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The Hawaiian gazette., 1897-03-12
NJ. w. MccHEsNEY & SONS.
Soap, Leather, Coffee and Fruit
Their Specially.

Soap, Leather, Coffee and Fruit
Their Specially.
The wholesale grocery firm known
as NJ. w. McChesney & Sons is located
ON Queen Street, nearly opposite Ka-
ahumanu, and directly fronting the
boat landing. The building occupied
by them has two floors and two main
entrances, the principal one being Oh
Queen Street and the other ON the
water front. A notable fact about
the house today is that it is always
jammed to the doors with merchan-
disc, and there is at all times the
hum and hustle of business within it's
walls.
The house of NJ. W. McChesney &
Sons was established in 1879 by Mat
thew Watson McChesney, father and
grandfather of respectively the present
proprietors, r. w. and F. W. and J.
M McChesney. The elder McChesney
was native of New York. He was
a tanner by trade; and Immediately
upon his arrival in Honolulu establish
ed a tannery with small grocery an
nexed to it. This was the beginning
Of the great house forming the subject
Of this sketch.
For a time the old gentleman was
assisted in his enterprise by his two
sons. H. N. and R. w. McChesney.
In 1888, however, he died at the ripe
age of SO, and the sons came into con-
troll of the business. A year later H
N. McChesney sold his interest to his
brother, and the latter took his sons,
F. NJ. and J. NJ. into full partnership
with him.
Z From that time forward the strides
made by the house have been almost
phenomenal Its trade grew beyond
Honolulu, and before 1890 had spread
out to every part of the Islands. Thrift
Oh the part of the firm; a principle Of
the best goods for the lowest market
figure, and square dealing with the
customer has made this possible.
in 1885, the Honolulu Soap Works
was established with McChesney &
Sons as the prime movers behind it.
1t was new and doubtful enterprise,
but what it lacked in promise the
firm supplied in extra push. OF course
the business grew and paid and proved
The Hawaiian gazette., 1897-03-12
0RDwAY & PORTER.
UphOlstering Department Gives a
Place in Manufacturers.


II Ordway & Porter are not extensive
manufacturers of furniture, they at
least do enough in this particular line
of work TO entitle them to position
among the manufacturers of Honolulu.
While they are essentially dealers in
furniture they also make to order such
pieces as may be desired by their GUS
toners. They have engaged during the
year large force of men, whose work
is in the upholstery department, where
they manufacture large number OF
mattresses. They also make spec
ialty of upholstering chairs and
couches, the frames for which are
brought from the Coast The firm will
also manufacture frames to order when
desired.
The store of Ordway & Porter in the
new Waverley block is one of the
handsomest in the city. Two large
show rooms are at all times well filled
with high-class furniture, imported
from the United States. The arrange
ment of the goods is such as to make
an attractive display.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1897-03-12
CATION, NELL & CO.
Capable Machinists and Iron
Founders.

Capable MachlnlStS and Iron
Founders.
An enterprise that is making rapid
strides is that conducted by the above
firm on Queen street, in the premises
at one time occupied as the National
Iron Works.
The members of the firm are well
known machinists and iron founders
having lived on the islands for a
number of years They build and
make repairs for all kinds of sugar
machinery or steam engines. The firm
is not looked upon as a competitor of
the Honolulu Iron works but it is
branching out steadily and constantly
adding machinery to the works Since
they began business four months ago
they have had 10 men constantly en-
ployed They have an extensive
iron and brass moulding department
in their establishment, employing
throughout only Hawaiian and white
labor.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1897-03-12
1,975,321.SS
EXPENDITURES.
$1,9O4,19o.92
.93,627.26
Cash on hand Dec. 81, 1896
S 1,997,S18.18 S 1,997,S1S.1s


