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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-09-17
BY AUTHORITY,
PUBLIC LANDS NOTICE.

LEASE AND SALE OF PUBLIC
LANDS IN PUMA AND SOUTH
KONA, HAWAII.
On MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 90,
1897 at front entrance of Judiciary
Building, II o'clock, noon, will be sold
at Public Auction, Two Lots in Kehe.
ma, Puma, containing Ga $40 acres and
$40 acres respectively. Upset price,
$192.90 and 5000. Terms Cash in
United States gold.
At the same time and place will be
sold the lease of Ahupuaa of Kaulana-
mauna, S. Kona, containing 3,400 ac-
res, more or less.
Term, 81 years.
Upset Rental, $50 per annum, pay
able annually in advance.
The Government reserves the right
to take up any portions of this land
for purposes of Land Act without re-
duction of rent
For further particulars apply at the
Public Lands office, Honolulu, or of Z,
ID. BALDWIN, Hllo.
j. i. BROWN,
Agent of Public Lands.
Dated, August 23, 1897.
In accordance with the require
ments of Section 4, Article 103 of the
Constitution,
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN of the
following which passed its third read
ing in the House of Representatives
May ~, 1896, and in the Senate May
16, 1896:
PROPOSED AMENDMENT
To Article 63 of the Constitution Of
the Republic of Hawaii, in Accord
ance with Article 1903 thereof.
Article 81 of the Constitution of the
Republic of Hawaii is hereby amended
to read as follows:
| Article 63.-Title of laws
Each law shall embrace but one
subject, which shall be expressed ir
its title"
J. A. KING,
Minister of the Interior.
Interior Office, July 1, 1897.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-09-17

Wife to Husband, at Dinner
Table-"What makes you scowl
so, this EVENING""
Husband-"The bread is off
color-Off taste again"
Wife, have tried several
brands of flour lately, and done
the best 1 could"
Husband-"have you tried the
PORT COSTA YETI"
Wife-"No; but | will"
GEO. w. McNEAR,
San Francisco.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-12-09
RETTRTNC THEGREENRACK.

In his speech at St. Louis concern.
ing the retirement of the greenbacks,
Mr.. Bryan said
"We are opposed to the retirement
of the greenback, and when we oppose
it we are applying to this question the
principle of equality before the law
Who is it that wants the green backs
retired? Is it the national bank2
Why? Because it is the national bank
that wants the money that the people
now save by using the greenbacll
Why opposed to retiring the green'
back? Because we are opposed to
farming out to individuals the func-
tions of government. We are opposed
to picking ont the bankers as the fav.
orite sons and giving them coat OF
many colors to the detriment Of the
people,
81 wonder if you have all examined
this question until you understand the
real secret of this demand? The pres
ident Of New York national bank
gave testimony before a committee OF
congress; that testimony is a matter of
record. He declared himself in favor
of retiring the greenback anu treasury
notes with per cent gold bond. He
thought the bond would float at par,
and then he said If the government
would allow the national banks to is
sue up TO par all the bonds and take
the tax off circulation, he thought the
issue of bank notes would be sufh-
GENTLY large so that the national
banks would issue their notes to take
the place of the greenbaclfs and treas
ury notes retired.
"Now that is the calm and deliber-
ate statement Of president of a ma
tional bank. l want to analyze it and
see what it means. The retirment of
$500, 900, 900 of greenbacks and treas
ury notes, with an issue of per cent
gold bonds would mean that the peo-
pie would tax themselves ST., 200, 900
year to pay the interest on the bonds
before they came due, and then tax
themselves $500, 100000 to pay the
bonds when they became due Their
the banks would take those bonds, de-
post them, issue notes ut par and bo
relieved Of any tax on circulation
What does it mean9 If the bonds float
at par It means that bank can organ
lie with 500, 900 capital, buy 100000
worth Of bonds, issue 500, 900 worth OF
notes on them, and then have back in
notes the exact amount paid for the
bonds; so that the bank would have
nothing invested, but would draw ia
terest at $1,000 a year, and that beats
any investment in any enterprise
know Of, even with confid-sGe rsAtored
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-12-09

