The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1900-08-25
|NI q court DEPUTY
tiEM THOMPSON.
"A Prospective Luau
and the Reasons
For It.
ElnE GETS TWENTY YEARS N Pen.
A DECREE By JUDGE HUN
PH1EYs AoAINsT TRAN
WAYS COMPANY.
The Big Estate Left by Robert
Halstsad, Who Died Insessate-
Haywood Arraignsd-His
Plea Reserved.

James A. Thompson. famiiiarly
known as Jimmy Thompson, couri
deputy clerk, was nearly as happy a
man at the court house yesterday as
Attorney George A. Davis when Eu-
gene Avery was exonerated from the
charge of embezzIement by Judge Sill
liman.
Thompson is not only genial but ef-
ficient- He labored assiduously az
master in thes Joseph Lazarus estate
case. His report was a compendium Of
research and good English.
Yesterday Judge Humphreys, as tcld
in another column, rendered an oral
decision il the Lazarus case, awarding
Jimmy 500 for mis- work. And this is
why Jimmy was happy Now, Jimmy
believes in sharing his happiness With
Others. This is right; this is proper
Jimmy has invited a number of his
friends to g big luau in which the fat
lON ci6 Will ZIG hlIiCQ. cECdSSu III
leaves and roasted to beautiful and
most appetizing brown.
In Judge Silliman's court yesterday
morning Kane, the man who so brulal-
ly assaulted and then robbed Tong
sing on the 1st of July last and who
was convicted of robbery in the first
degree by jury on Thursday, was SEN
tence.l to twenty years at hard labor.
Kane received the sentence stoically.
The story of the assault and robbery
was told in yesterdays Republican.
Yesterday Judge Humphreys signed
a decree in the case of j. A McCand-
less, superintendent of public works,
VS.. the Hawaiian Tramways Company.
Ltd, enjoining the defendant from Law
ing tracks or new switches, not only on
King street, but also Beretania. The
decree is as follows:
1t is therefore ordered that the re-
spondent, the Hawaiian Tramways
Limited, corporation, be
and it, its agents. servants and er,
ployers, are enjoined and restrained
from laying on constructing tracks,
switches Tor loops thereof on King
street, in Honolulu, Territory of Ha-
wall, and from laying, constructing o.
using any tracks or switches upon
King or Beretania streets, except its
main tracks now constructed and in
use and the switches upon the same
now connected and in USE and from
using or in any way pre-
ceeding further with the switch or
loop on King street described in the
bill of complaint herein; until the fur
tier order of said judge or the court"
Deputy Attorney General Cathcart
and Frederick w. Hankey conducted
the case for the government. Paul
Neumann was the principal counsel for
the defendant.
Sarah Ellen Halstead has petitioned
that George r. Carter be appointed adj
of the estate of her late
husband. Robert Halstead, who died
intestate on June IA, 1900. The estate
is valued at $213,s20 and consists as
Real estate ranch at Aqua
Caliente, California, $4,000; personal
property in notes, bonds, stocks and
cash. $1S3.S20. The heirs at law are
Mrs. Halstead, the widow, Mrs. Lack
land. Mrs. Reid and Miss Halstead.
and Edgar, Frank and R.
Norman Halstead, sons.
w. L. Howard has been appointed
temporary administrator of the estate
of August Kraft, his bond being s45,-
600.
Frank E. Thompson has been ap-
pointed master and referee in the es-
tate of Joseph Comes.
]. P. Haywood. former proprietor Of
the Waikiki Inn, was arraigned in
Judge Humphreys court yesterday on
the charge of Illicit liquor selling while
of that resort. His plea was
until Monday next