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The record-union., 1897-08-20
CLIPPERTON ISLAND.
Captain Permien of Oakland
Claims to be the Discoverer.

OAKLAND, Aug. 19.-Captain F. w.
Permien of this city lays claim to Clip
pertOn Island, and asserts, too, his title
as the bona fde discoverer of the
island, with its beds of guano and of
pearl oysters.
He asserts that on May 21, 1881, while
bound to Costa Rica in his brig Eliza
he first visited the island, and that on
July 4, 1892, he visited it again, and
hosting the stars and stripes, took
formal possession of it in the name of
the United States.
Documentary evidence on file at
Washington, copies of which Captain
Permien possesses seem to substan-
tiate his claim. and also to prove that
the island is United States territory.
Captain Permien states that he has
made known the nature of his claim
to the agents of the British company
now negotiating with the men to whom
he gave a bill of sale for hree-tenths
Of the island. If the Englishmen are
willing to pay fair price, the Captain
and his wife, who has taken keen in
terest in the affair from the beginning,
will sell, if not they intend to work
the deposits of guano which Professor
Shaw has estimated to be worth fifty
million dollars.
The record-union., 1897-08-20
YOUNG MEMS INSTITUTE.
Proceedings of the Grand Councils
Session at Santa Rosa.

SANTA ROSA, Aug. 19.-The consid-
GRAFTON of the proposed amendments to
the constitution of the order was the
principal business of to-day's session
of the Y. NJ. I. The election of Off
GERS viii be taken up tomorrow, and
a lively scramble for places is looked
forward to. George D. Pyne of Ne
vada has withdrawn from the race for
Grand President. A banquet in honor
of the visitors was given tonight in
Ridgeway Hall.
The Grand Council Y NJ I. conven-
tion cony yened at 8 o'clock this morn
ing. After the usual routine business,
a letter was read from Mrs Deane,
Grand President of the Catholic Ladies'
Aid Society.
During the session a resolution MAX
ing the office of Grand Directors ap-
pointive was defeated. A number of
amendments to the constitution were
under consideration, but no final action
was taken.
From the Grand Secretarys report
the following figures are taken, show
ing the condition of the order: Number
of members, according to last years
report, 4,057. During the year there
were initiated, 957; admitted by card,
81; reinstated, 8; suspended, 432; ex-
PEELED, 5; Withdrawn and resigned, 146:
transferred. %; died, 81: on the roll
June 80, 1897, 4,415; active members,
4.016; associate members, 301; honor
ary, 9S; total number admitted during
the year, 1908; dropped during the
year, G45; net gain, 1858
The amount in the treasury at the
last years report was SOS. .273 40; re-
ceipts during the year. SAG, ,96S 81; dis
bursements, S44S71 80; amount in
treasury June 80, 1897, $3O,370 5S;
gain of $2,0O7 90. The amount paid
out during the year in sick benefits was
S15, ,215. Number of members relieved
were 397, number of non-peneficia1 list,
June 80 1897, 56S.
Since the adjournment of the last
Grand Council four councils have been
organized, viz; Nos. 460 and 40 in
San Francisco, and Nos. 433 and 47S
in Los Angeles, and four councils have
been dissolved
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YOUNG CONWAY SAFE.
The Kidnapped Boy Returned to His
Parents.

ALBANY On. W. Aug. 19-Five-
year-old John Conway, who has
been at the mercy of kid
nappers since Monday morning, was re-
turned to his parents to-day through
the efforts of private detectives and re-
porters of the Argus The child was
abducted by his uncle, Joseph Hardy,
and H. c. Blake. Hardy is under ar
rest, but Blake will have to be chased
by the police.
He denied all knowledge of the affair
when caught, but was offered ransom,
and finally he confessed. He piloted a
party of reporters five miles out in the
country, where he left them, and in a
short time returned with the bog in his
arms. He was given a stuffed pocket
book, and an effort was made to arrest
him. Seeing he had been trapped, he
pulled a revolver, fired four shots and
broke away from his captors, who did
not pursue him, returning to the city
with the bov. He was afterward ar
rested, but Blake is still at large.
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SONOMA'S Ex-TREASURER.
Stofen's Bondsmen Will Have to
Refund the Countv's Money

