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Panama City (Panama) (search for this): entry samoan
Samoan, A group of twelve islands in the Southern Pacific Ocean. They are located about 2,000 miles south and 300 miles west of the Hawaiian Islands and fourteen degrees south of the equator. They lie in an almost direct line between San A native village, Samoa. Francisco and Australia and slightly south of the direct steamship line connecting the Philippines with the proposed Panama or Nicaraguan interoceanic canals. Their especial importance, therefore, lies more in their position as coaling and repair stations on these great highways of commerce rather than in their direct commercial value, their population being small and their imports and exports of comparatively little importance. The group consists of ten inhabited and two uninhabited islands, with an area of 1,700 square miles and an aggregate population, according to latest estimates, of 36,000 people, of which something over 200 are British subjects, 125 Germans. 25 Americans, 25 French, and 25 of other national
Europe (search for this): entry samoan
tionalities, while the remainder are natives of the Polynesian race. The bulk of the population is located in the three islands of Upolou, Savaii, and Tutuila, the number in Upolou being 16.600, in Savaii 12,500, and in Tutuila 3,700. The islands are of volcanic origin, but fertile, producing cocoa-nuts, cotton, sugar, and coffee, the most important, however, being cocoanuts, from which the copra of commerce is obtained by drying the kernel of the cocoa-nut, the copra, which is exported to Europe and the United States, being used in the manufacture of cocoa-nut oil. The exportation of copra from the islands in 1896 amounted to 12,565,909 lbs., valued at $231,372. A considerable proportion of this was exported to the United States, a larger proportion, however, to Germany, whose citizens control its commerce through a trading company which has long been established there. The cocoa-nut and copra productions, however, vary greatly from year to year, owing to the fact that many of the
Hamburg, S. C. (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): entry samoan
dents, a house of nobles and a house of representatives were established, with Malietoa, Laupepa, and the chief of the royal house of Tupea as joint kings. Subsequently Malietoa became sole king. In Apia, capital of Samoa. 1887 he was deposed by the German government upon the claim of unjust treatment of German subjects, who formed the bulk of the foreign population on the island, and was deported first to German New Guinea and then to the Cameroons. in Africa, and finally in 1888 to Hamburg, Tamasese, a native chief, being meantime proclaimed by the Germans as king, though against the protest of the British and American consuls at Samoa. Mataafa, a near relative of Malietoa, made war upon Tamasese and succeeded to the kingship. In 1889 a conference between the representatives of the American, British, and German governments was held at Berlin, at which a treaty was signed by the three powers guaranteeing the neutrality of the islands, in which the citizens of the three sig
Pacific Ocean (search for this): entry samoan
Samoan, A group of twelve islands in the Southern Pacific Ocean. They are located about 2,000 miles south and 300 miles west of the Hawaiian Islands and fourteen degrees south of the equator. They lie in an almost direct line between San A native village, Samoa. Francisco and Australia and slightly south of the direct steamship line connecting the Philippines with the proposed Panama or Nicaraguan interoceanic canals. Their especial importance, therefore, lies more in their position as coaling and repair stations on these great highways of commerce rather than in their direct commercial value, their population being small and their imports and exports of comparatively little importance. The group consists of ten inhabited and two uninhabited islands, with an area of 1,700 square miles and an aggregate population, according to latest estimates, of 36,000 people, of which something over 200 are British subjects, 125 Germans. 25 Americans, 25 French, and 25 of other national
Samoa (Missouri, United States) (search for this): entry samoan
ie in an almost direct line between San A native village, Samoa. Francisco and Australia and slightly south of the direct ssequently Malietoa became sole king. In Apia, capital of Samoa. 1887 he was deposed by the German government upon the clai against the protest of the British and American consuls at Samoa. Mataafa, a near relative of Malietoa, made war upon Tamaslished, consisting of one judge styled the chief-justice of Samoa. To this court were referred: First, all civil suits concerning real property situated in Samoa: second, all civil suits between natives and foreigners or between foreigners of diffe previous treaties, conventions, and agreements relating to Samoa are annulled. Art. II. Germany renounces in favor of thted to cover the provisions for the settlement of claims in Samoa. It sets forth that the three governments are desirous of or January last and the arrival of the joint commission in Samoa, shall be decided by arbitration in conformity with the gr
