The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-03-15
JAPANESE MURDER
Foul Attack on Interpreter at
SprGCkGlSVillG.
VICTIM PURSUED BY 800 men
Five Ring Leaders Are
Under Arrest.
Opium Capture at Makena - Ru-
mors of Restoration-DiVers
and DereliCt.

MAUI, March 13.-The night of the
11th inst. a Japanese interpreter was
murdered between the hours of and
8, at Camp Three, Spreckelsville.
There were 800 fellow -countrymen
concerned in the crime, and upon in
vestigation, they stated that the vic
tim had embezzled their sick fund
and had shamefully ill-used man in
the field. The same evening they had
summoned him before a mass-meeting
to give answer to the foregoing
charges, but he could not explain and
ran away. They pursued and killed
him in a field just below the camp.
algeroba club, a stick from a handy
Iwood-pile. His skull was not fractured
but his head badly beaten. Five of the
Iring-leaders were arrested and taken
to Wailuku. During the evening of
the 18th the 300 marched to Wailul1u
to show their sympathy for their i'm
prisoned leaders. After some talk and
persuasive words they returned to
Spreckelsville this morning. The trial
of the five for committal has been post
poned until the 22d.
1t is rumored that letters have been
received on Maui stating that the ex
| Queen is soon to be restored, etc.
While such wild reports are current,
upon annexation. The full blooded Ha
waiian is easily fooled. There's an
other rumor to the effect that John
Richardson's friends are to run him
for President.
| A mysterious chest of tea, marked
"Ah XII was landed at Makena from
the <inau on the night of the 5th.
Port Surveyor ]. l.. Zumwalt of Ka-
hului was on hand, and upon investi
CATION. found 10 tins of opium imbed
ded in the box. Of course, no one
claimed the team fact, it was not
the proper time to take tea.
DR.. w F. McConkey, a recent ar
rival. has associated himself with DR..
Goodhue of Wailuku, and, being a
man of abundant means, will spare no
expense or labor in pursuing the study
of bacteriology.
Sunday morning, the 7th, dozen
Portuguese, with musical instruments,
and garbed fantastically, marched
from house to house in mauka Maka-
wac, asking money with which to en-
large their church at Brewers, Maka-
wac.
| Inspector General H. S. Townsend
has been visiting Wailuku schools dur
ing the week.
Monday afternoon, the Sth, II teach
ers assembled in the Kakawao School
and discussed Page" and "Rooper.'
Thomas Saffery. a blind man,
breaches regularly Sunday afternoons
at the Pookela Native Church in Ma
kawao He has done this since the
death of John Kalawa.
Tuesday. the 9th. Japanese had his
hand badly mashed in the machinery
of the Hamakuapoko mill. He was
taken to Wailuku Hospital.
Howard" the well-known telephone
Iagent. is now Central of the Hama
lsystem.
c. w. Dickey made flying visit to
lLahaina and Makawao last week. The
new Lahaina Church will not be COM
ipIeted for a month yet, and will be the
Iprettiest little church on the Islands,
ibar none.
The schooner Eva, Captain Kilt
gard. arrived on the 9Th in Kahulul
lin ballast SO days from Mexico. She
sailed today for the Golden Gate with
Haiku and Paia sugar on board.
The J. G. Glade is still loading sugar
for New York, and the H. c. Wright is
still discharging lumber, consigned tc
IKahului Railroad Company.
Divers are at work on the derelict
Leahi bringing up coal in handfuls
They have been busy during the whole
week, and have probably brought up &
good many tons. They have hall