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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-11-20

Kruger is expected to arrive at Mar
settles on Wednesday, and preparations
are making to give him an enthusiastic
reception. This Will be but one OF many
oyations that Will be rendered him In
France, for apparently all over the coun-
try the people are preparing to show him
honor. At the bottom OF these receptions
will be not SO much love and admiration
OF Kruger as hatred OF England. and a
desire to manifest 1t In way that can
not be mistaken. OF course the officials
will keep aloof for fear of international
complications, but the demonstrations
will be no less significant on that 40
count. The exposition is over and there
Is no longer the fear or hurting the show
to restrain the people from giving vent
to their feelings.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-11-20
SUDDEN DEATH IN LIpCHFIELD

SUDDEN DEATH IN LITCHFIELD.
Gardiner. November 1s.-Jesse L. True
of LitchtieId was found dead In his bed
this morning. He was born in Litchfieid
January 81. 1882. He Is survived by a
widow. one daughter and two SONS He
was prosperous farmer and respected
cifiZan.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-11-20


Two OF Secretary Longs daughters
voted in Colorado, having been there
long enough to gain q residence. and one
OF them assisted with her carriage In
bringing Republican voters to the polls
Secretary Long himself, was present at
the election and watched the women
vote. This Is what he said about IL TO q
torresr ondent of the Boston Journal:
Prior TO the election there was no un-
due excitement; the great mass OF
women, like the great mass of men, were
about their ordinary business. There
were some women, rs there were grea {
many men, who were talking politics and
acting on committees for securing the
registration of voters. On election day
i was at the polls at one OF the wards
where there were more than a thousand
votes registered, and where 80 actually
voted. Nothing could be more orderly
or better conducted Men and women
lined up In the usual fashion, taking
their turn at the ballot-b box. and after de-
posting their votes went about their
business. A few women and a few men
perhaps more than women--were active
In bringing voters to the polls. But
there was nothing to jar the most sensi-
tive spectator On the contrary, IL was
the exercise In q becoming way and in a
fine spirit of the interest which every
citizen, man or woman, ought TO feel in
such an important event as q presidential
election. The tendency Ia to elevate and
broaden and not to degrade or Impair.
Secretary Long is In sympathy with the
woman suffrage movement, but II hs hal
detected anything degrading in the exhi.
bition which he witnessed at Denver he
is too honest to have concealed 1t. The
seoretary's observations seem to show
oonclusively that the presence Of women
at the polls Is not offensive to q nice sense
OF propriesy. Whether the doubling of
the electorate, by adding women, really
tends TO accomplish anything in the
direction OF good government is another
and entirely distinct question. Perhaps
In the course of a few years the expsrt-
ence of Colorado. If woInan's Suffrage is
kept up there, may throw some oonvino-
ing light on this question, which is
the crucial one, If we regard
suffrage as only means to an end, the
end being good government-to be re-
stricted or extended according as that
end will be better promoted, and not a
natural and inherent right
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-11-20

with them and sometimes they have been
used 70 make the water more palstable
A crusade against Knockout drops con'd
Dc profltahly added 70 the Prohibition
repertoire In Androscoegin county. There
are people. however, who think n dis-
eassd imagination may be responsible for
These knockout drop tales. Perhaps q
vigorous and critical cross examination
viii do much 20 clear mp the mystery In
which the whole matter seems 20 be
wrapped at present
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-11-20
STATE OF MAINE.
thanksgiving Proclamation by
the Governor.

