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The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-01-05
DAVID B.SM|TH
Dies Suddenly While in
San Francisco.
Ne Falls to the Floor and Expires Ir
the Presence Of His
Daughter

Tho following concerning The sudden
death OF y. b. Smith in san Francisco
is taken from the Chronicle Of Decem
Der 2jth.
d. b. Smith a wealthy retired mer-
chant Of Honolulu, died suddenly at
the Occidental Hotel shortly before Do
o'clock last evening. He was seated 100
a chair in his apartments, chattius
with his daughter when the end came
without any warning that he was IL.
he fell forward to the door, and his
daughter finding him unconscious anl
unable to restore him. quickly sum
moned assistance. DR. j. V. d. Mid
dleton, who resides in the hotel, was
called for and upon examining the
PROSTATE form pronounced the man
dead. The heart must have stopDed
beating the instant he fell PROSTATE to
the floor.
Coroner Hill was notified and his in
quiry into the circums tances attend
ing Smiths sudden demise developed
the fact that half an hour previously
the man had taken dose of medicine
from a bottle marked "Bromldia." How
much of the drug he swallowed at the
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-01-05
FREE BATH In CHINATOWN.

II is well to make Chinatown clean
and the thing can be done, The place
can also he kept clean. But how are
the people living there to be cleansed
from their bodily filth and made 10
conform in future 10 sanitary usages
They have no baths of their own; they
cannot or will not 80 to the harbor Ia
swim nor TO Waikiki; what are they &c
do?
Thirty years ago this problem pre-
scented itself in the congested tenemsn
districts of New York city. The dir
and odor OF these places were not con
fined to the little rooms and dark eel
lars where the squalid poor tried tC
live but were much in evidence on the
personnel. Boards OF Health cleaned
the tenenents but the people them
selves vent dirty and the rate of then
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-01-05

If Great Britain buys Delagoa bay
the French Government will, it is said
make stern protest. The interest OF
France in the matter concerns NADIA.
gascar, a French possession which is
only separated from Delagoa bay by
the Mozambique channel. France does
built up there. Possibly this fact might
not affect Great Britain's desire to buy
but it might restrain Portugal's anxiety
to sell.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-01-05

Earthquake W saHlHfn ra.iImHia
rga.ni as hHHstfa nf
/ Fool p.a.a.tt of H8H iaH.t hii 81
3 modern hlaa ibaf m more nfo
rauirtn faaft $500 iba' section OIL
ne.rn. Htt' f.m'm tn
uusll ffm'Hfars 1f .Hr 1es.fi.fIt
It GHif qulE af 900 r1r.'er prIfi
Arlu In 1891 ih. South sac hHhru
lHa.I manF houses tpr, ruined aal lhl
u|. driven Hlas Etsl The rn nut
nmH % have pu' ono '9Rn 900
Hs back ud damaged nycflI other
p.H., such 20 visitation inspire more
terror chan @ plague especially ln Gale
.iarma where one o. never sure of cs-
Gaping general subsistence of tu"
coast STRATA {. cannot Doe very long
agJ owing geological signs and the
90 illness OF Indian traditions. since
portions OF California were In a lively
seismic and volcanic state John Muir
estimates that l.asscn Peak 3as active
about ID century and half ago. The
Indians living about san Francisco DhN
ln 1916 when Commodore Stockton was
hero fixed three generations back as
,.a time when an earthquake had split
open what now the Golden Gate and
leJ the sea mo the valley OF the lower
Sacramento, now the bay itself. They
said that formerly the river ran past
san Jose into Monterey bay, a state
ment which the scientists have since
verified. biologists believe that the
bay islands, Goat, Angel, Alcatraz and
Mission Rock, are the monuments of al
submerged district. Considering these
changes of the earth's surface to be
recent the people of Calf
0rnia always live in the half-eXpecta-
ton of oeing swallowed up over night.
The slowness of the States growth is
due to the fact, as Eastern
home-seekers, even those from the cy-
clone belts, easily catch the prevailing
and but partly-concealed apprehension.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-01-05

