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The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1899-10-30
MONDAY, OCT. 80, 1899.
wAIALUA oNoE MORE.

Before Messrs. Dillingham; and
Castle g. Cooke proceed to push the
proposed new issue of Wsialha
shares, by sheer weight OF numbers,
it may be we'll for them to consider
the effect that such action may
have, not only upon their reputa-
tions as business men, but upon
sugar shares generally, and particu-
larly upon the shares of Kihei, Olaa
and McBryde, all Of which we're
promoted by Mr.. Dillingham;, and
are all liable to the same manipula-
ton.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1899-10-30

Castle g. Cooke after successful
career of half century cannot af-
ford to have a questionable trans
action, like bar sinister, matter OF
gossip in the years to come. Neither
can Mr.. Dillingham;, who has earned
an enviable reputation for business
enterprise, by which he has placed
the people OF Oahu under obliga-
tions, particularly in the matter OF
the Oahu Railway and Land Com
pany, afford to cancel those obliga-
tions by forcing the smaller sub
scribers for Wsialua shares to forego
the legitimate accretion Of their
shares, in order that he may be
saved loss for which he alone seems
to be responsible.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1899-10-30
Hamlet.

There was very good audience
at the Opera House on Saturday
night when the Clay Clement COM
pany produced Hamlet as their fare
we'll performance Mr.. Clement is
q great actor, and we think his inter
probation Of the character Of the
Melancholy Dane comes nearer to
the intentions of Shakespeare than
anything we have seen heretofore.
He was ably supported by the mem
bers of his talented company.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1899-10-30

These queries are put not in spirit
OF idle curousity, but with desire
OF gaining some definite knowledge
on this subject, and any additional
information which you laay be able
to give will be much appreciated.
Thanking you in anticipation.
Yours truly, ..
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1899-10-30
THE EDITORS DESK.
:" Makapala by the Sea" by Miss
Anne M. Prescott.

Anne NJ Prescott.
There is something pleasingly
quaint, original and refreshing in
this collection OF random essays by
Miss Prescott. Most OF them have
already appeared in the columns OF
The INDEPENDENT and its contem-
poraries, but they seem to gather
added interest and renewed vitality
in the book OF 1S0 pages so carefully
and tsstefully printed at the Ha-
waiian Gazette establishment in this
city.
As our readers are aware Miss
Prescott is gifted with clever and
amusing versatility and facility in
her pen work in prose and verse, and
with quaint quips and jokes she
throws sunshine aud rainbows
through the sullen gloom-clouds
that mantle our island mountains as
the heralds OF tae advance OF dawn.
She writes Tor the mere fun and love
OF her work, and has the happy
benevolence of ingenuously, yet in
geniously, inducing thought OF
progress towards good results in all
that she writes-w without being prosy
in style or canting in expression.
Makapsla-by-the. Sea, on the ISL
and of Hawaii, was the erstwhile
home Of Miss Prescott, and there,
in the discharge of her duties as
disciplinarian Of youthful minds,
she became intimately acquainted
with the inner aud outer lives, habits
and thoughts of our cosmopolitan
residents, especially with tie chill
dren of the blended races.
In happily recalling the incidents
of experienced and tactful observa-
tion, in some of her essays, abe
strives to do justice to her former
friends and renders them good SER
vice while she manufactures very
interesting and readable matter.
She invariably in this collection
OF fotssm aud jetsam OF happy
thoughts cast up by the tide of
pleasant memories has we'll defined
need of praise for all things Ha-
waiian and great aloha for our
adopted charming home land, itself.
As we loiter at the close OF Octo-
ber under the gratefully accepted
tree shade at Waikiki, we can readi-
ly imagine this little book being
read at the wintry fire side in New
England, and the ordinations Of
wistful longing that would arise
from those anxious to participate in
our climatic pleasures 20 pleasingly
described.
"Makapala by the Sea" is an use.
full book for Hawaii and friends in
more ways than one. 1t is homelike
aud takes us into home life 1t is
not dry nor is it statistical, and yet
it is full of jus. such information as
most of US desire about a foreign
land OF interest to us and yet un-
known. You may dip into it at any
hour, and find page or two just
suitable for the varying mood OF the
moment, and you can lay it down in
three minutes refreshed. Probably
you may unwittingly strike thought
there, that, like the spark OF dried
tinder, may startle you into blaze
of thoughtfulness or smoulderingly
linger with you.
1t is a wholesome book and it is a
pleasure to say that the world can
be none the worse for the seed once
ephemerally sown and now ripened
and garnered into plum colored
sheaf by the printer and binder;
essentially a home production it
should receive the recognition its
merits deserve and that is very
cordial one.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1899-10-30

