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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-12-19
HORSE AND WAGON
DUMPED INTO DOCK
japanese Driver Escaped. Horse
Mas Drowned. and Wagon
Damaged.

A japanese drayman employed by
s, Kimura backed his dray and horse
ever the side of the Irmgard wharf
yesterday Both went to the bottom of
about twenty-five feet of water where
they remained for about an hour. The
wagon came up in battered condition,
but the horse was make The dray-5
man escaped from his dray just in
time by jumping from it to the wharf
and was uninjured.
How it all happened, no one seems
to know exactly, and the Japanese did
not care to do much talking He had
a heavy single dray and was trying to
back this along the narrow edge Of the
wharf to load some rice, when he real
lied that the back wheels had gone over
the side. He jumped to the wharf and
in a second both horse and dray were
going out of sight in the water The
horse did not rise to the surface as the
heavy wagon held it down. In a few
minutes the frantic Jap had collected
crowd Native boatmen used Crap
ping irons and got hold of the animals
head. A rope was attached to it..
Block and tackle were attached to this
and the head was drawn to the top Of
the water. Natives scrambled into the
bay and took of the harness, and at
the same time fastened line to the
dray. The horse was dead, so it was
taken in tow by a boat and placed
somewhere on the other side of the
harbor.
Meanwhile sailors on the schooner
Mary E. Foster, lying in the same dock,
swung out one of her booms, and her
donkey engine having steam up, the
heavy dray was quickly hauled out of
tho MATER The men were guessing as
to the amount of salvage they might
receive. Captain Ross got on board his
vessel and noticed the operations.
Say, mate, are you getting paid for
that?" he shouted.
The mate responded that he was to
receive $40 for the job.
We'll" said Ross, this amt no
charity organization. Keep that wag-
on ON deck until you get $40 for it.
This is better than towing a ship off
a reef. We've got the thing on deck,
and guess We can keep it till we get
the money"
The sailors were struggling with the
heavy dray. They did not know a
wheel from a shaft, and could not un-
derstand when attaching a rope to the
rim of tire why the thing would
whirl around.
| In the meantime, Ross changed his
mind about salvage. He ordered the
wagon swung clear across the Foste ;
deck and dropped on the Brewer wharf
on the other side The sailors accom-
plished this feat with but little diff
Guilty.
Say, boys" yelled the skipper, "did
anyone leave anything here for me?s
The boys said something and the
skipper went below. A crowd of peo-
pie were still standing around the
wagon and wharf and off at the fur
Their side of the harbor boat could be
seen towing the carcass of the horse.
The only mystery in the case is how
the Jap managed to get both horse
and wagon overheard without going
over with them.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-12-19
.COPTIC SPEEDING
FOR SAN FRANCISCO
Made Rescue of Jap While Near
ing Yokohama His Com
panions Lost.

The Occidental and Oriental steam
ship Coptic, which arrived from the
Orient yesterday, brought a thrilling
story Of the rescue of japanese at
sea, A junk, manned by seven men,
had been capsized and only one of the
lot escaped from death in the water. \
When the steamer was nearing Yo-
kohama from Kobe on the afternoon
OF December s, she sighted an over
turned junk, to which one Japanese
was clfnging. The steamer got as close
to the wreck as possible, and then sent
a boat off, which effected the Jap's
rescue. On board the Coptic he said
that the junk had capsized the night
before. and that all except two of its
crew had been drowned Immediately.
He and another chung to the vessels
bottom and spent the night in that
Waves were continually wash
ing over them, and they found it al
most impossible to retain their hold on
the vessel, while steamers passed with
out paying any attention to them.
About midday on the following day
his companion was unable to stand the
strain any longer, and fell into the
sea, where he was quickly drowned.
The rescued Jap managed to retain his
hold for another three hours, when he
was taken off by the Coptic's boat.
The Coptic has a very large through
cargo, and brought large amount of
cargo for this port. She discharged the
latter at the Pacific Mail wharf yester
day.
She had but four passengers for Ho-
nolulu, S. S. Dickensen, the cable man;
Miss E. J. Hamilton, M. G. Odayiri, and
R. Okubo.
Her through passengers were: G..
f. Bowers, Mrs. L. M. Johnson, Mrs.
J. E. Prentice, Miss Prentice, Mr.. Ear
ner, G.. D. Taylor, B. Lagrange, H. A.
Geisendorfer, Miss A. e. Garvin, H. M.
Bosch, E. Gevatin, M. Isobe, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. e. Parsons, DR.. H. Pamyl, j.
S. Van Buren,, Major and Mrs. Charles
Wilcox. Y. Woyero and servant. K.
Yabashi.
Owing to the large amount of freight
the vessel had to discharge at this
port she did not leave Honolulu until
about eight o'clock last night She
took quite a large quantity of mail
aboard here and her officers stated that
this would be delivered in San Fran
cisco before Christmas day, so that it
is possible that a fast trip will be
made.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-12-19
Letter From Young Wight.

