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The Hawaiian gazette., 1890-03-04
NEWS AND NOTES.

The free public library, established
in Baltimore five years ago by
Enoch Pratt, at an expense of about
81, 100000, is accomplishing a great
work among the reading classes.
Last year the number of books is
sued reached 461,S40.
1t is said that the New York State
Bureau of Labor will add to its re-
port for 1890 the average of wages
lost to working people in various
trades by dullness in trade and in,
clement weather. The report for
1889 will soon be issued.
A cablegram says that Professor
Weichselbaum of the University of
Vienna has discovered the bacillus
Of influenza. He finds in it some
similarity to the pneumonia bacillus,
but is sure that it is distinctly diff
ferent microbe.
1t is said that George T. Smiths
middlings purifier has increased the
wealth of the Northwest fully $780,
100000, and the American Millers'
Association has awarded him a gold
medal for bringing out the most i'm
portant invention ever made in mil
ling machinery.
The new States have all been nick
named, but the character of the
nomenclature is more suggestive
than elegant. According to supposed
authority North Dakota is the Flicker
Tail State, South Dakota Swing Cat,
Washington Chinook, and Montana
the Stubbed Toe State.
The richest man in Russia, Count
Sheremtjew, is about to produce
Pusehkin's play, Boris Godunow,"
in his own house, and has spent
10000 roubles on scenery and cos
tunes. The performers will be noble
amateurs, and the Royal Opera will
supply the music and chorus.
1t is law of good society in China
that young widows never marry
again. Widowhood is therefore held
in the highest esteem, and the older
the widow grows the more agreeable
does her position become with the
people. Should she reach fifty years
she may, by applying to the EN-
peror, get a sum of money with
which to buy a tablet on which is
the sum of her virtues.
The official journal of the Congo
Free State at Brussels publishes de
crees granting a civil status in legal
matters to Catholic and Protestant
missions in that country. King Leo
pold has contributed a sum of
money for establishing at Moanda,
in the Congo country, sanitarium
in which African explorers and
others in need Of rest and medical
treatment may be received.
The Germans have been the pio- |
neers in scientific forestry, as in |
so many other lines of progress.
With a total forest area of only !
81 81, BAG, 900 acres, of which Ii, 234, 900 |
belong to the State, the German
Empire now has no less than nine
schools Of forestry, and during the
three years ending with 1888 it pub
ished III books on the various
branches of the subject, also ten
periodicals.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1890-03-04
measures. 1t is interesting to note
the character of the legislation pro-
posed by the Ministry, viz

the character of the legislation pro-
posed by the Ministry, viz
l. That no Chinese other than teach
ers and officials shall be allowed to come
to this country except in the capacity Of
laborers.
>. That no Chinese be admitted as la
boreus unless the agricultural necessities
OF the country require it. nor until the
legislation hereunder indicated be sec
ured.
). That Chinese not now engaged in
trade or the mechanical occupations be
prohibited from hereafter engaging
therein.
The third proposal goes beyond
the Legislation of other countries on
this question but the necessities of
the case appear to demand excep-
tional treatment. When we find
Chinese merchants promoting rebel
lion, and Chinese workmen oustipg
white men from their occupations,
their numbers and wealth and inhu-
ence become apparent, and drastic
measures are imperative for the
mere sake of self-defense. Forum
ately these colonies have been quick
to realize the danger before it was
actually upon them and, as far as We
are concerned, there is now little
more danger of an invasion from
China than there is from the moon.
In California the Chinese swarmed
in so steadily that they numbered s
per cent of the population along
that coast before the pressure of
public opinion was sufficiently felt
at Washington to make restriction
the law of the land. Other com
munities have suffered even to
greater extent, and universally the
instinct of self-preservation has had
to be asserted against the invading
Mongolian hordes. The Hawaiian
community is among the last to as
sert its resistance against the pro-
cess of gradual extinction, and we
congratulate the Ministry of that
small but progressive kingdom upon
the breadth and vigor and directness
of its Indictment against the yellow
agony Sydney Daily Telegraph
Dec. p, 1889.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1890-03-04
Builders Of Steam Machinery
In all its branches.

