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The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-05-15

Is there any particular reason why
capitalists here should not buy or build
an American steamship, or two or three
of them, and establish ferry to the
Coast? Why not connect with San
Diego and Los Angeles and exchange
traffic with the Santa Fe? Or why not
enter San Francisco? There is going to
be no end of business.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-05-15

Nobody doubts the personal integrity
of most of the men who are about to or
ganize the Democratic party here, but
the collective wisdom Of people who
think free trade, deprecated money
and anti-corporation policy good for
Hawaii is certainly open to debate.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-05-15

Progress has its penalties, and all will
regret that DR., McGrew's historic
homestead is to disappear to make
room for modern business or hotel
structure. One would prefer to have
them both, For many long years DR.,
McGrew's place was the center of Ho-
nolulus most generous and cordial hos
pitallty, and its obliteration will re-
move cherished landmark.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-05-15

Col. Curtis Iaukea is too persuasive
native Republican to be permitted to
waste his time in a hotel. Colonel Iau
kea's place, just now, is among the act
i've field organizers of Hawaiian Re
publican party No man has more in
fluence on the stump among the natives,
nor uses it more wisely and unselfishly
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-05-15

The Democracy is beginning to assert
the idea OF white mans government.
1t is even proposed to rescind the Fiji
teenth Amendment Should the plot
succeed, the Democracy would next
turn its attention to other dark
races that enjoy the American suffrage.
The only electoral safety for such vot-
ers is in continued Republican suprem-
acy.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-05-15

The Hilo Tribune's inside advices
from Washington about the Governor
ship were so far inside that they never
had chance to peep out and see what
was going on.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-18

can be irradiated and its weakness stored with
higher p~otencies he hesitates. ne denies. The
miracles OF sunlight 10 one 50 competent TO de-
hne and trace them ought 20 make belief In the
miracles Of moral illumination comparatively
easy. Johns glowing narrative gives us
a dissolving view. fascinating ans impressive
The pitiful mendicant fades away. and in his
stead appears a glorious confessor. witty. dsunt-
less. meet to be enrolled in the noble army OF
the faithful. II we but knew his name .
Converts shouldn't be coddied. The healed man
was left 10 his own resources. left 10 fight II out
with the august assembly. 10 suffer extreme
ecclesiastical penalty, all with no word OF cum
fort. Thus he endured hardness. And Il was
scod for him. 49, Excommunication put the
mark OF moral leprosy on the Jew. II he died
there was no mourning for him. IL he lived. no
one could come nearer 10 him than four cub.ts.
His social and religious privations were OF direst
scrt. But all this was as dust OF balance COM
pared with denying the reality OF his cure. or the
worth Of the prophet who had effected IT, Con-
yerts OF to-day may well initiate such an en-
ample. . The glad acceptance OF Jesus by
the beggar. his stubborn rejection by the chiefs
of the nation. has its modern analogue. Jesus In
set for the fall or rising OF many. he is still .
savior Of life unto life. or death unto death
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-18
DEAD IN HIS ROOM.
Frank c. Reeves Passes Away at the
White Ribbon House.

Frank c.. Reeves, aged about ffty-one
years. was found dead this morning about
1 O'Clock in his room at the White Ribbon
Hotel. corner of Meridian and Ohio streets.
The night clerk at the hotel, William l..
Johnson, says Reeves had been ailing for
some days, presumably from the effects of
the recent hot weather. He was employed
as b~ookkeeper by the III. c. futile real-es-
tate firm on East Market street. but had
not worked since last Saturday. when he
was taken to the hotel in the City Hospital
ambulance suffering from some malady.
the nature of which at the time was
not known. At that time he was picked UP
on the street in an unconscious condition
and dating from that time he had been
suffering more or less from periods of
dementia.
Last night at $50 o'clock he walked
around the porch of the hotel talking to
other guests and soon afterward retired for
the night. When the night clerk took some
ice water TO his room at midnight, he
called to Reeves and getting no response.
Johnson called another guest and the two
entered Reeyes's room and found the body
cold. DR.. Pink was Immediately called and
Ii is the doctors opinion that Reeves had
been dead for several hours.
Reeves has several relatives living in
this city, a father, sister and two cousins.
Coroner Nash was called and will view the
remains this morning.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-18
SAFETY BOARD MEETS
THE RESIGNATION OF FIREMAN
JOHN w. TANNING ACCEPTED.
A PatroIman Put on the Retired List
Trouble with Boat Owners
City Affairs.

