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The Hawaiian gazette., 1895-09-17
Board of Health Charged with
Burying People Alive.
ANONYMOUS POSTERS IN HAWAIIAN
Preposterous and Outr ageous Statements
Disseminated by Evn-Minded Per-
sons-HangiDg too Good for the Au-
thors If Found-Copy of the Notice.

1t has been noticed frequently
that in times such as the present
cholera epidemic, evil-minded and
spitefully inclined natures take
advantage Of the occasion to spread
dastardly and untruthful reports
for the purpose of gratifying their
own wicked minds and gaining a
morbid satisfaction from the evil
| effects of their actions.
Bright and early Sunday morn
ing there was seen pasted on the
corner of King and Nuuanu, Ala
kea and King, Emma and Bere-
tania, and on Chaplain street near
Nuuanu avenue, posters written
with pencil in the Hawaiian lam
guage. The one on the corner of
King and Nuuanu was on a tele-
phone post just a few inches from
the ground. One at the corner of
Emma and Beretania streets had
been removed before the arrival of
the police officers sent out to COL
lect all that could be found. Fol-
lowing is a translation of the con-
tents of the posters:
NOTICE.
"Know all men that l, the under
signed, hereby make public state
ments of what has been done among
US, the substance of which is as fol-
lows:
1.-TWO living souls were brought to
Makiki cemetery recently for burial
their mouths were waxed and hands
bound. They were placed in collins.
At the burial ground, the collins were
opened. In one of them a man was
found; in the other, a woman. Both
were alive. They were taken out of
the collins and cared for and are being
cared for still. AT present they are
feeling better. They were questioned
as to the cause of said action. They
answered that they had received such
treatment because they would not
take medicine from the Board of
Health doctor. Oh What a pity.
The aloha Alma committee ought to
keep an eye on this. The collins were |
buried without the souls. China |
boy H. B. Ikemaka Eyewitness"
Up to a late hour nothing had |
been learned respecting the author
of the notice.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1895-09-17
Beyond Description
The Misery Before Taking
The Happiness AfterTakina
HOODS.

&C 1. Hood Co., Lowell, Mass,
Dear Sirs: have been in poor health for
70 or Is years, and have been taking doctors
medicines more or less all the time I did not
get much relief. Ny blood was in q bad shape
and my system was ell run down. I thought I
must die, but noticing several testimonials in
tho papers in behalf Of Hoods sarsaparilla I
bought three bottles and found that it did me 50
without appetite, slothfully sleepy, and had a
headache most all the time. In fact cannot
describe my feelings. After using one bottle of
HOODS Sarsaparilla found it was doing ma
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-25
Nevada County.

The public schools, like every other pub
lie institution in republic, should be SO
conducted as to lead to the greatest good
to the greatest number.
While the public school system of Ne
vada County is not perfect, it is we'll adj
vanced. For the carrying out of the sys-
stem the individual teachers are respon-
sible. In some instances the work has
been but indifferently done, but on the
whole Nevada Countys corps of teachers
is worthy of the highest commentator for
its efficiency and faithfulness.
The early history of Nevada County is
that of every mining section. The first
school in the county was probably estab.
lished in Nevada City in 1851. In the early
sixties high school was established al
Nevada City and also one at Grass Valley
Outside of the Nevada City and the
Grass Valley districts (Which are organ
lied under special law, the schools OF the
county are working according to course
of study adopted by the County Board o.
Education.
OF the eighty-one teachers employed in
the public schools of the county, twelve
are graduates of the State Normal School
and three of the San Francisco normal
class. The salaries range from $50 to SLIGO
A. E. BAUGH,
County Superintendent.
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Shasta County.

