The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-07-24

| A-s$ nee IN the very hedrr OF Sa
Francisco two days ago. and drop
z ped dead at his feet. An examination
of his body showed that he had diet
: from bubonic plague. The newspaper.
death of the plague victim, nor did the
Associated Press send it out AS
have stated several times, there Is ar
agreement among all the papers of the
city to keep secret all plague news af-
fecting this port.
| The steamship Nippon 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 i'll. with a 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 3 o'clock off the Barge Office,
was ordered to anchor off Angel Island
at 9 O'Clock that night. 1 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 win hardly take the
Maru out on July "a He did not han
die the ship from Honolulu here except
on entering the harbor.
l.. G. Pistolesi a somewhat we'll
known police court lawyer of San
Francisco, is now in Honolulu. He left
here on the last Pacific Mail liner.
Pistolesi is a leader of a certain ele-
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
a ram bow and a 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 it
was launched the poundmaster of SaI-
salito, across the bay from here was
besought by indignant citizens to take
UP 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.
he heard the melancholy wall of the
lost bovine come over the waters. 1t
was the peculiar whistle of Pistoiesi's
launch, which is a perfect and dis
heartening imitation of the unlovely
sound made by COW in distress.
The Chronicle publishes today a SEN
sational account of attempted SNUG
CLING operations by Mrs. Charles Boetr-
cher and Miss McMurtrie, two wealthy
Denver ladies. returning on the Nippon
Maru from the Orient 1 think that
these women did not stay in Honolulu
more than a day but it may be that
they were there several weeks. I no.
ticed that their trunks had Honolulu
tags on them, and that they had a
number of things bought in Honolulu
stores. They bitterly regret their un-
lawful attempt to defraud Uncle Sam
and the publicity it has brought them.
Speaking of publicity, the Sacrament
to Bee says that it is the modern cure
for all public evils. The Bee says:
Government by newspapers is not pop
uIar among those who suffer by It. but
just now it is the swiftest and surest
way of securing government by public
sentiment. In the literal sense, OF
course. there is no such thing as gov
eminent by newspapers. a newspaper
with a reputation for honesty and abil-
ity naturally has influence. just as an
individual of similar character has In
nuence, with the added advantage of a
wider daily contact for the exercise OF
that influence. but by far the larger
part of the power of any newspape IS
the power of pure publicity. People no
longer permit a newspaper to do their
for them. but they permit ii to
do most of their seeing and hearing
for them, principally because it has ia
cilfties for observing better than they
can do for themselves. \ newspa per
may hurt a man. by attacking him. but
it can ruin him only BY making public
some act by which ba ruins himself a
may helV Or injure a cause
by advocating or opposing Il. but IL can
control the action III whole people
on it only by making pubic facts and
arguments which leave them no choice
but to control themselves. The power
Of the press. as such may be gres.
enough. when it Is ably used. but the
power of publicity IS infinite; it Is tn 4
one power in modern life beside which +
all others shrink into iusignidcanca"
The New Yo~'- s'e rcial mas dis /
patch under date &C Iu'y from VAST
ngton which says: "a resolution thai
was adopted by the senate in the last