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The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-11-13
HAWAIIAN BRINGS CONTEST.

|
| Attorney C. S. Hamilton, acting as
counsel of George j. Augur of Homo
| lulu, Hawaii, yesterday filed in the
probate court an appeal to the superior
court from the decision of the probate
court in the case which involved the
estate of the late Harriet M. Augur of
Fair Haven.
Frank NJ Augur raised contest over
this estate and through counsel he pro-
duced paper purporting to be dupli-
cate of will 1t was alleged that Har-
riet NJ Augur had drawn. No will was
found after her death and it was claim
ed 1t had been destroyed without her
consent by her SON. Jacob II. Augur.
Juge Cleaveland would not accept
this paper as Harriet M. Augur's will
and Frank Augur took an appeal to the
superior court. Subsequently he with
drew the appeal.
Now comes forward the relative in
Honolulu who asks that certain paper
be accepted as the will of Harriet M.
Augur. He claims that he was lega-
tee under will that Mrs. Augur had
drawn.
The Augur estate Is worth about
100000. 1t is in the possession of Marie
Augur, widow of Jacob p. Augur.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-11-13

CONNECTICUT INDEMNITY SUIT.
In the suit of the New Haven Trust
company, receivers Of the Connecticut
Insurance company, formerly the Con-
necticut Indemnity company, against
John B. Doherty and Lewis A. Plat,
former officers of the company for ST.
900, claiming that amount of damages
for money alleged to have been loaned
by the company during the terms of
office of the two defendants to E. B.
Schmidt, New York agent, a specific
statement has been filed in the superior
court.
In the suit it was claimed that
Schmidt had used large amounts for
expenses failed to turn in premiums
and had given to the company many
notes which it was alleged were worth
less and which could not be collected.
The defendants asked for more spe-
cific statement of the times and
amounts of these alleged details and
the specific statement which is a docu-
ment covering several pages of type
written copy gives the full details of
amounts, ETC., asked for.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-11-13

In the superior court yesterday the
case of Roderiek Mckenzie against An
ME L. Mckenzie, a contested divorce
action which was down for trial to-day,
has been withdrawn. TIE McKenzies
live on George street and he charges
her with intolerable cruelty.
The case Of Kate Hayes against John
Hayes both of this city, in which the
plaintiff claimed intolerable cruelty on
the part Of her husband and asked for
s., 900 alimony, has also been with
drawn.
The only remaining case set down for
to-day is the divorce case of Ella j.
Dean of Woodbridge against William
L. Dean of this city. The plaintiffs
maiden name was Perkins and she asks
for divorce on the ground of intolera-
BILE cruelty.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-11-13
IN AND ABOUT THE COURTS
DIVORCE CASES WITHDRAWN IN
SUPERIOR COURT

Indemnity suit--Hayvaiian Brings Com
test News of tho CITY Court-.The Mad
isGn Case.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-11-18

you ENJOY the Trip. M0St OF them speak
some English and thus they are exceed
ingly helpful in sightseeing and in trad
ing in the shops. They leave the jim
rickisha outside the door and follow you
through the store, taking good care of
all your bundles that are purchased and
they never lose a package. The primary
sensation, when travelling in jinricki-
sha, is peculiar. You feel conspicuous
and imagine that every person you meet
is laughing at you. When you get so
that you don't mind this the impression
begins to creep over you that if the man
should let go the shofts, or anything
should break, you would go over back
wards; and this would be a calamity
indeed as you would fall about six feet
and most likely alight on tor of your
head. But you need be troubled about
none of these things. for nobody is laugh
ing al you and the man is so careful tina
he never spills a passenger. The fare
Tor the jinrickisha is ten cents an hour,
or one dollar a day, in Japanese money.
Foreigners should always have small coin
to pay just the amount they desire to
give because the jinricllisha- never
has any change, on principle, and he be-
comes suddenly and amazingly ignorant
of all English words when you begin to
talk about change for the piece of money
you have just handed him.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-11-18

