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The Hawaiian gazette., 1897-05-25
STOVES and RANGES.

because our patrons like to
do their cooking in a COM
paratively cool atmosphere.
Our bakers and "broilerS'
are modelled TO do the
work" and housewives APP
preciate this fact.
We have on hand a large
variety of these stoves and
ranges, and many Honolulu
homes are already made
bright and comfortable
through the purchase of one
of them from us. We would
desire nothing better than an
inspection of our varied line
of hardware. The public
can be suited at our store
and they have found out
this important fact as our
sales prove.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1897-05-25

An English NJ. P. has offered $4,000
and plot of land towards the erection
of a technical school at Padiham
The Hawaiian gazette., 1897-05-25
Appetite Improved

almost from the first dose; then my
general health improved, and now it
is excellent. feel hundred per
cent. stronger, and l attribute this
result to Ayers SarsaparilIa, which
1 recommend with all confidence as
the best blood medicine ever
devised"
For all disorders resulting from
poor or corrupted blood and general
debility, take
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-10

! chan 1. sufncient ID niest the neces-
aarv outlav for the cheapest and simplest
| form Of administration. New roads cannot
bo made. and even those that exist already
| cannot be kept in proper repair.
TIT remedies or palliativeht applicable to
this state of things, OF course, are discussed
bv the commissioners. They may be class
flied under one or another Of three heads {:
First, the substitution OF other and
profitable agricultural industries for the
cultivation Of the sugar zane. Secondly,
the adoption of subsidiary measures,
which may tend to alleviate the strain
about to be experienced by the col
onies, such as greater economy In public
expenditure, and the promotion Of emil
grafton from places where the population
Ia excessive. Thirdly, the restoration Of
tho sugar industry TO q condition, In which
It can be carried on proftably. OF these
remedies the first Is pronounced the only
one that would avert completely the dan
gers with which the British West Indies
are now menaced. But how can the
sugar industry be made prof1table7 OBJ
viously, only in two ways namely, by rails
ing the price of the commodity, or by lower
ing Inc COSU U pEOuuSbiOhs IL SOIuLllb
sioners reluctantly admit that they see no
prospect of any changes being made which
would have the effect Of reducing largely
and Immediately the cost of producing
sugar In the West Indies. 1t remains to
raise the price of the commodity, but this
can be brought about only by persuading for
eign Governments to stop paying bounties
on beet sugar, or by imposing countervail-
ing duties on beet sugar imported into the
United Kingdom. There Is not the slightest
probability that France, Germany, and
Austria can be induced to abandon
the bounty system. Within the last year
the two last.named countries have
doubled their bounties on the export
of beet sugar, and France has very
largely increased hers. Other countries
are beginning to stimulate artiflcially the
production of sugar.; Queensland, for in
stance, encourages the investment Of CAPT.
tai in sugar factories, and Argentina Is
passing a bill Offering a direct bounty on
the export of the commodity.
OF the three members of the Royal Com.
mission, Sir HENRY NORMAN alone advo.
Gates the imposition Of a countervailing
duty on bounty-fed sugars, because
that seems to him "the only posi-
BILE remedy; the other proposed pallia-
tives would be in no sense effective
substitutes, and "no other industry or in
dustries can, within a reasonable time, re-
place sugar" His two colleagues, how
ever, decline to recommend a duty, and
there is no chance Of it's being i'm
posed. The comments of the London
press Upon the subject show that
the inhabitants Of the United Kingdom
would rather witness the ruin of the West
India Islands thar pay q possible extra
cent per pound on sugar.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-10

The Hon. JOSEPH CLAY STILES BLACK.
BURN is spreading Joy through Washington. He
is the gladdest man in the world. He feels that
Kentucky has cried for silver. and that she will
cry in still moro wooing and persuasive tones
for JOE BLACKBURN. He is sure that when Ken.
lucky has the pleasure OF electing a successor to
the Hon. WILLIAM LINDSAY. she cannot help
electing JOE BLACKBURN. Indeed. what has
the Senate been since he left It'll The beauty,
the vigor. the poetry havo faded out Of
1t. JOE BLACKBCRN must return to II.
Col. JACK CHM has sworn by almost all
the holy vows of heaven that JOE BLACKBURN
shall return. some puny spirits in Kentucky
dare TO aspire to tho place on which JOE and
JACK have fixed their commanding gaze. The
puny spirits do not know the treason they arc
committing. The right of electing a Senator In
Congress from Kentucky belongs to Mr.. BLACK
BURN and Col. CHINN, and they are going to er-
ercise IL.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-10
The Forlorn Hope in Missouri.

