The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-06-05
NEWS

WIRELESS: LOS ANGELES, May 70
The Board of Public Works TO-DAY ue-
cided to recommend that the pole LOT
the receiving and sending OF WlIelesS
messages between Los Angeles ana "a
talina be erected on Olive Heights, on
Third street. According to the speci-
dcations the mast will be 100 feet long
ten feet being imbeded in cement 10
give the pole a substantial base. Little
but a cross arm and the light lnstru-
ments used in handling the message
will be supported by the pole.
DOLE TALKS: LOS ANGELES, May
% -Goyernor Sanford b. Dole of Ha-
wall passed through Los Angeles today
en- route for San Francisco.
president Roosevelt lndorsed my
work in the Hawaiian islands, sald
Governor Dole. He expressed himselr
as pleased with it in every respect. he
was interested, however, only IN the
political conditions of the islands ana
the conference was almost wholly de-
voted to that one subject. Inc Alumni
istration has been dissatisfied. with the
existing conditions and the president
was by no means satisfied. lie coulu
not be otherwise. Every one connect
ed with the Government is tearIul re-
garding the political status OF the Isl
ands and with reason. The HaWallans
control the elections on the islands ana
oppose the Government. This condition
is deplorable and there seems TO be NO
remedy.
LEAVES MANSFIELD: Isabel lrV-
ing is no longer with Richard Mansfield
1t is said that Mansfield criticised her
acting. Miss Irving Immediately cam
ceIed her contract and left Denver Tor
her home in New Jersey. Mansheld
and j. II. Dillon manager of the COM
pany refused to make any statement
ALASKA RAILWAY: The Valdez,
Copper River and Yukon Railway Com
pany, capital 81, 100000, was incorporat-
ed at Trenton N. j. May %. The CON-
pany will build a railroad in Alaska.
GENERAL BOOTH: Commander
Booth-Tucker of the Salvation Army
announced that the commander IN
chief, General William Booth, Will visit
America in October next. 800,
REMEMBER THE MAINE: A bill
was introduced by Senator Lodge May
%, providing for the removal of the
battleship Maine from the harbor OF
Havana and the recovery of the bodies
OF the American sailors who sank with
the vessel. The bill appropriates ST.
OOO, 600
JURIST DEAD: Supreme Justice
George p. Andrews died at his home in
New DIX city at - 10 U ClOCh may ~
III his sixty-siXth year.
VOLCANIC ASH: NEW YORK, May
ga cable to the Sun from London
says: The West Indies committee re-
ceived by mail this morning sample
Of the volcanic dust thrown out by the
eruption of La Soufriere, on the island
of ST. Vincent. A preliminary chem
ical examination has been made by
Professor D'Albuquerque, who is of the
| opinion that the dust when mixed with
heavy clay land, might tend to improve
! the texture of the surface layers, al
though 1t has fertilizing capacity The
dust is very minute, being almost like
common flour, but is of grayish- drown
| color
DR.. LangGeld Smith also examined
| the sample and found the dust to con-
! slst Of volcanic minerals and glass, the
former predominating. The minerals
We're evidently silicates of iron and
magnesia, there being also consider
able proportion of quartz and some
potash and feldspar He compared
the volcanic iron with a sample of that
| which fell on the island in 1872, and
| found that the two differ greatly. The
dust of 1912 is much finer, and contains
very few mineral crystals, consisting
chiefly Of dark brown volcanic glass