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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-03-19
Looting a Stranded Vessel.

st. Johns, n. r., March 19.-The
French barkentine Aquitaine, from
Bayonne, for ST Pierre. with a cargo
of wines, spirits and general supplies
for the French bank fishing fleet, Is
ashore Off Cape La Hume, on the south
coast Of Newfoundland. % miles east Of
Burseo. Her crew escaped The ship
Is badly damaged and the coast folk
are looting her. Customs officials are
being hurried TO the scene. The cargo is
unusually valuable and exciting times
are expected In the endeavor to recover
the property salyaged.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-03-19
HE STOLE HAY.

Deputy Sheriff A. Cummings went out
TO Granger this forenoon and arrested
John Davis for stealing hay. The man
is a transient and came here recently
from Butte. Montana. The prisoner Il
now confined IN the county jail pend
ing a hearing.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-03-19
GENERAL FOURIE
EFFECTS ESCAPE.
He Takes Eight Hundred Men
With Him.
FURTHER BIG OPERATIONS
Will be Started In Orange River Coll
ony-sIsy be an Investigation of
South African War.

London. March 19.--Lord Roberts, in
a letter to a correspondent. expresses
confident hope that Lord Kitchener
viii soon be able TO secure peace in
South Africa; but thus far there is no
sign from Pretoria or Copetown that
peace is near.
The latest news is that Cen. Fourle
with 800 men, escaped Sunday from
the British columns that We're endeav-
oring 70 corner the commando east Of
Bloemfonteln. Further big operations
will be started in Orange River colony
within few days.
Gen. Ian Hamilton, addressing the
Authors club in London last evening,
made the curious suggestion that the
Boer prisoners be sent to Canada to
work the railways, where they would
learn the English language ana become
imbued with English sentroants
SOUTH AFRICA WAR IN, gsTIGA-
TON ~
London March iS.--In thPertuse OF
lords today the premier Lhfd Sails
bury, replying to Inquiries on the sub
ject OF an investigation into the con.
duct of the war in South Africa said
the government had not made any
promise to institute an Investigation.
He feared that full Just and
equitable inquiry would lead to a re-
newal Of the same species Of re-
grettable discussion as occurred during
the exchange Of speeches between Lord
Wolseley and Lord Lansdowne. Still
II the government was urged to make
an inquiry II could not refuse without
casting suspicious upon the army.
Lord Rosebery wished TO know when
the government had washed Its hands
Of the inquiry,
Lord Salisbury suggested the an
polntment Of a preliminary commission
10 inquire into the matter whereupon
the subject was dropped
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-03-19
Diaz'' Health Completely Restored.

Washington, March 19-Mr. Mariscal,
secretary OF foreign relations Of Mexico,
In a telegram from the Mexican capital
dated yesterday, says to Ambassador
Aspiroz president Diaz' health il
completely restored; his Illness never
presented any alarming symptoms nor
Indicated brain disease, In last Janu-
airy he went 10 seek milder and warm
er climate near the City OF Mexico; ne
viii return to this city within three
DAYS"
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-03-19
P0STMASTERS APPOINTED.
Especial to the oNews.Y

Washington, D. c.. March ls.--Utah
postmasters appointed: Garland. Box
elder county. o. l.. Wilcox. vice A. H.
Gleason. removed; Woodland. summit
county f, ], Pace, vice Robert
Michier. resigned,
Patents granted citizens OF salt Lake;
Albert Hays, apparatus for the produc-
ton OF vapor from oils, vaporlzlng ny
drocarbon oils. combined gas and yapor
burner; Abner +. Callison and W, 5.
Bing. cattle tag.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-03-19
SECOND WARD LECTURES.

The second OF the series OF Second
ward lectures. under the auspices Of the
ward oishopric was given last night
and az on Sunday night the house was
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-03-19
Big Fire at Port Huron, Mich.

Port Huron, Mich. March 1s.-Fire
early today destroyed the jerks Shi
Building company's plant. entailing "A
loss OF over $4,000, partially covered
by insurance.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-03-19
NEGOTIATIONS MAY FAIL.