President Wight, of Wilder's Steam
ship Company, has received letter
from his son, who left Honolulu on the
ship Difigo as third mate, for a voyage
around the Horn to New York. Young
Wight has only celebrated twenty
birthdays, but has made great progress
in studying to become an admiralty
lawyer. He has secured a great deal of
experience also. officer Wight wrote
that there were no unusual incidents
during their voyage around the Horn,
but that it was a long and tedious one
and gave him experiences that will he
of great benefit to him later He is
to spend this winter on the Atlantic
Coast, and intended when he wrote to
go into the steamship trade.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-12-19
Sailing for q Wager.
Wentworth Coming Here

The American ship Kenilworth has
been chartered to load lumber at Puget
Sound for Honolulu
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-12-19
Again Open for Business.

RIVER MILL CO., Pauahi. street near
River, Contractors and Builders, also
House Material and Furniture. Orders
promptly attended to.
Tel. Blue SAG. P. o. Box $50.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-12-19

The barks Albert and w. H. Flint will
probably be in Honolulu again shortly
after the first OF the year.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-12-19
The sierra's Whale Story.


A sperm whale cruising between
Auckland and Sydney brought the
steamship Sierra to a, stop on the
morning of November 4. The steamer
was at full speed when she suddenly
struck the whale squarely in the mid
die, breaking its back and cutting it
so deeply that the huge body stuck
firmly on the vessels stem. The
steamer was Immediately slowed down,
but still the whales carcass remained
fast TO the stem, and it was only by
coming to full stop and going some
little distance astern that the whale
was thrown of. The Sierra was not
misunderstanding News
Egbert Gets Third Name.
The Dollar Steamship Company,
which purchased the transport Egbert,
has given her a new name, that OF
Stanley Dollar This is the vessels
third name. Before becoming a trans
port she was the British steamer Mis-
souri,
Another Trip to South Africa.
The American ship John Currier has
been chartered for another trip with a
lumber cargo from Puget Sound to
South Africa.
James Tuft on the Way to Sydney.
The barkentine James Tuft is now
on the way to Sydney with cargo OF
lumber from Tacoma.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-12-19
NOTICE

ANY WOMAN OR GIRL NEEDING
help or advice. Is invited to commr,ni-
cate, either in person or by letter, with
Ensign Nora NJ. Underhin, matron o.
the Salvation Army Woman's Indus
trial Home, Young street, between Ar
tesian and McCully streets, mauk1
side, Honolulu. eoY
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-12-19
Transport soiace in Port.


