Show PREPARING FOR EARLY THOU america will send a war ship to samoa TO PROTECT OUR INTERESTS in the islands in caso case of a serious outbreak which now appears to bo be near at hand KEW new the ithe authorities at washington evidently fear that serious trouble may soon arite ariso in samoa and have decided to take steps to protect the interests of the tile united states in that country bv by tha the presence of an american war ship 1 says the heralds washington correspondent re ondene it will bo be well toward the in middle Is of j january andary however before the hanger which la is ordered to samoa reaches her destination A letter received here from a resident of aipia apia confirms confirma the news received by the authorities at washington about the threatening aspect in samoa both political and business affairs arc are reported d as being in a bad way the natives have been dissatisfied w with ith the workings working of the berlin treaty for more than two years says the writer and the majority of the white residents share this dissatisfaction american and english residents object equally with the natives to the administration of chief justice Cedar kranz and baron von ril sack who it is charged discriminate strongly in favor of the german residents and seek indirectly to drive out the american and english trades the ill feeling between the two yative factions has been growing for two years and slid for several months has been on the point of resulting in another civil war the fae factions a are e represented by bv maietta Maie toa lupcha the present s ent kine king and I 1 high ligh chief Matal mataafa lih who officiated as malic toa or king during the time tinie lupema was deported an and d kept a pris prisoner by the germans when lupema was rb restored stored to the kingdom mataafa and his followers believing they were duped and had not received a just reward for the shedding of blood and doing all the hard fighting again the native rebel chief Tamas esea ses with his allies the germans german retired to a distant part of the tile island of apola upola and there fortified themselves and have lave since remained mataafa and his forces refused to visit lapena and render allegiance to him on oil several occasions recen recently aly soldiers have been on oil the point of going to war with the kings forces but were wisely restrained bv by mataafa who wha is s termed by american residents the george washington of samoa sarno 0 tho only war ship in samoan waters o on n oct was the german steamer bu buzzard |