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The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1896-10-20

"Colonel" Little OF Hilo, is not in
town as reported by an evening
paper. The Little, who arrived
here last week is kamaaina, who is
not looking for a job and who
doesn't claim to be "Colonel."
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1896-10-20

A Cabinet Council was held yes
terday afternoon aud President Dole
reported progress on the Govern
ment laud schemes. The new judge
ship was also discussed.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1896-10-20

Here is an example for some of
our miionaires to follow: Herr
Lothian Won Faber, OF Nuremberg,
who recently died, left 100000 for
the purpose of identifying he city"
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1896-10-20

The Hawaiian Mission Childrep's
Society will hold meeting on Sat
urday evening next, probably one of
the last to be held In thu old Mis-
sion House on King street, before
its possible early destruction.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1896-10-20

Among the passengers for San
Francisco by the o. ~ O.,S. S. Cop.
tic yesterday afternoon we're Mr.. and
Mrs. w. G. Wilder, Mr.. aud Mrs. w /.
A. Kinney, T. G. Grant, Mics Belle
Carter and Miss j. Hartwell.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1896-10-20
BUSINESS LOCALS.

Figured Duck, 8 yards for 81 90 at
Kart's
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1896-10-20
Umbrella Stands

And Jardinieres or lamps of
every description in shape made
of wrought iron-black color
are au fait. We have every
style you can think of.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1896-10-20

1t is understood that the Execu-
tive Council yesterday appropriated
$4,000 for the construction OF the
new slip at the Pacific Mail dock.
Tenders for the work will shortly be
advertised for in San Francisco,
Victoria and Honolulu.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1896-10-20

According to the Japan Mail the
N. Y, X. Steamer Yamashiro Maru,
Capt. Jones, sailed from Yokohama
on the 3rd inst. Tor Australia. This
is one OF the pioneer steamers Of the
new lines OF the Nippon Yusen
Kaisha Co. The Yamashiro Maru is
we'll in this port.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-02-20
why Have You

Been stricken with disease while your neigh
Dor escaped, or vice-versa Both were alike
exposed, but in one case the disease germs
found Judgement in the impure blood and
weakened system, while in the other the
blood was kept pure by Hoods Sarsaparilla,
and the body was in a condition OF good
health.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-02-20
sALTnuSu SEED REoE WE'D.
Commissioner Masden Will Distrib-
ute II 90 Cattle Raiscrs.

ute IL TO Cattle RaIsers.
By the steamer Miowera Com
missioner Marsden of the Depart
ment Of Agriculture received from
w. j. Purvis, well-known whole
sale scotsman Of Melbourne, a
consignment of the seed of the
Australian saltbush, one of the
most nutritious of the plants of
the arid portions of that continent.
tits particularly adapted to regions
where there is little or no rain. 1t
is one of the most fattening of
fodder plants and cattle and horses
eat it with avidity.
Mr.. Purvis writes: 81 beg leave
to advise you Of the dispatch by
this mail of two pounds saltbush
seed, which the collector has re-
turned as being the most valued
of the Australian species. This is
a perennial herb and is consider
ed the best of the saline heritage
of the salt bush country, and is
pronounced wonderful for its pro-
ductiveness and drought resisting
power, alike for nutritiousness as
a pastoral fodder.
Its botanical name is Atriplex
Vesicarium and it grows in COM
pact bushes which attain the
height of three or four feet. 1t
may be planted directly from the
seed or from cuttings, the latter
taking root readily. Won Mueller,
the naturalist, in his work on
"Select Extra Tropical Plants give
the following description of it:
"This plant abounds in the in
terror of Southeastern and Central
Australia. 1t is one OF the most
fattening and most relished OF all
the dwarf pastoral saltbushes OF
Australia, holding out in the
utmost extremes of drought, and
not scorched even by sirocco' like
blasts. Its vast abundance over
extensive saltbush plains of the
Australian interior, to the exclu-
sion Of almost every other bush
indicates the facility with which
this species disseminates itself
Mr.. Marsdcn will be pleased tc
explain to cattle men and others
interested the economic virtues OF
this bush, which he hopes will
take the place of the lantana
which now infests our hillsides
He will furnish limited quantities
of the seed to those who viii
plant and care for it.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-02-20

