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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-10-19
His Body Found Under a Guava
Bush Near Hilo.
A BULLET THROUGH HIS HEART
Temporary Insanity Caused by Despond-
ency the Cause AlIeged-When in
Honolulu He Had Large Sum
OF Money i'm His Possession.

News was received yesterday
that John A. Spear, whose disap-
pearance was spoken of in the last
letter from Hilo, had committed
suicide. His body was found last
Friday under a guava bush in the
vicinity of Cocoanut Island. A
revolver was lying on the ground by
the side of the body, and a bullet
had pierced the mans heart.
Dependency and drink, it is be-
lieved, resulted in temporary in
sanity, and it was while in this
condition that the man committed
suicide.
Mr.. Spear was identified with
business interests on these islands
for many years, and was for a long
time a jeweler in Hilo. In early
life he had some trouble with a
brother, and this led to an estrange-
ment between him and his father,
who was quite wealthy. Three
years ago the father came to these
islands and, visiting his son at Hilo,
a reconciliation took place. Shortly
afterward Mr.. Spear, senior, was
attacked with pneumonia while
visiting at the Volcano House and
died. His body was exhumed and
the remains taken to the Coast.
After his death John Spear be-
came heir to a large share of the
property. But his hand went into
his pocket when anybody asked
and his liberality caused his remit
tances to be used up almost as soon
as they arrived from the States.
He was "Hail, fellow, we'll met"
with everybody and was often
started on a spree because of his
joviality. Many time he would
leave his jewelers. shop wide open
at Hilo, the safe door not even
being closed, and go away for days.
He was in Honolulu a short
time ago and it is said he was
seen with 91|OU In MS possession.
When he departed he left satchel
with Thomas Krouse at the Airing
ton hotel. The contents are un-
known but it is believed to con-
tain the money. AS Mr.. Spear was
a mason the satchel will be turned
over to Judge Cooper, Master of
the Masonic lodge upon his return
from California.
The search for Mr.. Spear after
he disappeared at Hilo was prose-
cuted vigorously for three days but
to no avail. Cartridges were ex-
ploded in the bay for it was thought
he had drowned himself and the
body might rise to the surface.
Then a reward of $50 was offered
for the missing man and a thor
ough search by natives resulted in
the sad discovery as above stated.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-10-19
COURT AT KOHALA.
Japanese Sentenced for melting
Laborers to Riot.

All the criminal cases at the
Kohala term of court have been
cleared up, and those in attendance
there are back in Honolulu again.
That is why Chester A. Doyle and
Walter Jones are once more on the
streets here.
The case in which the Govern
ment took the most interest was
that of the Portuguese Gaspar and
seven Japanese charged with in
citing japanese laborers to resist
officers of the law. In the trouble
resultant upon their action, one
Japanese was killed and a con-
stable was wounded. Though not
entirely recovered, ne was able to
appear in court and testify.
The prisoners were defended by
Paul Neumann and G. w. Ashford.
Gaspar was fined $500 and sem
fenced to twenty-four hours i'm
prisonment; the japanese luna
was fined 5000 and given a like
sentence, and the other six laborers
were each fined SIS and given a
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-10-19
HAVE you SEEN THE
New Russian
Coffee Pots ?

We have a few sam pies
and it strikes us they are the
most practical thing to make
a good cup of coffee AT SHORT
NOTICE ever invented. They
look stylish too, and will set
off your dinner to advantage.
Cost? Very little for so fine
an article. You might add
one Of our new candelabrum
from two to five lights for the
centre of table, as they are the
correct thing, and all dinners
must be correct. You know I!
Many new and striking
things are coming in daily;
it will be worth your while to
have a look at them.
Our new line Of Cut Glass
will be IN next month, and
will be a dazzler: made by the
celebrated Hawkes. Of Corning,
New York, who took first
prize at the Paris Exposition.
1t stands without peer. The
whitest and clearest glass; the
most brilliant cut. Compare it
with goods of any other make
and it stands out in bold con-
trast; perfectly white in color,
perfection in cut.
1t is no higher than inferior
goods and we keep a full line.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-10-19

day in Jail. The case was ap-
pealed.
The Japanese charged with MUIR
der was allowed to plead guilty to
murder in the second degree, and
given a twenty-years' sentence.
The native charged with burning
a school-house was sentenced for
two years.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-10-19

A patent has just been taken out
for glasses and mugs with quick
silver thermometer, in order to enable
the drinker to determine which tenn
perature of the liquid will be most
agreeable to his taste and most bene-
fetal TO his health.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-10-19

HAS
The most thrifty and
desirable class Of read
ers, a great many of
whom take no other
local paper.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-10-19