As we approach the end OF the year and
the sunset hour OF this 18th century, the
people OF Maine should ba devoutly and
truly thankful TO Almighty God for the
blessings and progress which this year
and the century have brought TO them
and to the state; for the spirit Of patriot
ism, love of country and unfiinchipg de.
votion to duty which have pervaded both
our state and nation, and for the bright
sun OF hope, prosperity and confiden oe
In the future, already Illuminating the
threshold of the coming year. We have
had abundant harvests. The Interests OF
education have been promoted. Law, or
der, individual liberty and personal Sc
ourity rule ami bless every part OF our
commonwealth, Never In Its history
were the skies brighter or the people more
prosperous and happy. ''The hand OF God
recognition that "This also cometh down
from the Lord OF Hosts, wonderful In
counsel and exoeilent IN working" and
following and conforming to a time-hon :
ored custom of our forefathers, l LEV.
ellyn Powers, Governor OF the State of
Maine, with the advice and consent oil
ths Executive Council, do hereby desig-
nate
Thurs day, the 29fh Day of NO
vember, A. ID. 1900.
as a day OF Gensral Thanksgiving, to be
observed by all good citizens In manner
betitting a Christian and God-Tearing
State. Let no one fail to remember on
that day, with charity and benevolence
the poor and unfortunate.
Given at the Executive Chamber at Au-
gusta, this thirtieth day OF October,
In the year Of our Lord one thousand
nine hundred, anu the Independence
of the United States of America the
one hundred and twenty fifth.
LLEWELLYN Pc WERS.
BY the Governor:
Byron Boyd,
Secretary of State.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-11-20

Robert Wilcox who has just been elected
delegate to Congress from Hawaii. Is 9
royalist, and has been identified with
several uprisings on the islands in behalf
OF the natives against the whites. This
last enterprise Of this kind he was en-
gagged in was In 1926, when an attempt
was made to restore Queen Liiioukslani
to the throne. For his part in that affair
he was sentenced TO imprisonment. but
after confinement for year President
Dole pardonsd him. At the time Hawaii
was annexed 1t was said the sentiment Of
the people was overwhelmingly in favor
OF becoming part OF the United States,
but the election to an important ofiics
at the very first opportunity OF . man
who has been Identified with the royalist
party, and no longer than four years ago
led q movement Co restore the Queen.
does not seem to point In that direction.
II out OF this affair does not spring mp q
movement 20 further restrict the exercise
OF suffrage by the Kanakas, we shall DO
very much surprised. 1t was not TO give
prominence to shat race that the annexa-
tion movement was started and carried
through, and Ii it had been suspected
that that would be the result OF 10 there
would have been very much less enthusi-
asm among the whites on the Island.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-11-20

If the stories that are being told up in
Lewiston about the drugging OF girls
with knockout drops are all true, the
spindle city must be much wickeder In
proportion to the population than New
York, Apparently knockout drops have
been regular feature OF the refreshments
served at the Sabattus dances. Some
times the ios cream has been favored
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-11-20

One wonders what would have hap
pened had jealous woman not exposed
the Kentucky bank teller. de had car
ried of the capital OF the bank several
times over, and still nobody had any sus-
pioions Would he have carried oil the
directors aIso9
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-11-20

Puoks cartoon, which represents q
meeting of a Chinese missionary society
at which oollection is being taken up
to ohristianizs the burners Of negroes and
murdsrers of Cinnamon in America is
not lacking In point.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-11-20
Thurs day, the 29fh Day of No
ven,her. A. ID. 1900.
secretary of State.

Croker has shaken the dust of New
York off his feet and sailed for Carlsbad.
Perhaps the boss thought that If real
crusade against vice was about to begin
1t was just as we'll for him TO be out Of
range.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-11-20
FINANCIAL
FINANCIAL.
We Own and Offer
SUBJECT TO SALE


SUBJECT TO SALE
City of Portland As, due 1e02-f9i2.
Town of Cape Elizabeth As, due 1901.
Town of Yarmouth LES, duo 1909.
Town of Gorham As, due 1901.
County of Lawrence (ohio) SIS, due 1912
City of Portsmouth (ohio) SIS, due 1923.
City of GAINESVILLE (ohio) as, due 1915.
City of Urbana (0hio) 1-2's. due 1906.
City of Saltwater (Minn-) SIS. due 4921.
County of Daviess (Ind.) 6's, due 1908.
Maine Central r. r. As, due 1912.
Maine Central R. R. rs, due 1912.
Portland Railroad Co. First Mortgage
1-2's, due 1913.
Portland & Cape Elizabeth Railway Co.
First Mortgage SIS. due 1915.
Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo Ry. First
Mortgage As. due 1916.
Cleveland City Ry. First Mortgage SIS,
due 1909
Duluth Street Ry. First Mortgage SIS,
due 1880.
Denver City Tramway Co. First Mort
gage SIS, due 1919.
Omaha Street Ry. First Mortgage 5's,
due 1914
Grand Rapids Ry. Co. First Mortgage
SIS, due 1916.
Medfield & Midway (AIass.) Street Ry.
First Mortgage 5's, due 1920.
Portland Water Co. Gold As, due 1877.
Calais Water Co. First Mortgage SIS. due
1905.
st. Croix E. L. &>W. Co. First Mortgage
SIS, due 1906.
birmingham (Mass.) Water Co. First
Mortgage l-2's, due 1925.
Fond du Lac (Wis.) Water Co. First
Mortgage SIS, due 1915.
Erie Telegraph &c Telephone Co. Cola
teral Trust SIS, due 1926.
Niagara Falls Power Co. First Mortgage
SIS, due 1882.
Particulars upon application; cores
pondence solicited.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-09-27
CONVENTION DATE SET
DEMOCRATS TO GATHER HERE ON
OCTOBER 8.
Delegates From All the Islands Will be
Expected-Pua Matter Deferred-New
Headquarters.

