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BANDITS SENT TO GALLOWS.
Roundup If Native Filipino Outlaws.

Washington, Jan. 13.-Copies of
general orders from the Philippines 70
ceived here show that large number
of native Filipinos have been con-
victed of murder and other crimes and
sentenced to be hanged or to long
terms of Imprisonment.
In one case the accused belonged to
an organized mob which, under the
name of Guardia de Honor, had for its
declared object the murder of peaceful
and unoffending victims if found neces-
sary to crafty either desire for re-
venge or a feeling of envy against the
rich.
A native named Vincente Prado es-
tablished a camp in a strong position,
difficult of access, in the mountainous
district near Rosario, Aunon province
There he entrenched his camp and
erected buildings and band of armed
outlaws gathered about him. Recently
two Americans were taken into the
camp as prisoners and for no apparent
reason other than that they were "en-
emies," they were ordered to instant
death.
Shortly afterward two Igorrotes, a
man and woman, were taken before
duO ftuu CI1dIScu Will USluS
lean spies. Without any attempt al
proof or form of trial they were or
dered to be executed Immediately In
both instances Prado personally wit
messed the execution of his orders by
members of his outlaw band, who used
their bolos on the defenseless prison
ers.
On another occasion, Prado ordered
his band to attack and burn the pueb-
Ia of San Jacinto, and to capture, and
'if he resisted. kill' the president of
Rosario. In pursuance of these or
ders the president of Rosario and his
son were killed and 103 houses de-
stroyed by fire. 80.
Prado and his chief outlaw assist
ants were sentenced to be hanged.
Another native sentenced to be
hanged was Pedro Lachica. This man
was one of a band of natives who,
representing themselves to be police
men, entered at night several houses
anil by threats and use of firearms
induced the natives to come out and
surrender. They also tied the arms
of the men behind their backs and
beat them with bolos and robbed the
house of money, jewelry and other val
tables.
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Sailor Runs Amuck.

Santa Barbara, Jan, 10. - The
schooner Kate and Ann, Captain Wal
ker, has arrived from Santa Rosa.
She reports that Mike O'Brien, a seal
hunter, ran amuck aboard the vessel
Saturday morning. He made a vicious
attempt to kill Captain Walker with a
knife and succeeded in cutting the
cook badly in the region of the heart,
the wound probably being fatal. He
then cut his own throat, dying on the
deck. He slashed his throat until his
head was nearly severed from the
body. The schooner arrived here at
6 O'Clock this evening for medical aid
for the cook and captain, and to de-
liver the body of O'Brien to the
morgue,
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In the Oil Fields.

1t is said here that the Victoria
strike in Encinitis is probable bona
fide, as the company owning the well
has no stock to sell and therefore is
interested in booming the territory.
The officers have bought a quantity
of supplies in Los Angeles, and are
making preparations to case off water,
which they believe is keeping oil from
flowing into the we'll as it would 9TH
eIwise do.
The usually activity prevails in the
Kern river field. 1t is said here that
the Globe company is the possessor of
four good wells, and that it has sue
ceeded in selling its entire output to
the Santa Fe The company recently
cleaned out No. 3, and it is said now to
be first class producer even for that
field
The Globe has acquired holdings on
the Scully ranch in the Fullerton field
and will explore that part of the ter
ritory for oil. 1t has a well already
under way.
There is much active development
work coming in the Butterworth eoun-
try, according to the Hanford Journal.
Most of the good land has been taken
up and the field may soon be heard
from as heavy producer of oil.
Some Whittier men who compose the
Cape Mendocino Oil company are dis
posed to go far away from home to
operate. They will drill in Humbolt
county, where they have holdings.
The Huasna Development company
will resume drilling on it's East Huas-
ma property. 1t is said the company
sunk $4,000 in its other we'll on the
Huasna and got nothing to show for
1t.
The Southern Pacific is to build a
number of double tank cars to accom-
modate the heavy demand in the Kern
river field. There has been much trou-
BILE in marketing the product of that
territory, and it is proposed to relieve
the stringency in transportation IA
cilities
1t is said that there are good indi-
cations in Arizona and that there will
be development work done there be-
fore long.
There has been some talk in Bak-
ersfield of building a railroad from
that place to San Luis Obispo, if the
railroad increase. 1t is thought the
work can be done for $1,000, 900, and
the oil men of that territory are suffi-
GENTLY Independent to commence OPP
erations if forced to do so by higher
railroad rates. 1t is said that the visit
Of several Chicago and st. Louis cap
italists to Bakersfield a few weeks ago
was to look into the merits of such
an enterprise.
Heavy filings on the Carriso creek
section in San Diego county continue
and all the desirable territory will
soon be taken up.
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While people were still shuddering
over the atrocities of the Boxers" in
China came the terrible details of the
horror at Limon, Col. The people of
that region are not peculiarly blood
thirsty. They seem to have gone about
the thing much as they would have
come to the aid of a neighbor in any
other matter. They left the punishment
to the father of the murdered girl. They
furnished the murderer with a Bible
and gave him time to pray. They had
ordered the rough element to keep
away and make no interference. What
a queer mixture Of order and crime, of
religion and sin, Of civilization and bar
barism, of compassion and malignity!
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Anti-Ameriean Feeling Aroused in San
Domingo.

