing except that I should like to show Mr. Wall-
work's account with us just preceding the war and just after.

Q. Are the books showing this in existence ? — A. Yes.

Q. You should have those books present if you wish to give evi-
dence from them ? — ^A. I will produce them at a later date.

CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. 117

(On August 11, 1911, Mr. Hetherington reappeared as a witness in
this case and produced a ledger of H. J. Moors, showing the latter^s
accounts with William Wallwork at the Fasitoo store.)

Q. Are the entries in that book in your handwriting ? — A. Yes.

Q. Were those entries made by you in the ordinary course of your
eniployment by Mr. Moors ? — A. i es.

Q. And do they accurately represent the condition of the account
at the time they were made ? — ^A. Yes.

Q. What do they show with reference to the copra account in the
months of January and February, 1899? — A. Tney show that in
January, 1899, Mr. Wallwork was credited with 16,159 pounds of
copra and in February with 2,975 pounds.

Q. What price was allowed to Mr. Wallwork as commission on
these purchases of copra? — A. $1 per 1,000 pounds.

Q. How do the months of March and April correspond with those
of January and February in the copra trade ? — A. About the same.
The business improves somewhat m May and the so-called copra
season begins in June and extends until Christmas.

Q. What do the books show as to the receipt of copra from Mr.
Wallwork in May, 1899?— A. 41,299 pounds.

Q. Does this book show the amount of sales by Mr. Wallwork in
any one month of 1899 ? — A. No; thay do not.

Q. Have you an interest, direct or indirect, in this claim? — A. No.

r

Edwabd F. Allen :

Q. Where did you live in March, 1899? — A. In Apia, or on board
the men-of-war.

Q. What part, if any, did you take in the war which broke out in
that month m Samoa ? — A. I acted as interpreter, pilot, and adviser
to the British and American commanding oificers.

Q. Was there any bombardment from those vessels of the coast
east and west of Apia ? — A. Yes.

Q. To what extent? — A. On March 18 the Porpoise bombarded
Mane, Falcula, Afega, Salieamoa,Utualia. and Falieasiu. At the same
time the PhiUidelphia fired on Viausu. On March 20 the Porpoise put
some shells in Fasitootai. On March 21 we brought 10 native
(Mataafan) boats from Falefa to Apia. On March 23 we fired shots
from the Philddelphia^s launch into Saluafata and the nearby place
of Solosolo and took boats away. We burned certain houses in Salua-
fata, Lufi Lufi, and Faleapuna. In addition to that, I went one day
on the Royalist to Solosolo, and we landed a party of friendly natives
and burned some houses. On March 31 we went west from Apia on
the Porpoise with the launch of the Philadelphia and burned a boat at
Satuapuala. On one occasion after that when I wasn't along the
Royalist shelled in the vicinity of Fasitooti and Leulomoega. That
is all the bombarding which was done in Upolu outside of the harbor
of Apia, except at Fagalii on April 1. I wasn't along then.

Q. Were you present on all these occasions with the exception you
have made ? — A. Yes.

Q. Was there any bombarding in the vicinity of Aliepata? — ^A.
Not to my knowledge.

Q. And you would have known if there had been ? — ^A. I should
think so.

Q. Was there any at Fasitoo? — ^A. I think not, but that is very
close to Fasitooti and Leulomoega.

118 CI.AIMS OP AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

Q. Was there any at Tiavea or vicinity ? — ^A. None.

Q. Did you know Thomas B. Coffin, oi Solosolo? — ^A. Yes.

Q. And where he lives ? — ^A. Yes.

Q. Do you remember whether or not his house was struck by a
shell? — A. I think no shells were thrown in there, but there were
shots from the 1-pounder of the PJiilddelpJiia^s launch which may have
struck the place. I don't know about this. We did, however, bum
a lot of houses there, but don't know whether Coffin's was one of
them.

Q. Do you know anything as to any pigs belonging to CoflBn which
are said to have been killed by the friendly natives landed there ? —
A. I know we did kill pigs which were running around in any of the
villages where we landed. Don't know about Coffin's.

Q. Did you know James Schuster, of Malie, and where his house
was? — ^A. Yes.

Q. Do you know if any damage was done to his house by shell or
shot from the war vessels? — ^A. A cutter from the Philadelphia
threw several 1-pound shots into this house.

Q. Do you know of any damage done by war vessels to WiUiam
Blocklock's store at Saluaf ata ? — ^A. None.

Q. Was there any bombarding at Tiavea? — ^A. No; we went
ashore once at Tiavea and found that the natives had not damaged
the store of the St. Louis Planting Co., as had been reported to us.
The man who had been in charge there had left there, but the natives
showed us that the store had not been interfered with.

Q. Was there any bombarding at Falefa? — A. No.

Q. Do you know if any damage was done by natives or otherwise
to the store of the St. Louis Planting Co. at that place ? — ^A. I never
heard that there was and don't think there was.

Q. Was the Porpoise at Falefa during this time, except as you have
stated? — ^A. No.

Q. Do you remember bringing Cyrus Scott away from Falefa on
this occasion? — ^A. No; but I Imow the members of this company
that he belonged to gave us much trouble with their stories of danger
to themselves, which we found did not exist.

Q. Do you remember bringing William WaUwork away from
Fasitoo on the Porpoise ? — ^A. Yes.

William Wallwork, Claimant's Exhibit A.

J. R. B., vice consul, U. S. A.
United States of America:

Be it remembered, that, at the late district court, now court of common pleas for
the county of Philadelphia, held at Philadelphia, in the Commonwealth of Penn-
sylvania, m the United States of America, on the 25th day of September, in the year
of our Lord 1851, William Wallwork, a native of England, exhibited a petition
praying to be admitted to become a citizen of the United States; and it appearing
to the said court that he had declared on oath, before the prothonotary of court of
common pleas, Delaware County, Pa., on the 24th day of September, A. D. 1849,
that it was bona fide his intention to become a citizen of the United States and to
renounce forever all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state^
or sovereignty whatsoever, and particularly to the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland,
of whom he was at that time a subject; and the said petitioner having on his solemn
oath declared and also made proof thereof agreeably to law, to the satisfaction of the
court, that he had resided one year and upward within the State of Pennsylvania,
and within the United States of America upward of five years immediately preceding
his application; and that during that time he has behaved as a man of good moral
character, attached to the principles of the Constitution of the United States, and

CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. 110

well disposed to the good order and happiness of the same; and having declared on
his solemn oath, before the said court, that he would support the Constitution of the
United States, and that he did absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all all^i-
ance and fidelity to eveiy foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty whatsoever,
and particularly to the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, of whom he was before
a subject; and having in all respects complied with the laws in regard to naturaliza-
tion, thereupon the court admitted the said William Wallwork to become a citizen
of the United States, and ordered all the proceedings aforesaid to be recorded by
the prothonotary of said court, which was done accordmgly.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto affixed the seal of the said court, at Phila-
delphia, this 29th day of January, in the year 1904, and of the sovereignty and
independence of the United States of America the one hundred and twenty-eighli.

[seal.] M. Russell Thayer,

Prothonotary,
Per C. B. Roberts,

Deputy Prothonotary,

NO. 12. HABBT J. MOOBS.

Alfred Kenison:

Q. Where did you live in March, 1899? — A. In Apia.

Q. Were you employed by H. J. Moors shortly after the war of
1899?— A. Yes.

Q. What was the nature of your employment ? — A. As a carpenter.

Q. When did you begin this employment? — A. Shortly after the
war.

Q. What did you do ? — A, I put patches of iron on the roof of the
Tivoli Hotel.

Q. How did the roof appear to have been damaged ? — A. Shot by
bullets.

Q. What else did you do then ? — A. Put new set of locks on the
doors throughout.

S. What was wrong with the old locks? — A. All broken; appar-
y smashed by axes.

Q. Anything else? — A. Put in a number of window panes which
had been broken, and several new window frames. The old ones had:
been apparently smashed by axes. Some of the door facings I also
replaced, as they were smashed. A section of the veranda had been
carried away, apparently by a cannon shot. Some of the bar had
been chopped away and the shelving. The pump was all broken, the
billiard taole was chopped, and the cloth torn off. The cookhouse
and other outhouses were broken — that is, the doors were smashed.
I fixed all these. The Tivoli store was riddled with shots. I put on
this new iron roofing and new weather boarding, and repaired the
doors. Everything m the bar room was all smashed up, glasses,
bottles. The paint and wall paper in the hotel was so damaged that^
it had to be painted and papered throughout. The hotel was full of
leaves which nad blown in.

Q. How long did you work on these premises at the time ? — A. Not
right sure, but about 10 days.

Q. Did you have men helping you ? — A. Yes; about four or five.

Q. Did you do any other worK for Mr. Moors at this time ? — A. Yes,
at Papaloloa. The sides and the floors of some of the houses were
torn out, and the windows and doors had been removed, I repaired
these and also the water tanks, which had been chopped in with axes.
The gates were all destroyed, we had to make new ones, and the wires
had been cut off from the posts in the fencing. I did some of this
repairing.

120 CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

Q. Did you see any evidence of other damage to the plantation ? —
A. The banana trees were all leveled to the ground and the pine-
apples were all gone.

Q, What other work did you then do for Mr. Moors, if any ? — A. I
worked on his Ughter, which was almost new when the war started.

Q. What was the capacity or size of this lighter? — A. I do not
remember.

Q. What was its condition after the war ? — A. It was badly warped
ana shrunken out of shape, with large seams and cracks.

Q. Did you make an enort to repair it ?— A. Yes; but it was no use.
It could not be repaired so as to Jkeep out the water. It had to be
broken up as it was of no use.

Q. Do you know who did the damage at the Tivoli Hotel ? — A. No;
but it was done during the war.

Q. Do you know who did the damage at the plantation ? — A. Only
that while I was there working, parties of natives came there re-
peatedly and took away bananas, and broke through the wire fencing
that we had repaired.

Q. Were the natives armed? — ^A. Yes; with guns.

Q. Do you know what faction they belonged to ? — A. Think some
parties were of one faction and some of the other.

Q. Do you know anything about the value of this lighter ? — A. Have
forgotten.

Q. Do you know how long you worked for Mr. Moors on this
repairing ? — A. Do not remember.

Q. Wnat wages were you receiving from him at the time? — ^A.
14 marks a day.

I. C. Hetherington:

Q. Were you employed by H. J. Moors in March, 1899; and if so,
in what capacity ?— A. I was his accountant.

Q. What, if anything, happened to him at that time ? — ^A. He was
practically under arrest, with his house surrounded by an armed
guard, and he was not permitted to leave his premises. I applied to
i^everal officers in charge of the guard for permission to converse with
Mr. Moors, but this was refused. But I was allowed to communicate
with him in writing, which I did by handing my letters to the officer
of the guards, who would read the letters and then dispatch them.
I got letters from Mr. Moors through the officer of the guard; was
obliged to read them in the presence of the officer, who afterwards
retamed all the letters.

Q. Can you give the names of any of these officers? — A. Lieut.
Cave, the first officer of H. M. S. Porpoise^ and another British officer,
whose name I have forgotten.

Q. Did you remain in Apia all through the war? — A. No. I left
for Sydney, N. S. W., a few days after the first bombardment.

Q. Did this imprisonment or guarding of Mr. Moors have any
eflFect upon his suosequent business, so far as you know? — ^A. Yes.
Before the war we were accustomed at our Apia store to do a large
business with American war vessels, many of wnich called at this port
in those days. Since the war we have done no business with the
American warships calling.

Q. Since the war are there as many American warships calling here
as before? — A. No; but the vessel stationed at Pago Pago is in here
several times a year.

CLAIMS OF AMEEICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. 121

Q. To what do you attribute this failure in the American busi-
ness ? — ^A. To Mr. Moors 's unpopularity after the war among Ameri-
cans, because he tried to prevent the war.

Q. Do you attribute any other loss of Mr. Moors' to this cause ? —
A. Yes. After the war we did very little business at our stores at
Pago Pago, Leone, Fagitua, and Manua. The first three of these
stores were on the island of Tutuila and the other on the island of
Manua, both of which islands were taken over by the Americans after
the war. We closed the Fagitua store about a year after the war,
the Leone place about two years after the war, the Manua place about
a year later, and Pago Pago store three or four years ago.

Q. Why were these stores closed? — A. Because they were not
doing enough business to keep them going.

Q. Do you know that Mr. Moors was the owner of a cottage at
Matautu before the war? — ^A. Yes.

Q. Do you know what was in the cottage? — ^A. I have looked in
it and seen a chair or two, screen, lamps, etc.; not very elaborately
furnished.

Q. Do you know of your own knowledge whether any damage was
done to this cottage or its contents during the war? — A. I know that
this cottage was refurnished after the war, but did not see the cottage
myself just at this time.

Q. Was Mr. Moors engaged in the fruit business at the outbreak of
the war? — ^A. Yes. He was raising bananas and pineapples for
export at his Papaloloa plantation, and he was also buying bananas,
all for export to New Zealand.

Q. What was he paying for the bananas ? — A. A shilling per bunch.

Q. At what prices were you selling these bananas in New Zea-
land ? — A. At different prices, according to the market.

H. J Moors :

Q. Where were you born ? — A. Detroit, Mich.

Q. State whether or not you are a citizen of the United States ? —
A. I am.

Q. Have you ever declared allegiance to anv otlier Government? —
A. No. '

Q. Have you ever done anything else to forfeit your American
citizenship? — A. No.

Q. When did you leave the United States? — A. I left in 1S75, but
have been back several times since on business.

Q. When did j^ou first come to Samoa? — A. In 1875.

Q. Plow long have you lived in Samoa? — A. With the exception
of about three years, I have lived here ever since 1875.

Q. State whether your residence in Samoa is temporary or per-
manent? — A. I have an intention of ^oing to the United States to
reside again, but can not say when I shall go.

Q. Were you in Apia, Samoa, during the months of March, April,
and May, 1899?— A. I was.

Q. What was your occupation or business at that time ? — A. Gen-
eral merchant, island trader, and planter.

Q. Of what Government or country were you then a citzen ? — A.
Of the United States.

Q. What happened during those months? — A. The war between
the British and American warships on the one side and Mataafa on
the other.

122 CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA^ SAMOAN ISLANDS.

Q. Was any of your property injured or destroyed in that war? —
A. 1 es; a great deal of it.

Q. Please state, by items, such of your property as was injured or
destroyed, giving the damage done to such property as was injured,
and the value of such property as was destroyed — A. [The witness
here produces what he states is a list of l>is losses and damages, and
asks that it be received in evidence.]

Q. I shall mark this as claimant's ^'Exliibit A,'' and attach it to
your deposition.

Q. State wb.ether or not you have ever received any compensation
from any person or government on account of these damages ? — A.
No.

Q. Did you recover any of the property of which you made claim
as lost? — A. No.

Q. State whether or not, during the entire period of the military
operations, you took any part for or against any side, party, or faction
engaged therein? — A. I tried to stop the war before it started, and
afterwards tried to bring about an armistice. The latter I did by
writing to Admiral Kautz, commanding the Americans and British,
stating that I would, if permitted, go to Mataafa's camp, guarantee
that I would get the latter to agree to almost any terms the Admiral
might propose. I am perfectly sure I would have succeeded. My
offer was declined. I took no part in the war except to try to stop
it. I was under close guard in my house all the time.

Q. Did you maintain a position of strict neutrality all through
the war? — A. Absolutely.

Q. Are vou making any other claim than as set forth in the list
you have mmished ? — A. Yes, for false imprisonment. It is the sum
of $20,000.

Q. Please describe briefly the circumstances of your imprison-
ment? — A. On March 16, 1899, I woke up to find my house sur-
rounded by British marines from the slnp Porpoise, under com-
mand of Lieut. Cave. Nothing was then said to me, but within a
few days, during which I did not attempt to leave the premises, see-
ing that it would be useless, Lieut. Cave told me that 1 was not per-
mitted to leave my premises, or to have any communication with
any person outside the premises. Lieut. Miller, of the Philadelphia,
also came to my place and ordered a fence at the back taken down,
and told me I was rightfully imprisoned. This was about three or
four days after the bombardment.

Q. For how long a time were you under guard in your house ? — A.
About six weeks.

Q. Did you leave the premises at any time during this period ? —
A. Yes. Three or four time I was taken out with my family, all
under guard, while the war ships bombarded over the premises.
This was because the ammunition used was defective and it was
thought that fragments of the shells might strike the house.

Q. Where were you taken? — A. In front of the Catholic mission,
about an eighth of a mile from my house and none of my family nor
myself allowed to converse with anyone else. Usually we were so
kept out two or three hours, and then returned to the house under
guard.

Q. With these exceptions, did you and your family remain in your
house during all this period? — A. Yes.

CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. 123

Q. Was anyone else with you in the house? — ^A. S. H. Forsell,
one of my employees was with me most of the time, and we had with
us also tnree servants.

Q. Were you told at any time what was the reason of this impris-
onment? — ^A. No. Although I applied to Admiral Kautz for the
reasons.

Q. Did you, during this period of iniprisonment, hold communi-
cation with any persons outside? — A. Two or three times persons
were brought to me by the guard, and I talked with them in the
presence of the guard, who took them away again. With these
exceptions I held no verbal communications with anyone. I sent
several letters to Admiral Kautz and Consul Osborne, but frequently
the guards refused to accept the letters.

Q. Did you hold written communication with anyone else? — ^A.
I do not remember having any other with persons in town, but I
received and answered letters from outside the islands. Many
goods arrived for me by vessels from outside the islands and 1
received notice from the customshouse to remove them. I have here
a paper stating fully my experiences during this period and I ask
that it be receivsd in evidence.

Q. I will receive this and mark it ''Claimant's Exhibit B,'' and
attach it to your deposition.

Q. Where was this cottage located m which you claim to have
lost property? — A. On the beach, just above my store in Matautu.

Q. Did you have this cottage rented at the time? — A. No; we
kept it furnished for the use oi our traders around the islands who
might be in Apia on business.

Q. To whom did the property in the cottage belong? — A. To me.

Q. Did the wearing apparel and gold rings belong to you? — A. I
paid for them and gave them to a woman friend who left them in the
cottage.

Q. Do you know who did the damage to the cottage? — A. I am
certain it was the natives known as ''friendlies^' because the Mataafa
people were never there.

Q. When, before the war, were you at this place ? — A. The morn-
ing of the first bombardment.

Q. Were all the articles you have listed there at that time ? — ^A.
Yes; and the house was locked up when I left it.

Q. When were you there again? — ^A. About May 6 or 7, 1899.

Q. What did you see then ? — ^A. The veranda posts and windows
glasses were smashed, locks broken, and the entire contents of the
cottage removed.

Q. What boats and lighter are those on your list ? — ^A. The lighter
was of about 7 tons capacity, about 2 years old.

Q. What damage was done to it? — A. It was blown ashore near
my house and I asked permission to take it out and anchor it again,
but no notice was taken of this. It was carried out again by the
waves and thrown upon the beach near the London mission. There
it was battered by the sea and sand for a month. The planks were
split by the action of the sun and sea.

Q. What other boats of yours, if any, were damaged ? — A. I do not
remember.

Q. Was your store closed all of the time during the war? — ^A. Yes.

124 CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

Q. What about the item of copra which you sold at a loss? — ^A.
The vessel arrived with the copra, and I asked premission in writmg
from Admiral Kautz to store tnis copra, and received no reply. I was
therefore compelled to sell it at a loss to Grevsmuhl & Co., and they
were allowed to handle it. Do not remember what I sold it for.

Q. How do you estimate the loss of $100? — ^A. I sold it for that
much less than I could have obtained for it if I had shipped it my-
self. It was lying in a chartered vessel and the owner demanded
that I should take it out. Being unable to do so myself I had to
sell it on the best terms I could get.

Q. Were all of your stores on tnis island closed during the war ? —
A. All of them except that at Aleipata were closed as soon as the
war started. That one was kept open for a week or 10 days but
finally obliged to close because we could send the trader no suppUes.

Q. Were all of these stores supplied from your Apia store?— A.
Yes; and provisions were the principal items in their stock.

Q. Why were these outside stores closed ? — ^A. Because the traders
were afraid to stay in the stores because of the natives, who were
hostile to white men because of the fighting.

Q. Where are Leone, Pago Pago, and Manua at which you had
stores? — A. The two first are on the island of-Tutuila, and Manua
on the island of that name. These were not affected by the war,
but the stores closed because we could send no suppHes to the traders.

Q. Where is Fasitoo? — ^A. On the island of Upolu, about 15 miles
from Apia.

Q. Where is Aleipata ? — A. About 25 imles from Apia.

Q. Where was your Papaloloa plantation? — ^A. About 2 miles
back of Apia, just outside the municipaUty.

Q. When were you there last before the war? — ^A. The day before
the first bombardment.

Q. Under what arrangement were you w^orking this place? — A. I
had a native overseer who Kved there and there were nine men work-
ing under hun. I was raising fruit and cocoa on this place.

Q. How long had you owned this place? — ^A. Since 1893.

Q. Do you remember how much you paid for it ? — A. No; I bought
it very cheap, about $25 an acre. It was then all in bush.

Q. How many acres were there ? — ^A. Sixty.

Q. Was it all cleared? — A. Yes; all in cultivation.

Q. How many acres of cocoa ? — A. About 45.

Q. What was on the balance? — A. The rest was in pasturage.
Let me explain that in about 25 acres of cocoa were planted bananas
and pineapples.

Q. How many cocoa trees did you have per acre? — ^A. About 120.
They were 18 feet apart.

Q. How far apart were the bananas ? — ^A. About 12 feet apart.

Q. How far apart were the pineapples ? — A. About 2i feet apart.

Q. What proportion of this 25 acres were in bananas and what in
pineapples? — ^A. There were about 8 acres in pineapples and the
balance in bananas.

Q. How old were the cocoa trees on these 25 acres ? — ^A. From a
year and a half to 3 years old. The exact proportion I could not
state.

Q. How old were the cocoa trees on the other 20 acres you had in
cocoa ? — ^A. Four or five years old I think, but am not sure.

CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA; SAMOAN ISLANDS. 125

Q. Were you at this time getting cocoa off these trees? — ^A, I
think a little.

Q. Were you g:etting bananas and pineapples from this place? —
A. les; I was shipping this fruit to New Zealand^ and sometimes we
made good profit, sometimes losses, but generally we made profits.

Q. How long did you continue these shipments ? — ^A. About three
years, or perhaps two years.

Q. Is there any fruit exported from here now? — ^A. No. The
steamer service is not good enough.

Q. Was the steamer service between here and New Zealand and
Australia better in 1899 than now? — ^A. No; it is much better now^
in that better steamers call and more of them, but there was then
faster service between here and Auckland by the Spreckles Line. This
made it possible to ship fruit. This line is now entirely discontinued.

Q. When were you up on your plantation first after the war? —
A. On May 6, the day I was released.

Q. What did you find there with respect to your live stock? —
A. All of my stock had been taken. The '^friendly'' natives were
there in numbers, carrying off the bananas. They stayed there for
two weeks after that.

Q. Did you ever recover any of this live stock ? — ^A. Only the bull,
which I found on an adjoining place, wounded, and we had to kill
him and sell the meat. I have charged for the difference between
what I got for the meat and the cost of the bull.

Q. What did the bull cost you? — ^A. I think $125, in Auckland.

Q. Where did you buy the other live stock ? — ^A. It was aU imported
or bred on the place. All the pigs, chickens, ducks, and turkeys
were imported.

Q. Were any of the tools remaiaiag on the place when you got
there ? — ^A. Either gone or broke so as to be valueless.

Q. How do you estimate this item of damage to fencing ? — ^A. That
is principally for the posts; the wiring was left on the ground and
reused.

Q. Do vou know who did all this damage ? — ^A. Probably done by
natives or both sides, as the place was sometimes in the possession of
one side and sometimes in the other. There was fighting on the place
at different times.

Q. How much ground did the vegetable garden cover ? — ^A. About
1 acre.

Q. What were you raising there? — ^A. Cabbage, kohlrabis, beans,
tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplants, etc. There had been $40 or $50
worth of guano used on this garden.

Q. Are you charging for these various articles what they cost
you ? — ^A. What they would have sold for at that time. '

Q. Do you know how many bunches of bananas you got from this
place per month, just before the war ? — ^A. Do not remember now.

Q. Do you remember the price per bunch ? — ^A. No.

Q. I see you are charging for certain bunches of bananas and cer-
tain cases of bananas. How is that ? — ^A. Each banana bunch has a
certain number of so-called ''hands,'' containing about a dozen
bananas each, and if they were less than eight hands on the bunch,
the ''hands'' were detached, and the bananas packed in cases.

Q. How could you tell how many of the bunches would have this
number of "hands?" — ^A. We had been growing bananas so long

126 CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

that we could easily calculate. The proportions would vary with
the weather.

Q. How did you estimate the number of pineapples lost? — ^A.
From previous exportations and experience.

Q. What proportion of your cocoa trees were destroyed? — ^A. I
can not tell now, but they were destroyed in patches here and there.
I paid John Richardson to go there and count the number of trees
destroyed. The trees were small and could be pulled up by hand up
to the age of 2 years. Those older, which were destroyed, were cut
by axes. The item of $22 is what I paid for counting them.

Q. How do you explain this item of $200 for loss by closing of the
TivoU Hotel? — ^A. I think that was for loss after I was released.
Partsch, who had been my partner, refused to go on with the business
after the war, and I had to get the house fixed up so it could be
opened. The charge is for loss of business during that time.

Q. Then the date is wrong (June 30) ? — ^A. Yes.

Q. How long a period elapsed between the end of the war and the
opening of the hotel ? — A. I do not know.

Q. These items of fencing, tank, etc., on page 5 of your list are all
for damages at the Tivoli Hotel ? — A. Yes.

Q. How about this statement on page 7 for losses at the hotel ? — ^A.
That is a statement of losses made up by G. W. Partsch, who was a
partner of mine in the running of the hotel at the beginning of the
war.

Q. Were you partners in the ownership of these articles charged
for on page 7 ? — A. Yes.

Q. And you are claiming for one-half of this amount ? — ^A. Yes.

Q. How far from Apia was your store in Manua ? — ^A. One hundred
an? fifty mUes.

Q. And the one at Pago Pago ? — A. Eighty-five miles.

Q. At Leone? — A. Seventy-five miles.

Q. How often were you in the habit, before the war, of sending
suppUes to each of these stores ? — ^A. About every two weeks.

Q. What interruption was made in that custom by the war ? — ^A, I
was unable to send suppUes for over two months.

Q. During that penod did you receive any copra from the sta-
tions ? — ^A. 1 am unable to say; do not think so.

Q. After the war did you receive what had accumulated at these
stores in the way oi copra? — A. Yes; but they had not been able to
accumulate much because of the lack of supplies.

Q. What became of ihe usual supply during this period ? — ^A. I
suppose it was sold to other people who were in business.

Q. Then the business of other merchants with outlying stations was
not interrupted by the war? — A. Not to the extent that mine was.
The German firm, which was my chief competitor, proceeded with its
business during the war.

Q. Did you own the Tivoli Hotel building during the war ? — ^A. Yes.

Q. Did you own everything in the building except what is claimed
for jointly by Mr. Partsch and yourself? — A. Yes.

Q. What arrangement did you have with Mr. Partsch in this
hotel ? — A. He supplied certain furniture, crockery, tableware, silver-
ware, cutlery, etc. The supplies, liquors, and provisions were bought
by us jointly. I also supplied certain furniture and fittings, and what
we each suppUed were put into a joint account — that is, each of us
owned a halt interest in the whole of these articles.

CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. 127

I want to sfty that when I went to this hotel after the war it had
evidently been left wide open for some time. The roof was full of
bullet holes, the rain had come into the building, the paint and wall-
paper had been all destroyed, the house was full of leaves and dust
which had blown in. Most of the locks had been broken off, appar-
ently by hammers. One of the lower panels of the veranda had been
blown away apparently by a cannon snot. The back fence had been
taken away and used for flooring for the huts occupied by the sol-
diers. I saw the soldiers doing this from my veranda, and I saw them
doing the same thing to the Tivoli wharf right in front of the hotel.
The Tivoli store, which I owned and which stood opposite the hotel,
had been riddled with bullets from a machine gun,

I want to amend mv statement as to the amount of land I had in
bananas and pineapples. I had 30 acres of bananas interplanted
with young cocoa, and the pineapples were by themselves.

The charge of $250 for putting the plantation in order was an
underestimate.

I can not say now how to explain the charge of $200 for the closing
of the Tivoh Hotel.

The billiard table was a large English one.

S. H. Forsell:

Q. Where did you Uve in March, 1899? — A. In a cottage of Mr.
H. J. Moors in Apia.

Q. Were you then in his employ? — A. Yes.

Q. Do you remember the war of that month? — ^A. Yes.

Q. Where were you at the time of the first bombardment ? — A. On
the road to Mr. M!oors's plantation at Papaloloa. I was on my way
to look after the property of Mr. Moors.

Q. I show you this paper. Exhibit A, and ask you, if, when you
arrived at Papaloloa on this day, the property therein enumerated
on pages 2 and 3 was then on this plantation ? — ^A. I remember milk-
ing two cows on the place, and know there were other cows there.
I remember the bull; there were calves there, but how many I do
not remember. The imported boar was killed while I was there by
some of the natives. There were a number of large and small pigs
there, fenced in a paddock. I saw a number of sheep there, but do
not know how many. There were a lot of fowls, some of which were
killed by the Mataafans when I was there. I do not remember about
any turkeys. There were some pigeons there. There was quite a
plantation of bananas there, from which cartloads used to be sent
to the store. There were pineapples planted there, but I can not
tell how many. The shotgun was stolen while I was there, and the
water tanks were chopped off, and one was shot through. While I
was there no damage was done to the cocoa trees. A few bullets
were shot into the buildings and a few windows smashed.

Q. Do you remember about the tools which were there, if any ? —
A. There were a number of pickaxes, hoes, spades, and other planta-
tion tools; do not remember the spraying machine.