pass all nations on earth in the de-
struction of life and property? 1t is
the legitimate result of corporate greed
and parsimony, Government manage
ment would change all this. Human
life would be respected, and the loss
property prevented. The eight or ten
hour day would DO adopted. The ex-
ira crew carried on long runs could be
armed as defense against train rob
bers, all in the government service.
And, in the case Of wreck, there
would be double the men on board to
help recover from the disaster.
The whole case may now be stated
in the form of an alternative. Shall
the American people continue to sub
init their property and their lives to
spoliation and destruction by alien
corporationsP Or, shall the people as.
sumo the possession and management
Of their own public highwaysP Shall
we continue to fatten those great rail-
way kings whose busines> IS to rob
and destroy MS? Or. shall wv pay our
money to our own public servants,
whose surplus earnings will 60 into
the public treasury for the benefit OF
the people?
For the present end these brief
discussions of a very great subject.
On its proper disposal depend the pros
perity, and the very liberties of the
freeest people on earth. If have said
anything which appears untrue or un-
reasonable to any of my readers, I
hope they will so state in the columns
of the Commoner, that the matter may
be settled on the basis of truth and
justice Respectfully submitted.
JOHN DAVIS,
Junction City, Kan.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-12-09

The national bank notes are secured
by deposits of government bonds. In
consideration of such deposits the
United States undertakes to see that
the note holder will lose nothing, even
If the bank fails. When a national
bank goes into liquidation its notes are
called in and redeemed by the govern
ment, and thus it happens that no note
holder ever lost dollar under the
present system.
But what makes the national bank
bank notes secure? The governments
credit Are they any moro secure than
the greenbaclss, which rest upon the
government credit and the govern
ment's promise of redemption? Not at
all, since both rest upon precisely the
same foundation
Therefore, so far as security is con-
cerned, the public would would be
equally safe whether the paper money
of the country is issued by the govern
ment direct or by national banks Sc
cured by deposits of government bonds.
The ultimate security in each case is
the governments credit If the gov
eminent issues the notes direct, it
saves interest on the whole issue; If
the notes are issued through national
banks, the government pays the inter
est on the bonds deposited to secure
them.
The proposition, that is now under
discussion, of retiring the national
bank notes, instead of retiring the
greenbacks, and issuing an additional
volume of greenbacks to take the place
of the national bank notes, may be
characterized in some quarters as a re-
vival of fiatism, but it is nothing of the
kind, since it is proposed to make every
United States note redeemable, as
now, in coin. The entire burden of
specie redemption is now upon the gov
eminent. 1t would be the same If the
national bank notes were retired. But
If all government notes are retired and
their places filed by national bank
issues, then the burden of specie re-
demption would of necessity be placed
upon the banks. Would the banks be
AS capable of maintaining specie re-
demption in times of depression and
panic as is the government? Could the
banks have maintained specie redemp-
ton in 1898 and 1894 if the burden had
been upon them? These are important
questions which must be answered 10
the coming discussion of currency re-
form. Representative.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-12-09
Junction City, Kan.

The bankers are very much opposed
to the state of the law which allows
cooperative colonies to issue labor
checks, these checks being employed
as currency by the colonists. The
bankers do not allege that this prac-
tice has prevented them from gaining
the usual profits of their business, but
they do say that these bits of paper
are an element of peril. The idea may
be taken up by corporation of some
kind and then the country "would be
flooded" with substitutes for bank
currency. The contemplation of such
thing as the circulation of substitutes
for bank currency plunges the philan-
trophic bankers into the widest alarm.
Accordingly, the American Bankers
Association will be asked to look into
the question and, if necessary, prepare
bill prohibiting any currency of any
kind that Is not issued under the cur
rency laws. This would mean that
the circulation of labor checks must
come to an end, and even the exchange
of commodities on the cooperative
plan would be next to impossible if
this principle of legality is to prevail.
Here we have an instance of the sharp
ness with which the fnanciers look
out for their own interests The labor
checks have not done them any harm,
but they are already attacking them
because they contain limitless posi-.
bilities of mischief. twentieth Cen
tnrY.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-12-09
DIRECT LEGISLATION.
1T WOULD REDUCE THE NUMBER
OF LAWS
Laws on which people vote direct would
be such 10 arc needed aud would be
enforced By tho people who made
than.

