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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-09-16
Saw Ghosts.

correspondent writing from Hilo
tells of mysterious happening on the
the following language:
Immediately after the earthquake a
woman was seen to run across the
courthouse yard and disappear while
running, Whether she was a ghost
witch or some other kind of mystery,
no one seems to know. Just as she got
about the middle of the yard three more
dressed in the same manner were seen
running in the opposite direction along
Front street. This remarkable occur
renee was witnessed by many people.
1t may be that these apparitions were
some of Peles delegates.
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NEEDHAM WILL RUN.
For the Position of Second Lieu
tenant in Company b.


A large number of the members of
Company B, n. G. H, have been after
Private w w. Needham to run for
second lieutenant of that company in
the place made vacant by Lieut.. John
son. They have finally obtained his
consent
Private Needham has the following
record which speaks for itself:
He was a member of the Honolulu
Rifles from 1886 to 1889 and was also a
member of Company c, 4th Infantry,
U. S. Army for three years.
Entering as a private he was soon
promoted to be corporal which he held
for one year. He was then promoted
to be sergeant and six months later
was promoted to be ergeant-majOT
which position he held for nearly
eighteen months.
Upon his discharge papers is the fol
lowing endorsement:
'An honest, capable and. trustworthy
man and an excellent soldier"
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MAY BE OPPOSITION.
Hilo May Ship Ice to Honolulu
and Cut Down the Price.

Hilo May Ship Ice to Honolulu
and Cut Down the Price.
L. C. Ables, formerly manager of the
ice works here is in Hilo with view to
embarking in the business of manufac-
turing ice there in opposition to the
company already established.
1t is rumored, and Mr.. Ables did not
deny it when questioned in Hilo, that
he intends securing land near the Wal
luku Falls, a magnificent water power
in the town proper, and will erect a
plant with a capacity of ten tons hav-
ing ample storage premises on the
land. He will charter schooners from
Hilo to Honolulu, shipping ice to the
latter port in fifty ton lots every ten
days. This will be deposited in we'll
adapted storage houses near the rail-
road depot in Honolulu and sold and
delivered to customers from that point.
AS the consumption of ice in Homo
lulu is less than eight tons daily, Mr..
Ables believes he can furnish all that
is required and at lower rate than is
now asked The power necessary to
make the ice in Hilo will cost compare
lively nothing Mr. Abels has the sup
port of leading Hilo capitalists in the
proposed enterprise.
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HiIo Keeps on the Move, Both
Above and Below,
CONTRACT FOR NEW CHURCH.
Social Club Gives Pleasant Evenings Amuse-
ment Schools Opened With Full Attendance
Plea TO Stop Fast Riding-Dr. Wetmore
Leaves for a Vacation Personal Notes