Washington, March l9,-It is feared
here that the negotiations at Pekn re-
spectlng indemnities, may fail. owing
to the greed of individual nations. Mr..
Rockhill. our special commissioners, who
has been in close communication by
cable with the state department, has
nothing but discouraging reports to
make OF this important branch OF the
negotiations. II appears that the minis
ters cannot agree upon any uniform ba-
sis OF indemnity, some OF the powers
demanding enormous sums
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-05
READY FOR
THE SEEDS
TantaIus Garden is
Now Well Under
Way.
NURSERY HAS
BEEN PREPARED
Orchard Of Fruit Trees Will Be
Planted-Jared Smith Talks
Of Some Plans.

Half way up the Tantalus road.
where it for the second time crosses the
valley which runs from the side of
/ unchbowl away up the slopes of the
there have been prepared the
s,-edbeds and nursery of the United
States Agricultural Experiment Station.
The work of making ready the lands
which have been cleared of eucalyptus
trees was begun there, and what has
been accomplished, while only the be-
ginning. has been of such nature that
its thoroughness gives much promise Of
the future.
The beds have been prepared by the
terracing of the Eva slope of the little
valley, until about two acres is ready
for the planting of the seed and the
setting out of the cuttings, which work
will be inaugurated at once. The sides
of the terraces are composed of the
wood from the trees removed from the
tract. and there is perfect view of all
the beds from the road which in front
of them is level, thus affording an op-
portunity for observing the work to all
who pass through the tract. While this
is only the foundation of the work OF
the improyement of the lands set aside
for the station, the plans for making
the tract a vast park have been made,
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-05
STRUCK WITH a hoe.
A Porto Rican Laborer Assaults a
Tennessee Negro.

Garfield Cooper, the colored Iennes-
see bow who has recently been quite
noticeable in the ranks of the Saliva
ton Army in Wailuku, was the victim
of a somewhat serious assault \at the
hands of one Thomas Kinion, a Porto
Rican. about noon on THURSDAY. Gar
field was officiating as water boy Tor a
gang of Porto Rican and japanese
plantation Iaborers, and while distrlp-
uting water, he states that he was
struck from behind with hoe IN the
hands of Kinion. Turning 10 see
whence the blow came, kinion struck
him again with his fist, and then at
tempted to hit him again with the noe
but was prevented by other Porto Rl-
cans. Garfield says that he mas not
the remotest idea why the Porto Rlcan
struck him, as he had not had any
previous truble with the man, put ne
thinks probably that the man asheu
him for a drink of water; stu, as ne
does not understand Porto Rican, ne Is
not sure.
Kinion will probably be arra1gned
before District Magistrate Mckay thls
morning-Maui News.
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HOT INSlDES
OF VOLCANO
KiIauea is Still Warming Up But
Has Not Exploded
Yet.