Q. How long were you on the place upon this occasion? — ^A.
Fourteen days.

Q. Were there natives around the place then? — A. The Mataafa
forces were in the neighborhood and occasionally came to the place.

Q. Where did you go after these 14 days? — ^A. I was ordered^back
to Apia by an American officer.

128 CLAIMS OF AMEBICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

Q. What reason did he give for this ? — ^A. He accused me of carry-
ing letters from Mr. Moors to the Mataafans, and told me he would
treat me as a rebel if I stayed there longer.

Q. Where did you stay during the remainder of the war? — ^A.
With Mr. Moors, m his house in Apia.

O. Was Mr. Moors under guard at that time? — ^A. Yes; we were
both under guard.

Q. Were you allowed to leave these premises ? — ^A. Not without a
guard.

Q. When did you next see Papaloloa? — ^A. Sometime after the
armistice was declared I was up to the houses with Mr. Moors. This
was about May 6 to May 10.

Q. What did you see on the plantation then ? — ^A. All of the tools,
such as spades and rakes, were gone. All of the live stock was gone.

Q. Did you see anything else in the way of damages ?— A. No. I
did not go over the plantation, but I remember that the fences were
down, some of the wire was on the ground, and some had been taken
away.

Q. Do you know anything about a vegetable garden which was
there? — A. There was one there, but I do not know how much it
covered. That had all been trampled down and ruined when I
visited the place after the war.

Q. Do you remember anything about the damage to a lighter on
the beach ? — A. I think one drifted away during the war.

(X How about a fence at the back of the house of Mr. Moors ? —
A. It was taken down while I was staying with Mr. Moors.

Q. What do you know about damages to the Tivoli Hotel during
the war ? — A. As soon as we were at Hberty I took a gang of laborers
to the hotel. The floor in the barroom was ripped open. Most of
the window glasses were smashed. Some of the doors were wrenched
oflF their hinges. The mats and rugs were spoiled by wind and rain.
A great deal of the furniture was missing. All of the stock of liquors
was gone. I was working there with a number of helpers for several
weeks cleaning up the place and helping the carpenters who were
making repairs. There was a great deal of litter, broken glasses,
etc., all around. We were putting together pieces of becEteads.
The fence was down, and the yard was all Uttered up. The pump
was broken and the hose gone. The work that we did was caused
by the damage which had been done by the sailors. That is about
all I recall, except that there were no chairs in the hotel we could use.

Q. Did you see any explosives placed under the office of Mr. Moors,
next the house, during the war? — A. I saw a petard placed under this
" place on a number of nights by sailors from the British ships.

Q. Is there anything else you care to say ? — A. On one occasion I
was awakened at midnight by the guard and taken to the guardhouse
and Questioned about whether we had communicated with anyone
outside the place. On another occasion a British officer with a
guard came and ordered me to open the copra shed, as he thought
some Mataafans were concealed tnere. We went down and opened
the house. On other occasions I was called to the guardhouse and

Questioned to know if any natives were concealed on the place.
>nce or twice the servants were taken away at night by the guards.

claims of american citizens in apia, samoan islands. 129

James Frost:

Q. Where did you live, in March, 1899? — A. In Fasitoo, next to
Mr. H. J. Moors's store.

Q. What, if anythinff, happened at his store of an unusual nature
during that month? — ^A. The Samoans I saw taking provisions out
of the store. There was a good lot of them.

Q. Do you know whether or not they were buying this stuff? —
A. No ; they were running in and helping themselves and then running
away.

Q. Where were you at the time ? — A. On the veranda of my house,
about 70 feet from the store.

Q. How long did this looting keep up? — A. About an hour, I
should say.

Q. Did you know who these people were? — A. No; I know some
of them were from Savaii, but did not know their names.

John Richardson:

Q. Where did you live in March, 1899 ? — A. On my place, Ulaloloa,
island of Upolu.

Q. What do you know about the claim of H. J. Moors against the
United States growing out of the Samoan war of 1899? — ^A. I was
employed by Mr. Moors during the first days of May, 1899, as over-
seer on his plantation of Papaloloa.

Q. Did you go out to the plantation of Mr. Moors to reside at that
time? — A. Yes.

Q. What was the condition of the plantation then ? — A. Many of
the cocoa trees were uprooted, lying upon the ground; others were
cut down and some burned.

Q. Are you able to state how many of these trees there were ? — ^A.
There were trees of three different ages, 1, 2, and 3 years old. Of the
3-year old trees about 100 were destroyed or uprooted, and of the
1 and 2 year old trees between three and four hundred each. That
is as near as I can remember.

Q. Do you know who did this damage? — A. No; it was done
before I got there.

Q. Had you been engaged in raising cocoa before this time? —
A. For 12 months on my own plantation.

Q. Were you then familiar with the value of cocoa trees at this
time? — ^A. Yes.

Q. What, in vour opinion, was the value of 1-year old cocoa trees
at this time ana of 2 and 3 year old cocoa trees ? — A. $1 each for the
1-year old; 2-year old, $2 each; 3-year old, $3 each.

Q. How long after planting does a cocoa tree bear ? — A. Not into
successful bearing before 6 or 7 years old.

Q. Do you know what is the average life of a tree in bearing ? — A.
I do not think anybody here has had sufficient experience to tell.

Q. What is the amount of cocoa obtained per year, on the average,
from a cocoa tree 6 or 7 years old ? — A. Four or five pounds of cocoa.

Q. When is a tree at its best in bearing ?— A. At 10 or 12 years old.

Q. What is the weight of cocoa obtained on the average, from a
tree of this age? — ^A. About 8 pounds.

Q. Was any cocoa being sold here in 1899? — A. Very little. Thfe
German firm was selling some pods for planting.

Q. At what price ? — ^A. About 25 cents for five pods.

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130 CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

Q. Did you make at the time a count of the trees of Mr. Moors
which were destroyed ? — ^A. Yes.

Q. Could the trees which were uprooted be put back in the soil
agam so as to grow ? — ^A. Not one out of a hundred would have grown
if they had been put back immediately. They are very difficult to
transplant. When I got to the plantation the trees were dry — ^had
been out of the soil some time.

Q. Did you see evidence of other damage to the plantation ? — ^A.
While I was on the plantation I saw the MaUetoa people take large
quantities of bananas from the plantation and some lew coconuts.
Then all the fences on the plantation were all lying on the ground,
the tanks were all chopped open, the plantation was all overgrown
with weeds, some the height of a man. The vegetable garden was
destroyed.

Q. Was the wire of the fencing on the ground? — A. Know some
of it was; probably most.

William Wall work:

Q. What was your business in March, 1899? — A. I was trader for
H. J. Moors at Fasitoo, selling goods in his store and buyii^ copra
for him, both on commission.

Q. WTiat happened of an unusual nature, at that store, during that
time, if anything? — ^A. A short time after the bombardment, the
natives, as, many as could get into the place, came into the store and
took all the kegs of beef and biscuit which were in front of the counter,
took the cloths for lavalavas which hung on wires across the store,
took a bugle and a lot of stuff from the shelves, could not tell exactly
how much, as my wife and I were crowded out and did not dare speak.
I could not tell what was taken as there were so many people there
and they took whatever they felt like taking. They were stopped
from taking anything more by an old chief named Sua.

Q. Did you make up a list of what was taken? — ^A. No; I could
not make up any list at that time, for I did not know what was taken.
Afterwards I made up a list of what I thought was taken.

Q. How long afterwards was it, when you made up this list? — A.
After the war was over.

Q. Did they take the greater part of what was in the store? — ^A.

Yes.

Q. Do you know about what was the value of the stock you were
accustomed to carry at that time ? — ^A. Might have been $3,000 worth.

Q. Had there been any men of war shelling in that neighborhood
before this happened? — A. Yes; they had thrown shells right over
the house.

Q. How long was it before the chief stopped the pillaging, as you
have stated ?— A. He Uved right near and came over m afew minutes
after the looting began and stopped it.

Q. Did he make tne^looters give up what they had in their hands at
the time? — ^A. No; he did not have that much power, but he stopped
them from taking anything more and stayed about the place for
some time afterwards.

Q. After you went back to Fasitoo, following the war, did you
return to Apia and make out a list of the property you have mentioned
and swear to it? — ^A. Yes; before Mr. Denvers.

a. Did you know the people who did this looting? — A. No; I
d not tell; their faces were all painted with lampblack.

CLAIMS OF AMEBIGAK CITIZENS IN APIA^ SAMOAN ISLAKDS. 181

n. J. Moors, Claimant's Exhibit A.

J. B. B., vice consul, U. S. A.

Printed form affidavit, H. J. Moors, resident municipality Apia, for 24 years, .is citi-
een of Republic of America, a trader, owner in fee in Apia. Sworn to July 17, 1899.

8tatem£nt of daim of H, J. Moors.

Matautu cottage:

Broken open, material carried off, 1 mirror |2. 50

2 lamps, |l; 1 water jug, $1; 6 glasses, 75 cents 2. 75

Itable cover, $2.50; 4 bed mats, |10 12.50

1 bed cover, |2.50; 2 chairs, $4.50 7.00

1 dozen plates, $2; 6 teacups and saucers, $1 3. 00

1 kauri box, containing wearing apparel 15. 00

3 gold rings, contained in above box 9. 00

1 mosquito curtain, $2.50; 2 sheets, $1.50 4. 00

Hair comb and brush, $1; washbasin and jug, $2.25 3. 25

$59.00

Steps broken, fence smashed, locks broken; cost of repairs putting in

order 6. 00

Store premises:

Boats and lighter adrift during bad weather in March, thrown up on the
beach near the mission; not allowed to go and float them off and pro-
tect them from the sun. They were beaten by the heavy surf for
weeks and burned up by the sun. They were repaired twice to put
them to rights; but they were permanently injured and will never be
as good as they were. Damage and repairs 200.00

Galvanized-iron fence ordered to be pulled down by Lieut. Miller, of
the Philadelphia; material carried away to make roofs for sailors' huts;
part of it recovered and fences reerected. Cost of labor, material, and
putting up fences again 30. 00

140 poimds hams spoiled ; closed up in hot store ; not allowed to open and
sell them; in fact, not allowed even to speak to anyone without spe-
cial permission 28. 00

72 pounds cheese spoiled 14. 40

I dozen 6-pound meats and 3 dozen 2-pound meats blown 12. 50

1 case pigs feet spoiled, $9 9. 00

Loss of $5 per ton on 20 tons copra coming in from Aliepata; comi>elled
to sell it disadvantageousl^r, because I was not allowed to receive it
into my own sheds for resmpment per steamer to Sydney 100. 00

Store closed down from Mar. 15 till May 1; in consequence all of my out-
lying stores — ^namely, Aliepata, Leone, Pago Pago, Manua, Fasitoo —
were practically closed, as they could get no supplies; business aver-
aging about 10,000 dollars per month; profits, about 20 per cent 3, 000. 00

Papalaloa plantation:

About 2 miles of wire fencing pulled down; cost of getting new posts and
reerecting fence; part of this work had to be done several times, as the
reputed mendlies cut the wires and pulled the fence down a number of
times after May 5. Labor and material 120.00

Tools destroyed and carried away: About 10 axes, 24 knives, 10 spades,
10 hoes, carpenter's tools, grindstone, iron com sheller, com mill, pat-
ent spraving apparatus, 6 galvanized buckets, 2 wheelbarrows, 500
feet lumber, nails, staples, scythes, wire stretcher, rakes, etc 160. 00

Vegetable garden in full bearing, very carefully planted and manured
with guano heavily. Very necessary for the household and for the
Tivoli Hotel 100.00

7 red and white cows, valued at $50 350. 00

1 white milking cow, Jersey 60. 00

2 white and red milking cows 120. 00

3 fine calves, the lot 30. 00

1 fine bull, 700 pounds, about 75. 00

1 fine imported boar, about 300 pounds 35. 00

10 sows, at $18 each 180. 00

6 smaller sows, at $12 .50 75. 00

20 small pigs, all sizes, $2.50 50. 00

13 imported sheep, had been offered $7.50 each for them 97. 50

200 chickens, about, many being of imported breeds 200. 00

132 CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

Papalaloa plantation — Continued.

6 imported Mammoth Bronze wing turkeys $24. 00

Lot pigeons, about 25, say 5. 00

1, 201. 50

Lost about 450 bunches bananas per month from Mar. 15 until July 15.
All that were on the place were carried away or used up, and the
friendlies were allowed to continue taking them until long after the
commission came to Samoa. The very firat lot of fruit I was able to
export was on July 8, when I sent away a very few. The place got
so full of weeds and overgrown that it will not be in real good bearing
order for several months to come. My former good men being all
scattered and away, I am having ^eat difficulty in getting the place
even in very tolerable shape again. I consider I have lost about
1,800 bunches, worth to me 37i cents per bunch, as I export them to
AuGJkland, and during the past montns the price has been exceed-
ingly high, owing to hurricanes in Queensland, making a scarcity in
the colonial markets 650. 00

75 cases bananas per month for 4 months, at $1 '. 450. 00

100 cases pines per month for 4 months, at 11.50 600. 00

IJ dozen ornamental and fruit trees (imported) pulled up and mutilated,
say, $2 each for 12 and $3 for 6 : 42. 00

Fiae double-barrelled shotgun, with game bag and brass cartridges
carried away 50. 00

Increased cost of putting the place iu order owing to its overgrown con-
dition, and owing also to the scattering of my regular plantation
hands, most of whom have never turned up since 250. 00

Cacao plantation damage. Very many of the trees were pulled out of
the ground altogether; others were chopped off close to the ground;
and some were broken down and spoiled by those who felled the
bananas on top of them; a few were killed by weeds for want of care and
by the sun because the banana shade had been cut away by banana
thieves:

330 cacao trees, 1 year old $330. 00

317 cacao trees, 2 years old 634. 00

89 cacao trees, 3 years old and over 267. 00

1, 231. 00

Cost of counting and getting statement 22. 00

1, 253. 00

Tivoli Hotel closed from May 5 (when I had notice from Partsh that he
could not proceed witii it) imtil June 30, when after a great deal of
labor we nad it partially cleaned up and ready for the reception of
guests. Loss by this reason 200. 00

Board ience (new) 6 feet high and 30 feet long pulled down and carried
away by sailors for flooring for their huts. Cost to replace 25. 00

Lumber of Tivoli wharf carried away for similar use, about 750 feet, at
4 cents 30. 00

Tank shot through. Cost of repairs $3. 00

Cost of carrying water and pumping in consequence of there

being no water 10. 00

^- 13.00

Part of lower veranda carried away by cannon shot. Cost of replacing
and painting 12. 00

Building penetrated in very many places with bullet holes, chopped
with axes by the sailors. Damage and repairs 50. 00

Lar^ mirror, worth $200, split by bullet 50. 00

Bilhard cloth cut by bullets; cost of new one to replace, $45; old one
worth, say, $5 40. 00

4 large Venetian screens carried away, and when subsequently foimd
they were quite useless; value 40. 00

Damage to pumping apparatus, twice repaired since the war, and still
of little utiUty 25. 00

Cost of cleaning up the house (which appeared a perfect wreck), repaint-
ing the inside, varnishing, plugging shot holes, windows and sundry
leaks made by shot holes in the roof. Material and labor 225. 00

9, 305. 40

CLAIMS OF AMEBICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. 133

Goods carried away from Fasotoo Station, as per statement of W. Wallwork,

trader at that place, who is carrying on my business there $207. 50

Damage to building and fence 21. 10

9, 534. 00

Cost of 1 acre of cacao planted and kept in order for 1 year, exclusive of the original
cost of the land itself:

Cost, say, per acre, $60 valued by owner at $75

Cost at 2 years, $100; real selling value 160

Cost at 3 years, $150; real selling value 250

Cost at 4 years, $180; real selling value 325

Cost at 5 years, $210; real selling value 400

Cost at 6 years, $225; real selling value 500

Cacao at 4 years nearly pays its own upkeep and at 5 years a good profitable crop
may be expected.

Cacao over 6 years pays according to circumstances of culture, and weather and
price from $60 to $125 net per acre per annum. Papaloloa cacao was planted about
120 trees to the acre and if the well-kept acre was worth for culture $75 at the end of
the year it then follows that the individual trees were worth 60 cents each. The 2-
year old cacao $1.20 and the 3-year old $2. In accordance with this calculation which
I submit as being approximately correct, I amend my cacao claim and render as
follows:

330 trees, 1 year old, at 60 cents $198. 00

317 trees, 2 years old, at $1 .20 380. 40

89 trees, 3 years old, at $2 178. 00

756.40

H. J. Moors, Claimant, Exhibit B.
J. R. B., vice consul, U. S. A.

CLAIM OF H. J. MOORS. — PERSONAL INJURIES AND DAMAGES.

For injuries and damages sustained through and by reason of being kept and con-
fined a prisoner in his own house and premises in the town of Apia, Samoa, by virtue
of the orders and directions of the naval and military forces landed from the British
warships Porpoise, Capt. Sturdee, commander, and the Royalist, Capt. Stuart, com-
mander, and from the U. S. warship Philadelphia, under the command directly of
Capt. White and more directly under that of Admiral Kautz; tiie claimant being held
in durance without legal process or any process whatever, save the illegal and unwar-
ranted orders of said naval authorities, and bein^ so confined, held, and detained, to
his said house and premises without trial, examination or charge of any wrongdoing
on his part, and witnout cause, reason, or right; the said claimant being so held and
confined from the 17th day of March, 1899, or thereabouts, until the 5th day of May,
1899, or thereabouts, during said time being allowed to communicate with no person
or persons whatever, save those living with and constituting his own family; and said
claimant was during said period permitted to communicate with and hold intercourse
with no person or persons whatsoever, save those before indicated, and was denied the
ri^ht to hold communication with the consul general of the United States, resident in
said Apia, Luther W. Osbom, Esq., his, the claimant's, consul, the claimant being a
native bom and loyal citizen of the United States of America, resident and engaged
in business for many years in said Apia; and said claimant frequently during said
period being directly arrested by the armed forces aforesaid acting illegally and under
the authority and direction of the said Admiral Kautz and the nkval authorities acting
with him, in waging and maintaining a state of open and notorious warfare and martial
law in Apia and such parts of the island of Upolu as was held in their military posses-
ion and occupation, and said claimant with nis wife, family, and children being com-
pelled to leave and abandon his house and home, and being conducted under armed
guards out into the open roadway and there held standing for a great length of
Bme in the open and not sun, and not permitted to sit down when exhausted wilJi
standing; ana said claimant was suffered to speak to no one of his friends and
neighbors when they passed his house to which ne was confined, nor were any per-
mitted to speak to him; and armed guards being posted around and about his house

184 CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN AFIA^ SAMOAN ISLANDS.

day and night maintaininc: an outra^us and illiB&|al c^uard and watch over him and his
premises, with orders to snoot him m the event he failed to obey or disr^;arded any
of the outrageous and illegal directions of the armed guard so set about him; and saia
claimant being all the time treated and held as a person of ill repute and treated and
served as if he were a notorious and depraved criminal and so made to suffer and be
drawn into odium and contempt; and said claimant's warehouse and copra shed situ-
ated but 30 feet or thereabout from his store and dwelling; in which claimant and his
&mily lived and slept and to which thev were illegally held and confined, was nightly
or at least very frequently undermined with torpedoes, explosives, and bombs, con-
nected by electric wires leading to the military headquarters, controlled by and under
the command of the particular officer in command of said forces, and more particularly
and especially and generally of one Lieut. Cave, of the said warship Porpoise^ said wiresj
explosives, and bombs being so laid and placed that his said warehouse and storehouse
and residence could at anv moment, by the mere touching^of a button, be blown into
the air, with the result of killing and destroying the claimant, his wife, timiily, and
children, being girls little past infancy; and said claimant and his family as aforesaid
were thus compelled night after night to stay, remain, and sleep in their said residence
to which claimant was so confined, liable and in danger of being annihilated and blown
into atoms should any chance, real, or false alarm of attack have caused said bombs
and mines to be exploded, or from the accidental explosion of the same, all of which
caused the claimant and his famil^/^ to suffer and endure great agony, sufferings, and
torture in their fear-and dread of beine so killed and destroyed; and durine; said period
the claimant was frequently shamefully insulted, browbeaten, and abused and humil-
iliated by subaltern officers acting under the authority and direction of ^e naval
commanders aforesaid, all the time the claimant not being allowed for any reason or
at any time to leave his house and premises, save when under orders and arrest he
was compelled to leave at the command of the guards aforesaid, no friend or other
person being suffered or permitted to enter his premises, and all the time the claimant
not being suffered or permitted to attend to his business and ordinary affairs of life,
all of wmch, in conse(]uence, fell into great disorder and confusion: and all this was
without any examination or trial or investigation of any sort or kind whatsoever, and
without the communication to him or information of any kind whatsoever as to why
he was so imprisoned, mistreated, injured, and abused, and all of said acts so done to
and against him were without cause, reason, or justice, and were illegal, arbitrary,
cruel, and inhuman, and were unprovoked on his part, and he was permitted no oppor-
tunity to vindicate himself from any charges or accusations, if any there were, whic^
prompted or afforded excuse or pretext for the inffiction of said wrongs and injuries,
as he could easily have so relieved himself of any such charts or suspicions, if any there
were, for he had been guilty of no illegal act and of no hostile act or things whatsoever,
by aU of which said wrones, sufferings, humiliations, injuries, outrages he has suffered
and sustained injury to the amount and extent of $20,000.

H. J. Moors, Claimant, ExHiBrr C.

J. R. B., Vice Consul, U. S. A.

Statement of loss at Tivoli Hotel during the late war in Samoa. G. W. Partsch (k H. /*

Moors, proprietors.

House closed 6 weeks, business, of course, suspended $450. 00

Liquors and cigars carried away and items destroyed:

2 cases beer, $11; 500 cigars, $25 $36. 00

Glasses and water bottles, dice boxes, etc 8. 50

Clock smashed, $1.50; 4 pictures ruined, $26 26. 50

Patent cork puller broken 4. 50

Nickel-in -slot machine shot to pieces. . .^ 18. 00

Common cork screws and bar towels gone 5. 00

Liquors on bar gone or spilled (unable to itemize), say 45. 00

140.60

Kitohen utensils carried away:

. Boilers, pots, fry and sauce pans 16. 00

Enameled ware, dishes, sausage machine 10. 50

Stove broken 2.00

4L60

CLAIMS OF AMEBICAN CITIZENS l^' APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. 135

Dining room:

8 dozen knives, worth $6 per dozen $48. 00

8 dozen plated forks, $4 per dozen 32. 00

Dishes^ cups and saucers, plates, mugs, and many sundries im-
possible to itemize, say 60. 00

Pictures and curios which decorated the walls, carried off and *
broken by shots, say 25. 00

$165.00

Upstairs:

4 mattresses, hair, at $15 60. 00

5 mosquito screens, $3.50 17. 50

Water jugs, glasses, basins, lamps, and other sundries broken by

shot which passed through the nouse from side to side, or car-
ried away, sav 30. 00

Sheets, pillows, blankets, etc., carried away 25. 00

132. 50

Table linen, napkins, etc.^ impossible to itemize 42. 00

New matting covering dming room and bed rooms torn up and rendered

useless, now all replaced with new stuff. Loss about 75. 00

1,046.50
[From records Apia consalate. J. R. B.]

[Despatch No. 77. Inclosure No. 34.]

Apia, Samoa, Janwary .?, 1899.
Judos Osborn.

Dear Sir: I have been up most of the night, trying to save property in different
quarters. As soon as I had left a place, after driving on a band of marauders, another
party would appear and complete the work.

We are not half at the end of this affair, for according to native customs what they
can not carry off now waste.

Unless something is done quickly, I expect to see every banana plant, breadfruit
tree, and coconut cut down and every house burned as soon as tbe mvaders have no
more use for them.

The church in Apia has just been pillaged and several of the women leaving there
have been robbed of most of their clothes on the street.

As I view matters, the only way to stop such proceedings is to recognize Mataafa
at once and tell him that you hold him responsible. Without Tutuila being counted
he has with him to-day fully 85 per cent of the Samoan people.

It is not necessary for the honor or dignity of the powers to support a rotten decision
and annihilate a race in so doing.

The very early departure of Judge Chambers from Samoa would serve all interestii
and his own. His sun is set in these islands. It is not the opposition of good people
that he has to contend against. If he had the power, he might contend against that.
It is the dangerous lack of support that will meet him on every side. No one will
pay attention to his commands; or, if they do, they will pay so much ae to comply
with the mere form of his order.

Mataafa has no reason to love him, and he is too honest a man to ever conceal his
poor opinion of him. While I write this I find the chiefs from Mulinuu doing what
they can to drive out the pillaging party. They will succeed, perhaps, in getting
those off the beach, but in the back all the plantations will be destroyed and a famine
will set in and last for months to come.

Early action in the direction I have indicated is, I think, the best thing that can
be done. And then, if poRsible, I am sure Mataafa will undertake to withdraw most
of the people from Apia and its vicinity.

I thmk the warship should take a few Mataafa chiefs on board and steam out into
deep water and there throw awav all guns and ammunition they have belonging to the
vanquished party, which is looked upon as lawful loot by the victors. I have per-
sonally done all I could to save property. I have not egged on this war, but have
not tned to stop it, being in full sympathy with the victors. I could do much for the
general good, but as I am so subject to misrepresentation that I fear gieatly to take
any prominent part. If matters are not now given some proper direction, they are
likely to assume a much worse aspect. Mataafa, if recognized, should have some
good white man at his side most of the time until matters are better. I should think
the president would answer all purposes. I have very considerable interests in and
out of Apia. I have now on my premises not less than 50 weeping women and children
with their little belongings, 'the case is urgent.

Kindly consider it quickly.

Very truly, yours, H. J. Moors.

136 CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

[From records Apte Consulate. J. R. B.]
[Dispatch No. 77. Inclosure No. 35.]

Apia, Samoa, Friday ^ January 7, 1S99.
Judge Osborn,

United States Consulate.

Dear Sir: I was at Mulinuu until a late hour last night and found on my arrival
there that it was the intention to transport everj^ prisoner under guard to Manono and
there detain them indefinitely. It was also the idea to occupy Apia for a considerable
time and to place here the most orderly of Mataafas people, ^r. Marquart being em-
ployed to take charge of a strong force of guards.

In reference to your wishes, and to some extent against my own judgment, I have
advocated a course which I hope will meet with yoxa approval, as I am sure it woidd
if you viewed the situation as 1 do.

I believe it is the idea that the provisional government, set up, should command
peace, and restore things as nearly as possible to their normal condition as soon as
possible; but I do not believe you would have to do this without first taking such
precautionary measures as would insure us from a recurrence of the late disorders.

It is the opinion of many people that if the provisional government were to let loose
here in Apia a number of persons whom it believes it could not bind by any oath or
promise, that they will conspire against it again; that they will be advised to do so
by the late chief justice, by Gurr, and other white men ashore here now.

The provincial government can not count on the good will of either the British
consul or the captain of the Porpoise] in fact, their unfriendly feeling is manifest at
every point.

The provincial government will be held responsible for a lot for everything from
this forth, in fact. What time will it have to work benefits which it really has in view
if at every stage it must fight for its existence, its very life?

It appears to me that it is not sufficient that the consuls simply acknowledge that it
is here with us; for that is very little. I think that they should manifest a friendly
spirit toward it as openly as possible, to correct false impressions which are going
about. I also think Hiat the consuls should not bicker foolishly with it, for such
matters tend to lower its influence, which should be fully sustained until such time as
its ultimate fate is determined by higher anHiority than exist here at present.

Last evening you doubted my affirmation that the late chief justice was in corre-
spondence with the prisoners, and had endeavored to hold out hopes of success to them,
counseling them not to despond, for he believed that the powers would sustain his
decision and so make them the rulers of Samoa. I think that Dr. Raffel will show
you this letter to-day. The provisional government can not with safety to itself
liberate some of those men now in its charge. Against its own good judgment and
in deference to your wishes, nearly all of the prisoners will be set free to-day after
they have performed the ceremony of submission customary to Samoans. Those
who will still be detained will be sent to distant points in this group, and kindly
treated, and liberated as soon as the state of die country will permit such measures.
I may say that Dr. Raffel has these matters in hand and that all of the detail will be
carried out in the kindliest possible spirit.

The restoration of order in this community is a first consideration, but its steady
maintenance' is of still more importance.

The supreme coiu't will be officially closed and Mr. Marquart will take charge of
all of the records. The people of Apia (except a few) will resume possession of their
property, and no doubt soon pursue their ordinary avocations as hitherto. Mataafa
and his chiefs are most anxious to maintain the friendly feelings that have always
existed between our countrj' and theirs and between yourself personally and them.
Yours, very truly,

H. J. Moors.

[From records Apia consulate. J. R. B.)

[Extract from consular records regarding the part played by H. J. Moors In the Samoan troubles of 1808

and 1S99.]

January 24, 1899, Consul General Osborne wrote the department referring to the
troubles just passed and said that Chief Justice Chambers had announced that he
would begin the hearing of the kingship contest on December 19, 1898. "The
Grermans protested and they and Mr. Moore, an American citizen, said that the
Mataafa party would not appear and would pay no attention to any rule of the court
or order or judgment entered and that the court would be closed by force.'* The
Germans and Mr. Moore proclaimed that if the decision should be adverse to Mataafa
it would not be submitted to and that there would be war at once, which proved to

CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, S.VMOAN ISLANDS. 137

be true. ^'In my opinion the natives are not so much to blame as certain white
men and but for a few Germans and one American I think a settlement could yet
be made.''

[Dispatch 77, IndOBOie 31. Signed by Judge Chambers.]

** German officials openly espoused the defeated faction which, led by General
Coimsel von Bulow, wno had represented them on the trial, encouraged dv practi-
cally entire German popi^ation, and one man claiming to be an American oegan at
once organized armed assault."

^This reference is imdoubtedly to Mr. Moors, J. R. B.). General Osborne made the
foliowmg note on this inclosure: "The statements substantially correct."

