The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-12-23
THE PASSING IHRONG.
r UDGE KENNETH NJ. JACKS

r UDGE KENNETH NJ JACKSON,
II formerly United States commission
" or a. Wrsngei. was one Of the ~
turning passengers on the steamer
GaroEne YESTERDAY Judge Jaekson t.
keen observer ana h. went 20 Hawai- with
the Intention Of measuring the country, 80
20 speak. and o. judging u lis oUnorturi-
ties. There are oDls $50 70 s.fss
more people in Honolulu than there were
before annexation" said Judge Jackson
at the Butter Yesterday. While the IN
ffx az strangers ss1at has followed annex
a,ion has nc, been large, / believe the
country is susceptible Of a great develop
ment; thai Ii is capable CO sustaining
population of perhaps 2ss.e"e people. The
land is not all in cultivation. and 1t -
VERY productive / believe. from what
saw and remembering, Of course the vari-
ETY. % crops that ars raised there. thai one
acre OF fertile laa3 In HAWAII Is equA 70
almost fifty In tire states in productive
power They raise easily sugar coffee
coeoannts. .'' Wheat and tea. The
country g blessed with salu-
briouS climate. Honolulu IL an enterpris
ing city, JUST now beginning TO feel the
qulckeuing effect of annexation Its pSn-
Pre- are prog fesSsve and nTeli!g%nt-inaceff,
| ara arr5ly convinced that II the other
territories we have lately acquired are as
easily assimiiated into our body polite as
the people OF Hawaii, there viii not be- tne
slightes, trouble in governing them;
The day We left an interesting legal
question was brought before the supreme
justice. Fourteen Chinese had been per
mitted 70 return to China just before the
passage Of the annexation resolution. They
were giVeE passports on which they could
return When they came back Hawaii
was American soil and their passports
were not hsnored. A writ OF habeas cnF-
pus was sworn out ana the prisoners were
taken before the supreme court. Many
such interesting legal questions as these
will have 10 be settled by the courts GUT
ing the next few years, and their adJudi-
cation viii require legal ability OF the
highest order.
One of Honolnlu's prominent merchants
is T. j. King, manager of the california
Feed Company, who was one OF the ga
roane's passengers arriving here yester-
day Four years age. MIR. KING came 70
Seattle and loaded the bark Oakland with
a full cargo OF feed, hay, grain and 1--we
stock for Honolulu His mission here now
is to purchase ia this market SUCH goods
as his firm handles.
For sixteen years Mr.. King has been en-
gagged in business in. Honolulu He Is a
member of the Chamber or Commerce, De-
ing chairman of Ole Of its important com
mi.tees. Naturally. being d Californian,
his iThclinatIoIls do not favor Seattle as
against San Francisco. except Tor purely
business reasons. and when he buys IN this
market II is because he can do 1t at better
advantage than in san Francisco.
can sell US what We need in Honolulu al
lower prices than San Francisco. Mr..
King said last night at the Butter. We'll,
II YOU can, the merchants OF the Islands
will come into this market. /, myself, was
a heavy shipper by the Garonne and L am
here to look into business matters IN my
line The question TO he solved by Seattle
merchants II they wish 10 compete WITH
San Francisco is how TO under=eh their
southern competitors-that the problem
in a nutshell. You must remember that
freight rates by sailing vessels from San
Francisco to Honolulu are bat 81 per ton
and that they have made the voyage In
ten and twelve days. i am encouraged to
believe that Seattle has certain advantages
and that direct business between this city
and the islands can be fSstered and devel-
oped into something of value and impor-
tance to this city and TO US at Honolulu.
too.
Il notice that quotations hay, grain
and feed in San Francisco and Seattle do
not vary much. IL is admitted that the
Honolulu merchant frequently buys mer-
chandise III San Francisco that has been
shipped from the Sound Who absorbs the
freight 10 San Francisco? Ii does not ap-
pear 10 cut very big figure. and it is evil
dent that the san Francisco people must
be enjoying very low rate.
Yes. sir: HawaE Is capa bic OF support
ing many times her present population.
What we want down there in the way of
humanity Is first, people with money 20 in
vest. and. second. tiilers of the soil. There
are plenty OF clerks. typewriters. profess
meDt land 70 be had by settlement and pirr-
chase, and il Is very productive We i'm
port all the potatoes We use. whereas the
soil and climate are both adapted to their
profitable cultivation. colony OF South
ern cadfornians settled lately back o.
Honolulu in the higher lands where there
are frequent rains and danger from drouth
IL slight. They are doing well ard are
prosperous. The other day one OF them
brought me bunch of celery that was as
fine as any that ever came from Washing
ton or California, and persons who were
born on the island say none slike Il was
ever raised there before. Truck farming
and fruit growing may be made TO pay hy
hard-worhfns and Industrious people The
climate Is wonderful-you have doubtless
heard all about that Well that's all there
Is 10 say OF Honolulu. ! hope that there
may be an Increase in commerce between
SEATTLE and the islands. 1t helps both par
ties"
James Waciner, after whom the town of
NarGncr, idaho, was named has been in
| the city several DAYS, and signed a con-
| tract yesterday with the Russian-Ameri-
can Mining and Exploration Company 10
| take out 5ocr9 tons of ore from the Omi-
lax mines John &. Green is the principal
owner, ard the rlifies are situated on E'j-h