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Joke ON THE PRINCE.
wales Was Worked for $2.JhbtpDO
Inte rest In Worthless
Coal Mine.

The strangest exhibit in the British
museum is the likeness of human leg
carved out of camel coal. 1t came from
America and represents the folly of the
prince of Wales.
The English people don't know this,
however. That is why the stohd di-
rectors of the museum accepted as a
geological specimen what is really a
huge American joke on his royal high
ness.
This is the truth about 1t: Out in
southwestern Kentucky, in Brecken-
ridge county, there is IA geological
freak. 1t is hill 100 feet high that
was formerly scanned with big veins
Of camel coal. Oddly enough the coal
veins did not extend downward into
the SURE nnding ground. There is not
another coal vein within 500 miles
of it.
| Pennsylvania coal miners would not
touch it. They said it wouldn't pay
to put mp the machinery to mine so
small quantity of coal and haul it
to market. But in 1884 a clever Gin
cinnati man, d. II. Yeomans, saw an
opportunity to profit by this hit of ma
tures fraud.
He photographed the Hill of coal and
took specimens from it. He got a
sworn statement from the recorder of
Breckenridge county stating the speci-
mems we're from this Hill and giving the
area covered by the coal outcroppings.
Mr.. Yeomans went to London 10 or
ganize a coal syndicate. He cut wide
swath. He was called the Coal King
prince Oh Wakes.
| In six months Mr.. Yeomans had SOLD
to the prince of Wales $2,500,000 worth
Of stock in his coal mining company,
which he called the breckenridge COM
pany, limited.
An English manager was appointed
and came over to America with Mr..
Yeomans to manage the mine. Mr.
Yeomans discreetly let him manage it
in his own English way. 1t cost him
eight dollars a ton to mine coal that
he got seven dollars for
The enthusiastic Britisher didn't care
| for that. He wrote home to his English
employers that it was the finest camel
coal on earth and there YVES no end
of it.
| He had female figure carved out of
| it and sent it to London as a souvenir.
The thing got broken up in the unload
ing. 1t all crumbled to pieces except
/ one leg. That is what the British mu-
scum got.
Last January the prince of Wales and
his fellow investors woke up to the
| fact that their coal mine was worked
out and they had $150,000 worth OF
law suits on their hands for miners
and managers wages. Then the freak
''mine" was abandoned.
But the leg still remains in the Brit
/ ish museum.-N. Y. journal
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VOLUME XL.-N0. Al
THE HERO

There was a man who CHANGED, one dag.
To hold certain place
When Fate and Fortune passed thai way
And looked him in the face!
When it was time to strike he struck,
Nor stopped to weigh the cause
He wrought marvel, by good luck,
And heard the worlds applause.
Then straightway he that had been there
To strike when 1t was time
Assumed a high and mighty air
And thought himself sublime!
He made brave speeches unto men,
He boasted of his act -
And it became apparent then y
How small he was, in fact.
II.
Another CHANGED, one day. to be
Where Fate and Fortune met,
He seized the opportunity,
His fame is spreading yet!
When it was time to strike he struck
Without a moments pause,
And, full of wonder at his luck,
lie heard the worlds applause.
''The mighty thing that l have wrought
many another could
Have done as well as i, he thought,
Had he stood where i stood.
/ merely chanced to be on hand
To strike when 1t was time"
But still he kept his counsel, and
Is therefore deemed sublime.
S. z. Kiser, in Chicago Times-Herald.
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RELICS OF ANCIENT FIGHT.
Skeletons and Old Firearms Recently
Found Buried In Okla
homa Sand.