[Diary of Mr. Osborne, Mar. 2, 1899.]

''Moors is undoubtedly advising the natives to hold out, as he claims that the
decision in the kingship matter is too unjust to be submitted to. "

[Letter of Moors to Consul General Heimrod, Apr. 27, 1905.]

''I have been the friend and advisor of IMLataafa for years and I knew that he would
keep the peace in accordance with the agreement he had made with the consuls and
warship captains early in January. In fact, it was my suggestion to Consul General
Osborne that brought that temporary agreement into force."

[From records Apia consulate . J . R . B .]
[Dispatch No. 89. Inclosure No. 5^

British Consulate,

Apia, March 2, 1899.
Sib: I have the honor to inclose copy of a letter received from Commander Sturdee,
Boyal Navy, regarding the conduct of Mr. H. J. Moors. Taking into consideration
the statements contained in this letter, together with a letter sent you by Mr. Moors,
of which you have kindly sent me copies, I would earnestly beg you to take such
measures as may prevent this individual from further endangering the life and property
of the European communitv in Samoa.

I have the honor to be, sir, your most obedient, humble servant,

Ernest G. B. Maxse.
L. W. Osborne, Esq.,

United States Consul General y Apia.

[Inclosure No. 6.]

H. M. S. ''Porpoise/'
Apia J Samoa, February j?7, 1899.

Sir: I beg to bring before your notice, in order that you may lay it before your
United States colleague, the fact that I am creditably informed, mat Mr. J. H. Moors,
an American citizen, is still actively continuing his agitation with the natives and
his advice to the provisional government, and thus encouraging them to acts of
aggression. These continued acts of the provisional government will shortly oblige
me to take military action to prevent European life and property being endangered.

I beg therefore to request you to ask your coUes^^ue to take such measures as may
be necessary to stop Mr. J. H. Moors from taking further action until the decision of
the treaty powers is known.

I wish to draw your attention to the fact that at Mr. L. W. Osborn's (coubul general of
the United States) req^uest I took all American citizens under the protection of Her
Brittanic Majesty's ships until the arrival of an American man-of-war, and I therefore
consider it very desirable and essential for the good of the American community
that one of tJieir number should not be allowed to be a danger to the other members
of that community and equally so to British subjects.

If military action has to be taken, and I have reason to believe that Mr. Moors is
still agitating, I may consider it my duty to forcibly arrest him for the go6d of
Europeans and the general welfare of the natives.

I have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant,

F. C. D. Sturdee,

Royal Navy,

138 CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

[From dispatch book Apia consulate. J. R. B.]
[Diary of Consul Oeneral Osborne. Diq>atch 77. Inclosure 1.]

H. J. Moots called from 9 to 11 p. m. —called about the release of the 1,000 prison«r8
at Mulinuu. He insisted that the small men ought to pay a small fine, and that the
chiefs who testified on the trial should be dex)orted. I tola him that I could not listen
to such talk, that they had simply been called as witnesses, and that they were on the
side of the law, and their claim had been sustained by the only tribunal provided under
•the treaty for that purpose; that they were not rebels, as he claimed, ana that no severe
punishments or indignities must be heaped upon them, at least no party would gain
thereby; that, though they might have been beaten, they had lost everything, and that
was pimishment enough. He finally agreed to go to MuHnuu that night, ana that the^
should be released the next day upK)n their ifoga. He at least promised to have this
done if he could, and claimed that it would be as he said. I told him that these con-
stituted a regular party, that they supposed they had elected their king, that such
views had been sustained by the chief justice, and, though beaten, it would not be
advisable for the stronger party to be too severe.

[From dispatch book Apia consulate. J. R. B.]
[Copy. No. 89. Marked "Not sent." J. R. B.]

Consulate General United States,

Api4if Samoa J March 6, 1899.
Hon. David J. Hjll,

Assistant Secretary of SUnJLej Waskingtony D, C.

Sir: I beg to be permitted to state that perhaps it is my duty to ag[ain refer to Mr.
H. J. Moors, who claims to be an American citizen and to claim American protection.
I would not aflSict the department with any of his correspondence or witii references to
him were it not for the fact that I am confident that he is flooding the department, as
well as the columns of newspapers, both in the colonies and the United States, with
matter deceptive in its character, false in its statements, and intended to create fidse
impressions concerning the acts of officials at this place and as to the real situation in
Samoa.

I am advised by an eyewitness that he sent by the last mail a very large letter directly
to the honorable Secretary of State, and one of like character to New York City, pre-
sumably to his brother-in-law, who is, I believe, Mr. Davenport, who is the cartoonist
for the New York Journal, and I doubt not that in these he nas represented Chief Jus-
tice Chambers and myself, and probably the British consul, as '* fossils'' and as being
guilty of many wrongs, and, in fact, as being responsible for the existing troubles in
Samoa. I presume that his principal ^evance against me is that I aid not at his
demand, upon the rendition of the decision in the kingship case, at once issue a procla-
mation recognizing Mataafa as king, in opposition to the decision of the chief justice.
I have at all times treated him with consideration, though he has told me on several
occasions that the only man the United States ever sent here that amounted to any-
thing was J. H. Mulligan; that all others had been nonentities.

The British officers here are extremely anxious to make him a guest upon their ships,
and in view of the fact that his many letters to the chief justice and to me show him to
be openly advising and leading organized resistance to the legally constituted authori-
ties 1 do not longer feel it to be my duty to interfere should they find lawful reasons for
taking him in charge.

As stated in previous dispatches, and as the department knows, he is a vigorous
writer. He in his letters openly admits that he is m open rebellion against lawfully
constituted authorities, and at tne same time has the audacity to attack loyal officials
and to attempt to justify himself. I have heretofore sent several letters of his which
prove this assertion, and I now beg to transmit as inclosures herein some additional
correspondence, which is self-explanatory, though on its face it might appear to have
come from an upright and law-abiding citizen. I confess that my letter to him of
February 27, bem^ inclosure No. 2, is not of a very dignified character, and I apologize
for the same, but m view of the many frivolous things he has said and written al^ut
me, because he could not induce me to follow him in his rebellious course, it seemed
to be the proper kind of answer.

From the letters of Her Majesty's consul and Capt. Sturdee the opinions of others
may be easily] ascertained. In fact, I am informed that at a meeting of American and
European citizens, held on Thursday evening the 2d instant, the determination to
lynch him was almost irresistible. Such is the estimation in which he is held in
Apia, and yet he has more influence with the natives than all others combined and
is the adviser of the entire Mataafa party and will advise them to resist and hold out
to the last man before submitting to the decision of the court.

CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. 189

I confess that I am not able to state what can be done with him. He professes to
be a patriot, to work for the wel&re and, in &ct, the salvation of Samoa, and at the same
time is defending rebellion and slandering and belittlmg all loyal officers, and was a
participant in and still further justified the effort to forcibly remove Chief Justice
Chambers, and justified the illegal acts and usurpation of Dr. Raff el.

On the last steamer going to the colonies he openly declared that I would be re-
moved in one month, mat Chief Justice Chambers would go in two months, and that
the British consul would be transferred in about four months.

AU this may be true, but I should dislike to see these things happen at the dicta-
tion of a notorious rebel. >

I have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant,

L. W. OSBORN,

Consul {reneral.

[Re H. J. Moors. From records A jia consulate. J. R. B.]
[Despatch No. 80. Indosure No. 3.]

February 28, 1899.
L. W. OsBORN, Esq.,

United States Consul General to Samoa.

Dear Sir: I have only just now received your yesterday's date, to which I now
have i>leasure of replying. On the 26th I addressed you concerning certain acts of
the British consul toward the provisional government which seem to me to be calcu-
lated to bring on trouble, at a time when sdl who have the welfare of these islands at
heart should bend all their enemes toward securing tranquility.

Hoping but hardier believing tnat you had some mfluence with the British consul
that might by a possibility be used to stay his hand for a short time, at least until we
have heard from the powers, I applied to you officially as per yesterday's letter.

Passing over the flippant character of the reply and its mock familiarity, I would
aay that holding very different views from your good self, I will not undertake to
recommend to me provisional government or to any one else the acceptance of your
suggestions. This at the risk of losing your good opinion. So far as i am informed
the present Government of Samoa was long in existence before the consuls recognized it«

It had anointed Mataafa King of Samoa; had been represented before the supreme
court and had overthrown that tribunal when it had rendered a mistake and i)er-
haps an illegal decision; it had captured and punished its opponents after defeating
them in sanguinary conflict.

It was in real fact a de facto government when the consuls came tardily forward and
recognized it and professed to wish it to be strong and effective j In no sense was
it an auxiliary of any consular combination, neither at that time nor since, as far as
my limited judgment goes. It gathered no strength from consular recognition; on
the contrary, since then it has lost some by that connection.

After consular approval, it proceeded, on later days, to banish from Apia certain
persons whose presence was considered annoying and disadvantageous to the public
peace. It has proceeded to collect certain taxes for its own proper use and to inflict
some very light penalties as a small atonement to be made by the defeated party for
deceiving the supreme court. It withdrew its forces from the vicinity of Apia, and
since that date it has, without any consular aid, maintained the peace of Samoa in
every district, notwithstanding what you may hear to the contrary. To carry on its
business it has appointed certain officers witnout whom its affairs would have fallen
into confusion.

So far as I know, nothing further has been attempted or is intended until the deci-
sion of the powers is reached. I have known of no other government in Samoa since
last November, nor by any stretch of imagination can I conceive of any, unless it
should appear that two of the consuls consider themselves charged with the internal
administration of the affairs of this kingdom. So far as I can see, the consuls have
done nothing, nor could they in any case, to preserve the peace. That fimction has
rightfully and solely been in the hands of the natives, whose provisional government
has not, so far as I know, acted auxiliary of any other combination whatever. I can
not serve in your consulate or in any other consular office which shall in any sense
tend to lower the dignity or unjustly reflect upon the present provisional government,
which is giving us peace and security, until an ultimate decision is arrived at.

I am sorry mat we differ in our views, and I hope that the final decision will find
us equally anxious to support it.

Very respectfully, yours, H. J. Moors.

140 CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

[Re H. J. Moors. From records Apift considate. J. R. B.)

(Dispatch No. 77. Indosure No. 36.)

Judge OsBOBN,

United States Contnd General.

^ Dear Sir: I have just seen two proclamations, just issued by yourself and the Brit-
ish consul and one by the late chief justice. I suppose that the president, who holds
verv different views, wiU soon be out with his. I nope, sir, that this newspaper war
will soon be over, for it can accomplish no sood.

Everyone with whom I have conversed believes that no good would come of the
reopening the supreme court. I believe both sides wish it closed. Why on earth,
struggle about the empty honor as to who has done Uie job? One sreat mistake is
constantly recurring, and that is that the consuls keep considering always the inter-
ests of the three treaty powers, forgetting that Samoa is a fourth power and really the
one with most at state, her assent to the compact iiaving been deemed necessary
before it was declared complete. This country, as far as I Imow its sentiments, abso-
lutely repudiates the late chief justice and his decision, and desires his early departure.
There can be no circumstances which I can imagine which would bring about such a
feeling toward him as would allow his resuming ofl&ce here.

Whatever the legal aspect of this case may be from any point of view, I hold with
the President that practically Samoan people have closed the supreme court and that
it can not be reopened and carry with it any of the attributes of a court of justice,
unless with the consent or the actual subjugation of the Samoan people.

It is certainly not possible for the present consuls or the Samoan Government to
settle the questions now at issue without reference to the three foreign treaty powers.
It is obvious that a long time must elapse before a conclusion is reached.

While all may differ on many points, it seems to me that it should be an easy matter
to agree that the provisional government should be allowed to maintain the peace of
this district until it is superseded lawfully by some other rule. This it can not do if
the British consul and his captain are allowed to create needless alarms, and to continue
trifling bickerings, the only end in view being to embarrass those who are doing their
best to make a difficult situation endurable. It must be plain to everybody that
good influences are at work, for most of the invading forces have been withdrawn ;
not a single prisoner has been harmed ; four-fifths of the whole lot have made their silb-
mission and have been dismissed. Those who had been considered dangerous to tiie
public peace have been sent to distant points until matters have been finally concluded .

This district has not been devastated according to Samoan customs, and affairs are
fast assuming a quiet aspect. I think the president and those who have aided him
deserve much credit for it.

I see no occasion for any warlike displays from the British warships, nor any theatrical
attempts to protect American interests, which have not been threatened. Such
demonstrations as occurred on Saturday settled nothing and they needlessly alarm the
whole country. Copy-book oratory may tickle the few onlookers, but the powers will
close up these matters ujx)n their merits, I am sure of it.

I have no place in the provisional government, but I have some influence and it will
be devoted to the preservation of the peace, unless attempts are made by any of the
powers acting separately against these people. In elevating Mataafa they but exer-
cized an inalienable right possessed by all free people the world over.

I am in hearty sympathy witJi Dr. Kaffel and consider him an honest, upright man
who is trying to do his duty. I see not the least evidence of any attempts at German
supremacy in Samoan affairs, and on the contrary I believe before very long you will
find that British designs against Samoan autonomy will become very apparent. These
people are past masters in the art of getting their flag insulted, so as to avail themselves
of an excuse for taking away the rights of weaker people than themselves. Some day
they will meet with their just rewards; I hope that my countrymen will never inad-
vertently aid them in this nefarious work.

It might be very gratifying for a certain gentleman to have this place called Maxse-
land instead of Samoa, and for him to wear a certain decoration and reap further
distinctions at the cost of the lives of some hundreds of Samoans.

Our concern, I take it, is to look after our trade, and cultivations of our concessions
at Pago Pago and to give countenance to no schemes that will bind our country with a
power which is fast earning the enmity of these people, as it has that of millions of
others.

If these people will have no more of Judge Chambers or his decisions, it is very cer-
tain that not one of our statesmen will force them to, when they have the facts before
them. If Judge Chambers has made a mistake and so becomes unavailable, there is no
reason why the president should not appoint another to fill the place now vacant and
only formally occupied by Dr. Raff el. While awaiting final action it appears to me

CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. 141

that it should be the duty as it ought also to be the pleasure of those in authority to
assist the provisional government to maintaiu its necessary authority.

Forbearance is a virtue little cultivated by our Britidb friends; selfishness and a

certain overbearing self -consciousness marks their course through all their transactions.

It is not for me to advise you in anything, for our Government holds you responsible

and not me. Consider, then, the views here stated only as expressions of my own

opinions, and place whatever value upon them you think they aeserve.

Very truly, yours,

H. J. Moors.

NO. 13. MICHAEL J. SCANLAN.

Michael Scanlan:

Q. What was your father's name ? — ^A. Michael Scanlan.

Q. Is he the original claimant in this case ? — ^A. Yes.

Q. Is he living or dead? — ^A. He died in 1909.

Q. What is your mother's name ? — A. Penina, a Samoan.

Q. Of what country was your father a citizen ? — ^A. United States.

Q. How did he become an American citizen? — ^A. Through his
father, Jeremiah Scanlan.

Q. Was Jeremiah Scanlan born in the United States ? — ^A. I only
know that he was an American citizen.

Q. Was your father's mother of what race ? — ^A. Samoan.

Q. Have you any evidence of the marriage of Jeremiah Scanlan
and your grandmotner ? — A. No.

Q. So far as you know, did your father ever swear allegiance to any
other Government than the United States ? — ^A. No.

Q. Did he do anything to cause him to lose his American citizen-
ship, so far as you know ? — A. No.

Q. Was your father ever married before he married your mother ? —
A. He was — to Leigoa.

Q. Is she living or dead ? — ^A. Living.

Q. Were she and your father divorced? — A. They were divorced
faa-Samoa.

Q. Was your father ever married again before he married your
mother ? — A. Yes, to Folokeka.

Q. Is she dead or living ? — ^A. Dead.

Q. Do you know when she died ? — A. I understand she died before
my father and mother were married.

Q. Did your father have children by Leigoa ? — A. Yes, four.

Q. What are their names? — A. Kittie living faa-Samoa, Fetoi,
Daniel, and George.

Q. Did your father leave a will ? — A. Yes.

Q. Have you a copy of it ? — ^A. Yes.

(The witness here presents what purports to be a copy of his
father's will, dated May 6, 1908, made in the German court of Apia,
and appointing him — Michael Scanlan, the witness — as executor.)

Q. Have proceedings been taken to prove this will in court? —
A. Yes; my father's children by his first marriage are fighting the
will.

Q. Has the case been decided yet ? — A. No.

(The witness was here instructed to furnish a duly certified copy of
the will, as attempted to be proved in the Apia court and the pro-
ceedings thereunder.)

Q. Where were you living in March, April, and May, 1899? — A.
At Faleula, with my father.

142 CLAIMS OF AMEBIGAN GITIZBKS IK APIA^ SAMOAN ISLANDS.

Q. Do you remember what happened at that time, if anything,
of an unusual nature? — ^A. There was a war between Mataafa ana
Malietoa, and the English and Americans were fighting for Malietoa.

Q. Was any of your father's property injured or destroyed in that
war? — ^A. Yes.

Q. State by whom and how it was so injured and destroyed. — ^A.
The Mataafa people were cutting everything down and carrying them
oflF.

Q. State, by items, such of your father's property as was injured or
destroyed, giving the value of each item so destroyed and the amount
of damage done to each article damaged.

(The witness here presents copies of two letters bound together
purporting to have been addressed by his father, Michael Scanlan,i
to Consul General Osborn on May 13 and June 3, 1899, respectively,
attached to each of which letters is an itemized statement of the
losses claimed to have been suffered.)

Q. I show vou these papers and ask you what they are ? — ^A. Copies
of what my father lost in the war.

Q. I shall mark these papers, respectively, '' Exhibit A'' and "Ex-
hibit B'' and attach them to your deposition, if you have no objec-
tion to my taking them to Washington. — ^A. All right.

Q. Do you remember what property your father had at Faleula
at this time of the war ? — ^A. Yes.

Q. What buildings were there? — A. Two European houses and
three Samoan houses.

Q. Do you remember the size of these houses? — A. Yes; one had
four rooms and the other two rooms; the larger house had a veranda all
around and the smaller a veranda only on the front and the back.

Q. Do you know how old these houses were at the time of the
war ? — ^A. The large one about 3 years old and the smaller a year
and a half.

Q. Do vou remember about the dimension of these houses? — ^A.
Yes; the large one was about 30 feet long and 18 feet deep, with an
8-foot veranda. The smaller one was about 20 by 14.

Q. Do you remember what else was on the place then ? — ^A. There
were a great number of pi^, as it was my father's business to raise
pigs to sell. I remember there were horses and coconut trees.

Q* Do you know what was the size of your father's place at that
time? — ^A. Nine and one-half acres, and then he was planting 7^
acres of his father's estate, right next to his place. He was doing
this for himself and his brothers and sisters, and shared the produce
with them.

Q. Do you remember anything else on the place then? — ^A. Yes;
there were some kava and cocoa plants.

Q. Anything else you remember ? — A. Some fowls.

Q. Did you live on this place all through the war ? — A. We came
to Apia, as my father was court interpreter, and the admiral sent
for him and used to send him to take messages to Mataafa and do
all the business with him.

Q. Did you leave the place vacant? — ^A. Yes; because my father
was interpreter for the admiral the Maafa people were sore at ua
and we could not stay there.

Q. When did you go back there again ? — A. When the war wi^s
over — I think in three or four months.

CLAIMS OP AMEBICAN CITIZENS IK APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. 148

Q. What did you see there when you got back ? — A. Most of the
coconut trees were cut down — about 300.

Did you count them yourself? — A. No; my father did.

Q. What else did you see ? — A. Both houses were smashed to the
ground, and the Samoan houses were all burned up, aU the furniture
was carried away. The three horses were gone and so were the
pigs and chickens.

Q. Anything else ? — ^A. The tapa mats were gone.

Q.'Do you Know anything of your own knowledge as to the value
of aU these articles ? — A. No.

Q. So far as you know, did your father ever recover any of this
property? — A. No.

Q. So far as you know, did he ever receive any compensation,
directly or indirectly, from any person or government for these
losses? — A. No.

Q. Do you know how your father became the owner of this prop-
erty ? — ^A. He bought it himself.

Q. Did your father, so far as you know, take any part in this war,
for or against any faction or party? — A. He was under the orders
of the American admiral.

Q. Is there anything more you care to say about the case? — ^A. No.

Q. Do you remember a bathing place on your father's property ? —
A. Yes; it bad cement sides, and springs were in the bottom from
which the water came.

Q. How large was it? — ^A. About 8 feet wide and 12 feet long.

Q. Was any damage done to that during the war? — ^A. Yes; it
was filled with rocks.

Q. How deep was the weU on this place ? — ^A. About 30 feet — no
more. It was a very deep well.

Q. What happened to that, if anything, during the war? — ^A. It
was all filled up with stones.

Q. Is there anything more you want to say? — A. My father had

js at Faleula besides those on his ownplace, Fasitoo, and some at

lieamoa, at the time of the war. Wnen the war was over my
father told we that he called upon the chiefs of the villages where
these pigs were kept, and they said that the Mataafa people had
eaten them.

Tele a:

Q. What do you know about this claim ? — ^A. I know that 3 of his
horses were killed.

Q. Did you see them killed ? — ^A. I saw the Mataafa people taking
them away.

Q. What did you see besides ? — ^A. The Mataafa people killed and
ate 50 or 60 pigs of Scanlan's.

Q. Anvthing else ? — A. Michael Scanlan came to MuUnuu, at the
time of the war, and I saw the Mataaf as taking away everything that
was in his houses, all the furniture, fine mats, and tapas. They broke
the posts of his European houses and smashed them to the groimd.
The people ate a lot of the fowls. They burned his Samoan houses —
three; one big one and two small ones, used for dining and cooking.
They cut down a lot of cocoanut and breadfruit trees. They smashed
one rowboat and some canoes.

/

144 CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

Q. Where were you at this time ? — A. I was there on the Mataafa
side.

Q. Is there anything else you want to say ? — ^A. No.

Q. How many European houses were there on Scanlan's place ? —
A. Two; one for Uvinff purposes and the other a kitchen.

Q. Was there a weU on the place ? — A. Yes.

Q. Did the Mataafa people do anything to that? — ^A. They filled
it up with stones.

Q. Did the Mataafa people have any particular grudge against
Michael Scanlan ? — A. Yes.

Q. Why ? — A. Because he was interpreter and was going about on
the ships and showing the officers where the Samoans were.

Q. Was there a bathing place there ? — ^A. Yes.

Q. What happened to tnat, if anything? — ^A. It was filled with
stones.

Q. Do you know whether Scanlan had any pigs at the time of the
war elsewhere than at Faleula? — A. Yes; he had at Saleimoa and
Afega. I heard these were taken during the war but didn't see them
myself.

TUIM AUGA :

Q. What do you know of Michael Scanlan's claim ? — A. I kept
some of his. pigs at Faleula at the time of the war — about 50 big and
little pigs. They were aU killed by the Mataafa people.

Q. Did you see it done ? — A. Yes; they tried to kill me when I tried
to stop them.

Q. What arrangements did you have with Scanlan for keeping
these pigs ? — A. We halved the httle pigs that came from them.

Q. Do you know anything more about the case? — A. I saw the
Mataafa people taking 3 horses from Scanlan^s place at Faleula dur-
ing the war.

Q* Did you see anything which happened at Scanlan's house during
the war ? — A. Yes; saw two iron-roofed houses pulled down, and a lot
of pigs and fowls killed; don^^t know the number. I also saw the
Mataafa people filhng the well and bathing place and drinking pool
with stones.

Q. Do you know whether Scanlan had pigs at other places? — A.
Yes; he had pigs at Fasitoo, Saleimoa, and Malie.

Michael Scanlon, Claimant's Exhibit A.

J. R. B., vice counsul, U. S. A.

Apia, Samoa, May IS^ 1899.
The Hon. L. W. Osborn,

United States Consul General, Samoa.

Sir: ITiave the honor to infonn you that the Mataafa people have committed dam-
age to my place and property at Faleula as follows:

Value of damage.

300 pigs (stolen) $600

200 poultry (stolen) 50

3 horses (stolen) .• 110

14 head of cattle (killed) 700

3 houses b\imt 200

2 weather-board houses partially destroyed 250

300 coconut palms cut down and destroyed 1, 200

250 kava plants (stolen) 260

Cacao destroyed 100

CLAIMS OP AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. 145

Furniture in house stolen : Value of damage.

9 chairs, $9 ; 2 rocking chairs, $10 $14

Chest of drawers, $10; large clock, $10 20

3 large mirrors 8

10 large pictures in frames 10

6 boxes '. 18

2 music boxes : 16

Stables 15

Kitchen utensils 10

Crockery, knives, forks, spoons, 340 pieces 70

Plantation implements:

Axes, knives, spades, etc 26

Grindstone .' 6

Taro taken and destroyed 100

Two Snider guns (stolen) 40

3,810

The foregoing consist of the savings of many years labor of myself and family, and I
respectfully beg you to endeavor to obtain for me some compensation for the losses I
have sustamed at the himds of the Mataafa people during the rebellion.
I have the honor to be, your most obedient servant,

m. scanlon.

Michael Scanlon, Claimant's Exhibit B.

J. R. B., vice consul, U. S. A.

Apia, June 3, 1899,
The Hon. L. W. Osborn,

United States Comul General, Samoa,

Sir: I have the honor to inform you that during the past few days the Mataa^
people have committed further damage to my place at Faleula. They have filled up
a water well and a bathing place with stones and dirt, carried away the bakmce of the
galvanized roofing iron and woodwork of the two weather-board buildings, and blazed
the stumps of the mango trees to prevent further growth. 1 make further claim for
this damage as follows:

2 houses valued at $1,500 less $250 claimed in letter of May 13 last $1,250

Damage to well 50

Damage to bathing place 100

1,400
Making-together with former claim, viz 3, 810

5,210

apensation to that amount.
I have'the honor to be, your obedient servant,

And I beg your kind assistance in procuring me compensation to that amount.

ob ""

M. Scanlon.

Michael J. Scanlon.

Claimant's Exhibit C.

J. R. B., Vice Consul, U. S. A.

II. 1/08. Beglaubigte Abschrift.

Der Kaiserliche Bezirksrichter,

Apia, den 20, October 1909,

G^enwaertig: Gouvemementssekretaer Peters, stellvertretender Kaiserlicher
Bezirksrichter als Richter. Gerichtsassistent von Egidy, als Gerichtsschreiber.

Es erschienen Penina Scanlon, Witwe des Erblassers. Michael Scanlon, Sohn des
Erblassers, Moritz Scanlon, Sohn des Erblassers, Jannet Scanlon, Tochter des Erb-
lassers, Willy Scanlon, Sohn des Erblassers, Josephine Schroedergeb. Scanlon Tochter
des Erblassers, Daniel Scanlon Sohn aus I. Ehe des Erblassers Leuga Ehefrau des
Erblassers aus I. Ehe Lisi Tochter des Erblassers aus I. Ehe Fetoai Tochter aus I.
Ehe des Erblassers Caroline Silva Schwester des Erblassers.

73180— H. Doc. 1257, 62-3 10

X46 CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

Der Hinterlegungsschein ueber die unter No. 56 des Verwahrungsbuchs eigetragens
Verfuegung von Todes wegen befindet sich bei den Akten.
Es ifit gerichtskundig, dass der Erblasser geetorben ist.

Das Testament lag vor. Es war mit den Gerichtssieeel zweimal verschlossen.
Es wurde festgestellt, dass der Verschluss unversenrt war. Hierauf wurde das
Testament geoffnet und einschliesslich des Protokolls ueber die Errichtung den
Beteiligten verkuendet.
An den Eaufmann 3erm G. W. Partsch,

Hier.
Vorgelesen, Genehmigt, Unterschrieben.

^gez.^ Penina.
(gez.) Michael Scanlon.
(gez.) Morris Scanlon.
(gez.) Janet Scanlon.
feez.) Willi Scanlon.
(gez.) Josephine Schroedeb«
Gescblossen:

^gez.J Peters.
(gez.) VON Egidy.
Vorstehende Abschrift stimmt mit der Urschrift ueberein.
Apia, den 19. Juli 1911.
[seal.] (Signature illegible)

Gouvemementssekretaer.

Michael J. Scanlon

Claimant's Exhibit D.
J. R. B., Vice Consul, U. S. A.

II. 1/08. Beolaubigte Abschrift.

Eaiserliches Bezirksoericht,

Apia, den 20. October 1909,

Gegenwaertig: Eaiserlicher Bezirksrichter Dr. Imhoff, Gerichtssekretaer Mars.
Verkuendet, gez. Peters, als Richter.

Es erschien der Haendler Michael Scanlon in Faleula.

Der Erschienene ist den Gerichtspersonen bekannt.

Der Erschienene stellte den Antrag seinen letzten Willen zu ProtokoU aufzunehmen.
£r erklaerte, dass er amerikanischer Staatsangehoeriger und der deutschen Sprache
nicht maechtig sie. Es wurde deshalb der Eaufmann Julius Niebuhr als Dolmetscher
der englischen Sprache zugesogen. Nachdem der Dolmetscher den Dolmetschereid
geleistet hatte, erklaerte der Haendler Michael Scanlon sein Testament wie folgt:

Sec. 1. Zu meinen Erben ernenne ich: (1) Meine Ehefrau Penina Scanlon. ^2)
Meinen Sohn aus erster Ehe George Scanlon, femer meine Kinder aus meiner Ene
mit Penina, naemUch: (3) Janet Scanlon. (4) Michael Scanlon, Stellmacher. (5)
Soee Schroeder, j?eboren Scanlon. (6) Morris Scanlon. (7) Jane Scanlon. (8) Wil-
liam Scanlon. (9) Faatei Scanlon. (10) Carolina Scanlon. (11) Rita Scanlon. (12)
Alaisa Scanlon; (13) Jessie Scanlon, saemtlich in Faleula, zu gleichen Teilen.

