The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-08-25
NEWS FROM HILO Town
RESIDENTS WILL PETITION FOR
IMPROVEMENTS.
Captain and Mrs. Mcdonald Will Soon
be Off for the Klondyke Fields
Want to Hear the Band.

The carpenters of Roma are quite
busy nowadays.
The Electric Light Company is now
furnishing 1,4O0 lights.
The Misses Clara and Daisy Ena are
visiting friends in Kona.
In kona the lantana and guava
bushes are fast giving place to coffee
trees.
HiloiteS want the Government band
to visit them for "A couple of weeks
or So
Honomu plantation stockholders
have been receiving an per cent div
idend last week.
\ recent game of baseball between
the Hilo and Oloo teams was won by
the Hilo team, the score being Is to
II.
The big gum tree in the Court
House grounds, standing over 100 feet
high, is expected to fall down at any
time.
The court house wall on Wainuc-
nue. street is at last down. This part
of Hio is sorely in need of improve
ments.
Turner. the "Hilo Surprise" cover
ed the distance from the Volcano
House to Hilo in one hour and forty.
five minutes.
The Hilo Mercantile Company dedi-
Gated its new building last Saturday
evening. 4 pleasant hop was fea-
ture o fthe entertainment.
! Francis Hamilton. a recent arrival
| from Indiana, has been sentenced to n
| short term for theft. There are 9TH
err indictments hanging over his head.
a circular letter is being sent to the
| business men asking for assistance in
/ the form of money contributions for
the Hilo Boarding School. The school
! it is declared is without income and
! funds.
The new Wainrenue street sewer
is in process of construction. 1t will
extend from the corner of Jail street.
where it connects with the Spreckels'
property sewer. to the beach near the
! wharf.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Turner enter
tanned number of their friends on
Thursday evening. The rendition of
a song entitled "The Klondyker," com
posed by Mrs. Pratt, was Il feature OF
the evening.
1t is said that Messrs. Cooper, Scott
and perhaps Paris will run in Septem-
Der as Representatives for the Legis-
lature from the west side of the Is.
land of Hawaii.
About two-thirds of the pipe for the
new water system is laid, and the
work will be finished in the course OF
couple of weeks. Superintendent
Brown is enthusiastic over the glories
of the new springs. where the water
spouts many feet in the air.
The residents of the upper portion
of Wainuenue street are getting III
y a petition to the Interior Department
praying for an extension of the sewe1
up that street. They claim they wan
to lay sidewalks along and in from
of their property and cannot do sc
until the sewer is laid.
The pulper invented by r. T. Rich
ard of Hamakua was tested last week
Two men put through four bags, 40t
pounds, in one hour. The coffee was
we'll cleaned and there was little o.
no waste. The pulper can be worked
by horse or steam power, or even 10y
one man turning a crank.
Captain and Mrs. Mcdonald hav,
made up their minds to go to thu
Klondvke. While the captain vii
hunt the gold dust, Mrs. Mcdonald de
theirs side have been famous in pro
ducing that old standby, the driet
apple pie, and the art has not beer
lost in her stewardship. She cal
make a pie that will make the frozel
: Klondyker come back to life and max
him homesick.