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The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1899-06-16

in Congress, and Amended, by
Senator Cullom
Qualification Commenced on June eth }
Section 81. That the following
officers shall receive the following
annual salaries to be paid by the
United States; the Governor $4,000;
the Secretary OF the Territory 5000;
the United States Marshal $1,000;
the United States District Attorney
5000. And the Governor shall re-
ceive annually, in addition to his
salary, the sum of $500 for station
cry, postage and incidentals; also
his travelling expenses while absent
from the capital on official business,
and the sum OF $1,000 for his private
secretary.
Section 95 That imports from
any of the Hawaiian Islands, into
any State or any other Territory OF
the United States, of any dutiable
articles not the growth, produ..tion
or manufacture of said Islands, and
imported into them from any for
egn country after July z, 1898, and
before this Act takes effect, shall
pay the same duties that are impos-
ed on the same articles when i'm
ported into the United States from
any foreign country.
Section SO. That the Commits
sioner of Fish aud Fisheries of the
United States is empowered and
required to examine into the entire
subject of fisheries and the laws re.
lating to the fishing rights in the
Territory OF Hawaii, and report to
the President touching the same,
and to recommend such changes in
said laws as he shall see fit. The
sum OF five thousand dollars, or SC
much thereof as may be necessary
is hereby appropriated, out of any
money in the Treasury not other
wise appropriated, to he imm sdia e.
ly available for the purposes afore
said.
Section 97 That all laws OF th'
Republic of H.waii which confe
exclusive fishing rights upon an.
person or persons are hereby re
pealed, and all fisheries in the sci
waters OF the Territory OF Hawaii
not included in any fish pond or ar
tifcial inclosure, shall be free to al
citizens of the United States, sub
ject, however, to vested rights: bu
no such vested rights shall be valit
after three years from the takinl
effect OF this Act unless established
as hereinafter provided.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1899-06-16
TOPICS 0F rHE DAY,

l.. A. T., the D-vil's partner is
sick again aud will, according to his
organ, depart by the Rio Janeiro.
What scares you this time,-Lorrin
dear, is it Olaa !?
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1899-06-16

The official organ has expressed
deep regret recently because the
Kamehameha schools were located
in Honolulu and it predicts disaster
to the Hawaiians who leave their
rural districts and go to the cities.
1t would evidently have suited the
Advertiser to have the Hawaiians
treated as the North American In.
dians are, and placed on Reserva.
tions on Molokai and in the valleys.
The Hawaiians have found out how
ever, that they must take their 81 and
in the battle for existence in which
the fttest survives aud they have
learned that nothing can be gained
10 sitting on the banks of their taro
patches aud seeing plantations TAX
ing their water or forcing them into
costly lawsuits aud watching the
Chinese cultivating plantation lands
and underselling the products OF the
Hawaiians. The Kamemeha schools
are in ,a,, right location, near the
throbbIu. center of this little couu-
try. Here the young generation
will learn the stern demands Of llte,
will understand that life is not beer
and skittles, and we trust will devote
serious thought to and take an
active interest in the future OF Ha
| Wy iii
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1899-06-16

1t was whispered on the water
front to-day that the non arrival OF
the Nippon-Maru was due to the
fact that the Captain had lost the
Marc on the way and was afraid OF
being arrested if his ship should ap-
pear in port without Marc for
indecent exposure.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1899-06-16

The June term OF the Supreme
Court will open on Monday next
and vii be held ia the room on the
first floor formerly occupied by the
Legislature. The change has been
made owing to the Chief Justice
being temporarily crippled, probab-
ly as result of having his leg
"pulled" by the recently departed d
f. Allen Sherman.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1899-06-16
BY AUTHORITY.
DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE.

DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE.
HOMO ULU, H June l3, 1s99.i
Notice is h reby given that RIG lard
IVERS has this day bee, appp ted Col.
lector General of Customs for the Ha-
waiisn Isl inds, vice Frank B M, Stocker,
resigned
,Sirned) S NJ. DAMON,
1226-3t M MIST of T nance
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1899-06-16
Honolulu, June 1, 1899.
Honolulu, June 1, 1899.
Just arrived from New
York per American ship
George Curtis
Black and GaIVernizad Cut NailSS
Assorted Sizes.
Blaak and Galvanized Wire Nails
Assorted Sizes.

