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The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1891-08-04

This duty on rice is all wrong.
Rice should come in free. 1t isn't
to the rice plantations that this
country must look for its future wei
fare. We want cheap labor, must
have it, but when we get the labor
ers here We tax their food. The
truth is that the planters pay for
this tax. II We want cheap labor,
we must give them cheap food. And
no great harm would result. for our
rice growers have q protected mar
kes IN the United States
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1891-08-04

Now, another point about cheap
labor. CooIie immigration from
China is forbidden IN the United
States. Canada, and almost so in the
Colonies, but the coolies are as anxi-
Gus to immigrate as ever. They
labor for 81 or So per month in
China, and they would be glad in
deed TO work IN these islands for
that price Planters should have an
abundant supply of labor at not
greater rate than $3.50 per month,
and with cheap rice and proper
management they could get it"
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1891-08-04

Each policeman should have a
beat, the boundaries of which should
be we'll defined. The same regula-
tons that are in force in all large
cities should be in force here. One
or two detectives of repute should
be attached to the force. 1t is the
duty of the police to prevent crime,
but the detection OF criminals be-
longs to another branch of the exc
cutive department"
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1891-08-04
RANDOM OPINIONS.
Picked Up on the strees CORNER

Suppose q lamp, gas,jet or cleo
trio globe burned all night in each
store, bank and place of business.
Suppose the front shutters were
taken down or had a hole cut in the
center. Then suppose patrolman
made regular rounds, looking into
the front windows or through the
shutter holes, every half hour, Sup
pose all this were done, how many
stores could 4 barefooted tramp
rob 2"
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1891-08-04

Honolulu police ought to be able
to look into every business house, at
least every half hour. Merchants
ought TO be able to have one light
burning sll night. No thief will
rummsge store well lighted and
the front shutters down. If he turns
the light out, the pstrolmsn will
know that something is wrong
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1891-08-04

There is another curious TACT
about this sugar business. No 1
raw sugar will easily sell in the open
market in the States for four or five
cents q pound. The entire crop OF
these Islands could easily be sold at
these figures, If It we're put up in the
proper shape. Why can't it be done2
Because the sugar trust won't allow
such action. The sugar trust says,
no one shall sell sugar but Us, and
no enc shall buy except from US,
and consequently the Hawaiian
Kingdom must suffer"
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1891-08-04

I wanted an empty five gallon
wine keg the other day, and went to
the different liquor stores to find
one. Quite a number filled with
wine-so called could be obtained,
but the price was 81 each. Empty
ones would cost just as much. This
means that there is such a demand
for wine. etc, on the other islands
that kegs cannot be obtained to fill
the orders. A five gallon keg of
@wine is sold for 81. As the wine
consists of questionable compound
worth about fifty cents a gallon, it
viii be seen that the selling of kegs
is quite profitable. What is done
with the wine? Why, it is received
by Jsps and Portuguese who bottle
the same and retail 1t out among
their friends In this way a thriv-
ing trade is kept up, and no money
is wasted for licenses. The planta-
ton laborers act as a kind OF sub
agents for the wholesala dea,eEs-"
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1891-08-04

Thieves love darkness. Thieves
love to have the front shutters up,
tight ami strong. Then they slip IN
through skyhght. and sre perfectly
safe, although "a whole army of
policemen loafed at the corner, or
directly in front of the looted build
ing"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-10-08
The News Of the Week.
BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL.
FROM WASHINGTON.