The trip to the Volcano has become
little more interesting of late on account
of rumored manifestation of fire about
this outlet of internal regions, presaging
more magnificent things for the future.
Nor are the rumors without foundation.
although something may bes@taken from
the most vivid efforts of4the Imagination
that have gone abroad. AS Mr.. Waldron,
the proprietor of the Volcano House
says, II don't want exaggerated reports
of the place to go out because they do
more harm than good in the long run.
don't want people from Honolulu or from
the Coast coming here with the idea in
their heads that they going to see
several square miles of boiling hades.
because they won't see it, and then they
will go home and kick and the sound Of
their kicking will not only reach the
skies but divers portions of the earth in
habited by people who yearn to trip to
Hawaii and might possibly satisfy the
yearn, but for the kick aforementioned.
In my opinion this crater is worth travel
ing some leagues, even on the Kinau to
see, and people who come here will think
so too, if they don't come here with
visions of molten lakes in their nuts
n UP Ildue Dy might " lllS SltbIeA
proves that this is the case. The pit of
Kilauea is in itself wonder showing the
dead remains of past upheavals and its
steaming fissures and central pit wrapped
in clouds of smoke prove that in itself it
is far from dead. Near this central part
where the eruption of 1894 occurred, for
about half a mile on the kona and Kau
side symptoms of a new outburst are dis
tinctly manifest in intense heat and visf-
BILE fire which in the larger cracks is seen
distinctly to approach the surface, the
rocks being at a white heat nearly to the
top. That there is a lake of molten lava
within a short distance of the surface
there can be doubt. Just as it stands
the sight is one of great magnihcence,
although, as Mr.. Waldron says of the
outbreak itself no one can predict. 1t
may come in day, and it may never
come; but as one lodges the big cracks
and glowing rocks it seems as If the
storm were not far off.-Hilo Tribune.
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and already there are going out from
the office here requests for young trees,
which will replace all that have been
removed, and make <tfe exhibition of
what may grow at once interesting and
instructive. 1t will be all the more in
teresting as the road passes through the
tract five or six times as its winds up
the hillside.
In the course of the preparation of
the beds which have been made it be-
came necessary to cut the earth from
the hillside, often to depth of seven
or eight feet. The workmen have been
under the direction of Mr.. Confer who
is a thorough German agriculturiSt,
and his Investigations during the prog
ress of the excavations have added ma
terially to the needed knowledge of the
character of the soils and how they
must be treated. For instance, where
there was necessary a clean cut of sew
en- feet the character of the soil was
carefully observed, and some of the re-
suits will be of great use In the re-
moval of some of the stumps of euca-
Iyptus trees the cuts We're made clear
so that the trend of the roots was OBJ
served. In the everything stratum of
surface soil, which is very rich, there
were found an abundance of small
roots. from which the tree gained prac-
ticafly all of its SuStenance. Beneath
this rich top soil there is about six feet
OF the volcanic mud, which character
ICES all the extinct volcanoes and this
is harder than the ordinary clay sub
soil having in it nothing which will
sustain vegetable life for any length of
time The roots of the trees are found
10 have forced their way into this stra-
tum for some few feet, often three Or
-four. but in many instances the roots
have died without winning in their
struggle to reach food and water.
That they would have reached it had
they had the strength is certain. for
below this stratum of red mud there is
found peculiar condition of affairs.
There lies layer of soil, which is anal
agous with the soils which have been
made from the decomposition of tropi-
cal vegetation everywhere, indicating
a period of centuries before the erup-
tion which last covered this mountain.
this layer, and at various points it is
mixed with a reddish soil which re-
sembles nothing so much as the decom-
posed granite which makes up the soil
iof California. SO rich is this lower
! statum that where the cutting has un-
covered it it has. been used as a tor
dressing. The soil all over the side OF
the mountain Is so full of acid that be-
| fore there is anything planted there
will he, given to the plats a dressing OF
lime.
From the nursery there is a clear
Of he- ant levels of the
tract and this indicates the extent OF
| the orchard which is to be placed
! there. Mr. Jared Smith, the agent ir
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-05
BOY ACCIDENTALLY
SHOOTS HIMSELF
Hawaiian Lad, While Out Hunt
ing Birds, Loses His
Life.

William K. Kuaiaina, fifteen-year-
old Hawaiian boy, better known to the
readers of this paper as Little Billie"
who was for a time a typo in the News
office, accidentally shot himself about
O'Clock Thursday afternoon, near his
residence in lao Valley.
He had been out shooting birds, and
was standing on the hillside near his
home. He called 10 attract the attention
of the people in the house and when
they looked out, he amused himself and
them by going through the manual Of
arms with his shotgun. He was lost
sight of for a few minutes, and then the
report of his gun was heard. A younger
brother ran out and saw him lying down.
Waiting a few moments, the younger
brother noticed smoke rising from his
brothers clothes and ran up on the hill
side and found William dead.
The only known witness to the trag-
edy was a small Portuguese boy, who
states that Williams gun seemed to slip
from his hand and fall to the base of the
rock on which he was standing, immed-
lately after which it was discharged. At
ter the shot William Strengthened up and
stood erect for a few moments, and then
reeled and fell dead The shot entered
the abdomen and ranged upward, doubt
less penetrating the heart.
The sheriff and several officers were
soon on the scene, bat the evidence of ac
cident was so apparent tina 1t was
deemed unnecessary to hold an inquest.
Maui News
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-05