Their system of schools is excellent and
the methods of teaching cannot be ex-
celled A visit to one of the schools gives
you an idea how children can be kept
busy at all times without recourse to
any forms of patent busy work." So
called.
JAPANESE WOMEN.
The Japanese women are very small
and are what we would call cute" in
America, in the best sense of the word.
They rarely exceed four and one-half
feet in height, and many very pretty faces
are to be seen. Their style of dress is
so unique and distinctive that it adds
charm to their trim little figures Their
fine, coal black hair is dressed with the
greatest care and taste in a fashion pc
culiarly their own; it is immensely be-
coming, and no covering is worn upon the
head. Their feet and about eight inches
Of the leg are bare, and the feet are
incased in slipper woven of grass with
two silk straps across the toes. Some
times a wooden sole is worn with two
blocks underneath about three inches high
which gives them the appearance of
walking on stills. Their feet are small
and shapely and are never troubled with
The dress is one Ssrc-nt with very
large sleeves. 1t is simply wrapped
around them, tight about the body so
that all the outlines of the figure are
plainly shown. When the wind blows
much more of the bare flesh is exposed
to view than would be considered quite
the correct thing in an American city
The middle-aged women are even less
careful
quently seen on the streets carrying a
naked baby in their arms who is quietly
taking his dinner wholly Indifferent to all
surroundings. Japanese babies do not
fret nor cry, and it is said that one has
never been heard to cry in Japan, so it
is evident that American babies do not
have monopoly of the infantile virtues
The women do a great deal of manual
labor, and it is common to see them
sculling boat or passing up coal with
the men when coaling steamer. This
latter work is exceedingly tedious and
trying, and they receive only eight cents
American money for days work. When
they finish a days work in handling coal
they jump overheard from the lighter
and take bath, wash their dress and
dry out on the way home.
Most of the clerks in the shops are
young girls and they are very polite and
efficient. They are always pleasing while
trading and their bow of thanks at the
close of your purchases would do credit
to a Chesterfield, and their "oki nj to
mo dar CHI (thank you, my friend) is
musical enough to almost cause a dan
gerous attack of palpitation of the heart
All the women who marry blacken their
teeth with an acid dye, as distinguish
ing badge of the state of matrimony
From the small number of black teeth
women to be seen it may be inferred that
marriage is not an over-popular institu-
ton in this country.
The people are scrupulously clean in
all their habits. They always remove their
shoes at the doors of their living rooms
before entering, and visitors are required
to do the same.
They will furnish you with sandals
to be worn during your visit. The tenn
| pies have notices in English on each side
of the entrance that Before entering
remove your shoes"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-11-18

Salt rheum, with its burning, singing
sensation, is due TO poor blood and is
cured by Hoods Sarsaparilla, the great
blood purifier
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-11-18
RELIGION.

The religion of Japan is Buddhism. The
people are sincerely religious, both be-
lieving and living their religion. There
are fifty or more temples in Nagasaki,
some Of them very imposing and elegant,
and thousands of images of Buddha and
his gods In the principal temples gem
eral ceremonies are held but twice a
year, spring and autumn but in cosy lit
tie inches up the mountain side sit num-
bers of small places of worship for the
fishermen, where they may, and do, go
and offer their devotionas at any time.
All the temples are dedicated: ITO the
Great God" and the worship is so di-
rected. Buddha and his images being sim
ply the medium ms the god who opened
up the way Of salvation and made it &C
ccssibie to the people Surely a sincere
worship Of THE Great God" is a religion
as high, pure and true as is known to
mankind, no matter what may be the
medium through which the worship and
service is directed. The Japanese assert
that there are almost as many different
mediums Of worship among the people of
the world as there are different religious
among them therefore the prospect of
effccting any change in the Japanese reli-
gon by missionaries from America and
other countries are even less favorable
than would be the work of Japanese mis-
sionaries of Buddha to the United States
We have just received orders to trans
fer to the transport Indiana" to sail
tomorrow morning, September 18th for
Talu China. 1t is with much regret that
we bid farewell to Japan, of whose bright
and friendly people we have formed such
pleasant impressions. We all cherish the
hope that we may some day make a more
extended visit to these charming scenes
and most interesting people.
e. G. HARRELL.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-11-18
CHEAP LIVING.