Direct legislation proposes this:
Whenever any law ia pronounced uu-
constitutional by that fact, without
any further action, it becomes impera-
tive to refer the law in question to =
vote Of the people. The decision Of
the people settles at once and without
any further dispute the CONSTITUTIONAL
ity Of the law. If affirmed by the PEG.
pie it has behind it precisely the same
sanctions which make any part Of the
constitution binding, to-wit: the APP
proval of the legislature and also Of
the people. 1t is evident that such a
procedure would have several whole
some results; first, the judges would
be kept under realizing sense of their
responsibility, for the Judge himself
would be put on trial before the court
Of last resort, the people; second, =
law receiving such endorsement would
have binding force, for there would be
no question of power behind it. And,
third, this would compel much greater
care in framing laws than is now used.
Direct legislation wonld lessen in a
great degree the number of laws At
the last session of the state legislature
of michigan nearly eleven hundred
bills were introduced and some four
hundred were passed; Of these only =
few were Of general application to the
state, the rest were local measures.
Under direct legislation local self-gov-
ernment would inevitably result. It
is notorious that the mass of local bills
are passed, not after due deliberation,
but at the personal request and on the
individual Endorsement of members
from each locality. 1t cannot be 9th.
erwise. Only the voters and tax.pay-
ers of village know whether they
need and wish to pay for bridge over
the adjacent creek. The Legislators in
general cannot know All local meas
ures ought TO be, ana under direct leg
islation would be settled by the citi-
zens of the locality interested. This
would leave to the state legislature the
consideration of measures affecting the
whole state. There would be ample
time for real consideration, the l1nowl-
edge that the people could at any time
veto the action of the Legislators would
compel careful consideration. A few
we'll devised laws would be passed and
the legislators would retire to their
homes, There would be great saw
ing in expense, and such laws as were
passed would not be dead letters. AS
it is now there is a constant flood of
laws which, having no public opinion
behind them, are not enforced. This
breeds a general contempt for the
laws; not safe or wholesome thing
DIR. David Inglis, in the Michigan
Law Journal
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-12-09

GUTHRIE, Ok, Dec. 6.--W J. Bryan
departed for Mexico yesterday morn
ing. At the opera house Mr.. Bryan
lectured on "Bimetallism. Mr.. Bryan
says he will pass four weeks in Mex
leo Yesterday he received wired
invitation to be the guest OF President
Diaz at the Mexican capital. Mrs
Bryan will meet him at Fort Worth,
and Governor Crittenden will meet
them at San Antonio.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-12-09
A Race with Death.

CHICAGO Dec 6.-Twelve men COM
posing the crew of the steamer George
w. Morley had race with death on
Lake Michigan this evening. Fire
broke out in the hold of the vessel
seven miles off Evanston. All steam
was crowded on, the safety valves
were tied down and with men work.
ing like trojans in the binding smoke,
the run for shore commenced AS the
flames burst through the cabin, land
was reached and the crew saved.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-12-09
IN DEFENSE OF HIS HOME
George snOdgrasS Of Newton shoots and
KlIIs Charles Upton.

NEWTON, Kan, Des 6. = George
Snodgrass, barber, yesterday at
1890 o'clock shot and killed Brakeman
Charles Upton. The cause was trouble
of long standing between the men.
Snodgrass has made repeated charges
that Upton's relations with Mrs Snod-
grass were of criminal nature.
Snodgrass was at work in his bar
Der shop when the porter came in and
told him that his little girl, who was
i'll with scarlet fever, wanted to SEQ
him Snodgrass left the shop and
went to his home, and upon entering
the dining room saw Upton seated at
the table and his wife talking to him.
Rushing at him, he shouted, with an
oath, What are you doing here?"
The next instant he pulled 3s-caliber
revolver and shot Upton through the
head
Upton rose to his feet and staggered
toward the kitchen, endeavoring to
escape. As he did so, SnOdgrass fred
twice more, without effect Upton
staggered to the kitchen door, where
he fell, dead.
AS Snodgrass saw Upon fall he
turned and ran from tile room, and
hurried down the street to his barber
shop, where he was arrested by Sheriff
Charles Judkins
Upton had boarded and roomed at
the Snodgrass home for nearly year.
Some time ago Snodgrass came home
in an intoxicated condition, and it is
said, abused his wife. Upton was in
the house at the time and knocked
Snodgrass down and drove him out of
the house.
After that Upton practically took
the place of head OF tho family and
Snodgrass was treated as an outcast
Since that happened both Snodgrass
and Upton made threats against each
other and said they would shoot the
other. Upton carried revolver con-
stantly, and it was found In his pocA-
ct at the time of the inquest
Upton had been in the employ Of
the Santa Fe as brakeman for about
year He had a wife and child In
Chicago.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-12-09
aermnny,s Army 10 Cblnn.