The Board of Safety met yesterday and
accepted the resignation of John w.
Tanning. of the fire department. Capt. Z.
r. Leach. of engine company No. 2, flied
charges against Tanning on Aug. 4, charg-
ing him with being intoxicated and unfit
for duty. These charges were sent to
Chief Barrett, who placed Tanning under
suspension pending an investigation. Fan
ming sent his resignation TO the board, and
moved from the department before on SIM
liar charges. Henry d. Braughton was ap-
pointed TO the vacancy.
The board placed George Rankins, a pa
trolman, on the retired list, and he will
draw half pay from the police pension fund.
Rankins is suffering with Bright's dis
ease.
The board discharged Patrolman Carter
Temple because he appropriated a bicycle
bell for his own use that he had found on
a stolen bicycle the night of Aug. II at the
corner of College avenue and Sixteenth
street.
George w. Holderman, superintendent OF
the fire-alarm telegraph system, asked the
board for a light emergency wagon. Bids
will be advertised for one. The board de-
cided to insure five fire horses. The re.
quest of Herman Newman to organize a
salvage corps in the city was taken unde
consideration.
Members of the board say they will moi
send the estimate of expenses for next
year to the city controller and mayor until
they hear from the fire and police depart
mentS.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-18

Topic for Aug. 10s The Woes OF the
Drunkard-Prov. xiii. 1885.

The saddest thing about to-day's sad lesson 10
that staggering. olear-eyed, red-nosed commen-
taries upon IL are so common that no one need
60 far from his Bible to find a living illustration.
Within the last few months and days 1 have
been trying 10 help such a poor fellow. and
though TO describe his woes is simply TO say IN
many words what Solomon has said In q few
burning words. and though every point In the
picture is horribly familiar 20 YOU. stili q 1870
picture is more impressive in some Ways than
one three thousand years old.
1 have known the man only a short time. but
during those brief months I have seen four
things slipping away from him into the fiery
liquid in which he is sleeping his soul I have
seen 1t with startling rapidly and distinctness.
as a man might be burning up before ny eyes.
In the first place. his money has gone That
was the least loss. though every dollar means
life. Money is the concrete embodiment OF toll.
and to waste IL Is a form or suicide. as real as
TO open a vein in your arm and let out your life
blood. Ragged and hungry children. a poor wife
piDched and hollow-eyed with physical want as
well as with spiritual agony unutterable-alas.
that such tragedies have become 50 trite and no
longer move US out OF our slumbers!
In the second place. his skill has gone He
used to be a workman OF ability. i am in a posi-
ton to see his fine touch coarsening day after
day. his mental perceptions growing blunt. the
product of his hands and brain becoming wooden
and worthless as a beer key. Everything deli
cate is being burned out Of him as enectusIy 40
If a red-hot iron scared one by ore the mystic
threads OF nerves.
Third. his self-respect has gone. He Is no
longer ashamed Of staggering into the presence
OF pure-hearted young men and women. or OF
asking in idiotic stzmmering for a little money.
Things of which the very thought. a few years
ago. would have seemed fmpossible Tor him. are
not only easy for him now 10 do. but he cannot
realize that he is not still a gentleman
Last Of my observations from the life. his viii
is gone. The most solemn promises. the most
frantic, tesr-sealed pledges, break like bubbles
before a breath of brandy poisoned air. He has
taken a much-vaunted cure" which removes
the appetite. so he says. but within a month he
is drunk again. No medicine was ever COM
| pounded that built up consunnptive determines
ton. You cannot reach the will through the
| stomach. And he cannot walk 20 his work
without passing q dozen open mouths OF hell.
| each asssulting his poor. plant. frenzied Ape
title with Irresistible temptations. God have
! mercy upon the man that IL not lighting the
| saloon with all the power of his influence. hs
| speech. his prayers and his BALLOT
OF course. there is a cure for my friend. and
| orly one, the healing touch Of Christ. II I can
| ever get him to cry out. with all the soul left
| him. Lord Jesus. help,' the miracle win oe
| wrought. And It will be a miracle as real 40
any ever worked upon leprous-eaten body or
dfmonic mind. ANos r.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-18
BOARD OF WORKS ROUTINE.