r. NJ. Cooper and Charles Carter, of
Wichita, Kan, unearthed several ola
guns and some human bones in the sand
hills near Wynoka, o. T., recently and
have brought the collection to Wichita.
The men worked on the Santa Fe
fence gang and spent Friday in fishing
on the banks of the Cimarron river.
Near them was a large sand hill. The
sand in this vicinity is constantly shift.
ed by t~. wind, as there is no grass to
hold it in place. While walking near
the south side of the sand hill Mr.. Car
ter noticed the stock of an oldfash-
ioned gun sticking up out of the sand.
He unearthed it and, digging around,
found the locks of two tintlock mus
kets, an old tlint-lock horse pistol, sew
eral arm and skull bones, besides some
ribs and a portion of backbone. Sew
eral persons must have composed the
party that met death there. In one of
tie skulls was a flattened bullet. show
ing that the man must have been killed.
Mr.. Cooper found small rib, which
Wynoka doctor said belonged to a
child not older than eight or nine years.
Oldtimers declare that some border
history has been lost. Some think it
the scene of fight between immigrants
and Indians, while others believe a
fight has taken place there between
settlers and border ruffians.
Whatever the cause the battle must
have taken place so years ago at least,
as flintlocks have not been used since
that time. A posse is searching for fur
ther relics of the tragedy.
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l2 years old at that. against and gath
cred in 20 wolves and four bears, and
two of the bears alive
And here, Mackinaw, is where comes
the part that touches me in u tender
spot, and which l hope will shame you
if ii doesn't melt you. When Reuben
came fully to and heard his father brag-
ging that way he rose and said:
Pap said he (and he has told me
so many times), i never thought any
thing about wolves nor bears. Wolves
nor bears were nothing to me. WASN'T
lighting wolves nor bears. | was fight
ing your all-pervading dumps. | was
fighting the mortgage, and l wholloped
it. It's wholloped, and S32 to spare,
besides the four bears, two of 'em
alive!'
There was filial regard and un-
selfishness without parallel 1t
touched me- Mackinaw, and it dispo.es
of that snowban& And ii ought to
send you out behind the barn to com
mune with yourself in bitterness and
kicks."
Saying which, the man from SHINE
mahoning way went home. The man
with the red, blue, purple, yellow, green
and pink Mackinaw Jacket did not go
out behind the barn and kick himself
He watched the man from Sinnema-
hone until he was out of sight. Then
he said:
''Sinnemahone is wastin' of himself.
He orto git himself and his father to-
gether and write histories of Napoleon
Bonaparte and Alexander the Great" ?"
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EELS IN CAPTIVITY.
They Keep Their Appetite and Grow
Fat and Appear to Get Along
Very Well.

Eels appear to be pretty hardy in
captivity. There are in a tank at the
aquarium a number of cells that have
thrived and grown fat there, although
they must there content themselves
with a gravel bottom instead of one
of mud, which they would seek in
nature, says the New York Sun. The
eel in captivity is rather susceptible to
fungus, but the disease responds readi-
ly to treatment and the eel never loses
its appetite. All the eels in this tank
have increased materially in size and
weight there. The eel that has been
in the tank the longest time came from
Cold Spring Harbor and has now been
in the tank about three years. One of
the eels was caught about year and
half ago right in the aquarium; taken
from the valve of a pump which had
become choked up. The eel was got
ont substantially uninjured. 1t has
about doubled its weight since then.
The cells are fed on chopped-up clans,
with occasionally some live killies,
which they are easily able to catch and
which they like. Killies, in fact. make
a good bait in fishing for cells, with the
killie hooked through the back in such
way as not to kill or deprive 1t of the
power Of motion.
The Havana jail.
The Times of Cuba asserts that no
visitor can obtain access to the Havana
JAIL even upon written order from the
\ An
palm of the jailer with a quarter. 1T
costs money TO get in, says the Times,
''and it costs more to get out .
Mermaid mt Auction.
A manatee, familiarly known as
mermaid" was sold the other day at
Covent garden auction-room for 20
guineas.
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Mermaid Mt Auction,

A manatee, familiarly known as
smermaid." was sold the other day at
Covent garden auction-room for 20
guineas.
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512l-2o35
HAWAIIAN COMMERCIAL AND
SUGAR COMPANY VS.. ROYAL D.
MEAD.
REPUTATION OF PURPORTED AS
SEGMENT OF LEASE