BERLIN, Dec. g. When the German
achievements, consisting of four
companies of marines, numbering
twenty-three officers and 1900 men,
and company of naval artillery ar
rive at Kiao-Chau bay, for which
point they will soon set out, they will
bring the total German force there up
to 1866 men, the largest body Ger
many has ever sent beyond European
waters 1t is understood that the
reserves had to be drawn upon
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-12-09

LANSING, Mich, Dec. @ -State In
suranee Commissioner Campbell has
issued circular containing the names
Of thirty-fve fire insurance companies
which, he says, are not authorized to
do business in Michigan and many Of
whom he charges have no legal exist
ence anywhere. These are il addition
to list Of over twenty alleged fraud
ulent companies recently published by
the commissioners
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-12-09
BATES soPER CONVICTED.
The slayer OF wife aud children Guilty
of FIRST Degree Murder.

HARRsoNvILLE, Mo-, Dec 6.--The
jury in the Bates Soper murder trial
brought in n verdict that the accused
man was guilty in the first degree.
Soper stands convicted of the murder
of his wife and two children at Archie
in 1891. The defense was alleged in
sanity The prisoner heard the YER
dict stolidly and refused to talk His
lawyers said that a new trial would
be asked
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-12-09

GUTHRIE, Okla, Dee. AT the cleo
ton In the Chickasaw Nation the rati-
fcation OF the Dawes.Choctaw treaty
was overwhelmingly defeated. The
adopted and intermarried citizens
were not permitted to participate in
the eleetion.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-12-09
woMAM's TRAGIC ACT.
Mira Howell Ends Her suRsrIng with
q Bullet

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Dec 6.-Mrs
Lillian Howell, SO years, student at
the Kansas City Homeopathic college.
ended her life with a bullet at l1:lb
o'clock Saturday night in room at
7O3 East Eleventh street. She had
been confined to her bed for three
weeks with lung trouble and it is be-
lieved her act was prompted by the
thought that she would never regain
her health. She had sent her hus-
band to telephone for a doctor and
while he was gone she secured
revolver, mufied with bed clothes and
shot herself.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-12-09
Oeneral HancooL', Niece Divorced.

CHICAGO, Dec. r. Tho circuit court
has granted to Edward |. Frost an abb
solute divorce from his wife, Elizabeth
II. Frost Mrs. Frost was Miss Eliza
beth S. Hancock. niece of General
Hancock.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-12-09
!, RAILROAD QUESTION.
an ABLE DISCUSSION OF THE
SUBJECT BY JOHN DAVIS.

president Ripley OF the Santa Fo System
is answered by man who has made n
study OF the transportation problem
IN ali It's phases.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-05-15
LATER.