Again, it may be we'll to consider
the effect of the proposed action in
Waialua upon all Hawaiian sugar
shares, not only at home, but abroad
as we'll. We hear the opinion ex-
pressed that unless more sugar
shares can be- placed on the San
Francisco and Eastern markets a
striugency that may lead to disaster
awaits US. Already we hear that
there is a congestion of Hawaiian
shares in San Francisco and that
Messrs. Pollitz and Sutro are seek
ing to place shares in New York.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1899-10-30

Even the Advertiser suggests that
continued litigation is bound to be
a feature of the contention initiated
by Colonel Soper and his associates
in the effort to secure what they be-
lieve to be their rights. Litigation
may turn calcium light upon all
of Mr.. Dillingham's promotions in
which case we may expect to witness
a shrinkage in Kihei, particularly,
and possibly in Olaa and McBryde.
Let us rather be wise before than
after the fact.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1899-10-30

Chester Doyle has returned from
Maui after trip on business and
needed rest. He says the island was
very "dry." Take something.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1899-10-30

Let the true inwardness of the
Waialua matter be known in San
Francisco and we venture the opin-
ion that there will be such tumble
in Hawaiians that light will be
forced upon the senses OF all con-
cerned in the Waialua scheme.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1899-10-30
REMOVAL NOTICE.

nN AND AFTER MONDAY, oCTo-
" ber 10th, DR.. COOPER will occupy
his new Office on Alakea Street, three doors
above the Masonic Temple
Office Hours $50 TO 10 a. M to and
7 to 8 D. M; Sundays, $3.50 to 10 a. m.
Telephone 15l. Residence adjoining office,
1329-1m
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1899-10-30

SPECIAL SALE of Ladies Mus
lin Underwear at Sachs.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1899-10-30
The townsm n defeated Punahou
at football on Saturday by 1S to U.

The Kabului Railroad Company
has passed into the hands OF Ha-
waiian Commercial Company. The
agreement takes effect on Novem-
ber l.
The Arizona daily orb., 1899-11-23