Prince Cupid writes from South Africa
as follows:
We left Cape Town on March 10Th for
Kimberley, and the accommodations OF
trains here are very poor indeed, about
as good as on a third class American
train. On arriving at Blood river,
o'clock. March 21st, we stopped, as the
Beers had cut the line, and here l re-
ceived my first experience of warfare.
Five hundred troopers were sent up coun-
try following about an hour after u.s.
when we found out what had happened
The train coming from the opposite di-
rection had been derailed, and we waited
patiently until the soldiers had arrived
and got to work raising the engine and
fixing the track. 1t was dusk then. we
were getting ready to proceed and the
pickets We're returning when we heafd
two or three shots fired. We learned
later that one Of our pickets had been
swiped and shot by the Beers. Shortly
after the bugle sounded and the soldiers
advanced in different directions from the
train Five minutes afterward we heard
more shots and then the soldiers fired
volleys to draw the Beers fire. 1t was
very dark now and in a few moments
bullets were flying in all directions, and
we felt badly scared. 1t was a funny
sight Chat is 1t was a funny sight after
the fight was pau), all the men hiding un-
der the cars, or running here and there
very excited, while the women were TAX
ing 1t easy and laughing at the men. The
shooting stopped in about half an hour,
and men were sent out, returning with
one of our pickets shot and two killed
Beers They were buried near the rail-
way. We left that night for De Aar, ar
irving there next morning. The COM
mandant of the place told us that the
Beers had broken the lines in front of
us, and that two Beers were caught and
shot Here we We're far from Cape
Town and in a nice mess. We left soon
after for Orange river where We met
Ma jor Mann, the officer in command who
told us we could go no further that night
as the Beers were all over the country,
and it would be dangerous to go on. We
dined with him and his staff and after
dinner he presented me with a gun and
cartridge belt which he had taken from
a Boer at the battle of Modder river
The English were charging the beers,
and while the major was giving q
wounded Boer some water, the fellow
tried TO shoot him, but the major was
too quick and killed him with shot
from his revolver. He took the gun, belt
and shambox away as a souvenir and
presented the last to the Princess. We
had rather jolly night and left next
morning for Kimberley, passing over the
battlefields of Belmont, Gras Pan Mod
der river Magersfontein, arriving at the
famous city next morning. Here we
wanted to see the diamond mines, but
first we visited the strong room of the
De Beers Co. to see the diamonds there,
and it was worth seeing the piles of
precious stones, valued at s., 100000. Mr..
Gardiner Williams. the manager, took
us around and showed us everything
from the diamond filed sand coming
down up to the sorting rooms. The out
put amounts to $4,000 per day. I had
several photographs taken of the works,
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We went through the mines to the depth
of 2,4o0 feet and we returned. De Beers
presented the Princess with an uncut
diamond of a very odd shape. The stone
is small but on 1t is seen the face of a
man-eyes, nose "chin, forehead and even
moustache being quite clear. 1t was
found that way, and 1t is a very inter-
esting curio. They showed US un-
cut diamond of 275 carats which was not
so valuable as a small nine carat pink
diamond. 1 never knew there were so
many different kinds of diamonds. There
are sparkling white, ordinary white, dark
white, white with black spots, white with
black veins, light yellow, dark yellow.
dark and light blue, dark and light pink,
and coffee colored. The costliest of all
Is the dark orange, of which we saw
a four carats one, worth $4,000. We
had letters from Cecil Rhodes and that
was why We were treated with so much
courtesy. On the 2Sth l left for Bulla-
wayo with Sir Charles Metcalfe and some
officers 4or hunting trip to the Zam-
besi river and the Victoria falls, and we
mad some good shooting, killing some big
game. l was out one day with Captain
Hawks when we met a herd of buffalos.
The captain wounded one and the infur-
lated beast charged us, knocked the cap
tain down and then / fired and killed
MIN with Shot through the heart Had
l missed him you wouldn't have got this
letter and my remains would have been.
meat for some African animal. l have
had the head of the buffalo stuffed and
will bring it home. l killed leopard
hippopotamus, and some antelopes. On
April 9th, re returned to Kimberley and
joined the forces in an expedition
against some Boer raiders. We lost six
killed and two wounded, but captured
5000 head of cattle, 5000 sheep and 200
horses. The Princess and 1 have enjoyed
our visit in Africa immensely. More by
next mail"
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-05
WHERE IS THE
CITY OF PEKING?
The Steamship is Now Consider.
ably Overdue From
Yokohama.