For a local sewer in the first alley west Of
Alabama street, from Twenty-hfth street
to Fall creek.
For cement walks in Twelfth street,
from Illinois to Capitol: in St. Peter street.
from Prospect TO 1852 feet south: west side
of Laurel street, from Orange TO Cottage;
in Twenty-irst street, from Meridian to
Illinois.
For a gravel roadway and brick walks in
Jupiter street, from Massachusetts to
Rrookside.
For an asphalt roadway. cement walks
end curbing in Union street, from Merrill
To McCarty.
For a wooden block roadway in New York
street, from Noble to the Big -Four.
PETITIONS FILED.
For opening Dorman street, from Ohio to
New York or Vermont, and for cementing
the walks when II is so opened.
For cementing the west walk in Shelby
street, from Pleasant run to Raymond
CIRCUMSTANCES FILED.
Against an asphalt roadway, stone curb
ing and cement walks In Union street, from
Merrill to McCarty.
Against a creosoted wooden block road
way in New York street, from Noble TO the
Big -Four.
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED.
For cement walks in Madison avenue,
from Delaware to Lincoln.
For cement walks in Ludlow avenue, from
Commerce TO Valley.
For cement walks In Hillside avenue,
from Darwin street to Baltimore avenue;
in Hillside avenue from Ludlow to VAL
lev.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-18
Greenwood.

Miss Anna Stout, of Trafalgar, visited
Miss Alice Bass here this week.
Misses Minnie and Fife Polk. Of Frank
lin, visited relatives here this week.
Miss Florence Huff. of Kirklin, visited
Miss Nellie Milburn several days this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. r. Long, OF Chicago,
visited Mr.. and Mrs. o. ID. Atkins this
week.
Miss Cora Graves returned home Tues
day. after an extended visit with relatives
in Kentucky.
and Mrs. Edward Shufiebarger at Frank.
lin this week.
Mrs. s. w. Var Nuys, of Franklin. Wis.,
tied her parents, DR.. and Mrs. j. Nj. Wish.
ard, this week.
Mrs. e. Ketcham and Mrs. Lillian Rob.
! ertson returned to their home in Indianapo.
lis Wednesday. after a two weeks visit
with Mrs. d. s.. Whitenack.
Miss Olive Greasy will return home Sat
| urday, after a three weeks visit with Mrs
Isaac King in Indianapolis.
Mrs. r. M. Whitesides and daughter
| Miss Bessie. will return home Saturday
from a two weeks outing at Winona Lake
Mr.. and Mrs. James Fitzpatrick, OF
| Charlottesville, are visiting Mrs. Fitzpat
| rick's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. w. Wat
son.
ing Mr.. and Mrs. Charles re-
turned to her home in Morgantown OF
| Wednesday.
Miss Mamie whitenack left Tuesday FOL
J a two weeks outing at Lake Wawasee
She will visit relatives in Thorntown be
fore returning home.
Mrs. Hester Roberts and daughter. Mis-!
! Lucille Sweeney of indianapolis, Mrs. II
| Dwiggins of Charlottesville, and Mrs. j
Todd OF Dunkirk are at the Sanatorium.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-18

Miss Luetteta has returned from Pine
lake.
Miss Ella Phillips has gone to Arcola, Ill,
to visit relatives.
Miss Florence Case has returned to her
home in Marion.
Winona and Bass lake.
Miss Virginia Bopp is spending the sum-
mer IN North Sutton, N. II.
Mr. and Mrs. .John s. Duncan are spend
Ing two weeks In Canada.
Or. Edward Porter and wife have gone
to New York for a month
Miss Eta Miller has returned from an
extended visit TO Eastern cities.
Miss Harriet Mccoy has returned from
. two weeks stay in the East.
Miss Nellie Thornton left to-day for
Bedford, Ind. to visit relatives.
Miss Mary Perrott leaves on Monday for
. two weeks stay in Paris. I'll.
Misses Emma and Bessie By1eld will re-
main at Bay View until Sept. i.
Mr.. ]. Archibald Hodge is spending a
week at vincennes with his mother.
Mr.. n Mrs. A. II. Webb have gone to
Georgian bay TO remain until September.
Mr.. and Mrs. s. c.. Newsom are spend
Ing the summer in Boston and Cape Cod.
Mrs. A. r. Ticknor has gone TO Dawson
Springs and Paducah. KY. for an extended
Miss Mary Sullivan will leave Saturday
weeks.
Mr.. Frank Fishback is visiting his
brother Mr.. Charles Fishback at Nan
tucket.
Miss Helen werbe goes on Tuesday to
Columbus, o., 10 visit relatives for a
month.
Mr.. snd Mrs. Herman c. futile and
daughter will return from New York this
evening
Mr.. and Mrs. r. L. Jenkins have gone
A. Sullivan Ind IN visit Nv IapLfpcss
Mrs J. 5. Partridge has returned to the
city after a three months trip through
Colorado.
Mr.. Raymond rweede. Mrs. James Win
ters's guest, will return 20 his home, Bing-
hamton, y. Y. to-day.
Misses Gertrude and Belle Morris. OF
North Delaware street, have gone TO Mar
tinsville for ten days.
Mrs. Emma Bergener and granddaughter.
Jeanette Turner, 60 10 Martinsville Mon
day 10 remain two weeks.
Mrs. Sarah Henderson Virgins In home
from New York and Washington, ID. c.,
and Is stopping at the Delano.
Mrs. Andrew Hagen and granddaughter
are home from Utah. Mr.. Andrew Hagen
will go abroad In the early fall.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry c. sickels and chill
dren are spending the month OF August at
Exeter and Hampton Beach. y. II.
Mr.. Earl q. Doty. OF South Bend. who
has been travelling abroad. Is visiting in
the city to-day on his way home.
Mrs. Mary Barbour Jackson has gone 70
PHILADELPHIA TO join her sister. Miss Sallie
Barbour. She Will remain several weeks.
Miss Flora KokemIlier and Miss Hattie
HOLE viii leave this morning for Lake
Winona. where they Will spend Two weeks.
Miss Marguerite Gearing. OF Denver. Is
the guest of Mrs. Horace L. Ryan. 30 West
81. Joseph street. Miss Gearing. who Is
known through her novel Where Angels
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-18

