The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1902-07-25

nese staggered into a doctors Of
- fee In the very heart of san
Francisco two days ago, and drop
ped dead at his feet. An examination
OF his body showed that he had died
from bubonic plague. The newspapers
of San Francisco did not mention the
death of the plague victim, nor did the
Associated Press send II out. ~ !
have stated several times, there is an
agreement among all the papers OF the
city TO keep secre: all plague news af-
fecting this port
The steamship Nippcn Maru which
arrived here two days ago from the
Orient and Honolulu, is in quarantine
at Angel Island. The Federal doctors
fear there Is a case of plague aboard.
A Chinese was found Ill, with high
fever and the bubos of plague. Bac-
THEOLOGICAL examinations seemed to
confirm the plague theory and the
Maru. which anchored Monday after
noon at O'Clock off the Barge Office,
was ordered to anchor off Angel Island
at 3 o'clock that night. l was on the
Maru at the time, as a guest OF Dep
uty Port Surveyor st. John, and heard
the conversation about the sick Chi
nese Finally the cabin passengers
were landed in tugs at IL o'clock, and
the vessel and steerage passengers
have been In quarantine since. The
Maru may be released today after the
cultures from the patient are examined.
Anyhow the ship and people will be
thoroughly fumigated.
Captain Greene, commanding the Nip
pom Maru, who was Frustrated by the
heat at Honolulu on the trip here, is
recovering but will hardly take the
Maru out on July "a. He did not han
die the ship from Honolulu here except
on entering the harbor.
l.. C. Pistolesi. a somewhat well
known police court lawyer of San
Francisco, is now in Honolulu He left
here on the last Pacific Mail liner.
ment here, and is always prominent in
the Fourth of July parades. He has
Just had built for him a gasoline
launch of peculiar construction. 1t has
I a ram bow and stern shaped like the
rear end of a torpedo. 1t is twenty
six feet long, six feet beam, and has a
/ speed of eight knots. Soon after IL
was launched the poundmaster of SAT-
salito, across the bay from here, was
! besought by indignant citizens to take
| up a stray COW which made evenings
hideous on the bay shore. The pound
man laid out three nights to trap the
cow, but in vain. AS he went home
disconsolately the last night of his vigil
ne heard the melancholy wall of the
lost bovine come over the waters. II
was the peculiar whistle of Pistolesi's
launch, which is a perfect and dis
heartening imitation of the unlovelS
sound made by COW in distress.
The Chronicle publishes today SEN
sational account of attempted snug
Cling operations by Mrs. Charles Boett
cher and Miss McMurtrie, two wealth,
Denver ladies, returning on the Nippor
Maru from the Orient l think tina
these women did not stay in Honolulu
more than Il day but II may be tina
they were there several weeks ] no
ticed that their trunks had Honolulu
tags on them, and that they had
number of things bought in Honolulu
stores. They bitterly regret their un
lawful attempt to defraud Uncle san
and the publicity 1t has brought them
| Speaking of publicity, the Sacramcn
to Bee says that it is the modern cur
for all public evils The Bee says
i"Goyernment by newspapers is not pop
ular among those who suffer by It, blu
just now it is the swiftest and sures
. way of securing government by publ
sentiment. In the literal sense, O
course, there is no such thing as gov
eminent by newspapers. A newspape
with reputation for honesty and abil
: ity naturally has influence, just as a
individual of similar character has in
. fiuence, with the added advantage of
) wider daily contact for the exercise o
t that influence, but by far the large
! part of the power of any newspaper !
/, the power of pure publicity. People n
longer permit a newspaper to do thei
thinking for them, but they permit IL Z
do most of their seeing and hearing
for them, principally because 1t has ia
5 cilities for observing better than the.
; can do for themselves. A newspape
may hurt a man, by attacking him, bu
r it can ruin him only by making publ
t some act by which he ruins himself.
= newspaper may help or injure caus
t by advocating or opposing 1t, but 1t cal
Y control the action OF a whole Deopl
5 on it only by making public facts an
D arguments which leave them no choic
= but to control themselves The powc
f of the press, as such, may be Grea
r enough, when it is ably used, but n
s power of publicity is infinite: IT is III
2 one power in modern life beside whic
! all others shrink into insignihcance.'
= The New York Commercial has a dis
4 patch under date of July from Wash
ington which says: "A resolution tina
e was adopted by the Senate in the las
= session called for junketing trip fo
e ;hr investigation Of commercial inter