The comparative statement showing the increase and de
in expenditures and receipts for the years 1895 and
1896, gives increase in receipts for of $685. 25669
and decrease in expenditures of $1O492327 One of the
principal of Customs Bureau which for
the year 1885, shows total net increase in receipts of $780,
746.78
OF the $7,164,56140 worth of imports for 1896 1914
2OS.20 1927 from the United States From other
countries the imports Great Britain O54 per cent
China All per cent Japan $50 per cent; Germany 2oe
cent Australia and New Zealand per cent and the
balance of less than per cent from other countries
OF the $15,515 23013 worth of exports for 1896 S15
46oo9S15, or 1864 per the United States
The total exports and imports amounted to
$s,49 1854 thann 1885, and 476O92 more
than the best previous year. Of the total export and import
trade $2O92 3O635 1926 per cent was with the United
States 1888 per cent with England and the remaining per
cent with about a dozen countries
American vessels carried S23 per cent of the exports and
imports British vessels 1893 per cent Hawaiian vessels 526
per cent? German vessels per cent and other naonai
ties 40 per large proportion of the tonnage regis
tered under British and other naonates was chartered by
American firms steamship companies
The following table shows briefly the number tonnage and
nationality of the vessels cleared all the Customs
districts in the Republic:
No Tonnage Per cent No Tonnage Per cent
The Hawaiian gazette., 1897-03-12
PLANNING MILLS.
Good Business Built by Lumber
Manufacturers.

Good Business Built by Lumber
Manufacturers.
Among the manufactures of Homo
lulu those connected with the build
ing interests of the islands form a
prominent part Honolulu has several
well equipped mills for the prepara-
ton of lumber for building purposes
and in the number the Enterprise Mill
Co." the principal stockholders being
Peter High, DR.. j. S. B. Pratt and
Bernhard Johanson.
The mill property extends from Ala
kea to Richards street below Queen
and contains all the latest improved
machinery to be found in any estab-
lishment of this character. The firm
employs about thirty skilled carpen-
tiers and men accustomed to handling
wood working machinery. In addition
to large contracting business in the
construction of buildings the firm exc
lcutes orders for mill work on lumber
and ships many thousand feet to points
on the other islands. The machinery
is never idle and during the past year
with the phenomenal increase in buil9-
ing operations the force of men has
been increased. In connection with
the mill there is a building devoted
to use as an Office and draughting
rooms
The Hawaiian gazette., 1897-03-12
]. A. Hopper.

Opposite the mill just mentioned, ].
a. Hopper conducts one of similar
character. He does not, however, take
contracts for building, his business
being confined principally to mill work
for carpenters or builders. His en-
gines are never idle and his employees
are always busy.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-03-18
SUGAR BEET INDUSTRY,
State Board Of Trade win Apply for Seed
 for Free Distribution.

The Little Rock Board of Trade, in conjunction with the Arkansas State Board of Trade, has taken up the question of sugar-beet growing in Arkansas.
 Application will be made to the Secretary of Agriculture to supply five farmers in each county of the state with sufficient amount of sugar beet seed for experimental planting. In order that a proper test shall be made in every locality of the State and of every variety of soil, it is desired that farmers who are interested to the extent of giving this matter careful attention shall send in their names at once to George c. Hardness, Secretary Arkansas State Board of Trade, Little Rock Arkansas, through whom the seed will be distributed if secured.
 Papers throughout the State are requested 10 pursue this matter actively, as no time can be lost if the experiment is to be made this season.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-03-18

fallen slightly over the South Allan tIc States but has risen generally elsewhere.
 The Ohio River continues to fall, being below the danger line at Gin cinnatti and Louisville
 The Mississippi is rising from Cairo to New Orleans and is 96 1t. above danger line at Cairo, SC above at Memphis, s.6 above at Helena. 0.9 above at Vieksburg, and New Orleans.
 Quite heavy rains ranging from 0 24 inchs to 1.60 inches have fallen i'll the Arkansas Valley from Oklahoma to Little Rock. The river is falling at Ft. Smith and Little Rock, but rising at Dardinelle. though the stage at the last named station is lower than yesterday.
 The Arkansas River will begin rising at Ft Smith and Little Rock today and continue rising at Dardi- nelle. r. II. CLARKE,
 Local Forecast Official
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"P|E DISTRIBUTED
BY THE REPUBLICAN STATE
 COMMITTEE.
The Leaders Get the Big Slices and the Lesser Lights Will Be
 Attended to Later.

