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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-05-16
Police Court.

In the Police Court Saturday fore
noon the case Of Kan Ku for importing
opium was set for May 10th, and that
of a woman for profanity for the 18th.
Keawe was fined $50 and costs for
assault and battery on KeaIoha. This
was an aggravated case. In the evil
dence it was brought out that Keawe
went home drunk and tried to strangIe
a pet goat. His grandmother rushed
out and tried to demonstrate, but was
thrown off the porch. The grandfather
then came out and the same treatment
was accorded him. After the case was
over Saturday, native like, the old
lady said: I am so sorry for my
boy. I wish he had not been arrested"
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-05-16
FOREIGN NEWS NOTES.

The House Of Representatives at
Washington has disposed of two i'm
portant measures The Alaskan land
bill extending the homestead laws
and providing for certain railway
rights of way in the district of Alaska,
as amended by the Senate and agreed
upon in conference. was passed. The
labor measure, providing for arbitra-
ton of disputes between employees and
certain common carriers, a bill which
has received very wide endorsement
by the labor organizations throughout
the country, received the approval OF
the House.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-05-16

MADRID, May 5.-At Cabinet
council today over which the Queen
Regent presided the Premier, Senior
Sagasta, explained the war situation
and reported the arrival at Porto Rico
of the steamer Alfonso Kill, having
on board, it is said. reinforcements OF
troops and a very valuable cargo in
Guiding ammunition and supplies. The
Premier also announced the opening OF
the Cuban Parliament and the Queen
Regent signed the resources bill. The
/ Cabinet afterwards held another meet
/ ing and deliberated upon the financial
situation and measures taken and con-
tempIated to preserve public order in
the localities where disturbances have
occurred.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-05-16

A Model Plant is not complete with
out Electric Power. thus dispensing
with small engines.
Why not generate your power from
one CENTRAL Station? One gener-
ator can furnish power to your Pump,
Centrifugals, Elevators, Plows, Rail-
ways and HOSTS; also, furnish light
and power for a radius of from Is 70
80 miles.
Electric Power being used, saves the
labor of hauling coal in your field, also
water, and does away with high-priced
engineers, and only have one engine to
look after in your mill.
Where water power is available If
costs nothing to generate Electric
Power.
THE HAWAIIAN ELECTRIC COM
PANY is now ready to furnish Electric
Plants and Generators of all descrip-
tions at short notice, and also has OF
hand a large stock of Wire, Chande-
Tiers and Electrical Goods.
All orders will be given prompt at
tention, and estimates furnished for
Lighting and Power Plants; also, at
tention is given to House and Marine
Wiring.
THEO. HOFFMAN, Manager.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-05-16

The schooner Crown, Captain Line
han, has been lost off st. Johns Mid,
and her crew of II drowned. The
cause of the wreck is not known.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-05-16

Senior Dubose, secretary to Senior
Polo, gave a lecture in Massey hall,
Toronto, on the Cuban question. There
was a large audience. He denied that
the Cuban people had been over taxed
or i'll treated and said that the country
was very prosperous and taxation light
I'D to the time of the outbreak of the
rebellion. He appealed for sympathy
for the Queen Regent.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-05-16
PATRONIZED - Al
PATRONIZED
ONCE

Is the motto of those who visit the
Criterion Barber Shop. Some shops eX-
perience q boom of customers for a
time, but sooner or later the business
drops back to the old rut. The reverse
is the case at the Criterion Shop, bust
ness is steadily on the increase.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-05-16
Monuments and HGadStOlGS.

The undersigned is prepared to DO
CEMETERY work Of all kinds, and
supply MONUMENTS and HEAD
STONES Of which he has a great va
riety Of the latest and most artistic de-
signs, and will also supply stone cop
ing separately for surrounding ceme-
terry lots.
Estimates given in Marble, Granite
Hawaiian Stone, etc.
FIRED. HARRISON
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-05-16

A mob of about 5000 striking miners
have made a tumultuous demOnstra-
ton at Murira, capital of the Spanish
province of that name, 80 miles from
the port of Carthagena. They shouted
Death to the thieves" Down with
the taxes A force of troops prevent
ed the rioters from moving on the port
of Carthagena. A number of men were
wounded.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-05-16

The Relai of Paris says negotiations
are pending which will result in Great
Britain favoring the United States If
the other nations favor Spain by at
tempting to stop the war before the
United States has received satisfaction
The United States, it is said, has prom
ised in return to capture the Canary
Islands and cede them to Great Brit
ain.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-05-16
-THE-
OCeQDiC Cos 0Dd Electric Co.
THE

Having received a large consignment
of gas apparatus and fixtures and a
number of GRAPHOPHONEs, with full
assortment of RECORDS beg leave to
announce that the latter will be at
the disposal of the public from 1880
to 10 p. m.
Records will be made in accordance
with visitors suggestions.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-05-16

