The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1902-01-12
TRACK LYING
AT 0LAA MILL
HILO ORGANIZES JOCKEY CLUB
PEOPLE IN THE RAINY CITY
REvEL IN RERGER'S
MELODY.
Read Beard at Nsr,h HiEo Faces
Trouble ocoasicned by Recent
Floods Postmaster Celebrates
His Fiftieth Anniversary-csne
Loader on Exhibition.

HILO. Jan. 10. le02-Track laying
in the mill yard of the olaa Sugar
I Co. was finished under the superin-
tendence OF W II. Lambert last
Monday. Connections with the main
T line OF the Hilo Railroad and placing
some switches, which had to be made
in the car shops. is all that remains
to be done. The portable tracks for
the Puma Sugar Co. were lsft in San
Francisco and will arrive here on the
| Santiago. II is possible that the Olaa
| Company will loan track to the Puma
Company so that there will be no
long delay in the matter of shipping
cane from Puma to Olaa- The wagon
road at Is miles Olaa. from the Vol
cano road 10 the track. is almost fin
ished and work on the depot at Fern
dale will begin within week.
TIC Organize Jockey Club.
Hooluulu Park will probably pass
from the control OF the Volcano
Stables & Transportation Company
into the hands of a Jockey Club now
in process of organization in this
city Two meetings have been held,
at which the terms on which the
property was to pass, were discussed.
The Jockey Club if organized will be
come the owner of the race track
property and become responsible for
its management.
Two meetings were called for the
purpose this week, but not enough in
>terest was taken to warrant making
any plans. 1t is probable that some
thing will be done later and in time
for the next race meeting.
Band at Hilo.
The past week has been a week of
musical excess for Hilo. Tho people
have drunk deep at Captain Berg RS
fountain and bidding the genial kap
pelmeister and his aggregation of
musicians good bye this morning. the
parting will be accompanied with
keen regret
The dress parade of Company D.
NIGH. preceded by the full military
band on Monday night. attracted a
large crowd of people along the line
of march aud at the drill grounds I
Nearly the full compliment of men
appeared in line and they were put +
through the tactics by Captain Fetter
very creditably.
Hilos baseball team may expect a
challenge from the Maui team TO play
two games at Waikiki on Washing
tons birthday.
Repairs for North Hilo Reads. 4
The Road Board of North Hilo mas n
had troubles of its own since the last
big flood which washed out seven
culverts between Laupahoehoe and
The damage caused 4
required plans for temporary repairs
and permanent improvements.
Sunday, January u, will be the
fftieth anniversary of the arrival of
Postmaster Severance TO these Isl
ands. The day will be properly re-
nembered in the Severance home.
Chinese who was convicted of
rape in 1899. and sentenced to life
Imprisonment by Judge Wilder. and
whose case became one of the famous
transition period" case in Honolulu.
will be up for trial before Judge Lit
lie today. His victim was a little
Portuguese girl at Laupahoehoe
Mr.. l. Erickson exhibited a cane
loader yesterday at noon at Pomona
val and Pleasant streets which he
,laims will greatly cheaper the pro-
,ess OF loading cane in the fields.