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Show KINO OF t-t-VOAN. r.pl- Siwii.tr ml Hi. lilt Ortr Wliltli II. Unlet. The "Ling of Laysan Island la In Honolulu with his wife, haling arrltel on the bark Ceylon on n visit for tho benefit ot the health ot her majesty, the qaeen, says the Chicago News Tho king Is Capt J. 11 Bpeucer. well-known well-known as a shipmaster for nearly fifty years. Tor tho last fow yearn ho hai made his home on l.aan la'and, where ho looks nfter tho Interests ot Hackfcld & Vi, ownera at tho Island, In the loading ut vesicle sent thero tor fertilizer, fltnro tils taking up rial-dence rial-dence on Laysan the captain has bien called king ot tho Island by these who know him, ns ho Is In supreme authority au-thority on the llttlo Islo from which Hawaii has secured to much sugar-producing sugar-producing fertilizer, tnys tho Honolulu Hono-lulu Btar. Capt Bpcnrcr lives In n comfortable four-ruum rottngo on l.atan Island, which, he says. Is n cry nlco llttlo apot, with a cllmata n bit cooler than Honolulu There are three other white men on the lelnnd, n lunn, a carpenter nnd nn engineer. Thirty Jnpancsa laborers. la-borers. CauL Spencer and Mrs. Bpcn- cer tnnlio up tho rest of the population. Thero la nothing for the king to do hut to see that the ships llackfeld & Co. send from Honolulu are loaded with all possible dispatch, nnd to re-celvo re-celvo and look nfter tho supplies s-nt to him. I.iysan Island Is nbout eight miles In circumference. It was quite uninhabited, though fertile, until tho haolo ot Hawaii found that there was good fertllzer In Its soil, and then wurkmen wero sent thero and tho vos-aels vos-aels began to rail and taks aay ns much of tho Island ns they could carry. car-ry. This was ten years ngo. and slnco then many shiploads of guano have i-omo to Honolulu from 1-nysan There nro no courts, no Judges, no police on !,nysan Island only Capt. Spencer, who la master Just ns If he were on a ship, a state ot affairs to whlcli he Is quite accustomed. In a few years tho fertilizer will bo gone from Laysan Then It will ho ilciertrd, tho cosy homo of Capt Spencer will tall In ruins nnd tho birds will have the llttlo llt-tlo spot all to themselves again. It la estimated that thero Is enough fertilizer fer-tilizer left for two or three years moro ot tho quality used In tho past Capt Spencer aaya that thero mayte a great deal moro of Inferior grade |