Living is cheap in Japan. The prices
of articles here as compared with those
paid by us in Cuba are vastly different
usually about thre- fourths less. In most
of the restaurants a good, wholesome
lunch may be had for Is cents, while %
cents will procure as good a dinner as
is to be had in most American hotels for
Is cents or LOO. The diet is largely veg
etable, and fruits, of which there is a
large variety, pleasant and nutritious.
Rice is the great mainstay of food, and
while it is cooked and eaten in many
different ways it is also distilled in to
a very intoxicating liquor known as
Sake. This liquid sells for eight cents
for quart-bottle, and is drank with hot
water. 1t is the national beverage of
the Japanese.
Articles of domestic manufacture and
production are very low in price as com
pared with the cost OF same articles in
the States. 1t seems surprising to pay
here only $1.25 for pretty silk-embroid-
cred shawl, four feet square, when the
same shawl would cost $15 or 500 in New
York. Other things of Japanese manufac-
ture are equally low in price. Thousands
of fancy and curious articles made here
sell for five to thirty cents which an
American artisan could not duplicate in
two days close work if he were given
an order. The Japanese shoemaker will
take your measure for a pair of good
shoes american style) and make them
for you ready for wear in six hours, and
the tailor will make a handsome over
coat to order in one day; and the garment
will be first-class in quality and work
manship in every respect, fully equal to
any coat that can be bought in the Uni
ted States for $40, and the price will be
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-11-18
SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES,

We are surprised to note that fairly
good English is spoken in most of the
shops by the clerks, and large numbers
of the people understand something of
the language. However, this should not
be so greatly marvelled at when it is
considered that the Japanese are very in
telligent people, the children all go to
school, and the study of English is com
pulsory. There are in Nagasaki many
fine schools, including two colleges, nor
NAL college, and a commercial institute
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-03-05

There was a monarchistic demon
stration in Rio Janeiro.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-03-05
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
INSULAR AFFAIRS.

The substitution OF native Tor Amer
lean troops in Cuba begins April IL.
Three regiments are to be organized
The black plague has broken out at
both Kahului, on the island OF MAUI
and Hilo. on the island of Hawaii. Inc
latest advices report seven deaths at
Kahuiui, all Chinese, and one at Hllo,
a Portuguese woman, the wife OF A. q.
Senao.
Victor Hohenstein has filed claim
for 100000 against the Spanish gov
eminent for treatment received from
Spanish soldiers in Cuba, while he was
ir the service of the Red Cross society.
He publicly charged that the Spanish
blew ND the Maine, and was seized and
confined in MORO castle.
All the soldiers stationed on the va
rious posts near Santiago will be prac-
ticalIy quarantined on April l. Inc
marine hospital service intends to take
extreme. precautions against the posi-
BILE introduction and spread OF yellow
fever, and will formulate eXacting regu-
lations for the detention of all persons
arriving and leaving there
Saturday was generally observed as a
holiday in honor of the beginning OF
the revolution. The principal celebra-
ton was held at the Antonio Maceo
club, where the speakers accepted in
good faith the intention of the Ameri-
can government to establish the indie
pendence of the Cuban republic, and
one advocated loan for the payment
of soldiers of the Cuban army.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-03-05
lssia and France comlbined

