The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-06-04

their countrymen at the Coast. the dan
ger will not be great. But quarantine
must from necessity be enforced ac-
cording to federal laws of the United
States, and merchants who depend nm
on getting goods promptly from the
Coast will be disappointed. Until the
disease is stamped out a twenty-one-
day quarantine will be the rule. In the
meantime Hilo merchants can return to
their first love, Honolulu.-Herald
Wanted-A Postm aster
kawaihae nees another postmaster
badly. The Kinau takes out comics of
Herald and Tribune for Subscribers at
that end of the Island, and thew are
supposed to be forwarded by the post
master a. kawaihae by first mail after
arrival there. gentleman iust re-
turning says he was in Kawaihae and
saw the newspapers taken from the
Dag Drought over ON the Kinau. that
ne went to Walmea with the mail car
rler ana saw the bag opened, but the
Dundles OF Heraids and Tribunes were
not there. Reaching Honokaa. he
found newspapers from Hilo one week
OLD. Evidently there is something rot
Ten IN denmark or Kawaihae. Two
weeks ago an order for printing was
mailed at Honokaa. addressed to the
Herald, but up to the hour of going to
press the letter has not been received
Under the laws of the United States
matters will run differently or people
VIII have to go back to pioneer WAYS
and send mail by private messenger.
Herald
Memorial Day.
lhere was almost a general cessation
OF business in Hilo yesterday in the OBJ
serVance OF Memorial Day. There are
not many veterans in Hilo, but the few
tnere are marched in the procession in
nonor or the memory of those who
served during the Civil War in America
and who afterwards found graves in
Hilo.
The line, consisting of a platoon of
police as escort, Hilo Band, Cadets from
the Boarding School, Veterans and Sons
of Veterans, Flower Girls, knights of
Pythias, Foresters, i eachers and Pupils
OF the Union, st. Mary's and other
scnoois, formed at Waianuenue and
bridge streets about p. m. and march
ed as far as ST. Mary's School. then
oNiicOi oIiC SI " Tie cemetery.
The rain, however, seriously interfered
with the services there. A. Richley
was marshal of the day and Rev. r. X.
Baptiste the orator Rev. j. A. Cruzan
was the chaplain.
The school children took deeper in
terest in the day than ever before. and
they are largely responsible for much
OF the floral decoration.-Herald.
Death of T. j. Higgins.
Thomas J. Higgins. retired coffee
planter and capitalist, died at the resi-
dence of j. w Mason at 2:45 yesterday
morning of disease of the stomach. He
had been sufferer for about a year but
the disease did not assume a serious
form until few weeks ago. He was
conscious at the time of his death.
which had been expected for the past
ten days. Deceased was born at East
Brewster, Mass, July 5, 1888. He came
TO the Islands five years ago and en-
gagged in coffee planting. disposing of
his interests when the Olaa Sugar Co.
wanted the lands. Before coming 10
the Islands he was a capitalist in Chi
cago and Kansas City. He had large
interests in Chicago, Kansas City and
throughout the State of Kansas at the
time of his death. He was also ore of
the heaviest stockholders in the Hilo
Mercantile Co. Besides his widow and