The views and plans of the Executive
Committee of the National Democrats of
Missouri are not of any past, present, or
future political Importance, but in the nat
ural history of hope they ought to have a
good, fat chapter. There was a meeting of
these executors last week to consider what
they should do in regard to the elections of
1898, which will be affected by the Ma
tional Democratic party of Missouri and of
the rest of the country about as much as
the motions of the planets are affected by
the motions of the Hon. WILLIAM d.
BYNUM's lips. But the executors solemnly
considered, and Major EDWARD G. Gun.
NINGHAM, their Chairman, reports the ma
jestic result. TIL vote of $4,000 cast by
the Massachusetts, National Democrats,
o reports from Iowa" and other cheer.
ing news ave determined the Missouri
National Democrats to ."keep their forces
intact" Meanwhile both Republicans and
Democrats are to be ''enlightened by the
circulation of sound-money literature"
Major CUNNINGHAM is delicious when he
lays out the plans of the vanishing but
cheerful minority:
"our campaign will be. as in the past. an educa.
tional one. both as to the advocacy Of the Indianapo-
lis platform and In the exposure OF silver Democratic
as well as Republican fallaoies. whether in State or
national Government.
"Having begun this tight on liues that We think
represent the true Democracy, WI shall keep It up
until we are convinced either that we arc wrong or
have brought the freesilver Democracy back TO the
original principles OF the party
The spectacle of a few hundred or thou
sand enthusiasts setting to work to con-
vert both the great parties or themselves is
good enough to paint. Some of these mis-
sionaries will be converted, and the rest
will get tired, but their present bold, hope
full attitude is beautiful. If a couple of
Basque enthusiasts should start out to
make Basque the universal language, their
undertaking would not be more interesting
and ingenious than is this Missouri educa-
tional enterprise.
: at is the intention of the committee, -
says Major CUNNINGHAM, "to have a
national Democratic candidate for Office
during the next four years in the State of
Missouri, whether it be for Constable, Su-
preme Judge, or Governor" No doubt the
Missouri National Gold Democrats can fur.
nish candidates for Supreme Judge and
Governor for some time, but when 1t comes
to c~onstables will they have men enough to
90 around
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-10
The Republican Part, In Good shane.

To THE EDITOR OF TIE SuS-Sir: As u Republican I
must say that ! am glad that Low was defeated. His
election would have left the organization In a worse
condition for future contests than II is now. It would
have resulted in u mt organized feud In the
party between the independent" and tho "regu.
lars" struggling for supremacy. whereas the regular
organization is now left intact. w.th IN" clcice for
the boilers 20 return to tho party or go TO the oppo,i.
tlon where they belong, II Will be n straight fight
next time between tho Republican and Democrats.
and on the issues OF last year, prot elton and sound
money. ! have no doubt the Republicans Will carry
the state Of New York without control OF the city.
The old fight Is still on, demanding final settlement,
Bryanism seems to take fresh courage from the re.
suits Of the election. but ! fail To see any substantial
ground for the hopes OF FREQ silver. or Of any OF the
other heresies OF the Chicago platform. KENTUCKY
goes back TO Its allow, but this Is more from bad
management among the leaders Of the Republicans
and gold Democrats OF the State than from any change
In the opinions OF the people. Maryland stands firm
for tho principles which sho nObly sustained last
year. For reasons which we ali understand, Ohio
DO not give her usual Republican vote for the legis.
laiiVe ticket, bur he lands safely on the right side.
ksn AZ, Nebraska, the Dukotds. aud other Western
States, even Colorado. SHOW signs ~ returning sanity.
and ] think most nf them VII soon again be- counted
III the Republican column, OrTIMIsT.
WASHISGTuS, Nov. II.
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The senate Chaplain nnd tho senate.