An den Kaufmann Herm G. W. Partsch,
Hier.

2. Meine Erben duerfen die zu meinen Vermoegen gehoerigen Grundstuecke nicht
d!urch Verfuegung unter Lebenden veraeussem.

3'. Meine minderjaehringen Kinder, sowie meine Ehefrau Penina erhalten das
Recht, in dem auf meinem Grundstueck in Faleula befindlichen Hause zu wqjmen.
Dieses Recht erlischt fuer meine Kinder mit Eintritt der Volljaehrigkeit, fuer meine
Ehefrau bei Wiederverheiratun^.

4. Zum Vormund meiner mmderjaehrigen Kinder ernenne ich den Kauffmann
Parkhouse hier. Falls dieser an der Annahme des Amtes verhindert sein sollte,
ernenne ich den jeweiligen amerikanischen Konsul zum Vormunde meiner IGnder.

5. Zum TestamentsvoUstrecker ernenne ich meinen Sohn Michael Scanlon.
Hierauf ist die anliegende englische Uebersetzimg von dem Dolmetscher Niebuhr

angefertigt wcH'den.

Das ProtokoU sowie die englische Abschrift sind hierauf dem Erblasser vorgeleser
iron ihm gen^migt und wie folgt eigenhaendig imterschrieben worden.

^gez.^ Michael Scanlon.

fgez.^ J. Niebuhr.

fgez.^ Dr. Imhoff.

(gez.) Mars.

CLAIMS OF AMBBICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. 147

[Translation.]

^ Imperial Court,

Apia, 6. May, 1908.

Present: Imperial Judge Dr. Imhoff, Clerk of the Court Mars.

There appeared the trader Michael Scanlon, of Faleula.

The above mentioned is known to the court.

He makes application to have his last will and testament taken to protocol. He
declares to belong to the United States of America and that he has no Knowledge of
the German langus^e. For this reason the merchant Julius Niebuhr was engagM to
act as interpreter of the English language. After duly having sworn his oath as inter-
preter, trader Michael Scanlon declares his last will as follows:

1. For my heirs I appoint: (1) My wife Penina Scanlon. (2) My son out of my first
marriage George Scanlon, further my children out of my marriage with Penina viz: (3)
Janet Scanlon. (4) Michael Scanlon, a wheelwrkht. (5) Sose Scnroeder, bom Scanlon.

i6) Morris Scanlon. (7) Jane Scanlon. (8) William Scanlon. (9) Faatei Scanlon.
10) Caroline Scanlon. (11) Rita Scanlon. (12) Alaisa Scanlon. (13) Jessie Scanlon.
All of them in Faleula, in equal parts.

2. My heirs are not allowed to sell the premises belonging to my estate as long as
they live.

3. My children under age, same as my wife Penina, are entitled and have the right
to dwell or reside in the nouse placed on my premises in Faleula. This privilege is
void for my children when they become of age, and for my wife when remarrying.

4. For my children under age I appoint Merchant Parkhouse of this place, and if he
should be prevented to accept of the office then I appoint the American Consul holding
office at the time for guardian of my children.

5. For executor I appoint my son Michael Scanlon. Following this the hereby
annexed English translation was made by interpreter Niebuhr. The protocol and
likewise the English copy were then read to the testator, who expressed nis approval
and signed his signature.

(Signed) Michael Scanlon.

(Signed) J. Niebuhr.

^Signed) Dr. Imhoff.

(Signed) Mars.

No. 56 des Verwahrungsbuchs fuer letztwillige VerfQgungen Testament des Haend-
lers Midiael Scanlon in Faleula, Apia, den 6. Mai 1908. gez, Imhoff. Kaiserlicher
Bezirksrichter.

Kaiserliches Beziresqericht,

Apia, den 6, Mai 1908,

Vor den unterzeichneten Gerichtsbeamten ist heute von dem Haendler Michael
Scanlon, wohnhaft in Faleula, an der Gerichtsstelle muendlich unter Zuziehung des
Eaufmanns Julius Niebuhr von Apia als Dolmetschers der englischen Sprache ein
Testament errichtet worden.

Das hierueber aufgenommene ProkotoU ise von dem Richter in G^enwart des
Gerichtsschreibers, des Dolmetschers und des Erblassers mit dem Gerisctssi^el
zweimal verschlossen und mit folgender Aufschrift versehem worden:

Testament des Haendlers Michael Scanlon in Faleula. Apia, den 6. Mai 1908.

(gez.) Imhoff,
Kaiserlicher Bezirkmchter.

Der Wert des Gegenstandes des Testamentes ist auf 86000 M angegeben wordem.

(gez.) Omhoff,

Kcdaerl. Bezirkmchter.
(gez.) Mars.
Gerichtssekretaer.

Vorstehende Abschriften stimmen mit den Urschriften ueberein, Apia, den 19.
Juli 1911.
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(Signature Illegible),
Gouvemementssekretaer.

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148 CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

NO. 14. WILLIAM B. PETTIBONE.

Thomas Brighouse:

Q. For whom do you appear ? — ^A. My daughter, Mona Brighouse.

Q. What interest has she in the claim of 'mlliam R. Pettibone? —
A. She is the daughter of the former Mrs. Pettibone.

Q. Did you marry Mrs. Pettibone, and if so, when? — ^A. Yes; in
1895.

Q. Have you any record of that marriage ? — ^A. I have a certificate
of marriage which I have left with the court here in Apia. I expect
to produce it later.

Q. Do you know anything about the death of Mr. Pettibone ? — ^A. I
do not.

Q. Do you know anything about the losses he claimed to have suf-
fered in tne military and naval operations in and about Apia, Samoa,
in March, April, and May, 1899 ? — ^A. I do not.

Q. How long have you lived in Samoa? — ^A. Five years.

Q. Were you in Samoa during any part of the year 1899 ? — ^A. No.

Q. Have you any evidence to present now regarding Mr. Pettibone's
said losses ? — A. Not at present.

Q. Has any guardian oeen appointed for your daughter Mona? —
A. No. I am appearing for her as her natural guardian. She is now
with my mother, Emma Brighouse, in Liverpool, England.

Q. Do you know whether Mr. Pettibone s estate has ever been
administered in any court ? — ^A. Not to my knowledge.

Q. Is your wife — formerly Mrs. Pettibone — living or dead? — ^A.
Dead.

Q. When did she die ? — ^A. September 25, 1908, in Apia.

Q. Did she leave a will? — ^A. No.

Q. Has her estate ever been administered in a court or any action
taken to that end ? — ^A. No.

Q. What was her first name ? — ^A. Marie.

Q. Is that all you know of the claim ? — ^A. Yes.

NO. 15. WILUAM HABDEB.

W. Harder :

Q. Where were you bom ? — A. In Germany.

Q. State whether or not you are a citizen of the United States. —
A. Yes.

(The consul here states that the registration of this claimant has
recently been refused by the Department of State and a letter sent
to claimant advising him of this fact.)

Q. Have you received such a notice ? — A. No.

Q. How was your citizenship acquired ? — A. By naturahzation.

Q. In what court were you naturalized? — A. In San Francisco.
I have forgotten the name of the court.

Q. On what date were you naturalized ? — A. That I couldn't tell.
I have my naturahzation certificate at home.

(The witness was here instructed to bring his certificate at a later
date.)

Q. When did you go to the United States first ?— A. In 1872.

Q. How long did you stay tbere ? — A. Seven years.

Q. What was your last place of residence in the United States ? —
A. San Francisco.

CLAIMS OF AMEBICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. 14&

Q. What occupation did you follow there ? — A. Carpentering.

Q. Where did you ^o then ? — A. To Samoa.

Q. Have you hved in Samoa ever since ?— A. Yes.

Q. Have you ever since your naturaUzation declared allegiance to
any other Government ? — ^A. No.

Q. Have you ever done anything to cause you to lose your Ameri-
can citizenship ? — A. No.

Q. State whether your residence in Samoa is temporary or per-
manent. — A. If I could sell out, I would go right away. My two
sons are both in the American Naw.

Q. State whether you intend to return to the United States to
live permanently. — A. I would if I could sell my land. Otherwise I
have no money.

Q. Were you in Apia during the months of March, April, and May,
1899?— A. Yes.

Q. What was your occupation at the time? — A. Carpenter and
overseer on a plantation.

Q. Of what country were you then a citizen ? — A. Of the United
States.

Q. State whether anything unusual happened in Samoa. — A. We

fot orders from the plantation to come to Apia, as the American and
IngUsh men-of-war were throwing in shells. There was a war on
between the Samoans and the En^sh and Americans.

Q. Was any of your property injured or destroyed in this war? —
A. Yes.

Q. Do you know by whom it was so injured or destroyed? — A. I
think both the Mataafa and the Maliotoa forces, but didn't see it done.

Q. State by items such of your property as was destroyed, giving
the values of each item thereof. — ^A. The witness here submits four
separate pieces of paper containing itemized statements of his losses,
as claimed, and asKs that they be received in evidence.

Q. I show you these papers and ask you what they are ? — ^A. They
are papers which I made up myself in June or July, 1899, sitting down
and thinking with my wife and family to help me remember. The
items represent what we could remember that we had lost during the
war.

(Received in evidence and marked ''Claimant's Exhibits A, B,
C, and D.'O

Q. Where was your said property located at the time of the war ? —
A. In my place at Lotopa.

Q. How many acres in that place ? — A. Twenty-seven.

Q. When did you buy it ? — A. About 4 or 5 years before the war.

Q. How much did vou pitj for it ? — ^A. $20 an acre.

Q. Was any of it tnei> under cultivation ? — ^A. No.

Q. Any house on it then ? — ^A. No.

Q. Did you live on it yourself before the war ? — A. Yes, for about
2 years.

S. What did you do in the way of improving the place ? — A. I
t a house right after I bought the place.
Q. How much did that cost you ? — ^A. About $400.
Q. What other improvements did you make on the place? —
A. About 2 or 3 years before the war I began to set out coconut,
coffee, and breadfruit trees.

Q. How many coconut trees? — A. Only about 100.

150 CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

Q. How many coffee trees did you plant? — ^A. One hundred and
sixty-three.

Q. How many breadfruit trees? — ^A. A dozen or two.

Q. How long before the war did you move away from this place ? —
A. Between 6 months and one year.

Q. Did anyone occupy the place right after you left ? — A. I leased
it on shares to C. Pullock, who lived on the place.

Q. What improvements, if any, did he make on the place before
the war ? — ^A. He put up a fowl house and fowl fence. I paid for the
material and he did the work. I paid $40 for the wire alone. The
house was 10 by 20.

Q. Was Pullock living on the place when the war broke out?-
A. He stayed until things got too hot and he ran away. Might
have been 3 weeks after tne war started.

Q. When did you first see the place after the war began ? — ^A. About
a week after the war was over.

Q. What was the condition of things on the place when you saw it
then ? — A. The Samoan house was burned. I think this was burned
after peace was declared. Bullet holes were in the dwelling house.
Water tank was damaged, cost about $5 to solder it up. Evervthing
which was in my house was either gone or broken so that I had to
throw them away. The sofa I used again, but am only charging the
$5 which it cost me for repairs. The fowl house was a little damaged
and a part of the fowl fence was gone. All the coffee trees were
pulled up.

Q. How old were the coffee trees ? — A. About a year or two.

Q. How much are you charging for them? — ^A. $1 each.

Q. In making up your accounts are you charging what the articles
cost you ? — ^A. Yes ; as near as I could guess to it.

Q. At the time of the war, did you and your family have their
clothes at this place in Lotopa or on the plantation where you were
working ? — ^A. On the plantation.

Q. Do these items oi loss cover as well what was lost on the planta-
tion as at Lotopa? — A. Yes.

Q. When you left the plantation under orders to come to Apia
did you bring your family with you ? — ^A. Yes.

Q. Did you bring any property away with you? — A. Just the
clothes we wore and a change of clothes, except a little box with my
papers in it.

Q. Why didn't you bring other things? — ^A. Because I didn't
expect damage would be done. Being so long in Samoa I thought
the natives would give in in no time.

Q. When did you see the plantatioif.*a^ain? — A. We were taken
away twice. The first time a day or '^6 Mfter the bombardment.
We stayed away then about two weeks, when we got permission from
the EngUsh and Americans to go back.

Q. When you returned that time, did you find that damage had
been done to your property on the plantation? — ^A. Yes; clothes
and provisions were all gone. Furniture not much damaged.

Q. When did you go away again? — A. About two weeks later we
got notice from Apia to leave as the ships were about to shell the
place again right away.

Q. Did you take anything away with you ? — A. Only what clothes
we had left. The only other thmgs we had left were heavy things
and we couldn't take them away.

CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. 151

Q. How long did you stay away from the plantation then? — A.
About three weeks, when we were allowed for tne second time to go
back.

Q. Was the war over then? — A. No; but the enemy had been
driven back from our plantation.

Q. Did you ever see any of the Mataafa men around the planta-
tion ? — ^A. Only at the beginning of the war.

Q. How far is this plantation from Apia ? — ^A. About 5 miles west
at Vaitele — the German firm's place.

Q. How many in your family at the time of the war? — A. My
wife, one boy about 15, another about 4 or 5, and three smaller
children.

Q. Did you ever, directly or indirectly, recover any articles lost
or destroyed? — A. No; heard where one horse was, but the natives
wouldn't give it back to me because I was an American.

Q. State whether or not you have ever received any compensation
from any person or Government for the damages suffered. — A. Not
for what 1 have claimed. Mr. Pullock was paid for some fowls we
owned together by the German Government, and he gave me my
share.

Q. Did you take any part in this war, for or against any side or
faction? — A. No; I kept quiet.

Q. State whether or not you maintained a position of strict neu-
trality. — A. I did.

Q. Is there anything further relative to the case that you care to
say? — A. No.

Q. Did all the furniture in your Lotopa place belong to you ? —
A. No ; part of the furniture belonged to rullock.

Q. Have you now made up a hst of your losses, dividing them
according to the places where the property was located? — A. Yes;
here is the list.

Q. I shall mark this as ^^ Exhibit E'^ and attach it to your depo-
sition if you have no objection to my taking it. — ^A. All right.

Q. To whom did the furniture in your nouse on the plantation'
belong? — ^A. All to me.

Q. Didn't the plantation company supply you with any furni-
ture ? — A. No ; just the house.

Q. I see you are charging for a lot of clothes on the plantation.
Why didn't you take them away with you ? A. Because we expected
to be away only a day, and then we hadn't much time.

Q. Weren't there a good many natives around the plantation when
you left? — ^A. Yes; but it had never happened before that they had
done any looting, and we weren't expecting it.

Q. Did you work your own horses on the plantation ? — ^A. No.

Q. What did you do with them ? — A. The boy used one to come to
town to school, the wife used one, and the other was for me.

Q. You have an item- on your list of $60 for ''land" at Lotopa,
What does that mean? — A. That I can't make out. I have been
thinking about that, too.

Q. You have several items here marked ''not charged." Why are
these down ? — A. I found that Mr. Pullock had charged these to the
German Government.

Q. Did Mr. Pullock pay you anything out of the awards he received
from the German Government? — A. Yes; he paid me $50 for my
share in those items.

152 CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

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Q. Did he pay you anything else ? — A. No.

Q. Has Mr. rullock any interest in the articles for which you are
now charging? — ^A. No; that's all mine.

Q. What is this item on page 4 of your list ''Masters, etc." ? — ^A. I
think it means a box containing drawing tools.

Q. Have you now your naturalization certificate ? — ^A. Yes.

Q. I show you this paper and ask you what it is? — ^A. It is my
naturalization certificate.

Q. I shall mark this as '^Exhibit F^' and attach it to your deposition
if you have no objection to my taking it to Washington. — ^A. All
right ; but I should like to get it back.

Q. How old were you when you went to America ? — A. Fourteen
years. I was just of age when 1 took out my citizen papers.

Q. And you left the United States the next year ? — A. Yes.

Q. Is there anything more you care to say ? — A. Except that the
damage to the house at Lotopa I don't see on the paper, but Mr.
PuUock said he gave it in to Mulligan. Mulligan may have changed
some of the items or left out some. I can't tell.

CONSTANTIN TeEDEMAN:

Q. Where did you live in March, 1899? — ^A. I was manager of
Vaitele plantation, about 3 miles from Apia.

Q. Did you know William Harder at that time? — ^A. Yes; he
was then employed on the Vaitele plantation.

Q. Did he then reside on the plantation ? — ^A. Yes; he had a house
there in which he and his family lived.

O. Did you remain on the plantation during the war? — ^A. No;
we had orders from the German firm on March 16 to leave the plan-
tation; to leave right away.

Q. Did Mr. Harder also leave at that time, if you know? — ^A. Yes;
he left with the rest of us in boats. We all came to Apia.
. Q. Do you know what he took with him?-^A. Yes; he only took a
small package of clothes. We thought we could go back the next
day, and so took little with us.

Q. When did you go back to the plantation? — ^A. On March 21.

Q. Did Mr. Harder go back then, too ? — ^A. Yes.

Q. How long did you stay there? — ^A. Seven days, when we re-
ceived orders to come to Apia again and all of us came. The reason
for this was that the bombardment was going to start again, and
besides there were so many natives around we couldn't work the
plantation.

Q. What did you take with you then ? — ^A. We all took only a few
clothes.

Q. Why didn't you take more? — ^A. Because the firm sent the
boats down for us with orders to bring us away immediately and we
had no time to take anything; besides, there was no room in the
boats.

Q. Do you remember now what Mr. Harder had in his house on
the plantation at the beginning of the war? — ^A. No.

Q. How long did you stay in Apia after you left the plantation the
second time? — ^A. Until April 27, 1899. I myself went down on
April 13 with a lighter to bring copra to Apia. This was under pass
from Admiral Kautz.

CLAIMS OJ" AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. 153

Q. After you went back the first time did you see JVIr. Harder's
house? — ^A. Yes; everything that was in the house had been taken
away — there wasn't a pot left. Some of the furniture was lying
outside of the house, but all were cut with knives, axes, and smashed
up.

Q. You are sure this was all done before you went back on March
21?— A. Yes.

Q. Then there wasn't anything of his left to be damaged after
that ? — ^A. There may have oeen some chairs. My memory is poor
now after staying here 26 years without a change.

Q. Did you see Mr. Harder's house after you returned the second
^ time ? — ^A. There was nothing around the house but rubbish — broken

\ things, chairs, tables, etc.

Q. What kind of furniture did he have in his house before the
war? — ^A. A good lot of furniture, and carpenter's tools; he was a
carpenter.

Q. How many rooms in the house ? — ^A. Two, a large room and a
bedroom, and an outside kitchen.

Q. Do you understand that he owned the furniture in this house ? —
A. Most of it — the beds and 2 or 3 chairs and a table belonged to the
plantation, and the stove. The rest was his own.

Q. Did the tools belong to him? — ^A. That I don't know.

Q. Is there anything more that you care to say ? — A. No.

Q. Have you ever testified in this case before? — A. Yes; in 1899,
before Mulligan, a lawyer who came down here from America for the
claimants.

Q. What did you testify to at that time ? — A. As to the articles he
lost in the war.

Q. Do you know who did this damage to Mr. Harder's place? —
A. We couldn't find out exactly, but understood that the first damage
was done by the Malietoa party, who came up there from Apia.
Later the Mataafa people did some damage, as we suppose.

Lizzie Harder:

Q. Where did you live in March, 1899? — A. On the Vaitele plan-
tation.

Q. Were you then married to Mr. Harder and living with him ? —
A. Yes.

Q. How many rooms were there in the house you lived in ? —
A. Two rooms.

Q. I show you this list marked '* Exhibit E" and ask you if you
then had in and about your house the items marked Vaitele ? — A. Yes.

Q. Do you remember now having all these things in your house and
about? — ^A. Yes; all my clothes and the children s things.

Q. Why didn't you take some of these things away when you left ? —
A. We were in too much of a hurry. They sent for us.

Q. Did your husband have some horses up there? — A. Yes; three.

Q. For what did he use them ? — A. One for the buggy and one for
Da.y hoy to ride to school and one for my husband to ride.

(J. What property did your husband have in his Lotopa house at
this time ? — ^A. All of his tools — I mean half of his tools were there,
the others he took to the plantation — ^four chairs, and a table of his
were at Lotopa; we took all the rest to the plantation.

154 CLAIMS OF AMEEICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

Q. When did you first go back to the plantation after you left it
during the war ? — A. We went back first during the same month we
left.

Q. What did you see at your place then? — A. Our beds, ward-
robes, and chairs were broken to pieces; all the pictures they pulled
down an4 broke. Some of the furniture was inside the house and
some of it outside. All of our clothes were gone.

Q. Didn't you ever use any of this furniture again? — ^A. My hus-
band fixed two chairs and used them again.

Q. Didn't you use the beds again? — A. Yes; but some of the iron
was gone and we had to get new.

Q. Is that all you used again? — A. Yes.

Q. Did you ever again see or hear of the horses you lost? — ^A. No;
we had to buy new horses again.

Q. Did you ever recover any of the other things you lost ? — ^A. No.

Q. Do vou know who did this damage? — ^A. No.

Q. Is tnere anything more you care to say? — A. No.

William Harder, Claimant, Exhibit A.
J. R. B., vice-consul, U.S.A.

4 frame saws

1 drill and one set of drills.

2 patent brads & awls

3 common do

1 sledge hamer

6 hand augers

1 set of auger bits

2 wire pinthers

1 expansive bit

2 braces

25 small bits

8 assorted chisels

2 universal screw wrenches

1 wise

1 do., small

6 assorted screw wrenches. . .
6 gauges

3 spoke shaves

lot of files and respes

Turning lath tools, belt & fittings.
Drawing knife

i doz working trousers.

1 oilskin

7 white coats

7 pair trousers

5 shite shirts

i doz. collars

2 slips

6 undershirts

6 coUored shirts. ..

4 pair shoes

2 hats

1 umbrella

1 woolen coat

$10.00
4.00
2.00
0.75
2.50
5.00
5. do
1.00
1.50
4.00
3.00
3.00
4.00
3.50
1.50
2.50
3.00
2.00
2.00

60.25
115.00

175. 25

15.00

1.50

191. 75

4.50
5.00
14.00
10.00
6.00
1.50
1.00
1.50
6.00
8.00
2.50
1.50
4.00

1 pair woolen trousers

3 bath towls

3 do. , smaller size

12 do., small

1 piece Buffold trilling

1 doz. bedsheets

1 doz. pillow cases

2 plankets

14 white pocket handkerchiefs.

6silkdo

2 bed quilts

6 window curtains

2 rouUeaux

4 linen table cloth

2 do. , colored table covers

2 lamps

3 muscito screens

1 cigar lighter

$2.00
3.00
2.00
3.00
3.76

12.00
3.00
3.00
1.75
1.50
2.00
5.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
9.00
1.50

4 ladys working dresses

1 dozen fancy dresses, print

6 ladys undershirt -.

3 do., nightgowns

6 do., chemises

4 pair of stockings

2 shawls

2 pair ladys shoes

2 ladys hats, trimmed

1 riding dress

1 lot assorted ribbons, silk

2 bottles scent

5 pieces assorted print

Boy of 14 years old:

4 pair of boys shoes

3 white boys suit

6 boys suits (everyday suits).

2 bo^s hats

6 pairs of socks

6 undershirts

2 white shirts

126.00

4.00
36.00
6.00
3.00
6.00
2.0O
2.00
4.00
5.00
3.00
5.00
0.75
10.00

3.00
7.50
9.00
2.00
1.50
1.50
2.00

CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. 155*

Boy 4 years old:

2 pair boys shoes $1. 00

6suit8 6.00

6 pair socks 1.50

Ihat 0.50

Gshirts LOO

Clothing for girl 2 years old 5. 00

Babys clothing 5. 00

138. 25

Bu^gy lantern 1.50

1 wire cloHi line 1.50

1 piece oil cloth for buggy 2. 00

1 buggy horse whipp 1. 50

6.50

1 buggy and ladys riding horse. . 60. 00

1 imported Tonga horse 50. 00

Ipony 25.00

Hens k /2-.

Roosters k /2-.

Poulets & cockrels k /-6.

Chickens k /-6.

Sows.

Boar.

1 beehive 5. 00

Farming tools:

1 heavy crowbar 2. 50

1 small do. , steel pointed ... 2. 00

2 haw and pick axes 5. 00

6 haws 5.00

3 shovels 3.00

3 spades. , 3. 00

6 large axes 6. 00

618-mch knifes 4.50

Grindstone, complete 6. 00

1 heavy cart harness 10. 00

1 buggy harness 7. 50

1 very large pot (boiler) 4. 00

1 5 ft. grosscut saw 4.00

2 saddle, 3 bridle, and 3 sad-
dle cloths 32. 00

1 horse brsh & scraper 2. 00

Roofing iron —

12 piecesSfeet 10.50

4 pieces 6 feet 2. 50

100 sq. ft. pine 5.00

2 pairs of buggy fallow 6. 00

Fanning tools — ^Continued.

30 spokes $5. 00^

25 galvanized nails 2. 00*

8 lb. copper boat nails 2. OO*

10 gross assorted brassen and

iron screws 3.'00'

1 tin black paint (28 lb.} . . . 2. 50-

1 quarter of a barrel of ochere 2. 50-

137.50

Carpenter tools:

16 moulding plaines 25. 00-

1 plough 10. OO

1 tone & groove plane, IJ

inch 2.00

1 do. } inch 1.00-

1 do. finch LOO-

6 pair hollows & rounds 6. 00'

3 nosing planer 3.00*

6 bead-planes 6. 00

3 dado planes 4. 50

2 rabbet planes 2. 00

Ifilleter 2.00'

3 common plains 4. 50

1 iron block plane 2. 00

2 pair of pinchers 1. 50

1 set of rivetting tools 1. 00

2 bevels 1.50

2 soldering irons 2. 50

1 saw-set 1. 50*

3 gauges 1. 75

1 roofing nail puller 1. 50

2 oil-stones 2. OO

3 hammer 3. OO

2 hatchet 2. 00

1 2-ft. steel square 2. 50'

2 small do 1. 50

2 screw drivers 1. 50

2 ripping chisels 2. 00-

1 2-feet 6 steel pinch-bar 2. 50

1 oilstone slip 0.50-

Lot of paint orushes 2. 50

3 cross cut saws 7. 50

2 ripp saws 5. 00

1 keyhole saw (paper torn).

1 do. common ( " ** ).

115.00

William Harder, Claimant, Exhibit -B.

J. R. B., V. C, U. S. A.

1 coffee machine $1.50

3. 50

2. 00

1. 00

6. 00

LOO

LOO

4. 50

10.00

5. 00

1 kerosene stove.

2 tea kettel

1 frying pan

5 iron pots

1 porcellan teapot. . .
1 coffee pot, enamel.
1 sausage machine . .
1 case assort, meat. .
1 case samon

5 tin butter $2.00

1 bag flour

6 tin dishes

6 enamelled cups & saucers. .

1 cruit stand

8 water glasses

Plates, cups, & saucers, pore.

Meat saw

Coffemill

1 platting iron

2.50
2.0O
2.00
3.00
1.00
6.00
2.00
2.00
L50

156 CLAIMS OF AMEBIC AN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

1 dozen sardines $1. 00

10 bar of soap 2. 50

16 table knives 4.00

12 table spoons 4.50

12 tea spoons 2. 00

12 large forks, German silver 4. 00

2 water monkeys 2. 00

79.00

I clock 3.00

Repairing of sofa 5. 00

Matress 5. 00

Bed 5.00

1 newspaper rack 2.50

1 boys tool box and contents 3. 00

Kindergarten playthings 10. 00

1 looking glass 0. 50

1 toilet bmsh & comb 1.00

2 hammocks 6. 00

15 different Samoa mats 15. 00

1 campherwood chest 8. 00

1 cava bowl <& belongings |2. 50

1 new silver soup ladel 1.50

1 sewing machine 25.00

Decorations for Xmas tree 10. 00

1 wooden bedstead 6.00

6 chairs 6.00

2 verandah chairs 2.00

1 American trunlr,^ 4. 00

3 years magazines (bound) Gar-
tenlaube 6.00

2 meerschaum pipes 10.00

1 pair of spectables. 2. 50

2 pair of scissors... 1. 00

1 revolver & cartridges 10. 00

1 inkstand 2.00

1 fowling piece 8.00

160.50

2 pair of shoes, mans 5. 00

1 hat, mans 1. 00

William Harder, Claimant, Exhibit C.

J. R. B., Vice-Consul, U. S. A.

Drain pipes $3. 00

1 stove 25. 00

2 bars 10. 00

2 buckets 1. 00

1 watering can, garden LOO

1 tin opener 0. 50

1 corkscrew 0. 50

llamp 2.50

2 water p 2. 50

10 ducks

6 fowls

1 cart d

1 peppermill

6 acres banannes.
Land " .
163 coffetrees

17.50

3.00

LOO

0.50

150.00

60.00

160.00

370.50

William Harder, Claimant, Exhibit D.

J. R. B., vice consul, U. S. A.

One sewing machine $25. 00

Six chairs 6. 00

Two veranda chairs 2. 00

$1,453.15.

33.00

WiLUAM Harder, Claimant, Exhibit E.
J. R. Baker, vice consul, U, S. A.:

Lost in Vaitele, claimant's Ex-
hibit A:

2 patent broad awls $2. 00

3 common do 0.75

1 sledge hamer 2. 50

1 set of auger bits 5.00

1 expansive bit 1.50

1 V. 1 L. 2 braces 4. 00

25 small bits 3.00

3 assorted chisels 3. 00

2 universal screw wrenshes . . 4. 00
1 wese small 1. 50

Lost in Vaitele, claimant's Ex-
hibit A — Continued.

3 spokeshaves

lot of files & raspse

J doz. working trousers

1 oilskin

7 white coats

7 pair trousers

5 white shirts ,

i doz. collars

2 slips

6 undershirts

$2.00

4.50
5.00
14.00
10.00
6.00
L50
LOO
L50

CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. 157

Lost in Vaitele, claimant's Ex-
hibit A — Continued.