Santo Domingo.-The Dominican
government has issued a decree
against the collection of duties by the
Santo Domingo improvement company
of New York There Is intense eX
citement and the anti-American feel
ing is strong. The action IS due to the
protest of the Belgian bondhelders.
The duties will now be collected for
treasury needs. A commission of con-
suls and merchants has been appoint
ed to supervise the financial affairs
until a final settlement is reached.
Congress is considering a demand OF
the government for the credit required
luemeAoIdmI eq4 Ql!M luemep49s IoI
company.
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Whenever modern invention or dis
covery has produced anything, some
one pops up to inform the world that
China knew this thousands of years
ago. If China did know any of these,
she never made use Of them, and is
entitled to no credit. The latest claim
Is that archives in Pekin show she set
tied America. This really is an old
claim renewed, and one that has been
discredited by scholars for many years.
Humboldt and his school believed that
the civilization Of Mexico and Peru
was derived from other people, but the
trend of modern belief is that it was
evolved by the aborigines themselves.
China's claim has no more foundation
than Ignatius Donnelly's-thatt the set
Element and colonization of America
came from the tabled Atlantis.
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Quarries of Old Egypt.

On the way to Philae and the head of
the cataract, a short distance south of
Assouan, we come upon the ancient
quarries which supplied the granite for
the columns, statues and obelisks
throughout Egypt for many centuries.
An obelisk which we saw lies in its ma
tive bed. 1t is ninety-five feet in
length, and three sides have been care
fully cut, but for some unknown reason
it was never separated entirely from
the parent rock. The surface bears the
tool marks of the workmen. The
grooves in it show that it was to have
been reduced at the sides. 1t was sup
posed that the stone was split from its
bed by drilling holes in the rock and fill
ing them with wooden wedges, which
were afterward saturated with water,
the swelling wood furnishing the
power.
From illustrations in the temples it is
clear that these great monuments were
foated down the river on flatboats and
RATS and then carried inland by arti-
fetal canals or dragged overland by
thousands of slaves. In one of the
tombs at Beni-Hassan is a picture illus
trating the process. The great stone IS
loaded upon a huge sled drawn by a
multitude of workmen. One man is
engaged in pouring water upon the
runners to prevent friction. Another
stands at the left of the statue and
beats time, that the men may work in
unison, while overseers, provided with
whips, urge the laborers to their task.
What king desired to extricate this
block from the quarry, why it was left
here, what it was to commemorate we
can never know. The riddle of the
sphinx is solved, but the riddle of the
obelisk in the quarry will no doubt re-
main with US er.-Chautauquan.
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ley accepted the invitation to be pres
ent at the launching of the battleship
Ohio, at San Francisco, May 18, the
chief executive would have the honor
of naming the battleship, but the
Times is officially informed that Gov.
Nash is the man who has been given
that honor and also that the COVER
nor's p-daughter, Mrs. Worthington
Babcock, will break the bottle on the
bow of the battleship.
President McKinley's party will
probably include, besides Mrs. Nc
Kinley, almost every member of the
cabinet. According to the schedule
the party will leave Washington on
May 1, in special train provided by
the Southern Pacific. 1t is expected
that the party will reach San Francisco
on the evening of May Is.
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Will Save Snug Sum Delaying Incor-
poration.

