The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-05-10
ARRAY ON MAUI
Chinese Slashes Country
man With Knife.
Personal Notes of the Island-Brisk
Week in Shipping
Circles.

MAUI, May S.-ThuGSday, the 9th,
a cutting ARRAY occurred in the corn
lands of Waiahuli, Kula. One Lin
ICheon, cut two fellow-countrymen
with butcher knife, one in the left
shoulder and the other in the back.
Linn Cheon went TO a friends house
and accused him of stealing $3.50 left
there by him (Lim Cheong) several
days previous. Hot words led to blows.
Two neighbors, hearing the noise,
made haste TO the scene and separ-
ated the contestants. Affairs seeming
TO be calm and peaceful again, the TWO
neighbors set about returning home
ward, when the still angry Linn
Cheong ran after them and slashed at
them with a butcher knife most saw
agely. The case was brought before
the District Magistrate at Makawao,
but was continued until one of the in
jured parties recovered somewhat
from the wound in his shoulder. Hen
~ Long is lawyer for the defense.
Fifteen Makawao teachers discussed
Page and Rooper at the Makawao
school during Monday, May Sd.
l.. Won Tempsky and family are now
domiciled at Olinda house, the wealth
er in Kula being too dry to properly
enjoy life.
Rev and Mrs. Oliver Emerson were
guests of DR.. Beckwith, of Paia, dur
ing the week. Mr.. Emerson preached
at Paia Church the I'd. He also visited
Lahaina during the week.
Thomas Brown, California bank
er, together with three ladies, have
been guests of H. P. Baldwin at Hal
ku during the week.
DR.. Walter Maxwell, of the Homo
lulu Experiment Station, has been I'm
terviewing Paia and Hamakuapoko
plantations during the week. He-f1as
been the guest of Manager j. W. Col
vile.
District Magistrate w. II. Halstead,
of Waikiki, celebrated his 56th birth
day last Sunday, the I'd.
w. II. Lambert, of the Kahului Rail
road Company, goes to Honolulu this
week TO accept a position under the
oahu Railroad Company.
Mr. Waldron is the new assistant
book-keeper in the office of the rail-
road company at Kahului. F. Wheeler
the former book-keeper, has accepted
a similar position on the Wailuku
plantation.
Mr.. Goodhue, the former accountant
for the Wailuku plantation, will soon
take up the study of dentistry, so it is
stated.
DIR. E. S. Goohue, of Waikiki, VIII,
for time, reside in Paia. and devote
most of his time to literary matters.
Dr. McConkey will attend both to
Walluku and Makawao plantations.
r. II. Bailey will give up the dairy
business in Makawao, so it is rumored.
having recently sold all his cattle 20
Spreckelsville plantation.
J. J. Abren is soon to start store
in Kokomo, Makawao.
If the present drought continues for
another month the entire corn crop of
Kula will be destroyed. The outlook
for corn and potato planters in the
Kula section is most discouraging.
r. I. Moore, the Honolulu dentist, is
now at Paia.
The Maui Board of Registration will
be in Kula next week.
Antoine Fernandez, the Paia mer-
chant, is buying ice of Spreckelsville
and selling it at IA cents per pound.
Wadsworth e Bailey, of Kahului have
been selling it at IL cents, but if the
rivalry continues prices may go down
to II of a cent, so it is rumored.
Two young ladies, who reside not
many miles from Maunaolu Seminary,
will be brides ere the summer has
waned.
merry-go-'round is established in
Waikiki, near the Antoine Borba
premises. The proprietors hold ses-
sions three times weekly.
During Friday (the 7th) a picnic and
civ ~ To- oil
Cornwell. in honor of the Tahitian
prince. who is guest at Waikapu.
The Wailuku Hotel is being painted.
During Friday evening (the 7th) the
pi social, under the auspices of the
Y. P. S. G. E. passed off most pleas
antly at the residence of Mr.. and Mrs.
R. F. Engle. of Paia. There was a
"converzaione'' on selected subjects,
prizes given for the most correct list
of pied" words. and a game in which
things represented the names of books.
The afternoon of the 9Th the Thurs
day Club discussed LongfellOw at Sun
Inyside. Paia Miss Mile Beckwith
acted the part of hostess most grace
fully. Ice cream and cake were
served.
Sunday, May I'd, the schooner Mary
Dodge Hansen master. arrived in Ka-
hului, 1872 days from San Francisco.
She brought merchandise for Haiku
land Paia.
On Tuesday Cthe 4th) the schooner
Ottilie FjOrd arrived in ballast. 40 days
from Honduras. She will take Paia
and Haiku sugar.
The four-master Golden Shore has
been in the offing several days and will
enter port tomorrow. She has a cargo
from Newcastle, consigned to H. c.
Co.
The schooner Olga, Ipsen master de-
parted Wednesday (the 5th) for San
Francisco with Paia and Haiku sugar.
Today (the Sth) the barkentine Mary
Winkelman. Bennecke master, will