In all its branches.
Steamboat, Steamship. Land Engines Boilers
High Pressure or Compound.
STEAM VESSELS of all kinds built compIete
with bulls OF wood, iron composite.
ORDINARY ENGINES compounded when ad-
visable.
STEAM LAUNCHES, Barges and Steam Tuss con-
structed with reference to the trade in which
they are TO be employed Speed, tonnage and
draft of water guaranteed.
SUGAR MILLS and Sugar Making Machinery
made after the most approved plans. Also. ali
Boiler Iron Work connected Herewith
WATER PIPE, Of Boiler OF Sheet Iron. of any
size made in suitable lengths for Connecting
together, or Sheets rolled, punched and packed
for shipment, ready TO be riyeted on the
ground.
HYDRAULIC RITETING, Boiler Work and water
Pipes made by this establishment, rivetsd by
hydraulic riyetiRg machinery, that quality Of
work being far superior to hand work
SHIP WORN, Ship and Steam Capstans. steam
Wfnches Air and Circulating Pur1ps. rnads
after the most approved plans.
SOLE Agents and manufacturers for the P.efsr
Coast Of the Heine Safety Boiler.
PUMPS-Direct Acting Pumps for irrigation OF
city works purposes, built with the Celebrated
Dzvy Valve notion, superior to any other
pump.
Jan Room No. 3. upstairs. spreckeIs' Block
The Hawaiian gazette., 1890-03-04
FILTER PRESSES.

PAAUHAU PLANTATION,
HAWAII, March 9, 1855.
RisdOn Iron and Locomotive Works, san Fran
cisco.
Gentlemen-We have used two of your 80
chambered Filter Presses this season. They
are CONVENE Mt, easily handled and are working
entirely to our satisfaction. / can recommend
no improvement on them
Very respectfully yours.
(signed) A. MOORE,
Manager Paauhau Plantation
HEEIA, Sept. %, 1889.
Mr.. JOIN DYER. Agent Risdon Iron Works,
Honolulu.
DEAR SIR: Please ship us one of your 3Ot
Compartment Filter Presses, 240 square feet
surface, same as the one supplied us last season,
which am pleased to say has given US entire
satisfaction. Yours truly,
GEO. R. EwART.
Manager Heeia Agricultural Co.
These Presses are made extra heavy for
high pressures, occupies a floor space of IIx
it,, and presents filtering surface of 240
square feet. limited number in stock in
Honolulu and are sold st very low prices.
RisdOn Iron s. Loco. Works,
San Francisco.
For particulars enquire of
SOnN D1Eh.. hOnOlul
Room No. Spreckels' Block:
234 W. q. IRWIN Co., Agents
The Hawaiian gazette., 1890-03-04
Arm advertisements.
TO SPORTSMEN!

a AS HAVE PROCURED A
IA hrst-class Machinist and Gun
u smith from San Francisco, am
prepared to do all kinds of repair
ing in guns, locks, musical instruments,
sewing machines, etc, with neatness and
Dispatch MRS. TH0S. LACK,
asst l312-1t 81 Fort street.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1890-03-04

Anchors, Chains,
Cocoa Mats, Kettles,
Sauce Pans, Fry Pans,
Bedsteads,
Fence Wire,
Sheathing Metal,
Roofing Iron,
Cane Knives,
White Lead, Red Lead,
Boiled Linseed Oil.
Caster Oil, Betting,
Coal Tar, Water Tanks.
Fire Brick, Alum,
Red Ochre, Fire Clay,
Bags, Irvine,
Filter Cloth,
Soap, Groceries,
Boots and Shoes,
Pe1umery, Flags,
Rope Brushes,
Croquet Sets,
Dressing Cases,
Mirrors,
Saddles,
Brides, Felts, Whips, Spurs,
Blankets, Sheeting,
Dry Goods, Merinos.
Shawls, Handkerchiefs,
Victoria Lawns,
Mosquito Netting, Leggings,
Laces, Ribbons, Hats,
Velvets, Embroidered Dresses,
Basket Trunks,
Picnic Hampers,
Rugs, Mats, Carpets,
Clothing, Tweeds,
Ginghams,
Hosiery,
Scarfs,
Underwear, Braces,
Sofa Pillows.
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The Hawaiian gazette., 1890-03-04

Are now prepared to give estimates and
receive orders for these engines, OF any
size and style.
Los Angeles herald., 1890-09-22
MONDAY. SEPTEMBER aa. 1890.