The business failures in the nine
months of the year 1891 numbered g.
S2s. with liabilities of $780, 600, 900. as
compared with 1851 failures and $780,
900. 600 of liabilities for the same period
of l 500.
The government receipts since Sep
TENDER l amount TO S37. Ss5, 600, being
an excess of S4,2S7. 600 over ordinary
expenses during the same time. The
net cash balance in the treasury on the
3Oth ult- was So, 600, 900.
THE statement of the public debt is
sued ON the list showed the total debt
To be 81, 534. 142. ISL; cash in the treasury,
Sal, Cos, 209: debt less cash in the treas
uey. S7O2. 474,O42. Decrease during
July, SIS, $50, s26.
CAPT. GEORGE ii. PERKINS has been
placed on the retired list of the navy
after forty years service at his own re-
quest.
\ GREAT shortage in the tobacco
crop this year was reported, the prin-
cipal deficiency being in that grade
used for cigar wrappers
II September the coinage at the
United States mints was 1l,437, 246
pieces of the value of $, 702.67l.
THE business failures in the United
States during the seven DAYS ended on
the I'd numbered 23). against 30
the preceding week and 297 for the cor
responding week last year.
w. +. HARRIS. commissioner of
education. in his annual report says
there We're enrolled in IsS9-9O in the
nublic schools of the limited States of
elementary and secondary grade H.
6SS. 973 pupils. as against 9.S67, sos in
1850. The amount expended during the
year was s14O, pa, 4s4 against sTs, O94, 67s
in 1850
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-10-08
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

OFF the Cape Breton coast the
chooner Maurice Wilson was wrecked
and five of her crew were drowned.
PIRATES had two engagements at
Haldu, China, with the civil guards, in
which forty-seven pirates were killed
and the remainder driven back into the
mountains.
FROM Guatemala an uprising against
President Barillas was reported.
Fighting in the capital continued for
three days. during which time 500 citi-
zens and soldiers were slain.
THOUSANDS of Jewish refugees from
Russia were to be shipped to Canada.
THE French political intriguer, Gen.
Boulanger, committed suicide in Brus-
sells.
The seventh parliament of the do
minion of Canada convened at Ottawa.
IL fire at Puylanrens, France, four
teen houses were burned and family
of six persons persisted
THE Canadian government will pros
ecute the officials found by the recent
parliamentary investigation to have
been systematically defrauding the
government
In gale three fishing vessels return
ing to st. Johns. y. f.. from Labrador
were wrecked and sixteen men were
drowned
FLAMES at Halifax, n. S., destroyed
business property valued at $500, 900.
AT Shanshing. China, three grave
robJc-e were stoned to death by the
people.
1T was said that Mexican Indians
massacred nearly 200 settlers in the
district of Tulamengo.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-10-08
WEST AND snIIrH-

The stables of Il. 4. Wilson at Wood
lake, XIV. were burned. together with
ten valuable trottiug horses.
THE output of sorghum sugar IN Kan
sas and beet sugar in Nebraska, Utah
and California was estimated at fully
-. 900, 600 pounds for the present sea
son.
JAMES LEEPER and Ed Powell were
hanged at Gainesville. Tex, for the
murder of John Il. Mathiason.
THE democrats of Colorado in session
at Denver nominated Luther VI. God
dard. of Leadville. for chief justice of
the supreme court
REPUBLICANS of Colorado met in
state convention at Glenwood Springs
and renOminated Joseph c. Helm for
chief justice of the supreme court.
II Eldorado county, Cal, forest fires
destroyed farmhOuses and barns, and
left over forty families homeless.
The tug Bertha Endress went down
during a heavy gale near Point Iro-
and all persisted.
AT the age of So years William Allen,
who spent a small fortune and fifty
years of his life in efforts to ameliorate
the condition of the workingmen. has
been sent to the county poor-hOuse at
Columbus. o.
THE democrats have nominated J. NJ.
Wood. of Rapid City. for congress from
South Dakota.
A JUDGE in Texas refused To natural
lie an applicant for American citizen
ship who is a socialist The judge said
the principles of socialism were not in
harmony with the constitution of the
United States.
A SCOPE of country 800 miles long
and 200 miles wide was burned over in
the vicinity of Fort Yates, y. d., and
farmhouses. stock ranches and many
herds of horses and cattle were de-
stroycd.
BY a collision on the New York,
Pennsylvania & Ohio near Kent, o.,
four persons were killed and thirty in
jured.
IL South Dakota large numbers of
hogs were dying of cholera.
NEAR Oak Glen. n suburb of Chicago,
Mr. and Mrs AdOlph Basdorf were as
saulted by William Mamie, a farm
hand, and would both probably die
from the injuries received.
II Texas heavy rains have fallen and
the government rainmalers were likely
TO move to dryer regions
THE doors of the Chrisman IH)
bank were closed and its principal Off
GERS were reported missing. The liza
bilities were 500, 600 while the assets
We're very small.
AT Fort Howard. Wis, McCar.nsy's
exchange bank was robbed of $40. ZOO
in cash and bonds.
FIRE destroyed Bird & Wells saw
mill At Wausaukee. Wis. the loss being
500. 600.
At Fontanelle. Neb., George J. Bald
win and his son John were murdered
by James Anderson, a stepson of BALD
win. The killing was the result of an
old feud
/ strikers were hanged to a tree by an
armed mob as they were being con-
] veyed by sheriffs from Cat Island TO
f Mariana Two OF the same gang were
/ shot earlier in the day.
I INDEPENDENTS of South Dakota in
convention at Huron nominated w. II.
T Smith, of Minnehaha county, for con-
greSS
AT the age of so years Harvey Wat
f terson died at Louisville, Ky. He was
1 the sole survivor of the Twenty-sixth
I congress. having been the youngest
Z member Of that body.
1T was said that Edgar II. Kellogg,
until recently the Chicago agent of the
/ Home Life Insurance Company OF
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-10-08
THE EAST