The Naval transport Solace, Singer,
arrived in port yesterday morning with
4S1 men on board, who will be placed
on board of various of Uncle Sans
vessels on the Asiatic station. The
vessel has some supplies for the station
here, including new launch for the
commandant. The Annapolis gradu
ates who were expected to be on board
did not arrive. The vessel carries the
following passengers: For Manila
Commander w. H. Beehler, Commander
John B. Collins, Lieutenant G. Kaemer-
ling, Mrs. Martha A. Hughes and
daughter, and Mrs. Nina Jurgens; for
Guam Mr.. and Mrs. L. w. Worrell
and child. The Solace will remain
here until Monday.
Sailing for q Wager.
The schooners w. h Talbot and
Mary E. Foster are to sail for Puget
Sound today. and the two shippers Of
those vessels have wager on tap, the
one whose vessel makes the slowest
trip having to buy the other skipper a
suit of clothes on reaching the Sound.
Wentworth Coming Here.
The American ship Kenilworth has
been chartered to load lumber at Puget
Sound for Honolulu.
--o% ~
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-15
Copyright, 1902, by the S. S. Mcclure Com

Is y ~ Z. i -. s
One is my love; two is my dove; three my
hearts desire;
Four love with all my heart. five l cast in
(. the fire.
Lois ran over the mystic rhyme, dropping
her apple seeds daintiIy in her cupped pink
palm. Johnny Black, watching her intently,
sheaved a huge sigh, though his eyes twinked
as he said "A clear waste OF energy Miss
Lois. all that rigmarole! I've known from
the beginning you'd cast me INF the fire the
minute gave you the chance. .
81 Dear mel You must be 'nind-reader.
How inconvenient!. Lois munmured, smiling
at him as she hipped the fateful seed into the
log fires heart.
The fireplace was SO broad it took up half
the end wall. Lois, sitting in the chimney
hand Lets see! Six he loves, seven she
high relief by the dusk wainscot fitted into
her environment as flower fits into a clefted
rock. She had on pale blue frocky foamy
with lace around neck and wrists. Her yell
low head rose up from the foam much as
scrocus might push through melting snow
drifts
Johnny counted his seeds sedulously. Seven
OF them showed plump and brown in his big
hand. Let's see! Six he loves, seven she
loves Now, who on earth can that be?'
.he said, ref1ectively, pickering his brows.
Lois laughed a tingling laugh. "You know
without the seeds to tell" she said, her
eyes dancing. "And know, too. Grandad
told me about Miss Jenny Roses kissing you
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-15

nine times the night of the play partly
I'D like to know who told him. johnny
growled, his face scarlet.
Lois laughed outright as she answered:
why, Jenny herself stopped grandad in the
road next day. He's lawyer you know
and she wanted to know If being kissed nine
times wasn't good ground for breach Of
promise suit
20, Lord! But you're making that up
Most likely the major got it at the store
the fellows were chatting :smes unmercifully, y
Johnny broke in, his face anlbushed in both
hands.
Lois sat up very straight and said primly,
You can believe me or not, as you please
but my news did come straight from Miss
Jenny
Then wish she was in-Halifax, and
married at that, Johnny cried, getting up
as he spoke" married to some six-foot ath-
letic Christian who would thrash her about
once week for the fret six months! That
would make fine woman Of her. Now she's
simply healthy keen witted animal, with
5000, 900 in its pockets
'.She must be great fun. I'd like to talk
to her, only she hates me like poison" Lois
said.
Johnny sghed-a true sigh this time. "She
is great fun until you stop to Think he said.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-15
Dawes BAD BEGINNING.

David B. Hill, who opposed Bryan in
clear and was. equally opposed to him in
1900, but this time worked and voted for
his success; assumed at the Jefferson
banquet in New York last night to accuse
President Roosevelt Of having no consci-
entious convictions, of "wobbling' upon
every public question, and of having no
policy in opposition to congress. It is
hardly necessary to say that criticism Of
the president comes with poor grace from
such source-from politician who Is
5fessed political principles 49,
But what foundation is there for the
charges made against the president? In
what respect is he wobbler and wherein
has he wobbled? What president has ever
given more proof of conscientious
scruples? What president has more en-
phatically expressed his disagreement
with congress? What president has made
appointments with less regard to the con-
gressional officemongers than Roosevelt:
So1ASSSSioAA
because the president insisted on it
against the wishes of congress. Even
now he has aroused the senate to opposi-
ton by his appointments and by his de-
termination to pursue what he con-
zsiders correct policy with regard to ap-
pointments. He is in conflict with con-
gress on the question Of army reorgani-
zation
There are enough topics which Mr.. Hill
and his associates can profitably use to
gaiyanize their party into new and useful
existence without picking up such absurd
charges as those made by Mr.. Hill against
the president. The rebuilding of the
democratic party must be begun on sem
sible foundations Buncombe will not do.
The people know and appreciate President
Roosevelt too well to be deceiyed4by such
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-15

