The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-03-25
NEWS FROM
BIG ISLAND
What is Happening
at and Near
HiIo.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT
TO VOLCANO STAGE
Shriners Pay Visit Illicit Liquor
Shriners Pay a Visit-.-lIlicit Liquor
Licenses--The OIaa
Mill.

HILO, March pa most serious accit
dent occurred to the Volcano stage as itss
was leaving Dolloway's halfway house /
in Kau, for Hilo last Wednesday. The
leaders ran in opposite directions while
the wheel horses partly broke loose. Mr.
Buck, disliking the rapid motion over
hummocks of lava on a down grade, slid
out the back, spraining his ankle very
badly. The driver finding the horses
more than he could hold alone, passed
line to Captain Matson. Just then the
stage gave a lurch and the Captain was
pulled over the dashboard, striking the
whipple- tree and falling to the ground
face downward, the stage passing over
his shoulders. Mr.. Irwin, thinking that
his two companions were killed, and see
ing a thicket of lehuas ahead, attempted
to get out the back also. He fell on his
spine A moment later the whole top OF
the stage was torn off by the lehuas,
and Mr. Irwin would most certainly have
been killed had he remained in the stage.
The driver only escaped by leaning tar
out over the dashboard. The horses were
at last stopped when the pole ran into
sand bank.
When each of the three gentlemen
picked himself up he could not see the
| others, and so thought they We're dead
When they found each other MIR. Irwin
says Mr. Buck was as white as sheet;
Captain Matson says Mr.. irwin was as
white as a sheet and Mr.. Buck says Cap
tain Matson was as white as a sheet.
BY which we may infer that there must
have been great rejoicing as they pain
fully hobbled back to the halfway mouse.
There they took an inventory of bruises
and rested while the stage was patched
up 1t is most fortunate that there were
no women or children in the stage.
These gentlemen affirm that the Eau
rocks are of adamantine hardness ana
devoid of upholstering .-Tribune.
ILLICIT LIQUOR TRADERS.
With the introduction of a new deputy
sheriff the police department has dlscov-
cred that il is alive and is making a
record against the offenders of the re-
nal Code that is likely to result 10 the
general advantage of the community ana
incidentally to the Treasury of the Ter
ritorv Under the present license system
pretty nearly every Chinese and Japan
ese country store and some that are
neither Chinese and Japanese has been
a distributing point for various merry
LIQUIDS These during the present month
have been pretty extensively oVerhauleo.
u
j. forfeited bail, with the result that about
4 81. 600 in fines have SO far been gathered
in this month in addition to the big catch
of the season, Lum Fat or Hohofnu
whose stock of booze entitled MIN 10 d
rank among the wholesalers, since M
teen or twenty kegs and barrels OF tne
forbidden beverages were found on ms
premises Lum Fat will fatten up the
rTreaslry to the extent of about $4Vo-
Tribune.
T. A. Thurston says the Olaa mill vii
ba ready to grind cane by September
If this is true the mill will be hnishe'
about thirty days before the time speci
fed in the contract The men In chars
of construction give it as their opinlo
that the first of August Will see all tn
machinery running. They base incl
opinion upon the work done at Waialus
where it took six months to complet
the Job, and they believe they can DIS
count that time by one month. me mrs
cane to be ground is that nearest to tn
mill and it is estimated that 1t Will Pre-
duce from seven to eight tons of suga
to the acre About 600 acres of Puma 81
gar Company's cane will be grouno, an
then the crop on Peter Lees l5c-acl
tract at Eleven Miles. When TINS Is III
ished the mill will be put in order Il
the 3O.0OO-ton crop of next season.-He
aid
THE PUMA ATTRACTIONS.
The rock crusher for the Hilo railwt
IN. IN is being set up in Puma. When finish
AZ the work of ballasting the road will b
gin and when completed there VIII
7ill daily trains to Puma and an excursi'
dy train on Sunday. This will enable [
S. public to visit the romantic lakes the
and enjoy bath in a body of water tn
-. is warmed by the fires OF the Volcano
Of Herald.
or. u. S. LABOR COMMISSIONER.
Mr.. Omstead, United States labor col
missioner was in Hilo for few da
last week. He came overland from X
LAST waihae and was making tour OF [
Island While here he stated that he W
investigating the labor question: con-
tions. etc, and added that his report
the department would be satisfactory
the Islands.-Herald.
To become Shriner requires a cor
dence in ones fellow men exceeding TT
of the scriptural mustard seed, and
addition, a constitution of iron. But
set. take a trip to Hlo on the kinau
quires both these, and In ado1tion,
gree of reckless daring possessed by
few Out of the whole troupe OF Sh
ners who visited Honolulu, only thir
five arrived at the Elysan shores OF
Queen City of the Pacific, and these
j turned by the same steamer, having m;
a flying pilgrimage to the Volcano.
they had any tents, they must have &c
ed them in the night. like their breth
in the desert, for we saw but little
. them, except their signatures, more
less undecipherable in the hotel regis
Even the three lone Shriners, who We
tate at the base of Mauna Loa do
penance for their sins, met them l
~ and what they think OF Hilo must e
v remain mystery, as they probably d.
know themselves.
It will be a matter Of interest to H
ties however, to know that their for
fellow townsman, L. T. Grant, who
holds the position of automobile tanner
the big Honolulu corporation engaged
the horseless carriage enterprise esl
lished there, occupied with much g
the position of toastmaster at the S
ner's banquet held at the Moana He
Tribune.
POPULAR PUMA ROUTE.
Mrs John Scott and daughter,
VIM. Matson and daughter. Mrs. Sc
y, ance, Mrs. Charles Furneaux and