The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-09-17
HOODS SassapaslMA
LOCAL BREVlTlES.

The opening ball Of the st. Antonet
Society was given Saturday evening
at their new hall on Vineyard street
There is still talk of beer wal
among the saloonkeepers, and schoon
ers may yet be sold for Ave cents il
Honolulu. :.''
The Fire Commission considered tn,
last Of the Hawaiian claims Saturday
The number of claims filed now is
649i. aggregating s2,131, 7S4.s1.
Melville, vaniman. the trapeze pho.
! tographrT. goes to the Coast on the
Sierra, accompanied by his wife. He
may go to Niagara Falls for the pur-
pose of photpgraphing them.
! Byron Clark, one of the Wahiawa
farmers. has received thousand Mex
lean rubber, tree seeds, which will BE-
planted at Wahiawa. Jared Smith was
a visitor at the colony yesterday.
/ The following promotions have been
made in Company j. First Regiment
n. G.. H: Corporal +. Nj. McGrew, to
be sergeant. Private j. +. O'Connor, Ia
be corporal; Private A. u. Wise. to be
corporal.
! One of Pains electric cars is being
remodeled Tor use on the Pacific
Heights car line. The necessary chang
es are being made at the Desky com
papy shops n the end of the Pacific
Heights line.
John Barrett, formerly minister tc
Slam. will be the official delegate OF
the St Louis exposition, to create in.
terest i'm the fair in the Orient. and
new insular possessions. He is sched-
4 uled for q visit to Honolulu.
J Wade w. Thayer has returned from,
/ Hawaii He reports the Hamakua fires
as even more terrible than the news
paper reports indicate. He says the
, lack of water has caused untold suf-
fering, and the bad effects of drought
and fire ere evident everywhere.
The Merchants Association met Sat
urday and considered the question OF
an appeal from the income tax deci-
sion. No formal action WAS taken. as
the matter is still being investigated
by attorneys! Several new applications
for membership have been received.
p, A tram car collided with hack
driven by 4. II. Paine, Saturday night
on Euuanu street, near Queen Hotel
The shaft was driven into the horses
shoulder but the injury was not Sc,
rious. A suit for damages against the
tramways company may be the re.
suit.
The midnight providers are stili al
work on the upper end of Young street
several people having found theiI
shutters pried open by means of q ben,
wire. In two cases at least, however
the intruders were scared away by the
fact that the inmates of the houses
were awake.
Lieutenant Mcintyre, Artillery Corps
who has been assigned to Camp Nc
Kinley for some time, but who has
been serving in the Philippines, is ex.
pected to arrive here for duty at an
early date. Lieutenants Allen ana
| Perkins are en- route to San Francis
co from Manila, and will probably be
! here on one of the transports due this
month. .,
1t Is reported that Colonel Parker
and his associates have given up the
idea of securing water privileges in the
Kohala mountains. This will leave q
clear field to Colonel Jones, who Is
said to represent Chicago capitalists
The Executive Council has so far mo-
given a decision upon the petitions be
fore It, -'..
Six OF the boys who escaped from
the Reform School on Thursday nigh
We're captured yesterday at Eva b,
David Kappa, and returned to the in
stitution. 1t Is limited that the young
sters were aided in their escape by al
ex-guard, who Is an Hawaiian. TIL
guard was discharged for cause by Su
perintendent Needham a short time ag
because ne permitted the boys t
smoke and receive tobacco from partie
outside the fence enclosing the school
Sister Beatrice, of St. Andrews Pri
DRY, leaves for San Francisco toRlor
row ON the Sierra. This is the frs
time the good sister has left the Isl
ands since she landed here, nearl
! forty years ago. She goes entirely OF
her own account in connection witt
the Priory. Sister Beatrice will be il
, San Francisco while the American
Episcopal bishops are in convention
and her purpose there will be to pres
for the sending here of American sis
tiers to serve at st. Andrews priory
The trouble with the Hamaku
fire." said Judge Little, of Hilo, yester
day, is that 1t burns underground. Tn
fire is eXtinguished in one place, but
creeps along beneath the surface, o
, the roots of trees, like fuse, an
, breaks out again on the mountain sid'
probably half a mile away. There ha
; been no rain for such a long time tina
J these roots are as dry as finder. tn
first breaks out suddenly In an unex
: pected place. and as no one is prepar
, ed for IT, the fire gains CONSIDERABLE
!. Roadway, before it can be stopped"
A surrey In which were two ladies,
, japanese nurse and an infant, draw
by a fractions hourse, was almos
overturned last Wednesday. on Bers
tania street, near the pumping station
The ladies, who were driving to tn
1 Mail dock, fearing that the steame
I would leave before they reached tn
wharf, whipped up the horse. whic
took the bit in his teeth and bolteC
The lady who was driving had pres
ence of mind enough to hold the rein
and gradually caused the horse to wee
! towards the sidewalk near Gonsalve
. photo gallery. The horse was stoppe
{ in the DOORWAY one of the ShafiA hs