Russia and France combined
Yaqui Indians fought a big battle
with Mexicos regulars and at first
defeated them and disabled a gunboat,
and later the Indians were drivenback
into the mountains.
France will send 5000 troops to
Madagascar. The nation is being
armed to the teeth. Automobiles for
20, 900 men are to be provided for a
possible invasion Of Germany
1t is believed the lessons taught by
the rboer war will make a large in
crease necessary in the German
cavalry and will also lead to a
thorough change of cavalry tactics.
At a meeting of the Marconi Wire
less Telegraph company, the chairman
denied that the patent rights of the
system had been sold in America. An
agreement, he said, had been reached
but not executed.
At Berlin rumors of the impending
retirement of the imperial chancellor
are again in circulation. Prince Alex
ander Hohenlohe Langenborg Staath-
alther, Alsace-Lorrafne, is mentioned
as a probable successor
At Rome the opposition press is
exultant over the probable fall of the
ministry, should the chamber of depu-
ties refuse to approve the decree pro-
viding certain restrictive measures
against the liberty of associations and
also the press.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-03-05

government for the Filipinos recon-
mended to the president and accepted
by him was substantially that devised
by Pedro A. Palermo, formerly Aguin-
aldo's prime minister.
A midnight express on the Lehigh
Valley railroad struck a carriage con-
tanning seven persons, at Geneva, n.
Y. Instantly killing five of the occu-
pants, fatally injuring another and
badly bruising the other. All were
members of one family.
AS a result of a secret meeting Of
the Woodenware Association it is
said there is likely to be another adj
vance in prices of small woodenware
articles. The last meeting of the as
sociation held few months ago was
followed by a 10 per cent. advance.
At Atlanta, Ga, a street car was
wrecked by striking an obstruction
which had evidently been placed across
the track. The car jumped fully ten
feet into the air and rolled fifteen feet
down an embankment. The twelve
passengers were more or less injured.
Chicago Swedish-Americans who
fought in the civil war and Spanish
American wars, both in the army and
navy, held a meeting and perfected an
organization to be known as the SWe-
dish-American Veterans association.
Erneast G. Dahl was elected president.
At Dayton, Ohio, Rev Edward Lor-
enze, editor of the Geran periodicals
of the United Brethren church and for
more than fifty years prominent minis
ter in that denomination, is dead as
the result Of a rupture of blood vessel
in his brain, occasioned by a paroxysm
Of coughing.
The residence of Robert Johnson,
a retired dry goods merchant of New
York city, on the Hudson at Mount St
Vincent, n. Y, was burned. The dam
age is 100000 Johnson, who lived
alone, and was asleep on the top floor
escaped down surveyors chain, which
he fastened to the window.
The will of Leander j. Mccormick
filed for probate in Chicago dlspOses OF
an annual income of 100000 The es-
tate is valued at $4,OOO,000 R. Hall
cCormick, the son, and Mrs. McCor-
mick-Goodhart inherit the entire estate
r. Hall Mccormick is made manager
of the property with salary Of
| SIS, 900 a year.
At dinner given at the Plymouth
club, New York, to Raoul Pictet, the
Swiss scientist, oxygen was produced
from air by a secret process used fol
the first time in this country. Mr.. Pic
tet asserts that with a 500 horse power
plant he can produce daily 100000 cubic
feet of oxygen, 100000 cubic feet Of
new nitrogen and 500 cubic feet of car
bonnie acid gas.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-03-05
IN 3 OR a YEARS
M INDEPENDENCE IS ASSURED

If you take up your
homes in Western Cam
ada, the land of plenty.
illustrated pamphlets,
giving experiences OF
farmers who have be-
come wealthy in growing
wheat, reports of dele
gates, ETC., and full in
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-03-05
A MINNESOTA FARMER WRITES
OF WESTERN CANADA.

