The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1891-02-26
.UlAlIN IN PARADISE
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Advice.
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A lette, h, teen handed to the
BULLETIN hich was written by a
Portuguese in San Francisco to his
parents in Honolulu. 1t is full OF
disappointing experiences of the
writer since he left these sunny isles,
together with reiterated warnings to
his countrymen to stay h re, b airing
the ills they have rather than flying
to those they know not of.
The letter has enclosed a clipping
with kilograms from Portland and
Pendleton, Oregon, showing that
hundreds of laborers are out of work
and in great distress. Nearly a
thousand discharged and unpaid en-
pIOyees Of the Union Pacific Railroad
were in Portland the first of the year,
in various stages of restitution
owing to the cessation of work on the
Sound extension of that road. iii,
Mayor Of Portland notified the gen.
rr"l manager of this state of affairs,
lng that several hundreds Of thes,
people ARE being fed and lodged
daily by the city and by private
charity. All these men hold unre-
drvmed tmechecks," says the Mayor.
(which the contractors have no
means to pay, having exhausted their
own resources, and being unable 10
obLal from your company any pot-
ZION of the S320,0u0 now due them
on a contract.
The PendIeton telegram tells of a
man being found dead in the bushes
near there, who WAS identified by
papers on his person as Henry A.
Brown. A coroner's jury found that
the man was murdered by some one
Unknown. His skull had been smash
ed and there were bullet holes il thr
right temple and the back. II Is
supposed he was murdered for III
money.
The following item is also enclosed;
Dan sullivan committed suici
hy shooting himself. He was nIai
lied and formerly lived ON Pug
,,ound. The cause was dependency
at being unable to find work"
These extracts are given because
they bear on the statements made bv
the writer of the private letter OF
which the following is an abstract:
II am just back from a tramp
from Washington State. Was work
ing at Sedor, one hundred miles
north of Seattle, building large
bridgr for be n Francisco Bridge
60, b@ u on count of it beng
90 aud too much rain. 1t is
uta,J, iogsy climate, and a ver
h3ro place 10 get work of any kud
Hundreas OF people are trampiu2
from one pa to another and cant
find any. then some tramp5 Juru
despar,d aud hnock one down after
dark for dollar or two. That il
the place 0, winch business men send
glowing accounts TO newspapers the
wotll over, misleading poor innoCeu
people to their place to their sorroW
and grief of heart. A great many
commit suicide through not being
able to find work. The business
people suppress as far as they can
all such bad accounts, as they would
hinder immigration.
''Ihere is plenty of land but the
most part OF it is timber, large trees
from 90 to 100 feet high and 6 to
feet in circumference. Then one
can't buy it, as it is generally in the
hands of monied men, who think
nohing of asking from $3.50 to $500
for u house lot from 80 by 100 feet.
III costs 500 to clear it.
$50 | want you to tell all my
friends and the Portuguese in gen
rral that California is no place for
hem, especially because as a class
they d. not understand The FL gil h
language properly. There is 10
doubt some of them think they are
working on small wages on the Isl
ands, but that is better than no
money at all. Now, all my friends,
you stay where you are. Don't
think at all of coming here.
Il have been down 10 Mexico at a
place called Ensenada. on the south
ern coast, one hundred miles south
of San Diego. 1t is small place
with something like 2000 people,
by a chain of mountains,
but with no trees of any kind and
of game of all kinds. Not
much doing among the Mexlcans, as
they are little slow. Notwithstand-
ing all that, there is little fIugaliy
amongst them, as they have fine
WOODEN mill and fine brew house,
also distllery and two fine flour
mills and one tanneIy. So you see
everything helps to build up a town,
and, not only that, it is a fine eli
mate, something like your beautiful
and land is cheap-from SO
10 $40 an acre according to location.
don't see for the life of me why the
capitalists on your islands do not
nave a tannery or distilery instead
Of importing the vile stuff, SO as to