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The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1897-01-19
Thursday, Jan. 21st,
AT 12 O'CLOCK NOON.
All of the Following Described
Real Estate.

Apana l. E hoomaka ana ma Ike
kihi Hik. pill ana me ke kihi Akau
o ka pa Kaka mawaena o ke kowa
o ma pohaku nui elua ka Pa-Halepu-
lie, holo Hem. 79 deg. Kom. 252
pauku ma ko Kaka, alaila holo Akau
% deg, Kom 191 pauku ma ko Lima
alaila holo Akau 73 deg. Hik. 2O3 pau
ku ma Ike Alanui, alaila holo Hem. "A
deg. Hik. 100 pauku ma ka Pa-Hale-
pule hiki kahi hoomaka al. Ma
keia apana alma pahale he 3S-100 Eka.
The same being Apana 1 of Royal
Patent 1891, Kuleana 1896, to Lac, sit
uated at Auwaiolimu, Pauoa, Oahu.
On this land there is large dwelling
house. In the yard and grounds there
are numerous fruit trees in bearing, or
namental trees, flowers and shrubs.
Being situate at the entrance of Pau
GA Valley, the climate is delightfully."-
cool and healthy.
Terms: Cash, United States Gold
Coin.
Conveyance at expense of purchaser.
ROSE PARKER,
Administrative of the Estate of VIM.
R. Parker, Deceased. 1823-td
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Mrs. w. P. Fennell of Punaluu, Kau,
is in the city. She is the guest of S.
B. Rose of the Wilder Steamship Com
Dany,
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One of the Duke of Wellington's
post-boys has just died, at the age of 80
years.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1897-01-19
Honolulu Coffee Mills

Having established modern plant
for hulling, polishing and asserting
coffee, we are prepared to buy and
clean coffee in the parchment.
Moderate charge made for cleaning
coffee
Apply to H. HACKFELD & co.
44S1-3m 1820-3m
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w. c. ACHI g. CO.
Brokers and Dealers in Real Estate,

We will buy or sell Real Estate in all
parts of the group. We will sell prop
critics on reasonable commissions.
Office: No. 10 West King Street.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1897-01-19
REFORMS IN TURKEY.
ambassadors of the Powers at Work
on the Turk.

CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. cit appears
that the Ambassadors of the powers, in
addition to considering the treatment of
the Christians in the Turkish Empire,
are discussing measures to amelorate
the condition of the Musselmans by i'm
proving the status of officials and assur-
ing the regular payment of their salaries.
This course is having an excellent effect.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-12-19
DIR, EMENENS A MODERN ALCF1ENIIST.
WHO IS TURNING SILVER INTO GOLD,

yer of the net value, after dedueting
the refining charge, of S95.65.
On the 22d of April he deposited 964
ounces, which yielded 6011s gold and
1926 silver of the net value of $12010.
Following these, at intervals of two
or three weeks, DR.. Emmens has made
other deposits. their value ranging from
S126.72 to $562.1S. A few days before
my conversation with him he deposited
1905 ounces, yielding All gold and $3.50
silver of net value of $419.45 He said
to me that he was turning out about
$500 worth of metal at that time.
though the production was not constant
for reasons connected with the opera
ton of his machinery.
That DIR. Emmens turns in gold at the
assay office there is no question. I
asked the director of the mint at Wash
ington few days ago, and he told me
that the assay office had received gold
from DIR. Emmens which the doctor
claimed he obtained from Mexican sill
yer dollars. All Mexican dollars. the
director of the mint told me, contained
a small amount of gold. According to
the assay office report, however, the
gold in a Mexican dollar is only "a
trace" and not of any Importance in
disproving nr. Emmens' claims. No
one asserts that the Mexican dollar
contains the amount of gold that DR..
Emmens says he obtains from it.
Here are the facts which DR.. Emmens
claims. put in the plainest language:
He says that he can put a Mexican sill
yer dollar through a secret process
which will produce an amount of gold
much greater in value than the dollar
with which the process began. More
over, he claims that after paying the
cost of an expensive treatment of the
silver alloy he can make large profit
on the product.
He claims not only that he can do
these things. but that he is doing them
every day. The profits he is making, he
says, are now $3.50 a week. There is no
reasonable limitation to the amount of
profit he can make except the physical
limitations of his machinery and the
strength of the three members of the
syndicate which controls the process.
Last May DR.. Emmens predicted that
within a year he would be producing
$4,000 ounces of gold a month-about
$3.50 600 worth, or $7,S000OO worth in a
year. The profit on that production
would be $2.700.000 a year.
Il think that 1 get gold from silver
by my process" said DR.. Emmens, but
1 do not insist on that. Some one may
think that 1 simply get from the silver
gold which was combined with it. If
that is true, still get gold in CONNER
cial quantities from an alloy in which
an-assay shows no gold or only trace.
l am entirely satisfied, so long as I get
the gold. For my own part. I believe
that the change which occurs is molec-
ular, but I am willing to admit that it
may not be-"
Dr. Emmens took from his desk three
strips of metal The first he said. show
ed to his practiced eye slight traces of
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[special Correspondence.l