~ Remember, We sell PEARL OIL
at 81 80 per case, G. o. D., delivered to
any part of the city.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-10-19
b. Klemme Will Run For the
Senatorship.
THE OPPOSITION Has DwINDLED.
So the Representatives Chosen BY the
American Union Party Are a.
Good a. Elected, and Five Of
the Senators Are Chosen "a Well.

ne DOCKS IN the lnleIlOr DepdTl-
ment are closed, and there will be
no more candidates placed in the
field for the coming election. They
were held open until $50 o'clock
last night in order to give anyone
who wished a chance to strive for
ballots on October 29th, but only
one person ventured. He is 81.
Klemme. and he will run as an in
dependent candidate for Senator.
So this will be the only contest
on election day, and the candidates
for Representatives chosen by the
American Union Party Convention
are as good as elected, while five
of the six Senators, and, perhaps,
all six are equally certain.
John Emmeluth was undecided
until 8 o'clock yesterday whether
to run or not. A number of his
friends called upon him and urged
him to place his name before the
people, but others whom he asked
counselled him not to do go, and
he listened to their arguments.
His reasons for non-action are
stated in a card from him, which
appears below.
Paul Neumann was talked Of as
a possible candidate. He was seen
Yesterday when he returned from
the Kohala term of court, and said:
"I shall not be a candidate. 1
will never be a candidate for any
thing again. 1t does not pay. l
am going to stick to the law"
Mr.. EDITOR ALLOW me to space
in your paper to thank those friends
who have so persistently insisted
on my running as an Independent
candidate for Senator at the coming
election.
/ thoroughly appreciate their
confidence and esteem as expressed
during the past few days, and more
especially in the petition found
at my place of business this after
noon, but the pledge given when l
allowed my name to come before
the American Union Party conven-
ton precluded my acceptance OF
their call.
Party politics will be fruitful of
just such incidents as above related
as long as the voters will allow
present methods to prevail. Gov
eminent of the people, for the peo-
pie, and by the people, can only be
obtained by giving to all elements
entitled to vote an equal right to
representation. When we have ac-
complished this one step in advance
in the science of popular rights,
there will be no need for petitions
to run independent, for then each
man will have but one vote, and
that vote will be effective.
commend to my friends and all
others interested in correcting the
misrepresentation of the present
political system, a careful study of
the principles embodied in Proper
tional Representation, and hope to
see its adoption in this country,
whether we get annexation or not.
Yours truly,
II
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-01-19
How Sea Birds Drink.

The question is often asked, "Where
90 sea birds obtain fresh water to
Stake their thirst?" But we have never
seen it satisfactorily answered until
quite recently, when. we found the fol-
lowing in Golden Days: An old skip.
per, with whom we were conversine
on the subject, said that he had seen
these birds Mt sea, far from any land
that could furnish them water, hover
ing around and under storm cloud,
gathering like ducks on hot day at I,
pond, and drinking in the drops ms
they fell. They will smell rain squall
hundred miles or even further off,
and scud for it with almost inconceiy-
able swiftness.
How long sen birds can exist with
out water is onlyn matter of conjec-
tnre, but probably their powers of en-
during thirst are increased by habit,
and possibly they go without water for
many days, il not for several weeks,
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-01-19
Salmon a Cent Apiece.

Probably humpbacked salmon were
never cheaper or thicker in Tacoma
than they are right now. All sizes
from three to six pounds are selling
for one cent per fish. A batch of 1O7
were sold to an enterprising express
man yesterday for 81. About $500
fish were brough. in during the day
by fishing boats.
TIE fish peddlers came down in full
force and loaded up their wagons and
started back uptown singing: "Fresh
fish here. Fivs for nickle!"
The fish, which for the past two
weeks have been playing in schools
around In the bay, ere now beginning
to go up the river and the creeks.
Their meat OH this account is not as
good as it has been heretofore. Fish.
ermen say they will soon disappear
up the streams and the silver salmon
will put in their appearance. Two or
three OF the boatloads brought in yes
terday were caught in the channel of
the Puyallup River. The difference
In the meat of those and the meat of
the ones caught out in the bay could
be plainly seen. The meat becomes
whittier and is less firm.
The silver salmon in turn give way
to the hideous dog salmon, which will
not appear for several weeks vet.
Iacoma Washington Ledger.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-01-19
Pony Express md Rail.

The recent meeting of California
pioneers in Chicago gave rise to some
very interesting "reminiscences bear
ing upon the progress of rapid loco
motion. Among those who attended
the meeting was Alexander Majors,
one of the first to establish pony ex-
press. The dangerous road from st.
Joseph to Sacramento, Cal, was 2000
miles. the service on this road en-
ployed 400 horses and sixty-fve regu-
lnr riders, exclusive of men kept in
reserve for emergencies. The shortest
time previous to the ponyexpress had
been twenty-one days. The pony ex-
press made the journey regularly in
less than ten days. 1t was thought a
wonderful achievement when Buchan-
ans last message was carried from the
Missouri to Sacramento in q few hours
over eight days. Lincoln's first mes
sage broke the record, in seven days
and seventeen hours, which meant250
miles or horseback every twenty-four
hours. aaving now united two oceans
by rail we are just as impatient as ever
to get there quicker. We shall never
he satisfied till We make the air COM
mon highway, with q patent grip at
tachment to hitch our cha-iots to the
stars and thus be towed across the
continent. Boston Globe.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-01-19
The Chesapeake Oyster Industry.