HILO (Hawaii), Sept. 14.-Precisely
at S O'Clock yesterday Sunday morn
ing the slumberers throughout the ISL
and of Hawaii were suddenly aroused
by a most severe cradling, caused by
such quaking of the earth as has not
been experienced here for many years
some say not since the terrific shocks
of '68. The oscillation seemed almost
north and south and the shock was
greater toward Hamakua than in the
direction of Kilauea. In Kona the
shake was steady and severe, but no
damage resulted. There was NO per-
ceptible disturbance in the crater, and
at the Volcano House the shock was
less severe than at Hilo. On the prem
ises of H. G.. Austin and on Jail and
Front streets earth cracks are gaping
open an inch or more. Probably the
greatest damage resulted in the Hilo
drug store on Front street. Dozens OF
bottles of patent medicines were pre-
cipitated to the floor and emptied of
their contents. Other losses make the
damage from $3.50 TO $500 there. At
the Laupahoehoe water works there
was considerable damage caused by
land slides, and the water supply was
cut off, Necessary repairs were affected
during the day. The roads throughout
North Hilo are partly blocked, owing
to numerous land slides, and on many
bluffs great rocks stand ready to fall
off. For two or three days past the
weather has indicated the coming of
earthquakes, and until yesterday after
noon no rain had fallen for several
days.
Saturday was an ideal day FIR
beach picnic, and large number OF
Hiloites, together with their guests, Mr..
and Mrs George Carter, Mrs. Davis,
Mrs King of Honolulu, Mrs. Julian
Monsarrat of Kapapala Ranch, and
others, enjoyed an outing on Cocoanut
Island and at Kainehe.
The Hilo Social Club was entertain
ed in a most unique and charming man
ner at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. e. ID.
Baldwin on Thursday evening, the Sd
inst The young men were inveigled
into a mending and sewing contest and
were kept buisily at it under the vigi-
liant inspection of the ladies present un-
til it was decided that none of them
could trim ladies' hats, and that all
would be better off if they had some
one to do their mending and sewing.
Guessing the representative figures as
they sat, squatted or lay around with
only eyes and tips of noses exposed,
engaged the young folks for some time.
Mr.. Rowland and DR.. Elliot won first
prizes for having guessed the greatest
number correctly.
Miss Helen Severance gave a picnic
on Cocoanut Island on Saturday last,
complimentary to Miss Guild. Only a
few friends were invited.
All the schools reopened on Monday
morning with a full attendance. The
select school under Mrs. McStay num-
bers about thirty pupils. The German
/ Kindergarten under Miss Byer opens
tomorrow in the new building on
| Church street.
Now that the schools have begun, and
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of falling from the dresser, so | got up
and placed it on the floor and then sat
down alongside of it, merely to eX-
perience the thing in its fullest force,
and I was quite successful. l was very
sorry when it was over, but [ hope
when am on Maui next week to have
another try at it as it comes back. /
would not have missed it for anything,
| can assure YOU"
H c. Austin, the gentlemanly tax
assessor of Hilo, who fixes land values
for people to go to law over, said he
thought he felt a shock Sunday even
ing. He estimates the time during
which Hilo ratified Sunday morning at
something over ten seconds, but he was
too busy watching things falling over
in his room to make any particular
note of the time.
Eben Low of Kohala says the shock
was severe there and caused much con-
sternation among his fat cattle. There
was no damage from the shock any
where in the vicinity of his home.
Maui was in harmony with Hawaii
and Oahu in the sensation. Passengers
from there state that it was the most
severe shock experienced in many
years
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his resignation was accepted, and upon
his seat being declared vacant w. l..
Bowers of the Merchants Patrol was
elected to the Office for the ensuing
year.
Seven new members were elected to
membership, and after other routine
business was attended to the meeting
adjourned to come together again next
Tuesday.
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Ensign Brodie of the Salvation Army
in India, was recently tried and con-
demned to seven years Imprisonment
for homicide, committed in a street
dispute. An interesting feature of the
case was the fact that the presiding
Judge was a native and a Mohamme-
dan
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American League.

The American League held it's usual
weekly meeting in headquarters last
night, with a goodly representation of
the members.
Financial Secretary Mark n. Ken
nedy being engaged on one of the ISL
and steamers in a position which al
lows him little if any time in Honolulu,
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sshows ~ ih h hb b d N
othnthea ynomH@ sea From

