Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1898-05-28 | Page 8 | Tender of the Islands

TENDER OF THE ISLANDS Certain to Be Occupied According t Honolulu Advices Honolulu May 20 via San Francisco Francis-co May 27The Hawaiian Star publishes pub-lishes the following last evening There I Is no doubt whatever that the Hawai ian government has made a distinct tender of the Islands to the executive of the United States The news has been published In many of the coast and eastern papers and ha been denied de-nied The Star is in a position to state that such a letter has been written and that a reply to it is being awaited here This reply will probably reach Honolulu by the next mail I Is impossible im-possible to get the exact text of the letter as the island executive does not feel that it Is diplomatic courtesy that I the letter should be given to the public here before the United States govern ment can reply The mere fact that the transports are coming here and that this point is to be used as a basis for additional supplies for the Manila squadron make a large number of people peo-ple think that the offer will undoubtedly undoubt-edly be accepted I