Hunts Axe and Pick Mat
tocks.
Iron City Axe and Pick
Mattocks
Steel Horse Shoes Front
and Hind, assorted sizes.
Long Handle Hay Forks,
2 or 3 tines.
Socket Goose Neck Hoes,
J, s and I. ,
Hunts Axes 81 to 81 lbs.
Handled.
Ame's Long and Short
Handle Shov. ls.
Amos Shot Handle Coal
Scoops.
Champion Handle Coal
Scoops
hush Hooks, Medium and
Heavy.
American Charcoal Irons.
Putnam's Horse Shoe Nails
assorted sizes. =
Champlaip Horse Shoe
Nails, assorted sizes.
Alden's straight yard
broums
Step Ladders, q, 8 and 10
feet high.
One and Two Man Cross
Cut Saws q to e feet long.
For sale here atlowest mar
ket rates.
Please call and examine our
goods.
Taa Hawaiian Hardware Co., La
26S Fort STREET,
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1899-06-16

II the people OF these islands cou-
tinue in their apathetic attitude to-
wards the future OF Hawaii aud
without a protest allow the agents
Of our millionaire planters to carry
things in Congress in the sole inter-
est Of their employers, they deserve
to be pushed to the wall aud to find
themselves some day crowded into
the sea of poverty by the cheap
ignorant hordes with which the
country is to he swamptd by the
Government OF Mr.. Dole, at present
President of the Hawaiian Republic
by the grace of w. G. Irwin 81 Co.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1899-06-16

There are numerous questions
which should be studied most care
fully by every man and woman hav-
ing an interest in Hawaii nei. The
all-important labor question is be-
fore US and while the government
and the planters are trying to rush
in the most undesirable element OF
cheap laborers, our Christian men
and women sing in high key to the
praise OF Eva, Olaa Wahiawa and
Keyhigh. Several thousand Jap.
anese have been ordered and our
police records tell us daily about
murders and riots committed by
that class of citizens. The Port
uguese colony have shown their dis
satisfaction for many day. They
have suffered for lack of work and
been brought to the verge of absolute
starvation because they cannot com
pete in cheap living with the Asia
tics who are here without families and
are trained to live at the very small
est cost. And yet several hundred
Portuguese are now on their way to
Hawaii to meet the same disappoint
ments as those experienced by their
countrymen here and to swell the
brigade OF the malcontent citizens.
And while Galician laborArs, in
duced to come here under false pre-
lenses, are parading the streets daily
in prison garb and treated as Grim
inals in this Territory of the free CD
Republic OF the United States, 600
Italians are being shipped to Homo.
lulu for the benefit of few planters
and to the ruin of the people of Ha-
waii and our body polite. These
Italians will be brought here under
the same false pretenses which in
duced the Galicians to leave their
native hearth. They will sell their
little belongings and travel in rose
ate dreams to rudely awaken by
finding the grim reality on sugar
plantation and then a striped suit
aud a cell in Oahu Jail. But
what do the men who induce
theae poor devils leave their homes
care. Should the deceived slaves
get ugly, the police and milita' y
forces are here to protect the plant
ations and the planters-well, they
are of couse in their baronial man.
sions in San Francisco, Bremen OF
Paris. Let the Portuguese kick the
heads OF a few lunas and let the
Italians tickle the ribs with their
knives OF few managers. What are
the odds to the sugar barons
Other lunas and other managers car
be obtained, all they care for il
cheap, cheaper and cheapest labor
and high, higher and highest
dividends.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1899-06-16
THE HAWAIIAN GovERNIaNr
BILL

Synopsis of the Bill as Introduced
in Congress, and Amended, by
Senator Cullom
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-08
INDIVIDUALLY.
The Santa Fe VIII Make Raises
For Special Operators.

Nothing definite has been done in ref
erence to the question of an increase in
the wages of Santa Fe operators. The
grievance committee was told by Cen
eral superintendent Nudge yesterday
evening that the company would not
accede to an increase of % per cent and
an increase in the minimum salary from
$45 to $55 per month. He stated, how
ever, that the company was willing to
increase salaries in individual cases
where it was shown an increase was
deserved.
A second conference between the COM
mittee and Mr.. Nudge and Mr.. Sholes
opened this morning at 10 o'clock, but
the salary question was dropped tenn
pOrarily and the minor details of the
proposed new schedule discussed. 1t
will be again taken up some time this
afternoon, and some definite conclusion
arrived at before the conference closes.
While the members of the grievance
committee will not state as much, it is
believed that they will not insist on
their demands, and will be willing to
settle the controversy amicably. The
company is willing to make some con-
cessions to the operators, and if the
committee is disposed to recede in it's
demands and accept them, no trouble
will result.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-08
DEEP WATER SOON.
Port Arthur Canal Will Be Completed
In a Few DAYS.