At a meeting held last evening the
Democratic central committee decided
to hold the Territorial convention on
the evening of October 8, which will be
week from next Monday. The Or
pheum theater wass selected as the
meeting place. In case, however, the
island members arrive Sunday with the
expectstion of meeting next Monday a
change may again be made.
The matter of the resignation of S. X.
Pua from the House ticket was discuss
ed at length, but action was deferred
for the present. Assurances were recei-
we'd that Pua would stick on a double
nomination, but 1t was decided to wait
for reports of his doings on the big
David. 1t was stated that Pua was
committed to the Independents some
time before being offered and accepting
the Democratic nomination.
Platform was discussed and members
were requested to get to work on one.
National Committeeman Cornwell re-
ported partial arrangements for a
Democratic ticket to be distributed
prior to the election. Mr.. Cornwell
stated that he planned to go to Maui
next week to take the stump for the
party. He will remain there until
Prince David and party arrive; from
Hawaii.
The matter of placing c. w. Booth on
the ticket in place of T. r. Lucas was
explained to the satisfaction of Mr..
Colburn, who attacked Mr. Booth in
convention Monday evening. 1t seems
that Lucas told Chairman Mccarthy
that he did not wish the nomination.
Mr.. Colburn stated that he was sorry
this fact was not made known to him,
and that he regretted the attack upon
Mr.. Booth, having made it in the belief
that Mr.. Lucas was the man decided
upon for the ticket.
The matter of headquarters nearer
the town center was discussed. Rooms
will be fitted up and provided with a
secretary, to be on duty all the time.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-09-27
SUITS AGAINST CLAUD|NE
DAMAGES WANTED FOR CARGO
AND Personal EFFECTS.
Both Bills ask for Attachments on ina
Steamer-Claims Aggregate $1,000
Naturalizations.

j. S. Low, representing George u.
Hind of Hind, Rolph & Company, has
filed libel in the United States district
court against the Claudine, her tackle,
etc, for the recovery of the value of the
cargo of the American bark William
Carson, which was ruin into and wreck
ed by the steamer last Spring. The
claim is for a little over $1,000.
Up to noon no action had been taken
by the court. The Claudine is not now
in port but will be back Sunday morn
ing. Unless the Wilder Steamship COM
pany puts up bonds the vessel will pro-
badly be attached and held by the Uni
ted States marshal, pending the result
of the suit
The case against the Claudine for the
value of the William Carson was ar
gued in Supreme court this week and
submitted. This came up prior to an
nexation day. AS the district court now
has exclusive jurisdiction in maritime
matters this second action was brought
in that tribunal. 1t is probable that
the case will not be heard until term
time in October
A third suit against the Claudine was
also filed by Captain John Piltz, of the
William Carson for the value of private
effects lost in the wreck. He wants
$2474.30. Plaintiff also asks for an at
tachment of the steamer which he says
is worth about $125,OO0
Alfred e. Cooley, of Canada, and
John j. Mcguire (Jock), of Ireland,
were naturalized by Judge Estee this
morning. Both are railroad men.
Tomorrow morning Judge Estee will
hear argument of counsel in the Dun
reagan case.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-09-27
COL. CoMBA is ALL RIGHT.
Police Declare His Troops are Very
Orderly.