= Peter Blar, the notorious saloonkeeper,
who was given a workhouse sentence for
conducting a saloon without license
desires a pardon Oh the ground that other
men that are running saloons in the same
manner he was-that is, with some one
else holding the license for the place
have not been punished. This strikes US
as rather an argument for the conviction
of the other saloonkeepers who are in
the same class with Blar. The state
board of pardons will make big mistake
if it.yields to the pleas Of the good fell
deserves at least thirty days on his gen
eral record as keeper OF disreputable
saloons.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-15
THE GREEN BANNER.

A Constantinople dispatch states that
the increasing revolts and generally dis
turbed condition of the Turkish provinces
south Of the Balkans and the unrest in
Bulgaria, where there is much: sympathy
with the Macedonian insurgents, have led
the sultan to mediate a proclamatio of
Jehad or holy war.
This announcement has been made with
much regularity, or whenever there is a
disturbance in Macedonia, that hot-bed Of
revolution, against the Ottoman power. A
holy war is proclaimed, theoretically,
when it becomes necessary, to save Mo-
hammedanism from the ''infdels" The
announcement was made when the Rus
slams were approaching Constantinople in
1878 that the sultan would call upon the
whole Mohammedan. world to enter upon
a pandemoniac struggle to protect the
faith of the prophet, but no such action
took place.
In order tcAproclaim Jehad tits neees-
sary to take from the mosque of St.
Sophia, in Constantinople, the emblem of
the power and sacred Office Of Mohammed,
which is a flag Of green silk with large
crescent on the top OF the staff from which
is suspended long horse tail, said to be
that which adorned the posterior of the
Prophets favorite war horse. The flag
bears an inscription promising wonderful
temporal and spiritual advantages to
those who shed their blood in the cause
io1I
die in sight of the fleg. This flag was
brought out when Catherine of Russia
sought to capture Constantinople, but,
as she failed in her purpose, the Jehad
was not actually proclaimed. The flag is
said to be made Of piece Of the curtain
which hung before the apartment of Aye
sha, the favorite wife Of Mohammed, in
whose arms he died.
There is not much to be feared, even if
the sultan orders the Shiek-ul Islam to
bring out the flag and make the proclama-
stion of holy war The sultan is not wide
ly recognized as the true caliph. During
the last twenty years there have been
two or three would-be caliphs claiming
direct descent from Mohamned, who have
proclaimed holy war in north Africa, re-
gardless of Abdul Hamid, who is not
even distantly related to the Prophet, but
belongs to the nomad race who came orig
inally from the region of the Oxus and
Jaxartes in Asia and gradually fought
their way into Europe, Asia Minor,
Arabia, Syria and Persia, being converted
to Mohammedanism by the Arabs. There
is comparatively little sympathy with
Abdul Hamid in Asia or Africa. There
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-15
The Choir Sawed the wood.