A. j. Derby, DDS, Dental
Office Cottage No. 100, Alakea
street, telephone No. 6l5. Office
hours 8 AM. to 4 Pm. u
Don't leave your pictures until
they are ruined before having
them framed. King Bros are MAX
ing frames so cheap now that it is
better to have your pictures at
tended to than to wish you had.
G. R. Harrison, practical piano
and organ maker and tuner, can
furnish best factory references.
Orders left at Hawaiian News Co.
and the Wall, Nichols Co.
will receive prompt attention.
Telephone Nos: 234, 100 and
442.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-02-20

HOOPS PILLS are purely vegetable and do
not purge, pain or grip. Sold by all druggists.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-22
LIVE OREGON GOLD CAMP
E. N. Williams Story of Rich
Diggings Near Cow Creek
Canyon.
bitches From the Rogue River That
Will Open Up Hundreds of Thou.
sands of Acres.

E. N. Williams of Gold Hill, Or, prin-
cipal owner of the Sulphur Springs hy-
draulic mine, south of the wild Cow Creek
Canyon and seven miles north of Gold
Hill, is at the Russ.
Mr.. Williams owns two and three
fourths miles of placer ground on Sardine
Creek, an atiuent of the Rogue River. He
gets water on it for eight months in the
year.
81 didn't know but the least bit about
mining when I went there three wears
ago." said Mr.. Williams. ''and in the or
binary sense of the word one would have
supposed that would have got done up.
| was almost a tenderfoot OF the tender
feet. l came from England over twenty
years ago, and lived in different parts of
Canada for fourteen years, and then came
to the United States.
Three years ago scarcely knew a
mine from we'll. But l went to Gold
Hill, and got some ground that believed
was good. and then got two or three young
men to take hold OF the property who
were well informed in gold mining To
one of these men l gave an interest. Then
l began to make careful study of the
business.
1--WE have been able to make the prop
erty pay well from the start, and now |
think mining is about the incest business
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-22
FAVORS BELT EXTENSION,
Cha mber of Commerce Takes
a Firm Stand on the
Point.
Recommends a Commercial Ar bitra
ton Board-Master Mariners to
Be Examined by Experts.

The quarterly meeting Of the Chamber
of Commerce was held yesterday. Several
important questions were considered.
There was large attendance and the
members took firm stand in regard
to securing an extension of the
Belt Railway south of Market street
to a connection with the Southern
Pacific Company's line. The committee
having the matter in charge was given
more time in order to secure an estimate
OF the COST
A commercial arbitration board was rec
commended similar to that in the Cham
bers of Commerce in London and New
York, and committee will formulate a
plan to be reported upon later.
The masters and officers of American
ships will hereafter be examined in respect
TO their qualifications by experts appointed
by the chamber, and for whose action the
chamber will be responsible.
1t was announced that the lightship and
fog signal on the bar had been provid ed
for by an appropriation of $4,000 in the
general appropriation bill now before
ongress.
The membership of the chamber has
been increased since the annual meeting
by the addition of forty-three new names.
and it is active in the interest of the CITY
and State in everything germane to its or
paniZation.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-22
HIS CHAIN WAS CUT.
How a Broker From Mexico Lost q
Valuable Watch Charm

A. Winters, a well-to-do commission
broker from the City of Mexico, has re.
ported to the police the loss of a valuable
watch charm while at the Sutro baths last
Sunday. 1t was not until after the discoy-
cry of his loss that he realized the time
and manner of the theft The piece of
jewelry in question was very valuable. II
was beautiful opa set with diamonds.
and the cost of the setting alone was S155.
The broker, in company with mum ber of
other people, was watching the antics of
q number of young fellows in one of the
small tanks, and the crowd increased to
considerable size.
Among the spectators was well-dressed
young man accompanied by rather flash
ily dressed woman. The broker noticed
that this couple were paying more atten-
ton to the others in the crowd than to the
bathers, and they kept moving about. AS
they brushed past Mr.. Winter he felt
slight jerk on his vest, but thought moth
ing of it at the time. A second later the
couple hastily left the group and departed
from the baths. A few minutes later the
broker discovered that his valuable charm
was gone, the gold chain having been
neatly cut in two with pair OF nippers.
He ran out in search of the people he sus-
pected, but they were nowhere to be found.
He is firmly convinced that under the
guise of respectability the couple were
only q pair of expert pickpockets who
were working" the crowd.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-22
BOTH DIED BY HANGING,
Ernest Weber and CHRISTOPHER
Helm Commit Sui.
eide.
One Feared Approaching Poverty and
the Other Was Tired of Long
Suffering.

