The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-09
MORE NEW
CITIZENS
Judge Estee Grinds Out
a Batch.
RtMODEL|NG COURT ROOM
Appropriation for the Work is Well
Nigh Exhausted--Commi
sioner Appointed.

The first active business in the Federal
Courts of Hawaii was transacted yester-
day when Judge Estee took up the cases
of number of applicants for naturaliza-
ton papers. Owing to the condition of
the Federal courtrooms, Judge E,stee took
advantage of the courtesy of Judge Hum
phreys land held court in the Circuit
court room.
Naturalization matters were the only
ores considered and six new citizens were
e> amined and received their papers They
were: Sydney C. V. Turner, native of
London; j. w. Luning. who also halls
from London; Henry Cobb Adams. the
kaneohe school teacher, who is likewise
native Londoner; John Bush, a school
teacher of Kauai, and John Walker, botn
of whom claim London as their birth
place, and Thomas McTighe, who was
born in Ireland.
A number of members of the Honolulu
bar were also admitted to the bar of the
court on paying a fee of s.. W. A. Hem
shall was one of the applicants and it de-
veloped that he was not a citizen al
though he had taken out his first papers
in California some years ago, but had not
been long enough a resident of the ISL
ands to complete the period necessary for
naturalization. In his case Judge Estee
Issued a special order, admitting him to
practice, but he wanted ii understood
that only Americans were to be permitted
10 practice in his court.
Judge Estee will hold court daily here.
after. Today he will take up a number oil
applications for writs of habeas corpus
,anc it is likely that within the next week
. or so the court will be running regularly
. and that some of the admiralty matter.
i. WIFI come before it.
Judge Estee's courtroom is still but hal
completed, and it was stated yesterda,
| that the appropriation for its completion
is well nigh exhausted and it may b
{ some time before the room is in shap,
! for business. The workmen are putin,
up the partition which is to cut off TIN
: courtroom from the clerks office, and
is said that the appropriation is so low
that it will be exhausted by the time tina
4 partition Is completed, leaving nothing
fol the building of the bench or the ar
e raGgement or furnishing of the room 0
D the clerks Office
NEELY Is A DEPUTY MARSHAL.
! A. w. Nicely was yesterday appointed
: Deputy United States Marshal by Mar
! shall Ray. Mr.. Nicely was for some tim
: connected with the custom house and la
. ter has been doing some excellent worl
I for the Board of Health
Marshal Ray said yesterday in regar
: to the matter of the appointment of H. .
Z Metz as deputy marshal for the islam
: of Hawaii, that he was satisfied of tn
: citizenship of Mr.. Metz. He had had goo
!. endorsements and was a competent MAJ
= He was an American and had made
good record in Cuba during the war
Miss Ray, Marshal Rays daughter wi
= be one of the deputies under Chief Deput
: E. r. Hendry, who will have the direc
Y ton of the office work. The places
deputies on Maui and Kauai have not W
teen filled. There are a number of appl
cents for these positions whose name
are under consideration.
le COMMISSIONER APPOINTED.
l. w. j. Robinson has been appointe
;, United States Commissioner by Judge E.
: tee, and yesterday he appeared in cou
g anG occupied the official stenographer
r seat Mr.. Robinson will have charge
"a the bankruptcy work, in all likelhoo
l. although there is little of that class
- work necessary in the Islands. He W
l., also be the committing magistrate f
the United States District Court