Is Now Located There-Farms Being
Rapidly Settled by Former U. s. Resi-
dents.
The following extracts from letter
written to Mr.. Benz. Davies, Canadian
Government Agent at ST. Paul, Mimi,
give an excellent idea of what is said
OF Western Canada by those who have
gone there during the past two or three
years:
When we first arrived here and took
up our homes on the prairie near Dales-
boro, ASA, for short time we had
fit of the blues but now all hands
are settled to business, hale, hearty and
contented, enjoying the finest winter
we have ever seen. We have got very
comfortably situated, with considerable
preparation for a crop, and all hopeful.
i think this is very fine country, and
If the past seasons crop is not an ex-
ceptiOn, which they claim not, | believe
this is going to be the wheat field Of
the West. 1t is filing up fast. In this
township last spring there were tWen-
ty-f1ye quarter sections of land vacant,
and to-day there is not one; | can stand
at my house and count ten houses
where there was not one last spring,
With six more to go up this spring.
This is only sample of what is going
on all round. We intend to build a
church next summer, right close to my
place. so We will be strictly in line. 1t
would have amused you to- have been
here last spring. There were crowds of
land seekers, and sometimes in the
spring the prairie is not very inviting,
and OF course lots were discontinued.
There was one in the crowd who jump
ed on me for putting a letter in the
paper only for which he never would
have come here, and he was very hos
tile, but eventually he got a place and
to-day claims he would not take thou
sand dollars and move out; so am
glad he is satisfied.
well, my dear sir, as Arthur Finney
is about to move out in March, with
his family, and also one of my sons,
anything you can do for them to assist
them along and to make things smooth
as possible will be greatly appreciated
by me. | will close for this time, and
will write from time to time to let you
know we are living. Drop us a few
lines to let US know how things are
moving in st. Paul.
yours respectfully,
ALEX. CAMERON"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-03-05
FOREIGN.

Portugal seeks reciprocity treaties.
Bishop Sbarretti is likely to be har-
aSsed in his work by Cubans.
French troops are said to have en-
tered ITO miles into Morocco.
Luccheni, murderer of the empress
of Austria, assaulted his jailer.
The international tuberculosis con-
gress opens at Naples April 25.
Fire at oil warehouses near Paris
injured 80 persons. Loss, 100000.
The British army in India is said to
be short of officers and badly armed
Castellane arrived in France, but
has not acted on De Roday's charges.
William Bird, Irish Landowner and
agent, was found murdered in Bantry.
William Butterfeld, celebrated Brit
l. sh architect, is dead in London, aged
Is.
Germany expects British and Amer
lean consuls to be withdrawn from
Samoa.
Cabmen of Naples struck because
the city may license $50 public auto
mobiles.
The duke of Orleans is said to have
congratulated caricaturist who in
suited England.
All Antwerp financial journal be
lieves the Dutch East Indies will be
sold to America.
In London William Butterfeld, the
celebrated architect, is dead in his
eightysixth year.
The king of Belgium objects to the
remarriage Of his daughter Stephanie,
to Count Longyay.
The Russian ambassador demanded
that the Sultan grant enlarged conces-
sions in Asia Minor
The Italian ministry threatened ex-
IRENE measures if parliamentary OPP
position is continued.
Councillor Ilg, chief adviser of King
Menelek of Albyssinia, is in Paris on
some diplomatic mission.
Tt is decided that the shah of Persia
will visit England as the guest of the
queen in July or August.
Jokai resigned the presidency of
the Hungarian union because of
Catholic opposition to- him.
There is a report that Russia will
lease harbor in the Persian gulf as
Port Arthur is leased from China.
The czar asked permission to send
consul to Bombay, but refused to
allow British consul in Turkestan.
At a meeting of the DeBeers COM
pany Cecil Rhodes said the annual
profits of the diamond mines are S10,-
100000.
In Paris Marcel-Habert was found
guilty of melting army to revolt and
sentenced to Punishment for five
years.
More than hundred persons were
injured by explosions during the
progress of disastrous fire at St.
Ouen, France
The Austrian government is said to
have permitted convent to retain
Jewish girls taken unfairly from
parents by nuns
The Danish finance minister an
nounces American offer of $1,000, 900
for the West Indies. There is much
opposition to the SALE
Goschen explained in the house of
commons that the naval estimates
provided for two ships more than