Ernest Weber, a butcher, aged 65 years,
living at 1924 Howard street, and Christie
pher Helm, aged go years, living at $50
Howard street, committed suicide by hang
ing yesterday morning. and their bodies
were removed to the Morgue. Weber was
remorseful because of dragging debt and
Helm was tired of life through i'll ness.
For some time past Weber's strange &C.
tons have excited attention. He had won
SIS, 900 in the lottery, and this money had
gradually dwindled away. He had pro-
yided well for his family, however, and
just before his death felt deep concern for
his own, as the following letter, written in
German, will testify:
My Dear Wife. Having had so much misfor.
tune in business and always getting more
debts, l made an end and took my Iife for
from all that is left you afford to live quite
WELL The other way all would have gone, be-
cause business always went worse, and last
week did not even make 100 cents, and the
expenses are too large for the little income
and so thought it my duty to provide for you
Dear wife, don't trouble yourself; the money
which is in the house will last till the 2Sth Of
this month.
work on Page street, and the next 26th the
rest and every 2Sth you must pay $26 % in
terest, and the LIST of each month the money
I05 the water s, you no haze not enough money
=
ask WoertZ to get you 800 from the lodge
The lodge will do that. Now, you have to see
what TO do with the debts have. think they
will be satisfied with 25 cents on the dollar
Take the horse from the stable and bring it to
Meller. The receipts for everything of the last
month you shall find in the safe in the second
box, also the viii and the papers of the lodge
Now, you know all. l will forgive my enemies
who caused my misfortune. Your loving hus-
band, ERNEST WEBER.
When Weber's butcher-shop was opened
by A. Pfeuder yesterday morning, he was
startled to find Weber's body suspended
from the transom of an inner door. The
Coroner was notified and the body was re-
moved.
Christopher Helms body was found sus-
pended from rope attached to a bracket
on the wall of his room in the German
Hotel where he lived. The deceased had
been i'll for some time, and until recently
was a patient at the German Hospital
He leaves son and daughter living al
Grabau, Germany.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-22

1.-THE ground where we are pays about
"a cents to the cubic yard. There is q
good deal that is q great deal worse, and
there is some that is great deal better.
The gold of the district varies from fine
dust to nuggets worth $40 or $50 each.
The biggest nugget we ever got out OF our
claim was worth but 81 40.
We use No. giant and an 11-incn steel
hydraulic pipe from a fall of 205 feet.
This great fall gives us an immense power.
We can tear up the soil any way we please.
There is an abundance OF water for eight
months in the year.
when first went to the district there
wasn' t over 100 people in Gold Hill. and
not 500 in the whole district. Now Gold
Hill has from 400 to 500 people, and there
must be at least 1000 men who are at work
in the mines. They are all placer mines.
No quartz has been found yet that mounts
to anything. I suppose that is because
the prospectors have not gone high
enough up.
"Gold Hill is the center OF what / think
will be one of the greatest placer mining dis
tricts of the world. There is a company man
aged by J. w. Northup, whose Office is in
the Crocker building here, that is taking
out new ditch for ten miles up the Rogue
River from Gold Hill. It is low-level
ditch, but after they get that finished they
are going to take out another one, q high
ditch. These two will open up hundreds
of thousands of acres"
Mr.. Williams brought down q lot of
specimens of ore to be tested. The Gold
Hill diggings are on the line of the Shasta
route to Portland.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-22
as rule. Santa Clara County did not need