It was announced in the Spanish
CoYtes that there will shortly be pub
Iished a decree forbidding the export
of wheat.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-05-16
Our Success in Making
Pleasing PHOTOS

Does not find us resting on laurels al
ready won. We are trying just as
hard now-as ever-to make the photos
we take of you-the best you have ever
had made.
Rainy days do not affect our work.
We make just as good photos when it
is cloudy as when the sun is shining.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-05-16

MADRID, May 5.-Considerable anx-
iety is expressed here as to the fate Of
Porto Rico. 1t is feared that Admiral
SIMPSONS squadron has gone to seize
San Juan, the capital of that colony,
and the Spanish coal supply at that
port
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-05-16
Ahead!

When you get to Skagway
and other Alaska places
you'll find that SehtZItmg's
Best baking powder got
there long before. ssl
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-05-16
RAPIDLY DISAPPEARING.

The supply of the celebrated Seat
tie Book Beer is rapidly disappearing
in town The lovers of this nutri-
tious spring beverage can obtain it for
a limited time at the Criterion Saloon.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-18
FREE GARDEN SEEDS.

Editor San Francisco Call-Dear Sir: As The Call interests itself In the indus tries of the Pacific Coast, I venture to solicit its active influence in opposition to a shameful waste of public funds by the United States Government to the in jury of one of these industries which de- serves rather to be fostered
 In the present state of trade the seed industry of the Pacific Coast suffers more than that of any other section of the country from the foolish practice of the United States Government in distributing common seeds free of cost. I therefore hope that you will be able at this time to devote some attention to this growing abuse in the columns of The Call It may not be necessary for me to indicate 10 you what are the facts of the case put stress may probably be laid upon the fact that last year $13O 0O0 was spent in this way for free seeds to be distributed py the members of Congress in their re- spectiVe districts and $70, 900 additional in Ine Inaiiage or those seeds. This is practically a waste of s2OO,OO0 of public money in one year which accomplishes no appreciable good, but acts as a serious detriment to the combined industries of seed-growtng and seed-distribution. As wholesale distributor of seeds over most of the States of the Union, I know that thousands of merchants complain of the direct and indirect injury which this thing does to their business in seeds. It is well, of course, and a public need recognized by all new countries, that Government should expend some money upon the discovery and introduction of new and valuable seeds and plants, and no doubt the abuse of which I complain grew out of that need in this country But at this time there is practically noth- ing done for the acclimatiZation of new seeds and plants except by private busi- ness enterprise, and the money of the Government expended upon seeds is thrown away upon the distribution of the commonest kinds of garden and flower seeds. So far as I know, Government distribution of seeds is not practiced in any other country in the world except in times of famine and distress; and to have it known all over the world that the United States Government spends money in this way is no compliment to a country and people supposed to be pros porous. Hoping you will take this mat ter up for public exposure and censure, l remain, Yours truly,
 E. J. BOWEN.
 San Eranciscn Ian 12 1908
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-18
A SINEcURE AND AN INCUBUS.

| HEN public office degenerates into sine \AI cure 1t soon becomes incubus, and an n-
 cubus is a nuisance. This is what has become of the position of State quarantine officer in this city The national quarantine service does all the work of protecting the port against the importation of disease and does it well. The State officer does nothing but draw his salary, and cannot be said to draw it well because money taken without being earned is never well paid well received.
 The utter futility of the office is shown by the fact that captains of incoming ships pay no attention what to the demands the pleadings of the official who holds it If any captain should pay attention to him the official would be in quandary because the State has provided him with quarantine station at which to hold the ship send the passengers whom he might wish to inspect or fumigate.
 Being complete sinecure in every respect, the office is an incubus the taxpayers who have to pro- vide the money to keep it up, and on the shipping interests of the port which it sometimes disturbs Being without power the official is without dignity Every time he exerts himself to make play before the public the ship captains obliged ignore him and thus treat him with what seems to be contempt Thus his spasmodic activity tends to diminish the prestige of the State, and bad as the office is as snecure, 1t becomes worse when the official who holds 1t makes it incubus not only to the pockets but the patience of the people
 An official who is nothing else soon makes him self nuisance Thus we have our State quar- antne officer who is paid to serve the whole State making himself compliant special interests acting the representative of private enterprises becoming a special reporter for newspaper and refusing to others. The lack of any public work to do renders him forgetul of the fact that he is paid to the public, and accordingly when by any chance he plays at quarantine officer he to regard the performance not as public duty, but as private snap
 sinecure should be abolished, an incubus should be removed and nuisance should be suppressed There is need in this city of State quarantine office nor of State quarantine officer There are many to which the money of the taxpayers can be better applied than that of maintaining futile pretense at doing something which the National Gov is already doing to the satisfaction of the public.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-18
THE GRAND BOULEVARD.