The ton lists who are within our
gates are having an experience which
need not necessarily be unhappy. The
pIague has but once crossed Fort street
and no white person, save a girl living
in an unsanitary part of the town, has
succumbed to it. SO there is no gen.
eral danger. If the tourists will keep
cool and make occasional trips to The
Sc shore to divert themselves they will
pass the time pleasantly enough and
in the end, perhaps, may not, be sorry
that they were here during moment
Gus historical period.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-01-05
I-nIlllAn mn IlLAnIl-


lHf spfH n NHhl ae isnfi u
li.A'f4 D. nna adlfeslaa faif b ifl
iHIt abHtn IH H fDiN n n'
uibauf
Hf order af iat BalIi 81 iE fH Gi
fHn JUDICIAL p'Hfiri vi fhf e iiu
no.H.1 H htfnhf placed iu t.r Quar-
Hn'ir fud 600 pHrauns frH unHliHf
Up 'rifr He District tItfuHt m
sion af tlp Board uf iloI'th so p.f.
1H uT side uf IHn u.erIct Bff forbid.
dem Poo ltFHuf HrF person coming fI.u
'hr District Hfunu Ihe perm Uu u'
.lr umfd Ui HulIh
rl order dur. no, p1auu lu, fH.
tH,lc HnI ali.H comp s.a nBo luIl.
u1' District. Uu 90 draws 'le limos
about tIr lul. .lI subdivision extend.
uf I.m NamlW 90 NoluI'u Doe
y1D1 which tho plague uls o.. sIoNu
.a.f The measure I. lu. 90 iJ-Du-
tal value tp tbe outlying plr oi tbis
island and of Doe group operating as o.
does GO a1udne tha plague Tlcrr 'ae
concentrated energies of t1o Board 81
Hcll,l can deal with The difficulty
OF stamping ont the uscnsc would Doe
added TO enormously ii IL obtained ths
slightest footholl clso whore for then
the activities of The Board would have
to De scattered and It's vigilance shown
over a much wide area .han Is n pres
en-, necessary.
This policy with that OF seEre Cation
and the burning Of infected buildings
is bound TO tell though il may take
some time to completely eradicate the.
plague. Tha, mllady is a lingeringI
one. Unlike the cholera, the germs oil
which are weak and often fall a prey
to the appetite of other bacilli. theI
germs of the bubonic plague are tena-
c.ous and long-suffering. They come
TO light in the most unexpected ways.
We speak of these things not only tol
emphasize the value of the present
measures, but the neeu of TAX
ing whatever new measures Of practical
may be proposed, and of
doing this regardless of the cost Az
yet the sums asked for by the Board
of Health have not been provided. The
money is needed for condemning prop
erty. cutting streets and alleys, for
odorless eXcavators and the
like and still more might be used ac-
,eptably upon free baths and a reser
yoir filter. We hope it will be dealt out
with generous hand so that nothing
may be left undone to not only eXpel
the bubonic s2ourge but to put Homo
lulu in shape to resist epidemic OF all
kinds. Surely we have had warnings
enough of the need Saying nothing of
the terrible visitation of cholera in
1905, these Islands have experienced
three smallpox epldemics, a recent one
of cholera and now one of the black
death Is 1t not time, before the yellow
fever. or more cholera or more plague
enters here to put Honolulu in such a
sanitary condition that no germ, how
ever 1t may fly about, can find the |
5lightes. hospitality.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-01-05

The Board of Health wants to ex-
pend not less than S25O,OOO in putting
Honolulu on sanitary basis. 1t is less
than half the amount that General
Wood requsitioned for the cleansing
of Santiago last year. Every dollar
could be wisely invested now and dur
ing the next six months. The Adver-
tiser hopes that the Council OF state
will see its way clear to take the money
and more out of the surplus, for it is
much better invested in permanent
public works than left for possible
transfer to the Federal treasury wher
we are fully annexed.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-01-05

The plan to remove the people of the
infected district TO detention camps is
being carried out in way to renew
confidence in the sanitary authorities
Meanwhile Chinatown where it is moi
burned down will have to be made over
completely. In the long run, if the
Board of Health and the Council OF
State do their full duty we may have
no public occasion TO regret that the
plague came and went, Something wa;
badly needed TO break up official apa-
thy.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-01-05