SANTA ROSA, Aug. 10. Judge
Dougherty this morning rendered a de-
cision on motion Of defendant for a new
trial in the celebrated case of Sonoma
County against ex-County Treasurer P.
n. Stofen and bondsmen.
The county sued Stofen and bonds
men for the amount Stofen was robbed
of while Treasurer. Stofen pleaded that
he was robbed as a defense, but the
Judge held that he failed to prove the
robbery had actually taken place.
Defendants then asked for a new
trial, which the Judge in an opinion
to-day denied. In rendering his opin-
ion the court said:
mo person but Stofen knows what
the truth about the matter is. No
other person can say that he was
robbed or was not robbed. If robbed,
it is his misfortune that some little
circumstance outside his own story did
not generously present ITSELF
The case will now probably be ap-
pealed to the Supreme Court The
amount involved is about $4,000. 1t
grows out of the famous robbery of the
treasury a few years ago, when Treas
urer Stofen was found locked up and
unconscious in a vault in the Court
house
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own, with reimbursement to be made
by this Government for its share of the
work
This differs from this country's propo-
sition, in that under the latter the United
States was to let the contract. and look
to Canada for reimbursements for the
latter's share. The counter scheme,
however, is satisfactory to the Post
office Department here.
The Canada service provides for ex-
changes of mails at Fort Cudahy and
two other stations between Dawson
City and Dyea. The exact route is not
outlined. but in all probability it will
strike off directly southwark from
Dawson City, which is on the British
side of the line, down to Dyea. At
present the district gets the benefit of
mails once month. The new arrange
ment will furnish an additional service,
giving semi-monthly mails, the trips
probably being sandwiched between the
dates designated in the present contract
of the United States.
DISGUSTED WITH THE TRIP.
PORT TOWNSEND (Wash.), Aug 10.
In a letter received here from c. NJ.
Weymouth, who left here on the last
trip of the Mexico, dated Lake Linde-
mann, August 7th, says he is disgusted
with the trip over the pass, and would
return but for the terrors of returning
over Chilcat Pass. Weymouth says
Dyea will become famous as a horse
market, for the reason that horses
cannot stand the usage there longer
than a few days, when their hoofs,
regardless of heavy shoes, become so
broken as to entirely incapacitate them
for further use.
Weymouth is with w. J. Jones, the
United States Commissioner of Alaska,
and a well-known newspaper corre-
spondent, which party was the first to
land at Lake Lindemann since the Klon-
dixie rush began. Both Jones and Wey-
mouth give an opinion that not one in
ten of those who are now at Dyea and
Skaguay en- route will be able to cross
the divide this year.
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back and hundreds by way Of Duns-
muir and Sisson.
Trinity Center is crowded, but Carr
vile is a more convenient starting
place fer the upper gulches.
Saddle horses can be hired here for
81 day. The initiated are anxiously
waiting for the Graves brothers to
open their mine and believe they will
find tubs of gold.
MINERS ARE DOING WE'LL.
REDDING, Aug. 19.-The first re-
turning prospector from the Coffee
Creek mining district in Trinity County
is J. V. Motherwill, who returned to-
day after a weeks inspection of the
scene of the recent discoveries. He
states that many miners are working
in the various locations up the creek,
and all apparently are making sue
cessful strikes. Motherwill frequently
saw nuggets worth $50 picked up. He
says much of the dirt in good localities
runs from So to So a pan, and even
higher. The N;Hh Company has con-
structed a tunnel 500 feet long to carry
off the tailings, and will hydraulic the
gravel bank at the tunnels mouth. The
seams of the Blue Jay mine are six
inches wide and 200 yards long, are
giving gold, iron and maganese, and
the ore is averaging $500 per ton.
The record-union., 1897-08-20
WEYLER'S WAR IN CUBA.
A YOUNG WOMAN SUBJECTED
TO INDIGNITIEs.
General Lee Interferes, and Pleads
That She be Released
From Prison.