NEAR Pittsburgh the biggest oil well
ever struck in the United States was
opened. the product estimated at TO-
OOO barrels day.
AT Buckhorn, Pa, John Appleman
was swindled ont of $500 by two
strangers with gold bricks"
THE firm of +. Il. Wallace & Co,
New York brokers. failed for $500. 600;
assets, S623. $50.
THE White Star line steamer leu
tonic reduced the eastward record by
making the trip from New York to
Queenstown in days 81 hours and -
minutes
THE Massachusetts democrats held
their convention at Worcester and re-
nominated William E. Russell for gov
ernor. A resolution was adopted OPP
posing the free coinage of silver
THE National Civil Service Reform
League at the convention at Buffalo.
y. Y, reelected George William Curtis
as president
Two MASKED men robbed an Ameri-
can express car between Little Falls
and Utica. y. Y. of S25, 900. 4 pack
age containing $1,000 was overlooked
The Houtzdale pa First national
bank suspended payment on account of
the embezzlement of $4,000 by the
teller.
THE death IF Mai. William Mckee
Dunn. who was Gen. Grants personal
aid de camp during the war, occurred
at Cushings Island. Ne.
IN the Pittsburgh district 10000 rail-
road coal miners struck for increased
wages.
NEAR Avon. y. j., Andrew Quinlin
aged 50. and the oldest railway con
ductor in the United States, was killed
by train
The wooden mills OF the Harper Man
ufacturing Company at oxford. Me-,
were burned. causing loss of 500, 600.
PRICES in the Connecticut tobacco
market have advanced from three to
eight cents per pound
THE firm of Turner 81 Bro, Boston
bankers. failed for $500. 600.
IT was discovered that the Ulster
county savings institution at Kingston,
y. ", had been robbed by its treasurer
and assistant treasurer of Sf6S, 200.
IL New York daughter was born
to Mrs. Grover Cleveland.
THE marriage of Mrs. Frank Leslie,
the well-known publisher of New York.
and Mr.. William c. X. Wilde, of Lon
don. Eng, took place in the former
city.
THE death of Jacob Turney, ex-con-
gresham from the Twenty-first Penn
svlvania district, occurred at his home
in Greensburg. aged 66 years.
IL the Richardson col'iery at Glen
Carbon, Pa. an explosion of gas killed
twelve men,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-10-08
HOW TO REDUCE FLESH.
Never Mix Food. but Partake of One DIsh
at Meal.