lrIlRdblOn.
Apricot trees. he continued, which show
a checked growth after harvest. will be greatly
benefited by irrigation soon as the fruit is
gathered, and stronger and better buds will be
developed for the next seasons crop.
When cultivation cannot do the work irriga-
tlon must step in and supply the want, and
whenever the orchardist provides himself with
facilities for furnishing water when needed he
places himself beyond the influence OF the vi
cisitudes of the season.
To keep the soil moist at all times, so that
| the soluble material required by the tree is
constantly going into solution, water enough
to keep the roots fresh and growing and to pro-
VIDE medium to circulate freely in all the
tissues OF the tree for the convenience of organ
lzea material to every part, is the ideal
The grower must be thinker and an
observer. He has got to learn the nature OF
ents ana the effect of water upon it, how often
1t is required and in how great quantities.
G. M. Wooster of San Jose said "In
Santa Clara county we raise 100, 600, 900
pounds of fruit each year, but not one
sixth of the valley, however, is subject to
irrigation. In the eastern part of the val
ley irrigation has been destructive rather
than productive of good. In the northern
part there are three different conditions to
be taken into consideration-the highest
altitude needs the most and the lower the
least water.
At the conclusion of the meeting a COM
mittee consisting of W. III. Mills, G. NJ.
Wooster, B. M. Lelong and E. W. Mas
lin for the purpose of placing the entire
proceedings of the meeting into a PAM
phlet for distribution.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-22
planation of the stand taken by the Traffic

PLANTATION of the stand taken by the Traffic
Association, said:
1.-The railroad companies have always
taken the stand that recent water compe-
petition had impelled them to put into
effect a traffic showing too slight differ
ence and in many cases no difference
whatever between carload and less than
carload shipments. 1t has been a constant
source of complaint on the part of the
wholesale dealers that this state of affairs
worked injuriously to their trade, as it
enabled the small dealer, who perhaps
bought one or two cases of goods month
or perhaps year, to obtain the same at as
cheap a freight rate as the wholesale
dealer who imported in carload lots only.
''It has always been a fundamental prin-
ciple of the transportation companies to
grant to the carload shippers less rate
than to the less than carload shippers. 1t
is well known that transportation by sail,
except in extreme cases, is, generally
speaking, the same for small shipments as
for large ones, and it is this fact that has
recently forced the rail lines to lessen the
difference between carload shipments and
smaller lots.
1--WE have sought for some time to rem
edy this difficulty, and the opportune mo-
ment arrived when the Transcontinental
Traffic Association proposed to remodel it's
tariff. We are not yet advised OF the full
text of the new tariff, but have every rea-
son to believe that the difference between
carload and less than carload rates will be
greater than heretofore, and if they should
prove not entirely satisfactory we shall
know at least that move forward has
been made in the right direction"
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-22

The difference desired by the jobbers is
this: Where the carload rate is 81 per 100
pounds, the rate for less than a carload OF
freight should be 81 so per 100 pounds.
Speaking of his work on this matter,
Mr.. Smurr said yesterday:
at was hard fight to accomplish what
the local Traffic Association desired, as
most of the Eastern roads were in favor of
maintaining the present low differentials
between carload and less than carload
lots. But we finally succeeded in bringing
them around to our way of thinking, and
the new differentials will show difference
of 40 to 80 per cent between carload ship
ments and less than carload shipments.
We made the other roads under
stand that it was better for all concerned
to contract for carload shipments to term
inaI points, than to act as distributors for
the merchants all along their lines. 1t is a
better business for the roads to carry car
load lots at low rates than to have to deal
with the uncertainties of small shipments
and the necessity of breaking bulk at fire.
uuent intervals in cars comprising through
freight trains, even though higher rate is
obtained for the smaller shipments"
Mr.. Smurr stated further that the date
for putting in the proposed new rates was
uncertain, and that they might not be-
come effective until the first of June. He
stated that there was to be meeting of
the executive comLnlttee Vi tHe ITaDScOn-
tinental Traffic Association to-day at Chi
cago, and that the new rates would have
to receive the Endorsement of that COM
mittee. Then all the trunk lines east of
Chicago and the New England roads
would have to be consulted and their con-
currence obtained. Next, the schedules
would have to be printed and copies
served on the Interstate Commerce Com
mittee and distributed to all the agents of
the different roads, the rates becoming
operative ten days after copy OF them
had been received by the Interstate Com
merce Committee.
Traffic Manager Curtis, in partial ex-
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-22
D0NAHUE FOUNTAIN.
Executors of j. Mervyn Donahue's
Estate May Soon Have the
Money to Build 1t.

