The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-05-26
NOTICE Of
A TAANSFE:R
Collector Chamberlain
Informed of
Change.
(From Saturdays Daily.)

(From Saturdays DailyO
Collector Chamberlain received In
Yesterdays mail official notice of the
Department of Commerce at Washing
ton. The letter from Commissioner
Yerkes says:
1.-THE Actsof Congress, entitled An
Act to establish the Department Of
Commerce and Labor approved Feb.
IA, 1908, provides that the authority
power, and Jurisdiction now possessed
and exercised by the SECRETARY of the
Treasury, by virtue of any law in re-
lation to the exclusion from and the
residence within the United States, its
territories, and the District of Column
bia, Of Chinese and persons of Chinese
descent, are hereby transferred to AMI
conferred upon the Secretary Of Com
merce and Labor. and the authority,
thereto, now vested by law or treaty in
the Collectors of Customs and the Col
by conferred upon and vested in such
officers under the control of the COM
missioner General of immigration as
the Secretary Of Commerce and Labor
may designate therefor
"In pursuance of the foregoing pro-
visions O fsaid Act, which takes effect
July 1, 1903, you will on that date, or As
early thereafter as possible, forward to
the Commissioner General of Immigra-
ton all records duplicates letters, pa
per and data of every kind in the files
of your respective offices, relative 20
Chinese or Chinese certificates OF resi-
dence."
The letter provides also for methods
of shipment and is signed by ]. w.
Yerkes, Commissioner, and approved by
Secretary Shaw.
. . . . . . . . - .
This was on Saturday night you
took Mr.. Jaeger there" Yes"
Did you take him there on Tuesday
night" Yes"
How did you happen to go there?"
well, he got into my machine and
told me to take him to Mrs. Turks"
who invited you into the house?"
Both he and Mrs. Turk"
who invited you to drink" Mrs.
Turk"
Walter MacFarlane was next called
by the prosecution but there was no
response.
WENT AS OLD FRIENDS.
Herman Kruger was called.
when were you at Mrs. Turks
house?" ut was sometime in April
about the 18th or the next Saturday
maybe, don't just remember"
who was with you?" willie
Roth and Walter MacFarlane."
Did you go there in a hack?" mo,
we walked"
Did Mrs. Turk invite you there?"
mo, but I have known Mrs. Turk for
years, and I went up there to see the
new place. We went there in the even
ing
You We're not invited there?" mo,
but l was invited up before. I never
received a note to call. The others We're
my guests"
"Who was there when you arrived?"
Mr.. and Mrs. Turk and the other
lady"
Your visit was made then when
Turk was in town."
Yes, I think So"
Did you have anything to drink"
Eyes, had a glass of whiskey."
"Who furnished it?" Mrs. Turk"
"Who paid for it?" II don't know,
she treated the other boys had wine"
"How much?" II don't know"
Did Turk come into the room with
you?" mo. I think he was in the
other room"
Henry Jaeger, David Kupihea and Geu.
Gibbs We're called, with no response.
Captain Paul Smith was called to the
stand.
ONLY ON THE PREMISES.
Have you ever been in Mrs. Turks
house?" mo, SIR"
ises Of Mrs. Turk, in the last two
weeks?" We'll, yes 1 was on the
premises"
urday night about - o'clock. I was
walking past the place"
We'll, how far did you go into the
premises?" well, I just walked as
far as the verandah."
Did you go into the house?" No"
"Well, what did you do when you got
to the verandah?" II stayed there
a WHILE"
WAS there any one on the veran-
dab? Was Mrs. Turk there? IT could
not tell, it was dark, and there was
no electric light there
Somebody was on the verandah, you
say?" Yes
Did she say anything to you?"
"She asked me what I wanted. asked
who it was, and she said, Mrs. Turk"
'It was Mrs. Turk then, that you
talked to?" II don't know, she said
she was Mrs. Turk"
What did she say, anything more?"
"She asked me who I was, and / told
her; that was all right. She said then,
you cannot come in here She asked
me what / wanted, and told her
nothing"
Did you know what the place
was?" mo, because 7 did not go III.
When told her did not want any
thing she went in and closed the door.
I just wanted to see what the place
was, but my visit was not very sue
cessful."
Did YOU spend any money thore?"
mo, I didn't have any to spend"
The names of n. II. Oickey and A.