The Hawaiian gazette., 1902-01-07

SOCIE. TY
FUNCTION
IiaWaiians Have a
Good Time at
San Jose.
Especial to the AdvertlserD


been invited to a dinner to be given
by Miss Abbie Campbell, at the Hotel
81. James. san Jose, on New Years
day. Miss Campbell Is the rich and
beautiful daughter of the late James
Campbell, the well known planter of
Hawaii, and with her mother and sis
tiers. is spending most of her time in
San Jose. 1t is understood that the
dinner is in honor OF Miss Campbell's
birthday.
Among those who will go will BE-
Prince David. Samuel Parker, Judge
Gear, George Davis, Mrs Carmichael,
Mrs. C. S. Holloway and many others.
The cards for the dinner read as fol-
lows;
Miss Campbell requests the pleasure
OF your company at dinner Wednesday,
January /. 1902. at $50 o'clock. Hotel
St. James, San Jose"
Prince David gave n dinner the day
after Christmas at the Palace Hotel
grill to Samuel Parker. Judge Gear and
George Davis. They were u merry four.
and over their dishes and glasses talk
ed about the people and politics of
Hawaii. Prince David expects to re-
turn to Hawaii on January 4. He may
have as a companion, Judge Gear. Geo.
Davis, who intended to sail on the So
mona which left here two days ago,
has now made up his mind to go to
torney General Dole, in the matter of
the constitutional rights of certain
prisoners in Honolulu. Sam Parker will
accompany Davis, and maybe Gear
will go also.
Parker confesses now that his tele-
gram to Judge Gear, of four days ago.
reading "Eepoikai Third Judge" was
premature. and that the third judge of
the First Circuit Court Of Hawaii has
not yet been appointed. The contest
lies between Robinson and Kepoikai.
The Eepoikai campaign Is being wagel
by Parker, who has told Washington
people that Kepoikai is a native, and
former judge under the monarchy Il
staunch Republican, and an honest
man. Robinson is termed a malihini,
and it is represented that the Island
people would not like his appointment
on account of his being SO new to Ha-
wall.
Hawaiians will be interested in
swimming match which Is to take place
next week at the Lurline Baths here.
The contestants will be j. c. Wilson.
William Hopkins, Harry Smith and Ed
gar MiZner, all leading society men
and members of the Bohemian Club.
Miner is q brother of Addison Miner,
the fat painter of Honolulu. The con-
ditions Of the match require that the
contestants shall swim eight times
across the tank. Edgar Miner has
Yukon river record for long distance
swimming, and Louis Sloss Jr. has
made heavy bets that Miner will leave
the others putting behind The match
is for a case of champagne, and in
tense interest is being taken in it by
Bohemian clubmen and others.
Honolulu has been cheated Of the
society of a newly married couple, who
intended to make a honeymoon trip to
the Islands. The pair are William q.
Blatt. western manager for Pingree *
Smith, the well known shoe firm of De
troit, Mich, and Mrs. Grace Wilson, n
rich widow of Denver. BAIT is very
we'll known here and Is a wealthy man.
He came here about two weeks ago
from Detroit, and has been living at
the Palace Hotel. His fiance had 1t
all planned out that Immediately after
their marriage they would sail for Ho
nolulu, and preparations We're made to-
ward that end. Mrs. Wilson had pre-
pared an elaborate rousseau, with
many dainty, light frocks for the trop-
les. They were married Il day ago very
privately, and after the ceremony re-
ceived the congratulations of their
friends in the parlors of the Palace
Hotel. They left here for Del Monte.
and will go East from there. 1t is
now their intention to visit Honolulu in
the spring.
Miss Ernestine Coughran. lately n
newspaper reporter in Honolulu, is in
terested IN a sensational suit filed here
yesterday. The Kern River Oil Com
pany, Consolidated, accuses Notary
Public Il. c. Moseback and Martin
Jones, and A. Rosenblund, his sureties,
of croOkedness. The oil company claims
that deeds to oil land. in Kern county,
California, for which the company paid
So, 400, are valueless by reason of the
fact that the original owners of the
land did not sign the deeds in the pres
cree of the notary, as he had testified
they did. Among the original owners
of the land was Miss Coughran.
| fear that / was misinformed, when
wrote that James Doolittle formerly
city editor of the Honolulu Republican.
was dead. The report here was that
Doolittle passed away from consump-
ton in Denver, Colo, but as a visitor
here declares he saw Doolittle in an
other Colorado town a few days ago,
il is probable that he is still on earth.
funny writer in the Fresno Repub-
lican has the following To say about G.
.. iZeGenfuss. who will be remembered
as the weghty and weary city editor
of the Republican during the first few
months of that papers existence:
\ copy of the Manila American. g. o.
iZiegenfuss. editor, is at hand and there,
is every indication that "Zieg." has es-
tablished lodge of the Bocho Club
down there and is spreading American
ism all over those fiy-speck islands. At
least there Is an eXultant tone in an
editorial note announcing the arrival OF
over a ton of corkscrews. No nation
can long wallow in the slough of saw
agery where there is a large and con-
slant demand for soap and corkscrews
together with those condiments that
habitually accompany them. "Zieg."
will see to 1t that the Filipino shall be
armed with the proper implement OF
American citizenship and thoroughly
instructed in its use.
Western pot hunters are resorting to
the shipment of game In milk cans In