:n was's. 8 witness c<.. sr :9s. i baars North is degrees Js :. .....,es west, s5 rect. pine post fee ong, 4 inches square Set in nuu... ,i .:.0nes, one foot in ground to ;. l ci scrfJsd 1-1344 w. c. l.. M. r.. w..cncc Uni.eS States mineral monul.., Il; No. l of u Warren Mining Distri't :.cars South
 degrees 4S minutes Last 5,9S74 t>
 from true corner p.i thence Sout,. 64 degrees 25 minutes ., est, 750 feet to center of East side Ii1,:, Il pine rgsL feet long, inches sql4 Set in ...oand of stones 1,500 feet st@ia bearing to corner Eo. 2, pine os; 5 feet long 4 inches square set in ound of ones, 10 inches in ground, c.:iaed l-l3ii L. M. C.: thence north n degrees 5s sAin- utes West, 900 feet to south er.t: cen ter pine post 3,s ,.: high set in mound of stones, 12 i.:a:ies in ground. scribed. l.. N. c. 1-4;. 5.L2 fces, same bearing to corner Ns. 5, q pine Iost s feet long, inches s.n;are. set rn x chiseled in bed-rocS. s..:iounded i,y mound of stones, .;r. ,ri 3-iS4i- :.lIC; thence. North 5I dg: F. U min'Ites East, 1sG feet to cu.' .r Uf Wes; side line, g. pine rost in r'uund of s,Unes: 1,500 feet same beariag to corr" No. {. identical with a cn;':ier of T. ion, pine post feet iong, i inches , i.!lre. set IS inches h ground. surroun' I by mound of stones. scribcd ABA =. M. C.; thence South 49 d srees 54 IF: ates East 30!.2 feet to center end mol lent. identical with lcca ion monu .-.sfrt: . pine post 3 feet long. inches :',iare set on X chise.2d On a reef c. cks. surrounded by a mound of 2 Q :es, scribed l.. M c. 1914: G91.7 fee; stme bearing to witness corn r No. 1, a 7 ady described; Gcl2 feet ts corner 70. (the true cerner) the place of ,.Ngia- ming. ( .-.
 Area of claim, 2o.0os acres.
 The said mining claim being of ,ecord in the office of the Recorder of r,"hise County in Book IA, Record ur lines. pages P and g. at Tombstone. n the County and Territory aforcsa:S. the presumed general course or dire ,:on of the said Labrador vein. lode o rlin- eral deposit being shown upon thN plat | posted herewith, as near as can c de- termined from present deve!':' :lcnts. this claim being for fifteen h"nired | Q,50o) linear feet thereof togeth sr with the surface ground shown up. the official plat posted herewith, ta saia vein. lode and mining premises Hereby | sought to be patented. being b"2aded as follows. to-wit: There are >, ad- | joining claims. .a Any and all persons claimir- ad- verse!y any portion of said r.:re or surface ground are required to file their adverse claims with the H':!ster of the United States Land C:''A at Tucscn P!:ra County. in the T .r!tory of Ar'Z"Ha. during the sixt" lays perio7 "f publication thereof, ..r they will he A.ip ed by virtue of t.; "rnvis- ions of the statute. MILTON R. MOORE. F ", 'ter.
 First PUhlica' ion, October 2l. lS;3
The Arizona daily orb., 1899-11-23
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR PATENT.
N. A. No. 69S, Survey Nc. 12ss.