Minneapolis, Dec 16.-Chares A. Pills
bury, the flour king consented yester-
day to be interviewed on the subject
of dollar wheat and the outlook for flu
ture prices of that cereal. The follow
ING interview was submitted to Mr..
Pillsbury and by him corrected:
THE present condition of the wheat
market" he said, lis attributable to
causes which, in my opinion, will keep
the price of that commodity at higher
prices than the average for the past
few years for many years to come. AS
a matter of fact, we have unconscious
ly been consuming both a visible and
invisible supply at greater rate than
we supposed. so that at present the
visible and invisible supply is at the
lowest point known in the history of
the wheat markets.
This fact would have been evident
long ago had it not been for the in
creased facilities of transportation
which have enabled us to handle a
small supply so as to place it on the
market with great rapidity at points
where it was most seriously needed,
but apparently the limit in this direc>
ton has been reached, and with the
bread eaters of the world increasing in
number as rapidly as they have in the
past few years the time must inevita-
bly, come when production must be
greater in order to supply the legiti-
mate demand.
'"Too much stress has been laid, 1
think, upon the part that the failure of
the crop in the Argentine Republic has
played In the upward tendency of the
price of wheat, for it must be remem-
bered that the total crop of that coun-
any one of our own states of Minnesota,
Kansas and North Dakota.
ITO these states we must look in this
country for increased acreage and pro-
duction They are the great wheat
producers, and their farmers only re-
quire the stimulus of settled price at
a high figure, due to a constant demand,
to induce them to plant more extern
sively than they are now doing 1t is
obvious that it is to the western and not
to the central states that we must look
in this country for more wheat.
1.-THE eastern farmers will need con-
stantly more and more land for graz
ing and agricultural purposes, and they
cannot hope to compete with the fertile
and practically boundless territory of
the great states that have mentioned.
1t is equally certain that the western
farmer would not feel justified in plant
ing to the large extent that present con-
ditions seem to demand If he thought
that the demand was to be temporary.
but it is easily demonstrated and may
be confidently predicted that the de-
mand will be constant and will grow,
rather than decrease.
"Oniy recently the Japanese govern
ment has been taking steps looking to
the extensive introduction of wheat as
a food to supplant the rice diet that
has been the staple of that country for
centuries. This is only one instance of
the new markets that must inevitably
open as man becomes more thoroughly
under the domination of European GUS
toms and habits.
1.-The Japanese have. 1t is said. as
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is increasing the worlds gold supply By
S65O.00O month. he will be unsettling
financial conditions in a degree that
will draw the worlds attention to him.
And what will be the outcome II his
hopes are realized? It means revolu-
ton, of course, financial, political, COM
mercial. The gold standard will be-
come a mockery If artificial gold is
manufactured in enormous quantities.
If its manufacture becomes universal,
the value of silver will bound up to
three or four times the value of gold.
The owners of silver mines, next to the
alchemists, will become the wealthiest
men in the United States. The holders
of the gold bonds so much coveted to-
day will find themselves impoverished.
The whole earth will be turned topsy
turvy. Is DIR. Emmens prepared to
father chaos? Or will he be content to
make ten or fifty or hundred millions
for the argentaurum syndicate and then
break his machinery and let his secret
go with him to the grave?
There is one reason for believing that
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-12-19
Objection to Stagecoaches.