To THE ED!ToE or The SuS-Sir: While the Pow.
several addresses in which he severely arraisned the
United States senate, OF which body he Is CHAPLAIN
for its failure to PASS the British arbitration treatv.
In addition to the bad taste which the reverend gentle.
man display" ed upon these occasions. he soreIy taxed
the patience Of his fellow.countrymen In London NV
his servilc adulation of her Majesty and tho institu.
tions and Government OF Great Britain. His spe.chea
and '"rInons wern an apology for his country and AN
onerCo Ia the dignity OF tho Republic.
AZ we ihVi!atioh OF our unphtriotic dominic, the
Rev. Charles A Berry, Chairman OF the Engisn CON.
SENSATIONAL union. Is now with MS for the pnrDose az
enIIghtrnlnP our benighted minds anon Inc renen.
cent inf. 1T noes OF British arbitration.
II IL also reported that the Rev. M!lburn will yacata
IN 'neha'. pulpit Tor q day, and permit his English
hall OF those wicked senators who failed 10 realize -
brautles and delights OF al Anglo. American alliance
The iinperturbable Cremer. ex.M. p, is nunIn
about 10 invade VI. armed with n petition alleged 10
he signed ny 1000 English workingmen. heseectinq
our country TO stand by the mother land 4" ~ in ihis
her hour of litter. albeit. magnificent isolation Ths
mary Hone solicitnde OF our hereditary foe and rival
sublime. " e"np'y
Last year. however. the Government Of her Ms,s.,v
tprakihS through III" mouth OF her Colonial Secre.
larry, declared It's . s,tion upon tie subject or ariI.
trhtinB the Transvaal difficulties In no uneauiyocaI
terms.
1T is absurd" Mr.. Chamberlain declared. :. tn ap0.
Ectt arbllfaiion To Great Britain, which Is a predon,i.
hant lover 50 much for English hypocrisy.
mat small Encouragement should he given 10 thasc
elllssarl = or British intrigue, and that any further
ONcrtureh from the amiable SIR Julian la nermitted
'"'' ueeuetuue' L. ST. J. q.
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AZ all events, no Inclcmency cfthe weather
or unusual sickness can be the cause, for
the enrolment suffered like the average
attendance. Commissioners JONES puts the
enrolment for last year at 23,072 n for
this year %, 1884, q falling of of Cos.
But on the whole there is ground for con.
graduation in this work. When we reflect
that In 1877 there were but 13l schools,
against 2ss to-day, and that the there
was an attendance OF about $500, against
over five times as much now, the progress
Is apparent. At that earlier date, too, an
appropriation of $4,000 for Indian edu.
cation was Thought sufficient, and In 1882
1t was only $685. 900, whereas for the year
on which Commissioner JONES now reports
it reached the unprecedented figures Of
$2.h17.265. The first fruits OF this work
are eiready seen to some extent in the elcva-
ton Of the Indian race.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-10
The Indian Schools.

1t is something of q surprise to learn
from the annual report of COMMISSIONS
JONES that there was u decrease of $40 in
the average attendance last year at the In.
dian schools. We find no precedent for such
a decrease in the last fourteen years, dur.
ing which period, we may add, the at
tendance has more than quadruplcd.
Looking back through former reports, we
find that in 1858 the average attendance
was 4,O42; that the following year 1t ad-
vanced to 6,115, the next year to SLAB,
the next to $3.50, the next to l0,52O, the
next to 11,420, the next to II ,552, thenext
to 1929, the next to 1858, the next to
15,1G7, the next to 5000, the next to
1920, the next to Is, 1875, and last year to
1921. Now we find this invariable in
crease for the first time reversed, and the
number set at 1876. AS the present Com
missioner also reyises last years official
statistics, putting the attendance then at
1929 instead of at the 1921 In Mr..
BRowNING's report, we have the net loss of
$50 already spoken of.
Remembering that the hope of the red race
Is largely in the education of the young, we
should be sorry to think that the cause had
lost Roadway. We are inclined rather to as
cribe the temporary retrograde to the fact
that the present Is a transition period. The
Government schools continue to increase in
number, eleven additional being In opera
tion during the past year, but a near end
has already been fixed for the withdrawal
of aid from the contract schools, and very
soon the latter will be left to go on alone.
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Sir wilfrid Laurier's Errand.