6 coUard shirts $6.00

4 pair shoes 8. 00

2 hats 2.50

1 umbrella 1. 50

1 woolen coat 4. 00

1 pair woolen trousers 2. 00

3bathtowls 3.00

3 do. smaller size 2. 00

12 do. small 3.00

1 piece Suffold trilling 3. 75

1 doz. beadsheets 12. 00

1 doz. pillow cases 3. 00

2plankets 3.00

14 white pocket handker-
chiefs L75

Gsilkdo L50

2 bed quilts 2.00

6 window curtains 5. 00

2 rowlleanx doors 2. 00

4 lines table cloth 2. 00

2 do. colored table covers. . . 2. 00

2 lamps 2.00

3 moscito screens 9.00

1 cigar lighter 1. 50

Lost in Lotopa, claimant's Ex-
hibit A:

4 frame saws 11. 00

1 drill & one set of drills 4. 00

O.hand augers 5.00

1 wese 3.50

6 assorted screw wrenshes : . 2. 50

Turning lath tools

Belt fittings 15. 00

Forgotten whether lost in Vaitele
or Lotopa:

2 wire pinchers 1. 00

6 gangs 3. 00

Drinring knife 1.50

Lost in Vaitele, claimant's Ex-
hibit A:

41adys working dresses 4.00

1 doz. fancy dresses, print.. 36.00
6 ladys undershirts 6. 00

3 ** nightgowns 3.00

6 " chemises 6.00

4 pair stockings 2.00

2shawl8 2.00

2 paid ladys shoes 4. 00

2 ladys hats trimed 5.00

1 riding dress 3. 00

1 lot assorted ribbons silk. . . 5. 00

2 bottle scent 0.75

5 pieces assirted print 10. 00

Boy of 14 years old:

4 pair of boys shoes . 8. 00

3 white boys suit 7. 50

6 boys suits (everydays

suits) 9.00

2 boys hats 2 . 00

6 pair of socks 1.50

Boy of 4 years old:

2 pair of boys shoes 1. 00

6suits 6.00

6 pair socks 1.50

Ihat 0.50

6shirts 1.00

Lost in Vaitele, claimant's Ex-
hibit A— Continued.

Clothing for girl 2 years old . . $5. 00

Babys clothing 5.00

. 1 buggy & ladys riding horse . 60. 00

1 imported tonga horse 50. 00

Ipont 25.00

1 buggy landem 1.50

1 wire cloth line 1.50

1 piece of oil cloth for buggy . 2 . 00

1 DUggy horse whipp 1. 50

Lost in Lotopa, claimant's Ex-
hibit A:
Not charged —
Hans a 2/-
Roasters, 2/-
Poulets & corkrets, a 1/6
Chickens, a 0/6.
Sows.
Boar.

1 beehive 5. 00

Lost in Vaitele, claimant's Ex-
hibit A:

Farming tools:

1 bu^y harness 7. 50

2 satuls, 3 bridles, and 3

settle cloth 32.00

1 horse brush and

scraper 2.00

IL, 1 V, 2 bevels L50

1 ", 1 ", 2 small steel
square 1.50

2 screw drivers 1.50

2 ripping chisels 2.00

1 keeyhole saw

1 keeyhole common

Lost in Lotopa, claimant's Ex-
hibit A:

1 heavy crowbar 2. 50

1 small do. steel pointed 2. 00

2 haws pick axes 5. 00

6 haws 5.00

3 shevells 3. 00

3 spades 3.00

6 large axes 6.00

Grindstone complete 6. 00

1 heavy cart harness 10.00

1 very large pot (boiler) 4. 00

Roofing iron , 12 pieces, 8 feet . 10. 50

4 pieces, 6 leet 2. 50

100 feet pine 5. 00

2 pairs oi buggy fallow 6. 00

30 spokes 5. 00

25 lb. galvanizer nails 2.00

8 lb. copper boat nails 2. 00

10 gross assorted brassen and

iron screws 3.00

1 tin black pint, 28 lb 2. 50

1 quarter of a baral of chore. 2. 50

16 moulding planes 25.00

1 plough 10. 00

1 tong and groove plane 2. 00

1 do. } inch 1.00

6 pairs hollows and rounds. . 6. 00

5 nosing planes 3. 00

6 bead planes 6. 00

3 do. planes 4. 50

2 rabbet plaines 2. 00

158 CLAIMS OF AMBBICAN CITIZENS IN APIA^ SAMOAN ISLANDS.

fLost in Lotopa, claimant's Ex-
hibit A— Continued.

1 filster $2. 00

3 common plainee 4. 50

1 iron black plane 2.00

2 pair of pinchers 1.50

1 Bet of nvetting tools 1. 00

2 soldering iron 2. 50

1 saw set 1.50

2 gauges , 1. 75

1 rufing nail puller 1. 50

2 oil stones 2. 00

3 hamers 3. 00

2 hatchets 2. 00

•Forgotten whether lost in Lotopa

or in Vaitele:

618 inch knifes 4.50

1 5 feet gross cut saw 4.00

1 2 feet steel square 2.50

3 cross cut saws 7. 50

2 ripp saws 5. 00

^LoBt in Vaitele, claimant's Ex-
hibit B:

1 coffe machine. 1. 50

1 kerosene stove 3. 50

2 tea^kettel 2. 00

1 frymg pan 1.00

5 iron pots 6.00

1 porcellen teapot 1. 00

1 coffe pot enamel. 1.00

1 sausage machine 4. 50

1 case assorted meat 10. 00

1 case salmon 5. 00

5 tin butter 2. 00

1 bay flower 2.50

6 tin dishes 2.00

6 enamelled cups and saucers 2. 00

1 crint stand 3. 00

S water glasses 1.00

Plates, cups, and saucers. . . 6. 00

Meat saw 2. 00

Coffe mill 2.00

1 flu ttring iron. . .' 1.50

1 doz. sardines 1. 00

10 bar of soap 2. 50

16 table knives 4.00

12 " spoons 4.50

12 tea spoons 2. 00

12 large forks Germ, silver. . 4. 00

2 water monkeys 2. 00

1 clock 3. 00

Repairs of sofa 5. 00

Matress 5.00

Bed 5.00

a1 newspaper rack 2.50

Lost in Vaitele, claimant's Ex-
hibit B— Continued.

1 boys tool box and contents $3. 00

Kindergarten playthings 10. 00

1 looking glass 0. 50

1 toilet brush and comb 1. 00

2 hamocks 6. 00

15 different Samoa Mata . 15. 00

1 confer wood chest 8.00

1 kava boul and belonnngs. 2. 50

1 new silver soup ladel. 1. 50

1 sewing machine 25.00

Decorations for Xmas tree . . 10. 00

1 wooden bedstead 6. 00

6 chairs 6.00

2 veranda chairs 2.00

1 Americ. trunk 4. 00

3 years magazines (bound)
Gartenlaube 6. 00

2 meerschaum pipes 10. 00

1 pair of spectables 2. 50

2 pair of scissor 1.00

1 revolver and cartridges ... 10. 00

1 inkstand 2. 00

1 fowling piece 8. 00

2 pair Boes, mans 5.00

Ihat, '* 1.00

Lost in Vaitele, claimant's Ex-
hibit 0:

1 tin opener .50

1 corkscrew .50

llamp 2.50

2 water pitchers 2. 50

10 ducks 7. 50

6 fowls 3.00

1 pepper mill .50

Lost in liOtopa, claimant's Ex-
hibit C:

Down pipes 3.00

2 bars 10. 00

1 watering can, garden 2.50

6 Acer Bannannes 150.00

Land 60.00

163 coffee trees 160. 00

Forgotten whether lost in Lotopa
or in Vaitele:

1 stove 25. 00

2 buckets 1. 00

Icartl LOO

Claimant's Exhibit D (forgotten
whether lost in Lotopa or in
Vaitele):

1 sewing machine 25. 00

6 chairs 6. 00

2 veranda chairs 2.00

CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. 159

William Harder, Claimant, Exhibit F.

J. R. Baker, vice consul, U. S. A.
[Minor.]

CERTIFIED COPY OP ACT OP NATURALIZATION.

No. 144 B 49.

In the District Court of the Fourth Judicial District of the State of California, in and

for the city and county of San Francisco.

Present: Hon. R. F. Morrison, judge.

In the matter of the application of William Harder, an alien, to become a citizen of
the United States of America. In open court. May term, A. D. 1878, this 22d day
of May, A. D. 1878, as yet of said term.

It appearing, to the satisfaction of this court, by the oaths of Henry Leu and Ausust
Gast, citizens of the United States of America, witnesses for that purpose, first duly
flwom and examined, that William Harder, a native of Germany, resided in the United
States of America three years next preceding his arriving at me age of. 21 years, and
that he has continued to reside in the United States to the present ibime, and has
resided within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States five years
at least, last past, and within the State of California for one year, last past; and that
during all said five years' time he has behaved as a man of good moral character,
attached to the principles of the Constitution of the United States, and well dispoaea
to the good order and happiness of the same, and the said applicant has declared his
intention to become a citzen of the United States, and havmg now here before this
court taken an oath that he will support the Constitution of the United States of
America, and that he doth absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance
and fidelity to every foreign prince, potentate, state, and sovereignty whatever, and
particularly to the Emperor of Germany.

It is therefore ordered, adjudged, and decreed that the said William Harder be, and
he is hereby, admitted and declared to be a citizen of the United States of America.

R. F. Morrison^
Signature: Diatnct Judge.

William Harder.

Office of the clerk of the District Court of the Fourth Judicial District of the State o^
California, in and for the city and county of San Francisco, ss:

I, Thos. H. Reynolds, clerk of the District Court of the Fourth Judicial District of
the State of California, in and for the city and county of San Francisco, said court being
a court of record having common law jurisdiction and a clerk and seal, do certify that
the above is a true copy of the act of naturalization of William Harder as the same
appears upon the record of said court, now in my office.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said
court this 22d day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight himdred and
seventy-eight and in the year of our independence liie one hundred and first.

, Thos. H. Reynolds, Clerk.

By L. P. Peck, Deputy Clerk.

AFFIDAVIT,

I, the undersigned, Carl Pullack, now of Sogi, Apia, Samoa, was during the war-
like actions taken by the combined forces of America and Great Britain staying on
Mr. William Harder*s land as lesee; I stopt on the land until it became to dangerous,
on account of shells from warships flying about. Then I left there and brought my
family down to Apia, with the intention of again going out to try and protect mine as
well as Harder*s property. This I was not permitted to do by Lieutenant Lonssdale,
.first officer of the United States warship Philadelphia, and merefore had to stay in
town and leave our properties at the mercy of war partie.

When I left Lotopa everything was in good order and condition, but after war-like
actions ceased — and I was then allowed to again go out to the place — I found every-
thing either stolen, broken, or ruined.

I herewith make affidavit that all articles enumerated on Mr. W. Harder*s list, war
claims Ex. A & B <& C <& D, as far as they refer to his Lotopa property were to the
best of my knowledge on the place when I left there for Apia, and either stolen, broken^
or ruined when I came out there again after being allowed to do so.

160 CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

As far as I can remember now, after about eleven years, I have made a specified
claim as per list handet in by Mr. Harder, now, to Mr. Mulligan. In fact, I do believe
that Mr. Harder has now forgotten to claim a good many things which were lost from
his Lotopa estate during the troubled times, as for instance : I native house, worth $60;
1 new dray, worth $50; and a lot of other things.

This I state under affidavit to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Carl Pullagk.
Apia, 18th July, 1911.

NO. 16. PETEB PATTL.

Edward Ripley:

Q. Where did you live in March, 1 899 ? — A. In Apia with Mr. Paul —
I was learning the trade of carpenter.

Q. Do you remember anytmng unusual which happened in that
month ? — ^A. There was a war between the British and Americans and
the natives.

Q. What was the first thing that you re ember about the war ? —
A. They sent all the men ashore from the warships and Mr. Paul got
orders to leave his house and go on board. Mrs. Paul and the fanuly
went on board. Mr. Paul and I went down town and I went on board
the German warship that night. Mr. Paul went to Mr. Latapies and
stayed that night and came on board the next day.

Q. What did any of you take with you when you left the house ? —
A. Nothing but parcels of clothes.

Q. What day was it when you all left the house? — ^A, The day of
the first bombardment.

Q. Where was Mr. Paul's house ? — A. On the Tivoli Road, probably
between 200 and 300 yards from the beach.

Q. What buildings aid he have on the place at the time in question ? —
A. Two dwelling houses and a carpenter shop, cookhouse and bath-
house.

Q. Did he use both of these dwelling houses himself ? — ^A. He used
one and rented one.

Q. And you lived there with him ? — A. Yes.

Q. What was the size of the house he lived in ? — ^A. I don't remem-
ber exactly, but think there were five rooms.

Q. Do you remember whether this house had been long built ? — ^A. I
don't know.

Q. What was there in it ? — ^A. Beds two, some chairs, don't remem-
ber how many, about two sofas, a bookcase, a sporting-gun — single-
barrelled shotgun. That's all I could remember.

Q. Did he have any live stock on the place ? — A. He had a horse
and some fowls, don't know how niany.

Q. Do you know aiiything about the age of the horse ? — A. No.

Q. What was there in the carpenter shop ? — A. All his tools —

{)lanes, saws — all the tools that he used in his business — a turning
athe and jig-saw, everything.

Q. When did you first see the place after you left it ? — ^A. When
the Mataafa people left.

Q. What aid you see when you went back ? — A. The locks on all
the doors were broken, the chairs were all gone from the house, and
the sofa, I think. That's all I remember which was gone from the
dwelling house. From the kitchen everything was gone and all the
provisions from the storeroom. The tubs and buckets were gone from
the bathroom. Some of the planes from the carpenter shop were gone

CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. 161

altogether and from some they had taken the plates. That's all I
remember which was taken from the carpenter stop. Can't tell how
many planes there were. The horse was gone, but I don't know
whether he got it back later. I left for Pago Pago soon afterwards
and have only been here about two months since. The fowls were all
gone.

Q. Do you remember anything else about the damage done at this
place ? — ^A. That's all I remember.

Q. Do you know who did this damage ? — A. No.

Q. Do you remember the one-day war in January, 1899 ? — A. Yes.

Q. Was there any damage done to this place of Mr. Paul's at this
time? — A. I don't remember.

Q. Do you know anything about the values of the property dam-
aged or lost by Mr. Paul, as above stated ? — A. I have no idea.

Q. What other property did Mr. Paul have in or about Apia
in March, 1899? — A. He had a plantation of about 30 acres at
Tuagaimato.

Q. Did you visit this soon before the war? — A. Yes; was there
about two weeks before the war.

Q. What buildings, if any, were there on this property? — A. A
European house about 16 by 24.

Q. How much of the land was under cultivation? — A. Ten or
fifteen acres.

Q. What was planted there? — ^A. Cocoa, coconuts, pineapples,
bananas, taro and yams, sweet potatoes, sweet corn, and Jkava.

Q. Can you tell what part of the place was planted with these
several products ? — A. No.

Q. When did you first see this place after the war? — A. Just as
soon as the natives had left it.

Q. What condition was the place in then ? — A. The windows were
all broken to pieces, and the lock and hinges on the door were broken
open, all the plantation tools were gone. The veranda posts were all
cut to pieces with axes. The horse which was used for plantation
work was- gone, and a shotgun also. The taro and yams were all
taken; all the banana trees were cut down. More than half of the
cocoa and coconut trees were cut down. The natives had a fort
on the place and they cleared the ground to get a good view. Some
of the pineapples were destroyed. We had a vegetable garden there
of radishes, cabbages, etc., and that was all destroyed. That's all I
remember.

Q. Do you know anything about the values of these properties ? —
A. No.

Q. Did you make any count of the number of trees which were
destroyed? — ^A. No; I didn't.

Q. How old was the horse which was taken from the plantation ? —
A. About 10 years old, I think,

Q. Did Mr. Paul recover this horse, so far as you know? — A. No;
he didn't.

Q. Was there a fence around the plantation? — A. Yes; a barb-
wire fence was around a part of the place; don't remember how much.
Can't remember whether that was damaged.

Q. Do you remember making an affidavit about this claim in July,
1899, or at any other time? — A. I don't remember.

73180— H. Doc. 1257, 62-3 11

162 CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

Q. In a statement or affidavit which purports to have been sworn
to by you on July 13, 1899, you state that after the war you made a
t5ount of all the trees destroyed on Mr. PauPs plantation during the
war. Is this correct ? — ^A. I was up there with Mr. Paul and he made
«. count, but I didn't keep any count.

Q. In this affidavit it is stated that you knew about the values of
the property of Mr. PauFs which was destroyed.. Is this correct ? —
A. No; I didn't know anything about the values. .

Q. Are you related to the claimant? — A. Yes. I am his brother-
in-law.

Q. Is there anything more you care to say about the case ? — A. No.

Peter Paul:

tj- Where were you born? — A. Germany, State of Baden.

Q. State whether or not you are a citizen of the United States ? —
A. 1 es.

Q. How did you become a citizen of the United States? — A. By
naturalization in White Pine County, Nev.

Q. In what court were you naturalized? — A. In the White Pine
County com*t, town of Hamilton.

Q. On what date were you naturalized ? — A. 1875.

Q. Have you your certificate of naturaUzation ? — A. I lost it in a
&e at a house in which I was living on the Rewa River, Fiji. This
was in 1882.

Q. Have you been registered as an American citizen in the consu-
late at Apia, Samoa? — A. Yes, both me and my children.

Q. When did you leave Germany first? — A. In 1870.

'Q. Where did you go then ? — A. To the United States.

•Q. How long did you live there ? — A. Eight years.

Q. What was your last place of residence in the United States ?
A. San Francisco.

Q. When did you declare your intention of becoming a citizen of
the United States?— A. In the fall of 1870.

Q. Was that in the same court in which you received your final
"papers? — A. Yes.

Q. Are you sure this was in the first year you came to the coun-
try?— A. Yes.

S. Have you ever made any attempt to secure a copy of vour nat-
ization certificate from the court which granted it? — A. Yes.

Q. W hat effort did you make ? — A. I told Mr. Sewell, the Ameri-
'^an consul general at Apia about it and he wrote to the court.

Q. Did he get a reply ? — A. Yes, he showed it to me.

Q. Do you know where that is now? — A. No.

3. Do you remember what this reply contained? — ^A. Yes. It
that the courthouse and all the records had been burned down
and therefore they couldn't furnish such copy.

Q. Did you make any further efforts to establish your American
citizenship ? — A. Yes. I wrote to a lawyer named Grey in Cherry
Creek, Nev., and sent him an affidavit about the facts, to see if he
couldn't get a new paper from the court.

Q. Did you get a reply ? — A. Yes, he sent me a letter signed by
William Laurenson, dated July 12, 1888, on paper bearing the heading
'"County clerk's office, White Pine County, Nev. Wm. Laurenson
county clerk."

CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS, 163

Q. I show you this paper and ask you what it is ? — A. It is the
letter I have just spoken of — from Mr. Laurenson.

Q. I shall mark this '^Exhibit A'' and attach it to your deposition
if you have no objection to my taking it to Washington. — ^A. All
right.

Q. What other efforts did you make, if any ? — A. I caused a notice
to be published in the \\ hite Pine News, asking for the whereabouts
of the witnesses who testified for me when I was naturalized. These
witnesses were Charlie Dunbar and Cale Whiting.

Q. Was there any response to this advertisement so far as vou
know? — A. None. They were both pretty well along in age when
I left and I suppose they were dead when I advertised.

Q. Did you ever vote in America ? — A. No, I was engaged in min-
ing and building and moved aroimd so much that I was never in a
place long enough to vote.

Q. What official position, if any, have you ever held, as an Amer-
ican ? — A. In 1889 United States Consul Blacklock appointed me as
the American commissioner on the commission of three men ap-
pointed to lay out.the boundary line of the Apia municipalitjr.

Q. Have you ever since your naturalization declared allegiance to
any other Government ? — ^A. No.

Q. Have you ever done anything to cause you to lose your American
citizenship ? — ^A. Not that I am aware of.

Q. Is your residence in Samoa temporary or permanent ? — ^A. Per-
manent.

Q. You have no intention of going to the United States to live ? —
A. No; I think not, though I should like to go there for a time if I
could afford it. My eldest son is living m San Francisco.

Q, Were you livmg here in Apia in the months of March, April,
and May, 1899 ? — ^A. Yes, and before and after.

Q. What happened here during these months of an unusual nature ? —
A. The bombardment, I was ordered out of my premises. This was.
followed by war between Mataaf a and the Americans and British.

Q. What was your occupation at that time ? — ^A. Builder and con-
tractor.

Q. Of what country were you then a citizen? — ^A. Of the United
States.

Q, Was any of your property injured or destroyed during that
time? — A. Yes.

Q. State, by items, such of your property as was so destroyed or in-
jured, giving the value of each article destroyed and the amount of
damage done to each article damaged. — A. I have a list which I made
on May 28 last, copi d from a list which I made out and handed to
Mulligan just after the war.

Q. I show you this paper and ask you what it is ? — ^A. It is a list of
all my property which was injured or destroyed during the war of
March, April, and May, 1899, giving the values and shows all of my
tosses sustained.

Q. I shall mark this "Exhibit B'' and attach it to your deposition,
if you have no objection to my taking it to Washington. — ^A. All
right.

Q. What real property did you have at this time ? — ^A. Two dwell-
ing houses and a carpenter shop here in Apia and a lumber shed, cart
house, also in Apia, and a plantation about 4 miles out, at Tunaimato.^

164 CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

Q. You appear to have put in a claim for losses to American Consul
Osbom on May 17, 1899, for a total of about $1,900, and on July 13,
1899, to have sworn to a claim before J. A. Denvers, clerk of the
supreme court at Apia, for a total of $2,434.98. How do you account
for that? — ^A. Because I didnH put down all of my losses on the first
claim. It was impossible to think of them in the first day or two
after the war.

Q. Had you visited your plantation when you made up your first
claim? — ^A. Yes; I went out there as soon as I could leave Mulinuu.
This was a day or so after the commission came— no; this was a mis-
understanding; I meant to my Apia place, not to the plantation.

Q. Had you then been to your plantation before you made your
first claim? — A. No; the place was occupied by the natives for some
time afterwards.

Q. How many claims did you make out altogether? — A. Two; one
I handed to Consul Osborn and one to Mr. Mulligan.

Q. In the claim which you appear to have made to Consul Osborn,
disited May 17, 1899, you appear to have claimed $1,577 for damages
to your plantation. If you hadn't then been there how did you make
up this claim ? — A. Just estimated it, I guess.

Q. This claim seems to be completely itemized. How do you ac-
count for that? — A. I don't know; I may have been there before this
time.

Q. Your present claim amounts to 82,773.25, as you have figured it.
How do you account for this increase as over the claim you made be-
fore Mr. Mulligan ? — A. There is an item here for extra living expenses
which I didn't include in the Mulligan claim.

Q. Just what items are those ? — A. Fifty-two working days, at $5 —
$260 — and extra for board and lodging, $182.

Q. I show you a copy of Mulligan's claim, showing that you charged
$260 for 52 working days. How, then, do you account for this discrep-
ancy ? — A. I don't know, except that Mr. Mulligan might have maae
a mistake in copying what I handed to him. The copy which I now
present is a copy of what I handed to Mr. Mulligan, not of one he gave
me. I got none from him.

Q. W' hen did you buy your plantation property ? — ^A. About 1896.

Q. How much did you pay for it? — A. £3 10s. an acre for 36 acres.

Q. What was the condition of the land when you bought it?— A,
All bush land.

Q. Did you live there at all? — A. No.

Q. What did you do with the place after you bought it? — ^A. The
first year after I bought it I had 15 or 16 acres cut down and planted
with coconuts, cocoa, taro, yams, sweet potatoes, kava, and coffee
and orange trees.

Q. Did you have all this planted the first year? — ^A. The most of
it — the balance in the second year.

Q. Were these trees all planted in together? — ^A. The coconuts
were planted in together with the cocoa.

Q. What was planted separately ? — ^A. Taro.

Q. How much ? — A. Two acres.

Q. What else ? — A. Kava.

Q. How much? — A. About 2 acres, and about 2 acres of yams..
There was also about one-half to an acre of oranges, and about 2
acres or a little more of coffee.

CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. 165

Q. How many coffee trees to the acre ? — A. I never counted them
before the war.

Q. How many orange tr-ees to the acre? — ^A. I don^t ki¥>w.

Q. Did you have a house on the place before the war ? — ^A* Yes.

Q. What size? — ^A. 16 by 24 witn veranda, 2 rooms.

Q. When was that built? — ^A. The first year after I bought the
land.

Q. How much did it cost you ? — ^A. $450 to $500. Had to carry
the lumber out by hand as there were no roads.

Q. When did you last see this place before the war? — A. About
two weeks.

Q. How much bananas did you have on the place? — ^A. Planted
in patches here and there. Might have been 3 acres. Didn't put in
any claim for these as they come up again in six or seven months
and bear, after being cut down.

Q. In your claim you charge for 3 acres of bananas $75. How
do you account for that ? — A. Don't remember putting that down;

Q. How old were these fuU-bearing coconut trees? — ^A. They
were there when I bought the place.

O. Then it wasn't all bush? — ^A. No; there were clearings in the
bush where the natives had planted coconuts.

Q. To whom did these saddles belong for which you have
charged ? — ^A. To me and my wife.

Q. Are you charging for these what you paid for them ? — A. Yes.

Q. How long have you had the saddles? — ^A. Two years, maybe
more.

Q. Are you charging for the other items of your plantation dam-
aged what they cost you ?— A. What would have cost to replace them.

Q. Where were your dwellings in town? — ^A. Up the Tivoli road
a hundred yards or so from the Tivoli Hotel.

Q. Did you remain in your house in Apia during the war ? — A. No ;
we were ordered out, on account of the oombardment, I suppose.

Q. When did you go back to your house? — A. A little over two
months afterwards.

Q. What condition did you find when you got back ? — A. Almost
everything was gone, except two beds, a wardrobe, and a sewing
macnine and a table.

Q. Did you leave your house locked up ? — A. Yes ; but the natives
from Pago Pago, who had been brought over by the British men-ofr
war, were camped around my house during the war, and they after-
wards acknowledged to me that they had broken into my house and
taken the things out. They also said they had broken into my
carpenter shop and taken the things out of there. They offered to
sell me some of my own chairs which they had taken away. These
were of the Malietoa party.

Q. Are you claimmg for damages done to the furniture in both
your houses in Apia ? — A. No; only the one I was living in. I had the
other house rented.

Q. In your claim, are you charging for what the various articles
cost you ? — ^A. Yes.

Q. How long had you had these things? — A. Not very long.
Some of my chairs were new.

Q. And as to the age of the tools?— A. Some I had had for several
years and some were almost new.

166 CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

Q. Did you lose any property in the first or January war of 1899 ? —
A. No; I was in the house then.

Q. Weren't there guards around your property during the second
war? — A. No; they were only on the beach. Once the guards
came back there with a machine gun, so I was told, and shot right
into the bathhouse and cookhouse, thinking there were Mataafa
people concealed around there.

SHow did you estimate the items of damage to the bath and
house ? — A. Charged for the lumber, material, and labor to
replace them as they were before.

Q. Did you ever recover any of the property lost at this time ? —
A* Only two chairs, for which I had to pay the natives who held
them something like $2 each.

Q. Did you ever receive any compensation from any person or
Government on account of these losses ? — ^A. No.

Q. Did you take any part, directly or indirectly, for or against any
party or faction in this war ? — ^A. Never.

Q. Were you strictly neutral during this war ? — Yes.

Q. What wages were you receiving as a carpenter just before the
war? — A. Usually $4 a day, but I was mostly contracting for build-
ings and made more than that.

Q. Did you own all the furniture which was on your plantation
house at this time ? — A. Yes.

Q. Didn't the man who lived there have any of his own furniture
there? — ^A. No; he was a native and had no furniture.

Q. How about crockery, knives, and forks, etc. ? — ^A. They were
all mine. We used to go up there Sundays and use these things.

Q. What arrangement did you have with him? — A. I simply
hired him for $10 a month and food.

Q. Didn't he have any interest in the produce? — A. No; it was
all mine.

Q. Is there anything else you care to say about this case? — A.
No; only I don't remember giving Mr. Osbom an itemized statement
of my losses.

The Witness. I want to say after talking to my missus (wife)
this noon that I made, a mistake in saying that tke taro, kava,
yams, and coffee were planted separately. There were coconut
trees planted all through them. We could do this as long as the
coconut trees were young and small. When they grew larger we
would leave out these other things.

Babnim Peemuller:

Q. Where did you live in March, 1899 ? — ^A. Tuanaimato, about 4
miles west of Apia.

Q. Did you mow Peter Paul at that time ? — A. Yes.

Q. Where did he Uve then with reference to your place ? — ^A. Just
adjoining.

Q. What happened at that time of an extraordiaary nature ? — A^
The Mataafa people were fighting against the Tanu people and the
English and Americans go together with the Tanu people.

Q. What property had Mr. Paul on this place just oefore the war ? —
A. He had a house built of lumber, European, don't know how large—
24 or 34 feet long — with a veranda, and one room deep. . Think he nad
cocoa and coffee trees also. He had some fruit trees, too. I don't
remember what else.

CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. 167

Q. Did you stay on your place all through the war ? — ^A. UntU the
battle at Fagalii, a little after April 1st — the 2d or 3d — after which I
came to Apia and stayed until the war was finished.

Q. Did you see any damage to Mr. PauVs place before you came to
Apia ? — ^A. I saw plenty of the Mataaf a people camping on the place —
hundreds; and they cut down the cocoa trees — can't tell how many*
They built bush houses there and made room for them by cutting the
trees.

Q. When you returned to your place after the war, did you inspect
Mr. Paul's place; and if so, when?— A. Yes; I went witn Mr. raul
to see his damages a very short time after the war.

