The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-03-18
HlDALGOS
OUT.
Porto RiCans Strike
on Plantation Of
Hawaii.
|KOHALA-HILO
RAILROAD co.
Japanese Embezzle Over Six Hun
dred Dollars and Proceed to
Have Big Time.

Hawaii, and seems to furnish conclusive
proof that the Porto Ricans are not ca
pable of self-government: that Is. it has
about as much bearing upon that ques-
ton as most other arguments that Con-
gress takes into consideration relative to
the New Possessions The trouble in
question took place at Ookala, which re-
Gently added to it's labor supply about
twenty-five descendants of the ancient
Hidalgos, who pinned for work and could
not find it In Porto. At least they
thought work was what they needed, but
it seems they were mistaken.
Mr.. Florentin Souza was called upon
by Sheriff Andrews the other evening to
act as interpreter for Porto Rican who
had hoofed it all the way from Ookala
seeking policemen and finding none I'M
til he arrived at what Josiah Flint would
call the Front Office" He evidently
did not know that policemen in Hawaii
are not allowed to go out at night; and
had probably never read about the diff
Guilty of finding a needle in haystack.
When Mr. Souza arrived the unfortu-
nate Rican, who had only escaped the
suzerainty of Spain to pass under the
yoke of Ookala, poured forth his tale.
He said that on the preceding morning,
it being somewhat damp out of doors, he
and his companions were not DESTROYS of
labor and had concluded to spend the
day in rest and meditation. Neverthe-
less entered upon their seclusion a fierce
and untamed luna, who, with many
strange oaths, laid about him and routed
them out to toll and discomfort; as for
hi oca1f he uynG will a
his raincoat being glad of the opportu-
nifty to get out in the fresh morning
air, when the aforesaid barbarian-that
is TO say, the luna-fell upon him with
blows and kicks: here he showed various
marks of violence.
A day or two afterward Mr.. SouZa
came across a number of other Porto
Ricans in Hilo who said they had been
whipped and otherwise maltreated, and
had left the plantation for good. II Is
understood that they had been employed
by Mr.. J. G. Serrao.
'I imagine" said Mr.. Souza, from
what I saw, that the Porto Ricans that
came here are rather lazy and worth
| less lot from the coast towns The Ia
borers on the plantations in the interior
| of the sland are very good workers.
| though perhaps not so good as the jap
! anese we have here. They generally live
| on the plantations from generation to
generation and become attached to the
place and the owners: the ones we get
here are sort of floating, shiftless ele-
ment and I think inclined to be lazy. AZ
| the same time. II I were a plantation
| luna, l should be very wary about using
violence toward them. They are vindict-
| i've and treacherous; they never forget,
and sooner or later they will probably
/ find a chance to get back at the one who
| injured them, and 1t will probably be by
a stab from behind. "-Hilo Tribune.
KOHALA-HILO RAILROAD
Smith & Parsons, who act IN the ca
pacity of legal advisers for Mr.. Gehr
president of the Kohala-Hilo Railroad
Company, were interviewed by Tribune
! representative in regard to the future
operations or interpretations of this cor
poration.
II have received number OF letters
recently from Mr.. Gehr," said Mr..
Smith, land I have every reason to sup
pose that the enterprise in question will
go ahead and that there is no intention
or necessity on the part Of the promoters
to drop It.
Various complications have arisen II
the East caused partly by the death OF
the chief financial hacker of the promo
tiers and partly by the withdrawal OF
those who had agreed to take the bonds
This has resulted simply in the necessity
or going over the whole operation agar
for the purpose of securing capital, and
this Mr.. Gehr has effected, or so nearly
effected that there is no doubt of his
success. The delay Is harassing, annoy
Ing and has. had a depressing effect upor
the development of the town. but 1t doe:
not mean discourag ement or defeat.
expect Mr.. Gehr back in the near fu
ture.'-Hilo Tribune.
PRISONER BREAKS BONDS.
Two Japanese. who had been entrusted
with a large sum of money with which
to pay off men engaged in a road con
tract in Kau, have gone wrong. Tha
is, one Of them has gone wrong. accord
ing to the ideas of the police officer wht
had them in charge.
1t seems that there was due twenty
four men working on the contract SOS.
So and this money was given the 1--WE
Japanese to take to the camp. Instead
OF doing SO they came over to Hilo ant
secured apartments at Okamura's hote
and proceeded to paint the town rose
ate hue. What the chef at Okamura'!
did not provide for the guests, the TIVE
swells did. and chicken and sharks fin
were On the menu card three times
day until their delay in arriving will
the money began to cause murmur o
discomfort among the laborers. Then tn,
police We're notified and Yotaro was pu
on the case, 500 being offered by tn,
contractors for the arrest of the men
lie found them at the hotel and tool
them to the station house, where, on be
ing searched, they yielded up $442 25 ant
TWO cases of Indigestion. A policeman
was sent over from Kau to take tn,
men back. and he left Hilo with hi:
charges handcuffed together, some tim,
tuesday. AT Twelve Miles he stopped
10 iced his horse. leaving the prisoner.
on the veranda Of a house occupied b!
suine hatiVe friends. After attending Il
the wants of the horse, he returned t.
lhe mouse only to find that one of tn,
prisoners mad slipped his handouts from
MS "rlsts and made his escape. The 9th
er one had not attempted to get away.
on1cer Kelley was notified and mad,
thorough search without satisfactory
results. Yesterday morning he got wore
of someone seeing a Japanese answerins
the description of the missing man, bu
there was nothing definite Deput,
Sheriff Overend and Captain Hitchcocl
went up to Olaa yesterday to assist IL
the search.-Hilo Herald
LARGE PLANTATION OWNERS.
w. G. Irwin, John Buck, l. A. Thurs