Shasta County, at the extreme northern
part of the State, rich in mineral wealth
and endowed with salubrious climate,
covers an area Of about $500 square miles
and contains some Il, 900 inhabitants.
With its ninety-three schoolhouses
dotted upon its face, it forms one of the
departments in the great public school
system of California, and although it has
much to be proud OF from an educational
standpoint, it has yet much to accomplish,
having no high school in the county Ia
great detriment and false enonomy).
Redding, the county seat ct Shasta
County, voted $4,000 bonds, and now has
lovely two-story frame structure con-
sisting of four rooms be sides other con-
veniences. The old building, consisting
of four rooms, was compl etely renovated,
and is now occupied by the primary pupils.
Redding marshaled SIS census children
last spring, thus emitting the district to
eight ieachers-two male and six female.
The principals salary is $3.50. The aver
age salary paid the remaining teachers is
$65 IA 81 per month.
Anderson has a neat two-story brick
structure consisting of four rooms, all of
which are occupied. Oak Knoll, another
district on the railroad, has q two-story
brick structure consisting of two rooms
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special district levies. And it may be said
to the credit of our people that 1t IS not
within the memory of man that special
school-tax proposition was ever voted
down in Mono County.
We have ten schools in the county,
those at Bodie and Bridgeport employing
two teachers each. Our schoolhouses Will
compare favorably with country school
houses anywhere in our State. Our schools
are amply supplied and equipped with the
latest and most approved apparatus, COM
fortably and neatly furnished anG sup
piled with libraries. We are proud or our
schools and proud of the evidences OF
their good work. Within the little school
houses that dot our county many OF our
most successful teachers have received
their first and only instruction. Within
the past ten years six young ladies whose
instruction has been limited to our.public
schools, have passed creditable examin-
atoms and been awarded certificates to
teach school. OF this number three hold
first grade certificates, and two have been
honored by appointment to positions on
our Board of Education.
J. D. MURPHY,
President Board of Education.
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San Joaquin County.

Never before in the educational history
of the State of California has heretofore
apathetic public realized to such full ex-
tent its sense of responsibility to the youth
as during the past year.
The teachers of San Joaquin County on
November q, 1895, in institute assembled,
adopted a report on course of study, which
has already been accepted in full by three
county institutes. It's recommendations
are closely in line with those of the famous
committees of ten and fifteen, representing
the schools of the United States, and will
undoubtedly have marked influence in
shaping the course OF study for the public
schools of this State.
The county has a model corps of
teachers. The salaries are above the
average. This and the length of the
school term, which averages nine months
for the year, attracts the best teachers.
Our teachers evince a desire to improve
themselves on all educational topics.
In all the schools the fundamentals, the
three RS, are kept continually in view,
while the demands of the times for an ed
ucation that will fit the child for the
duties of modern life are borne in mind.
Language, history, literature, mathe-
MATES and science are given due promi-
nence in all the work. The teachers of
the county at their last institute unani-
mously demanded that the thought sub
jects, science and history, be given a
larger portion of the daily programme, by
curtailing the time now given to technical
arithmetic and grammar. The work of
many OF the schools OF the county, par
ticularly those of Stockton, has attracted
widespread attention.
The Stockton schools were among the
first to incorporate nature study as a
part of the regular school work. The ma
terial for this work is drawn entirely from
the childrens environment.
The children are greatly interested in the
work. A study of the results of two years
work along this line in the Stockton
schools would seem to indicate that the
reading and oral and written expression of
ali grades of pupils have been improved.
Owing to the influx of population in
Stockton the schools are becoming over
crowded. The question of bonding the
city for $4,000 for the erection of new
high and two grammar school buildings is
now agitated.
1t is to be regretted that I'D to date the
publication of State series of textbooks
has not resulted in the success hoped for
by the originators and supporters of that
measure. The theory of the publication
OF textbooks by the State may be ideal
the practice as shown by the books pro-
duced has been dismal failure. 1t is to
be hoped that the work of revision now
going on may result in an improvement.
GEORGE GooDELL,
County Superintendent.
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required for like grade of certificate in this
county.
Third, the Ell Dorado County Board of
Education must be satisfied that the board
granting such certificate will recognize our
certificates.
In connection with the primary and
grammar grade schools Placerville has a
successful kindergarten, giving three
years course, and also frst-class high
school. with three years course leading
to the university.
The Teachers Institute, held November
20, q and %, was one of the most profit
able ever held in the county. The teach
ers responded promptly and willingly to
the work assigned them on the programme.
/ believe our schools can and will be the
best IL the State. Our climate is very
favorable-iust cold enough to give health
and energy to pupils and teachers, yet not
so severe as to hinder attendance. We do
not have that sameness OF temperature SO
productive of physical laziness, mental in
activity and moral stagnat;on.
The variety of climate, scenery and &C.
cupation all tend to give our people, and
therefore our schools, a mental stimulus
that must produce the highest intellectual,
moral and physical development.
T. e. McCARTY,
County Superintendent.
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Inyo County.