United States Land Office, Tucson, Ari-
 zona, October 18th, 1899.
 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That Martin Costello. whose postofiice ad- dress is Tombstone, Cochise County, Arizona Territory, has made appiica- tion for a patent for 1.49s linear feet of the Roy" and 1,495 linear feet of the Leo. mining claims, bearing copper and other minerals, situate in the Warren" Mining District. Cochise County. Arizona Territory, and de- scribed in the official plat and field notes on file in this office, as follows viz:
 "Roy" Lode Claim. Beginning at corner No 1, identical with location corner, n pine post feet long inches square, set foot in ground, to bed- rock. in mound of stones. scribed 1-12SG R. NJ. C., whence United States min eral monument No. I of Warren" Mining District bears North 62 degrees 22 minutes East 4,225 feet, thence South i9 degrees 01 minutes West 1.495 feet to corner No. ?, a pine post feet long inches square in mound of stones, scribed 2-12S2 R. M. C.: thence South 47 degrees 16 minutes East 593.5 feet to corner No. 3, identical with location corner, pine post feet long 4 inches square in mound of stones, scribed 3-12S2 R. NJ. C.: thence North 49 de- grees I minutes East 495 feet to corner No. 4. a pine post feet long 1 inches square in mound of stones. scribed 4-12s2 R. NJ. C.; thence North 47 de- srees 1G minutes 533.5 feet to place of beginning. Variation at all corners F degrees 20 minutes East.
 Area POPS acres.
 Leo Lode Claim. Beginning at cor ner No. 1, identical with location cor ner and with corner No. of Roy" lode, scribed in addition 10 marks all ready noticed 1-12S2 L. M C., whence United States mineral monument No. / bears North 62 degrees 22 minutes East 4,225 feet: thence South 70 degrees or Rin'tes West 1 ,435l feet to corner No. 2 identical with corner No. Roy" Lo'e scribed, in addition. 2-1282 l.. NJ. C.; thence North '-2 degrees 50 minuteT West Cl2 feet to corner No. 3. pine pest 3 feet long inches square in mound oi rock scrihe ed 3-12S2 l.. M. C.: thence North s" degrees 23 minute: East 1,4I05 feet to corner No. 4. pine cost three feet long 4 inches square in mound Of stone, scriSea 4-1222 l.. EI. c {: thence south 23 degrees 50 minutes Fast 52" ' feet to corner No 1, t!lc pla 70 pf beginrinc:. Variation nt sN corners 2 degrees. 70 minutes East.
 Area 1860 acres.
 Total area of both lode claims, 3s.sa lcres.
 In Township g South of Range 24 East (unsurveyedN, Gila ami Salt Eiver Meridian. The locations of thasa aiines is recorded in the Recorders of fee of Cochisc County, Arizona, or DaGcs i75-6-7 of Book g, of Records Of Mines. Adjoining claimants are the ''Wooh Chor per" survey No. 1C61, an' "Trip Top" survey No. 1Gs7. on the Northeast, ard the Wagner" survey No. 1121, on the Southeast. All persons holding adverse claims thereto are required to present the same before this office within sixty days from the first day of putl.catin" hereof, or they will be barred by virtI, of the provisions of the statute.
 MILTON R. MOORE,
 Register. Date of first publication. Friday, oc- toher E9th, 1869.
The Arizona daily orb., 1899-11-23

their adverse claims are duly flied as according 10 law and the regulations hereunder within tine time prescribed by law, with tine Register Of the United States Land Office at Tucson, Arizona. they will be barred by the provisions of said statute.
 MILTON R. MOORE,
 -..-- Register. Date of first publication. Friday. Oc- tober 20th, 1899. .-..
The Arizona daily orb., 1899-11-23
Base and Meridian. Arizona.

Tne amenuc,t .J a ions '" a'
 and following described 'od,s s e.
 corded as follows: Of the Co"". Glance in Book 14, at page so; or '" California, in Book IA, at page 5S'i q the Contentment, in Book IA at paS' 531: of the Confidence, in Book ls, a page 557; of the Comstock, in Book l' at page 5s2; of the Bryan, in Book II at page 52l, and of the Modoc in Boo 14, at page 556; said book being Of tn Records of Mines of the Records "' Cochise County, Arizona Territory.
 The precImed general course or di' rection of the vein, lode, or mineral d" posit of the above described lodss r@ spectively Is shown upon the plat pos
 d on the claim, as nearly as car b" !r termined from present de7ciop;nsh his claim being for the 'ine&r tr't C >ach lode thereof as herein boy" :" ;orth, respectively, together with ts surface ground shown upon the of'ici' plat aforesaid.
 The adjoining claims are: Comhin' ton, St. Louis and Illinois claims (un- Shattuck. Heating, ct. al. claira, t.; Buckley O'Neill, Sixteen-to~ One and Arizona claims (Surre% No, 1393) owned by applicant herein; Key claim (ureurvey4d), Waddell and O'Hero claimants; clein, name un- known (unnuiveyed), Strong. Matthias and SsmN5or, cleiments; Lulu claim Gemcnle, Waddell and claimants; Thomas claim lun- penn, williams and Han non, claimants; on all other sides va cant and upoccupied land.
 Any and all persons claiming ad- the mining ground vein, lode' premises, or any portion thereof so de- ,cribed, surveyed, plated and applied lsr. ars ,EWNky sattAsA that unless
The Arizona daily orb., 1899-11-23
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
 PATIENT. Mining Anulir,t;on Nn 703 .,
 Survey No. 1874. United States Land Office.