At the meeting of the Republican State Committee in Little Rock Tuesday the following recommends tions were made for Federal ap- pointments:
 Collector Internal Revenne--H. l.. Remmel.
 Marshal Eastern District of Ark ansas--Henry NJ. Cooper.
 United States Attorney Western District-Thomas II. Barnes.
 United States Attorney Eastern District-.Jacob Trieber.
 Superintendent Hot Springs Res eryation-M Martin A. Eisele.
 Register Land Office, Little Rock w. G. Whipple.
 Receiver Land Office. Little Rock John E. Rush.
 Register Harrison Land Office John |. Warrington, Of Carroll county.
 Receiver Harrison Land Oflice-F. $. Baker, of Boone county.
 United States Marshal, Western District, $. r. stahl, of Benton county.
 Register Camden Land Office, J. E. Friedheim.
 Receiver Camden Land Office, F. A. Shicker.
 Register Dardanelle Land office, J. G. Chitwood. Receiver Dardanelle Land office, J. H. Battenfield. Postmaster Little Rock, W. s. Holt.
 Postmaster Fort Smith, J. K. Barnes.
 Postmaster Texarkana, Ben M. Foreman.
 Postmaster Hot Springs, J. W. Howell.
 Postmaster Helena, S. I. Clark.
 Postmaster Fayetteville, T. J. Hunt.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-03-18
TIE FLOODS.
GREAT DISTRACTION IN EASTERN
 ARKANSAS.
Great Loss of Life at Marion, Ark. and at Presidents Island Other Flood
 News.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, March 1S-The Lower Mississippi wateigaed at and belo " the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers is in the throes ol one of the most disastrous floods in the history of the Mississippi Valley The loss of human life and property is inealeulable, because of the wide range of territory that is affected.
 The loss of life in Arkansas is esti- mated at sixty, although several hundred negroes are reported to have been swept away and the an nouncement of appalling figures is momentarily expected.
 At Marion, Ark. last night 400 helpless creatures were lined up on the railroad tracks, expecting every moment to be swept away by the merciless torrent.
 On Presidents Island, between 50 and 100 individuals were standing ia the water, praying for the sight of some friendly boat.
 People ana dumb brutes were hud- dled together on Island 40, where ever shallow water permitted.
 Between Oseeola, Ark, and point opposite Memphis, Tenn, 10000 per sons have fled from the lowland. Three thousand destitute refugees are now in the city seeking relief
 At Cairo the river is twenty-five miles wide and spreads all over the Missouri and Kentucky bottoms. The loss of life will not be SO great here, however, for the people had ample warning of the impending danger.
 Thirty miles of country about Nashville, Tenn, Is inundated. The Ohio river is so h igh that it is resist ing the Cumberland atits outset and forcing the latter's waters back into the lowlands. The Cumberland is } feet above the danger line.
 The Ohio has submerged farm lands opposite Henderson, Ky, for four miles, and breaks in the levee have established new water course between Henderson and Evansville, Ind.
 The Tennesse river in Alabama is the highest in ten years, and is rising at Florence at the rate of half an inch an hour
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-03-18
A THREATENED OVERFLOW.
Heavy Rains Will Make the Arkansas
 River Ranks Full.

Heavy Rains Will Make the Arkansas
 River Ranks Full
 From reports outfrom Little Rock and Washington, the prospects for an overflow of the Arkansas River is good. Today our merchants, gener- ally, who have extended larger credit thaa usual at this time of the year. wore very lorg faces. The following from the United States Department of Agriculture:
 LITTLE RoeK, ARK, Mar. IT, Cloudy weather prevails over all the country except in he extreme West where 1t is clear.
 Light rains have been general since yesterday morning over the entire Mississippi Valley, Lower Ohio and Missouri valleys, and Eastern Texas, being heaviest in the. Upper Arkansas Valley, Northeast Texas, and North ern Louisiana where rainfall has averaged from LOO at Shreveport to 1.60 at Ft. Smith and 1.46 at Okla homa City. The temperature has
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-03-18

business, being first president of the West Shore Railroad; vice-president
 of the Pullman Car Co, and assoei. ating himself with other great eorpo-
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-03-18
BADLY INJURED.
season