Never Mix Food. but Partake of One Dish
at Meal.
Paris letter tells of very simple
way of reducing flesh. Thanks to this
means, a colonel who was threatened
to be obliged TO retire from the army,
as he was so heavy that it required two
men to lift him into the saddle, became
thin in few weeks, and to such an ex-
tent that he had to take means to re-
cover, in a measure, what he had lost.
1t was to his doctor he was indebt-
ed for becoming general. The means
consisted simply in never eating more
than one dish at each meal, no matter
what that dish may be. and
as the stomach can bear, and
satisfy the appetite without the
least reserve. Nevertheless. nothing
but the one dish should be taken; no
condiments or soups or supplementary
desserts should be allowed. This sys-
TEN was recommended to lady who
was slightly obese. and who put II into
practice with the best results. The
lady observed that she suffered no in
convenience whatever from this diet,
and the result obtained by the medical
officer may be well understood. as she
found by her own experience that the
partaking of one dish, whether it be
meat, fish or vegeta 5les, brought on a
sense of safety much sooner than if
she had partaken of variety of dishes,
whence the effect of relative abstinence.
Chicago Herald
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-10-08
PENELoPE,s INGENUITY.
New scheme fer Getting a Diamond
RInv

a New scheme for Getting a Diamond
Ring.
'Papa," said Penelope, turning from
the piano, with a pretty blush playing
on her cheeks, do you think | am too
young to be e-e-engaged?"
''Of course do, growled her father:
''now, who in the world has put the idea
of marriage into your head? What's
his namc?"
20 he hasn't asked me yet, but-well.
you know"
Eyes, know all about il, and | warn
him that he'll know more about it if he
comes fooling around you any more.
Now, what do you want to think about
such thing as that for, Nellie?
Haven't you the best home an the
world?"
30 yes. papa; but it would be awfully
nice to be engaged / think"
"IIow nice?"
20 nice to have young man coming
to see you every evening"
''Humphl I'd like to catch him com
ing to see you every evening""
And it would be nice to have pref
ty diamond ring"
Haven't you enough rings?"
''Well. haven a solitaire"
'Pen," said her father, seriously, ''if
buy you a solitaire ring will you
promise ia thfully to give up all
thoughts of ibis young man?"
Yes papa" she answered.
VERY well, then; remember your
promise. You shall have the ring to-
morrow, although it's sad piece of
extravaganza" groaned the old gentle
man, walking painfully ont of the
room.
''Well." said Penlope to herself as the
sound of his retreating footsteps died
away, Il may not be very smart, but
think that's the easiest way to get a
diamond ring I've heard of yet. must
tell the other girls. Tom Hall, in Life.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-10-08
Arabian Coffee.

The Arabian coffce-laaker, having
prepared his fire of charcoal and placed
near it a huge pot containing water,
takes a few handfuls of green coffee
berries. carefully culls out all imper-
feet berries and foreign substances, and
then places the best of the berries in an
iron ladle held over the fire. The ber-
ries are permitted to roast until they
begin 10 smoke, and are then. while
still uncharred. placed in a small NOR
tar and carefully brayed with a pestle
closely fitting the cup of the mortar.
The berries are not. however, reduced
TO dust. While this process has been
going on, small pot has been half
filled with teEid water from the large
pot and placed over the fire. When the
water in ehe small pot has begun to
boil, the broken coffee berries are
thrown in and the boiling is permitted
TO go OH for short time. the Secoction
being stirred with spoon when it
shows signs of boiling over. The coffee
IS then served in small cups without
cream or sugar-N. Y. Herald.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-10-08
RAIN BRINGS RUIN.