Q. What did you see in the way of damages ? — ^A. I remember Mr^
Paul showed me the stumps of trees which had been cut down, but I
can't remember now what kind of trees they were. There were plentjr
of trees cut down.

Q. Did you see any other damage? — A. Can't remember.

Q. Do you know how long Mr. Paul had owned this place before the
war? — ^A. I think two or thJee years; think he bought it in 1897.

Q. About how large was the place ? — ^A. Think about 40 acres>
probably 8 to 12 acres planted.

Q. Do you know whether any damage was done to Mr. Paul's place
in tne first war ? — ^A. I can't tell.

Q. Can you tell anything now about the value of the property of
Mr. Paul which was damaged or destroyed in the war of March and
April, 1899 ?— A. I can't tell now.

Q. Have you any interest, direct or indirect, in this claim ? — ^A. No*

Q. Were you engaged in raising cocoa in March, 1899 ? — A. Yes.

Q. And Imew the values of cocoa trees of various ages ? — ^A. Yes.

Q. What, in your opinion, was the value in March, 1899, of a 1-year-
old cocoa tree? — ^A. That's hard to say; but I should think 3 or 4
marks.

^ Q. Is there anything more you care to say about the case ? — ^A. No^
Oluff RubackT" ^""^*' ' '" ■^"^"^'^^*'^"'*^— "" " "^ "^

Q. How long have you lived in Apia? — ^A. Been living here all the
time since 1891, and was sailing out from here for a number of years
before that.

Q. Where did you live in March, 1899 ? — ^A. On the Vailele planta-
tion, just outside the municipality.

Q. Did you know Peter Paul at that time ? — ^A. Yes.

Q. What happened in that month of an unusual nature? — A^
There was a war on between Americans and English helping Malietoi^
and Mataafa on the other side.

Q. Do you know what propertv Mr. Paul had at that time? — ^A^
Yes; he bought a place on the Fuluasou River at the same time as I
did or a few months later. This was in 1894 that he bought his place^

Q. How large was his place ? — ^A. About 40 acres.

Q. Was it cultivated when he bought it? — ^A. No; all bush.

Q. What did he do in the way of improvements on this place ? — ^A^
Right after he bought it he started clearing the land, and right away
cleared about 15 acres.

Q. Did he plant on all these 15 acres? — A. Yes; he planted all
right away in coconut, coffee, cocoa, and fruit trees.

168 CLAIMS OF AMEBICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

O. Do you remember how many acres of each he had when the war
broke out ? — ^A. The trees were all planted in together — that is, there
were rows of cocoa, coffee, and fruit trees in between the rows of
coconuts.

Q. Could you tell about how many trees he had of each ? — ^A. No.

Q. How long before the war did you see his place ? — A. Saw it every
week, once or twice, from the time he bought it until the war broke out.

Q. What else did he have on the place at this time ? — ^A. He had a
wooden house of rwo rooms.

Q. Did he live there himself? — ^A. No; he lived in Apia.

Q. Anything else on the plantation of Mr. Paul's then ? — A. There
was a fence of wire about tne whole place.

Q. Anything else? — A. A big taro patch — don't remember how
large — and there were also banana trees — don't know how many.

Q. Do you remember anything else ? — A. No.

Q. When did you first see the place after the war? — A. I went
there on the Sunday after the battle of Fagalii.

Q. Just describe the condition of the place then. — A. A lot of the
coconut trees were pulled down and the heart taken out for food.

Q. Do you remember about how many? — A. Nearly all of them.
Part of the native forces of Mataafa were camped on Paul's place and
mine during the war.

Q. What else did you see ? — A. The doors were all broken in, and
the windows were all gone. Nothing whatever was left in the house.

Q. Anything else? — A. All the coffee and orange trees were cut
down, and the cocoa trees were all gone. The fences were all down
and some of the wires w.ere taken away.

Q. Do you remember about how much of the wire was gone ? — A.
That I can't tell.

Q. Anything else ? — A. The place was swept clean — no live stock
or anything else left — nothing but the house.

Q. Were the fence posts gone? — A. Yes.

Q. Were you raising coconuts in 1899 before the war? — A. Yes.

Q. And do you know what were the values of such trees then ? —
A. Yes.

Q. What, in your opinion, was the value of a 2-year-old coconut
tree in 1899, before the war? — A. $5.

Q. What, in your opinion, was the value of a 5-year-old coconut
tree at that time? — A. $10.

Q. Were you at this time raising cocoa? — A. Yes.

Q. And knew the values of the trees? — A. Yes.

Q. What, in your opinion, was the value of a 2-year-old cocoa tree
at this time? — A. From $1 to $2.

Q. Did you raise coffee at this time? — A. Yes.

Q. And did you know the values of the trees ? — A. Yes.

Q. What, in your opinion, was the value then of coffee trees, 2
years old? — A. $1 to $2.

Q. Have you any interest, direct or indirect, in this claim? — A.
Nothing whatsoever.

Q. Is there anything more that you care to say about it? — A. No.

Q. Do you know whether any damage was done to Mr. Paul's
place in January, 1899, or at the time of the so-called first war of that
year? — A. No damage was done there then.

CLAIMS OF AMBBICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. 169

Peter Paul — Claimant's Exhibit A.

J. R. B., vice consul, U. S. A.

County Clerk's Office,

White Pine County,

Ely, Nev., July It, 1888.

Fbieno Grey: Inclosed find P. Paul's affidavit. Of couiae I can do nothing on it.
Last year Fitz issued final papers in a similar case — ^where the papers had been lost
and the record destroyed — on a showing that the applicant had registered and voted,
and had exhibited his papers when so registering, and also on the testimony of one of
his original witnesses.

The regular proceeding to restore a destroyed record is tedious and expensive,
but if Mr. Paul will get a certified copy of any ri^ister where he voted under these
papers, and get the evidence of his witnesses, it is likely that the judge would issue
new papers to him. I suppose from this affidavit that Paul is in Samoa; if so, I
think he would have to get a certificate to attach to his own affidavit to show that
the person before whom he made the affidavit was occupying the office alleged and
was authorized to take affidavits.

Yours, truly, \Vm. Laurenson.

Peter Paul — Claimant's Exhibft B.

J. R. B., vice consul, U. S. A.

Apia, May 28, 1911.

Damage cost by the combined Jorces of the American and British Navy in the month of

March, 1899 — Goods stolen by natives of Samoa.

(1) 1 bag sugar $5. 00

1 case soap 6. 00

Meats 8.00

Knives, forks, and spoons 10. 00

2 blead irons 3. 00

Plates, cups, and saucers 12. 00

1 cooking stove damaged by bullets 12. 00

3 Samoa mats 25.00

6 dining chairs 12. 00

Cooking utensils 25. 00

Clothing 7 40. 00

Damage bathhouse 25. 00

Damage cookhouse 30. 00

(2) Tools stolen out of the carpenter shop:

1 Rosewood smoothing plane 3. 00

1 iron plane 2. 50

1 wooden jointer 2. 25

1 iron jointer, 24 inches 5. 00

1 pair of tin snips. 3. 50

1 sliding bevel 1. 00

4 socket chisels 4. 00

i dozen standard drawer locks (brass) 12. 00

1 pair of dividers : 1. 25

2 bell-faced nail hammers 4. 00

1 level (new) 3.00

1 measuring tape, 100 feet long 4. 00

1 measuring tape, 66 feet long 2. 50

4 pieces of oilcloth, buggy covering 12. 50

• 400 feet Kaweri lumber 40. 00

2 hand axes 3. 50

2 axes 3.50

(3) 2 hand lamps 1.50

1 caster 2. 00

1 case kerosene 3. 00

2 dozen bars soap 1. 50

2 carving knives and forks 6. 00

1 bag rice 3. 50

2 tins of cabbage .75

1 steel 1.00

170 CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

(3) 1 oval boiler $2. 50

4 water buckets >. 4. 00

1 kerosene stove 4. 50

1 fishing net 2. 50

1 table cover 6. 00

(4) Plantation:

17 full-bearing coconut trees, at |15 255. 00

300 coconut trees, planted three years, at $2 600. 00

150 cacao trees, at |1 150.00

2 acres of taros 50. 00

2 acres of yams 45. 00

1 acre of sweet potatoes 25. 00

1 acre of Samoa kava 24. 00

100 coffee trees, at |2 200. 00

16 mandarin oranges, at 11.50 24. OQ

12 naval oranges, at $2 24. 00

1 horse 50. 00

1 horse 45. 00

40 fowls, at 50 cents 20. 00

1 saddle 25.00

1 lady pigskin saddle 45. 00

1 iron bedstead 15. 00

1,000 feet of American lumber 60. 00

25 sheet roofing iron 21. 00

2 windows, at $3 6. 00

1 standing lamp 1. 50

2,000 yards fencing wire .' 11. 00

20 pounds galvanized nails 2. 00

3 acres of bananas 75. 00

3 acresof pineapples 75. 00

3 padlocks 2.25

1 fowling piece , 15. 00

1 kava bowl 5. 00

6 spates, at $1.50 9. 00

1 pickaxe, at $2 4. 00

6 plantation knives, at $1 6. 00

4 axes, at $1.50 6. 00

2 crowbars, at $2 .50 5. 00

^ dozen knives 2. 25

i dozen dinner plates 1. 50

1 grindstone and frame 6. 00

i dozen cups and saucers 1. 50

From 15th March, 1899, to 15th of May, 1899, as I was not allowed to come
from Sogi to my house:

52 working days, at $5

Extra for board and lodging

2, 331. 25

260.00
182.00

2, 773. 25

Peter Paul — Complainant's Exhibit C.
J. R. B., vice consul, IT. S. A.

Consulate General op the United States of America.

Apia, Samoa, August 10, 1897.

This is to certify that I have this day on the voluntary application of the person
within named entered his name on the registry of American citizens maintained ih
this consulate general, folios 12 and 13, registry No. 84, adding thereto the folloMriiig
particular items:

Name, Peter Paul .

Place of birth, Baierthal, Grand Duchy of Baden.
' -Date of birth, June 27, 1849.

I^ast place of residence in the United States, San Francisco, Cal.

CLAIMS OF AMEBICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. 171

' Date of l%st leaving the United States, February 20, 1878.

Court of naturalization, Hamilton, White Pine C5ounty, Nev.
, Date of naturalization, 1875.

This entry is in correction of an omission made by Consul General Sewall, it being
sworn to my satisfaction that Mr. Paul has been always regarded as an American citizen*
(See Records D. 6, fols. 572-576, and this volume, fol. 108, No. 55.)

In witness whereof I set my hand and have caused to be affixed the seal of this con-
sulate general the day and year first above mentioned.

WiLLM. Churchill, Consul General.
NO. 17. ALEXANDER A. WILLIS AND WIFE.

Laulii Willis:

Q. Where were you bom ? — ^A. Apia, Samoa.

Q. State whether or not you are a citizen of the United States. —
A. I am.

Q. How did you become a citizen of the United States? — ^A. By
marrying Alexander A. Willis.

Q. Is he the original claimant in this case ? — ^A. Yes.

Q. Where and by whom were you married to Mr. Willis ? — ^A. In
Apia, by British Consul Gray, about 30 years ago. Mr. Willis was
then a Britisher. About two years later we went to the United States
and stayed there eis:ht years.

Q. Was Mr. Willis naturalized in the United States during this
time ? — ^A. Yes; after he had been there five years.

Q. Do you know in what place he was naturalized ? — ^A. Yes ; in
San Francisco.

Q. Have you your husband's naturalization certificate? — ^A. I
think it is in Pas:o Pago.

Q. Is Mr. Willis living or dead ? — ^A. He died six or seven years ago.
.. Q. Did you live with him up to the time of his death? — ^A. Yes;
we were living in Pago Pago, and he came over here for a short trip
and died.

Q. State whether or not he remained an American citizen up to the
time of his death. — A. Yes; that's why we went to Pago Pago.

Q. Have you remarried since the death of Mr. Willis ? — ^A. No.

Q. After you lived in the United States eight years, as you have
stated, where did you go ? — ^A. We went to Honolulu for a year, then
back to San Francisco, stayed there five years, then Mr. Willis came
to Apia and stayed two years while I stayed in America; then I came
Tiere and we lived here another year; then we went back to the United
States and stayed nearly four years, and then we both came to Apia
and stayed in Samoa nearly 10 years.

Q. Where were you living in Slarch, 1899 ? — ^A. In Moototua, Apia.

Q. What business was Mr. Willis in then ? — A. He was a contractor
and foreman for the German firm.

Q. What property did he own in Apia at that time, if any ? —
A. This place where we lived — about 6 acres. He bought this place
for me in my name.

Q. What buildings were there on this place? — ^A. There was a
European house of six rooms besides a big kitchen.

Q. Was that the only building on the place ? — A. Yes.

Q. You seem to have put in three claims. Are you able to state
what they are for ? — ^A. Tlie largest one is for our Moototua property,
the next largest is for tools belonging to Mr.' Willis, and the other is for
iEt house which my brother who died left me.

172 CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

Q. What other buildings, if any, did you have on your Moototua
property? — ^A. We had a fowl house ana a place for pigs.

Q. What live stock did you have on the place at the time of the
war ? — ^A. I think about 75 chickens. They were all imported from
New Zealand. There were 3 or 4 large pigs and a quantity of small
ones; I don't remember how many; 3 milking cows and 1 heifer,
and 1 horse.

Q. What furniture did you have in the house? — ^A. Some chairs
and tables, I forget how many; a big kitchen range, the best on the
island; dishes, cooking utensils; 4 bedsteads, 2 double and 2 single;
bureau, washstand, sofa. Each bedroom was furnished throughout.
There was a big dining-room table, and bookcase, whatnots. Most of
the furniture was of American make.

Q. When did you leave this place, with reference to the war ? — A.
Before the first bombardment. The admiral sent word to us to leave,
and we moved down to Apia and stayed there all through the war.

Q. When did you go back to the place? — ^A. When the war was
finished.

Q. What did you see there then ? — A. The house was full of bullet
holes, the stove was all broken up, and the big water tank was full of
holes, and so was the provision safe. Everything that was in the
house was either broken to pieces or gone. The buggy house was
torn to pieces.

Q. Was any damage done to the house itself ? — A. The front door
was cut down; some of the window glasses were broken. I want to
say that the bookcase in the house was not damaged except that the
glass in the doors was broken, and Mr. Willis repaired it so we used it
afterwards. We also found the dining table afterwards on the bank
of the river and repaired it and used it. The stove we fixed up so
we could use it some, but it was never good again. Mr. Willis fixed
up the provision safe so we could use it. He was a carpenter. That's
all of the furniture we could ever use again.

Q. Do you know what was the cost of these buildings you have
described or the amount of damage which was done them ? — ^A. No.

Q. Do you know what was the value of any of the other property
which you have described? — A. Only of the pigs, horse and cattle,
and chickens.

Q. What do you say as to the chickens — their price ? — ^A. Mr. Willis
paid for them from 60 cents to $1 each.

Q. What do you say as to the value of the cows? — A. I bought
two of the cows from Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson about six months
before the war and paid her $60 each. The other cow was imported
from New Zealand, and have forgotten how much I paid for it; don't
know her age, but the heifer was hers, her first calf, and was then
2 or 3 weeks old.

Q. What do you say as to the value of the pigs ? — ^A. The large
ones were worth $40 or $50 each. I sold some of the same k'md fot
$50 each just before the war. They were imported from New
Zealand.

Q. What do you say about the value of the horse ? — ^A. Mr. Willis
bought it for $100 or $150. Don't know how long we had had it
before the war nor how old it was at that time.

Q. To whom did all this live stock and furniture belong at the time
of the war? — A. It belonged to me. Mr. Willis bought them and

CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. 173

gave them to me. He said that as soon as any of these things came
mside the fence aroimd our place it belonged to me.

Q. How much damage are you claiming on your Moototua prop-
erty? — ^A. I don't know. You must fix that up yourself.

Q. Was any damage done to this property during the war except
as you have stated? — A. Yes; a number of mango, cocoa, and other
trees were cut down; perhaps half a dozen in all. My rose beds and
flowers were also destroyed. The natives dug up our place and built
forts. They also broke down the wooden fence m front of our place.

Q. Your husband appears to have put in a claim for some tools
lost. Do you remember anything abouf them? — A. Yes; they were
in the buggy house on our place; they were carpenter's tools. He had
a workshop here and used these tools in it.

Q. Do you know anything more about what these tools were, or
their value ? — ^A. No.

Q. I suppose you don't claim to have owned these tools? — A. No;
tbev were Mr. Willis's.

Q. What happened to these tools during the war, if anything? —
A. They were all taken away by the Malietoa people. They con-
sidered me one of the Mataafa people, and so toofe everything of
mine they could get.

Q. Do you claim to have had other property damaged or destroyed
during the war? — ^A. Yes; a big Samoan house of mine was behind
the drug store below the Tivoli Hotel, and it was all taken down and
carried away. I saw this with my own eyes. It was done by the
Malietoa party.

Q. How did you become the owner of this property? — A. It
belonged to my brother who died in San Francisco before the war^
find he willed this place to me. There was behind this Samoan
house a European house of four rooms which belonged to me.

Q. Was this European house damaged during the war? — A. The
veranda railing was all broken down, and the picket fence in front
was taken away, and the wire fences on the sides and back were
broken down.

Q. Did you have this European house repaired after the war? — A.
Yes. Mr. WiUis put his men to work on it.

Q. Do you know how much it cost him to make these repairs? —
A. No.

Q. Do you know how much your claim is for damage to this
property in Apia ? — A. I can't tell. Whatever you say.

Q. Did Mr. Willis leave a will when he died ? — ^A. x es.
. Q. What did you do about this will? — ^A. I gave it to the judge
and the governor at Pago Pago,

Q. Is there anybody here in Apia now who knows about these
losses you have described? — A. Yes; H. J. Moors and Peter Paul.

Q. Is there anything more that you care to say about this claim ? —
A. No.

(The witness was here instructed to furnish Mr. Willis's natural-
ization certificate and a certified copy of his will.)

Q. Gf what country was Mr. Willis a citizen at the time of the war ? —
A. Of the United States.

Q. What happened to this live stock which you have stated was
on your Motootua place? — ^A. It was all taken away during the war.

Q. Did you ever recover any of this property which you have said
was taken away ? — A. Not a single thing.

174 CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

Q. Have you ever directly, or indirectly, received any compensation
for any of this property, or did your husband so far as you know I —
A. Not a single cent.

Q. What kind of wood was this Samoan house built of which you
have stated you lost ? — A. Of breadfruit.

Q. What was the size of this house ? — A. It was one of the largest
sizes — called the faletele, or guest house.

Edward Hall:

Q. Where did you live in March, 1899 ? — A. At the home of A. A.
Willis in Moototua, Apia.

Q. Did you remain there through the war? — A. No, we left there a
few hours before the first bombardment started when some officers
notified us of the bombardment, and we came down town and stayed
all through the war.

Q. What did you take with you when you left the house ? — ^A. Some
boxes of clothes, some vases and dishes and little things of that kind
which could be easily carried. We also moved out a fancy bookcase.
That is about aU I remember that was moved.

Q. Did you have a wagon there to move these things ? — A. Yes.

Q. Didn't you take anything else ? — A. I think a couple of rocking
chairs. We also took away a buggy.

Q. Where did you take these things to ? — A. To Apia to Mr. Black-
lock's place.

Q. Didn't you take any horses away from the place ? — ^A. One I
am sure of — am not certain about one horse — thmk it was found
afterwards, and one was left and never found.

Q. Please describe briefly the house in which Mr. Willis lived? —
A. It was a wooden, European house of eight rooms — sitting room,
four bedrooms, dining room, kitchen and storeroom, besides a cellar
for keeping provisions.

Q. Were any other buildings on the place? — A. A buggy house,
partitioned off to make a tool room for Mr. Willis, who was a carpenter
and architect.
, Q. Were all of the rooms in the house furnished ? — A. Yes.

Q. Do you remember about the qualitv of the furniture ? — A. The
dinmg room and sitting room were well furnished, can not say as to
the number of articles. In the sitting room there was a set — sofa,
chairs, and tables, all the same. The sofa was covered with imitation
leather and the chairs with red plush. Each bedroom had an iron
bedstead. That is about all I remember.

Q. Do you remember what Mr. Willis had in his tool room? — A.
No, he kept that place locked, but I know he used to do his drawing
in there and kept plans of houses there.

Q. Do you mean to say that all of the things which were in the
house you left there on the day of the bombardment except as you
have stated? — A. Yes; except it may have been some little things.

Q. Did Mr. Willis take his tools away with him on the day of the
bomdardment ? — ^A. No, he was at his place of employment, with the
German firm, and did not get up to his place. Think we met him as
we were coming down.

Q. Were you up at this place during the war ?— A. Yes, I think T
was up there once.

Q. Did you notice that any damage had been done at that time ? —
A. No, I can not say that I did.

CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. 175

Q. Were there any of the natives camped around there then ? — A.
No; further back.

Q. When were you there again ? — A. As soon as the war was over.

Q. What was the condition of the place then ?— A. The chickens and
pigs we had left th^re were all gone, and the house was all open.

Q. How about the furniture ? — A. The mattresses and pillows were
cut up, and one small bedstead was broken so it could not be used
again. Some of the chairs were broken, but I can not say how many.
The crockery was about all gone. Two windows were broken.

Q. Had any damage been done to the buggy house ? — A. Pieces of
the door were chopped off by axes and a lot of molding which had
been in there was destroyed, used for firewood, I suppose.

Q. How about the tool room? — A. That was open; I can not say
what was taken from it, but I saw that some of the things were still
in it.

Q. Any damage to the dwelling house itself? — A. Nothing but
broken locks on the doors and two windows broken.

Q. Do you recall any other damage to the place? — A. No.

Q. Do jrou remember anything as to the number of the chickens
or pigs wnich were on the place when you left it, as you have stated ?
A. About 40 or 50 chickens, I suppose, and from 14 to 20 pigs.

Q. How about the size of the pigs? — A. There were 8 or 10 big
ones, and the rest were small.

Q. Was all of the live stock left on the place when you abandoned
it? — A. Yes; and some cattle, too.

Q. Do you remember hom many cattle? — A. There were two
milking cows, two heifers, and a calf.

Q. Had all of. these disappeared when you went back? — ^A. One
cow and one calf were lost and never found. One cow we sold to the
man of war, the others we found afterwards in the bush.

Q. Is there anything more you care to say about the case ? — ^A. No,

Q, Are you related to Mr. and Mrs. Willis, the claimants? — A. No;
but my wffe is a counsin of Mrs. Willis.

Q. Have you any interest in the claim, direct of indirect ? — A. No.

Q. Do you know who did the damage?— A. I think it was the
'' friendly natives, because the Mataafans had been there when we
were at the place during the war and had done no damage. After-
wards the natives from Tutuila were camped there, and I think they
did the damage. This was during the latter part of the war.

Q. Do you know anything about the value of any of the property
that you have stated was damaged or destroyed? — A. No; I could
not say.

A. T.Willis:

Q. What is your name, age, and residence? — A. Alexander T.
Willis; 29; Pa^b Pago.

Q. Where did you live in March, 1899?— A. In Motootua, Apia,
at the house of A. A. Willis.

Q. Do you remember the war that took place then ? — A. Yes.

Q. Do you know p,nything about any property of Mr. and Mrs.
Willis that was damaged or destroyed in that war? — A. Everything
that we had in the house except a tittle clothing was destroyed. We
got word at 12 o'clock noon on one day that uie bombardment was
to start at 1 o'clock in the afternoon and we all left.

176 CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

Q. When did you see the place again? — ^A. When the war was
over and everybody was free to go back to their homes.

Q. What did you see when you got back there ? — ^A. The place was
a wreck — the windows were broken and some of the doors and the
veranda posts chopped. All of the furniture had been carried away
except a few broken pieces lying outside.

Q. What furniture was in the house before the war? — ^A. There
were seven rooms in the house, four bedrooms, sitting room, dining
room, and large kitchen, and all were furnished. There were chairs,
tables and beds, and all other usual furniture, but I can not remember
exactly what number of pieces there were.

Q. Do you know anything about the age of the furniture or its
material ? — ^A. All the furnishings were not bought at one time. We
had only been in this house about two years, and all but about one
or two beds had been bought after we moved into this house. Do
not know about the material.

Q. Do you know anything about the cost of the furniture ? — ^A. No.

Q. Was there anything else on the place before the war which was
damaged or destroyed? — ^A. Yes; quite a number of chickens and
several imported pigs, and some Jersey cows. Of the cows, four were
bought originally and they had had several calves. There were also
saddles and harnesses, and I am certain one horse was lost, and I
think two.

Q. Do you know anything about the value of these articles? — A.
No. One horse was an imported horse I know.

Q. Is there anything further you know about the case? — ^A. I
know Mr. Willis lost a considerable number of tools.

Q. Where were they ? — A. On our place.

Q. Do you know what they were ? — A. One was a circular saw, one
a band saw; they were not taken, but were battered up so as to be
useless. There were also a tool chest and also a lot of tools outside
of it.

Q. Did he keep all of his tools at home ? — A. He had just started
working for the German firm when the war broke out ana part of the
tools had been moved down there, but the biggest part of them were
at home.

Q. What was he doing for the German firm? — A. Working as a
carpenter.

Q. And had he been a carpenter long ? — A. As carpenter and archi-
tect ever since he had been m Samoa.

Q. Is there anything more you care to say in the matter? — A.
There was a paUng fence in front of the house, and the Malietoa people
broke this down, and there was a wire fencing on the r^ar and on
both sides and this was thrown down. They also cut down the
banana and pineapple plants.

Q. How large a place was this ? — A. We had 7 acres of our own
and also had 14 under lease.

Q. What did you have planted there? — A. About half of the 7
acres was planted in bananas, pineapples, breadfruit, oranges, and all
other fruit trees. The whole 7 acres was planted in coconuts.

Q. Were any of these trees damaged in the war except the pine-
apples and bananas ? — ^A. A few of the others, not many.

Q. How do you know the Malietoa people did this damage ? — ^A. I
was out at the place about a week before tne '' friendly '^ natives from

CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. 177

Tutuila were brought to this place by the British and Americans and
did not see any damage to the place which had been done then.

Q. How long was this after the war started ? — A. Not quite sure,
but the war had been in progress about three weeks. It was the day
that Tanumafili was proclaimed king. I Avas sent out by the Britisn
and Americans to nail up proclamations of this.

Q. But you did not see the place again until the war closed? — -
A. No: but I have since been told bv some of the Tutuila natives
that they stayed on our place during the war and that they took our
furniture out and used it in their trenches.

Q. Anything else ? — A. That is about all I can think of.

Q. What relation are you to Laulii Willis, the claimant ? — A. She

is my aunt, but I was adopted by her and Mr. Willis in San Francisco,

Cal.

A. A. Willis and Wife, Exhibit A.

J. R. B., vice consul, U. S. A.

No. 19-1903. United States naval station, Tutuila. In the high court held a.t

Fagatogo. Probate jurisdiction. In the matter of the estate of A. A. Willift

(deceased).

PROCEEDINGS.

September, 30, 1903. Application by Mrs. Willis, widow of deceased, forE. Mooklar
to be appointed administrator.

October 1, 1903. Appointment of E. J. Mooklar as special administrator.

September .17, 1904. Receiving returns of special administrator, filing same^ issuing
release to administrator.

I, the undersigned, do hereby certify that the above is a true and complete copy o£
all thte entries in cause No. 19^1903, probate jurisdiction as they appear in the court
records of the United States naval station.

Dated this 4th day of August, 1911.

[seal.] 0. S. Boling,

Clerk of the high court.

NO. 18. JOHN BBITCE.

John Bruce.

Q. Where were you born? — A. In Apia.

Q. State whether or not you are a citizen of the United States ? —
A. I am.

Q. How did you become a citizen? — A. Through my father, who
was born in the united States — I don't know where.

Q. Where was your mother bom ? A. In Samoa.

Q. Was she a Samoan by blood ? — A. Yes.

Q. Were your father and mother married ? — A. Yes.

Q. Have you any evidence of this ? — A. No. All his papei^ were
lost at the time of the war.

Q. Had he died before then ? — A. Yes.

Q. Did you ever register as an American citizen in the American
consulate at Apia ? — ^A. Yes; some time before the war.

Q. What was your father's name ? — A. John Bruce.

Q. Have you ever declared allegiance to any country except the
United States ?— A. No.

Q. State whether or not you have ever done anything to cause you
to lose your United States citizenship ? — A. I have not.

Q. Were you in Apia, Samoa, during the months of March, April,
and May, 1899 ?— A. Yes.

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178 CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA^ SAMOAN ISLANDS.

Q. What happened then, if you remember anything? — ^A. A war
between the men off the English and American men-of-war and the
natives.

Q. What was your business at that time ? — A. A baker.

Q. Of what country were you then a citizen? — A. The United
States.

Q. Was any of your property damaged or destroyed in this war ? —
A. Yes; my Louse property — three-roomed lumber house about 40
feet long by 18 feet wide.

(At this point Caroline Johnston was duly sworn as interpreter, the
witness's replies not being very intelligible.)

A. The American guards took half of my house and put it in front
of the Catholic cathedral, on the beach to stay in. They also smashed
down the other half of the house.

Q. Where was this house? — A. In Matafele, Apia, back of Mr.
Dean's place, which is on the beach.

Q. Did you suffer any other damage? — A. Yes, all of the things
which were in the house were all taken.

Q. What was there in the house? — ^A. Three boxes of clothes, a
big safe for dishes and provisions, 4 tables, 8 chairs, 1 bedstead, 1
hanging lamp and 2 table lamps, 30 common mats, 3 fine mats.
That's about all. The kitchen, about 16 feet square, was all broken
down and all the cooking utensils taken.

Q. Do you know anything about the values of these properties? —
A. The house, which I built myself, and all the things in it, which I
bought myseli, cost me between $400 and $500.