A Lineman Falls From Telephone POle--
 Injuries May Prove Fatal
 Wednesday afternoon about 3:30 o'clock, Sam Davis, lineman in the employ of the Southwestern Tele- graph and Telephone Go., while at work stringing q wire near the old Smart place, west of this city, fell from q telephone pole, a distance of about 30 feet, and received injuries which may prove fatal.
 About o'clock he was brought to town on a wagon and given surgi- cal attention. This morning he was in a critical condition but his physi- elan, is, as yet, unable to tell how serious his injuries are. His back is badly sprained.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-03-18

expert. so most of his service was in the artillery branch, on the staffs of Mcclellan, Rasecrans and Grant, where lie earned q reputation as gallant and ffarless fighter, asshown hy his hreyets. He served in the Chicamauga and Wilderness cam paigns and the first assault on Charleston, where he was wounded. Gen. Grant was greatly attached to Gen. Porter, and made him Assistant Secretary of War, while he himself filled the Seeretaryship.
 He surrendered hissarmy commis- sion in 1873, and plunged inlo active.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-03-18
Special Election

Notice is hereby given that on the 9th day of April, 1897, a special elee- ton will be held in connection with the regular annual election at the usual voting precincts iii the city Of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, for the purpose of eleeting one Alderman from the Second Ward to fill the unexpired d term of H. Riley, resigned.
 Given under my hand this 18th day of March, 1897.
 FRED Fox. Mayor Pro tenn.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-03-18
JOHN HAY.

John Hay is native of Indiana, 59 years of age. lie graduated at Brown University in 1858, and began the practice of law in Illinois in 1861. President Lincoln appointed him assistant secretary, and kept him in that capacity throughout his ad. miaistration. He also acted as Lineoln,s adjntant and aide-de- camp, and was breveted Lieutenant Colo ol and Colonel.
 Enteling the diplomatic service in the eos, lie was at various times in charge at Vienna, first secretary at Paris and secretary of legation at Madrid. In 1870 Mr Hay connected himself with the press and for nearly six years devoted himself toeditorial work on a New York newspaper. in 1875 he entered politics, taking an active part in the presidential cam paigns of 1876. 1880 and 1884, being then a resident of Cleveland, O.. President Hayes appointed him First Assistant Secretary of State, which post he filed for nearly three years.
 Since bis retirement from office Col. Hay has resided chiefly in Washington. where he occupies a palatial home on Lafayette Park and has devoted himself toliterature with the greatest success. Some of his best known works are "pike County Ballads" /" "Castilian Days and q history of Lincoln, written in collaboration with John Nie0lay. John Hay has also been q frequent contributor 10 the highest class of periodicals, and to him has been as- cribed the authorship of the anony- nous novel, "The Breadwinners, , which eansed such agitation in labor circles
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-03-18
HORACE PORTER.

Gen. Horace Porter comes of rev0- lutionary stock, his grandfather, Andrew Porter, being one of Wash ingtons most valued officers. Gen. Porter's father was David Kitten house Porter, at one time Governor of Pennsy lvania, and 8 prosperous manufacturer.
 Horace Porter was born just sixty years ago in Huntington, Pa. He was well educated in his own state, at Harvard and finally at West Point. Soon after his graduation from the military academy he was assigned to duty in the South, then in secession. He was an ordnance
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-03-18

rations in a directive canacity.
 He is at present chairman of the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway board.
 He is well-known also in the field of literature, being an author of re- pute and q much-sought-after public speaker
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-03-18
FOREIGN
 APPOINT TMENTS,
TWO AMBASSADORS NOMINATED
 BY THE PRESIDENT.
John Hay and Horace Porter Alp. Pointed Ambassadors to England
 And France Respectively.

The President Tuesday sent the following nominations to the Senate:
 To be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States, John Hay, of the District of Columbia, to Great Britain.
 Horace Porter, of New York, to France.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-03-18
A Lascerated Hand

J. W. FARLEY, Agent.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-03-18

The Tennesse river in Alabama is the highest in ten years, and is rising at Florence at the rate Of half an inch an hour.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-03-18

This morning, while at work in the Pine Bluff Wood and 'abinet Works, "Dnck" iisl boy about 14 years of age got his right hand badly cut in machine,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-03-18

Epworth League Convention at Clarendon For the above occasion the Cotton Belt Route will sell tickets (Pine Bluff to Clarendon $1 .65) and return, at one fare. Tickets on sale March 9, g and 24. Return limit March 26, 1897.
 J. W. FARLEY, Agent.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-03-18

The following IS the stage Of water in the Arkansas river at the follow ing places, taken at S o'clock this showing rise in last l2
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-05-20
Reef Tea for InyaItds.