Port Arthur, Tex, March S.-The Port
Arthur ship canal will be practically
completed about the 10th inst. when it
is proposed to celebrate the event in
fitting manner The canal was designed
and constructed by Mr.. Robert Gillian,
general manager and chief engineer of
the Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf rail-
road. Mr.. A. E. Stillwell, president of
the road, first suggested the canal and
interested Mr.. ]. de Goeijen, jr., Of Am
sterdam, Holland, a large foreign holder
of the roads securities. The plans pre-
pared by Mr.. Gillian were approved by
foreign engineering experts and the
work was begun during the spring of
1896.
The canal is designed to extend deep
water from the Sabine pass to Port Ar
thur, the former having a depth of 20
feet over the bar. The dimensions are
the same as those of the Suez canal
1873 feet wide and with a depth of %
feet. 1t is seven and a half miles long.
The excavations were made by hydraul-
ic dredges, the work involving the
dredging of $4,000, 900 yards of clay, etc.
Extensive ship basins, slips, docks,
warehouses and a large grain elevator
are in course of construction. Consid-
cradle export business has already been
done at Port Arthur and when the canal
is completed additional steamship lines
will be established. The harbor is land
locked and an excellent one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-08
READ LAW WITH LINCOLN.
General Milton Smith Littlefield is
Dead.

New York, March S.--Genera1 Milton
Smith Littlefield is dead at his home
in this city of apopIexy, aged Sc years.
He studied law in Abraham Lincoln's
office in Springfield. ILL.,, and for some
time practiced in the same Office. When
the civil war broke out. Gen. Littlefield
became captain of company F, Four
teenth Illinois volunteers. which was
commanded by Gen. John NJ. Palmer,
who was then colonel.
Gen.Littlefield went through the cam
paign of 1862, as Gen. Sherman's pro-
vost marshal and was stationed at
Memphis, Tenn. Later he was trans
ferred to the department of the south,
with headquarters at Hilton Head, s.
C. He also, served in the siege of
Charleston. He was for some time on
the staff of Gen. J. c. Gilmore and was
afterward inspector general of colored
troops and was prominent in organic
ing cOIored regiments.
In June, 1866, Gen. Littlefield was
honorably discharged from the army.
Since that time he had been interested
in railroads in the south and north and
in other business affairs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-08

charge of the asphalt streets is paid 5
cents per hour. Ordinarily street hands
are also paid per hour and receive four
cents. All streets are kept in excellent
condition, the shopkeepers or tenants
not being permitted to put sweepings
on the pavement or street. These must
be taken up and put in a box kept for
that purpose. The city has wire bask-
cts fastened on lamp posts, against
houses, fences or trees, in which the
public may throw waste paper while
walking along. 1t is very rare to see
any waste paper on the streets, as the
citizens in general take pride in keeping
the streets clean. The householders
have to sweep the streets to the center
of the street rgularly very morning be-
fore o'clock. The litter is piled up and
carted away by the city teams"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-08
We Publish the Story of Another
Wonderful Cure of Kidney
BackaChe For the Benefit of
Topeka People.

