The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-12-26
LATEST LOT OF
HONOLULU NEWS
Government Will Get Cheap Land
For Naval Station.
SPECIAL ELECTION HELD
DOLE Is GOING TO TAKE A TRIP
TO WASHINGTON.
SPECIAL ELECTION HELD

Honolulu. Dec 1S.-(Via Victoria. 3
/ C., Dec. 25.)-The first Of the SUITS
! brought by the United States to con-
denim lands needed for the naval sta
/ ton at Pearl harbor was decided last
week by jury in the United States
district court. which awarded the land
/ to the government at a price far be-
low the demands of the owners.
The case was that of the United
States against the estate of Bernice
Fauahi Bishop, involving over 500 acres
of land at the site of the proposed sta
ton. The Bishop estate, in its answer
to the suit OF condemnation, demanded
about $500 per acre for the land, while
the governments price was about $50.
The jury brought in verdict awarding
the defendants about SIS per acre. The
verdict is taken to indicate that the
government win get the land wanted
for naval station for a small sum.
TWO other suits brought by the gov
eminent have been compromised, the
United States getting the land without
cost. The John II estate agreed to and
mas decided to the government a strip
OF land amounting to twenty-three
acres OF the Ford island, and the suit
against the Ii estate for the whole of
the island has been withdrawn. as if
Is held to be unnecessary to take it all.
The Oahu Sugar company also sur
rendered it's leasehold interest in the
same land. The suit against the Oahu
Railway & Land company for the land
covered by its right of way has been
settled. The company deeds the land
TO the government with the under
standing that its tracts shall not be
disturbed until a new right of way is
provided.
The most important condemnation
suit now pending is against the Homo
lulu Plantation company to secure the
comDany's leasehold interest in the
lands of the Bishop estate already con-
demned. a suit against the Dowsett
estate for 4SS acres of this same land
is also pending.
A special election held in HiIo dis
trict last week to choose a successor
to the late J. z. WaIiko, member OF
the house of representatives, resulted
in the election of James Lewis, who
was the defeated republican candidate
at the former election. The campaign
was a quiet one.
AFSAA--iL NNoOSGNGit message Is
commented on here as adverse to the
sugar interests of Hawaii. The dec
laratiOn against allowing more Chinese
to come here was a disappointment to
the planters. The prospect of reci-
procity with Cuba, the possibility of
free admission of sugar from that ISL
and and the Philippines, as we'll as
Porto Rico, are also disappointing to
Hawaii. In spite Of these differences,
however, the sugar stocks remain firm
Governor Dole viii leave for Wash
ingtOn in the near future to make an
appeal Of the territory in a case in
vOlving the legality of trials without
grand jury indictments under the Ha-
waiian law allowing jury verdicts by
nine jurors after an examination.
Considerable alarm is felt in marine
circles for the safety of several overdue
vessels from Pacific coast ports. Among
them is the ship c. D. Carleton, forty
four days out from Tacoma.
The barkentine Rirkitat is thirty
seven days out from Port Ludlow, and
the bark Ceylon twenty-four days from
Port Gamble. From Gray's harbOr the
schooner W. F. Witesemann is thirty
seven days out, and the H. D. Ben
dixen is fOrty-fOur days out from Port
The W. II. Diamond. Amy
Turner and Gerard c. TObey are each
twenty-fOur days out from San Fran
cisco. Yesterday the S. G. Wilder ar
rived from San Francisco after trip
Of twenty-fOur days.