Q. State whether or not you have ever directly or indirectly
recovered any of this property? — A. No.

Q. Didn't you get back that half of the house which was moved
to the beach? — A. No; when the Americans left, the natives broke
this up. I also had a big Samoan house, and the main posts and
thatch were taken away from this during the war.

Q. State whether or not you have ever received any compensation
from any person or Government for this damage? — A. No, I have
not.

Q. State whether or not you took any part in this war yourself ? — A.
I went with the American forces to Lotopa once, and there was some
fighting with the natives.

Q. It appears that you have heretofore filed a claim for $163 for
damages suffered during this war. Do you remember about that ? —
A. Yes. I remember putting in a claim but don't remember the
amount.

Q. Do you know who did this damage, except as you have stated ? —
A. No. ^ '

Q. Where did you live during the war? — A. Part of the time on
the English man-of-war Porpoise and part of the time in MuUnuu.

Q. Did you take anything from your house when you left it ? — A,
No. I was working in my bakery shop down town vihen the bom-
bardment started and didn't go back to my house. The guards
wouldn't let me pass.

Q. What makes you think you are an American citizen? — A. My
father died when I was about 7, and I remember his telling me he
was an American. He said he came from America on a sailing boat.
I went to Pago Pago soon after this war and have lived there ever
since, because I considered myself an American.

CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. 179

Q. Do you know anything about your father having registered as
an American citizen? — A. No.

Q. Did you ever register as such in the American consulate at
Apia? — A. No.

Q. Do you know anything about the marriage of your father and
mother? — A. No; but my mother told we they were married by a
white minister.

Q. Is your mother living ? — ^A. No.

(J. Is there anything further that you care to say about this
claim ?— A. I lost two naif -grown pigs and had two big breadfruit
trees cut down.

Taua.

(Caroline Johnston being duly sworn as interpreter.)

Q. Where did you live in March, 1899 ? — ^A. In Matafele, Apia.

Q. What took place at that time? — ^A. A war between Mataafa
and Malietoa.

Q. Did you then know John Bruce, the claimant ? — ^A. Yes.

Q. Where did you then live, with reference to him ? — ^A. About
200 yards from him.

Q. Do you remember what property John Bruce had on this place
then ? — ^A. A little European house and a Samoan house — a large one.

Q. Do you know what was in these houses ? — ^A. Bedsteads, boxes,
tables, and chairs.

Q. State what happened to this property, if anything, during the
war. — ^A. The American and British guards halved the European
house and took one half of it to the beach to I've in.

Q. Did you see them do it ? — ^A. Yes.

Q. Do you know of anything else which happened to this property
of Bruce's ? — A. The American and British guards pulled the Samoan
house down to use the posts for the fire and they broke up all the
furniture.

Q. Did you see this done ? — ^A. Yes.

Q. Do you know anything about the value of the property which
was destroyed as you have stated ? — ^A. No.

Q. Have you any interest, direct or indirect, in this claim of
Bruce's ? — ^A. No, only our parents were friends.

SOOALO.

(Caroline Johnston being duly sworn as interpreter.)

Q. Where did you live in March, 1899 ? — ^A. In Matafele, Apia.

Q. Do you remember anything which happened at that time ? — ^A.
A war between Malietoa arid Mataafa.

Q. Did you light in that war; and if so, on which side? — ^A. Yes,
with Malietoa.

Q. Did you know John Bruce, the claimant, at that time ? — ^A. Yes.

Q. How far did you live from Bruce then ? — ^A. 200 or 300 yards.

Q. Were you in the habit of visiting Bruce's place then? — ^A.
Yes; we were friends.

Q. ^Vhat buildings did Bruce have on this place? — ^A. A small
European house of 3 rooms and a large Samoan house built of Samoan
wood, partly breadfruit and partly other woods.
|%Q. What happened to these houses during the war, if anything ? —
A. The British and American guards took half of the European house

180 CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS,

down to the beach and smashed up the other half, and pulled down
the Samoan house to use the wood as fuel.

O. Did you see this done? — ^A. Yes, we had just come back from
Mulinuu and were going out to fight the Mataafans and we saw the
guards doing this damage.

Q. Did you see anything done to the furniture which was in these
houses? — A. No. The furniture was all gone when we passed on
this occasion.

Q. Do you know what furniture Bruce had in these houses at the
time in question ? — A. Tables, chairs, bedsteads, boxes, and crockery.

Q. Do you know how many of each, or what material, or of how
much value ? — ^A. No.

Q. Have you any interest, direct or indirect, in this claim? — ^A.
No ; onlv I am related to the claimant distantlv.

Q. Is there anything more you care to say ? — A. No ; only 3 pigs
of Sruce's were taken during the war. I didn't see them taken, out
they were gone after the war.

Q. How large were these pigs ? — A. About half grown.

NO. 19. GEOBGB SCANLAN.

Caroline Silva..

(Caroline Johnston being duly sworn as interpreter.)

Q. Are you related to George Scanlan, the claimant? — ^A. Yes, I
am his sister.

Q. Where did you live in March, 1899? — A. Vaimea, in Apia.

Q. Do you know what property your brother George had at that
time? — A. He had a piece of land at Lotopa and another at Sogi,
both in Apia. There was a big Samoan house on his Lotopa place.

Q. When were you up to his Lotopa place before the war? — ^A. I
went there often.

Q. What live stock, if any, was there on this place just before the
war? — ^A. Two cows, a lot of fowls, donH know how many, two
horses. That^s all. There was also some lumber which was in one
end of the Samoan house, with which he was going to build a European
house.

Q. Was the Lotopa place under cultivation ? — A. Yes, all of it in
bananas, coconut, and breadfruit trees.

Q. Do you know how many acres there were in the place? — A.
About 9i acres.

Q. When did you first see the place after the war ? — ^A. I was there
durmg the war, while the house was burning.

Q. Did you see the house burn to the ground ? — ^A. Yes.

Q. Do you know how it got on fire ? — A. I saw the Metaaf a people
set it on fire.

Q. Was anything else burned at this time ? — ^A. The lumber which
was in the house.

Q. Did you see any other damage which had been done at this
time? — ^A. The coconut, banana, and breadfruit trees had most of
them been cut down.

Q. Did you see any of the live stock on this occasion? — ^A. No,
they had all been taken, I don't know by whom.

Q. What property did your brother George have on his Sogi place
at the time of the war ? — A. He had a European house and a number
of pigs.

CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. 181

Q. Do you know, of your own knowledge, of any damage being
done to this property ? — ^A. Yes ; I saw the Malietoa people taking
some of the pigs and tried to stop them, but could'nt.

Q. Were you living on this place at the time? — ^A. Yes; I went
there when the bombardment started.

Q. Do you know how many pigs were taken ? — ^A. No.

Q. Do you know anything about the values of the property in
question? — ^A. No.

Q. Have you any interest, direct or indirect, in this claim? — A.
No; only George Scanlan is my brother.

Q. Is there anything more you care to say about the case ? — ^A. No.

George Scanlan.

Q. Where were you bom ? — ^A. In Apia.

Q. State whether or not you are a citizen of the United States. —
A. I am.

Q. How did you become a United States citizen ? — A. Through my
father, Jerry Scanlan, who was an American.

Q. Was he born in the United States? — A. That's what he said.
I think it was in Boston.

Q. Do you know when he came to Samoa ? — ^A. No. I have heard
that he and two or three others were the first white men in Samoa.

Q. Is your father Uving or dead? — ^A. He died about 19 years

Q. Did he, so far as you know, remain an American citizen up to
the time of his death? — ^A. Yes.

Q. Was he registered as an American citizen in the consulate at
Apia ? — ^A. Yes, all along.

Q. What was your mother's name ? — A. Faatii.

Q. Was she a Samoan woman? — ^A. Yes.

Q. Have you any evidence of the marriage of your father and
mother ? — ^A. I have not, but have been told by Catnolic priests that
they were married by a Catholic priest.

Q. Did your father or mother die first ? — A. My father.

Q. Did your parents live together up to the death of your father? —
^x. X es.

Q. Have you been registered in this consulate as an American
citizen? — A. Yes.

Q. Where did you live in March, 1899? — ^A. In Apia. I was on
the poUce force.

Q. Of what country were you then a citizen? — ^A. The United
States.

Q. State whether or not anything unusual happened in Samoa at
that time. — ^A. A war broke out between the rebels and the Govern-
ment party supported by the United States and English people.

Q. Did you nave any property injured or destroyed in tnat war ? —
A. Yes.

Q. What property was so injured or destroyed? — ^A. I had 9^
acres of land at Lotopa, in the municipality of Apia. This belonged
to me and my brother Charley. There was a native house there
which I built myself about two years before the war, built of hard
imported wood and Samoan thatch. It cost me $180 to $200.
Charley had no share in the house. In the loft of this house was
piled a quantity of lumber, with which I intended to build an Euro*
pean house.

182 CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

Q. What live stock did you have on this place at the time of the
wart — ^A. Three horses, a cow and calf, and a number of chickens;
don't remember how many.

Q. Was any of this land under cultivation? — ^A. Yes; all of it.

Q. What was planted there?— A. Coconut, breadfruit, and
bananas.

Q. Did you and Charley cultivate it on shares? — ^A. Yes.

Q. When were you up at the place last before the war? — A. Just
a few days before the war. My wife lived there at the time.

Q. When did you first see the place after the war ? — ^A. I was there
during the war with a party of American soldiers. We fought a
battle about 300 yards from my place.

Q. What was the condition of your place when you passed it, if
you saw? — ^A. The rebel party had built forts of stone walls on my
place. The lumber and oedsteads were lying outside of the house,
which was still standing. We went right on then and didn't see any-
thing else.

Q. When did you see the place next ? — ^A. About a week later I
was up there with another party.

Q. What was the condition of things then? — A. The house and
everything that was in it was then burned, nothing but ashes left.
All the banana trees were cut down, most of the coconut and bread-
fruit trees were cut down to the trunks. There were other things I
lost, such as mats, which I never put down for.

Q. When were you up at this place next? — ^A. About two weeks
later, when the war was over.

Q. Had anv more damage been done at that time ? — ^A. No. It
was all done before my second visit.

Q. Are you claiming for any damage done at other property than
at Lotopa? — A. Yes; I lost pigs at Sogi, where I lived. There were
about 35 or 40 pigs, and nearly half of them were lost during the war.
We were ordered out of this place and had to go to Mulinuu to live.

Q. Were the pigs of different sizes ? — ^A. Yes.

Q. Can you tell how many were large and how many were small ? —
A. No ; they were all sizes.

Q. Do you know what became of the pigsthat were lost ? — ^A. That
I can't tell.

Q. Do you know who did the damage at your Lotopa place? —
A. Yes; the Mataafa people. They were living there.

Q. State whether or not you lost all of the live stock which you
have said was on your plantation. — A. Yes; it was all gone.

Q. Do you know anything about the value of the horses in ques-
tion ? — A. One horse I bought in Tonga two years before the war for
$50. The other two horses I bred myself.

Q. Do you remember anything about the ages of these horses ? —
A. The little one was about 2 years old, the other two were big
horses; don't know how old.

Q. Are you able now to state anything about the values of the
other property lost? — ^A. No; the cow I traded for — ^gave another
cow. It was not an old cow ; she had a calf about 1 year old, which
I lost also.

Q. Can you tell anything now about the number of trees that you
lost?— A. No.

Q. Did all of the live stock belong to you alone ? — ^A. Yes. The
trees were half Charley's.

CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. 188

Q. Ai-e you claiming for the full value of the trees which were
destroyed? — A. No, just my half share.

Q. Did you ever recover any of the property in question? —
A. Nothing.

Q. Have you ev^er directly or indirectly received any compensation
from any person or Government for the losses in question ?— A. No.

Q. Did you take any part in this war ? — A. Yes, I acted as inter-
preter for the Americans and always went with their forces when they
went into the interior.

Q. Do you remember how much lumber you had on your planta-
tion ? — A. No. I had enough to make a start on a European house.

Q. Do you know how much you paid for it ? — ^A. No.

Q. Did you suffer any damage in the January, 1899, war? — A. No.

Q. Is there anything more you care to say about the case ? — A. No.

Q. Are you claiming damage for any furniture lost at your Lotopa
place? — A. No.

Q. What, exactly, are you claiming for ? — A. For the house, lumber,
horses, chickens, cow, calf, and injury to trees, and the pigs I lost at
Sori. *

Q. Do you remember how many chickens you had at Lotopa ? — A,
No. I can^t tell, but there were over 100.

Q. I show you a paper and ask you what it is ? — A. That is a copy
of the marriage record of my father and mother.

Q. Where did you get it ? — A. From Father Huberty, who is the
priest in charge of the Roman Catholic Cathedral in Apia.

Q. I shall mark this as '^Exhibit A" and attach it to your deposi-
tion if you have no objection to my taking it to Washington. — A. AD
right.

Q. Are there any white men in Apia who would be likely to know oi
your losses in the war? — A. Samuel Meredith would know.

Charles Soanlan:

Q. What is your name, age, and residence ? — A. Charles Scanlan, 50,
Pago Pago.

Q. Where did you Uve in March, 1899? — A. In Apia, Sogi.

Q. Do you remember the war that took place then ? — A. Yes.

Q. Do you know anything about anjr property of your brother
George's that was damaged or injured in that war? — A. Yes, one
piece of 10 acres, at Lotopa belpnged to the two of us. There were
two houses on it, one belonged to George and one to me.

Q. When were you up at this place last before the war ? — A. Just
before the war.

Q. What kind of a house was it that George had on this place ? — A.
Samoan house — a big one, built of white pine and redwood, with a
thatched roof.

Q. How long had it been built before the war ? — A. Do not remem-
ber exactly, but not long.

Q. Do you know anything about the cost of the house ? — A. No.

Q. When were you up at this place after the war ? — A. As soon as
the war was finished one day after.

Q. What did you see there? — A. This house of George's was all
burned down.

Q. What did he have in the house before the war ? — A. He had some
lumber there — a good bit of lumber to build a European house.

184 CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA^ SAMOAN ISLANDS.

Q. Do you know how much lumber there was or what kiiid ? — A. T>6
not remember.

Q. Do you know of any other property of his that was injured or
destroyed in the war ? — A. Some coconut and breadfruit trees were
cut down.

Q. Is that all you know about the case ? — A. Yes.

Q. Do vou know who burned the house ? — A. No.

Q. Is there anything more you care to say ? — A. No.

George Scanlan — Claimant's Exhibit A.

J. R. B., vice consul, U, S. A.

In the register of marriages at the Catholic Ministry of Apia:
. Matagi, Jeremiah Scanlan is registered as having been married to Elena of Saleimoa
in the year 1866 at the Catholic Church in Apia.

Father Huberty, S. M.

Apia, this 27th July, 1911.

NO. 20. WILLIAM McMOOBE, SR.

William McMoore, Jr.:

Q. What is your name, age, and residence ? — A, William McMoore,
age 34, Pago Pago.

Q. Where did you live in March, 1899 ? — A. In Apia.

Q. What was your occupation then ? — ^A. Overseer for the German
firm.

Q. What happened duruig that time? — A. A war between
Mataafa and Malietoa.

Q. Where in Apia did you then live ? — ^A. With my father, on the
Tivoli Road, three or four minutes from the beach
: Q. Was any of your father's property damaged or destroyed in
that war ? — A. Some pigs and fowls were taken and his house was
burned.

Q. Who did this ? — A. The Mataafa people.

Q. Did you see it done? — A.. Yes; they burned it in the evening.

Q. Where were you? — A. Standing by the house, when about
100 of these people (Mataafas) came up. First they took the stuff
away from inside the house. After they got everything out, they
burned the house up.

Q. And you saw tnem burn it ? — A. Yes.

Q. Weren't there white guards around Apia at this time ? — A. Yes;
but the natives watched their chance ana burned the house when
the guards were not around.

Q. What did the natives do with the furniture they took out of
the house ? — A. Took it home.

Q. Did your father take any part in the war ? — A. Not until after
the house was burned, when he went down to Mulinuu and helped
the white people.

Q. Do you Know anything about any money he had in the house at
this time ?

A. He had just been paid off on a schooner where he was cooking
and had some money in a box, but I do not know how much.
' Q. What became of this money ? — A. The natives took it.

Q. Whv didn't you take this money away? — A. We did not think
they would wreck our house and when they did come there it was in
the evening.

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Q. Do you remember the one-day war in January, 1899 ? — ^A. Yes;
between the natives.

Q. Was any damage done your father's property in this war? —
A. No ; all in the last war. -

Q. So far as you know, was the money in question or any of it ever
recovered by your father ? — ^A. No ; he never got it.

Q. Is there anything more you want to say about the case ? —
A. That is about all.

Q. What kind of a house was this that was burned ? — ^A. A Samoan
house, or rather roof, with boarding below and doors and windows —
imported lumber.

Q. Do you know anything about the age or cost of the house ? —
A. Think we had built it about two years before the war — ^we paid a
Samoan carpenter $40 for doing the work. I do not know what
the lumber cost.

Q. Did your father own the land on which this house stood? —
A. No; it belonged to Seumanutafa, a Samoan chief.

Q. What arrangement did your father have with this chief about
the house ? — ^A. They allowed us to stay there for nothing.

Q. Then did not the house belong to the chief also? — ^A. No;
we could move it off. We were relations of the chief and that was
why he allowed us to stay there.

William McMoore:

(Charles Scanlon being duly sworn as interpreter.^

Q. What is your name, age, and residence ? — A. William McMoore,
60 vears old, island of Tutuila.

Q. Of what country are you a citizen ? — A. Of the United States.

Q. Where were you born ? — A. Leone, island of Tutuila.

Q. How did you become a citizen of the United States ? — A. Through
my father, William McMoore, who told me he was born in America; I
do not know what place.

Q. Was your mother a Samoan? — A. Yes — that is, a half caste,
part English and part Samoan.

Q. Have you any evidence of the marriage of your father and
mother ? — ^A. They were married by a missionary on the island of
Tutuila, and the marriage was recorded in the American consulate in
Apia when Mr. Coe was consul.

Q. Are your father and mother both dead ? — ^A. Yes. My mother
died when I was 15, and my father then went back to America and
stayed there. I never heard from him since.

Q. Where did you live in March, 1899 ? — A. On the Tivoli Road, in
Apia, about 80 to 100 feet from the beach.

Q. Do you remember what took place at that time? — A. Yes;
there was a war between the Americans and English on one side and
the Germans on the other side.

Q. Of what country were you then a citizen — the United States ? —
A. Yes.

Q. Did you suffer any loss in property damaged or injured in that
war? — ^A. Yes; a house and what was in it.

Q. What kind of a house was this ? — A. A wooden house of one
room with a thatched roof. It was burned down.

Q. Did you see them do it ? — ^A. Yes; I was in my house when the
Mataafans came there and said they would cut my head off. They

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186 OLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

took my furniture out. I went to the house of T. Meredith, and from
there I saw my house burn. This was the same day I left the house.

Q. Did you build this house yourself? — A. Yes. It cost me $60.

Q. What else are you claiming damages for besides the house? —
A. A box full of clothes belonging to myself and seven children.

Q. How much do you claim for those ? — ^A. I am only claiming $60
for the house and $40 in money which was in a box there.

O. Why didn't you take this away with you? — ^A. I was afraid to
go Dack because oi the natives.

O. Was the box containing your money in the house when you left
or had it already been taken out ? — A. The natives had taken it
away.

Q. Did you ever recover the money or any part of it ? — ^A. No; not
any of it.

Q. Have you ever received any compensation from any person or
Government on account of this loss? — ^A. No.

Q. Did you take any part in the war yourself? — ^A. I was two days
only with the forces oi Tamasese.

Q. Then you were on the side against Mataafa ? — ^A. Yes.

Q. Have you ever before presented a claim on account of this
loss ? — ^A. I put it in the hands of Mr. Gurr right after the war.

Q. Do you know what Mr. Gurr did with it ? — A. He wrote it down
and gave me a copy and I handed it to the American consul.

Q. Is there anybody in Apia now who knows about your claim ? —
A. The only one I know of is a Chinaman, Ah Su. My son, who its
here in Pago Pago, also knows.

Q. Where does this Chinaman live? — ^A. He has a baker shop just
east of the Tivoli Hotel.

Q. Is there anj^hing more you care to say about the case ? — ^A. No.

NO. 21. THOMAS B. COFFIN.

Frederick Stuznbr.

Q. Do you know anything about the losses alleged to have been
suflfered by Thomas Coflin?— A. No.

Q. Have any court proceedings been taken in the estate of Mr.
Coffin? — A. I nave been appointed by the court as guardian for
Edward Coffin, who is not or age.

Q. Has anybody been appointed to represent the estate ? — A. No ;
Mrs. Kohlhase, the other heir, is of age.

Q. Is it not the custom of the court to appoint a representative for
the estate of deceased persons ? — A. No, only for those heirs not of

Q. To whom, then, is money owing to an estate property pay-
able? — A. To the court, which pays the debts and distributes tne
money.

(The witness here stated that he will furnish proof of his appoint-
ment.)

Q. Is there anything more that you care to say about the case ? —
A. No.

Mary Kohlhase.

Q. Are you related to Thomas D. Coffin; and if so, what is the
relationship ? — ^A. Yes ; daughter.

Q. Is your father living or dead ? — A. Dead.

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Q. When did he die % — A. Six years a^o.

Q. State whether or not he was a citizen of the United States at
the time of his death. — A. He was.

Q. Was he born in the United States ? — ^A. TTes.

Q. What place ? — A. I do not know.

Q. When did he leave the United States ? — A. I do not know.

Q. When did he first come to Samoa % — A. I do not know.

Q. Do you know how long he lived in Samoa? — A. No.

Q. Where did your father live in the months of March, April, and
Mav, 1899 ?— A. In Solosolo.

(At this point Frances Possin was duly sworn in as interpreter, the
repUes of the witness being somewhat unintelligible.)

Q. Where is that? — A. On the island of Upolu, a few miles west
of Apia.

Q. Do you know how far? — A. No.

Q. What was your father's business at that time ? — A. He kept a
small store.

Q. Was he then a citizen of the United States ? — A. Yes.

Q. What happened during those -months ? — ^A. The British and
American ships shelled the island.

Q. Was any of your father's property injured or destroyed during
that time ? — A. Yea, his house and everythmg in it.

Q. Did you then live with your father? — ^A. Yes.

Q. State exactly what damage was done to your father's prop-
erty. — A. The house was struck by a shell from one of the ships, set
fire and burned, with everything in it.

Q. Were you there at the time ?— A. Yes.

Q. Describe the house ? — A. It was a three-roomed wooden house
with a thatched roof.

Q. What was in the house when it was burned ? — A. In the store
were all kinds of provisions and prints. In the other two rooms
were furniture.

Q. Can you state more definitely what was contained in the
house? — A. Kitchen utensils, tables, chairs, 1 bed, 3 chests of
clothes, lots of mats and tapas. There were also about 50 pigs all
sizes.

Q. Have you any list of the losses claimed to be suffered by your
father ? — A. I may have one at home.

The witness was here instructed to search for this list and bring
it here within the next week, if found.

Q. Do you know anything about the value of the property of your
fatner's which you say was destroyed? — A. No.

Q. Is that afl you can say about this property itself ? — A. That
is all.

Q. Did you see this house struck by a shell? — A. Yes.

Q. Do you know what ship the shell came from?— A. No.

Q. Did your father ever receive any compensation from anybody,
for the losses you have described ? — A. No ; nothing.

Q. Did you save anything out of the house before it burned? —
A. No.

Q. Why not ? — A. Because we were afraid of the shells.

Q. How did you lose the pigs in question? — A. After the house
was burned the natives brought in by the ships of war killed and
ate the pigs.

188 CLAIMS OF AMEBIC AN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS,

Q. How do you know this ? — A. I saw them.

Q. Did you continue to live around your home after the house
burned ? — A. Yes, we lived in the church.

Q. Do you know how much damage your father claimed on
account of these losses f— A. No. Mr. Moors would know.

Q. How do you know that the natives who killed the pigs were
landed from war ships ? — A. I saw them.

Q. Do you know what ships these were? — ^A. Only that one was
a British and one an American.

Q. Did your father take any part in the war, so far as you know ? —
A. No.

Q. Is there anything more that you care to say about the case ? —
A. No.

Q. Is there anybody who knows of his own knowledge about
these losses of your father's ? — ^A. Nobody was there except natives.

Edward F. Allen:

Q. Where did you live in March, 1899? — A. In Apia, or on board
the men-of-war.

Q. What part, if any, did you take in the war which broke out in
that month m Samoa ? — ^A. 1 acted as interpreter, pilot, and adviser
to the British and American commanding officers.

Q. Was there any bombardment from those vessels of the coast
east and west of Apia ? — ^A. Yes.

Q. To what extent? — A. On March 18 the Porpoise bombarded
Maue, Faleula, Afega, SaUeamoa, Utualia, and Falieasiu. At the
same time the Phuadelphia fired on Viausu. On March 20 the
Porpoise put some shells in Fasitootai. On March 21 we brought
10 native (Mataafan) boats from Falefa to Apia. On March 23 we
fired shots from the Philadelphia's launch into Salaufata and the
near-by place of Solosolo and took boats away. We burned certain
houses in Saluafata, Lufi Lufi, and Faleapuna. In addition to that
I went one day on the Royalist to Solosolo, and we landed a party of
friendly natives and burnt some houses. On March 31 we went west
from Apia on the Porpoise with the launch of the Philadelphia and
burnt a boat at Satupuala.

On one occasion after that, when I wasn't along, the Royalist
shelled in the vicinity of Fasitooti and Leulomoega. That is all the
bombarding which was done in Upolu outside of the harbor of Apia,
except at Fagalii on April 1. I wasn't along then.

Q. Were you present on all these occasions with the exception
you have made? — ^A. Yes.

Q. Was there any bombarding in the vicinity of Aliepata ? — A. Not
to my knowledge.

Q. And you would have known if there had been? — A. I should
think so.

Q. Was there any at Fasitoo? A. I think not; but that is very
close to Fasitooti and Leulomoega.

Q. Was there any at Tiavea or vicinity ? — ^A. None.

Q. Did you know Thomas B. Coffin, of Solosolo? — A. Yes.

Q. And where he lived? — A. Yes.

3. Do you remember whether or not his house was struck by a
I? — ^A. I think no shells were thrown in there, but there were
shots from the 1 -pounder of the Philadelphia's launch which may

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have struck the place. I don't know about this. We did, however,
bum a lot of houses there, but don't know whether Coffin's was one
of them.

Q. Do you know anj^thing as to any pigs belonging to Coffin which
are said to have been killed by the friendly natives landed there ? — A,
I know we did kill pigs which were running around in any of the
villages where we landed. Don't know about CoflSn's.

Q. Did you know James Schuster, of Malie, and where his house
was ?— A. Yes.

Q. Do you know if any damage was done to his house by shell or
shot from the war vessels? — ^A. A cutter from the Philadelphia
threw several 1-pound shots into this house.

Q. Do you know of any damage done by war vessels to William
Blocklock's store at Saluafata ? — ^A. None.

Q. Was there any bombarding at Tiavea? — ^A. No. We went
ashore once at Tiavea and found that the natives had not damaged
the store of the St. Louis Planting Co., as had been reported to us.
The man who had been in charge tnere had left then, but the natives
showed us that the store had not been interfered with.

Q. Was there any bombarding at Falefa ? — A. No.

Q. Do you know if any damage was done by natives or otherwise
to the store of the St. Louis Planting Co. at that place? — A. I never
heard that there was, and don't think there was.

Q. Was the Porpoise at Falefa during this time, except as you have
stated? — A. No.

Q. Do you remember bringing Cyrus Scott away from Falefa on
this occasion ? — A. No ; but I know the members of this company that
he belonged to gave us much trouble with their stories of danger to
themselves, which we found did not exist.

Q. Do you remember bringing William Wallwork away from
Fasitoo on the P or poise 'i — ^A. Yes.

NO. 22. DAVID S. PABXEB.

G. W. Partsch. '

Q. Where did you live in March, 1899 ? — ^A. In Apia.

Q. Did you then know David S. Parker, the original claimant in
this claim ? — ^A. Yes.

Q. Where did he live at that time ?— ^A. Before the war he lived at
his house in Motootua. On the morning of the first bombardment
he moved his family to the Tivoli Hotel, on the beach, of which I
was then proprietor.

Q. What, if anything, did he bring with him? — A. Just the small
things that they valued — ^such as family pictures.

Q. Did he bnng any large articles of furniture ? — A. I only remem-
ber a bookcase. I know that he employed a carter, who brought
down a load or two for Mr. Parker. Tnis carter's name is Danielson.
He is still living.

Q. Had you visited Mr. Parker in his home just before the war ? —
A. Yes ; I had been there often — had stayed there for two or three
days at a time.

Q. What buildings did he have on the place before the war ? — A.
There was a big house, with a parlor, sitting room, and three bed-
rooms. This house was connected by veranda with a nursery for

190 CLAIMS OF AMEBIGAK CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

the children; then there were other outside rooms used as kitchen,
place for servants, and a bathroom. There was also a big fowl house
and house for laborers.

Q. Do you know about the size of the lot ? — ^A. Think there was
10 or 15 acres.

Q. Was it in cultivation, or any of it ? — ^A. It was all planted in
coconuts and fruit, and a well-appointed garden, principally of
flowers; some vegetables.

Q. What Uve stock did he have on the place, if you know ? — A. He
had three or four horses, and about the same number of cattle. One
of the horses and two of the cows he imported from San Francisco.

Q. What can you sav about the furnishings of the house?— A.
The house was well rumished throughout. Mr. Parker always
bought the best of everything for his house. He had a piano.

Q. When were you up there first after the war ? — ^A. As soon as the
war was over.

Q. What was the condition of the place then ? — ^A. The posts of
the verandas were hacked with axes, the inside of the piano was torn
out, the furniture was scattered all over the yard and verandas, the
fine kitchen stove was outside and broken. The fowls, horses, and
cows were all gone.