MINISTER REID has been highly
felicitated on the fact that the duty on
French wines has been held down in the
Mckinley tariff to the very How. impost
that has heretofore obtained. Here is
one of the gross wrongs and incon-
sistencies of the new tariff. Whilst the
wall of exclusion has been raised higher
and higher against .importations that
can but imperfectly compete with our
productions and manufactures, the
young and struggling wine industry
of our country ois refused the
protection it ought to receive
in tariff arranged upon just principles.
The wine industry of California, if it
were treated in the new tariff as it de-
serves, would soon become one of the
most prosperous and important indus
tries in the country. France is our only
serious competitor. And yet France is
favored by the new Republican tariff at
the expense and to the detriment of our
California vignerons. This kind of
treatment ought to make our wine grow
ers warm toward the party that not only
ignores but actually does all it can to IN
jure their interest.
Los Angeles herald., 1890-09-22
REDONDO BEACH
Is Visited by Large Numbers of Pleasure
Seekers,

Correspondence of the HERALD.
Mr.. and Mrs. Phillbrook are here for
a few days.
The open air concert was listened to
by vast crowd.
Z. F. Spence and family are here and
have rooms at the Hotel Redondo.
large quantity OF fruit will go north
tomorrow on the steamer Los Angeles.
The fishing was fine. and many was
the string basket and bucket full that
was carried away.
Little Willie Andrews, who has been
confined to his bed for over three
months, is slowly recovering.
Mrs. House, of the Compass, has been
i'll for the past few days with rheuma-
tism, but is now somewhat better.
The hop at the Hotel Redondo was
we'll attended last evening, and every
one enjoyed themselves to their heart S
content.
Mrs. NJ. Ward, proprietor of the fruit
and news stand at the end of the wharf,
leaves tomorrow to visit relatives at
Santa Barbara.
Yesterday three young men drove out
about half a mile beyond the salt works
and were gone only a few hours, return
ing with sixty-one quail and nine cotton
tail.
Today was more like Sunday by the
sea in July or August than a fall day.
The surf was just calm enough to be
inviting, and the lovers of dip in the
sea, took advantage OF it.
Within the last week the Redondo
Beach company has gradeda road to the
beach, starting from the bluff beyond the
| Wolfskill mansion. From the beach to
the abalone beds at low tide is beauti-
full drive.
Among the hundreds in the surf and
upon the sands were noticed Mr.. j.
Winston, Victor Guiol, Walter Leopold,
of Los Angeles, r. Jesen, of Santa
Monica and L. Hannas and family OF
Los Angeles.
The Redondo Beach line does a good
business on all trains; the Santa Fe
carried as many passengers as ON any
Sunday during the summer; in fact
the Sunday crowd does not diminish,
and Redondo is gaming favor as sea-
side resort.
There is party digging hole in the
bluff with a view to finding oil; some
of the rock is fully equal to any oil stone
to sharpen bit with. Close by is a
stream of water coming out of rock,
perfectly clear and soft and cold several
parties go from Redondo and get it for
Its purity and medical properties.
Redondo's future improvements will
increase the population, as there will be
need for at least one hundred more
mechanics and workingmen to complete
the extension and widening OF the
wharf, the paving and cement side
walks which are being laid, and the
many numerous cottages and buildings
to be erected.
Henry Parker and family, of the firm
of Vache Freres & Co., OF Los Angeles,
were here today and have engaged a
yacht for next Sunday to go to Santa
Catalina. S. B. H.
! Spnt 21
Los Angeles herald., 1890-09-22

WISE farmers hereabouts will keep
planting potatoes as late as there is any
hope of the crop maturing. The crop is
almost total failure all over the Mis-
sissippi valley, and so it is in Ireland.
There will be no imports into the
United States from Scotland this year,
of this staple article OF food. The prices
in the west already range at 80 cents to
50 per bushel, of go pounds. The total
shortage in this country is estimated at
100,000,000 bushels. The prices will be
good here all winter. At present there
is little lack of firmness to the market
because at San Francisco prices are
rather lower than here. This is
owing to the fact that some of the
earlier varieties will not keep and must
be marketed. This condition will pass
away and the market become strong
again. Cabbages will prove very profit
able crop next winter and more so next
spring. The farmers should be sure to
get plenty of them out this winter. And
Los Angeles herald., 1890-09-22

