Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1910 — EX-QUEEN OF HAWAII’S GIFT. [ARTICLE]

EX-QUEEN OF HAWAII’S GIFT.

Liliuokalani Provides in Will tor the Orphans of the Islands. By the terms of a deed of trust; just executed Former Queen Liliuokalani of the Hawaiian Islands has provided for the endowment, after death, of orphan asylums for children of Hawaiian or part Hawaiian blood. The entire estate is valued at $200,000. The trusteeship of the large portion which will be devoted to this humanitarian object rests In W. O. Smith, A. S. Cleghorn and C. P. laukea. Though 71 years old, the former queen is said to be In excellent health, says an exchange. W. O. Smith, oddly enough. In view of his selection as a trustee, was a leader In the movement to bring about Lllluokalani’s dethronement. laukea, formerly a. sheriff in Honolulu, represented the Hawaiian government at the coronation of Czar Nicholas and the jubilee of Queen Vic* Wla. He was Lilluokalanl’s manager until her return from Washington last year, where she had gone to urge her claims against the United States government. *■ The trust deed stipulates that,,certain annuities are to be paid po a few former retainers and that relatives are to have the use of the real property. The Sprockets mortgage of $70,000 is aIBO to be paid. The entire residue of the estate, of wlhch she is to enjoy the benefit while she lives, will go to forward the asylum project. Liliuokalani is the great-grandniece of the celebrated Kaplolani, one of the first converts to Christianity at the time the American missionaries from Boston visited Hawaii, in 1820. The ex-queen was herself a - communicant In the Episcopal church. Reports putting her character In none too favorable a light gained wide circulation a few years ago. Her relations with Marshal Wilson, a Tahitian half-breed who enjoyed many of her royal favors, to his own enrichment, became notorious. Queen Liliuokalani made the latest of many visits to Washington last January as a claimant for $250,000. which represented, it was held, the vain* of lands passed to the United States. During hqr reign the qheen maintained the area of the crown lands was about 1,000,000 acres, and their values in excess of $12,000,000. A life Interest in the crown lands became vested in each monarch as successor to the trust, and it was a private income to be used as the monarch. saw fit. The income" from this source, when the government was overthrown, she placed at $65,000 a year. In addition to this the privy puree, amounting to $20,000 a -year, toured to "the occupant of the throne. These items formed the basis of her claim. It was her hope, after ineffectual appeals to Congress, that the conscience of the American people could be aroused. Her claim has had prominent supporters in this country, among them Senator Hoar oi Massachusetts,

who interested himself in her behalf without success. The ex-queen Is a woman of culture and marked personal charm. She has found refuge since her dethronement in reading, in the study of languages and in music.