HAVANA, Aug. 19.-The story pub
lished to the effect that Evangelina
Crossio Cisneros. a Cuban girl has
been sentenced to twenty years i'm
prisonment in Gueta is premature. 1t
has made General Weyler. in whose
hands the whole case rests highly in
dignant, and prejudiced him against
her
Inc man BerriS, who ATTEMPTED to
betray the girl and who. because she
refused his advances, caused her i'm
prisonment. is a nephew Of the pres
ent Prime Minister of Spain and every
effort is being made to hush I'D the
matter.
General Weyler would probably have
ordered her release, but if he is put
in the position of being forced to do it.
he may insist upon her being SEN
fenced.
The facts of the case are these:
Nearly two weeks ago the fiscal or
public prosecutor in Cuba asked the
supreme tribunal in Spain to sentence
Senorita Cisneros to twenty wears
penal servitude. The tribunal re-
ferred the matter to General Wevler.
General Weyler hesftates even vet
Berris, who is the military commander
of the Isle of Pines, is now in Havana.
and is doing his utmost to free himself
from blame, but strong representations
on the girls behalf have been made to
Spain, and General Weyler is unde-
cided as to whom he shall sacrifice.
Your correspondent has stated the
case to Consul General Lee. That big
hearted man acted in characteristic
fashion. He sat down and penned a
personal letter to the Captain-G General
pleading for the young woman, not be-
cause she was pretty, but because she
was a woman. He said that if General
Weyler would pardon her he would
undertake to send her unofficiallv TO
the United States, and would use his
influence to obtain for her a position
When General Lee was interviewed he
thumped the table with his fist and
said: "If that young girl is liberated
I will do anything in the world to pro-
tect her from the sharks that will
await her even at the prison door"
General Weyler is at present engaged
in waging a war on cattle He has
issued a new order to the effect that all
the cattle in the country be seized and
driven to the towns, where it is to be
sold at. price fixed by him. The
troops carry out his instructions to the
letter. Many protests from estate
owners have been lodged with the vari-
Gus consulates.
Rebels have entered and pillaged the
town Of Trinidad in Santa Clara.
Colonel Jancuato, who was in com
mand Of the Spanish forces in the dis
trict. has been deprived Of his COM
mand and sentenced to one months
Imprisonment.
The record-union., 1897-08-20
INSANE PATIENT INJURED.
He Jumped From the Second Story
of the Ukiah Asylum.

UKIAH, Aug. 19.-An inmate in the
local asylum named Craig jumped from
the second-story window of the build
ing this morning, and was seriously in
jured. OF the three attendants in the
ward, two had gone to dinner, when
Craig, taking advantage of the fact that
the third attendants back was turn
ed, seized a sack of sand with which
the floor was being cleaned and broke
down the door of the attendants room,
and sprang from the window. The ex-
tent of his injuries is not yet known.
The record-union., 1897-08-20
Bootmakers On a Strike.

DETROIT, Aug. 19.-Pingeree &
Smiths shoe factory, the only union
shoe shop in the city, was tied up to-
day by a strike of the bootmakers.
About 800 hands are affected. The firm
is willing to arbitrate the differences,
but the men claim they have always
got the worst of arbitration, and de-
mand an increase in the price of certain
grades of shoes.
The record-union., 1897-08-20
Starved Herself to Death.

MIDDLESBORO (Ky), Aug. 19-Le-
ma Collins Worth Of Claiborne County,
Tenn, is dead from the effects of a
fifty-eight-d fast. She has been
starving herself to death under a vow.
She quarreled with her husband. they
separated, and she vowed that she
would fast until he returned to her.
Efforts of friends and relatives to force
her to eat have been of no avail.
The record-union., 1897-08-20
Company C Of Nevada City Wins
the Target Shoot.
Officers Given a Reception at the Pacific
Ocean House.
The American Bark Matilda,
Bound From Honolulu to Port
Blakely, Goes Ashore on Tattoo
Rocks, and Will be a Complete
Wreck

SANTA CRUZ, Aug 19.-At the bril-
gade target shooting competition Com
pany c, Second Regiment of Nevada
City, made the highest score.
This afternoon Surgeon General Hop
kins of the Governors staff and Sur
geon- General Galway of General
James staff inspected the sanitary
corps headquarters. At the review the
Santa Cruz naval reserves We're in line.
This evening the citizens gave a re-
ception to the officers at the Pacific
Ocean House.
The review in honor of Lieutenant
Governor Jeter was witnessed by a
large concourse.
The record-union., 1897-08-20
Suicide by Asphyxiation.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 19.-August
Fehlmann, aged 80, a recent arrival
from San Jose, was found dead in his
room at the New Western Hotel to-day
under circumstances which leave no
doubt that he committed suicide by as
phyxiation. He registered at the hotel
last Tuesday. Among his effects was
found a letter from his brother in Den
yer, in which reference is made to the
bad luck experienced by the deceased
ri NaIyer1p
The record-union., 1897-08-20
Bark Matilda Wrecked.