Advices from Constantinople say the
sultan rescnts the mediation of the
powers and desires to negotiate with
Greece directly. II this is refused the
Turkish demands will be more exact
ing
Heavy snowstorms prevailed through
out England and Scotland.
Silver republicans, populists and sill
verdemocrats have decided 10 hold three
conventions in Des Moines, Ia, June 20
TO nominate fusion state ticket.
The Traders bank at Lynchburg. Va,
closed its doors with liabilities of $780,
600.
Miss Nettie Leib, 2s years of age, and
well-known and successful real es-
tate dealer in Akron, o., committed
suicide when charged with embezzle-
ment.
Three more persons have died from
drinking poisoned spring water at Pike
Vile, Ky.
Elmer Clawson, aged 10, was hanged
. In Somerville, n. j., for numbering Har-
ry Hodgett, a farmer, on August 20
last.
The twenty-third Kentucky Derby
was won at Louisville by Typhoon III.
An unknown man criminally as
saulted the 12-year-old daughter Of
Fred Bunte, farmer near Evansville,
Ind, causing the chiId's death.
Fire at San Francisco in the tan
merry OF A. b. Patrick q Co. caused loss
OF S45O,000.
Peru and Bolivia have submitted their
territorial dispute to the arbitration of
Spain.
Four fishermen were drowned from
the fishing boat Amelia near San Fran
cisco.
Two negresses, Nellie Smith and
Mandy White, were hanged by mob
on the outskirts OF the village of JEFF,
Ala, for poisoning Joshua Kelly, a
wcll-known citizen.
Ex-Gov. Burlcigh, of Maine, has been
nominated for congress TO succeed the
late Congressman Milliken.
Senator Morgan (Ala.) made a state
ment in the United States senate on the
18th relative to his resolution on Cuba
He said the committee on foreign rcla-
tions had considered the question Of re-
ferring the resolution TO the committee
and had not reached an agreement, and
the resolution went over for a day. Bills
for n public building at Deadwood, S.
d., TO cost 100000 and one at Indian
apolis, Ind, to cost 81, SOC, 900, and grant
ing TO Montana $4,000 acres Of land in
aid OF an asylum for the blind were
passed
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-05-15

Greece has virtually sued for peace.
The government has seen the futility Of
prolonging conflict that rebounds only
to the glory of Turkish arms. and de-
sires that hostilities cease. With this
end in view n note to the powers has
been drafted inviting mediation.
In an engagement near Guines, Ha-
vana province. between Gen. Gomez and
the Spanish troops. the Spaniards were
severely defeated.
The American steamer Rover, trading
between New Orleans and Honduras
ports, was fired upon twice by gunboat
of the Nicaraguan government.
Greece has placed her interests in
the hands OF the powers and formally
adopted the terms of mediation. and
will at once recall her troops from Crete
and fully concede the principle of au-
tonomy for that island.
Advices say that IA villages between
Toulor and Kastrosykia have been
burned by the Turks, after all the
women and children had been massa-
cred.
The town of Windischmatrel. in the
Tyrol. well-known tourist resort, has
been destroyed by fire.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-05-15
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

Last year about S31 100000 worth of
tobacco was smoked in Spain-an av-
erage Of S1.so per head.
An instructor in physical culture in
Louisville, Ky, resigned a short time
ago rather than lecture to colored teach
ers.
OF the s560, ooo, 900 worth Of goods ex-
ported from the United States last year
$5o4 100000 worth were agricultural
produce.
There was recently killed in Wyoming
one OF the largest mountain lions ever
seen in that state. II was almost nine
feet long.
Queen Louisa of Denmark Is next
after Queen Victoria the oldest of the
sovereign ladies of Europe. She was
born in 1922.
Residents of Jefferson street. Topeka,
have been victims OF trained dog
which stole their newspapers and took
them 20 his master.
DIR. Edward Eggleston intends TO de-
vote the remainder of his life TO writ
ing a history OF American life in the
seventeenth century.
A bill-posting machine, which sticks
bills on walls, even as high as so feet,
without the use of ladder or pastepot,
is doing successful work I'm Paris
At Norfolk, Va. plant has been es-
tablished with capacity for five tons OF
peanuts daily, for the manufacture OF
peanut oil. peanut Hour and stock feed.
Winter has been so long in some OF
the Washington state valleys that IL Is
said that no hay will be left by the time
the spring crops are in, an unusual con
| dition.
HezelSiah Bradds. sexton of Bap-
fist church at Kansas City. having been
abandoned by his wife. who took away
all their household goods, made his dom
icile In the church steeple and instituted
suit for divorce.
Miss Alice Hughes. of London, is said
by English papers 20 be the most skill
full woman photographer in the world.
Although she charges more than any
other photographer in London she can
scarcely oil the orders that come TO her.
A Tennessee man who had not seen
his wife since the war met her accident
ally in Texas, when he learned that she
| had mourned him as dead. and married
ngain. and was now widow. The for
mer husband quickly proposed, was ac-
cepted. and his second marriage cere-
mony with his own wife was then per-
| formed.