Great Fields of Grain In the Northwes.
Going to Waste-Farmers Sustain Heavy
Losses Unable to Thrash Their Wheat
Through Lack of Machines and Help
aud a Furious and Continuous Rainfall.
JAMESTOWN, n. D., Oct 3.-All over
North Dakota there is disappointment
to-day. The big crops are lying in the
fields about as they were tossed from
the binders. Rain has been pouring
steadily on the unprotected crop all
night and all day. 1t is drizzly, wet
rain that soaks everything and gives
no promise of abatement Forty-five
or fifty millions of bushels of wheat
are ont in the wet shocks, and there is
no telling when they will De
thrashed. Never in the history
of the state has the crop been
so large. and never was its Sc
curity so jeopardized as now. 1t
has been raining more or less for a
week past. But one full days thrash
ing has been done in seven DAYS and
the prospects now ARE for several days
more of enforced idleness. There has
been little stacking done anywhere
The crop seems to nave been too big
for farmers to touch. except to wait to
put it through the separator as soon as
possible. Machine owners are behind
from ten days to month in their dates.
The price for thrashing is advancing
and from the usual rate here of Ii
cents a bushel it has gone up to Is cents
i'm the Red River valley. Out
fits are making from $50 to $3.50 a day
h.al no
had. Railroads are offering reduced
rates and free transportation to men
with thrashing outfits There is also
great fear of the wheat sprouting be-
fore it can dry Even with the greatest
good luck there will be large amount
of wheat land in North Dakota not
ready for next years crop. Spring
blowing in this country is of
little use. The ground must be
plowed in the fall. The outlook in
this respect is very bad, and will result
in decreased acreage next year with
out an extraordinarily open winter.
The winter generally closes in from
the 9TH to the 10th of November, and
ground freezes too stiff to pillow There
are now scarcely thirty days in which
to thrash the big crop now unprotected
on farms and to do the fall blowing.
Snow will undoubtedly cover the
shocks of grain in many wheatfields
of the state before the wheat can
be thrashed The scarcity of good
staclkers and farm help is given
as one reason for not stacking, but the
truth is farmers have been trusting to
good weather, promises of thrashers
and good luck, and have but little in
clination to put their grain in stacks
All seem to be anxious to get a few
dollars now. The greater benefits of
the future are left TO take care of them
selves The wheat receipts will dimin-
ish perceptibly owing to delays in
thrashing. 1t is indeed serious con-
dition that confronts the people, and a
vast amount of wealth lies on the open
prairies exposed to the greatest loss
and deterioration.
HALLoCK, Mimi, Oct. 3.-Thrashing
crews and machines are standing idle
all over the Red River valley. Nothing
whatever has been done since Monday.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-10-08

Crookedness Alleged in the Failure of the
Standiford Bros Bank at Chrisman,
II-The Financiers Are Missing After
Securing the Ready Cash of DepOsitors,
Amounting i'm All to Between sI5O,OOO
and 100000.
CHRIsMAN. H., Oct 3.-This little
town is still in Juror of excitement
over the absconding of the Standiford
brothers, bankers. Nothing else is
talked about 1t is now thought the
brothers are ahead all the way from
$50, 900 to $500, 600. The coun-
ty will offer a reward of $500 for the
arrest of the brothers, and to this the
losers by the bank failure will add a
like amount if they can scrape to-
gether that sum from their depleted
exchequers.
The Stanifords treated friend and foe
alike in their fleeing game. They
spared neither the rich nor the poor, the
old or young, and among the victims
are the rich farmer, hard working ten
ant, school-teacher, servant girl, widow
and orphan. 1t is a severe blow to
Chrisman, and it viii be years before
the town will recover from it. In July
last the west side of the square
was swept by fire and the
work of rebuilding has been going
on for several weeks. The major
part of the insurance money in the
burned property was placed in the
Standifords' bank, and now that it is
gone the work on the buildings will be
stopped. Among the heaviest losers
are: Samuel Kenton, So 600; John Car
away. $4,000: Mel Methenv, SO, 600;
Peter Williams, So, 600; William MusseI-
man, So, 600; T. Thomas, 81, 600; J. w.
Elder, $4,000; Cy Lewis, $4,000, and
Jesse Lowther. 3, 600. There is a long
list of those who have lost sums rang
ing from 500 to 81, OOO w. L. Gilley,
the druggist, loses 10000, mostly in
papers.
The Standifords stood high in the
community and the greatest confidence
was placed in them and their business
ability The sixteen years they have
been engaged in business here gave
them an extensive acquaintance with
the prosperous farmers for miles
around and enabled them to reap
harvest. The people here do not be-
lieve the bankers lost anything by
Specializing on the Chicago board of
trade. but think they have left the
country with not less than S150,O0O.
and possibly twice that amount