The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-03-26
THIEVES ON
MAUI ISLE
People Alarmed
About Petty
Larceny.
NEW L.ABORERS
ARE SUSPECTED
SpreckeIsviIIe Burglar Taken
Snow On Raleakala
Mountain.

MAUI, March 23.-Pety larcenies
are most common nowadays on central
Maui; clothes are stolen while hang
! ing on the line, chickens are spirited
away from the roost, and many little
articles have recently been taken from
the yards and premises Of the resi-
dents of Waikiki, Kahului and
Spreckelsville. Respectable, law bd-
| ing citizens are beeoming fearful, not
only because of these thefts, but also
because of what they anticipate will
soon take place-hold ups on the pub
lie highway, and other crimes similar
to those recently committed at Morris
store, Kahului, and at Camp 5, Spreck-
elsville. Porto Ricans. American ne
groes and laborerS of other nationali-
ties, are often met strolling idly about
the country, and the old adage about
Satan and idle hands may soon be
verified.
| A NEGRO BURGLAR.
Last Saturday the 18th, Fred Wood,
one of the men who committed the
burglary at Camp 5, Spreckelsville,
was caught hiding around the lumber
yard of the Kahului Railroad Compa-
nv and was arrested by the police.
Something over 5000 of the money al
legged to have been stolen, was found
, upon his person.
During Tuesday, the 18th, District
Magistrate Mckay, of Waikiki, COM
| mitted Fred Wood to trial by the
Grand Jury on the charge of burglary.
He was one of the Alabama darkies
employed at Camp 3, Spreckelsville.
The st. Patricks dance given in the
Paia Hall last Saturday evening, the
18TH was most successful social
event At least a hundred people from
Spreckelsville, Kahului Hamakuapoko,
Makawao and Paia participated in the
pleasures of the evening. Appropriate
to the occasion, the prevailing tone of
decoration of the halls interior was
green, festoons of ferns gracefully
adjoining the walls. The white dresses
of the ladies were frightened with
knots of green, and the gentlemen
wore green neckties. or bits of green
ribbon in their buttonholes. The dane
ing continued until 1870 p m, when
elaborate refreshments were served
The Hamakuapoko stringed band fur
nished the music, and Messrs. Hagen
camp and Aiken managed the floor.
Those present We're grateful to Messrs
Carley, Hagencamp and other Paia
people, who were the hosts Of, the
evening.
GENERAL NOTES.
During Monday morning, the 18th, a
heavy mantle of snow covered the
summit slopes of Haleakala. This may
have been caused by the GOODNESS of
the atmosphere induced by d Slight
electric storm during the evening be-
fore.
Mr.. and Mrs Walter Lowrie, of
Spreckelsville, are soon to depart for
a trip to Japan. They will be gone
for four months. During their stay
abroad Mr.. Lowrie viii inspect the
method of sugar making IN vogue in
java and in other places -
Mr.. Benjamin d. Baldwin, head luna
Of Hamakuapoko plantation, has &C
Icepted the position of assistant man
4 ager of the Hawaiian Commercial
Company. thus filling the vacancy
caused by the death of Mr.. David
Center. Mr.. Baldwin and family Will
remove to Spreckelsville during the
first part of April upon the return of
Manager H. A. Baldwin from Califor-
MIA.
During the afternoon of the DIST, the
! Ladies' Thursday Club met at the
I residence of Mrs w. o. Aiken, Maka-
wac.
On the goth Mrs. X NJ. Kauka, of
Makawao, died of dropsy. She was
between fifty and sixty years of age.
Of D. D. Haake, the well known car
penter, died of dropsy in his home at
kula Richard was about twenty-five
years of age, and leaves a wife and
one child
Mr.. and Mrs. J. NJ Dowsett and
Ychildren came from Honolulu, per
Claudine of the Goth, summoned to
Makawao on account of the serious ILL
ness of DR.. Robert McKibben. the I'M
Gle of Mr.. Dowsett. Mr.. Dowsett re-
turns to Honolulu today. DR.. McKib-
bin is better
/ DR.. J. H. Raymond, of Honolulu, al
so arrived by the Claudine having
been called to consult with DR.. w. F.
McConkey concerning the sickness OF
DR.. McKibbin. After the consultation
DR., Raymond departed for Kahikinui.
Rev William Ault, of Waikiki. will
preach att the Paia Foreign Church
next Sunday. the oath.
The Kula- Ulupalakua road has beer
repaired in a rough way, so that it
can be travelled with safety
Wireless biography seems to be a
success as far as Maui is concerned.
During the past week a message was
sent from Maui to Honolulu, and an
answer received, all within an hour.
Weather. shoWery in eastern Maui