The police speak in the highest terms
of the manner in which Colonel Comba
of the Fifth Infantry has handled the
men under his command on the big
transport, during the stay of the Thom-
as in Honolulu. Absolutely no trouble
has been experienced at the hands of
the soldiers by the police and the Wis
itors have without exception, conduct
ed themselves in an orderly manner
which reflects the highest credit not
only upon themselves but upon their
officers.
The morning after the transport ar
rived here Colonel Comba issued orders
that only a limited number of men
would be allowed on shore at time
and none without permission. All OF
them were required to be back on the
ship by shutdown and no one, not ever
the officers were to be allowed to go
ashore after that time without a writ
ten permit.
Every night a provost guard Is sent
out to round up the men and by the
time that the saloons have closed every
straggler is back on the ship. The re-
suit is that the police have not been
bothered with struggles to arrest
drunken and rowdylsh soldiers. The
men of the Fifth and Eighth Regi-
ments and the other detachments on
the Thomas will leave a most favorable
impression in Honolulu for WITHOUT ex-
ception they have conducted themselves
with more decency than any other body
of soldiers which has visited this port
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-09-27
SUCCESSFUL IN ENGLAND
INTERESTING WIRELESS TELE-
GRAPHY TESTS.
Mountains Did not Effect
Messages Sent From Portsmouth to
Portland-Claims of Marconi's Agent.

The San Francisco Call of September
16 has the following editorial references
to recent experiments with wireless
telegraphy, which has been found so
difficult to operate in Hawaii:
One more test has been made by the
British Admiralty of the Marconi sys-
tenn of wireless telegraphy, and again
the test has resulted in demonstrating
the success and practical utility of the
invention. The trial was made between
Portsmouth and Portland, distance Of
sixty-five miles, and the test was the
more severe because between those
points there intervenes st. Albans Pro-
montory, rising high above the levels
at which the messages were transmitted
and received.
So thoroughly satisfied were the Brit
ish officers with the results that they
at once ordered the installation of the
system on thirty-two warships, and it
is said will also have the system INSTALL
ed at all the land stations of the king
dom. That, of course, is but a begin
ming, for eventually every warship in
the navy and every important station
in the empire will be provided with the
new means of telegraphy.
1t is to be noted that Marconi's agents
offered to prove the system capable of
overcoming an even severer test. They
claim to be able to transmit messages
over distance of eighty-six
miles, no matter how many mountains
or cities intervene. In fact, one of
them in an interview with a correspon-
dent of the London Chronicle said:
"Three years ago the greatest feat was
nine miles, but now we hope to double
eighty-miles in a very short time. 1t Is
obviously a great advantage for ships
/ to be able to communicate with one
another eighty-six miles apart, but 1t
must be of still greater use to extend
! the distance to $50 miles. The limit of
possibility in this direction is as un-
known as discoveries in any other
| branch of electrical science"
The expectation of an early achieve
ment of telegraphy without wires over
| distance of $50 miles may seem over
sanguine, but it must be borne in mind
| that what has been done within the last
three years affords a solid ground for
entertaining such a hope. 1t is an old
saying that nothing is invented and
perfected at the same time. When the
work and the study of many minds
have brought something like perfection
to Marconi's invention 1t may prove sc
efficacious as to enable us to do away
with wires for telegraphic nurposes al
together.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-09-27
SOME RECORDS THAT GO BACK TC
THE DIM PAST.
Prof Lyons First Drew Government
Pay a Half Century Ago-Prof Alex
anders Long Tenure.