In 1862 there were. strange as it
seems. only six stagecoaches running
in all England. and of course these were
the only public vehicles for travellers.
Even these were a novelty. and a per-
son named John Crosset thought they
were such a dangerous innovation that
he wrote a pamphlet against them.
These coaches" he wrote, make gen.
tlenlen come to London upon every
small occasion, which otherwise they
would not do except upon urgent ne
cessity. Nay, the conveniency OF the
passage makes their wives come often
up, who, rather than come such long
journeys on horseback, would stay at
home. Then when they come to town
they must be in the wade, get fine
clothes, go to plays and treats and by
these means get such a habit of idle
ness and love of pleasure that they are
uneasy after" Even people who come
to the city on steam cars are some
times similarly affected by the visits
even unto this day.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-12-19
Pill SBURY, THE FLOUR KING,
TALKS ON THE WHEAT OUTLOOK,

cribed to the rice diet the small stature
of the people of that race. Be that as it
may, one thing is sure. that wheat con-
tains in its kernel all the essentials for
the most wholesome food that man.
kind can assimilate. This is demon
strable not only by the chemistry of
food, but by the experience of those
races that have used wheat in some
form as their staple diet.
From this fact it is evident that as
the peoples who now lie outside of the
more modern civilization come within
its pale there will inevitably come
time when they will conform in diet as
well as in legislation, costume and 9TH
er details to their elder brethren, and
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America is the country to which the
nations of the future must look for
their supply of this commodity, for In
dia and Russia, though they have in
creased their acreage, have about reach
ed their limit, and in England the wheat
crop. has diminished instead of keeping
abreast of the growing demand.
II have said that wheat contains all
the essentials for a perfect diet, and I
should like here to explain why, if this
be true, 1t should not be eaten entire
instead of being separated, as it is when
made into flour or any preparation 9TH
er than the whole grain itself.
This is because no nation ever at
tempts to live solely upon wheat. Other
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-12-19
The Deadly Upas Tree.

Most people have at least heard the
story of the deadly upas tree of Java.
of which it was at one time said that
to merely approach it was certain
death. This story was treated as an
absolute fable. but now it seems as if
there was actually some basis of real
fact for it.
The upas tree is a real tree and a
very big one. in the old trees the bark
is over an inch thick and full of a thick,
milky juice, the merest touch of which
upon the skin produces a most painful
and irritating rash.
What is more. a gas arises from this
juice which has a most poisonous eff
feet upon any one near it. 1t is some
times used by the natives for satisfying
private revenge. for a cup of it hidden
in the room of sleeper produces stupor
and eventually death.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-12-19
THE PACIFIC COAST
NAVAL PENITENTLARY.

