Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-09-24

be accommodated We have the best
climate anywhere. When | was in
Washington | was cooked. White men
will work on sugar plantations IL you
pay them, but the planters don't want
white men. Get Chinese and Japan.
csc and they will stay six or eight
months on plantations and then come
to town to compete with other people.
The Leper Colony.
Mr.. Wilcox wanted the leper colony
taken over by the Federal Govern
ment as a reservation to receive all
lepers from the Mainland but not from
other parts. He did not want any from
the Philippines, where there were a
million lepers. Answering L. A.
Thurston, he repeated his proposition
to take lepers from the States. There
are only 300 there. Lepers on Molokai
are taken not care of now. They are
fed on rotten salmon and stale bread.
to make big profit for the Settlement
store. Witness promptly answered in
the affirmative question by Mr..
Humphreys, If the store was not main
tanned so that favorites of the Dole
Government might unload their shelf
worn stocks on the lepers. II the
store were abolished the Board Of
Health would have to go out Of bust
ness.
Since segregation, forty years ago.
leprosy had not decreased, the num-
Der restrained being 1000 or SO from
year to year. Vaccination had spread
II and the people had no confidence in
the Board of Health physicians.
Public improvements.
Witness wanted to lighthouses TAX.
en- over by the Federal Government.
Also, an engineer to be sent to survey
harbors for Improvements. To Sena.
tor Mitchell's question If he had any.
thing more, he said no, that his main
reason for appearing was to advocate
the transfer OF land administration.
Again he referred to improper dispo-
sal of land.
Answering questions by Mr.. Hum.
phreys, he stated that the Government
exercised its right Of eminent domain
for the benefit OF corporations, in par
ticular the Rapid Transit Co. Also,
under the same heading, he told Of the
Governments recommendation to pay
the o. r. & L. Co. 100000 under law
of 1890 and the grant the Legislature
made of $4,000. This was where the
real bribery talked about should be
placed.
Contradiction.
w. o. Smith arose to correct a state
ment about the deals with DR.. Ray.
mond, saying the Rapid Transit Co.
had nothing to do Herewith. He also
took exception to the statement re-
garding Polipoli spring, asking Mr..
Wilcox If he did not know that Ray
mond engaged to supply the people be-
low with water. Wilcox said the Ka-
naio land transaction was not an ex-
change but lease, but Smith said he
drew the papers and knew. Wilcox
also said the Legislature some years
ago directed the piping of the Polipoli
water, but the Government did not
carry out the legislative will. 1t wait
ed to give the privilege to a private
individual.
Mr.. Humphreys put proposition,
which witness affirmed, that support.
ers of the Government bought value.
less strips of land in Honolulu to be
exchanged for valuable agricultural
lands.
Wilcox-Fourtoen acres for a little
strip of worthless land in town.
Or. Woods Question.
DR.. c. b. Wood, as president Of the
Board of Health at the time. asked
Wilcox whom he meant by they" as
his informants in the statement that
windy day ives selected for the SAM.
tary burning in Chinatown with the
intent of destroying Chinatown.
WilcoX-Chinamen. Ito MltchelD
Not only one Chinaman, some Chi
namen; heard 1t from several firc
claimants.
, Wood-That is all.
Charles Creighton, as an attorney of
sixteen years practice here, asked an
, opportunity for a hearing relative to
statements made by the Chief Justice
and was told to come forward after
luncheon.
The Third Judge.
f. NJ. Hatch, who held ministerial
ment here and in Washington and had
been law practitioner here for TWEEN
ty.four years, was next heard on the