u important step has been taken toward the \ accomplishment of the long discussed grand
 boulevard around the bay. The credit of the step belongs to San Mateo County. or at least to the Supervisors of that county There is every req son to believe however, that the people will ndorse 1t and San Maeo will have the honor of leading the way in the great enterprise.
 The State Highway Commission, which has taken earnest interest in the proposed boulevard visited San Mateo and, in association with the County Surveyor, had surveys made of the route of the highway By these surveys 1t was determined that the boulevard could be constructed from the line of San Francisco County through San Mateo to the line of Santa Clara County and highway to the line of Santa Cruz County without entaling extra taxation upon the people, provided bond issue voted for the purpose
 The Supervisors, after careful consideration of the plans proposed by the commission, approved them and decided to provide for bond election at early date. Full details of the plans and the steps taken by the Supervisors published in another column. They show that the movement is we'll launched and in every way merits the support of the community that is to be benefited by its compile ton.
 The action in San Mateo will be hailed with satis- faction by the progressive element of the people n all sections of the State It is but short time ago that Sacramento by large majority voted for the construction of the Folsom boulevard, and the San Mateo movement following so swiftly after shows that the progressive impulse is felt to a greater or lesser degree throughout the common wealth
 It may be accounted sure thing that if the people of San Mateo go forward in the enterprise as did those of Sacramento the people of San Francisco and Santa Clara will initiate the example. We shall have the grand drive around the bay in a. time much shorter than the most sanguine looked for. In fact it would be surprising to see all the counties take up the enterprise before the year is and set to work to accomplish it with vigor that will make it illustration of the energy and public spirit which now animate California and her people.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-18
THE COMING CHARTER.

San Francisco, Jan. IS, 1897.
 Editor of The Call-Dear Sir: It was with extreme pleasure that I listened last Friday evening to President Jordan's ad- dress on "The Management of Cities
 It must have been severe shock 10 some rigid republicans who think tnat no good can be found under a monarchy to listen to pr, Jordans conclusion in favor of the British system. l must say that the Scotch system with which 1 am con- versant is far and away ahead or any thing have seen In American cities
 With your permission and for the bene- fit of many of your readers l Will state a few salient features in the munlclpal government of the city of Edinburgh. The city is divided into thirteen wards. each of which returns three members to the Town Council, one retiring annualiy in November. They elect one or thelr number Lord Provost Cor Mayor(, who presides at the meetings of Council, whose term of office Is three years They also elect six bailies or magistrates, Who must be councillors and who dispense justice at police courts without fee or re- ward. They also elect one or their nun Der treasurer of the city. None or the Council receives a salary, not even the treasurer. An honorarium of $25OO is vot- ed to the Lord Provost at the end or eacn year. Although the two members or Council elected provost and treasurer may have but one year to run, they do not retire, but the next in rotation retlres ln their place.
 There are no park, police or fire com missions These departments are all managed by committees of the council. All the paid city servants are elected by the entire Council.
 You will see from the foregoing that In barren little Scotland men rule in cities for honor, whereas in America men rule for what there is in it. The spoiis system is the bane of American municl- pal government.
 It would be well for the citizens of San Francisco to place themselves on record in some tangible form that no charter shall be satisfactory unless it places the entire control of the city government in the hands of the people.
 Apologtzing for taking up your valuable space, l am yours truly,
 D. F. ANDERSON, 10 Sunny Court, Geary street, between
 Buchanan and Webster.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-18
YELLOW JOURNAL METHODS.
Los Bal

Los Banos, Cal, Jan. 10, 1898. To the Editor of The CalI-Dear Sir: I desire to call to your attention a new ex- ample of yellow journalism of a very mean nature. The Examiner published an article in the issue of December 2T under the heading, ''Dank Marshes May Hide the Secret Crime" which was ut terly untrue in every particular and did great injustice to the people of Los Banos and vicinity.
 On Monday night. December 27. wrote to the Examiner calling its attention to the untruth and injustice of the article, and asking them to correct the same. No attention whatever was paid to my letter, not even to the extent of acknowledging the receipt thereof.
 Dissecting the article, 1t is found that the amount of truth contained therein is all in the two opening lines. Porter Is not believed to have been killed by mar ket hunters-nor by the people of Los Banos, nor by the people of Fresno, for l have talked with responsible citizens of Fresno, who were well acquainted with him, and they laughed at the idea.
 Los Banos has never had 150 market hunters, nor anywhere near it; twenty five would come much nearer the truth.
 The community is not greatly excited over the big gun law of 1897, for that law was enacted in 1893, and any excitement
 