Our neighbors Of the Dominion have had
OF late years many subjects Of controversy
with us, although some of these are now
less bitter and menacing than formerly.
In the Northwest there are various ques.
tions arising out of the Klondike gold dis.
coveries and the proposed taxes or other
restrictions upon American miners. There
Is possible trouble, too, over the boundary
line between Alaska and British Columbia,
while the future of pelagic sealing is n Of
the pressing problems Of the hour. The re-
adjustment Of our tariff has led some
Of u friends ut the north to consider
various reciprocity projects, while the laws
or proposed laws of the two countries affect
ing transportation between them, including
the crossing Of the border by laborers, arc
also matters for serious consideration.
1t is not surprising, therefore, to find that
Sir WILFRID LAURIER has chosen the few
weeks just preceding the meeting of Con-
gress, at which the annual message of the
President and the reports Of his Cabinet
officers will be presented, for a visit to
Washington. Accompanying the Premier
are other Dominion officers. desiring infor-
nation as to the views of our Government
on matters that concern the people Of
both countries. OF course, the Behring
Sea question is foremost at this time, as
the conference of the British, American,
and Canadian experts is now to take place.
Whether the Canadian Premier has any
thing specific to propose in regard to the
sealing dispute, the bonding privileges Of
the railroads, the routes by water or land
through American and Canadian territory
to the Klondike, the immigration laws, or
he fishery troubles that still occasionally
occur either on the lakes or on the Atlantic
coast, remains to be seen.
The subjects of discussion between Can
ada and ourselves are indeed numerous,
and sometimes grave. Blu underlying them
are indestructible grounds of sympathy.
In fact, a leading cause of these differences
is the fact that, with sue fundamental
common interests, the two countries are
under different systems of government, our
n%eighbors holding on to an Anticipated
colonial dependency which we threw of, to
such obvious advantage, more than a CEN
fury ago. At nc distant day we may hope
that they will outgrow this strange an
achronism, and cast In their fortunes with
ours as an American community. Mean
while we must try to arrange amicably
any controversies that arise out Of this false
condition of affairs.
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nfty-csnt piece and asked me to 10 and net
some bromo-seltser.r After drinking this
and resting q while DURRANr went home.
He appears TO have resumed his ordinary
occupations, and was engaged in the ser.
vice Of the State as a member Of the Signal
Corps in the National Guard when arrested
on the day after the discovery of the body
In the belfry. He was tried in the Superior
Court Of the city and county Of San Fran.
cisco, before Judge ID. J. MURPHY, and con.
victed. The conviction was unanimously
affirmed by the Supreme Court of Califor.
mia in March Of this year. The defend.
ants counsel then resorted to those
dilatory proceedings in the Federal
courts which have recently become
so common in capital cases, applying
to the Circuit Court for q writ of habeas
corpus to procure the release Of the pris.
oner, and then appealing to the Supreme
Court at Washington from the order deny.
ing the application. In this case the
application was upon the ground that the
trial court deprived the defendant of some
right guaranteed to him by the Federal
Constitution. The decision announced by
Chief Justice FULLER on Monday settles
that question adversely to DuRRANT.
Just before the discovery Of BLANCHE
LAMoNT's dead body In the belfry another
young girl Of DURRANT's acquaintance
named MINNIE WILLIAMS had been found
dead In the lower part Of the same church
ediHce and that she was the victim of the
same murderer is strongly indicated by
the circumstance of the case.
Perhaps the most damaging single piece
Of evidence against the prisoner related to
a ring worn by Miss LAMONT when she dis
appeared. This ring was offered for sale to
q pawnbroker during the following week.
1t was offered for sale by DURRANT.
But the mystery which enshrouds this
crime is the absence of apparent motive.
What object could this reputable young
man ave had in numbering this innocent
young girl7 None was disclosed by the
evidence, and the Supreme Court of Cali.
fornia, referring to this feature Of the case,
could only say that proof Of the motive is
never essential to a conviction, where the
preparation Of the crime has been brought
home to the defendant.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-10
YALE CORPORATION MEETS.
New DeEree in the shemeld gchool-Monev
Anhirs OF the University.

