The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-02
BY THE WIRELESS SYSTEM
All the Islands of the Hawaiian
Group to Be Connected.
A NEW CURE FOR LEPROSY
Experiments With Venezuela Shrub-A
Big Increase Reported in the Sugar
Crop - Putrifisd Beef on
Transport.

Honolulu, H. l., Nov. 90, via Victoria,
B. c., Dec. 1.-Contracts have been
made for connecting all the islands Of
the Hawaiian group by the Marconi
system of wireless telegraphy.
F. ]. Cross, who went to New York
for the purpose of negotiating with the
inventor Of the system, returned on
the steamship Australia He states
that he has secured exclusive right to
use the system here, with an agree
ment from the inventor to provide an
expert to put the system in working
order. Marconi, he says. claims that
perfect communication between all the
islands of Hawaii can be established at
small expense. Work is to begin at
once The apparatus is to arrive here
by Feb. l and the system will be in
operation by March l.
The expected November display of
leonids did not take place here. Many
people watched the heavens, but no
meteurs were seen.
+ with a new cure for leprosy, which, it
is said on reliable authority, to have
actually accomplished cures. The
cufe is a Venezuela shrub of which
samples were forwarded here by Sur
geon General Wyman of the United
StatSS. IHe SHRUBS are growing mere
under the care Of DR.. Carmichael of
the United States marine hospital ser
vice, who was asked by the depart
ment at Washington to make expert
ments with them.
The shrub which is credited with
the power to eradicate the malady hith-
! erto found to be incurable is known
N Venezuela as tantua, the botanic
name being jatropha cossypifolia, The
active principle is violently toxic. Sew
eral accounts of alleged cures in Ven
! ezuela have been received here.
| Complete returns from all island SUI
gar plantations, as made to the Ha-
waiian Planters association, show that
| the crop for the year ending with
Sept. 80 amounted to 2s2,so7 tons, val
| ued at more than s22,50o,000. This
is an increase of 1888 tons over the
/ previous year Estimates of the COM
ing crop indicate that there will be
| a like increase this year The 18th
annual meeting of the Planters asso-
| citation was held this week
The transport SIAM which lost 365
out of her load of 375 mules for Ma
| Mia in typhoon off the coast of ia
! pan, arrived here on Nov. Is to take
another lot for the army in the Phil
/ ippines. She will be repaired here and
| will leave about Nov. %.
! The Pennsylvania and Olympia.
! bringing the 39th infantry and part of
| the 35th from Portland, arrived on
! Nov. Is and left on the same day.
| During their stay here Sergeant Jones,
! colored, of the seth, was shot while re-
! sisting a provost guard. Private J. E.
McCullin, who had ordered Jones to
| the vessel, fired the shot, striking
| Jones in the breast and inf1icting a
| dangerous wound. McCullin's act was
! approved by his superior officers.
| The transports Leelanaw and Cone
maugh left together Nov. is, carrying
| 500 horses to Manila. The transport
| City of Sydney arrived Nov. go with
! several thousand pounds Of bad beef
I on board. 1t had become almost put
| rified on the way here, owing, 1t is
stated, to the failure to properly freeze
/ it in San Francisco. The decaying
t meat was delivered to fertilizer COM
| pany here and replaced by beef pur-
| chased in Honolulu.
| The Lennox has arrived with horses
! from Portland. '"'-~
! President Dole and the cabinet have
| decided to grant reprieve in the case
| Of Ihara. native under sentence to
| hang on the Sd of next month The
ground of their action lies in the fact
! that he was convicted under Hawaiian
! law. by which majority verdict Of
! jurors are accepted in criminal cases.
| This is held to be in conflict with the
| American law