From time to time announcement
has been made that articles of incor-
poration of the San Pedro, Los An
geles and Salt Lake railroad would
surely be filed in Salt Lake City the
following week. When the date ar
rived and the papers were not filed
a great variety of excuses were ad-
vanced by the promoters as a reason
therefor.
The truth of the matter, which has
just come to light from a reliable
source, shows the astuteness and bust
ness foresight of the financiers hand
ling the enterprise. A little matter of
$4,000 or so has stood IN the way of
the incorporation, namely, the inter
nal revenue war tax, which must be
attached to the papers.
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Evo1utions of the Warships.

A whole feet in the days of Nelson
could be built and fitted out at little
more than the cost of single ironclad
the coal expended on a single cruise
would pay for the refitting of his whole
battle line, while the immense shells
required to make any impression on
the modern armor plate cost more than
his whole armament. But the modern
-battleship could neither be built,
armed nor fought without the use of
steam, and its evolution may be said
to have commenced with the first appli-
cation of the steam engine to naviga-
ton.
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A competent referee has reported
that the services of lawyer in case
for which the disciple of Blackstone
put in a bill for $4,000 were actually
worth no more than $500. 1t may not
be easy for an attorney who sets so
high an estimate upon his qualifications
and efforts to find clients hereafter.
Overcharges of a few hundred per
cent may be expected now and then at
the bar, but to ask $4,000 in compen-
sation when one-f1ftieth Of that amount
would have been a fair remuneration
passes the bounds of patience.
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Immense DowrY.

New York, Jan. IA special to the
World from Newport, R. l., says:
1t has been given out unoff1cially by
a close friend of the Vanderbilt and
French families that Alfred Wander
bilt has settled on Elsie French as her
marriage portion one-tenth of his
enormous fortune-namely $500, 900.
This great dowry is given to her
according to this authority, not in cash
but in selected bonds and stocks from
that part of the estates. of the late
Cofneiius Vanderbilt, which was ap-
portfoued to Allied, the chosen son and
chief heir.
AS the late. Cornelius Vanderbilt's
fortune was invested in securities pay
ing 4 per cent. interest. the bride will
have an income of $14S,000 a year, or
ST., 1888 a month,
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Congressman Jefferson NJ. Levy of
New York is reported to have offered
Rockefeller $500, 700 for 800 shares of
Standard Oil stock. This valuation ap-
piled to his total holdings of Standard
Oil places Rockefeller's wealth in that
property alone at about $266,OOO,OOO.
In addition to this he has large inter-
ests in other directions, so that it is i'm
possible to measure accurately his en-
tire fortune. Within the last year, how
ever, the advance in the market value
of his Standard Oil stock alone has in
creased his wealth $95,OOO,O00 or so,
while his annual income IN dividends
from that stock is about $16O00,OOO.
Such astonishing figures go far to prove
that the Standard Oil magnate is the
richest man in the world. They are
deceiving, however, in a sense. Mr..
Rockefeller has no such accumulation
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Arizona Must Wait Year for Statehood.

Washington.-The residents of Ariz-
ona who have spent several weeks in
in Washington endeavoring to further
the passage of the bill admitting that
territory as a state, will soon retrun
home greatly disappointed. They are
assured, however, by both Republican
and Democratic leaders of prominence,
that at the next session of congress
bills providing for the admission of
Arizona, Oklahoma and New Mexico as
states will be passed 1t is admitted
on. all sides that on account of the
great growth in populotion in the last
ten years Arizona is entitled to state
hodd Owing to lack of time, however,
it will be impossible to get bill
through this session. Should an extra
session, be called, which is considered
possible, the statehood bills may be
put through in the spring.
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TRAMPLED 70 DEATH
Cry of Fire at a Gathering in Chicago
Causes Death of Six Persons.
CHILDREN THROWN FROM BALCONY
WomensSpring from the Balcony Upon
the Crowd Below-The Alarm OF Fire
Was False.