Greenwich, Mass. (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): entry samoan
States of America all her rights and claims over and in respect to the island of Tutuila and all other islands of the Samoan group east of long. 171 deg. W. of Greenwich. Great Britain in like manner renounces in favor of the United States of America all her rights and claim over and in respect to the island of Tutuila and all other islands of the Samoan group east of long. 171 deg. W. of Greenwich. Reciprocally, the United States of America renounces in favor of Germany all their rights and claims over and in respect to the islands of Upolou and Savaii, and all other islands of the Samoan group west of long. 171 deg. W. of Greenwich. Art. III. It Greenwich. Art. III. It is understood and agreed that each of the three signatory powers shall continue to enjoy in respect to their commerce and commercial vessels in all the islands of the Samoan group privileges and conditions equal to those enjoyed by the sovereign power in all ports which may be open to the commerce of either of them. Art. IV. Th
England (United Kingdom) (search for this): entry samoan
future misunderstandings, proceeds textually as follows: Article I: The general act concluded and signed by the aforesaid powers at Berlin on the 14th day of June, A. D. 1899, and all previous treaties, conventions, and agreements relating to Samoa are annulled. Art. II. Germany renounces in favor of the United States of America all her rights and claims over and in respect to the island of Tutuila and all other islands of the Samoan group east of long. 171 deg. W. of Greenwich. Great Britain in like manner renounces in favor of the United States of America all her rights and claim over and in respect to the island of Tutuila and all other islands of the Samoan group east of long. 171 deg. W. of Greenwich. Reciprocally, the United States of America renounces in favor of Germany all their rights and claims over and in respect to the islands of Upolou and Savaii, and all other islands of the Samoan group west of long. 171 deg. W. of Greenwich. Art. III. It is understood
Sweden (Sweden) (search for this): entry samoan
r the exchange of ratifications. A separate treaty was negotiated to cover the provisions for the settlement of claims in Samoa. It sets forth that the three governments are desirous of effecting a prompt and satisfactory settlement of the claims of the citizens and subjects of their respective countries resident in the Samoan Islands on account of recent military operations conducted there, and have concluded a convention for the accomplishment of this end by arbitration. The King of Sweden and Norway is made arbitrator, and he is not only to determine the amount of claims, but is to decide to what extent either of the three governments is bound, alone or jointly with the others, to make good these losses. The nature of the claims to be adjusted is set forth in Article I. of this treaty, as follows: All claims put forward by American citizens or German or British subjects, respectively, whether individuals or companies, for compensation on account of losses which they
Norway (Norway) (search for this): entry samoan
nge of ratifications. A separate treaty was negotiated to cover the provisions for the settlement of claims in Samoa. It sets forth that the three governments are desirous of effecting a prompt and satisfactory settlement of the claims of the citizens and subjects of their respective countries resident in the Samoan Islands on account of recent military operations conducted there, and have concluded a convention for the accomplishment of this end by arbitration. The King of Sweden and Norway is made arbitrator, and he is not only to determine the amount of claims, but is to decide to what extent either of the three governments is bound, alone or jointly with the others, to make good these losses. The nature of the claims to be adjusted is set forth in Article I. of this treaty, as follows: All claims put forward by American citizens or German or British subjects, respectively, whether individuals or companies, for compensation on account of losses which they allege that
Australia (Australia) (search for this): entry samoan
Samoan, A group of twelve islands in the Southern Pacific Ocean. They are located about 2,000 miles south and 300 miles west of the Hawaiian Islands and fourteen degrees south of the equator. They lie in an almost direct line between San A native village, Samoa. Francisco and Australia and slightly south of the direct steamship line connecting the Philippines with the proposed Panama or Nicaraguan interoceanic canals. Their especial importance, therefore, lies more in their position as coaling and repair stations on these great highways of commerce rather than in their direct commercial value, their population being small and their imports and exports of comparatively little importance. The group consists of ten inhabited and two uninhabited islands, with an area of 1,700 square miles and an aggregate population, according to latest estimates, of 36,000 people, of which something over 200 are British subjects, 125 Germans. 25 Americans, 25 French, and 25 of other nationa
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