Honolulu Advertiser 17 July 1940. 14:4. 50 years ago, 
1890. Schooner Kaaloicai left for Laysan, Capt. G. E. FreethTxxsi Prof. 
'A.D. Lyons, of Oahu Coll as passenger to make analysis. Will be gone 4-5 
■weeks. 
The EMMS Friend . Dec. 1890. Description of Laysan island in Story: "In Bifd 
Land." 
Honolulu Advertiser 3 Feb 1943. ed. page, col. 4. History from our files, 50 
years ago,. 1893. J*J« Williams, photographer, returns from Laysan Island 
■with views and collection of stuffed birds. 
Acts of provisional ^ov't. 1893* P* 50. Act authorizing leasc-of Laysan Illand 
to North Pacific Phosphate and Fertilizer Co., Approved 31 Mar. 1893* 
see Privy Council, vol. 10, p. 154, referring to possession by Capt. John 
Paty. * 
/ Hawaiian Star . 1 Apr.1893* 2:3* By Authority, act 24: Confirming contract between 
Provisional Gov't and C.M. Spenser and G.D. Freeth, 29 March 1890, Authorizing 
lease of L a ysan and Lisianski Islands. 
/ Interior Dept . Book 77 p. 2$, 27 March I 896 . Granted to German Bark H. Backfeld 
v commanded by J.A. Barber, to proceed to L a y Sa n Island and return with freight 
passengers, etc. 
ac. Comm Adv. 8 Sept. 1900. “ccount of trouble on Laysan Island between Capt. 
Spenser and Japanese laborers.; two of latter killed. EiWQQLXft 
See also 12 Sept. 1900, 
Paradise of the Pacific 15 ^an. 1905* Laysan part of Hawaiian group; albatrosses 
on Laysan; described in Nat . Geog . Mag , [no date given]; full description of 
albatross. 
[ Advertiser 7 Jan.1949. History from our files, 40 years ago, 1909. Capt. &ax 
~ Schlemmer applies for. new lease; contemplates many improvements in near 
future. 
Governor to Capt. W.V.E. Jacobs, §■ 4 Jan 1.910. USNRC Thetis. Sending copies 
of agreement between Max Schlemmer and a Japanese; letters'of Admiral Terry, 
and Lt. Com. Rodman to Navy Dept., referring to above islands. 
Advertiser 22 liar. 1910 8:3. Jury indicts Max Schlemmer, former king of Laysan, 
charged with importing contract laborers, and of poaching on bird reservation. 
See also 23 March 1910 11:3. 
Star-Bull . 7 Aug. 1940. 8: 3 . 30 years ago, 1910, Japanese smugglers operating 
on.Hawaiian Island, report by eff* c&rs of schooner Concord, -ggogn tly— 
returned ^from Laysan. 
'today 
Hawaiian Annu al 1911 p. 175* Bird poachers on -laysan Island; Japanese captured 
by US cutter Thetis. 
Pac. Comm,Adv . 18 J uly 1915* Description of Laysan, with chart and illustrations. 
See also 25 July 1915* 
St. Louis Poll, file. Nov. 1921. S tudent article, p. 118. 