 to cool down.
 Not one hunter in five uses or ever has used a gun weighing thirty pounds, and there is no law among them written, un- written or imaginary requiring them to make but two shots per day or any other number.
 Some of them have oxen and some have not, but none of them wade out into the marshes, for there are no places here that could be properly called marshes.
 The officers of Merced County have made little or no effort to enforce this law beyond warning the hunters of its existence, and but one arrest has been made under it since 1893.
 No officer has been set upon and beaten by the hunters, nor have they had a clash of any kind whatsoever. On the con- trary, on December Il one of the hunters, acting under the advice of his attorney, voluntarily surrendered himself into GUS tody and pleaded guilty in the Justices Court (my own) to the charge of using big gun. The case was begun for the purpose of testing the validity of the law, and is now under adviseinent by the Judge of the Superior Court of Merced that are utterly without truth or founda- ton we are left the matter contained in the two opening lines-''that Porter has been missing since November" The hunt CTS of Los BanoS are as law-abiding a class of citizens as any other body, and 1t is a shame that a yellow journal, with out responsibility, apparently, should spread broadcast such charges, injuring these people and the community in which they live, and then-worSt of all-refusing to retract it's statements when 1t is shown to be in the wrong. Yours truly,
 c. F. BERTHOLF.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-18
JUDGE CAMPBELL'S JOKES.

TT HE course of the Mission street Boodler in
 attempting to destroy Judge Campbells reputa-
 ton as judicial humorist is reprehensble in the From literary standpoint 1t is utterly in- defensble
 For long time the bewhiskered jurist has been the Boodler's beau ideal of a joker. It has never tired of nfictng his witticsms upon the public, dur ing the past two months especially having in this re- spect agrantly tramped upon the rights of its read During that period it is reported to have kept writer constantly stationed in Judge Campbelrs court with instructions transfer that jursts light est sayings to paper. Two or three times week, with an utter disregard of the close in chest nuttng, it has appeared with column of jokes al- legged to have been cracked by the judicial humorist.
 Of course the discerning few have all along known that the attempt of the Boodler to work up a repu tation for Judge Campbell joker attributable to the fact that of its editors had fallen into the clutches of the police and was before the police court for examination charge of criminal libel The Booder 1attered the Judge in the hope that he might be induced to release it's editor from the thralldom O the law.
 The moment, however, Judge Campbell turned it down-or to be more technical declared that its edi- tor must stand trial-the Boodler bounced upon him with savage fury It is now rumored that it has a man stationed in his under instructions to steal all his jokes and attribute them to Police Judges Low and Joachinlsen. We do not blame Judge Campbell for protesting This method of reprisa is, we have already remarked utterly indeensible. The liberty the Boodler is taking with police court literature ought render it liable to indictment for assault with deadly weapon.
 Everybody knows that the jokes which the Booder is attrbuting to Judges Low and Joachmsen CampbelTs. Many actually have whskers upon them, plainly showing their origin Besides, the Boodler's method of revenge should be barred out of journal ism. It is uncivilized and barbarc. It comes under the head of cruel and unusual punishments. Our ad vice to Judge Campbell IS to lay his grievance be- fore the Grand Jury.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-18
FARES TO
 THE GOLDFlELDS.

rates are from Kansas City, and are by the way of San Francisco, Puget Sound or by Sacramento and Portland A first class fare to Circle City, Fort Cudahy or Dawson will be S35O including berth and meals on the steamer; the second-class rate is s2eO, and includes meals on the steamer also.
 class fare will cost $65. while S2O0 and s165 will take the prospective gold-seeker as far as St Michael. To Sitka and Skag- uay the rates are the same as. to Dyea, and to Wrangel a first-class rate of $75 and a second-class rate of S53 has been made.
 F. B. Glenn, a son of the late Dr. Glenn, owner of the San Jacinto wheat ranch, is at the Lick.
 Adjutant- General A. W. Barrett Is reg istered at the California.
 Railroad Commissioner M. A. La Rue of Sacramento, is at the Grand.
 N. J. Levinson, city editor of the Port land Oregonian, is a guest at the Palace.
 D. A. Wilkins, a well-known merchant of Chicago, is at the Palace.
 Mrs. J. A. Borell and her two children came in on the Peru yesterday from Ba- tavia. Java, and went to the Occidental.
 F. C. Gamble, a well-known resident of Nelson, B. C., is a guest at the Palace.
 United States Senator J. P. Jones of Nevada arrived in the city yesterday and went to the Palace Hotel. He left Washington some weeks since to spend the holidays in Southern California with his family. He will remain in San Fran cisco for two or three days before resum- ing his journey to Washington. The Sem ator received many distinguished callers yesterday afternoon, and had pleasant chats with old-time friends from Ne vada.