PORT TOWNSEND, Aug. 19-The
American bark Matilda, Captain Nc
Kensie, $40 tons, bound in from Hon
olulu to Port Blakeley to load lumber,
went ashore on Tattoo rocks this morn
ing. The bark will be a. total wreck.
She was owned by Captain Rufus CAL
houn Of this city. Smoke from forest
fires was quite thick at the time of the
accident
The record-union., 1897-08-20
Fatal Explosion in Iowa.

DAVENPORT Qa.), Aug. 19.-An ex-
plosion of dust knocked out two walls
of the elevator of the Davenport Syrup
Refinery to-day. John Rapp and John
Rain were forced to jump sixty feet,
and were badly injured. William Wolfe,
a farmer, was fatally crushed, and his
eleven-year-old daughter killed Frank
Stevens was injured. The building took
fire Immediately, and was destroyed.
Loss, $15, coo; insured.
The record-union., 1897-08-20
Lady Somerset.

LONDON. Aug. 10. = Lady Henry
Somerset has engaged passage on the
steamship St Louis OF the American
Line for October ID. She goes to at
tend the Worlds and National w C. T.
Z. Conventions at Toronto. Ont, and
Buffalo. \. Y. It is impossible for her
to leave earlier, as the second quartely
meeting of the British Woman's Tenn
perance Association Executive Com
mittee viii be held September 2Sth at
East Norcastle. The proposed entrance
Of her son on a political career has also
engrossed her care and attention.
The record-union., 1897-08-20
French Cruiser Disabled.

DUNKIRK, Aug. 19.-The French
cruiser Bruix. which with the cruiser
Curcouf was escorting the cruiser
Pothuau with President Faure and his
suite on board on the way to Cronstadt
has returned here with her machinery
disabled The battleship Dupuy de
LONE has started to replace the Bruix
The record-union., 1897-08-20
Can Find No Trace of Judhins.

WASHINGTON, Aug. ia report
from sul-Genera1 Lee states that he
can find no trace of John r. Judkins.
Citizens of Ohio had asked the State
Department to see if anything could
be learned of him, stating that he was
physician of Manchester. that State.
and went to Cuba in 1892. Consul
General Lee will continue his Inquiries.
The record-union., 1897-08-20
Judge NJ. C. Blake III.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 19.-Judge
Maurice C. Blake, one of the best
known lawyers on the coast, is seri-
ously i'll at his residence, S0S Hyde
street. He has been confined to his
room for several weeks. but while he is
nearly 81 years of age, it is not thought
that his present illness will prove fatal.
The record-union., 1897-08-20
Severe Storm in siIesia.

BERLIN, Aug. 19.-The greater part
of Silesia has been visited by severe
storms and several persons have been
killed by lightning. Typhus fever is
rampant at Rogan, in consequence of
the water used for drinking there hav-
ing become infected by the refuse ac-
cumulated by the floods.
The record-union., 1897-08-20
Fatal Fire in Mendocino County.

UKIAH, Aug. 19.-Fire at the Indian
Rancheria, six miles below this city,
last night burned two Indians fatally
and destroyed about half the village.
The record-union., 1897-08-20

The clean, upright paper Is read
thoroughly. The Record Union"
reaches the best homes.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-01-05
LEWIS & Co,

Families will find it to their
interest to buy canned goods
or bottled delicacies by the
case. They keep as well in the
pantry as on our shelves and
the purchaser gets the benefit
of the wholesale rate. The
saving is considerable and our
prices are as low, if not lower
than any place in Honolulu.
There's no question about the
quality. Think it over and let
this be one of your 1897
resolutions.
Among the many relishes
for use on the table every day
and for hot or cold meats Chut-
ney ranks first. 1t is essentially
East Indian and the flavor of
the spices gives zest to the
appetite. Some of the brands
are from formulas evolved in
the brains of English army
officers who have campaigned
in India. The aptitude of the
English to cotton on to good
things for the table is proven
bal and the designing" of
Chutney has not weakened
their reputation in this respect.
We have seven Different
brands of Cocoa: GheradelIi's;
Phillips Digestible; Van Hou-
tens; Epps Homeopathic; Wal
ter Bakers Breakfast; Cracked
in bulk and G, Goa Shell in bulk.
Persons finding Chocolate too
heavy for them experience only
pleasant results from the use
of cocoa. We are certain Of the
quality of the goods and do not
hesitate to recommend them.
We believe we carry the lar
gest stock of groceries in Ho-
nolulu and our facilities for
supplying customers is unsur-
passed
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-01-05
FINALLY AT REST.
Funeral Services In San Franchises
Over Kate Fields Remains.
IRELAND OvERTAXED.

