People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1894 — SHE WON’T SUE. [ARTICLE]
SHE WON’T SUE.
The Hawaiian Ex-Queen Has Not Given Up Her Claim to the Throne. San Francisco, Jau. 18.— In regard to the story published last Saturday that the ex-queen of Hawaii had given up the contest for the throne and would sue the United States for damages Samuel Parker, prime minister of the queen, has wired to Secretary Gresham, denying the reports in toto. Both Parker and W. C. Peterson, the ex-queen’s attorney general, declare that they, saw, Liliuokalani half an hour before they sailed from Honolulu on the Australia, and she was very firm in her determination to maintain her claim to the throne. The possibility of presenting a claim for damages had never been mentioned