first mass at the Catholic Church many
persons who did not know the hour
| thought the changing of the church
bell calling the religious ones to their
| devotion, was warning that fires had
| broken out in the town and the assist
ance of the people was needed to ex-
tinguish it. Twenty minutes after
ward, the sun rose over Cocoanut ISL
and and Front street was crowded with
a heterogeneous mass of people. anxi-
Gus to find out where they were at"
AT the Hilo Hotel, artist Hugo Fisher
and Mr.. Stacker, reporter for this pa
per were asleep in one of the rooms
and were awakened by the rumbling
noise. Neither was aware that the
other was awake until a sound like
the breaking of timber caused them to
move. Fisher, expecting another
shock and tidal wave, shouted to his
companion, Good bye, we are going"
and Stacker in his effort to get out
of bed as quickly as possible, took the
wrong side, and, in the darkness went
kbang up against the wall. An attempt
| to turn on the electric lights failed as
night superintendent Mcdonald
thoroughly alarmed at the danger
which threatened the works turned out
the lights and they were shut off for
twenty minutes.
HE SLEPT THROUGH IT.
Up to the time the Kinau left the only
person in Hilo known to have passed
through the shock without knowing
about it was c. ]. Campbell, of G. E.
Richardson's store. This gentleman
much resembles the Iamented Bill
Nye" in appearance and his statement
that he was not disturbed, may be a
joke AS he was not on the streets,
one of his friends repaired to his room
directly over Richardson's store to find
him. Repeated knocks on the door
| brought the young man from bed and
when told that there had been a shock
and goods in the store had been upset,
he rubbed his eyes and remarked that
| he'd been dreaming that Hilo had
! boom and the noise was made by dray
loads of coffee passing along the
streets" Mr.. Campbell's statement is
| doubted by those who know that his
knowledge of booms was acquired by
a residence in the north west.
HOW THEY TOOK IT.
Artist Howard Hitchcock, who had
! just returned from a tour of Puma,
where he had been making sketches,
was rudely awakened by the shock.
He suffered no inconvenience beyond a
surprise at running up against the wall
in getting out the wrong side of the
bed.
r. c. L. Perkins, the naturalist, was
visiting T. J. Higgins in Olaa when the
quake came, and was particularly de-
lighted at being present. Mr. Perkins
has been gathering birds and bugs and
on the Islands for the past four years,
and having secured every species of
bird, has devoted his time aud energies
| lately to locating earthquakes. IN a
conversation with a reporter for this
paper after the arrival of the Kinau
yesterday Mr. Perkins said:
Il was awakened the moment the
shock began; my lamp was IN danger
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GENERALLY FELT.

Telephone messages received in Hilo
from all stations on Hawaii were to
the effect that the shock was severely
felt at every point but there was no
disturbance of the sea on any part of
the island. AS Hilo is without it's COM
pliment of scientific men no authentic
information is obtainable as to the
duration of the shock or the exact
course.
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TOWN DIVIDED.

AS an evidence of the shock crack
beginning at the sea and running
north for half mile as open for the
inspection of the curious. In some
places, too, the stone wall around the
Catholic mission was thrown to the
ground and one tree uprooted.
The atmosphere for week previous
to the shock has not been of a charac-
ter to lead one to expect such a demon
stration unless clear and delightful
weather in Hflo is an indication of in
ternal disturbance. Saturday night
was exceptionally cool and pleasant
and so it was during and Immediately
after the shock.
News from the Volcano brought
down by Col. Peter Lee is to the effect
that there was no apparent change in
the condition of the lake or the main
crater He says that from all accounts
the shock at the crater was not as Sc
we're as the one felt in HiIo. Some of
his children sleeping in the cottage
adjoining did not feel the disturbance
at all. Col. Lee considered the shock
a good one, equal in every respect to
the Kau 'quakes. but as he is hardened
TO such things, he may not be a com
petent judge.
VARIED EXPERIENCE.
Some amusing incidents are told as
taking place in Hilo AS the disturb
ance began so near the hour for the
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-09-16

President GarfieId's Death.
MR.. EDITOR:-When was James A
Garfield assassinated?
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News received from the Volcano is
TO the effect that the severest shock
of earthquake since 1868 was felt there
at one minute before a. m. Sunday.
AS near as can be ascertained the
shock came from N. E. to S. W., light
in the beginning and growing stronger
during the ten seconds it lasted
HILO DRUG co.
Dishes were thrown from the shelves
in private houses and bottles from the
shelves and tables in the business Sec-
ton, the heaviest loss being that of the
Hilo Drug Co. on Front street, the
amount being estimated by Mr.. Bar
throp at more than $4OO. Here hun
dreds of bottles of patent medicines
and valuable drugs were thrown to
the floor, and smashed. One small
show case was alse broken by heavy
articles falling upon it. Where the
large drug jars were not thrown down
they were turned half round on the
shelves leaving the labels next the wall
STATUARY BROKEN.
At John Scott's house, Wainaku$ the
loss was considerable; several pieces
of valuable statuary and bric-a-brac'
which this gentleman had collected
during his travels abroad were thrown
from their places and smashed to
pieces. Mr.. Scott is now in Europe
so that the exact amount of damage
could not be ascertained.
In L. Turner's general store, and
Theo. H. Davies branch, in the build
ing next the drug store, goods were
upset generally, but no serious dam
age resulted G. E. Richardson suffer-
ed a small loss through broken bottles
of liquids, but small amount will cover
it. Much type in the Tribune office
was "pied" Including the damage to
effects in private houses, the entire loss
will amount to, perhaps, thousand
dollars in the immediate vicinity of
Hilo.
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VARIED EXPERIENCE.