The remains of the late Kate
Field, which were shipped to San
Francisco on the Belgic, have
been finally cremated and the
ashes sent TO Mount Auburn.
Impressive funeral services
were held in Trinity Episcopal
church on Sunday, December
9th, Rev. George Edward Walk
officiating. Prominent among
the humorous and costly floral Of
fcriGps was a wreath from Presi.
dent Cleveland. After the ser
vices the remains were conveyed
at once to the crematory, where
they were incinerated.
The pail bearers at the funeral
were: Mayor elect Phelan, A.
W. Foster, Percy Morgan, G. M.
Coe and w. Q. Bunner for the
Press Club, James S, Tyler Of the
Bulletin, Henry James of the
Examiner, w. f. Burke Of The
Call, James p. Booth of the Re-
port, Horace Hudson of the
Chronicle aud i. c. Roberts Of
the Post. :
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-01-05
VESSELS LEAVING TOMORROW.
stmr Likclike, Andrews, for ports on Hn.
wall.
PASSENGERS ARRIVED.

Prom San Francisco, per s S Australia, Jan
"a II Bachelor, Mrs A c Baker and chill
dren, Jao Bishop. John I Blake, Mrs r B
Brennan and child, L Brooke, Godfrey
Brown, J G Chamberlain, d + Chapman, II s
Cross Frank Davev, l. A Dclanux and wife,
Miss Marion c Dowsett, Mrs W Edgar,
Mrs II Focke, II + Glade, g B Creig, II P
Hugus, VI D, and wife, II Miller, c A Pea
cock, W c Peacock, II Pohlmann, Miss Ida
PostOn, Miss NJ b scott, A Somcrs and wife,
Geo sturgeon, Il p Sullivan, Mrs Wra, Taylor
and child, Frank Vida,G J Waller, E o White,
wife and 2 children, Il o White, Jr, Geo b
whitney, " d Wilder, Wilder Wight and
Capt Il Z Macdonald.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-01-05

Some Scmj-0AIciaI Figures from
the SuocrIuteHdcnt.

Through the kindness of Ala
tan 7. Atkinson, superintendent
Of the census OF 1896, the follow
ing particulars are given:
The cost OF taking this census
ia G,33 cents per head as com
pared with G.52 cents in 1890.
This census rarges in expense
from 4S7 cents in Honolulu to
8.GG cents in Molokai.
The native population decreases
little moro than 10 per cent.
since 1850, as compared with a
trihe above Ii per cent. between
1886 aud 1890.
The half caste population is
Asa males aud 4l86 females,
against 1886 males and 3l0l fe.
males in 1880. Thus there has
been an increase of 1854 in the
balf.caste population, while the
native population has decreased a
little more than 5000.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-01-05
FOR SALE.
Administrators Notice.

The undersigned having been duly appoint
ed Administrator Of the Estate of Charles
Hammer, late of Honolulu, Island of Oahu,
deceased, notice is hereby given to all credi-
tors of the deceased to present their claims,
whether secured by notes, mortgages or
otherwise duly authenticated and with pro-
per vouchers, If any exist, to the undersigu-
ed within six months from the date hereof,
or they will be forever barred. And all per-
sons Indebted to the said deceased are re-
quested to make immediate payment to the
undersigned at his Office, No. 20915 Merchant
street, Honolulu.
DAVID DAYTON,
Administrator of the Estate of Charles
Hammer, deceased,
Honolulu, Dee. IS, 1895. iS1-lOt
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-01-05
PASSENGERS DEPARTED.

For Kauai ports, per stmr Mikahala, Jan I
Mrs Judge Hart and niece, j Benne and
wife, the Misses Sharpe and 10 on deck.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-01-05
ARRIVALS.

TUESDAY, Jan. 5.
IS Australia, Houdlette, from San Fran.
cisco.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-01-05

Evening BuIleti" 75c per month