San Francisco, Dec. 12.-The laws of
congress for the government of the
navy or, as these laws are popularity
styled, the articles of war;" designate
a host of offenses for which an enlisted
man of the naval service may be tried
by a court martial and sentenced to
imprisonment and labor, and they stip-
ulate that such sentences may be car
ried into effect in any prison or peni-
tertiary which the United States may
be allowed to use by any state or terri
tory.
Some of these offenses are of the same
nature as those which are tried before
civil courts, such as assault, murder
and robbery, but by far the greater
number are against military discipline,
such as desertion, INSTRUMENTATION and
fraudulent enlistment.
For many years enlisted men SEN
fenced by courts martial were confined
in the different state prisons, the ex-
pense being borne by the general gov
eminent through the navy department,
but a great saving of expense in keep
ing these prisoners was effected by the
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gold. In the second were heavy streaks
of yellow. The third was all yellow.
"These three" said DR.. Emmens,
"show a piece of a Mexican dollar in
three stages of the process. In the
third it is rich enough to be melted
down into an ingot."
From a case he produced some speci-
mems of the gold 300 fine. In places 1t
was of deep ruby color.
81 have produced some of brilliant
blue" said Dr. Emmens, land I believe
in time L shall get a colored gold which
will be worth $50 an ounce to jewelers..
When 1 asked DR.. Emmens If any or
his work had been conducted under the
supervision of some disinterested per-
son, who could testify to the results. he
smiled and shook his head.
mo one has seen the process except
my partners and myself" he said, land
for obvious reasons. I do not want to
share my secret with any one. 1 ask
no one to believe in my process. So
long as the treasury accepts my gold
1 am perfectly satisfied"
Does no one, then, know your proc
ess?" I asked.
mot all of it. I am the only person
who knows the whole of it. My partner,
H. A. Strong, and my SON share part OF
the knowledge with me-"
but the workmen in your laboratory
are you not afraid they will learn
your process?"
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number. arranged in two stories, six
on a side, opening on corridors that run
along the sides of the main building.
The floors of the second story are of
steel gratings, and steel CRATES shut off
the side corridors from those at each
end of the building, while over the top
of this inner prison is large steel graf
ing, thus effectually completing pris-
on within prison.
The prison routine is exacting, and
the strictest discipline is maintained,
yet the prisoners, as rule, are cheer
full. and but few complaints are made.
During the day the prisoners are taken
out under guard of armed sentries and
required to work about the buildings
and grounds The work, however, Is
light and gives them a chance at ex-
ercise and relief from the tedium of en-
forced idleness behind iron barred doors.
At all times an armed sentry PAGES up
and down the front corridor of the pris-
on, so that escape is we'll nigh impossi-
BILE. During the day the prisoners are
allowed the freedom of the corridors.
and talking and reading are allowed.
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establishment of several naval prisons
at the different navy yards, which were
directly under the control of the naval
authorities.
Prisons were thus started at the Bos-
ton, New York and Mare Island navy
yards, and two of these are now in
operation, the one at Boston for the
east coast and that at Mare Island for
the west coast.
The prison at Mare Island where the
sailors and marines of the Pacific
squadrons and shore stations who are
sentenced by naval courts to imprison-
ment are confined is situated back of
the marine barracks at that station and
is directly under the command of the
commandant of the barracks.
1t is a plain rectangular brick build
ing, with rows of iron barred windows,
which give it anything but a cheerful
aspect. Inside of this building is a
second boxlike structure of brick and
concrete. which contains the cells. "a in
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led to the present market rate of wheat
and what the causes will be which will
maintain this rate. and theoretically
this means that America must ultimate
ly take her place as the great granary
and mill of the civilized nations of the
world.
''Of course it would be impossible IL
my views are correct, and the entire
population of the whole world become
bread eaters, for any production of
wheat, however great. to supply the
demand. That difficulty will be met in
all probability by still further advances
along the line of rapid transportation,
so that when means of distribution are
perfected there need be no fear of a
bread famine in any quarter of the
globe"
ROBERT ]. FLEETWOOD.
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There are no workmen in my labora-
tory. The three members of the syn
dictate do all the work.
You have not even an engineer or a
laborer?"
mo one."
would you sell your secret?"
'1f any one can show me how 1t
would be of any advantage to me.
have had men come to me-men con-
spicuous in the business and the po-
litical woodland offer to provide CAPT
tai for my process up to $500, 000000. and
have always said that should be glad
to join with them If they would show
me how I had anything to gain by it.
They have never been able to show me,
and so the matter stands. These men
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Unless undergoing special punishment
on bread and water for five days or
less the regular ration is served out to
them, and smoking is allowed for one
hour after each meal.
Visitors are only allowed in the pris-
on by authority of the commandant.
Infractions against the prison disci-
pline by the inmates are punished by
solitary confinement on bread and wa
ter or in single OF double irons for Pc
RODS of several days, according to the
offense. Good behavior has it's reward
in a remission of portion of the sem
tence, in some cases as much as one
fourth of the sentence being RENTED.
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world of the United States was in a
ferment because England was drawing
from us our stock of gold. The results
of this financial crisis were felt by al
most every man, woman and child in
the country, directly or indirectly. The
shifting of the balance of trade from
one cause or another turned the stream
of yellow metal back toward our shores,
and Immediately signs of restored con-
fidence appeared; prosperity returned.
If DR.. Emmens perseveres in the work
he is doing at his laboratory on Staten
Island and accomplishes all that he
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I gold, and you have a profit of $2.700.-
O00."
DR.. Emmens says his process is part
ly physical and partly chemical He be-
lieves the chemical influence merely
makes easier the physical change. He
has obtained good results from the
Mexican dollars, but he finds Chinese
silver, of which he obtained a small
amount from the Chinese minister at
Washington, is easier to manipulate
Until DR.. Emmens produces gold in
enormous quantities, there will be no
means of verifying his claims, although
his high standing in the scientific world
has given them a weight which entities
them to the most respectful considera-
ton. If in a years time DR.. Emmens
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might offer me a million or so for my
secret, but that would be paltry COM
pared with what 1 expect to make out
of it. In the meantime the laboratory
is turning out gold and increasing the
output all the time.
Here is a proposition I have made
to any nation that wants to test the
process and that will make 1t worth my
while: I will take 1000 900 ounces of sill
yer, worth S5O0,0 900, and from it will
make 600, 900 ounces of gold, worth $13
an ounce The cost of making the gold
will be $4,600, 900 Add to that the cost
of the silver, $4,000 and subtract the
whole from s7,S00,O00, the value of the
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Destruction Of the Pine Moth.

