The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-22
LATE NEWS
FROM MAUI
Telephone Co. Raises
Stock.
MANY CATTLE BRANDED
Haelo Land Case SettIed--Japanese
Murders His Wife at 0Iaa
Plantation.
Especial corresr ondence.)

NSpSCldl SOIItSl Jnu6nce.J
WAILUKU, Maui, Jan. 19-The cow
boys at Kahikinui have been showing
that chutes are superior to lassos for
the purpose of brandil s cattle Ninety
full-groWn animals weighing from $50
to $50 pounds were branded in. chutes
within ninety minutes, a good record
for the eight vaqueros engaged in the
work. The boys also branded twenty
five young cattle too small for the
chutes within sixty-four minutes by
throwing them down with the lasso
Monday and Tuesday the time was
spent in building the cattle chutes or
races of lumber brought from Homo
lulu by schooner. Wednesday, Thurs
day and Friday driving in and brand
ing was the order of th> day.
Over 200 herd cattle were stamped
with the hot iron up to Friday night;
today 800 more will be branded and on
Monday next seven or eight hundred.
Forty-one vaqueros have been kept
busy, including DR.. Raymond and Mr..
Wood of Honolulu. The cool, bracing
air and violent exercise induced hearty
appetites. A glorious time is reported.
MAUI TELEPHONE co.
The annual meeting of the Maui Tele-
phone Co. was held at the Paia post
office on January Is. w. S. NicoH was
elected secretary in place of c. H.
Dickey, resigned. and the following
officers were reelected: II. P. Baldwin
president; D. C. Lindsay, vice presi-
dent; E. B. Carley, treasurer, and w.
o. Aiken, assistant treasurer and aud
cd 70 raj
stock of the company from s17,500 to
the limit, $4,000, for the purpose of pay
ing off the old debt of about $4,000
To accomplish this 500 additional
shares will be issued, 400 of which will
be offered to stockholders at SIS (S19
being par value). The $4,000 thus to be
realized will be used to pay off the
debt The remaining 100 shares will be
held in the treasury to be sold only in
case of necessity. After April 1, 1901,
the regular monthly dividend will be
increased from / per cent to III per
cent per month, and probably an extra
dividend will also be paid at the end
of the year.
MAUI POLO CLUB.
Some of the members of the Maka-
~@N>
suggestion of the Oahu Polo Club in re-
gard to the adoption of the rules of the
American Association which exclude
the off-side regulation in use in British
clubs.
The Maui club will hold a meeting in
about two weeks to discuss the matter
1t is a question whether or not the
game will not lose something of scien-
tific value by permitting off-side play
AT first consideration it seems as
though without the off-side rule polo
becomes nothing more than Skinny or
horseback.
HUELO LAND MORTGAGE.
The proceedings as regards the fore.
closure of the mortgage for $1,000 or
the Huelo lands now under lease to the
Maui Sugar Co. have been stopped by
the payment of the principal, $4,000, the
interest, $135.S5, and the expenses Of
foreclosure, $3.50, a total of $2,9S5.35
This sum of money was paid in by the
members of the hui" who purchased
the lands from Mr.. Watson through j
X. Smythe, trustee. The shares in thi:
hui or company, of which there arr
seventy (par value 5000. are now sell
ing for from 1925 to $3.50. The Hawaii
an Commercial and Sugar Co. contro
the hui by virtue of the ownership
of thirty nine of the seventy shares.
The shareholders held meetings t.
consider ways and means of prevent
ing the foreclosure of the Watson mort
gage on December 20, 1900, at Spreckels
vile store and on January II, 1901. a
Peahi store. Another meeting will b.
held at Peahi store Oh. c. & S. Co.
Feb. IA in order to levy an assessmen
pro rata of between $500 and 5000 which
were lacking to pay off the mortgag
on the Huelo lands.
| Some wonder was expressed as to tn
reason why the Maui Sugar Co. did no
purchase the mortgage if possible, blu
those interested state that their leas
| is for twenty years, with the privile2
of a renewal of twenty years at a yer,
small rental. so the company is not in
! terested in the purchase of the lands.
LAND CASE SETTLED.
An interesting case tried in the Cir