for the purpose of building a stage road
from Cody into the national park. and
when that road is finished Cody viii at
once become one of the gateways TO the
park, and / think Ii cannot fail to be the
most popular one in the eyes OF tourists
popular with those in search Of health,
since the part Of the park which is now
visited by tourists through the Cinnabar
route is inaccessible on account of snow
until the middle of June and becomes again
impossible about the LIST of September for
the same reason, while the road from Cody
Is clear up TO the month OF November. In
this part of the basin are valleys as beauti-
full as the sun ever shed its rays upon.
RIVALS YOSEMITE.
1.-The pretty Shoshone canyon. in which
are fine ranches, is 1anked on either side
for more than twenty miles by almost per-
p~endicular cliffs that are from 5000 to 1900
feet high. Over these cliffs large streams
come tumbling down into the Shoshone
valley from giddy heights. One of these
streams. called Fall creek. takes some ter
rife leaps in its course TO the valley below.
One of its jumps is $50 feet, after which IL
descends a rocky ledge 500 feet In height.
By the time it reaches the bottom you can
imagine hat the water is about all con-
verted into spray, and all this can to-day
be seen from a comfortable carriage.
I'm Rock creek basin, which is on the
read TO Yellowstone Park, are any quanti-
~ of natural curiosities I'm the shape OF
rock formations bearing resemblances TO
animals, birds. people, architecture and
the like. In spite of all these attractions. I
venture 10 say that not over one hundred
people have ever been within that mar
Selous place, and most of that hundred
have been interested simply in finding
spots suitable for grazing purposes"
Mr.. Martin was asked as to his plans
for the future. ~ intend to make a trip
10 the F.aG CT I'm a few DAVIS and then i shall
return 10 Big Horn basin in the interest
OF Colonel Cody"
When visited by a reporter Mr.. Martin
was busily engaged in developing a num-
Der Of kodak pictures. These are some
views which l took during a week with
the Wild West show he said. land L
intend 10 arrange them In tho form OF a
little book and present them 10 Colonel
Cody" The views are of scenes in the
life OF Colonel Cody's host OF show peo-
pie. and possess great interest.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-18

Ten Indians, with an amusement COM
PAM which has been engaged by the In
dianapolis Street-railway Company for a
two weeks show at Fairview Park. ar
rived in the city last night and caused
much curiosity and amusement at the
Union Station, where they lodged until
this morning. An Irishman. in charge of
the Indians, called UP police headquarters
and asked what he should do with the
men. as they could not get to Fairview
Park at that hour without paying car fare.
n 1t was impossible at that hour to get
In communication with the managers of
the street-railway to procure free trans
portation. He was advised to take them
TO a hotel. but he said: They're not used
TO sleeping in hotels Permission was
secured from the s-tationmaster and they
lodged for the rest of the night in the
station smoking room.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-18
Pettis Dry Goods Co.
ADJUSTMENTS.