NO" DeHr0o IN n bnemeId BCnOOt-mOuO1
Anhirs OF the University.
n HAVEN. Nov. 9.-Only two important
votes were passed by the Yale Corporation this
afternoon at the regular fall meeting. Those
present voted to promote DR.. Lafayette B. Mem
del to an assistant professorship and to estab-
]ish the degree of master of science in the Shelf
field Scientific School. DR.. Mendel is in the de-
partment of physiological chemistry. The vote
establishing the degree master Of science in tho
scientific department was taken upon recon-
mendation of the Governing Board of the school.
1t will be given to graduates of two years
standing who have taken q first degree In sci.
encc and pursued a higher course of study under
the direction of the Governing Board. This will
| involve at least O years residence Of graduate
study.
Treasurer William Farnam's annual report
was submitted. 1t gives the total increase OF
the permanent funds Of the university as $412;:
497.21.. The leading additions to the funds of
'n 4e xsSsads asRsreRi fand I sis 1882; Leayen-
Joseph Eliot fund. $i7o.Os. ~
sheffield Scientific School Fayerweather
Medical School-George Bliss estate. $685. 900,
Mary G; Hunt estate. $4,000.
,l%ntirmnry fund. for building an i~solating pa
yilion, y, 1895 Law School building fund.
5 }1ha Vi Xiunn sadf GntS " &c., E FSnsF"l As a%da sfs1sy
SO, 71s:7 IS: university library, Mrs. Henry Far.
$ %Ritss $9;SSe; : s;fSS; Hod ais"flF's% ehoel. i Mrs. Is:
Henry Farnam. 81 900.
I,The total amount OF the university funds 10
given as 81. 567, 495. 40. The Bronson fund now
amounts to 8 O.300. and the general fund $742.-
S47.10. The total of the library fund is now
$315. O96.35 The Loomis fund is $3l2,4l5.5I.
and the professorship fund SS4, 100. and the i-
Urinary fund 81. 100. The dining
hall receipts were 1886. 235.67; the gymnasium
receipts. $l4 1906 90; the iniirmarv rcceipts.
$3, 514.55. and the library receipts, $40. 1867. Tho
observatory receipts We're S24, 300. %. and tho
reading room receipts 81 ,3I2.0 90. The trustees
of the Peabody Museum say that the general
fund now amounts to $3.50. goa. SO. The building
fund is $97, 237.47, and The income last year
was s., 10l. %.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-10
The Murder of Blanche Lamont

The action of the Supreme Court of the
United States on Monday in affirming the
decision of the Circuit Court in California
refusing a writ of habeas corpus to WILL
LIAM HENRY THEODORE DURRANr seems
to render it certain that he will be executed
for one of the most extraordinary murders
ever committed in this country.
His victim was BLANCHE LAMONT, a
schoolgirl 81 years of age, who lived with
her aunt in a Francisco, and attended
the high school and normal school in that
city. She was last seen alive on April 8,
1895, on which day she left school at 3
o'clock in the afternoon, when her classes
were dismissed. She never went home.
On the 14th of April her dead body, nude,
was found on the highest landing in the
belfry of the Baptist Emmanuel Church in
San Francisco, with marks upon the neck
and other physical signs showing that
death had been caused by strangulation,
probably about ten or twelve days before.
BLANCHE LAMONT and young DURRANr
were both attendants of his church and
fellow members of the Christian Endeayor
Society connected with it. He was a medi.
cal student, "a years of age, and bore an
excellent reputation in the professional
school which he attended, in the church,
and in the National Guard of California, to
which he belonged. He admitted having
met BLANCHE LAMONT and having walked
part of the way to school with her on the
morning of the day she disappeared, but
declared that he had never seen her after
he left her that morning.
There was evidence. however, that this
statement by DURRANT was untrue. A girl
who left school with BLANCHE LAMONT on
the afternoon Of the fatal Sd of April testi.
ned that DURRANT joined them as they en-.
tered a car on the street. Other witnesses
saw DURRANT with Miss LAMONT in this
car. Later In the afternoon q woman liy.
Ing opposite Baptist Emmanuel Church
saw DURRANT going through the church.
yard toward the side door with a young
lady. She thought at the time that his
companion was either Miss LAMONT or an.
other young lady whom she named. That
1t was not this other young lady the subse.
quent proof ~conclusively established.
Still later, on the Sd of April, the organ.
it went into the church to play over some
music on the piano. He observed q strong
smell or escaping gas in the library and
elsewhere, but could not ascertain where
itcaine from. AS he sat at the piano play.
Ing DURRAET entered the Sunday school
room from the rear and stood still. al
asked him what was the matter" said the
organist, because of his pale condition.
He had his coat of and his hat Off. His
hair was somewhat dishevelled. He came
through, n then told me that he had
beon fixing the gas above the auditorjum
and had been overcome by 1t to such a
degree that he could hardly descend the
Ladder. He seemed Ill. He handed me q