A cooking school formula for the
preparation of beef tea that is nutri-
tious advises: Take beef which has
been freed from all visible fat, and chop
it not too fine, add pint of cold water,
and stir with a wooden spoon until it is
pulpy. Then let it stand in the icebox
for two hours Put it into a porcelain
lined or enameled iron kettle; add a
little salt or bay-leaf or Glove or a
stick of celery. When the kettle is on
the fire it should be stirred constant
ly until it has reached the steaming-
point. 1t must never boil The white
of an egg is used to clarity it, and it is
strained through double cheese-clofb
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-05-20

are covered with mud and the milk en-
dangered-for the ordinary mixer is
not careful to get all the dust and dirt
CT the cows udders before beginning
to milk. Bridge the pasture streams
This can often be done by throwing
couple of logs across and placing
planks crosswise upon them. Where
the stream is little too wide for this
the plan shown in the cut can be used
"a simple bit of engineering that can
be put up oy anyone who can WELD an
AK 10 make the sides less steep, put a
larger log crosswise under the lower
ends OF the planks. Notch the side
logs SO that the crosswiSe logs will
be retained by them without slipping.
Spike the planks to the logs and the
bridge will last for great many years.
N. y. Tribune
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-05-20

out W :thout making an auger hole. Saw
the door at bevel, making the opening
larger on the inside, so the door will fit
snugly in place when pressed home by
the ensilage. The edges of the slaves
should be beveled so that, when set in
place, they will form tight joint along
their entire edge. The silo need not
necessarily be perfectly tight when
empty, nor need it be water-tight when
the filling commences. The hoops
should be frightened before filling and
the slaves brought closely together so
that no piece of ensilage can get be-
tween the slaves. The moisture of the
ensilage will cause the wood TO expand
so that, not only will the silo become
tight, but the strain may become so
great upon the hoops that, unless they
be loosened slightly, they may be burst
A tub silo always needs close attention
for a few days after filing, and the
strain relieved if necessary. A silo Is
feet in diameter and 16 feet high would
hold 81 tons of ensilage. For feeding 10
cows 80 pounds per day, this silo would
hold an amount nearly sufficient to
keep them one year. = Rural New
YOrlSer
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-05-20
NaturaI ThatH He sbouId.

She was an extremely practical girl
and was inclined to look upon his pro-
testations and assertions in an extreme
iy practical way.
My love for you knows no ending
he said, gloomily, when she told him
that she didn't see how she could be
anything more than a sister to him.
Your refusal seals my death war.
rant"
''Oh, guess not" she returned.
"Ah, you do not know me-" he pro-
tested. u cannot live without you. ]
shall surely die. You have my heart
IF have your heart she interrupt
ed in her severely practical way, i
should think you would die."-Chicago
Post.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-05-20
Koch.s Rinderne.t s.-.

Hitherto all efforts to check rinder-
pest. except by destroying the animals.
t;tve been futile. But now the farm.
el'~ of South Africa are rejoicing over
the discovery by Prof. Koch, the great
German scientist. of remedy. 1t con
sists of serum from the blood of an an
iInal which has recovered from the
disease, mixed with quantity of
y!ruient rinderpest blood. Animals.
when injected with this mixture. were
able to withstand an injection OF 20
cubic centimeters of rinderpest blood.
a ten-thousandth of which Is a fatal
dose. One liter sutfices for so head of
cattle. \ second important discovery
is that one hypodermic injection of ten
cubic centimeters of bile from cattle
who have succumbed to the disease viii
render healthy cattle immune The
local result is merely hard swelling.
which soon disappears. This method
of immuning cattle may enable a wide
belt of those inoculated to be placed be-
tween healthy and Infected areas. Prof
Koch urges cattle owners to avail them
selves at once of his discovery.