Morrow's Kid-ne-oids received the
highest possible praise from an Elk
hart, Indiana, business man. If Nor
rows Kid-ne-oids were not a worthy
remedy, or the remedy we claim them
to be, 1T would be impossible to get
people living in Elkhart to praise them.
Geo. Towman, the barber at Main and
Franklin streets has much to say for
them, and stronger language could not
be used. Here is what he says word
for word: II doubt very much If there
are many people living who have SUI
fered worse with kidney complaint and
lived, than L have. My conditions had
gradually been growing worse for years,
Notwithstanding the fact that 1 have
used much patent medicine as well as
being treated by physicians which has
cost me lots of money. Only two months
ago / paid large doctor bill for which
had received not one particle OF bene-
fit. My condition has been so bad at
times 1 have had to quit work for a
week or more. The pain through the
1t seemed to me IL 1 were dying by
inches. This condition made me SO
nervous that by spells I was unable to
hold a razor steady. The kidney secre-
lions were highly discolored and accom-
panied by a scalding pain in ats pas
sage. This showed an excessiveness OF
uric acid No one could blame me for
being completely discouraged. had
begun to believe that my condition was
a hopeless one, until hope took the place
OF despair through reading the many
Oids. could no more than fail (Which
I had been doing right along although
taking treatment from physicians and
paying doctor bills) If I gave the Kid
ne-oids trial I bought two boxes to
start with, it seems almost incredible
when I say that I began to feel better
in "a hours but such was the case. In
side of a week my condition was more
improved that it had been for years
from other treatment. Today, my back
ache has entirely disappeared,my nerves
have grown steady and strong and
am perfectly free from urinary dis
turbances notwithstanding the fact that
I work hard all day. 1 am so elated
over my present healthfu1 condition
that 1 suppose I have told and recon-
mended kid-ne-oids to over thrifty OF
my customers. I make this statement
for publication with the hope that those
who read it will not delay one moment
but stop their suffering at once, by US
ing Kid-ne-oids, for I positively be-
lieve them to be the only cure for this
disease to be had
The people of Topeka and surround
Ing country should be convinced at once
through this statement and lose no time
from being cured. Kid-ne-oids are Vel
dow Tablets (not pills) and are for sale
by all druggists and at Swift & Holli-
days drug store at 80 cents box.
John Morrow & Co. Chemists, Spring
Geld, Ohio.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-08
FAMOUS FORGER DEAD.
Austin Bidwell Who Beat the Bank of
England Out of So, 100000.

Butte, Mont, March S.-Austin Bid
we'll, one of the men who became fam
Gus through the Bank of England
forgeries, died here last night in his
room in the Mantle block. The cause of
his death was given as grippe He was
80 years of age. and a native of Chicago,
to which place his body will be taken for
burial.
Austin Bidwel1 and his brother, Geo.
Bidwel1, came here about two weeks
ago. They said they expected to start
in business here, having backing in the
east to engage in mining. He was taken
sick about a week ago.
The story of the Bidwe1Is is pretty
well known By means of forged Sc
curities in 1875 they got Sc, 100000 from
the Bank of England, after victimizing
other banks in Europe by means of
forged letters of credit. Their idea was
to get fifty millions and then compro-
mise with the bank. In the big deal
they failed and fed.
George Bidwell was caught in France
and Austin Bidwell in Cuba. They were
tried and began life sentences with their
two confederates. After twenty years
they were released.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-08
CENTRAL PARK HOTEL.

New York Cor. Pittsburg Dispatch
Central park is to be faced by another
magnificent hotel, which will greatly en-
nance the appearance of this beautiful
section of Gotham. Judge P. Henry
Dugro and John ]. Gibbons, who own
the Hotel Savoy, Fifth avenue and
Fifty-ninth street, are about to begin
its construction on the west side. 1t
Will be on the block fronting Central
park west between Sixty-second and
Sixty-third streets. or on the block
fronting the same avenue between Six
ty-third and Sixty-fourth streets, which
they own. The hotel will be fourteen
stories high, and will cover a plot of 200
feet front by 100 feet in two streets.
1t will be fireproof throughout and of
steel skeleton construction. The cost of
the new structure, 1t is estimated, will
be at least $500, 900, which will be spent
in the construction Of the building
alone
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-08
RRESLAU,S STREETS
How the German City's Thoroughfares
Are Kept Clean.