Chicago, Jan. 12.-Six persons were
crushed to death and as many more Sc
riously injured in a panic which fol-
lowed cry of fire" late this after
noon in Turner hall, West Twelfth
street. About eight hundred people
in the place gathered to witness the
performance of a play entitled "The
Green Horn"
Samuel Mendelsohn and two chill
dren. The play was in Yiddish and
the audience, comprising for the most
part women and children, were all
Hebrews. The hall stands in a dense
ly populated district.
When the cry was raised it was only
five seconds until the entire audience
was converted into a frantic mob,
every member of which was fighting
for the safety which lay beyond the
doors of the building.
The hall is used for dances, and
when a performance is given chairs
arc set for the spectators. AS soon
as the wild rush towards the doors be-
gan chairs were knocked down in
every direction. The aisles disap-
peared and the excited people ran,
climbed and tumbled over the chairs
on the way to the doors.
RUSH FOR THE EXIT
Around the upper part of the hall
extends a balcony which is open at
only one end. Here were seated 100
women and children and two men at
the farther end of the balcony away
from the stairway seeing that the rush
toward the exit was blocked between
them began at once to throw the little
ones over the railing to the floor, ten
feet below. The children fell into the
midst of the maddened throng and
were at once trampled under foot.
Three of the dead were children who
were thrown from the balcony and
trampled by the crowd, with not
chance for their lives. Following the
children, many Of the women sprang
from the balcony upon the crowd be-
low, and others, swinging over, hung
by their hands before they dropped.
The railing of the balcony was brok-
en- through in half dozen places by
the pressure brought against it by the
maddened crowd.
Within five minutes after the begin
ming of the panic it was all over, and
the police and firemen who came hur
rying to the scene of the disaster were
called upon to do nothing beyond car
rying away the dead and injured and
keeping back the thousands of people
who tried to force their way into the
building. AS soon as the news of the
panic had spread throughout the dis
trict, which seemed but a few minutes,
all the Hebrews from that part of the
city rushed to the place bent upon
learning the names of the dead and
wounded.
The women fought desperately with
the officers in their efforts to enter the
building and learn if any of their loved
ones were among the dead. The crowd
was so excited and so unmanageable
that several calls were sent for addi-
tional officers and firemen before it
could be restrained.
The alarm of fire was false, there
having been no blaze at any time.
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Died Near the Cemetery.

San Diego, Jan. 12.-The partially
decomposed body of Peter Schultz,
rancher, was found near the city Gem
etery this afternoon. part of the
face and one ear were eaten away and
the body had evidently lain there for
three days.
Schultz was evidently in the act OF
hitching his horses to the wagon when
overcome with heart disease and he
died where he fell.
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YEARS COINAGE BREAKS THE
RECORD.
Large Increase in the Output Of the Mint.

Washington, Jan. 11-George Rob-
erts, director of the mint, in his an
nual report shows that the coinage of
this past year was in excess of any
previous year in the history CT the
service, aggregating S141, 351 $50, as
compared with $136,S55,6 in the last
fiscal year. The value of the gold coin
age was slightly below that of the
previous year, being $107, 1897 ITO, as
compared with $10S,177 ,1S0. The coin
age of silver dollars was 1924, 1884,
as compared with $1S,254,7O9 in the
previous year.
The chief increase was in the out
put of subsidiary and minor coins,
which surpass all records, and, it is
stated, may doubtless be attributed to
the extraordinary activity of retail
trade throughout the country. The
coinage of subsidiary silver amounted
to 57,114,270 pieces of the value of
$12,876, $40, and of minor coins to the
extraordinary total of 101, 301, 753
pieces. of the value of $2.243.017.
The seignorage or profits of this
coinage was $5,477,525.
The deposit Of gold bullion at the
minis and assay offices OF the United
States during the fiscal year ended
June 80, 1900, exclusive of redeposits,
were of the value of $133 $40, 119,
against $149, 497, $50, reported the pre-
vious year. The total deposits of gold
were not so great as in the previous
year, the deposits of bullion showing
decline, but the deposit Of domestic
bullion again surpassed all records,
amounting to ST., 458, 1886, against $780,
252.4S7.
The seignorage on the coinage of
silver dollars, subsidiary and minor
coins during the year was $40, 1886, 1902.
Including silver contained in gold
deposits. the deposits and purchases of
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Fruit in New York.