money to Build 1t.
The prospects are that the affairs of J..
Mervyn Donahue's estate will soon be in
condition to permit the executors-Peter
McGlynn and Fred Burgin-to carry out
the wishes of the testator in regard to
building magnificent fountain at the in
tersecton of Bush, Battery and Market
streets.
a suit concerning some railroad stock
deposited as guarantee or security pledge
was decided by the Superior Court in favor
OF the executors few weeks since and the
present indications are that no appeal will
be taken to the Supreme Court. AS soon
as the httle factional controversy now in
progress among the owners of the Dona-
hue road is settled the directors will prob
ably adjust the matter relating to the
Messrs. McGlynn and Burgin will en-
deavor to provide fountain creditable to
San Francisco and worthy of the testators
generosity.
The will authorizes the executors to ex-
pend $25, 900 for the fountain.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-22
A Move Designed to Increase
the Jobbiug Business of
San Francisco.
HOW IT WAS ACCOMPLISHED.
The Fight Made by the Southern
Pacific at the Request of the
Traffic Association.

One OF the most important actions taken
at the recent meeting of the Transconti.
mental Freight-rate Committee at Milwau-
kee was the widening of the differentials
between carload lots and less than carload
lots, to the advantage of the wholesaler
ana to the detriment of the retailer. This
result was brought about mainly through
the efforts of the Southern Pacific Com
pany's representative, who was prompted
to make the fight on this line bv the
Traffic Association of California.
Shortly before his departure for Mil
waukee, c. F. Smurr, the general freight
agent of the Southern Pacific Company.
received the following communication
from William Bostwick Curtis, the traffic
manager of the association:
In view of the Transcon tinental Association
meeting to be held in Milwaukee on the 3Oth
inst. l hand you herewith list of ar ticles
culled from westbound tariff No. T-1 of April
IL, 1888, showing the measure of differen tial,
which in the opinion of the Traffic Association
should be maintained between carload and
less than carload rates westbound
Naturally opinions will differ on this sub
ject-, L would state. however, that generally
westbound tariff of the Transcontinentai
Freight-rate Committee noted, were in the
main satisfactory. We do not believe how.
ever Indt edrloau rate should approach
nearer than 662s per cent of the less than car
load rate and you will observe in the list
which we inclose that that figure is main
tanned.
The question OF differentials between car
load and less than carload rates is one of most
material Importance to the jobbing interests
OF San Francisco. That interest represents
your heaviest patrons and for that reason we
believe you will find it consistent to espouse
their cause on the lines we pray for herein.
The list of articles referred to in this
com munication composed every item in
the commodity-rate schedule that did not
show the desired difference between car
load and less than carload shipments.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-22
Can Have No Fees.

Judge Coffey has decided that Mrs. w. H.
Smith, as executrix OF the estate of her hus-
band, the late w. F. Smith, is not entitled to
commissions for administering on en- insur-
ance policy made payable to herself The
policy was for 100000. Judge Coffey held
that 1t was exempt from administration fees
because it was her separate property.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-22
Death of Joseph Fagan.

Joseph Fagan, the 17-year-old Alameda boy
who was crushed by Southern Pacific trair
yesterday and had both legs ampusated at the
City and County Hospital, died yesterday. The
body was removed to the Morgue and an in
quest will be held.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-22
Held for Burglary.

William Sanborn, the dive performer, who
fell from the roof of Artemus websters resi-
dence, 1904 Pine street, about two weeks ago,
was yesterday held by Judge Joachimsen to
answer before the Superior Courton the charge
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-22

of burglary IN $4,000 bonds sanborn con-
Quoted his own defense and pleaded that
owing to the fact OF being very drunk at the
pened then
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-22

Charley Moi Indicted.
Charley Moi, charged with manufacturing
opium, was indicted by the United States
Grand Jury yesterday.