The most important portion of 1nyo
County is the long and narrow valley of
the Owens River, reaching from Owens
Lake on the south to Mono County. on the
north. Fourteen of the fifteen county
schools are located in this valley, while
the fifteenth is situated at Round Valley,
which is short distance to the west of
Owens Valley and at the northern ex-
tremity of the county.
The number of census children of Inyo
County has steadily increased during the
past few years until our census roll this
year lacked but twenty-five of being 1000,
while the corps of teachers advanced from
sixteen last year to twenty for the present
term. Of the fifteen schools one has three
teachers, three have two each and the re-
naming eleven have one each.
The material prosperity of rural school
district is manifested chiefly by its school
buildings. Excepting in several newly
formed districts the schools of Inyo County
have cost from $1,000 to $1,000.
Though Inyo County has not the ad-
vantage of high school, still it can boast
of two excellent private schools, which
offer to all pupils an opportunity to ad-
vance beyond the limit of the grammar
schools, S. W. AUSTIN.
/ County Superintendent.
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total of fifty teachers employed, only
eleven are teaching their first term in the
county. Of these one is California Uni
versity graduate of several years expe-
rience, one the holder of an educati onal
diploma of California. three are normal
graduates, five are holders of grammar
grade certificates and only one is the
holder of primary certificate.
The following average salaries paid in
this county indicate reasonably we'll the
quality of service we get from our teachers
High school teachers SIPS a month
grammar school teachers, $50; primary
teachers. $50.
That the teachers themselves are making
an honest effort to improve the schools Of
the county is shown by the fact that they
have almost without exception organized
themselves into clubs. not for the purpose
of demanding higher salaries, but for the
study of the principles of education, in
order that they may the better teach the
schools under their charge.
The reasons that combine to make what
ever degree OF success or failure there
exists in the schools Of Glenn County may
be found largely in the facts set forth in
the foregoing statement.
WILLIAM M. FINCH,
County Superintendent.
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Mono County.

Mono County fills but a small space in
the great educational system of our State.
However. we are not made of the stuff that
weakens in the face of obstructing ele-
ments and conditions. By employing only
the best, the most enthusiastic and ener-
getic of teachers we try to keep abreast of
system that is making tremendous strides
to the front. Our taxpayers are loyal to
the cause. Realizing, as they do, that in
our free public school system lies our
greatest hope for the perpetuation and
perfection of our American institutions,
they cheerfully contribute the full limit
allowed by law to be levied for school pur-
poses. For the past six or eight years
Mono has levied the full 30 cents on the
800 of taxable property within its limits
for the support of her schools. This with
the amount received from the State main
tains an eight months school in the sew
eral districts, which, however, is frequently
augmented to ten months by means of
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Kern County.

In common with the other communities
of California the people of Kern County
recognize the necessity and Importance of
making adequate and liberal provision for
the education of the coming citizen; and
to this end, though the more remote Sec
tions of the county are but sparsely in
habited as yet, the division OF territory
has been so effected as to place every con-
siderable settlement within easy reach of
schoolhouse. For educational purposes
the county is divided into fifty-four dis
tricts, listing 1900 children of school
age and aggregating an actual enrolment
OF $500 pupils in the primary and gram
mar schools.
The course OF study as laid down for the
guidance OF teachers and school officers
covers period Of eight years.
Aside from the facilities provided in the
primary and grammar schools, there is
also in successful operation good high
school, situated at Bakersfield. established
and conducted under the State law,
providing for the organization and main
tenance of county high schools. This in
stitution came into existence January 1,
1893, and is open to all pupils of the county
completing the grammar school work.
The course of study for the high school is
constructed along the lines laid down by
the State University and the work in most
of the branches pursued is accepted by the
institution at Berkeley.
The new high school building, cut of
which appeared in THE CALL some time
since, is a handsome two-story brick
structure containing four classrooms, as
sembIy hall, chemical and physical labor
atories, and in all represents an outlay OF
$29, 500. In no county in the State have
the citizens manifested greater interest
in school affairs, as is evidenced by the
Willingness with which they have in recent
years taxed and bonded their property for
the purpose of providing commodious and
comfortable quarters for the education OF
their children. ALFRED HARRELL,
County Superintendent.
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Ell Dorado County.

Old Ell Dorado County is coming to the
front, we hope, as well in her educational
interests as in her mining and fruit-grow-
ing industries.
We have PIP census children in SO dis.
tricts. employing IS teachers. Of The SO
districts, A are grammar grade ana 10
primary grade schools. OF the teachers
employed in the county, % per cent are
graduates of State normal schools, and 50
per cent hold grammar grade certificates
or educational or life diplomas of the
grammar or high school grade.
On account of the shifting of census chill
dren from one locality to another, We have
lost some districts with such novel and
characteristic names as Coyoteville, Jay
Hawk and Wild Goose, but still we have
Coon Hollow, Deer Valley and Indian
Diggings.
The County Board of Education issued
new course of study last July, and made
arrangements for systematic promotion
from one grade to another. The board will
examine pupils for promotion from the
fifth primary to the first grammar grade,
and for graduation from the grammar
grade, and the teacher in charge will ex-
anime and promote in all other grades.
The County Board recognizes grammar
grade and high school certificates on three
conditions as follows:
First, the teacher holding such certifi-
cate must have taught at least eight
months in the county where such certifi-
cate was granted.
Second, the certificate must show an
average of at least So per cent on subjects
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Kings County.