of money on the table and Brady called
the draw, and the players
tacitly understood in what
manner it would be won or lost. Nc
Cool called for another card to be turned,
and it was done. Each got five spot.
McCoolamade another addition to the
pot, which Brady covered, and third
card was turned. Each got six. Up
to this time the players had intended
that, after deciding the question of
drink, the draw should be proceeded
with; but now the game took another
turn, and it was decided to settle the
hands without drawing. The fifth card
was accordingly turned, and it was
deuce. There was an immense pile in
the pot, and the interest among the
crowd, which was packed around the
table, was so intense and the silence so
deep that the ticking of the tall clock
behind the bar sounded like hammer
striking on an anvil. Both men sat
deeply absorbed in study. McCools
buried card was six spot, and he was
certain that his pair had Brady beaten.
Brady's buried card was tray, and he
had straight and sure thing. His
credit, sitting behind that hand, was
unlimited, and he was prepared to play
it out.
'The scene at this time was the most
impressive that l believe | ever wit
messed. l never saw an aggregation of
men so thoroughly impressed with the
fact that tremendous stake hung in
the balance. The betting proceeded
slowly but heavily until finally
NcCool had all his earthly DOS
sessions represented in the stake
on the table except two objects. One
of these was his stallion, who stood
champing his bit on the street outside,
the other was his old negro slave, who
stood holding his horse. Finally Nc
Cool ordered the negro to be brought in
and Brady deposited $4,000 against him,
at the same time raising McCool $4,000.
after some moments of cool study
McCool told Brady that all he owned
was on the table, with the exception Of
his horse. He was willing to put him
up against the last bet that Brady had
made. The proposition was accepted,
and McCool ordered the horse to be led
in, and he was The interest which
have described as attending the game
before now seemed intensified, if that
were possible, and the picture there
presented, with the faithful old slave
standing by his masters chair,
the agony of the su-
pense which he was undergoing plainly
depicted upon his face, the magnificent
horse, who seemed all but conscious OF
the wealth at stake, and lastly the play
ers and spectators, was one never to be
forgotten. When the betting was at
last over and nothing was lacking to de-
eide the game but the appearance of
two buried cards, McCool called for a
glass of liquor. 1t was not until he
had emptied this that he asked to see
his opponents card.
when it was shown down he silently
got up from the table and walked
through the crowd, which parted for his
passage, out into the street. He never
| sat in game that drew a crowd again,
and it was but few months from that
time when he disappeared permanently
from the river. He was the first man to
lose big money on 'studhorse poker,
and he has had my respectful sympathy
| ever since"
Los Angeles herald., 1890-09-22

THE Pioneers and Native Sons are
about to start subscription fund in
San Francisco for the relief of Mrs. Ere
mont and her family. At the time Gen
eral Fremont died, his widow was in
such destitute circumstances that she
had not the wherewithal to answer a
disoatch from New York asking her de-
sire as to the disposition of her hus-
bands body. 1t is we'll known here
that for some time past small group OF
friends have been frequently called upon
to make up contributions for the ext
gent necessities of the family. When
it was announced some time ago
that the auditing department in
Washington had discovered that General
Fremont, instead OF being behind $19,-
600 in his accounts with the govern
ment, as had been supposed, had $21,-
600 coming to him, the friends of the fam
ily thought they would be placed beyond
the reach of want. But the statement
was not true. There was small sur
plus found to the Generals credit, but
it has never materialized. The bill be-
fore Congress to place Mrs. Fremont
Los Angeles herald., 1890-09-22
STUD POK ER.
The Exciting Turn of the Cards in Which
This Game Originated.

The Exciting Turn of the Cards in Which
This Game Originated.
Denver Republican,
4'Bud" Mcdonald, an old time sporting
man, was cooling his heels in front of the
Markham last evening. Mr.. Mcdonald
was not reticent and it did not take him
long to get into reminiscent strain,
which was veritable bonanza of anec-
dotes and incidents of early life on the
Mississippi. The most entertaining
and instructive of these was an account,
which he gave in happy vein, of how
the game of "stud.horse poker" origi-
mated.
"There was in the latter 'fifties and
early sixties a man who occasionally
made trip on the river, by the name OF
McCool, pa said Mr.. Mcdonald. "He
was confirmed gambler, and what we
called in those days high roller, ,
that is, he would not only play for
heavy stakes, but would have gambled
the last of his possessions, even had it
been block of brick buildings in Den
yer, on what he thought would be the
top hand. Where McCool came from
to the river, as well as whittier he
NCHb uDOll lCdNlllS W. hObCoJ hhCWs
But while he was there he made name
and fortune which were the envy of
many less successful sporting man.
His penchant for and success at draw
poker won for him the pseudonym OF
Poker McCool,' and venture to say
that if one were to take trip down the
river today he could find small army
of anti-rebellion slaves who were Won or
lost by McCool.
"There was no game at which Poker
Mcdonald. 81 have seen him bet $500
wouldn't come to fight, and win it,
nomical genius who was boasting of his
which side of the moon was the convex
when it came up, and he won again.
He took care that the astronomer
was SO drunk that he couldn't tell
the moon from saloon cuspidore when
it did get up. In short McCool was a
betting man. But of all his experience
the day that he played game OF poker
which gave birth to that degenerate
nondescript which is now known as
"stud-horse poker" was the most excit-
lllS, dllN DCllCNC UlldU lilS NOW lletll dIti
ruin dated from that time. 1t shook his
confidence.
"McCool spent much of his time at
New Orleans, and he became a con-
spicuous equestrian figure there in time.
He owned big black stallion, for which
he had paid 81 ,OO0 and when he was
astride of the animal he was an at
tractive object-he and the horse. He
thought much of the animal, and money
could not have touched him.
Well, on the afternoon
am speaking about, McCool got
into poker game (good old draw poker
it was) with wealthy gambler named
Brady. Neither McCool or Brady be-
longed to a temperance organization.
and feature of the game was the fire.
quent turning of the low card for a
drink. 1t was about sundown when the
deal began which ended the game and
left McCool afoot and bankrupt.
"The deal was Brady's, and the first
card had been given to each of them,
when McCool wanted card turned for
another round of drinks. Brady turned
it and four spot fell to each. With a
recklessness and gambling informality
which had characterized the game
throughout, McCool threw large sum
Los Angeles herald., 1890-09-22
STANFORD THE ONLY CANDIDATE.