People CT IA former generation who have
lived in the country will remember the old
wood-sawing contests that used to occur now
and then. These contests usually started in
an argument as to who could saw the most
wood in fifteen minutes. After considerable
bsdinage and back talk, four or five strapping
fellows, at "a given signal, would strip off
their coats, expectorate on their hands, and
for time the sawdust flew like a dust storrlls
on the plains Little piles of wood began to
gather till, at the signal, the contestants, red
faced and perspiring stopped work. and the
judges sized W the piles
Old Nam attended church last Sunday
night, and when the choir, butted into the an
them a DerDleXed look came over his face,
which after moment cleared up into smile.
The anthem recalled vividly the wood-sawing
contests Of his childhood. The four parts
We're saving away. each at it's own stick, now
coming together and again each saving indie
pendently as if their lives depended Son it.
Now and then the bass would drop it's stick
and stop a moment to throw another log on
the horse and start in afresh. Finally, at the
organists signal, time was up, and the
contest came to an end Old -- said he
could shut his eyes and just see the four
piles of weed in the,choir loft. He mentally
accorded the victory to the soprano, who had
topped everything at the finish. Then the
beEedicton was pronounced and the old fellow
sought a friend Of his boyhood to retail the
story of the greet choir contest and its re-
suit.
g. A Dave
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-15

trade" which would be such :modifica-
ton OF "a purely revenue tariff policy as
would make Golden and Bright turn over
in their graves The trouble is that ag-
rlcultural Britain cannot raise her.~ewn
food supplies and depends largely on for
eign sources.
The British government evidently has
high hopes of bringing about favorable
peace negotiations in South Africa. There
is little doubt that the terms offered a
year ago at ,Middleburg would be accept
ed by the Beers if full T amnesty were
granted to all the fighting Beers and a
safe return to their homes. The other
clauses of the terms offered are very lib
eral. If peace were soon assured there
would be no revolt. against the new
budget, for there would be relief written
in letters of light for the taxpayers next
year
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-15

/ Il ! * Z
a.katcheWan, all of Which lie to the south
of the hftyeifths parallel, comprise $4,000
square miles. OF this area probably $780,
900 square miles is arabic land, capable
i OF cultivation without irrigation. Much
OF the rest can be cultivated with irriga-
ton. which is easily applied, and prac-
tically all of the remainder is suitable
for stock raising. AT present the most
favored region for whea raising COM
prises Manitoba and about one-fourth Of
the area of Assiniboia-the southeastern
part.
The climate of most Of western Canada
Is somewhat severer than that of the
northwestern states. but not SO much so
as to be any obstacle TO settlement by
people used to the climate of the latter.
Much of the land-most of it's held by
the, government, and the remainder is in
the hands of railroad and land companies
that are selling it cheaply. They have,
backed by the Dominion government,
made, a vigorous. campaign for American
settlers. and their efforts have been re-
warded with success. Last year about
10000 American farmers crossed the line,
and this year the number may be more
than twice as many. The Americans are
by far the largest factor in the total i'm
migration. The volume of this migration
has reached such proportions, though as
yet small in comparison with movements
Of the same kind within the states, that
it can no longer be ignored 1t may as
flow Of American homeseekers will seek
Canada in increasing numbers each year.
ton rather then alarm. Fertile western
Canada is bound to be settled soon.% We
prefer to- have It settled by Americans
rather than by an alien population. T h e
J o u r n a | some time ago expressed the
opinion that the present population and
land-seeking movement is the beginning
of the settlement of the difficulties arts
ing from the political division of the tenn
perate part of the continent d At the
present rate the Canadian population of
western Canada will be outnumbered by
Americans in ten, years, <and in twenty
years they will be lost in the torrent of
Americans who will carry with them,
settling in colonies as they do, American
customs, views and sympathies. This
prediction of The Jour mails has
caused a widespread discussion in the
American and Canadian papers. We see
no reason to alter it. The American ma
jority in western Canada will, within
twenty years. comprise one-fourth Of the
whole population Of the Dominion, and
will be a powerful factor in politics. If
they do not initiate the Uitlanders of the
Transvaal and bring western Canada into
the union, they will certainly succeed in
shaping the policy of the Dominion so
that it will always be friendly to the
United States, and will constitute an adj
mirable offset to the sentiment that might
otherwise draw Canada into closer re-
lations with the, British empire, much,
perhaps, to our injury.