| Show WHISKY if ARCHIVES A whisky bottle Is filed away with care among the archives of the ha balian government as are also two ot the nodding chicken feather helmet adornments formerly worn by king kalakaua on state occasions the bottle is certainly a unique docu ment for the archives but a written statement across the face of the label shows that it placed an important part in the revolution of 1895 when the attempt was made to overthrow the republic and restore the queen to her throne th bottle is an ordinary one with a bulging cork and is about half full of a liquid of which for some reason or another no one in the capitol is willing to partake across the face is the following written with pen and ink in re treason of gulick et al ex filed this day of january 1895 J W jones 1st co D N G H recorder after the death of charles carter at diamond head who was killed by revolutionists the government troops were dispatched to bertelmann s place and put on guard it was a strenuous time one night when the guards were being changed every hour so that no sentry would have an eunity of falling asleep the officer in charge is said to have sent tor some hot coffee this would aid in keeping the soldiers awake the coffee came also a bottle of whisky was brought along the officers said the men could drink coffee but not whisky it was suggested that whisky might be put in the coffee no it might make them drowsy but it happened that one of the soldiers drank some whisky he tell asleep half an hour after ward and did not wal e until the next morning about daylight he was shaken several times during the night but he was in a deep heavy slumber and could not be awakened the bottle of whisky as kept in the camp the contents are and probably will remain untouched for there seems to be a general impression about that the contents were and may be still doped honolulu Holo lulu commercial advertiser |