Frank worthington has been secured to
sunnort Mrs. William A. Brady Grace
George in her new play, Her Majesty.
XXX
Mile. Ida Brassy, a French actress of
prominenee, has been specially engaged to
play Princess Katherine in Richard Mans
ield's, great revival OF King Henry W
XXX
'sThe Secret of the Question" is the title
chosen for Arthur Paterson's Cromwell
play which Charles Cartwright is TO pro-
duce at the London Globe Theater next
month. iHfa
Master Joe Stanley is a new boy soprano
who made his debut a few days ago at the
Cherry Blossom Grove Roof Garden of the
New York Theater. He is said have made
q hit"
great deal of comment is being made
upon the large audiences at the Park dur
ing the present "hot SPELL" Al. w. Mar
tins .'Uncle Toms Cabin" seems to please
as well as If il had never been seen in In
dianapolis before.
Room No. g." a play by George Frey
dean. will be. produced I'm London next
month by Manager Charles Frohman. with
Seymour Hicks. Ellaline Terriss and Fanny
Brough in the cast.
< 4
Florence O'Neill. daughter of the late
Representative John j. O'Neill. who has
been singing this summer at Uhrig's Cave.
St. Louis. Is announced for an appearance
on the New York operate stage during the
season about to open.
Miss Maria Davis, of the London Gaiety,
has been brought over to America by Da-
vid Belasco 10 play the role of Natalie.
Zaza's faithful old servant. in support Of
Mrs. Leslie Carter in "Zaza." IL has been
about ten years since Miss Davis was last
seen in this country.
Here are some hobbies of ~well-known
actors: Richard Mansield's. horseback
riding; Joseph Jefferson's. fishing; Sol
smith Russells. his library; Tim Murphy's,
sketching; Nat Goodwin's. his English
country place; f. II. Sothern's. antiques;
William -Gillette's. cigars; w. H. Cranes.
yachting
Mrs. Langdon Mitchell will return TO the
stage and play Rene in her husbands
dramitization of his fathers celebrated
novel. The Adventures of Francois I'm
which Henry f. Dixey is to star this sea-
SON. Mrs. Mitchell is known among Thes-
plans as Marion Lea. and is said to be
very beautiful and charming.
The New York Post pokes a great deal
of fun at the Charles w. Chase production
Of quo vadis." now on exhibition In the
Star Theater of that city. The Post says
that 1.-THE bulI' upon which Lygia is borne
into the arena in the final act has two pairs
os distinctively human legs. upon the fore
pair OF which are neatly creased trousers.
rolled up as II. forsooth. IL were raining in
Rome" Tn paper continues its facetious-
ness By remarking that the gallery gods
go away impressed that better bulls are
made every day in Ireland"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-18
OFFICER DISMISSED.


WASHINGTON, Aug. T.-By direction
Of President Mckinley First Lieutenant
Bissell Thomas, or the Thirty-hfth Vol
unteer Infantry. has been discharged from
the army Of the United States for the
good of the service" to take effect Aug.
p. Capt. Seth NJ. Milliken. assistant com
missary of subsistence, u. s. v. having
rendered his resignation. is honorabiy dis
charged from the service OF the United
States to take effect Aug. Is. MAJ. Edward
r.. Comegys. surgeon L.. s. A, now IN San
Francisco, has been ordered 10 proceed
TO Nagasaki. Japan. for duty as medical
supply officer OF that place.
f. James S. Barcus. of Terre Haute was IN
Washington to-day. lie called on Postmas-
ter General Smith and Controller Dawes
and discussed the political outlook Mr..
Barcus left later for Larchmont. N. Y.
A. y. Warman was appointed postmastee
to-day at Underwood. Scott county. vice W.
II. Hosea. resigned.
Casper Weibel. OF St Louis. has been an
pointed inspector OF wagons in the quarter
masters depot at J~e1ersonville; salary
81 500
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-18
THE CITY THREATENED.
Attorney Lockwood Said He Repre-.
scented Two Boat Owners.

ea10
scented Two Boat Owners.
The Board of Park Commissioners yes
terday received a letter from Attorney ".
II. Lockwood TO the effect that he repre-
sented Captain Edgington. of the steamer
Helen Gould, and Captain Varnes. of the
steamer Stella. two of the steamboatmen
who caused the request to be sent to the
government as to the navigability of White
river. and who caused great delay in the
building of the dam at Riverside Park
through the request made. Attorney Lock
wood served notice that on next Monday
the two captains would steam up the river,
and if the dam was not in condition to be
passed the Board of Park Commissioner
and city would be liable for any damages
to the boat or any detention caused the
captains. HHN
Captain E~dgington visited Park Superin.
tendent Power yesterday and made a writ
ten statement that he had not authorized
Attorney Lockwood TO make such a threat
and would not sue the city. Park Superin-
tendent Power gave Captain Edgington per.
mission to have the sluices closed tonight
so that the water may be held at River
side Park to afford boating tomorrow
The men who have caused the city and
construction ompan delay and have
made threats to sue for damages will be
dealt with later, says Mr.. Power.