The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-20
Japanese Desert
Jobs To Sit
Still.
HILO iNVOKES
VAGRANCY LAW
Rainy City Kicks About Mail
Service---General News
Of Hawaii.

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HILO. Hawaii, August 1s.-The Her
aid and Tribune have the following:
From nearly every plantation comes
the report that the laborers have be-
come surly since their contracts were
cancelled. In many instances they
have given up work and settled in
near by towns doing principally moth
ing. For several years Honolulu has
been infested by hordes of Oriental
loafers who live upon fallen women;
Hilo has not reached that stage yet
but is rapidly getting there, and the
people ask for a remedy or a preventa-
tive. There Is vagrancy law on the
statutes that Is almost a dead letter,
whereas IL IL was enforced to the limit
the towns would be rid OF the loaf1ng
element and the plantations would
have all the laborers they require.
There is work and plenty of 1t for ev-
cry Japanese who crowds into the al
legged hotels on Front street, and some
effort should be made to convince them
that they are liable to prosecution un-
less they show some means Of support.
In order to obviate difficulty with the
laborers many of the plantations are
entering into contracts with them for
growing cane on the cooperative plan,
ceedingly favorable to the contractor,
/ but even with this they do not seem
anxious to enter into an agreement.
AS a rule the laborers were brought
here for a specific purpose, and they
should be compelled as far as possible
to live up to their part of the agree
ment.
HAWAIIAN MAILS.
The postal service on Hawaii has not
Nraa aa1 INT rbnr ho IaIn lie
by an intermediate steamer may be dis
patched overland the moment of ar
rival. On general principles the kick
of a contemporary on this subject Is
correct, but in the particular instance
referred to Mr.. Mckay had the Maui
steam twenty-six miles additional In
order that the mail might be landed al
J Laupahoehoe for Hilo. The steamer
arrived at a. m, and the mail left by
regular carrier six hours later. This is
a vast improvement on the old STYLE
when a mail was occasionally landed
at Pepeekeo and brought into Hilo later
!. by private enterprise. After January
LIST the service will no doubt be as good
IL not better than Ii is on the Main
land in places off beaten paths.
MORE PUBLIC LANDS.
! Nearly 1000 acres of public land IL
North Kona, Hawaii, are TO be opened
up as soon as the Government cal
complete arrangements to that effect
Governor Dole and Land COMMISSIONS
j. F. Brown have personally investi
gated the matter there. The prospec
for roads to the tract was looked int
carefully. The land lies at an eleva
ton of between 1000 and 5000 fee
above the sea level and is considered
splendid property. The road site will
be surveyed by w. w. Bruner, who ha
been requested to go ahead with tina
work without delay. The appropria
ton for the road is available and moth
ing stands in the way of the tract be
ing connected with the seaportS. !
tract of land in South Kona was ais
Investigated for opening to the public
Nothing definite in this matter wa
reached.
j. F. Brown, Commissioner of Publ
Lands, returned from this Island t
Honolulu without coming to Hilo, al
though there were a good many Ian
matters upon which Land Agent Bald
win wished to consult him. The fac
that there is but one commissioner nov
instead Of three, as formerly, prevent
Mr.. Brown from being away from Ho
nolulu for any great length of time
The question of the coming or not com
ing of the commissioner will, however
have nothing to do with the sale of tn
Olaa lands as advertised, in September
and Mr.. Baldwin has no doubt that tn
"squatters" will have to pack up thei
household goods and get, unless the
are willing to buy in at the auction
n which will probably give them the Ian
at a lower price than they can eve
get IL afterward.
II don't think they can get an In
junction issued" said Mr.. Baldwin
and IL they should it could be as cas-
lily dissolved. The lands up to the pres
ent time have been left by Congress
ha do Of he
ment. and what Congress may or ma
not do in the future is but a matte
OF guess work The United State
statutes do not in the first place rec
,r ognize the squatters at all, and an
recognition they do receive is purel
matter of concession, as in certai
9 cases where they have entered an
made substantial and bona fide i'm
~ provements. their names are sent in /
q. the agent, and when the lands in que.
ton are to be advertised and sold a,
10 cording to law. they are assumed
Z have made application and get the
legal possession In due form. Nothir
analogous TO that process is the ca.
here.
KAUMANA wATERHEADS.
Chief Justice Frear and wife we
taken to kaumana by Sheriff Andrew
on Tuesday to view the waterfalls
- astonished at the volume of water o1
tanned there, and Sheriff Andrews
OF the opinion that the flow will be SD
ficient for the Olaa and Kaumar
lands. Another waterhead in the vici
ity Will be utilized for irrigating son
OF the Piihonua lands. Yesterday thu
left for Puma with Deputy Sheriff L.
man.
HAWAII NOTES.
- Mr.. Frank Damon, superintendent
the Chinese mission work conducts
by the American board, and his assis
Y. ant. Mr.. Russell, arrived yesterday
the kinau. Arrangements will be ma
for a union service to be held ne
Sunday in the interest of the We
and addresses will be made by the
gentlemen.
The bark Irmgard has been taken
. the Hilo run for the present 1t is pro
n able Hackfeld & Co. will import dire
from Europe next year.