/, George NJ. Rolph, Secretary of the
Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Com
pany, do hereby certify, that at a spec
ial meeting of the Board OF Directors
of said corporation held at its princi-
pal office on December Is, 1888, which
said special meeting was duly called
and assembled, and at which said spec
ial meeting a quorum was present and
voting, the following resolution was
adopted:
Resolved, That the indenture of
March 9Th, 1898, purporting to have
been made by and between this Com
pany and Royal ID. Mead, assigning to
him a certain lease dated July 18th,
1893, between the Wailuku Sugar Com
pany and Claus Spreckels, recorded in
Liber 144 pages y, 73 and "a ia the
Registrars office at Oahu. and all
rights and powers purporting to be as
signed by said indenture, be and the
same are hereby expressly disafiirmed
and repudiated, together with all the
transfers OF the same.
In witness whereof, | hereunto set
my hand and affix the seal of said cor
poration, this 18th day OF December,
A. ID. 1898. t-ssf
(Signedl GEO. II .ROLPH.
(SeaD 5f21-2G35
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SALE OF LEASE OF GOVERNMENT
LOT NO. SO, ESPLANADE. HO-
NOLULU, OAHU.

On Monday, February 5, 1899, at II
o'clock noon, al the front entrance OF
the Executive Building, Will be sold at
public auction the lease of Govern
mant Lot No. SO. Esplanade. Honolulu,
Oahu
Term-30 years.
Upset rental-s4S0 per annum, pay
able quarterly ii advance.
This sale is upon the conditions pro
yided for in Sections ? aud 1, Of Act
:, OF the Laws Of 1895, viz:
Section 2. Every such Lease shall
contain covenant on the Part Of the
lessee that he shall during the first
four years Of the term OF the lease,
cause TO be erected upon the leased
property fire proof building of brick,
stone Or metal, in workmanlike man
ner, satisfactory to the Minister at not
less than a stated cost, and shall keep
the same suitably insured at not less
than two-thiris Of its value, for the
benefit OF the lessor; and shall keep
such building in good repair during
the remainder of the term of the lease,
reasonable use and wear thereof only
excepted, and in case OF damage or
destruction OF such building by fire
shall make good such loss or damage
by the necessary repairs or reconstruc-
ton or else surrender the insurance
to the lessor.
Section 4. Every such lease shall
also contain a covenant on the part of
the lessor that upon the request in
writing OF the lessee Or his represen-
tatives, before the expiration OF the
term thereof. the premises, with
the Improvements, shall, if all the con-
ditions to be performed by the lessee
have been satisfactorily performed, be
put up at auction for a lease for a
said premises shall be required for
public uses, of which The lessee shall
receive at least one years notice,
Such auction sale shall be held not
more than six months nor less than
one month before The expiration, OF
said term.
The cost OF building TO be erected,
in accordance with Section 2, as above,
to cost not less than $4,000
The material to be used for the erec-
ton Of said building to be OF brick or
stone
Map of this lot can be seen at the
Interior Department. Honolulu, Oahu,
J. A. KING,
Minister OF the Interior
Interior Office, January 4, 1899
5121-3t
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IRRIGATION NOTICE.

Holders OF water privileges. or those
paying water rates. are hereby notified
that the hours for irrigation purposes
are from to o'clock a. m. and from
to 6 o'clock p. m.
II. Holders OF water privileges on
the slopes OF Punchbowl above Green
street, and in Nuuanu valley above
School street, are hereby notified that
they will not be restricted to the irri-
cation hours of to S a. N. and to
p. M. but will be allowed TO irrigate
whenever sufficient water is available,
provided that they do not use the water
for irrigation purposes for more than
four hours IN every twenty-four.
ANDREW BROWN,
Supt. Honolulu Water Works.
Approved:
J. A KING,
Minister OF the Interior.
Honolulu, H. l., Sept. Z, 1898. 5019
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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS.
Order for a Special Term.

Order for a Special Term.
By virtue OF the statute in such cases
made and provided, and deeming it
necessary to the promotion Of justice,
it is ordered that a Special Term Of
the Supreme Court of the Hawaiian
Islands be held in Honolulu, Island of
Oahu, in the Court Room OF said Court,
Judiciary Building, commencing at 10
O'Clock a. M, ON Monday, the 9th day
Of January, 1899, to be continued and
held from the opening thereof until
and including the 18th day thereafter,
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ASSIGNEE'S NOTICE.