The oyster industry is very i'm
portant ono in Maryland in the neigh
borhood of the waters of the Chesa-
that this industry was more fruitful
and important than any other, because
by it more people were directly and
indirectly supported. 1t is possible
that, leaving out agriculture, this may
he so, rs i'll the industry more than
30, 600 men, women and children are
employed. Oh these persons about
~, 900 men are engaged in catching,
while the remaining Is, 900 are kept at
work Mt Smelling, grouping, packing
and SO on.
There are two ways OF taking
oysters, dredging and longing, and in
the season of 1928 there we're over 900
vessels engaged in dredging, and
great many more than this in longing.
The crews of dredging vessels vary
with the capacity of the boats, and
range from n captain and five mon to n
captain and twelve men. These men,
by-the-way, though they must work
hard, and are exposed to great hard
ship and frequently to danger, are not
we'll paid. Therefore good class of
labor is not attracted. Maryland
State officer who recently investigated
the oystermen of the Chesapeake said
that the dredging crews we're made up
from "thc lowest stratum of nearly all
nations on Garth" The tongers are of
q better class, and are usually natives
of the Chesapeake counties The life
of the oyster catcher is hard and
thnnkless, as he can scarcely ever hope
to earn more than enough to sustain
himself meagrely. They are out in
the severest winter weather, and not
infrequently they are very unsuitably
clad for such work. Many of the men
so employed go out in the coolest
weather, with no heavier body cover
ing than half-worn flannel shirts.
Inst winter vessels were frozen up out
III the bay, while the crews were
without either food or wnter. The
officer before alluded to has expressed
the opinion that if the tender hearted
among the oyster consumers knew
with how much pain and suffering
these bivalyes were brought from
their salt water homes to the dining
table, they would not emf them in the
happy frame of mind necessary to a
full appreciation of this finest of all
sea foods. = arper's Weekly.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-01-19

Professor Philipson, President OF the
British Medical Association, recently
stated that there are few diseases pecu.
liar to miners. The pitman's asthma
is much less frequent than formerly.
Contrary to what might be expected
rheumatism and rheumatic fever rarely
affect the coal miner The miners of
the north of England have an average
Of three years longer life than the
average Englishman, eight years longer
than the Cornish miner, nine years
longer than the South Wales miner
and only one year less than that of the
men of the healthiest districts in the
kingdom.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-01-19

"Israel! he fairly shouted; what
was the matter with the loading of
those pistols? There was something
wrongI Confess it, you rascal"
"Oh. Marso Kunn'l, don't be killing
dis po man but j didn't put no balls
in dose pistils! I didn't want de
Major and yo' n KILN each oder! !"
tive good mind to horsewhip you
within an inch of your life-l" began
the Colonel,
''But you won'tp broke in the
Major.
Then the Colonel looked at the
Major, and the Major at the Colonel.
A smile appeared on the formers lips,
and the latter returned it. A moment
more, and the Colonel extended his
land impulsively. The Major nd
vanced and grasped it firmly.
They stood there, holding each
others hands for an instant, and then
the Major observed slowly and en-
phatically, rs if lie we're stating an in
lisputable fact which he had just dis
covered:
"Beebe, think we are couple of
old foolsl"
81 quite agree with you, Hawkins!'
returned the Colonel quite ms posi-
lively, and, rs if by one impulse, the
two locked arms and walked off.
Israel stood watching them for a
minute. Then he picked up the pis-
tolls, and remarked sagely, but with
just the slightest of quivcrs i'll his
voice: ga coupl o. ole fools "-Ro-
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-01-19

General P. M. E. Young, of Georgia,
American Minister TO Guatemala,
writes to friend in Augusta III glow
ing terms of the fertility of that conn
try. "Just think, he says, "of hay
inS to plant sugar cane only every
twelve or fifteen years, and coffee every
twenty years or thirty years. Two
crops of corn year, and one hundred
bushels to the acre. And every vege-
table and fruit that we have ut home,
an,l many more that we have not. The
truth is that so much grows without
cultivation that the poor will not work
rs they should"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-01-19

King Leopold, of Belgium, is SOW
.reign of the Congo Free State,
Africa; at his death Belgium will sue
seed to his rights in the State, and
will have the right to annex it. In
The State at present there is populn
lion of about IA, 900, 900, of whom 744
are Europeans; of these, 1913 nre Bel
gians. The State is governed by a
central government at Brussels, with n
local government at Bonn, the capital
Of The State.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-01-19
Frost Torches TO Protect Vegetables.