Some amusing incidents are told as
taking place in Hilo. AS the disturb
ance began so near the hour for the
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-09-16

There are nearly 5000 stitches in a
pair of hand-sewed boots.
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INQUIRER.

1881, and died at Long Branch, N Y.
Sept. 6, 1881.
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Will RECEIVE PENSION
Bill Providing for KaiuIani Signed
by President.
TWO THOUSAND PER YEAR.

VIII Probably go Today.
q No Conditions With the Allowance.
Now Travelling In Europe With Her
Father = She May Return Here.
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For every quarter in mans pocket
there are dozen uses, and to use each
one in such way as to derive the great
est benefit is question everyone must
solve for himself. We believe, however,
that no better use could be made of one
of these quarters than to exchange it
for a bottle of Chamberlain's Collie,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, med
icine that every family should be pro-
vided with. For sale by all druggists
and dealers. Benson, Smith & Co.,
agents for Hawaiian Islands.
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in that department of the Government
would be materially cut
/ Among the officers, according, to a
non-com, the feeling was one of disgust
combined with forced desire to grin
and bear it. He understood that the pay
of Colonel Mclean would be reduced
$25 per month, that Captains Good and
Zeigler would try and get along on SIS
per month less than they have been get
ting, and that first lieutenants would
cut down their expenses $12 per month
in order to meet corresponding re-
duction in their salaries.
AS to second lieutenants, they were
not in it; that is, their positions were
to be wiped out all together, and that
one of them, possibly Schaefer, would
be appointed adjutant in place of Adju-
tant Broome, absent on leave, and Ev-
anston would once more become a SER
geant.
The consensus of opinion of the men
between decks seemed to be that the
cut was sure thing.
Yesterday the feeling had changed and
whatever dissatisfaction had been felt
on Wednesday disappeared, the men
realizing that their position, even with
the reduction of the clothing allow
ance, was better than that of soldiers in
the United States.
Colonel Mclean was seen at the Pa
cific Club last night, and when asked
regarding the rumor, said it would have
to continue rumor so far as he was
concerned. He had nothing for the
press, and would not have until the
matter was made official at 9 o'clock
this morning. The Colonel felt that If
he said anything. about the proposed re-
duction the Cabinet might consider him
out of order. and the first thing he knew
he would be called up-or down.
From another individual it was learn
ed that the expenses at military head
quarters, including salary of 1925 to
Colonel Mclean, had been reduced to
S742 per month, and the salary of Of
ficers and privates of Companies E and
F amount to approximately $3,746 per
month, making total expense of S4,-
ass per month. The total appropriation
for the military is s133, 900 for the pc
Rod. At the present rate of expense
the amount expended during two years
would be s107,712, leaving a surplus in |
this one fund of S25,2S8
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formation that the Government of Ha-
wall had appropriated, for her separate
use, the sum of two thousand dollars
per annum.
The appropriation was without con-
ditions, and the money is subject to her
order, to be drawn monthly or quarterly
as she may elect.
The likeness shown is made from her
latest photograph, which was kindly
loaned the Advertiser by Theo. H.
Davies, who, until the young lady
came of age, was her guardian in Eng
land. Compared with some pictures
seen here, the young lady has grown
taller, but the rather sad expression re-
mains the, same.
The photograph shows her to be tall
and slender. She is now making a
tour of Europe with her father, A. S.
Cleghorn, and when that comes to an
end she will probably return to her
friends in England and remain until
such time as she may wish to visit her
island home, where a beautiful resi-
delce at Waikiki awaits her.
The appropriation for her allowance
was made without serious objection
from the members of either the Senate
or the House. The only question was
regarding her fealty to the Republic,
and if there was any doubt about that
it was swept aside by the letters from
Mr.. Davies which appeared exclusively
in this paper few weeks ago.
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Rep. Hanuna Discovers Mares
Nest.
EIGHTEEN MINUTES IN SENATE.
Appointed to Visit the Leper
Settlement-Ob Objections to New Fire
Limit Causes Discussions-Ministe
Smith Introduces a Curfew Bill.
Fifty.fourth Day.
TUESDAY, April 2S.