The death OF Dwight l.. Moody re-
moved the most useful minister of the
Protestant religion known to any coun-
try during the past thirty years. That
is to say Mr.. Moody, by his precept and
example, enlightened more people in
religious matters and changed the cur.
rents of more lives than any of his
compeers of the cloth. Without the
swelling eloquence of Beecher, the sen.
sationalism of Talmage, the epigram-
matte point and sparkle of Sturgeon
and far removed in character and relig.
ious methods from all the bishoprics
he was yet able to mold the clay of the
popular mind as none other could dc
and shape it according to his own
Nought. Mr.. Moody's old co-worker
SanGey, was not far wrong when
spoke of the dead clergyman a;
zone of the greatest humans" OF his
time.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-01-05

The Y. NJ. c. \. is finding plenty of
work in the Philippines, there being but
five or six chaplains on duty in the
ments have no chaplains and the men,
but for the Y. NJ. C. a. and the Red
Cross nurses, get no opportunity, I'M
less they happen to be Catholics, to
hear religious teaching. This puts a
greal burden of responsibility on The
Y. NJ. C. y. but that fine organization
seems amply able to bear it,
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-01-05

The Cleveland, known MS the hoodoo
ship OF the Pacific, is again to ply be-
tween the Coast and these Islands.
Last year she was wrecked in Alaska
but the owners, for some inscrutable
reason, went to the trouble of saving
her. The first time the writer ever saw
the Cleveland she was called the Sean.
dinayla, and had just been lowed into
San Diego harbor with broken shaft
Just before that time she had run away
from the Gulf OF California with Q
Mexican war vessel in pursuit and with
a Mexican customs official an unwill
ing prisoner on board. The old steam
er has tried to conceal her identity un
der at least six names but the hoodoC
still pursues her.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-01-05

enc of the requests likely to be made
by the Board of Health is that no
building permits shall be.issued on the
Site Of ,4e burned Chinese tenements
for period of six months. 1t is desir-
able to let the sunlight play on the
infected soil and give cnance for rain
and sulphuric acid to work down. If
this request meets the approval of the
Government the sentiment in favor of
1t will be pretty nearly unanimous.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-01-05

If Hon. Arthur Sewall returns to san
Francisco instead of going to the Far
East he will be able to do the Islands
a service by telling of the plague as he
knows 1t. Very likely by this time the
yellow Mainland press has killed off
half our population. \ few precise and
sober words from a man of Mr.. Sewall' 5
standing would put stop to all mis-
representation.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-01-05

We await with some anxiety the dis
position of the San Francisco health
authorities towards the landing of Isl
and freight, There is probably moth
ing the matter with the freight, though
fumlgation will doubtless be applied
If the precautions stop there well and
good, but the case OF the Nippon MARI
some months ago shows that the Sar
Francisco official doctors-who do no
always differentiate plague from pneu
monia-go into an absurd panic when
ever the bubonic malady is mentioned
in connection with Pacific ocean com
merce.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-01-05

The divorce OF the Attorney General
from the Presidency of the Board of
health is not an easy matter. II is a
thing that requires legislation at
Washington. This is unfortunate as
the duties of either Office are enough
for one man and cannot be join
Ell without impairing his efficiency
in both. II is possible, however, that
the work on the present Board may be
speedily lightened by the organization
of Federal quarantine, thus helping
the Pres.uent out in the performance
of his dual functions.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-01-05


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such a place would he that OF running
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The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-01-05

General Butler may be counted on to
do his best to win some great success
before Lord Roberts arrives. Conse-
quently the news of another bloody
battle may be looked for in the next
mail or very soon thereafter The
Beers seem to anticipate some such
action on Buffers part and are Goa
centrating force large enough 10 give
the British commander all the fighting
his ambitious nature may crave. The
wits of the Boer government are not
only being applied TO the campaign
blu. to the creation of new war be-
tween the British and the Cape Dutch.
The success of this measure would
mean an outbreak of civil war in Cape
Colony, where the Dutch are very
numerous. In that case fifty thousand
more men would be needed To protect
British lines of communication and
deal with the rebellious elements. 1t is
a prospect which even Mr.. Chamber
lain cannot view with equanimity
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-01-05