zee On Kee, OF Hookena, having
made an assignment of all his proper
ty to me for the benefit of all his cred
itors, hereby request all persons hav-
ing claims against zee On Kee to pre-
sent the same to me, duly authenticate
ed, within six months, or they will be
forever barred. All persons indebted
to zee On Kee are hereby requested to
make immediate payment to the und-
ersigned at the Office of III. Hackfeld &
Co, Ltd.
w. PFOTENHAUER,
Assignee zee On Kee, of HoOkena.
Honolulu, January 3rd, 1898. 5120
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SEALED TENDERS

viii be received at the Office Of the
Minister OF the Interior till II O'Clock
noon Of January 23rd, for the con-
struction of five sections of road in n.
Hilo and one section at Kaupakuea.
Specifications at the Office Of Super
intendent of Public Works, and at the
Telephone Office in Hilo, and those for
n. Hilo at Papaloa Store.
The Minister does not bind himself
TO accept the lowest or any bid.
}. A. KING,
Minister of the Interior.
January 5th, 1899. 512O-3t
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ASSlGNEE'S NOTICE.

On Chong, OF Hookena, having made
an assignment of all his property to
me for the benefit of all his creditors,
hereby request all persons having
claims against On Chong to present
the same to me, duly authenticated,
within six months, or they will be for
ever barred. All persons indebted to
On Chong are hereby requested to
make immediate payment to the under
signed at the Office OF Fl. Hackfeld &c
Co, Ltd.
J. T. HUMBURG,
Assignee On Chong, of HoOkena-
Honolulu, January 3rd, 1899. 5120
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ASSIGNEE'S NOTICE.

kwong Wing Chong, OF Honolulu.
having made an assignment of all his
property to US, for the benefit OF all
his creditors, We hereby request all
persons having claims against Kwong
Wing Chong to present the same to us,
duly authenticated, within six months.
or they will be forever barred. All per-
sons indebted to Kwong Ying Chong
are hereby requested to make immed-
late payment to the undersigned, at
the store Of T. All Ping & Company.
T. All PING & COMPANY.
Assignees kwong Wing Chong, OF Ho-
nOlulu.
Dated, Honolulu, December IL, 1898.
5104-4tF
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TENDERS FOR SCHOOL BUILDING


Sealed tenders for the construction
of twO-room school building at Eo-
nOrnakau, North kohala, Hawaii, to
be completed on or before Saturday,
February 18th, 1899, will be received
at the Office of the Department of
day, January 10Th, 1899.
Plans and Specifications can be seen
at the Office OF the Department of Pub
lie instruction and at the Office OF Dr.
B. D. Bond, ". TNohaia.
The Minister does not bind himself
70 aocpet the lowest Or any bid.
HENRY E COOPER
Minister OF Public Instruction
5f20-3t
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HAWAIIAN COMMERCIAL. AND
SUGAR COMPANY VS. THE.
MAUI RAILROAD AND STEAM
SHIP COMPANY
REPUDIATION OF PURPORTED
CONVEY ANCE

|. George ". Rolph. Secretary OF the
Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Com
pany, DO hereby certify. that at spec
ial meeting OF the Board of Directors
OF said corporation held at its princi-
pal office on December IS. 1898. which
said special meeting was duly called
and assem- oied. and at which said
special meeting a quorum was present
and voting. the following resolution
was adopted:
Resolved, That the deed, dated Feb
ruary 26, A. ID. 1898 and recorded in
the office of the Registrar of Deeds in
Honolulu, Island of Oahu in I4iber 1T
on pages 259 TO 263, purporting to be
an indenture between the Hawaiian
Commercial and Sugar Co.. and the
Maui Railroad & Steamship Co., and
supporting TO have been executed on
the part of the Hawaiian Commercial
and Sugar Co. by Il. Spreckeis as its
president and also as its attorney-in-
fact, is hereby disaffirmed and repud-
lated, together with the conveyance
therein made, or purporting to be
made, by the Hawaiian Commercial
and Sugar Co, to the Maui Railroad &
Steamship Co, and the further convey
ance therein coyenanted 10 be made,
and that the certificate of the Maui
Railroad & Steamship Co. for 500 OF
its paid up shares said to have been
gi'-en by it to r. Spreckels as trustee
for the Hawaiian Commercial and Sug-
ar Co., as the sole consideration for
said transaction. be returned, and that
r. Spreckels be requested to return
the same TO the Maui Railroad
| Steamship Co. and further that the
| Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Co,
| hereby releases said Maui Railroad &
| Steamship Co., from its covenant con-
tanned in said indenture and demand
a re-conveyance of the property in said
| deed conveyed and also release from
the covenant therein contained to con-
vey further property to said Maui Rail-
road & Steamship Co.
| In witness whereof, / hereunto set
my hand and affix the seal of said cor
poration, this 18th day Of December.
| a. d. 1898.
| (Signed) GEO. NJ. ROLPH.
| tSeal) Secretary.
! 5121-o02S
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LOST, STRAYED OR STOLEN.

