The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1892-02-18
AMERICAN LETTER.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 6, 1892
GENERAL INTEREST.

GENERAL INTEREST.
The Wall-street Journal has this
to say in regard to the Nicaragua
Canal: An official of leading trans
continental railroad says; 1--WE have
been examining the possible effects
of the completion of the Nicaragua
Canal upon transcontnental business,
and we have reached the conclusion
that the completion of this great
waterway would have most pro-
nounced effect in stimulating the
business of all the transcontinental
roads 1t would, first, build up the
Pacific Coast, and this would directly
bear upon the business of the trans
continental roads. The idea that n
waterway as a competitor Injuries a
railway is wrong, as statistics prove.
While rates are lower on railway
adjoining u canal than on railway
at distance, the volume of business
is so much greater as to make the net
returns 20 the company great deal
larger. A canal increases the popu-
lation and industries along the
course. just so with the Nicaragua
Canal. This canal will bring bust
ness to the Pacific Coast which at
present does not reach it. 1t will
plant enterprise where none now
exists. The question to be solved is,
of course, the vital one of who shall
build the canal. The present con-
struction company does not want
Government interference but it is
manifestly for the good of the coun
try that our Government should be u
party to the building of it. 1t might
be good idea if all the leading ma
tons of the world took certain per
centage of the stock for the sake of
maintaining peaceful relations be-
tween the countries"
Robert Bonner has no notion of
giving Sunol away and has the fol-
lowing to say concerning the propo-
sition to match Sunol with Nancy
Hanks for $4,000: "Sunol shall
not race under any conditions whe-
Their for charity or not. For the
past thirty years l have said that il
l ever let one of my horses race, the
first man in the stable next morning
could have it as a present. have
signed my name to this statement,
and do not intend to give Sumo
away as present to any one. Nc
horse of mine shall ever race fol
money under any conditions what.
ever"
The Indian agent at Sacaton, the
principal Indian agency of the Terri
tory, says 100 Pimas have died within
the past three weeks from grip, ant
the epidemic is spreading.
A fight to finish before the Olym
pic Club, New Orleans, between
Maher and Fitzsimmons has been ar
ranged to take place on March I'd
The match is for $40, OO0-purst
and forfeit OF $1,000 is put up by tn,
seconds of each.
Governor Abbott of Trenton, N
j., has suspended Detective Dalton
who allowed Embezzler Hyer to es'
cape from his custody at Pittsbure
while in transit from San Francisco
to that city last Saturday night
until an investigation of the escap,
can be made. Dalton arrived a
Jersey City Sunday night with tn,
prisoners pretty young wife. He
father, Superintendent Marsh of th'
Adams Express Company, took he
to his home. She is believed to hav,
aided her husbands escape. He es
capped through the window.
Ex-Governor John w. Hoyt O
Wyoming is interested in a yer,
worthy cause. His idea is that tn
west should furnish the grain whicl
it has done already, and the cas-
ought to furnish the transportation
from the United States to Russia Il
feed the hungry.
Mrs. Swift, wife of the decease'
Minister to Japan, is in Washington
to present a claim of $4,000 befor
Congress for moneys expended iron
| herprivate income for improvement
made on the new United States Lega
ton at Toxic, Japan. The oil
United States Legation was an objec
of ridicule among European resi-
dents, and through Minister Swift
energy an appropriation was mad
which was not enough to complet
the structure, so Mrs. Swift fur
nished the $4,000 necessary. Hal
Minister Swift lived 10 complete hi
term of office, and to have enjoye'
the improvements made, no claim TO
the money would have been made
but he died soon after its completion