The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-02-17
LOCAL BREVITIES.

.dGSI6es Tonight.
Letters from the Hedemanns give the
information that they expect to reach
Honolulu Feb oath.
Land Commissioner Boyd leaves to-
day on the Kinau for Maui on land
business. He will be gone a week.
Marshal Handy received new I'm
derwood typewriter from the Depart
ment of Justice at Washington by the
Alameda.
A brush fire on Pacific Heights caused
some little excitement in the city early
last evening, but no particular harm
was done by it.
A dance will be given at the Hawai-
ian hotel on Wednesday evening. A
quintette club will play during the din
ner and for the dance.
The annual meeting of the Hooulu
and Hoola Lahui society will be held
at the Kapiolani Maternity Home on
Thursday Feb. 10. at 10 a. m. =
Judge De Bolt has granted divorce
to Hamilton McKubbin from Mary Nc
Kubbin on the ground Of desertion.
The winkIer divorce case was discon-
tinued.
Bishop & Co. bought the property at
Nuuanu and Kukui streets Saturday at
auction for $1,000. 1t was sold to salts
fly mortgage given by Lam Hoo Chin
to Bishop & Co. for $12,47S.
Miss Minnie Williams, the only wo:-
man survivor on the raft that carried
the people from the wrecked Walla
Walla, arrived in the Miowera and is
a guest of Mr.. and Mrs. j. NJ. Dowsett.
deed was filed yesterday conveying
Lot II in the Kaimuki tract from
Geo. D. Gear to Godfrey Brown. A
second deed was a conveyance of the
same lot from Godfrey Brown to Mild
red Gear.
Edgar and Bob Williams and Woods,
the three convicts who escaped from
prison but were recaptured a few
months ago, are again given a little
more liberty, after having been under
close watch since their capture.
The front of the new Young block
has been cleared of all scaffolding and
hosting apparatus, and the completion
of the interior will be carried on by
the hosting of the material by the
freight elevators, which are now in
operation.
L. Breham was arrested yesterday on
a warrant charging him with being a
gross cheat, sworn to by the head of
the firm of Hop Hing Company. 1t is
alleged that he obtained five bags of
coffee from the firm by falsely repre-
senting himself to be the agent for S. l.
Shaw
The United States Court is almost
ready to adjourn for a week because
Of the inroads of dengue fever. The
entire force of the District Attorneys
office is incapacitated. including Mr..
Breckons, Mr.. Dunno and Miss Handy.
In the clerks office Deputy Clerk Hatch
is laid up.
Drs. Wood and Day gave an interest
ing exhibition of the X-ray at their
offices last night to small company
which included Governor and Mrs.
Dole. Interesting experiments We're
made, among tn,in the taking of an
anatomical pho, osraph. Tue beating
OF the heart Of the Chinese Office boy
was clearly seen through the fiuores-
cent screen.
Lee Hing, a Chinese cook employed on
BOARD the tug Iroquois, is at the Queens
Hospital with a broken skull, believed
to have been caused by blow on the
head by an iron bar in the hands OF
another Chinese employed on the tug
Lee Hing will not talk about the mat
ter, but the two quarreled on shore on
Saturday night, with the result that
Lee got the worst of it. The injury is
not fatal.