Mr.. White, in his article in the San
Francisco Wave, strikes the keynote to
the legislative campaign this year when
he says that unless the people elect a
Democratic Legislature, Leland Stanford
will succeed himself in the United States
senate. The Chronicle tries family to
break the force OF this declaration by
saying that the Republican party will
do its own thinking, and intimates that
it will at the proper time find somebody
else upon whose shoulders to hang the
senatorial toga 1t is a fact-a deplor-
able one perhaps-that there is not a
single prominent man in the Republican
party who has the courage to come out
against Stanford. The manager of the
railroad magnate's fight has been ac-
lively engaged for several months in lay
ing the wires for his election. His plans
have been fully matured. He has
got his trusted agents out in every
county. He has selected the very men
in many districts he will send to the
Legislature if money can do it; and
wherever, in close districts, he can bring
the potency of his peculiar influence to
bear upon the nominations, he will do
all in his power to have a weak
nobody set up on the Democratic
side and a strong candidate placed
on the Republican ticket.
This programme has not only been an
open secret throughout the state for
several months, but it is now being pur-
sued without the slightest regard as to
how widely it is known. Not a name
other than that of Leland Stanford has
been mentioned in connection with the
senatorial nomination, and there is not
man in the Republican party who
dares to come out and make the contest
against the great railroader. Hunting
toms declaration about keeping the rail-
road out of politics is taken with sew
eral larged-sized grains of salt. Indeed,
in one OF his latest letters he intimates
that Stanford will be elected, and says
that his corporation is so COM
pletely out of politics that it
will not even oppose his nom-
ination. This declaration, read between
the lines, is significant 1t means that
the rupture between him and his part
ner-at first blazoned forth as an irrecon-
cilable quarrel-was more theatrical
than real, and that if the railroad ele-
ment want to cast their political prefer
ence in favor of Stanford, it can do so.
Indeed, the hint is board enough to let
every man on the Southern Pacific
enter into politics as far as Leland Stan
ford is concerned. 1t is not to be sup
posed that any prominent Republican is
going to enter the senatorial arena aftel
this startling modification of Hunting
toms original declaration. Mr.. White is
right. The defeat OF a Democratic Legis-
lature means the election of Stanford to
succeed himself.
Los Angeles herald., 1890-09-22

COLONEL MARKHAMs friends would do
we'll to call him home. He is making a
laughing stock of himself by the silly
speeches he is delivering in the small
halls around in the purlieus of San
francisco. His talks are all in one vein.
He repeats night after night the story
of how he worked on farm when he
was boy; how he MIXED the COWS
and worked in the fields cut ting
grass with sickle. He rings the changes
on the tolls of his youth, and then he
tells how he went to the war at fifteen
and voted for Lincoln at the front.
This seems to be case of voting early,
if not often. Colonel Markham has
made bad breaks from the start. His first
speech betrayed uncommon want OF tact
when he told to his audience that he ac.
cepted the Sacramento platform imme'
diately without having read it. His re.
marks before the Republican State Cen
tral Committee betrayed total want Of
individuality and a helplessness that
should cost him thousands of votes. He
told the committee that they could dc
as they pleased with him; he was in
their hands; it was for them to tell him
what they wanted him to do, and he
was ready to do it. There is leader for
you-a man of thought and expedients
fertile in resources, and capable OF
forming plans and carrying them out
HplnloSc as babp in the situation in
which he is placed, he is making most
painful and puerile canvass. Call him
home