The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-10-13
THE kOHAL-A
RAILROAD
Philip Peck Again
Seeks Needed
Capital.
HORRIBLE CRIME
IN OLAA DISTRICT
Reduction in Cattle Taxes-A Big
Catch OF Fish-Little
Is Busy.

Is Busy.
HILO, October 9.-P. Peck leaves to-
day by the Claudine for Honolulu
i where he will take the Alameda for Sar
Francisco He goesfin the interest OF
the Hilo- Kohala railroad, which he has
undertaken to ainance.
The prospects for the beginning OF
work on the railroad are encouraging
Lalthough the preliminary financial ar
rangements have not yet been COM
pleted. There is yet chance for the
plans to fall through, but with Mr.,
Peck at the throttle it is generally be-
l1ieved that he will pull train from
Hilo to HakaIau before he leaves it.
Mr.. Peck states that the road, if built
must be constructed by a combination
of local and foreign capital. Hilo must
come to the scratch and do something
for her own redemption. Owners OF
real estate in Hilo especially should
take more than sentimental interest
in this road. It will double the value
of their holdings, and a part of this
prospective profit should be invested in
the stock or bonds of the company
Tribune.
ANOTHER HORRIBLE CRIME.
A Porto Rican girl between the ages
of nine and ten years was brutally
assaulted, ravished and left in an un-
conscious state in an unoccupied shanty
at Keaau, Olaa, last Monday night
Her assailant is unknown.
Captain Lake, who was on watch at
the station Tuesday morning, was no
titled of the affair and he went at once
to Keaau. He found the little girl still
unconscious. Her eye was blackened,
and the back of her head showed that a
blow had been received there. Captain
Lake improvised a streteher and had
the girl carried to the train and brought
to the Hilo hospital. DR.. Reid found
the girl in a high state of fever and
still unconscious, with little probability
of recovery. Sheriff Andrews and Dep
uty Sheriff overend went to work on
the case at once to ferret out the guilty
man.
The victim died at the hospital yes
terday morning without regaining con-
seriousness. The sheriff kept Porto
Rican at the bedside constantly, hop
ing that with the return of conscious
ness that some description of the as
sailant might be secured. Four arrests
have been made on suspicion.-Tribune.
BIG CATCH OF oPELU.
On Monday the fish market was bur-
dened with the largest catch of opelu
made in these waters for several years,
more than 1900 being landed. AS soon
as it became known the market was
thronged with purchasers, as this spe-
cies Of fish is one of the best for drying
and picking. On Wednesday is, 800
were landed and during the day there
We're sales of several thousand in lots
of 100, the price varying from one dollar
to seventy-five cents per hundred.
Some Hawaiians say that it often hap
pens that the death of a prominent
Hawaiian follows these unusual
catches; after the last one Kaiulani died
after short illness.-Herald.
JUDGE LITTLE IS BUSY.
Judge Little rendered decision in an
appeal from the district court this week
in which it is held that section "A of the
Session Laws of 1898, of the Republic
of Hawaii. 3eprives the parties of the
right of trial by jury. 1T is in conflict
with the 7th article of the Constitution
of the United States and is therefore
void and of no effect says the decision.
The question came up on appeal in the
suit of Henry ]. Lyman VS.. F. L. Win
4
Article of the constitution provides
that the right of trial by jury shall be
preserved in all suits at common law
involving value exceeding s20.-Tribune.
Judge Little has decided that the old
right of a defendant in a criminal case
to appeal to the circuit court in miti-
CATION of sentence has no authority
in law. For many years IT has been
the practice to take an appeal from the
district court to the circuit court for a
reduction of the sentence. For this pro-
ceeding there has not been any provis-
ion of law, but it has existed as a
matter of custom.-Herald.
ASSESSMENT. Is REDUCED.
Tax Assessor n. c. Willfong. Homer
l. Ross. T, C. Ridgway, and NJ NJ.