The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-03-28
kOHALA LETTER.
ATTEMPTED MURDER BY
JAPANESE.
sky Horses-The Work Of Cupid
kahUnas and their Work
Robbery in a House.

\ series Of five or six accidents t
vehicles in this district within the last
three months reminds one OF the state.
ment that has been made, that more
lives are lost with the use OF the horse
as a motive power than with steam.
T. To Judge from the frequent mention
( the papers make Of runaways in Homo
..fuIu, kohala has not been specially
visited with such accidents, and fortu-
nately the damage has in most cases ex-
tended only to the vehicle, and not to its
occupants.
The average horse seems to be en-
dowed out Of all proportion with the
faculty of Imagination. In his frantic
efforts to escape from fanCied angels with
drawn swords, he generally succeeds in
raising the fallen one with sun-burnt
visage and bdrbed tail, with most dis
astrous results to the outfit that trails
behind him Chat iss behind the horse).
1t Is but justice, however, to say that for
two Of the abOve-named accidents the
morse was in no wise responsible.
VARIOUS ITEMS.
\ German girl, perhaps ten years of
by a cross COW and sadly injured about
the face. The circumstances attending
the case caused some feeling OF indigna- |
ton in the community.
\ fifth engagement has been an |
nOunced, and the question now is-wiIi /
the little master OF the bOw-and-arrow !
take himself off to other fields, or con-
tinue to sport here as long as there is |
game to be found?
The weather continues extremely dry.
Cane has suffered materially, and If rain
does not come soon, not much OF a crop
can be counted on next year.
THE KAHUNA BUSINESS.
The last GAZETTE had something to
say about the pernicious work of the
native kahunas, or sOrcerers. 1t seems
hat one Of these evil geniuses has been
warning the natives not to
get medicines from the resident physi-
ian, alleging that he mixes therein III
Tedients expressly intended to develop
eprosy. As the native Hawaiian is too
frequently ready to trust foe, while he
5 equally ready to distrust, if he does not
actually kick his friend, it needs no say
ng that the kahuna's warnings have
,een to some extent needed, while the
,anaka, with beautiful inconsistency, |
urns a deaf ear TO the warnings of his
riends, exposes himself recklessly and
labitually to the dangers of contagiOn
With the dread disease, and cries out
gainst the efforts that are being made
D stamp it Out-declaring against the
violence of his own senses, the belief
hat the white man wishes to exterminate
be native, and is aiming only for that
nd.
ATTEMPTED MURDER.
About s D. IN. on Friday, two Japan
Sc, from the Star Mill, went with cane
hives to the lonely house OF a Chinese
egetable gardener in a ravine about
alf a mile mauka. After some parley-
lg, and failing to induce him by a ruse
, put his head through the moose of a
)pe, they began to dickel for a cabbage.
IN the Chinaman's taking out his
-allet for change, one Of them snatched
&, and then they laid into him with
leir knives, cutting one hand entirely I
trough, and several gashes about the
cad. He managed to escape, leaving a
art of his shilt in their hands, and pre- Z
ented himself at the native pastors :
ouse, not far distant, in a frightful con- '
ition. The doctor was Immediately :
to dress the wound. ,
His aSsailants went TO work the next p
ly, but when the whole gang Of some :
'rty or more Japanese were brought be- :
re the Chinaman for identification, he +
)otted two of them without any hesita- +
on, and they were Immediately put in :
ons. He had previously declared that p
e knew the men ana could identity {
rem. Their case has been postponed +
await the arrival of Sheriff Hitchcock
nd the japanese Inspector. {
BOLD ROBBERY. O
While a Chinese family living at Ha- v
wa We're gone to church on Sunday, t
leir house was entered and upward OF "
10, tied in old rags and hidden between
re bedding, was stolen. Suspicion
sted on a friend who frequented the :
)use, had seen the money put there,
nj been seen there during church time.
e was charged with the theft, but Y
enied the imputation, and there the
after seems to have been dropped.
kohaIa, Mar p, 1889.