The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-01-20
THIEVES ON
MAUI BUSY
Burglars Put the
Police on Their
Mettle.

MAUI. Jan. 17.-Burglars have been
doing a somewhat profitable business
on the island OF Maui recently. great
ly to the loss and discomfort OF honest
men, and the police so far only promise
that they will make arrests shortly
The first of the present series OF rob-
berries took place two nights before
Christmas. on that night the Paia
plantation store was entered and more
than one hundred dollars worth OF
watches, rings and jewelry of various
sorts taken. 1t is supposed that the
thief hid himself away in the store
during the daytime and. waiting until
after closing hours. walked away with
his plumber. At all' events he went out
by the front door, which he had forced
open from the inside.
About ten days ago the Paia depot
was broken into in the night and
s13 taken from the money drawer.
The thieves entered through the back
door of the warehouse, removing the
staples from the lock.
on the night of Tuesday. the 18th,
the Kula saloon at Pulehuiki, run by
George Forsyth, was burglarized and
eight bottles of assorted liquor and
$3.50 in cash taken.
There is a gang of Porto Ricans that
has come under suspicion of these vari-
Gus offenses, and Deputy Sheriff Morton
is keeping close tab upon them but as
yet has made no arrests although he
will probably take some of the sus-
pected parties into custody today.
STOCKHOLDERS MEETING.
Tuesday afternoon the annual meet
ing Of the stockholders of the Maui
Telephone Co. took place 1t the Paia
plantation office and the following OIL
GERS were elected or reelected: H. p.
Baldwin, president; d. c. Lindsay, vice.
president; w. E. Nicoll, secretary; f.
b. Carley. treasurer; w. Q. Aiken, audi
tor, and w. G. Ogg, II. A. Baldwin and
w. o. Aiken, trustees. The "hold-over'
trustees are r. A. Wadsworth, X. F.
Engle and James Fleming. commit
tee was appointed which will report at
the directors meeting to be held on the
23rd concerning the ways and means
of instituting a great improvement In
the present telephone system.
NOTES.
On account of the stormy weather
the meeting Of the Makawao Literary
Society, which was to have taken place
at H. A. Baldwins residence, Hama
kuapoko, the evening of the 10th, was
postponed for several weeks.
BY the Kinau of Tuesday Senator G.
H. Dickey arrived on Maui intending to
make little visit to his old home be-
fore the beginning of the session.
For 1902 the rainfall at Haleakala
Ranch, Makawao, amounted 10 1l2.3t
inches-a record-breaking total.
The districts of Wailuku, Makawao
Hama in fact all Maui, are complain
ing of the. soft condition of the roads
The last storm was a general one.
The friends of Mrs. " A. Vetlesen OF
Waikiki are most anxious concerning
her She is very sick. The latest re-
port is that the doctors have given
her up.
Athletics seem to have lost theil
popularity for a time on Maui. The
Waikiki association have no sports or
the tapis whatever, and the Makawat
Polo Club will probably not play agar
till April. This afternoon the latter or
ganization will hold their annual meet
ing on Sunnyside grounds for the cleo
ton of officers etc.
Weather: Pleasant the last two days
w. p. Pogue of Nahiku came owe
to meet with the Republican executive
committee at Kahului on Monday.