The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-03-18
ISLAND OF
MAUI.
COIOred Minister
Goes to Wailuku
Prison.
THREE NEGRO
BOYS ARRESTED
Theo. Richards on Maui Fighting
the Liquor Traffic and Urs-
ing the Dispensary.
From the Maui News.)

(From the Maui News)
The News regrets to announce that
Rev Augustus Hutchinson. a colored
from Montgomery, Alabama, has been
convicted of assault and battery and
sentenced to serve twenty days in the
Waikiki prison. Mr.. Hutchinson found
it necessary to thrash little negro boy
for extremely impudent and vulgar Ian
guage. and one Mcleod, negro from
Alabama, took up the quarrel on the part
of the boy, who, by the way, richly de-
served the whipping which the reverend
gentleman administered. The two men
began to quarrel and wound up by get
ting into a fight, in which Hutchinson
so Ear forgot the dignity of the cloth as
to administer to his opponent a sound
drubbing. 1t is unfortunate that Mr..
Hutchinson lost his temper, for better
things are expected of the ministry. 1t
is to be hoped that his punishment will
teach him the wisdom of avoiding such
encounters in the future.
STOLE TWO WATCHES.
Joe Mdllutl, 1DdIlty Lewis anu btOi &c
Brooks, three colored boys from Spreck-
elsvilIe, were arrested on Thursday for
the larceny of two watches from the
store of T. Mort, a Japanese merchant
at Kahului
The watches were stolen on February
IS but were not missed till "Wednesday
of this week. The boys who We're ar
rested were suspected, and have admit
ltshn
uel sold one of the watches to John
Nash, a negro man who has skipped, al
though the police will probably soon APP
prehend him.
Brooks gave one of the watches to one
Dorset for safekeeping. Lewis was
merely a spectator of the theft Inc
boys We're arraigned yesterday morning,
and the case was continued till Monday.
Manuel and Brooks will probably plead
guilty. Manuel is the gamin whose vul-
gar and insulting language was the
means of provoking a quarrel between
Rev A Hutchinson and Mcleod at
Spreckelsville last week.
THEO. RICHARDS AT WAILUKU.
Dodgers done in blue with the head
ing. Dispense With What? Dispensary
For WHAT scattered from Waihee to
Pafa announced the talk of Mr.. Theo.
Richards at Kaahumanu Church, Wal
luhu, last ouiiudS IiiSii sh'iSA "a Ia ~ 80
and fruitful talk it was. The speaker
began by calling attention to the fact
that the things TO which people are ac-
customed cause no apprehension, and cit
ed the growing carelesSness of man in
handling giant powder. which. habit or
carelessness grows on him until some
fine day there is nothing left of him ex-
cept a hole in the ground. So with liquor
traffic which is allowed to increase with
out fear of consequences, resulting in an
enormous increase in the use OF liquor
without in the least interfering with IL
licit traffic in liquor. The admitted evils
flowing from this We're forcibly pointed
out and the speaker added that a promi-
nent liquor dealer had asserted that the
dispensary system would destroy mil
lion dollars worth of business, accompa-
MED with the further statement that in
Hawaii this business pays taxes to the
total amount of not much more than
$1,000 =
The speaker then made an allusion to
his own business-that of bringing up
boys, the chief products of the country,
we'll its chief producers-and show
ed how his work, well that of 9TH
er teachers, had been sadly marred.
Many bright and promising young men
from kamehameha and others schools
well, had been destroyed by drink,
which destruction had it been wrought
by any other poison than alcohol, would
have sent thrill of horror through the
Islands.
While the speaker briefly suggested
that the dispensary is preferable to the
present system. for several reasons
which he pointed out the chief stress of
the meeting being laid on the necessity
for the creation of better public opin-
ion in Wailuku, where the drinking hab-
it among the young men is invading Sc
ciaI functions to that extent that ladies
hesitate Oft The
speaker added that some young men are
quite capable of taking care of them
selves, but that others of them cannot,
and that while the blue ribbon would be
a safeguard still the speaker was par
ticular to urge that God alone could help
some men to keep the pledge, hence the
God helping me" clause in the pie lge.
When the speaker plead with the
young men of the town to combine for
the purpose of creating a better senu-
ment in favor Of abstinence, he met
generous response from the best blood
of the town, of both races. Many dom
ned the blue ribbon no less in response
to the eloquent plea of the speaker than
to the persuasion of many of the charm
ing young ladies of Wailuku, who .eny
their influence in encouraging the move
ment.
AT the close of Mr. Richards address
Mr.. Al spoke to the boys and girls in
hawaiian, and proceeded to break the
meeting up into knots Of enthusiastic
signers of new declaration of indie
pendence.
BURGLARY AT SPRECKELSVILLE.
On Thursday night burglars entered the
store at Camp ., Spreckelsville. through
window, and carried away a 2O0-pound
safe containing $685. opening the front
door from the inside to remove the safe
from the building
on Friday morning, Officer Maverick,
the local police sofficer at Spreckelsville,
found the safe In a ditch in the cane
i ileld' some zOo yards from the store. 1t
had been opened by cutting hole
through the back of the safe with an
axe, and the contents. with the excep-
ton of $65, had been taken. The money
left was gold, and was overlooked by
the robbers.
Word was sent to the Sheriff yester-
day morning, and efforts were at once
inaugurated to apprehend the guilty
parties.
MISCELLANEOUS