Q. Did you notice any other damage to the place ? — ^A. It was aU
damaged.

Q. Do you know whether Mr. Parker ever recovered any of the
live stock ? — A. He never got anything back.

Q. Do you know anything about the values of any of this property
which was lost or damaged ? — ^A. No.

Q. Is there anything more you care to say ? — A. No, except that
Mr. Parker's iron safe was outside the house when we went up there
and had been battered with axes, but not opened.

Charles Roberts :

Q. Where did you live in March, 1899 ? — ^A. In Apia.

Q. Did you know David S. Parker at that time ? — A. Yes.

Q. Where did he then reside ? — ^A. At the outbreak of the war he
resided at Motootua, Apia.

Q. Did he live there all through the war ? — ^A. He left there before
the outbreak of the war and can^e to Apia.

Q. Do you know whether this was in anticipation of hostilities ? —
A. Yes he was frightened to stay.

Q. Had you ever visited him in his house at Motootua before the
war ? — A. On several occasions I dropped in to see him there, two or
three times I was there to see him on business.

Q. Did he then reside in the house where the widow now lives ? —
A. No; in a house on the same side of the road, which has now been
moved to the opposite side of the road, it belongs to Capt. Allen.

Q. What was the size, or style, of this house in March, 1899? — ^A.
In the main house were four or five rooms, with a veranda all around,
and another veranda leading to the cook house of two rooms; it was
built of kouri, which is an expensive wood.

Q. Were there any other buildings on the place where he lived ? —
A. A buggy house and other usual outbuildings.

Q. What can you say as to the furnishings of the house at that
time ? — ^A. The house was better furnished than the ordinary house

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in Apia, as well as any ordinary house in the Tropics. There was a
piano, bookcase, suites of furniture in each room.

Q. Do you know anything about any live stock on the place ? — ^A.
No.

Q. Is there anything more you care to say about the condition of
the place iust before the war? — ^A. No; except that it was a good
substantial place, furnished very nicely and kept in good order
throughout.

Q. When were you up at this place first after the war ? — A. Between
the 25th and 30th of April.

Q. What was the condition of the place at that time ? — ^A. The
piano was wrecked — that is, the chords and inside parts were torn
out, the cook stove was outside the kitchen, battered and wrecked,
some of the furniture was inside the house and some on the veranda,
and some of it was broken. There were at least two large water
tanks about the house and they were both cut through, apparently
with knives.

Q. Could the tanks have been repaired so as to be used again? —
A. They could have been patched, i suppose, but n^ver would havq
been worth one-quarter the original value.

Q. Is that about all you noticed on the place at this time? — ^A.
Yes.

Q. Do you know whether Mr. Parker took anything away with
him when he left the house before the war? — ^A. No.

Q. Is Mr. Parker now dead ? — A. Yes.

Q. And left a widow surviving him ? — A. Yes, and several children.

Q. Do you know where the widow is now ? — ^A. In Auckland for a
pleasure trip.

Q. When did she leave Apia? — ^A. About six weeks ago, on the
boat before the last one to Auckland.

Q. Do you know whether any proceedings have been taken in
court regarding Mr. Parker's estate ? — A. I know that Irving Hether-
ington has been appointed trustee.

Q. Is there anything more you care to say ? — ^A. No.

Q. Have you any interest, direct or indirect, in this claim? — ^A.
Not the slightest. I want to say that when I went to the house
just after the war it looked generally dilapidated and wrecked.

NO. 23. BEN PETEB

No evidence.

NO. 24. WALTER BAY MABTIN.

No evidence.

NO. 26. ALFBED FBUEAN.

No evidence.

MISCELLANEOUS.

G. E. L. Westbrook:
(Not sworn.)

Q. Where do you live ? — ^A. Apia.

Q. How long have you resided in Samoa? — ^A. Since 1892.

Q. Where did you reside in March, 1899 ? — ^A. Apia.

Q. Before the outbreak of the war in that month, were the forces
of Mataafa encamped in and about Apia, and, if so, to what extent?
A. First war, the forces of Mataafa were encamped in the suburbs

192 CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

of Apia, and commenced to close in the last week of December. They
rushed the town and attacked the Malietoa natives January 1, 1899.

Q. What part, if any, did you take in that war ? — ^A. Storekeeping
and in the customs employ. I took no active part, but simply did my
duty as a customs officer. The customs were run without a hitch of
any kind during the war.

Q- Were you familiar in a general way with the conditions which
existed in and about Apia dunng the progress of that war ? — ^A. Sec-
ond war, March, 1 899 . The Mataaf a followers , when the bombardment
commenced, retreated from Mulinuu and Apia proper, and stationed
themselves away back, but within a short distance of the town.

Q. What can you say generally as to the injury done in that war
to the property of white and half caste residents m and about Apia,
with particular reference to buildings, household furniture, live stock,
coconut and cocoa trees, and growmg fruit? — ^A. The natives when
fired upon by Admiral Koutz and the British warships naturally felt
very indignant and did as much damage as possible, both by way of
looting houses, destroying furniture and plantations, except in the
case of those that did not desert their propertjr, as I understand that
as long as the residents could remain on their property very little
damage was done. All poultry, cattle, and pigs were looted. When
all residents were compelled to leave their property, then the looting
commenced.

Q. What experience, if any, have you had as a planter ? — A. Un-
fortunate. I nave sunk at least 32,00.0 marks in a plantation, cocoa
and rubber; so far my profits have been nil. I could not obtain
20,000 marks for the place at present.

Q. Is there a so-called copra season in Samoa, and if so, what is
its extent, and what can j'ou say as to the making of copra during
the remainder of the year, and particularly during the months of
March and April? Does the fact, if it is a fact, that but little copra
is made during these months have any effect upon the retail store
trade at such periods, and if so, what? — A. The copra season com-
mences about the middle of April, the first cutting lasting about
three months, and after a lull of two months commences again, and
cutting goes on again until the end of November. The rest of the
season copra is made in smaller quantities.

Q. At what age do coconut trees begin to bear in Samoa? — A.
Five years; no decent crop until seven or eight years.

Q. At what age are they at the height of their bearuig, and for
how long do they so continue ? — A. From 10 years to 30 years.

Q. What is the bearing life of an average coconut tree in Samoa ? —
A. Forty to 50 years I think is a fair estimate.

Q. What is the average number of nuts obtained per year during
its bearing life? — A. Average number nuts about 100 per tree,
about five months per year, when in full bearing, at £10 per ton.

Q. How many nuts are required to make a ton of copra? — ^A.
About two nuts to the pound of dried copra.

Q. What was the price paid per ton for copra in Apia during the
first few months of 1899?— A. Not certain, 1 think £10 to £11 per
ton.

Q. What in your opinion was the value in 1899, in Samoa, of
coconut trees, respectively 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 10 years old? — A. Trees
in full bearing were formerly valued at $5 per tree. This was what

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the Governmeftt usually paid as compensation when cutting down
trees for the purpose of making roads through people's property.

Q. At what age do cocoa trees begin to bear in Samoa ? — ^A. Five
years; sometimes a few nuts at four and one-half years.

Q. At what age are they at the height of their bearing, and for
how long, on the average, do they continue ? — A. Twelve to 30
years.

Q. What is the average weight, in dried cocoa, obtained per year
from a cocoa tree during its bearing life ? — A. One hundred nuts per
tree ought to yield about 50 pounds of copra, providing the trees are
in full bearing.

Q. What was the price per ton paid for dried cocoa beans m Apia,
in the first few months of 1899 ? — ^A. To the best of my knowleage,
none exported.

Q. Wnat, in your opinion, was the value, at that time in Samoa,
of cocoa trees, respectively, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 years old? — ^A. Four,
8, 12, 16, 20, and 20 shillings per year.

Q. What can you say, in a general way, as to the shipment of
fruit from Apia in the early part of 1899? — ^A. A few boxes of pine-
apples and bananas, shipped every month per mail steamer Frisco
to Australia.

Q. Is any fruit shipped from here now, and if not, why ? — ^A. No
fruit is shipped from Samoa, since the mail steamers Frisco and TJie
Colonies stopped calling at Apia, as the present rate of steam service
takes nearly twice as long.

Q. Between about what dates did the so-called Spreckles line of
steamers from San Francisco to New Zealand call at Apia? — A. 1893
to 1900, after which Pago Pago was the port of call.

Q. Did they afford a faster service between Apia and New Zealand
or Austialia than can be had now, and if so, how much faster? — ^A.
The passage from Apia to Auckland took about five days.

Q. What, in your opinion, was the value, in Samoa, in 1899, of the
banana trees, covering an acre of ground? — A. Bananas for export
are worth about 1 shining per bunch.

Q. How soon, after cuttmg down, will a banana tree spring up «^nd
bear fruit, if at all? — A. A banana tree bears from eight to nme
months.

Q. What, in your opinion, was the value in Samoa, in 1899, of pine-
apples covering an acre of ground ? — ^A. I have never seen pineapples
planted by the acre.

Q. What can vou say as to the .value in Samoa, in 1899, of the
classes or sizes of Samoan or native houses? — ^A. From $30 to $60.

Q. What can you say, in a general way, as to the cost in Samoa^
in 1899, as compared with other countries with which you are familiar^
of the materials used in the construction of so-called European, or
wooden houses, of household furniture, and the necessities of life
generally? — ^A. Taxes were much lower, and the duty much less
than at present. The duty in 1899, when Samoa was imder the
Three Powers, was 2 per cent ad valorem. Freight on timber from
Frisco $10 per thousand feet, and $10 per ton on general cargo.

Edward F. Allen:

Q. Where did you live in March, 1899 ? — A. In Apia, or on board
the meh-of-war.

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194 CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

Q. What part, if any, did you take in the war which broke out in
that month ui Samoa ? — A. 1 acted as interpreter, pilot, and adviser
to the British and American commanding officers.

Q. Was there any bombardment from those vessek of the coast
east and west of Apia ? — ^A. Yes.

' Q. To what extent? — ^A. On March 18 the Porpoise bombarded
Malie, Faleula, Afega, SaUeamoa, Utuala, and Falieasiu. At the
same time the Philaaelphia fired on Viausu. On March 20 the Por-
poise put some shells in Fasitootai. On March 21 we brought 10
native (Mataafan) boats from Falefa to Apia. On March 23 we fired
shots from the PJiiladelphia^s launch into Saluafata and the near-by
place of Solosolo and took boats away. We burned certain houses
m Saluafata, Lufi Lufi and Faleapuna. In addition to that I went
one day on the Royalist to Solosolo, and we landed a party of friendly
natives and bum d some houses. On March 31 we went west from
Apia on the Porpoise with the launch of the PhUadelpJiia and burned a
boat at Satupuala.

On one occasion after that when I wasn't along, the Royalist
shelled in the vicinity of Fasitooti and Leulomoega. That is all the
bombarding which was done in Upolu outside of the harbor of Apia,
except at Fagalii on April 1. I wasn't along then.

Q. Were you present on all these occasions with the exception you
have made? — A. Yes.

Q. Was there any bombarding in the vicinity of Aliepata? — A.
Not to my knowledge.

(J. Andf you would have known if there had been? — ^A. I should
think so.

Q. Was there any at Fasitoo? — A. I think not, but that is very
close to Fasitooti and Leulomoega.

Q. Was there any at Tiavea or vicinity? — A. None.

Q. Did you know Thomas B. Coflin of Solosolo ? — ^A. Yes.

Q. And where he lived? — ^A. Yes.

Q. Do you remember whether or not his house was struck by a
shell? — ^A. I think no shells were thrown in there, but there were
shots from the 1-pounder of the PhiladelpJiia's launch which may
have struck the place. I don't know about this. We did, however,
bum a lot of houses there but don't know whether Coflin's was one
of them.

Q. Do you know anything as to any pigs belonging to Coffin which
are said to have been killed by the friendly natives landed there ? —
A. I know we did kill pigs which were runnmg around in any of the
villages where we landed. Don't know about Coffin's.

Q. Did you know James Schuster of Malie and where his house
was? — A. Yes.

Q. Do you know if any damage was done to his house by shell or
shot from the war vessels? — ^A. A cutter from the Philadelphia threw
several 1-pound shots into this house.

Q. Do you know of any damage done by war vessels to William
Blacklock s store at Saluafata ? — A. None.

Q. Was there any bombarding at Tiavea? — ^A.' No. We went

ashore once at Tiavea and found that the natives had not damaged

,the store of the Ft. Louis Planting Co. as had been reported to us.

The man who had been in charge there had left then, but the natives

showed us that the store had not been interfered with.

CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. 195

Q. Was there any bombarding at Falef a ? — A. No.
Q. Do you know if any damage was done by natives or otherwise
to the store of the St. Louis Planting Co. at that place ? — A. I never
heard that there was and don't thinE there was. '■■

Q. Was the Porpoise at Falefa during this time, except as you have
stated? — ^A. No.
'^ Q. Do you remember bringing Cyrus Scott away from Falefa on

^ this occasion ? — A. No, but I know the members of this company that

he belonged to gave us much trouble with their stories of danger t6
' themselves which we found did not exist.

Q. Do you remember bringing William Wallwork away from
Fasitoo on the Porpoise ? — A. Yes.

Norman H. McDonald:

Q. Where do you live ? — A. In Apia.

Q. How long have you resided in Samoa? — A. About four months,
formerly living in Tulaele.

Q. Where did you reside in March, 1899 ? — A. In Tulaele.

Q. Before the outbreak of the war in that month, were the forces
of Mataafa encamped in and about Apia; and if so, to what extent? —
A. Yes. Perhaps three or four thousand natives.

Q. What part, if any, did you take in that war? — A. I acted as
guide to the English and American forces, and was engaged in pre-
paringplans, etc., for their information.

Q. Were you familiar in a general way with the conditions which
existed in and about Apia, durmg the progress of that war? — A. Yes.

Q. What can you say, generaUy, as to the injury done in that war
to the property of white and half-caste residente in and about Apia,
with particular reference to buildings, household furniture, live stocky
coconut and cocoa trees and growing fruit? — A. Buildings were
practically undamaged, excepting those destroyed by the authorities;
householdf furniture was in many cases stolen or destroyed. Such
live stock as could be caught was used for food purposes, and in many
cases horses were taken for use, but I do not thmk that stock was
maUciously destroyed. Practically no coconuts A^ere cut down^
excepting a few belonging to natives. Several acres of cocoa, prin-
cipally the loss of Moors and Carruthers, were destroyed, the object
being to guard against the trees being used as cover by the sailors.
Bananas were used and destroyed extensively, but other fruit trees
were not damaged to any great extent.

Q. What experience, if any, have you had as a planter? — A. I
have been a planter for 20 years.
' Q. Is there a so-called copra season in Samoa, and if so, what is its

extent; and what can you say as to the making of copra during the
remainder of the year, and particularly during the months of March
and April? Does the fact, if it is a fact, that but little copra is made
during these months have any effect upon the retail store trade at
such periods; and if so, what? — A. The copra season extends from'
about May to December; during the balance of the year no copra is
made by the natives, owing to the rainy season. March and April
are often the worst months, hence Uttle if any copra is made. This
necessarily has an effect on the retail store trade, sales during the wet
season falling off very considerably, perhaps from 25 to 50 per cent,
although not being a trader I am without experience.

196 CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

Q. At what a^e do coconut trees begin to bear in Samoa? — ^A.
About five years on the coast and seven years inland.

Q. At what age are they at the height of their bearing, and for how
long do they so continue? — A. I should say from 12 to 30 years in
their prime, after that graduallv falling off till about 50 to 60 years.

Q. What is the bearing life of an average coconut tree in Samoa ? —
A. See above.

Q. What is the average number of nuts obtained per year during its
bearing life ? — A. About from 50 to 100, according to conditions. .

Q. How many nuts are required to make a ton oi copra ? — ^A. From
5,000 to 6,000.

Q. WTiat was the price paid per ton for copra in Apia during the
first few months of 1899 ? — A. Unknown.

Q. WTiat, in your opinion, was the value in 1899, in Samoa, of
coconut trees, respectively 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 10 years old? — ^A. The
value per acre of land planted in coconuts, say 40 to the acre, I
should estimate as follows: One year, $30; 2 years, $40; 3 years, $50;
4 years, $60, 5 years, $70, and at 10 years, $125.

Q. At what age do cocoa trees begin to bear in Samoa? — ^A. I
ishould say that the Forastero variety crops at four years, and the
Criolo at six years, although both varieties produce fruit a year
earlier, but not to any extent.

Q. At what age are thev at the height of their bearing, "and for how
long, on the average do tney continue ? — A. In their prime, say, from
10 to 20 years, and are supposed to last for 40 years.

Q. WTiat is the average weight, in dried cocoa, obtained per year
from a cocoa tree during its bearing life? — A. From 3 to 6 pounds.

Q. WThat was the price per ton paid for dried cocoa beans m Apia,
in the first few montns of 1899 ? — A. Probably not more than 1 or 2
tons shipped, this being from Carruthers property. Price unknown.

Q. W^iat, in your opinion, was the value, at that time in Samoa, of
cocoa trees, respectively, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 3"ears old? — A. One year,
25 cents, or per acre, $50; 2 years, 37 cents, or per acre, $75; 3 years,
50 cents, or per acre, $100; 4 years, 63 cents, or per acre, $125; 5 years,
75 cents, or per'acre, $150; 6 years, $1, or per acre, $200.

Q. Wliat can you say, in a general way, as to the shipment of fruit
from Apia in the early part of 1899 ? — A. I believe that we had only
one pretty regular shipper, viz, H. J. Moors; the D. H. & P. G. had
tried it, but given it up, and I understand that the returns were not
always satisfactory, sometimes showing a good profit and sometimes
a loss.

Q. Is any fruit shipped from here now, and if not, why? — A. No
fruit is shipped from here now for two reasons, primarily because the
steam connection is bad, and secondly because there is no organized
system of handling the fruit at the other end.

Q. Between about what dates did the so-called Spreckles line of
steamers from San Francisco to New Zealand, call at Apia ? — A. For
some years before 1898, but I can not remember what year the
service was discontinued.

Q. Did they afford a faster service between Apia and New Zealand
or Australia than can be had now, and if so, how much faster? — ^A.
The service was five or six days faster than the present one.

Q. WThat, in your opinion, was the value, in Samoa, in 1899, of the
banana trees, covering an acre of ground ? — A. Banana cultivation

CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. 197

is unknown in Samoa as compared for instance with Fiji; the crop is
known to impoverish the soil, and no planter will, if he can help it,
grow bananas on ground on which he is going to grow permanent
crops, such as rubber, cocoa, although perhaps coconuts would not
suflter to any serious extent as an aftercrop. Four hundred bunches
might be matured on an acre at once it under exceptionally good
cultivatipn. The value of a bunch delivered in Apia for shipment
might be 12 cents or so, so that 400 bunches in Apia would be worth
$50, less the cost of cutting and carting down. This cost I take to
be $18, so that 400 bunches equals $32.

Q. How soon after cutting down will a banana tree spring up and
bear fruit, if at all ? — ^A. A banana will have matured rruit eight to
nine months after being cut down.

Q. What, in your opinion, was the value in Samoa, in 1899, of pine-
apples covering an acre of ground? — ^A. The same answer may be
given as in the case of bananas ; no pines are cultivated, as there is no
market. An acre might produce 1,000 to 1,500 ripe pines at once
under good cultivation, worth readv for shipment, say $150, less cost
of picking and carting, say $20. ^Therefore, an acre of pines might
be worth $130. Both this estimate and that for bananas is only a
rough o p inion, and not from any actual experience.

Q. Wnat can you say as to the value in Samoa, in 1999, of the
classes or sizes of Samoan or native houses ? — A. Samoan houses

generally vary in value from $35 to $50, but sometimes larger and
etter houses are built wherein lumber is used. This class of house
can cost anything from $50 to $150.

Q. What can you say, in a general way, as to the cost in Samoa, in
1899, as compared with other countries with which you are familiar,
of the materials used in the construction of so-called European or
wooden houses, of household furniture, and the necessities of life
generally? — A. Building material and furniture is, I should think,
from 20 to 50 per cent higher than in the colonies, but, as some set-oflF
for this, people usually dispensed with elaborate buildings or furniture.
Many of the necessities of life are high, but I believe that clothing
and some other lines are, owing to light duties, comparable with
prices elsewhere.

Thomas Andrews: (Not sworn.)

Q. Where do you hve ? — ^A. Apia, Samoa.

Q. How long have you resided in Samoa? — A. Twenty years.

Q. Where did you reside in March, 1899? — ^A. Next Apia foreign
church.

Q. Before the outbreak of war in that month, were the forces of
Mataaf a encamped in and about Apia, and if so, to what extent ? —
A. Mataafa's forces formed an irregular hne from Vaitele plantation
beach to Taufusi, thus completely controlling roads and tracKS leading
from the town.

Q. What part, if any, did you take in that war ? — A. None what-
ever.

Q. Were you familiar in a general way with the conditions which
existed in and about Apia during the progress of that war ? — ^A. At
that time practising as a photographer and having a '^general pass''
I was entitled to go anywhere.

Q. What can you say generally as to the injury done in that war
to the property of white and half-caste residents in and about Apia,

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198 CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

with particular reference to buildings, household furniture, live stock,
coconut and cocoa trees and growing fruit ? — ^A.- The principal dam-
age done to buildings was the smashing of windows and doors and
veranda posts. Furniture and movable goods were either destroyed
or taken away. Cocoa trees were cut on close to the ground. The
coconut trees were stripped of all nuts and in some places cut down.

Q. What experience, if any, have you had as a planter ? — ^A. Eight
years, principally in planting cocoa and rubber.

Q. Is there a so-called copra season in Samoa, and if so, what is its
extent, and what can you say as to the making of copra during the j

remainder of the year, and particularly during the months of March
and April. Does the fact, ii it is a fact, that but little copra is made
during these months have any effect upon the retail store trade at
such periods, and if so, what ? — ^A. Between the months of January
and April very Uttle copra is made in Samoa except in certain dis-
tricts where the rainfall is small. After April the copra season begins
and continues until the rainy season comes on. The native trade
during the wet season falls off 40 per cent.

Q. What, in your opinion, was tne value in 1899 in Samoa of coco-
nut trees, respectively 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 10 years old ? — ^A. All bearing
cocoa trees existing in 1899 were of exceptional value; in most cases
they were reserved for seed purposes, to supply the want on new
plantations.

Q. At what age do cocoa trees begin to bear in Samoa ? — ^A. Under
favorable conditions two and one-half years, but not to any extent
until about the fourth year.

Q. What is the average weight, in dried cocoa, obtained per year
from a cocoa tree during its bearing life ? — ^A. This depends entirely
upon the variety of cocoa, locality, and conditions of soil, and particu-
larly on the care and attention they receive.

Q. What can you say, in a general way, as to the shipment of fruit
from Apia in the early part of 1899 ?^-A. About the only fruit
shipped consisted of pineapples and bananas

Q. Is any fruit shipped irom here now, and if not, why ? — ^A. No
fruit is shipped from here now on account of the supply going into
the colonies from Tonga and Fiji.

Q. What, in your opinion, was the value in Samoa in 1899 of the
banana trees covering an acre of ground ? — ^A. Generally about 700
banana trees go to an acre and should yield one bunch, each tree
worth 1 shilling. Exceptionally favorable years the yield may be half
as much again on account of the extra number of suckers maturing.

Q. What can you say as to the value in Samoa in 1899 of the classes ]

or sizes of Samoan or native houses ? — ^A. The house of an ordinary J
(not chief house) at that time would be worth $100. \

[Translation.]

J. No. 4153/11. Apia, tM July, 1911.

I beg to answer your inquiries in the esteemed communication of the 12th instant,
as follows:

Re. No. 1. — The firm of Harrington & Huch declared their total loss to be $1,167.50;
of which E. Huch as a German subject claimed half, viz., $583.75 from the German
treasury. His claim was assessed by the commission of claim investigation at $507. 37^
paid to him after 25 per cent had been deducted.

Re. No. 2. — G. W. Partsch and H. J. Moors claimed in all for damage at the Tivoli
Hotel the sum of $1,046.50. Half fell to Partsch, viz., $523.25, which (his share) he

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CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. 199

applied for to the German Government. The commission, re this $523.25, allowed
tne sum of $470.81 and this amount in full was received by Partsch.

Be. No. S. — C. Pallock duly claimed $778. The commission allowed therein $464,
which Pallock has also received.

No compensation has been paid for loss of time and danxage through possible loss of
profits.

Reading the other points of your letter, I must reserve them for a further commu-
nication.

The Acting Imperial Governor.

SCHULTZ.

Herr Baker,

The Commissioner of the United States of America.

1. Adam

2. Adam

3. Broederlow

4. Billow

5. Com-adt

6. Decker

7. D. H. &P. Q...

8. Dr. Friedlandler

9. A. Fries

11. Dr. Funk

12. Gabriel

13. Oebauer, H

14. Gebauer, £

15. Grosnubl

16. Gasche

17. Haidlen

18. Hannemann . . . .

19. Hach

20. Haufnagel

22. Blarras

23. Kessler

24. Kirsch

26. Knise

26. Kuckuck

27. Kurst

28. Hofliet Leonard.

29. Lober

Claimed.

S392.50

650.00

438.50

592.00

465.00

678.50

22,116.80

233.85

2,181.50

525.00

240.50

1,188.75

3,000.00

167.27

133.25

933.00

750.00

583.75

251.00

1,369.50

249.50

82.75

1,183.36

1,330.56

3,929.00

296.00

1,024.62

Paid.

9292.50

180.00

277.67

19.00

465.00

313.50

12,215.05

143.85

1,388.19

210.00

211.00

1,138.75

3,000.00

164.77

133.25

688.00

430.00

507.37

206.00

383.50

213.50

82.75

770. 10

1,020.11

2,979.00

204.12

827.12

30. Losche

31. Marquardt

33. Mugele

34. Nauer

35. Partsch

36. Partsch

37. Peemuller

38. PuUock

39. Pump

40. Rathke

41. SaflSngs

42. Schlueter

43. H. Schmidt

44. Lehmidt <& Peemuller.

45. Schroeder

46. Schwagler

47. Sommers

48. Spitzenburg

49. Stehlis

50. Liedemans

51. Valkmann

52. Walter

53. Warns

54. Rabeck

55. Schultz

56. Wulff

Claimed.

$449.75

2,648.73

1,293.50

615. 15

837.00

523.25

438.87

778.00

206.87

734.37

1,283.00

2,638.00

2,436.00

8,768.00

1,070.68

116.60

290.00

170.00

1,009.12

834.00

2,437.37

771. 12

166. 76

781.00

292.93

176.50

Paid.

1382.28
1,849.00
678.50
540.15
612.00
470.91
291.65
464.40
206.87
402.50
909.75
1,543.05
1,812.75
1,984.50
786.68
116.60
210.00
170.00
815.21
489.20
988.60
464.08
117.57
586.00
263.64
176.50

Payments made on British claims.

I

1. N. Macdonald £350

2. A.W.Taylor

3. E.Griffiths

5. Mary Jameson

6. A. W. Helsham

8. A. Tattersall

9. W. Groves

10. G. E. L. Westbrook

11. W. J. Swann

12. Edgar Reid.

50

46

40

27

50

40

10

100

230

13. T.Meredith 100

14. London Missionary Society 222

16. W. Johnston, sr 250

18. E.A.Duffy 35

•24. R. L. Skeen 550

26. J. Johnston

30. A. Kenison

34. E. W.Curr ,

37. I. C. Hetherington ,

38. T. Trood

45. R. H. Carruthers

50. U. S. S. Co. of New Zealand.

52. W. Barron

56. Montgomery Betham

81. JohnSkelton

81a. Arthur Skelton

107. John Denvers

£40

15

400

30

100

615

200

5

70

10

10

40

Total 3,625

On none of the other 90 claims was any payment made.

American Consulate,

Apia, Samoa, July 12,1911.
His Excellency Dr. Schitltz,

Acting Imperial Oovemor, Apia, Samoa,

Sir: In connection with the investigation which I am making of
the so-called American-Samoan war claims, it becomes important to

200 CLAIMS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN APIA, SAMOAN ISLANDS.

obtain certain information regarding the disposition made of some of
the German claims growing out of these disturbances.

As you were so find as to advise that you would assist me with
the information in your possession or under your control, I now
respectfully request to be advised. !

(1) Whether or not any award was paid by the German Govern- J
ment to Henry Huch on account of his interest in a lighter belongmg j
to the firm of Harrington & Huch; and if so, in what amount. "^

(2) Whether or not any award was so paid to C. W. Partsch on
account of damage done to belongings in the Tivoli Hotel; and if so,
in what amount and for what items.

(3) Whether or not any award was so paid to C. PuUock on account
of losses suffered in the place of his residence at Lotopa; and if so,
in what amount and for what items.

(4) Whether or not any awards were so paid to any persons because
of arrest or imprisonment during the trouoles in question; and if so,
to what persons and in what amount. In this connection I may
add that it is my understanding that Messrs, Marquardt and Hui-
nagel, German subjects, were so arrested or imprisoned, or both.

(5) Whether or not any awards were so paid to any persons because
of loss of time from business, or for loss of prospective profits in busi-
ness, or for any other cause (except as above indicated) besides actual
property damages.

In case that your excellency should see fit to permit me to inspect
the report of the commission upon which the Uerman awards were
paid, which favor would be much appreciated, I could presumably
obtain the above information myseliF, and it would then be unneces-
sary for the officials under your charge to concern themselves further
wjtn the details above set forth.

In any event, may I trouble your excellency to advise me if you
see no objection thereto, whether or not your Government disbursed
in the payment of these awards a larger amount than the $40,000
which was paid in therefor by the American and British Governments,
and if so, now much was added to that amount.

Thanking your excellency for the courtesy which you have hereto-
fore extended to me, and trusting that you will see your way clear
to place me under further obligations to you by furmshing me with
the desired information.

I have the honor to be, sir.
Your obedient servant,

Joseph R. Baker,
American Vice and Deputy Consul.

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