Washington, March S.-Americans
may gain some new ideas about the
proper care of asphalt streets from
report made by Consul Erdman at
Breslau:
zone man." Mr.. Erdman writes to the
department of state, has charge of four
squares in front of the consulate. His
tools for keeping the streets clean are
as follows: An iron hopper wheelbar-
row, a shovel, a broom, and rubber
scraper about three and one-half feet
long. The rubber is fastened in a vice
like wooden clamp and is about four
inches wide, one-quarter of an inch
thick and very stiff. This man during
the day is continually going over his
four squares, taking up the litter and
keeping the streets thoroughly clean.
Early in the morning, after having
cleaned the street, he takes his wheel
barrow, loaded with very fine, sharp
sand and scatters the same with his
hands or a small shovel lightly over
the streets, to prevent slipping. Should
it be a rainy day he repeats this process
several times during the day. Once a
week two sprinkling cars are sent out
alongside of each other, so that they
cover the whole street at one time with
water, washing the same thoroughly.
Immediately following the sprinkHng
cars come four one-horse roller brush
sweepers, about two feet in diameter
sweeping the water, slime, etc, into the
gutter. when the same is piled up and
carried away. Then the man who has
charge of those streets comes along
with his wheelbarrow and sprinkles
sand all over the street. In spring or
autumn, when the streets are often slop-
by or wet, the washing is done several
times during the week.
Il am informed the washing is done
for the purpose of removing the slime,
which the asphalt seems to leave, and
also for the preservation and hardening
of the asphalt The man who has
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-08
OFFICIAL LAUNDERING.
Is Making Serious Trouble in Santiago
Province.

Santiago de Cuba, March s.-Colone1
Hood cables from Holguin that intense
excitement prevails there owing to the
cessation of public works and that a
mass meeting has been held, at which
the action of the United States military
authorities at Havana was condemned
as false economy" and as the result
of Capitalization
Owing to the pressing necessity of the
case, Colonel Hood says he has issued
INDECENT rations to 5000 heads of fam
lilies suddenly thrown out of employ
ment. He fears there will be large in
crease in the criminal classes of his dis
trict.
Practically the same news from all
the other districts of Santiago province
has reached here. Meanwhile money
enough is lying idle in bank to pay all
that is due and to keep the men at
work
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-08
Do Not Give Up in De-
spair-There Is HOpel

For ages it has been thought
that Cancer Is iHcurable, and
those 50 unfortunate as to have
this dreadful affictioa have con-
sidered themselves beyond hope of
recovery. The doctors are ab-
selutely unable to afford any re-
lief, and the poor sufferer might
well consider himself on the way
to an early grave.
1t Is now easy to see why the
doctors have failed to cure Cancer
Their theories have been all wrong,
and hence their treatment mis-
directed. They have made the
mistake of thinking that by cut
ting out the sore or nicer, known
IS Cancer, the disease would be
gotten rid of, and the patient re-
stored to health. But the cruel
knife Accomplishes nothing. for
the Cancer promptly returns and Is
always more Virulent than before
1t has, been demonstrated, beyond
doubt, tAat Cancer is . blood disease
sad can not be cured by the surgeon =
katie because Ghs b1os8 oea ~ ke ellt
Several years ago my wife had an
ulcer ON her tongue, whSch, though an
ROyiAg, wAS not regarded seriO1sly at
ArsA Il refused to heal and began to
9F0S, giving her mech pain. The doc
Asgs 10000 il boR qn4es Q wAils but
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-08
AKAFFIR SNAKE STORY.
IFrom the London spectatc

IE'rOm the London spectator
A road party, comprising the usual
gang of from fifty to sixty Kaffirs, with
a white man superintendent, was
employed on the construction of a road
in Tugela Valley, Natal, about thirty
or more years ago. In the course of their
work they came to huge stone which
it was necessary to remove, but beneath
it was the home of large black mamba,
we'll known to the neighbOring inhabit-
ants as being old, and, therefore, very
deadly of the South African snakes, and
the superintendent anticipated some
trouble over that rock. He offered
bride for the snakes skin and the gang
''wow'dr' and sat down to 'bema gwi''
Gake snuff. But a slim youth saun-
tered forward, and, amid the jeerS and
proteStatiOnS of the rest, declared him
self equal to the task. He took from
shriveled stick, chewed it, swallowed
some of it, Spat out the rest on his
hands, and proceeded to rub his gliSten-
ing brown body and limbs all over.
a song of defiance, he advanced with
great confidence and swagger to the
bowlder. There he reused up the mann
ba who, in great fury at being disturb
notice of the bite, but broke the snakes
back with his stick, and, bringing it to
his master, asked for the reward OBJ
tanning which he went back to his
work, and the bite of the reptile had no
effect on him whatever.
No bride, not even that of a COW (bet-
ter than any gold in the eyes of a Kaffir)
would induce this native to disclose the
secret of his antidote, which, he said.
had been handed down in his family for
generations. The snake was a very long
one, and so old that it had a name 1t
is a we'll known fact that certain of the
Zulus have antidotes for the more dead
ly snake poisons, which they preserve
as a secret within their own families.