German foresters have found a sure
remedy for the destruction of the pine
moth in the heavy pine forests of the
Fatherland. The caterpillars born the
latter part of August descend to winter
quarters in the heavy moss at the foot
of the trees. Early in the spring they
usually climb the trunks and eat the
tender. green needles. Now the forest
ers scrape a broad band in the bark
around the trunk and coat the smooth
space with a mixture of glue, grease
and tar. This kills the insects.
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claims is possible, there will never be
another shortage of gold in America.
DR.. Emmens will make supply which
will belittle by comparison the great
hoard of the precious metal which Rus
STA has been accommodating for so many
years.
Briefly. DR.. Emmens claims to be
making gold from silver. On the 18th
of last April he deposited at the United
States assay office in New York city
7.06 ounces of an alloy which, being
separated, yielded .65S gold and ,260 sill
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when this happens wheat will of course
take its place at the head of the die
tetic scale.
This means that the demand which
now forces wheat to 81 will continue
as a permanent factor to be counted
upon, and when the wheatgrower is
fully assured of this fact he will not be
tardy in laying his plans to plant as
many more acres as he foresees will
find purchaser in the markets of the
world.
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foods-f1sh. meat, lentils and so on-are
taken in connection with the product Of
wheat itself. and it is therefore not only
necessary, but undesirable that the
whole grain should be consumed. 9th
erwise, in the attempt to gain variety,
there would be an excess of nutritive
qualities that is quite as much to be
avoided as a deficiency of those quail
ties.
II have endeavored to show what, in
my opinion, are the causes which have
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Especial Correspondence

New York, Dec 16.-"Faraday was a
Luther. He dared to say that trans
mutation of the metals was the next
great problem for the chemist to solve"
So said DR.. Stephen H. Emmens. sit
ting opposite me at his desk in an Office
on the seventh floor of a big building
overlooking Bowling Green. Below in
Broadway the cable cars went changing
ceaselessly along. Across the way
doomed the big red building of the
Produce Exchange. where millionaire
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precedent, have set up a greater light
to rule the day and a lesser light to
rule the night"
Roman Nose and White Horse, with
$50 Arapahoes and Cheyennes, recent
ly rode into Harper, Kan, and COM
PEELED the white girls to participate in