 TCC"N. O";Cl or I9. 1899
 NOTICE IS HEREBY GINI:N. Tha' in pursuance of the United States Mir tug Laws, M. J. Erophy and F. B. N.a son, whose postoffice address Is B.shee Cochise County. Arizona, have made application for patent for fifteen hu2- dred Q.500) linear feet of the Labra 'or lode mining claim, situated in the War ren Mining District, Cochise County. Territory of Arizona, as describe t the official plat herewith posted and by the field notes on file in the office of the Register of the United States Land Office, Gila Land District, Tucson, Arizona, Ss follows, to-wit:
 Magnetic variation for al co:@SE.3 12 degrees 20 minutes East
 Beginning at corner No. 1, ident.cIi corner of location which corner beinS
The record-union., 1899-04-10
HOTEL FIRES AGAIN.

1t has now been settled that the
WINDSOR Hotel fire in New York was
accidental; that it resulted from ac-
cumulatons of gas in hollow walls,
which ignited in some way, and was
burning many hours, possibly q day.
| before there were any exterior signs
OF its existence. The horror is some
thing less fearful to contemplate by
having the suspicion that the fire was
OF lncendiary origin removed.
The now established fact that the fire
was accidental only intensifes the de-
mand that hotel construction shall be
more secure against fire. OF course.
fire extinguishing and fire escape ap-
| planes cannot be too many nor too
| excellent. But the construction of such
buildings so as to render their destruc-
ton by fire all but impossible is what
is demanded by the public voice. And
this Is not nearly so difficult a task as
at first appears. Architects and build
ers concede that if the necessary money
is put into a building it can be made
practically indestructible by fire. and
can be so built that the starting and
spread of a fire will be practically i'm
possible.
The hotel of the future will certainly
be a building in which the probability
Of a. conhagration will be extremely re-
mote. But there is to be no relaxation
of ingenuity, for all that, to devise and
apply means of fire extinguishment and
safe escape from hotels in case of fire.
One of these means to which compare
lively little attention has been paid is
the organization of the hotel employees
and permanent residents into fire bri-
gades, with raethodical drill and
system of action that will furnish a
strong safeguard against loss of life or
destruction of the building.
| In the recent fire in the LAFAYETTE
Hotel In Philadelphia so systematic
was the hotel fire brigade in its method
that the flames were extinguished al
most Immediately, panic was pre-
vented and the damage rendered very
slight. 1t may be that legislation will
be necessary to compel these internal
organizations, and that an inspector
will have to be provided in the larger
cities. whose duty it shall be to see that
these domestic organizations are pro-
vided and maintained in a high state
of efficiency. precisely as is now re-
quired on board large passenger ships,
system insisted upon by underwriters
and ship owners alike.
The record-union., 1899-04-10
sPIRITISM AND MYSTERY.

A case of the too previous was that
OF the mediums in Washington who
called up the spirit of John Sherman.
lew hours after a statement of his
oeatn mad been published and had a
communication from the statesman In
mis- own well-known handwriting by the
STATE route. That medium would have
saved his professional reputation had
ne waited eight hours for confirmation
OF the news" Mr.. Sherman did not
uie; ne is still in evidence among the
living, and consequently he involuntar-
lily gives the lie to the medium and
pronounces him fraud.
Up in Portland the other day there
was an instance of exposure OF fraudu-
lent mediums, and in one Of the South
ern States about the same time a spir-
atual seance was broken up by the sud-
The record-union., 1899-04-10
NOTICE OF SALE OF FRANCHISE.

