| Show THE MARSHALL ISLANDS A Wac hington dispatch in last eve even ined NEWS conveyed the intelligence thu tha a ly if f an uprising in cores corea against agai not C christians and that the liven of american citizens were in peril abis news hews caused a war vessel of the asiatic squadron at apt hongtong Hong kong to be ordered to the scene the last mail steamer from honolulu ju which arrived at sau san francisco on wednesday brings tidings that american Ilio missionaries are likely to be driven out of the marshall lalands islands at an early day A letter from jaquit Marb marshall liall islands states that four leach ers at the missionary echo 1 stations sta tlona of link kuk and kuesai had bad been to jaquit by order of the new german im imperial p erial high COMM commissio ers er who last december succeeded captain Br brandick Brand andice loe on the latter tr ALster to new guinea tae germans germane w who ho control marshall islands and everything in the group it was stated d were agitating the advisability of closing ail the abool stations of the american board ot of of foreign missions which controls the work of educating the native islanders in the english language and in the christian religion LS it was also aleo stated that the were either being ordered to leave ir dr life was being made 4 so 0 uncomfortable lor for them that they 1 1 would be glad to do so the native obit chit to fd and aad their ful following lowing are said to feel very badly over the prospect of having the missionaries driven out of the islands 1 I can confirm that hat story hegardt regarding the antipathy antipa iby of the germans t toward Awe american rican pr fr gestaut missionaries pl said a well known south bouth sea bea island trader to a san francisco chronicle Chron toft representative on friday last when I 1 was in jaquit december I 1 heard v some dome talk of a radical change being made the only american amerian an business and trading house at jaquit some time ago was waa that of A crawford co the estate has disposed of its entire interest to the J luit company oom which now full control over everything in the in lands even the revenue from all ail sources is in theirs craw cra frd ford co used to pay 1600 1500 a year license tax to t trade r jold eav every ery single trader had to pay a trading tax cf 20 and a personal tax af pf f 6 5 the natives are assessed so go much fl opra which brings bringa in to the island coverd ment which is under the pro 7 teator foot orate a te of ff germany about pounds of copra annually this its is as vod as aag g ia 1 ii the jaquit company got the 4 germau government to assume tue tile protectorate f the isla daj df the com pany agreed to I 1 iby ay the salaries of the german germ an flici als it the company v was as allowed to collect the revenue from all the sources and the government would send end a war vessel to visit the ands twice a your year this w a grant granted 80 that the difference between the salary of the and the revenue ot of tile islands ianus which is IB a birs big thing goes into the 0 offers 1 I the company as aa profits profit chev are an ad imperial high oom com missioner Migs ioner a secretary a doctor and a pilot who is a te regular gular pooh bah being cliff ehlts i of police harbor matter anu and clerk of the imperial court he has two n tive pt lice officers ficera of under tinder him biro for years there has baa been a growing dist dia distaste taste as ste fr foreign or any uther other kind X of M amoni among the germaux Ger maup maur it at is ia quite quit e possible the prote may A be sent AWRY away and the native school 4 ft tatlo i s abolished Se several years ago 1 BOLI bodzon tOD a french catholic praest and missionary leased a piece yf laud iu in bluit with the privilege i f buying ying it he is ie now at Buta but I 1 und under erta dand dd that an offer has hae been amade to him to estat establish lish a mission s tt S at t jaquit for the benefit of the ab children ildren or of the whites and half bastea this ahls he would willingly do if the protestant missionaries were sent away toe ane people of jaquit would be very glad to have a free school I 1 the prote protestant tant missionaries have tone done a good deal for he enof both the kd marshall arshall and gilbert groups i f itt abi the way of education it if they have received any return in the way of trading rading the they y deserve it the ua oa tivee Ave sare art wild wi with th delight every time the missionary steamer r morning star makee the rau rounds ads of these islands the steamer picks up whole families ut at different places and takes them to one oi of another of t the he island school sta eta lacap no better example of how little is thou thought ol of missionaries at jaquit can be got cot than the case pt of a german minister ister who arrived there direct from hamburg a year ago he brought a aled scaled letter of introduction from a stockholder took bolder in the company residing residing 9 in germany when opened the read this man Is a missionary drive him away from islands and he was driven away I 1 SIM major or schmidt the now new f iaione eibner is ie haughty and anything but bui Y ipe pular u r he went direct from an lafrican fAfri african can mission n to jaquit and took with with him ane a negro groan an a chinese boy SD walking along the street he loelete insists upon people taking off their hats to him before allowing himself to be ad dressed advises advices received at jaquit froni from fiuta gilbert islands on decem bor ber stated that a british commis lioner was expected to arrive on the list t of january and business was at a standstill |