New York, Jan. 12-While auction
sales this week have been somewhat
heavier than last, the market has been
in better shape, especially on navels,
medium and large fruit selling forty
and fifty cents higher The weather is
now clear and predicted cooler. If IA
vorable next week look for higher
market, as arrivals are smaller. There
are thirty-two carloads of oranges and
seven of lemons on the track and due.
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Ambushed by a Moonsbiner.

Memphis, Jan. 12.-Near Friar's
Point, Miss, Deputy Sheriff James Luz
cas- was shot from ambush and instant
ly killed by Andrew Caylor, for whose
arrest on the charge of selling Illicit
whiskey the deputy had a warrant.
Caylor was captured and mob organ
lied to lynch him, but the authorities
him.
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John D. Rockefeller is credited with
being the richest man in the world and
In the enjoyment of the largest income.
And yet his digestion is such that an
ordinary Dutch lunch would put him
ON the shelf for a week.
Holbrook argus., 1901-01-19

Sarah Bernhard says the American
man does not know how to make love,
when we doubt if Sarah ever saw him
really try.
Holbrook argus., 1901-01-19

Science now claims to tell the age OF
ish by their scales. No scientist, how
ever, has yet discovered method by
which to tell the age Of a fish story.
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Nash's Stepdaughter Selected to christen
the Rattleship Ohio.

Toledo, o., Jan. 12.-The Times win
say tomorrow: 1t has been generally
thought that when President McKin-
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You never hear of a girl these days
who enters a convent because she was
Tilted. She begins breach of promise
suit.
Holbrook argus., 1901-01-19

Some people clear their cDnsciences
In much the same manner they would
clear coffee.
Holbrook argus., 1901-01-19

One million dollars to nothing, as a
ratio of liabilities to assets, almost
amounts to genius.
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Talking Of dog exhibitions, no ca
nine's ancestral tree can be conclusiVely
decided by its bark.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-11-06

DANCE AT NEW McBRYDE MILL.
A dance was given at the new Nc
Bryde mill at Eleele last Saturday
night r... I On.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-11-06
THE HILo NOMINEE.
Man Proposed as the Successor of j.
Ewaliko. ..

James d. Lewis who has been no
minated by the Hilo Hawaiians to
succeed the late Representative j.
Ewaliko was one of the Republican
candidates for the Legislature from the
Hilo district last fall. He was the
fifth candidate in the running, receiv-
ing 326 votes as against 649 for r. II
Makekau, 61S for S. II. Haaheo, 555 for
j. Bwaliko and 592 for w. b. Nailima
He was born in Honolulu, May 20
1859 His father was James l., Lewis
and his mother was the late Mrs. Aud
who died a little over year ago. He
after leaving school began the work
of life with William Austin on the gov
eminent wharf, remaining with Mr.
Austin five years. He then started fol-
himself as a plantation carpenter, He
has been in Hilo for the past eleven
years as contractor and builder, his
speciality being bridge building In
1889 he married Miss KAPPA of Hilo.
?" HILO, November 1.-James Lewis
had a narrow escape from death one
day last week. He was digging a cess
pool on the Lyman premises and when
it had reached a depth of twenty-fouI
feet, Mr.. Lewis started to cross on a
plank The plank broke and Lewis fell
to the bottom. He landed on the hard
rock upon his feet without any serious
injury. Failing boards inflicted slight
injuries and the shock was so severe
that he was not able to appear on the
streets for several days.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-11-06
A MAUI FoRErAs ST

President Roosevelt is beginning 10
taste OF the martyrdom which the
world hastens to inhict on all reform
ers. Already Senator Hanna has drawn
his battle axe, and Will find an enthu-
siastic following among disgruntIed
southern republicans The Andrew
Jacksons of the South, who had drawn
very near to President Roosevelt are
benumbed by his fratern1zing with a
negro, even thought 1t be Booker IT.
washington so that the president has
become, or is fast becoming "a frost
in the south, Republicans in the north
and west will be offended by Roose-
velt's refusals to consider their wishes
in the matter of appointments, and the
time is not far distant when President
Roosevelt will find himself up against
machine politics. Then will come the
tug of war, and it remains to be seen
whether or not the people will stand by
the president.-Maui News.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-11-06
LIST or OFFICERS.

G. M. { )oKE. President
GEORGE H. ROBEkTSoN,.. Manager
e. F. BISHOP. !. Treasurer and Secty.
COL. w. F, ALLEN. .........Auditor