The project adopted by the farmers
OF Saratoga County, New York, to pro-
tect their crops from damage by early
irosts is worthy of imitation else
where. Itseems that Swedish farmer
has talked of the use of "frost torches,
IN his native country, made of petro.
leum-soaked peat; but, as peat is not
common in Saratoga County, the
farmers employed their leisure time
IN the summer in preparing pine
stakes two inches in diameter and Ave
feet long, then they laid in stock Of
kerosene. A few evenings ago the
Thermometer dropped to thirty-eight
degrees by 8 o'clock p. m. and the
Is agricnitnrists began soaking their pine
place, about fifty to the aero and
blazing vigorously, the dense smoke
preventing the chilling of the nj.
mosphere. As the torches cost bnt
about one-half cent each, and as all the
torch. illumined farms escaped dam-
age, while the Others in the vicinity
were probably depleted OF two. thirds
OF their produce by frost, it is clear
that the echeme is MS economical as It
is .--sssful, Newark News. 81
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-01-19
THE NIGHT wIHp.

Have you ever heard the wind 60 '.Yoooo?"
It's pitlful sound TO hearl
Il seoms to chill you through and through
With strange and speechless fear.
tie the voice tho night TINT broods outslde
When folks should be asleep
And many and many's the timo Two cried
TO the darkness that broodcd for and wido
Oyer the land and deep.
Whom do you want. o lonely night,
That you wall tho long hours through2"
And the night would say in its ghostly way
"Yoooooooo
Yoooooooo!
Yoooooooo -
BY mother told me long ago
(When was little tad)
That when tho wind went wailing So
Somebody had been bad;
And then, when was snug In bed,
Whittier had been sent,
With tho blankets drawn up round my head,
I'd think of what my mother said
And wonder whnt boy sho meant
AMI "Who been bad to-day2' I'd ask
or tho wind TINT honrsely blow,
And TINT voice would say In It's awful way:
"Yoooooooo
Yooooooool
Ioooooooo!'
That this was true must allow
You'll not believe It. though!
Yes, though I'm quito n model now.
wns not always SO.
And II you doubt what things say,
Suppose you make tho test
Suppose when you've been bad some day,
And mp 10 bed are sent away,
From mother and the rest
suppose you nsk. ''Who hns been bad?"
And then you'll hear what's true:
For the wind will moan In its ruefulest tone
"Yoooooooo!
Yoooooooo!
Yoooooooo.
Eugene Field. In Chicago Record.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-01-19

81 expect to see the profession of
train robbery grow and prosper in mn
alarming degree this coming winter"
says C Western sheriff. "All railroad
men know that nothing is SO easy as
holding up an express car, and as there
ere thousands of this class out of work
all over the country, it will surprise
me if they do not band together to rob
their former employers. After train
is stopped and the engineer and fire
man cowed-an easy matter there is
nothing in the way of successful
train robbery. The companies offer
no Inducements to the trainmen to
risk their lives in defence of their
property, and as the large majority of
engineers, firemen and messengers
llhyo iamil:es dependent upon them
fsr support there seems no reason
wby they should rush into danger by
niaAing o light against the robbers"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-01-19
WHAT KILLED THE PARROT.

The man was walking along Wood
ward avenue carrying parrot in u
cage.
"what you got therc?" asked q
friend.
"Parrot; I'm taking it home to my
wife. She always wanted one"
81 hope you'll have better luck than
1 did with one gave my wife"
"What happened to it?'
"Don't know my wife, do you?"
"No.
"Neither did the parrot. 1t wanted
to talk during the daytime and couldn't
get chance while my wife was
around, so it staid awake at night
to do it's talking. and the poor thing
died of insomnia before two week.. =
Detroit Free Press.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-01-19
1IE ovERpID IT.

Beggem Ito himself) eve got
around that rich old great-aunt OF
mine at last. She's interested IN
benevolent schemes, and I'm helping
her night and day to search out worthy
Objects To-day she said I'd have
cause for rejoicing when her will was
read"
His Great-Aunt Ito herself)-"I had
no idea my granddaughter WAS SO
good 1t worries him almost sick to
see 80 much misery in the world. How
delighted he will be TO find that all
my money is to go to the support of
the poor friendless orphans New
York Weekly.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-01-19

]. II. Biles, designer of the ocean
steamships New York and Paris, be-
lieves that i'll "the third year of the
twentieth century" or within ten
years, the best transatlantic steam.
ships will be able to leave New York at
noon and arrive at southampton in
four days. Such an exploit, states
Public Opinion, would require speed
Of almost thirty-tive miles an hour.