Kings County has been particularly
favored with natural educational advan-
tages. The climate is all that could be
desired. 1t is never cold enough to pre-
vent children going to school, and seldom
rains enough to keep them away. Pupils
are thus enabled to ride, when necessary,
several miles to school. This prevents the
necessity OF cutting districts up into small
areas with only few pupils, thereby en-
abling the country schools to have two OF
more teachers. This gives the country
pupils all the advantages of graded city
school without any of the pernicious sur
roundings.
: Kings County is also fortunate in its
location. 1t is situated midway between
San Francisco on the north and Los An
geles OIL the south, the Throop Poly
technic School on one side and Stanford
University on the other. We are in reach
of instructors from both cities and from
both the above-named schools.
The growth of the public schools of this
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Butte County.
GEORGE GOODELL,
County Superintendent.

It has always been the policy OF the
Board OF Supervisors of this county to ap-
point on the Board of Education only men
of advanced ideas in educational matters
and in close touch with the latest and best
educational progress, and who hold re-
sponslble positions in the most important
public schools of the county.
According to the last school census there
are in the county 1920 children of school
age, being gain of forty-nine over the
preceding year, and 1856 children under 5
years of age. The school districts number
seventy-five. and there are 100 teachers
required to fill the positions created there
by. Nearly all OF the teachers are either
graduates OF the normal schools in the
State or hold grammar-grade certificates,
there being but small percentage of the
schools which do not require at least
grammar-grade teachers to fill the position
OF teacher. The salaries of these teachers
range from $50 to $3.50 per month, and they
are employed during the year for an
average of nine months, some of the larger
schools having terms of ten months each
year.
Graded schools are located at Nord,
Paradise, Palermo, Bangor, Cherokee,
Forbestown, Blggs, Gridley, Oroville and
Chico.
The public schools OF Biggs are housed
in a handsome two-story brick building.
The public school of Gridley is equally as
large, and there is also located at Gridley
a Union District High School, which has
been in successful operation since 1892,
and promises to continue to prosper under
the present management.
The public schools of Oroville are next
to the most largely attended and prosper
Gus in the county.
From the interest taken in her schools
since tie location of the Northern State
Normal School there, Chico has been Justly
styled the "Athens of Northern Califor-
MA" In addition to it's excellent public
grammar schools the city is provided with
An academy, a private business college
and kindergarten; and large number
of its children are educated at the training
school connected with the State Normal
School; and a number of enterprising citi-
zens are at present supporting by private
tuition a high school, which is success
fully pursuing the approved course of
study prescribed by the University of Cali
fornia and the State Board of Education,
with the expectation of having a fully
equipped public City High School in opera
ton the coming school year. The City
Board of Education has already inaugu-
rated measures for the establishment of
such school. RICHARD WHITE.
County Superintendent.
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It has been my pleasant duty to visit
during the past year the public schools of
Solano County. The results of these visits
have been to create q greater appreciation
.of the work that is being done in the
schools and greater enthusiasm for the
promotion OF their efficiency.
The leading schools in this county are
the ones in Vallejo that have every de-
partment from the accredited high school
down to the receiving class. They are
controlled BY a Board of Education and
are supervised by City Superintendent.
Twenty-Five teachers are employed and
the average daily attendance is about 735
pupils.
The other extreme, in size and situation,
is well represented by the school in Cres-
cent Island District. 1t is situated miles
out in the tules and has an average attend
ance Of about six pupils.
The Benicia schools, with twelve teach
ers and an average attendance of about $50
pupils, are second in Importance. The
other grammar schools are in VacaviIle.
Dixon, Rio Vista, Suisun, Cordelia and
Elmira. The county is we'll supplied with
high schools.
Vallejo and Bericia have their own, and
there are union high schools in Fairfield
Efmira, Vacaville and Dixon. Some OF
these schools are accredited schools, and
many Of their graduates are in attendance
at Berkeley and Stanford.
In all the schools, from the highest to
the lowest, from the largest to the smallest
and from the most prominent to the most
secluded, have found great professional
pride, untiring energy and unselhsh devo-
ton to duty.
have written chiefly OF the unappre-
ciared teacher in the little country schools.
love to tell of their virtues; those Of the
prominent educators" are forever being
told. A. G. SANBoRN,
County Superintendent.