| IN PURSUANCE OF AN ORDER OF
| the Board of Supervisors of the county OF
Sacramento, duly. given and made on the
eth day of April, 1889. notice is hereby
given that the Board of Supervisors of
| the county of Sacramento State of Cali
| fornia, will receive bids for the sale of a
franchise or privilege granting the right
and privilege of placing, erecting and
maintaining poles, masts, wires and other
conductors for the transmission of electric
energy, for all purposes to which such
electric energy is, or may be adapted, in
and upon and under the roads, highways,
public ways and public grounds of the
county of Sacramento. State of California,
and the streets, alleys, avenues, public
grounds and ways of all towns and vii
lagos within said county, with the right
of charging and receiving compensation
therefor from from persons Pc eses. using the same;
after the date of the ordinance granting
such franchise or privilege.
That each bidder must accompany his
bid with a bond to such county with good
and sufficient sureties to be approved by
such board in the penal amount of five
thousand dollars, conditioned that such
bidder will well and truly observe, fulfill
conditions and obligations of such fran
chise, which franchise or privilege shall
be evidenced by an ordinance. the form,
terms and conditions of which is now on
file with the undersigned at his office, and
may be seen upon application. Each bid
der must also oblgate himself to pay the
publication of the ordinance grhntng such
franchise. Bids to be sealed and filed with
the undersigned ct or before the hour of
10 O'Clock in the forenoon of the Sd day
The board reserves the right to reject
any or all bids.
Dated April 8, 1892
County Clerk of the County Of Sacra-
mento, Cal.
Sacramento. Cal. a6-10t
The record-union., 1899-04-10

den flash of light and the disclosure
of assistants of the materializer stalk
ing about in gauzy white sheets, with
masks upon their faces and thin sheet
lead gloves upon their hands.
But, while these things are true, and
frauds abound in spiritisn, it is in COM
mon justice to be said that there is
phenomena called spiritistic, which sci
entific investigation under the most Sc
we're conditions have failed to explain.
The American and English Societies for
Psychical Research have published re-
ports which present us with cases of
mystery confounding all natural expla-
nation. But it does not follow that be-
cause these societies, with the aid Of
many distinguished scientists, have
been unable to explain upon rational
grounds the so-called spiritual phenom-
ena that therefore it is spiritual. We
are in a maze as yet concerning tele
pathy, thought transference, phantasms
of the living, and the stuff that dreams
are made of. Concerning all these
there are mysteries by no means salts
factorily explained, unless we are to
deny the witnesses produced, who es-
tablish by their word certain things to
be true as certainly as the fact is es-
tablished that George Washington lived.
The belief among some of the best
minds of the age that there is commune
cation between the immaterial parts of
beings, though the material parts are
Of by contemptuous pooh-poohing. But
that is not saying that there is any
substantial reason known to man as yet
for belief that disembodied spirits hold
communication with men; that there is
any line of intelligence for communica
lion between this plane Of life and
whatever there may be for our souls in
the life hereafter.
Indeed we do live in an age wherein
there is much that is unexplained and
apparently unexplainable. We are op-
Grated upon by forces not within our
control, nor subject to the analysis of
our reason. But because this is true
we are not to rush to the supernatural
for solutions, nor to accredit every ap-
parent mystery or strange operation Of
the mind and inexplicable phenomena
relating to human intelligence, to the
spiritual realm, to the interference of
the disembodied in mundane affairs. or
the attempt, always halting and crude
and ridiculous mostly, Of alleged spirits
to advise, instruct or direct us.
For, as matter of fact, there is not
a scintillla of evidence that any disem-
bodied spirit has held communication
with man, and maintained the reputa-
tion for intelligence the individual had
in life. Even where the alleged spirits
have given US long, sophomore and loud
sounding deliveries and essays upon life
hereafter and life here, our conduct on
earth and our hopes for the place be-
yond," there is such vagueness, unsat-
isfactory expression, such vast muddIe
Of fine-fiown phrases and rounded SEN
tences, that we are no more satisfied
that we have heard the voices of the
dead, or read the expressions Of the
disembodied than we are that the
Washington medium really had a spirit
communication from Honest John Sher-
man.