TUESDAY, April 2S.
The usual preliminaries and reading
of minutes. Senator McCandless alb
sent. Il.
Senator Wilcox reported for the
Health Committee on the petition OF
327 Chinese residents of Honolulu, pray
ing that piece of land be granted by
the Government for the purpose of a
hospital for aged and infirm Chinese.
The committee reported favorably
and introduced a bill which passed
first reading and was referred to the
Printing Committee.
Senator Lyman announced his in
tention to introduce bill providing for
an electric street railway in the town
of Hilo, on the island of Hawaii.
Under suspension of rules Minister
Damon announced his intention to in
troduce a bill relating to the Post
Office, and bearing especially upon the
stamping of letters between the islands.
Bill passed second reading and was re-
ferred to the Printing Committee.
Third reading of House Bill No. %,
relating to legacies, requests and in
heritances, announced on the order of
the day. Passed unanimously.
Senator Rice granted weeks leave
of absence.
Senate adjourned at 1918 a. m.
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Following is an extract of letter re-
ceived from Kapapala Ranch by the w.
G.. Hall yesterday:
I'VE had five or six shakes about 1870
Tuesday morning, April 21st. None of
these were very severe, but the refiec-
ton was seen down at Pahala about 4
o'clock or earlier, so that the fire must
have started soon after the cessation of
the earthquakes. The reflection visible
every night is grand, and is greater
than any witnessed in the last twelve
years. On the way from Kapapala to
Pahala, at about 4 o'clock Thursday
morning, April 23d, glorious view of
Mauna Loa was Afforded The morning
was cold and crisp, not cloud in the
sky until the sun began to rise. Then
the effect was wonderful. The sun tint
ed all the heavens with pink and yellow
and then this brilliant reflection over
Mauna Loa beyond the purple of the
hills made a marvelously grand and in
spring scene"
A party of eight or ten, consisting of
Messrs. Wakefield, Daniel Logan of the
Bulletin, F. S. Dodge, D. Howard Hitch
cock, Peter Lee and others, started
from Kapapala Ranch for the crater
of MokuaweOweo yesterday morning,
with Julian Monsarrat as guide.
The latest news from Hawaii is to the
effect that there have been no earth
quakes on the island since Tuesday
morning, April 21st, the time of the be-
ginning of the. outbreak.
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A PROFESSOR TO RETURN.
Government Position Accepted by
Former PunahOu Teacher.

. Prof A. B. Lyons, formerly instructor
in chemistry at Oahu Cillege, has ac-
cepted the position of Government qua
ger made vacant by the promotion of
George Stratemeyer to be port sur
veyof
Prof. Lyons resigned from the college,
together with other teachers there,
about year ago, and left almost i'm
mediately with his family for their old
home in Michigan. AS he was a resi-
dent of the Islands number of years
prior to his departure, it is like giving
the position to habitat to appoint the
Professor.
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There will be an important
meeting of the medical profess
sion, irrespective of members of
the Medical Association or Gov
eminent officers, at the office of
DR.. Myers, Masonic Temple, Ala,
kea street, at s o'clock on the
evening of May I'd. All physi-
clans in the city are requested to
be present.