Show ashford at san francisco sea ban francisco june 4 1 I volney ashford mentioned in the advices advises from honolulu la in in the french frenchi it hospital spital in this city where he has bet bom n confined confined for nearly nine months month suffering nult erine from a variety of 11 which ended in S paralytic stroke an effort was made today to set see col Asli foid relative to the advices advises from rom honolulu but ho he declared that lie he lial 1110 no information to give elve ile he referred the reporter to his brother clarence ashford and that gentlemen gentleman made the f following ol lowing statement V ashford having been convicted by the mill military court of 0 the offense or of of 0 treason failure to disclose his alleged knowledge of 0 treason committed by others the british government ern ment to whom he appealed represented to the Ila hawaiian wallan C government over ru n 0 lit that tile the conviction was rendered upon insufficient and illegal evidence and re Quoi qu ted that tho the conviction he set aside and the sentence founded thereon annulled I 1 understand the request has not been finally answered by the hawaiian government though negotiations have been proceeding bi tween tin the two governments upon the topic for some months the claim that my brother has repeatedly or at all ail asked permission to land in hawaii la is atrio cutely false alse ile he has never asked permission m and never will ask and would not 13 ot accept it |