The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-03-08
COOPER HOME
Brings News of Affairs
At Kauai.
Attorney General Says islanders are
In Full Accord With Homo
IuIu's Plague Plans.

Attorney General II. f. Cooper came
back from Kauai yesterday morning
and has much of interest to tell about
mis- trip. He found the people of Kauai
agreeing fully with the stringent ac-
tions of the Honolulu authorities and
thoroughly willing to stand their share
Of the expense entailed. They are
themselves sparing no effort to pre-
serve a sanitary condition and daily
inspections of all the plantation camps
are being maintained.
THE Kauaians are keeping an askant
eye on the health status" said the At
torney General last night They talk
freely of the Importance of barring all
risk of infection and are determined to
take no chances. No lack of money or
men will interfere with the system of
inspection they have put in force and
the Kauaians reason that the other ISL
ands, ana in particular Honolulu,
should be as deeply interested as are
they. on account OF the vast sugar in
dustry seated there which might be
ruined by a general epidemic.
al Hanamaulu where 1 first landed,
1 was Sheriff Conveys guest and with
n m / visited KOloa. The native police
man who, according to DR.. Waughop,
mas been suffering with variOlOid. is
well on the road to recovery. He was
never so sick as to take 20 his bed, is
not pitted and / noticed only a slight
ulscoiOTatiOn of his face. lis was the
guard over the japanese labOrers who
were sent from the Honolulu quaran-
tine on January 81. | shall search into
the case of these, Japanese to see if
they are not of the same lot as those
sent TO Hama, Maui, where a case of
varloloid appeared. There is now a
case OF measles under quarantine on
the island"
Attorney General Cooper said that
he spent some time in inspecting the
McBryde plantation and found it in an
extremely fiOurishing condition.
Everything is being done on the
most approved lines" said he. There
are four complete sets of steam plows
o. a novel pattern. The water develop
ment promises we'll, especially the sys-
tenn of reservoirs with an aggregate
capacity of nearly 00,000,000 gallons
made to catch che flow of the Wahiawa
stream. A tunnel 400 feet long will
avert the entire stream, so as to fill
the reservoirs, near the McBryde home
stead. There are 5000 acres below the
400 foot level, all but l POO acres being
fee simple. Three thousand acres more
cane land lies just above that level.
A.dch of the low land is rocks, but IL is
nj flaa Cd nmnnr
and shows a very fine. rich soil as it is
broken by steam blowing Immediately
after clearing. The old Eleele mill now
belonging to McBryde plantation, is
turning out about twenty tons of sugar
a day of ten hours run. or about double
what It used to do"
The Attorney General also found Ma
kaweli plantation in a gratifying con-
dition. He said that he spent ore night
at Francis Gays home. The water
in the main bitches OF Makaweli is
ra,Aer low" said Mr.. Cooper, but the
cane seems to need no more. / looked
over the hospital at Waimea A sur
gerry ward is a necessity, and several
additional buildings should be erected.
found the hospital at Lihue in ex-
celent shape, and l also visited the
puDiio buHNlh5S al Llhue' NOlOds Ma
kaweli and Waimea. From Lihue to
Waimea the roads are very good.
at Lihue, all the criminal cases were
disposed of easily. the defendants
pleading guilty or Withdrawing their
pleas. Some will have to go over until
next term. Judge Hardy is on the
bench and Sheriff Coney is prosecutor.
"Makaweli had a great time on Sat
urday when the steamship Charles
Nelson left that port for San Francisco.
a foreign ship there is a decided novel
~ and from niles around the people
came to see the Nelson pull out for the
Coast. They made a picnic of il and
old-timers grew reminiscent OF similar
sights"