Has the City of Peking again broken
her shaft? This question was pretty
generally asked yesterday on account
of the delay of the vessel in reaching
port. Up to this morning she can be
considered forty-eight hours overdue
from Yokohama. which was August 3.
AS nearly all the vessels plying be-
tween San Francisco and the Orient,
via Honolulu, are in the habit of ar
riving in Honolulu harbor a day
ahead of the schedule date, the Peking
is now nearly three days overdue.So far
as is known no cable advices had been
received at San Francisco for publica-
ton prior to the sailing of the City of
Peru for Honolulu on July %, that the
Peking was held in quarantine at any
of the japanese ports. There is a pos
sibility that she may have been detain-
ed III this manner, although no advices
10 that effect have been received. The
United States gunboat Bennington.
which left Yokohama on July q, did
not sight the vessel at any place be-
tween Honolulu and Yokohama, al
though the Peking should have caught
up with her if she sailed on schedule
time from Yokohama, or did not meet
with an accident al sea. In the latter
part of January, 1893, the Peking broke
her shaft in mid-ocean and arrived at
San Francisco in the middle of Febru-
ary. seventeen days overdue. She was
towed into the harbor of San Francisco
nv the tug Vigilant, for which job
SpreckeIs got $4,000. The Peking on
that voyage sailed from Yokohama
January 10, at II a. M, and eXperienc-
ed fresh westerly winds the first ten
days. On January q, at 2:50 a. M, lat
iitude 40 north, longitude 146:16 west, l.
100 miles from San Francisco the shaft
broke in the sleeve and the vessel pro-
Iceeded under sail. During the fifteen
davs from the time of the accident the
ship made 1,340 miles under sail. When
the shaft broke Engineer Venker sprang
TO the machinery and stopped the en-
p;nes which threatened to rack the
vessel to pieces.
August 8, 2 a. m.-Steamer off port
probably the overdue City of Peklng
from the Orient,
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-05
Bank of Maui.

The generous support which the propos-
iuon to start bank on Maui has met is
a sufficient demonstration of the need for
a bank here. The investors, however.
must not imagine that they are opening
up a rich gold mine, or even big divi-
dend paying plantation, which will dou-
Die and treble the original value of their
capital stock. But they are investing
their money in a gilt edge security which
VIII not huctuate in value, and which
VIII pay and steady and satisfactory rate
OF In terest, and which will Furthermore
always be convertible into gold coin at its
original cost, if not more.-Maui News.
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Fictitious Values.

Real estate values in Honolulu have ap-
parently had a slump. but this does not
argue that the price of real estate IS on
a decline in Honolulu. The difficulty IS
that fictitious values have been attached
to real estate which auction sales tend
TO correct. As matter of fact. actual
values of real estate in Honolulu are
steadily advancing. as a comparison of
oed rock prices now and three years ago
WIN demonstrate, and the real estate of
Honolulu VIII year by year become worth
News.
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lne pledge and who have contributed
SO largely by their entertainments TO
the amusement of the public. The oc-
Gasion was the formal organization of
rrtncls Murphy Club No. 1, by the
M of Francis Murphy Hall
anu the quarters of the Waverly Club,
s " nich nave been leased by the presi-
dent, Franklin Austin. for rhe cInb
Mr.. Austin was elected president. w
n. bradley. club secretary and mu-
Slclan; j. c. Austin, F. G. Moves, A.
q. Wallace, Harry Tromoy and Mr.
Hamus, directors. Clubs will be or
ganized elsewhere in the group
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Both Doing Well.

Princess Theresa Wilcox's account Of
good reading. That she regrets leaving
the great American capital Is evident,
but whether she misses most the COM
panionship of, President and Mrs. Nc
ems. which seemed to be doing well too,
lis hard to determine from the narrative.
lHilo Herald
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PRICE FIVE CENTS.

ed States Marine Hospital Service. for
alleged improperly and discrimination
in examining passengers on the Amer
lea Maru were unfair, uncalled for and
not justified by facts. 1t is Furthermore
learned that DR.. Cofer called upon the
Japanese Consul and Mr.. and Mrs.
Okabe and made explanations which
were accepted by those parties as sat
isfactory and DR.. Cofer's call was re-
turned by them.
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Defend DIR. Cofer.

Bditor Advertiser: At a meeting of
the Hawaiian Territorial Medical So
ciety on the evening of August Sd it
was resolved that the recent attacks
made upon Dr. L. E. Cofer, of the Unit