1t is to be hoped that the present
trouble will not lead the theatrical
companies that are preparing for Ha-
waiian tours few weeks hence to can
cel their dates. Honolulu will be ready
at,er its long lyrical season and its
battle with the plague TO welcome q
first-class theatrical performance. AND
one at least of the promised attraction:
stands very high
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-01-05

The report that the surplus will be
kept intact, sanitary need or no sani-
tary need, so as to make a record for
somebody, needs to be put to an early
test by humane and progressive
Council of State.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-01-05

The plague is now widely dispersed
We hear of it in New York, New Or
leans, Brazil, Japan, India, Hawaii, and
New Caledonia at once. The outbreak
in the French penal colony of New
Caledonia, one of the Australasian sys-
TEN, had resulted. at last accounts, in
the death of ten Kanakas and the i'll
ness of four whites.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-01-05

Why not burn an infected building
completely instead of leaving great
piles of rubbish on the site? After the
fires yesterday, Japanese were seen
trying to rescue pieces of unconsumed
mau,lng from the wreck. There oughi
to have been nothing of the kind left
1t is absurd to make fire an instrument
of half way measures.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-01-05
LiverIUs

Hoods Pills are the only pills to take
with Hoods sarsaparllla. Sold by all
druggists 25c. Sent by mail or receipt
of price, bye IHpod & Co.. Lowell, Mas
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-01-05

Filters for the Nuuanu reservoirs
would probably have kept down the
figures OF December mortality to where
they belong, The amount of disease
fairly traceable to the valley surface
water is something appalling.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-01-05

No more Congressional Commissions
Will be billeted on Honolulu yet awhile.
Congress is probably well-satistied to
give Hawaii the absent treatment.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-01-05

After the Chinese dens have been
burned or cleared off, the soil of the
sites sought to have some attention. 1t
must be fairly alive with various dis
e..se germs.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-01-05

David Bowers Smith was born at
Statesville, North Carolina, and, as
nearly as can be learned, was 40 years
of age at his death. After receiving
a good education at home he attended
the New York Medical College, where
he graduated and afterwards began the
practice of his profession in the State
OF Texas. After several years spent
there he moved with his wife to In
dian Territory, where he engaged in
mercantile pursuits, remaining there
about four years. There his wife died
shortly after the birth of his daughter,
May, who survives him and Is expect
ed to return here by the next trip OF
the Australia. She is Is years of age
and has been attending school in Cali
fornia.
From Indian Territory Mr.. Smith
came west and finally reached Califor-
mia, where he remained some time for
the benefit of his health, being threat
ened with lung trouble. While In San
Francisco he determined to go south,
and, as there were two steamers TO
sail for Panama and Honolulu on the
same day, Mr.. Smith decided his route
in the characteristic manner of flip
ping heads and tails" with a half-doi-
lar piece, and came to Honolulu.
He established the toboggan railway
here which was, in its day, one OF the
popular sports of the town. He then
engaged In the electric lighting bust
ness and finally became connected, or
rather established, the Manufacturers
Shoe Co., with which he was connect
ed until October year ago, when he
disposed of his interest to the present
owners. Mr.. Smith leaves will ana
an estate valued at about $4,000.
The funeral took place from the Ma
sonic Temple in San Francisco under
the auspices of Fidelity Lodge No. 100,
+. & A. NJ. Several Honolulu people in
San Francisco were present,
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-01-05
Hoods
inVorite DvIIr
Cathgftic - IIIo

u isaay Co purge, bot that IL not That
is wanted. 4 mild bat sure and undis.
iufbing oathartic will Pet Nature to 60.
Ing, and relieve the head, the stomach.
The liver and sll the organs Of the body
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-01-05