ON THE NIGHT OF DEC. 10TH.
1898, at Pearl Peninsula, dark red or
brownish horse, branded E. j. on back
fank-he has white shepherds crook
on his forehead and white on one leg
and three white hoofs. A suitable
reward will be given to any one CIV
ing information leading to the recovery
of the animal.
MISS A. F. JOHNSON.
5121-2t Pearl peninsula.
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Sundays and legal holidays excepted.
b the Court
HENRY SMITH,
Clerk Supreme Court % the Hawaiian
Islands
Dated at Honolulu aforesaid. this
3rd day OF January. 1922
SI19-3t
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Tuesday, January IL 1899, being a
National Holiday all Government
Offices throughout the Republic Will be
closed on that day
j. A KING
Minister of the Interior.
Interior Office Jan. 5. 1899
5119-3t
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VENDITIONI EXPONAS.


To a. NJ. Brown, Esq, Marshal of the
Republic of Hawaii. Greeting:
Whereas, libel was filed in the Cir
cult Court of the First Judicial Cir
cult Of the Republic OF Hawaii, the
18th day OF December, 1898, by w. J.
Smith, ct. al. against the steamship
City Of Columbia, her boats, boilers,
engines, tackle. apparel and furniture,
and praying that the same may be
condemned and sold to pay the claim
Of said ibellants.
And whereas, the said steamship
City of Columbia, her engines, etc., is
now in custody, by virtue of a writ of
attachment issued out of this Court,
in pursuance of the prayer Of said
libel and such proceedings have been
thereupOn had that by the sentence
and decree of the said Court in this
cause made and pronounced on the Bird
day Of January, 1899, the said steam
ship City of Columbia, her boats, boil
ers, engines, tackle, apparel and fur
niture was ordered to be sold by you
the said marshal at an upset price OF
S23 1862, after giving ten days notice
of such sale by advertising the same
| in the Pacific Commercial Advertiser
and the Hawaiian Star, newspapers
published daily Sunday excepted) in
the city of Honolulu, and that you pay
the moneys arising from such sale to
Henry Smith, ESD, Clerk Of the Judi
ciary Department.
Now, therefore, you the said Mar
shall are hereby commanded to sell the
| said steamship City of Columbia, her
| boats, boilers, engines, tackle, apparel
and furniture, at public auction, at the
Station House, kalakaua Hale, in the
District OF Honolulu, Island of Oahu
Hawaiian Islands, on Monday, the
10Th day Of January, 1899, at the hour
of Il noon, at not less than an upset
price of Twenty-three Thousand Four
Hundred and Sixty-fye and sixty-two
hundradths dollars, after having first
given ten days notice Of such sale by
advertisement in the Pacific CONNER
cial Advertiser and the Hawaiian Star
newspapers published daily Except
Sundays in the District of Honolulu
and that you Immediately thereafter
have and pay the moneys arising from
such sale, pursuant to the aforesaid
order or decree, to Henry Smith, Clerk
of the Judiciary Department., with an
account of your charges and expenses
and have you then and there also this
writ, with your return thereon.
| Witness, the Honorable A. Perry
| First Judge of the First Judicial Cir
cult OF the Republic of Hawaii, this
3rd day of January, A. D. 1899.
, (Signed.)
P. DANSON KELLETT, JR.,
(SeaID Clerk
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NOTICE

Honolulu, Jan. 2, 1899.
From this date, Mrs. II. L. 8. Herbert
is authorized to make collections and
receipt for same for the Club Stables
Co., Ltd.
CHAS. H. BELTINA,
5118 Manager.
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MARE Halls SALE.

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE
FIRST JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, RE-
PUBLIC OF HAWAIIAN AID
MIRALTT.
W. J. Smith, ct. al, vs.. the Steamship
City OF Columbia, her boats, boil
ers, engines. tackle, apparel and
furniture