The suggestion that Land Agent
Brown held the record for length of
government service, has brought out a
number of cumulative records for exhi-
bition. Friends of j. A. Hassinger
point out that in addition to his twenty
FIVE years continuous service in the In
terror department, he is to be credited
with eleven years previous service in
the customs service, making total of
thirty-six years of government em-
ployment.
But Prof. Alexander can point to a
longer record in one position than either
of these. He was appointed Surveyor
General in 1870, and has been Surveyor
ever since until the title was changed
by the territorial act.
But looming up higher than even
Prof. Alexander's record is that of Prof.
Curtis ]. Lyons, the Territorial Meteor
ologist. Compared to him not in con-
tinoUs service, but in antecedent date
of service, Prof Alexander and ]. F.
Brown are but striplings. November
%, 1850, fifty years ago tomorrow, lack
ing two monthes, he began employment
under the government. He was em-
ployed to make surveys of kuleanas,
and between that date and the end of
1853 he made several hundred such sur
veys, the records of which are still pre-
served in the survey generals office,
though they were not made under the
direction of the surveyor general but
as the Independent work of Prof Lyons
This was before the office of surveyor
general has been created, or any general
land surveys attempted. At that time
Kamehameha III was the reigning king
Judge Lee was Land Commissioner and
DR.. Judd was prominent in the govern
ment. The Great Division" of the
kingdom had then just been made. In
1868 Prof. Lyons was a member of the
legislature and secured the increase of
the appropriation for land surveys from
$4,000 to $4,000. This appropriation was
not used for that purpose, however, but
in 1870, DR.. Hutchison, then Minister of
the Interior, adopted the idea Prof
Lyons had when he secured an increase
in the appropriation for surveys and
secured the creation of the survey de-
partment and the beginning of the gem
eral land surveys of the islands. Prof.
Alexander was made surveyor general,
and Prof Lyons was the second in the
department 1t was Prof Alexander
who employed ]. F. Brown, then boy,
at $50 month. But prior to this, Prof.
Lyons, in 1869 was employed by the gov
eminent in translatng Thompson's s
higher arithmetic into Hawaiian for
the use of pupils in the government
schools. Prof. Lyons claims a record of
th1rty-three years service under the
government
At the time of his death only two or
three years ago, r. w. Meyer, agent of
the Board of Health at the Molokai set
tlement was undoubtedly the employe
of the government in longest continuous
SerVica
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-09-27
THE PINE CREEK STAMP.
More Cases in Which 1t Did Local
Service.


The police are collecting some more of
the Pine Creek Library stamps on Ii
censes. Mokuula, the alleged user or
the library stamp, was not ready for
trial this morning, but the police were
ready for him, with several licenses on
which the library stamp had been made.
On some of them 1t was made first in
red ink and then in black ink, as If to
impress the innocent holder of the pa
per with a full sense of the importance
of the stamp.
Makuula's bluff with the stamp is
said to have worked very well in a
number of places. In one case an old
expired license, carefully stamped with
the rubber from Pine Creek was sold to
Japanese. Chinese witnesses, 1t is
stated will testify that the defendant
told them he could give them license
to sell opium. All that was needed was
the legend that adorns public books at
Pine Creek. One Chinese was given
very explicit instructions to the hours
during which he could dispose of opium
under the Pine Creek authority, and
another was offered a license to sell
soda water, for which in fact no license
is needed.
Another charge, of embezzlement, has
been brought against Mokuula. His
trial is set for tomorrow.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-09-27
WAIALUA LANDS AGAIN.
Another Suit Filed for Possession of
Sixty Acres.

More of the Waialua lands today be-
came involved in a suit. This morning
a bill was returned to court in which
Annie A. Holt, guardian of the James
Holt minors, sues for possession of six
ty acres of land now incorporated in
the Waialua sugar estate. Andrew Cox
is named as codefendant. The suit is
in ejectment.
In the matter of John Lot Kalani,
petition to sell real estate, Judge Hum
phreys this morning ruled that the real
estate could not be sold but that five
shares of Kahuku plantation might be
sold to pay the indebtedness of the es-
tate. If this was not sufficient the
court would consider a proposal for a
second mortgage, five years at not over
eight per cent interest.
George Rodeik has filed his accounts
as administrator of the estate of the
late Wo Hong, of Hawaii, charging
$16,661.4S and crediting the same sum.
Mr.. Rodeik also filed his accounts in
the estate of the late On Kee, charging
$1166.90 and crediting the same.
John Ena has filed a petition to sell
the interest of Carl Hoting to certain
property in Honolulu. The property is
valued at $4,000 and the ward is heir
to one-third of 1t.
]. L. Mclean has filed his annual ac-
count as administrator of the estate
of the late Robert Grieve, charging $4,-
OO677 and crediting $304.53.
Rita G. Tewksbury has appealed from
the decision of Justice Perry, commit
ting her to the insane asylum.