| time is not known, but of the contents
| of two-ounce bottle only few drops
remained. If the bottle contained
bromidia the drug may have had some
| thing to do with the mans sudden
death. DR.. Middleton and Coroner Hill
both agreed that heart trouble was the
| evident cause of death and that the
bromidia had an injurious effect on the
mans disordered heart. Bromidia con-
| tains considerable proportion of bro
mide of potassium. Smith was taking
the drug, it is stated, for relief from
nervousness. To determine beyond
question the cause of death an autopsy
will be held today and Coroner Hill
will also subject the bromidia to chem
zeal analysis.
The deceased was native of North
| Carolina and died at the age of 81
years. He was a resident of the Ha-
| waiian Islands for seventeen years
having been engaged in the shoe bus
mess in Honolulu the greater portion
of the time. Three years ago he re
tired from business and began specu-
lating in sugar stocks. He quickly
amassed a fortune and is said by some
of his Honolulu acquaintance to have
been worth million dollars. For
some time past he had been travelling
with his 1S-year-old daughter, who is
| his only child His wife died many
years ago. Accompanied by his daugh
| ter he arrived here from the East on
| Thursday last and they had planned
to leave for the Islands on an early
steamer. 1t is not known as yet what
disposition will be made of the re
mains.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-01-05
CURE

from the many and dangerous evils OF o
clogged corporal drainage.
Hoods pills CURE Liver MS, sick head
ache, biliousness, constipation, without
purging, without pain, without violence.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-01-05

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Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-01-19
A standard Among Newspapers.

Rejecting in its widening circula-
tion and increased advertising patron
age the prosperity that marks the
opening of the new year The Pitts
burg Times more than ever impTesses
upon its readers the excellence of its
high standard and the success of its
efforts to make model paper for the
individual and for the family The
Times is newspaper, sparing no
pains nor expense to cover the world
thoroughly every day, that its current
page Of history may be complete, and
in its longer range overlooking moth.
ing that occurs at home. It is clean,
dignifed and reliable, certain that no
lack of these features can be made up
in offensive sensationalism. 1t can
be taken into the family circle With
confidence that its columns are filed
with wholesome instruction and en-
tertainment. Wherever known The
Times is recognized as the best type
of concise, crisp and complete news
paper, and among newspaper men it
is disqualification with which COM
PARSONS of excellence are made.
While The Times is Republican in
politics It realizes that Others have
a right to be on earth, and that poll
tics are not everything. When one
cent day will buy morning paper
it is foolish TO be without one. The
Times is three dollars year or six
cents week, and worth the money.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-01-19
DYING, He KEPT DIARY.
Body of Entombed Miner Found-Left
Message to Wife, Written
on Sheet Iron.

PoTTsyILLE, Pa, Jan. 1.-the body
Of William Galloway, fire boss at the
kaska William mine, of the Dodsen
Coal company, who was entombed on
Dec. Is. was recovered. Efforts to res.
cue him bad failed While he lived
Galloway kept diary on sheetiron
with piece of chalk and subsisted on
the oil in the lamp until it was ex-
hausted.
Galloway wrote on plank on the
side of the chute in which the fail oc-
CURED the following words: II am III
the schultz No. 111a. (Signed) William
Galloway
This was clue to his whereabouts,
and the rescuers worked more diligently
than ever, and before the body was
found these words were discovered
written on sheet iron on brattice door.
They were addressed to his wife:
81 think / am gone. Good bye.
jamie. Be good boys. Guy and Willie.
| don't think you will see your father
any more. l think this is Wednesday, "
The figures Z, 2, 5, follow. What
they have reference to none can con.
lecture 1t is believed ne li7 ed but
three days. His body lay PROSTATE in
the chute.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-01-19
FIVE Austraiiaw Killed In Battle.

RENsBURe, Cal Colony. Wednesday,
Jan. IA patrol, composed of Is men
of the New South Wales Lancers and
Southa Australians, was ambushed yes
terday by the Beers and overwhelmed
after severe fight. Two of the de-
tachment escaped and have arrived in
camp. This morning patrol visited
the scene of the fight and found five
dead Australians and one wounded. A
number OF dead Boer horses also were
found, showing that the Australians
made gallant fight before surrender
ing. Later, six more OF the Austria
hans returned The rest of them were
Cantnred.