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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-09-29
THE OLD FLOWER NAN.

killed by the Rapid Transit cars at
Hotel and Richards streets yesterday,
was known by sight to scores of peo-
pie. For several years past he had
gone bout the city selling little bou-
quets, usually little bouquets of mari
colds or other yellow flowers, He Of
ten wore an ancient silk hat. He was
supposed to be about eighty years old
and was somewhat bent or stopped
with age or infrmities.
His funeral will be held from H. H.
Williams undertaking establishment
tomorrow afternoon. The interment
will be at Pearl City cemetery.
Stnr Want I'D mn nnna
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-09-29
DEMURRER SUSTAINED.

A demurrer was sustained this
morning by Judge Estee i'm the bank
ruptcy case of Matsumoku. F. E.
Thompson appeared for the alleged
bankrupt and A. S. Humphreys for tie
petitioning creditors.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-09-29
S. F. Booth,
General Agent.
n. l Montgomery Street,
San Francisco.
Removal Notice!

The Sun Chung Xwock Bo, Ltd, has
removed to King stree, between Smith
and Maunakea streets in the new build
ing of the United Chinese Society.
The only Chinese newspaper publish
ed three times week in the Territory.
We take orders for all kinds Of printing
in Chinese, etc.
P. o. Box 1922. Tel. Vain 42s.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-09-29
FINE CANADIAN APPLES.

c. j. Day & Co. have a consignment
of elegant Canadian apples just arriv-
ed per Moana. Something very special.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-09-29
FEE GRANTED.

Judge Estee this morning awarded a
fee of 500 to Thayer and Hemenway in
the matter of the bankrupteS. of Win
Sing Lung. avn Ok ~,
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-09-29

The rates at the New Era Hotel have
been reduced % per cent.
The Punahou Athletic Club will meet
at p. m. Thursday at the Y. NJ. c. A.
The band will play i'm the hospital
grounds this afternoon, weather per-
hitting.
On account of taking stock B. f.
Ehlers & Co will be closed on Wednes-
day, September Goth.
e. w. Jordan & Co.'S great slaugh-
ter sale of rugs, carpets, matting,s limo
leums, etc, begins on October LIST.
The quarterly meeting of st. Gle
ment's Woman's Guild will be held at
the parish house rhis Afternoon at 3
o'clock.
Lieutenant Hamilton, L. s. A., ar
rived by the Sonoma from the main
land, detailed for duty at Camp Nc
Kinley.
Mrs. Widdifield has taken the hand
some house at the corner of King and
PiikOi streets, and expects to move in
to it about the first of next month.
News has been received from Frank
Vida that he suffered a sunstroke at
the conclusion of a polo game at
Shanghai, in which he distinguished
himself.
Superintendent of Public Works
Cooper says that offers to accept Ter
ritorial bonds in payment of govern
ment contracts have been received ag-
gregating S350O00.
On October 29th and 30th at Haalelea
Lawn the ladies of the Japanese Meth
odist Episcopal church, under the di-
rection of Mrs. Bagwell, will hold
Fair. They will offer for sale Japanese,
Hawaiian and other useful and orna-
mental articles, The proceeds will be
used in the erection of a much needed
church and school building.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-09-29
James f. Morgan,
AUCT1ONEER AND
BROKER

Si7-S57 Kaahumanu st. Tel. Main ~.
p. o. BOX b94
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-09-29
Honolulu Iron Works,
STEAM ENGINES, SUGAR MILLS
BOILERS. COOLERS, IRON, BRASS
AND LEA CASTINGS.

Machinery OF Every Description Made
to order. Particular attention raid 10
Ships Blacksmithing. Job Work Exc
cuted on Short Notice.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-09-29
Wv AuNnnr,>,u,>T,
NEWS INA NUTSHELL
Paragraph, That give Condensed
News Of the Day.

Weather Bureau, Punahou, 1 y. m.
Wind, light n. r.; weather, clear
Morning minimum temperature, Il;
midday maximum temperature, So;
barometer, 9 a. m, 1901, corrected for
gravity; rainfall, "a hours ending 9 a..
m, i.O7; dew point, 9 a. m, IS; humi-
dity, 0 a. m. Il per cent.
II. j. LYDECKER, Acting Observer.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-09-29

Raleigh Post: The contract has
been let for the construction of the
Pamlico, Oriental and Western Rail-
road. This road was chartered by the
last Legislature. It will run from
New Bern to a point in Pamlico
County, ffty-fve miles distant, at
least that much of it is provided for
in the contract which was let yester-
day. Mr.. II. r. Bryan, Jr., and Mr..
O. II. Guion are among the parties
interested in the new road. The con-
tract was awarded to the W. A. Cul-
len Construction Company, Of New
York; The W. ". Mills Lumber
Company, of Raleigh, has secured
the contract to furnish 100000 feet
of lumber for building the railroad
bridge across Neuse River at New
Bern.
Dunn Cor. Post: Between 5000
and 5000 patriotic North CAROLYN
ians thronged this thriving and pro-
gressive little city to-day to join the
citizens of Dunn in their celebra-
ton of the advent of the Cape Fear
and Northern Railway. The states
men, merchants, professional men
and farmers stood simply amazed at
the transformation that has been
wrought, as it we're in a single day,
in the old county Of Harnett. They
little dreamed that in the trip from
Apex to Dunn they would traverse
a section teeming with thrift and
industry, a line of road just thirty
six miles long, yet along which over
100000 has been invested in sue
cessful enterprises within less than
five years, not to speak of the build
ing of the town of Duke, a most mar
velous example Of what capital can
do in the heart of the forest in only
five months.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-09-29
AS to the Boil Weevil in North
Carolina.

Mr.. Clarence 81. Poe, Editor, Ra-
leigh, N. @.
Dear Mr.. Peel had determined
to write to you concerning the Mex
lean boll-weevil reports when your
card came asking my opinion. No,
I do not credit the reports that the
insect is in this State, but I am open
to conviction, and invite all to send
me specimens of any pest which they
suspect is boll-weevil. If the pest is
in the State the truth should be made
known at once, but the p~romiscuous
circulation of unfounded rumors
upon a subject as serious as this, is
sure to do much harm. I hope hat
the editor of the Monroe Journal, or
his correspondent, will at once send
me some specimens of the suspected
insect in order that the matter may
be settled. Should it prove to be the
true boll-weevil, I will at once make
the fact known through your col
umns. Should I not make such an
announcement, you may know that
the report has not been sustained.
There is every indication that the
Mexican boll-weevil will eventually
spread throughout the Cotton Belt,
but [ do not believe that it will ap-
pear in North Carolina for several
years yet to come. So far as I have
learned, it is still apparently con
fined Gin the United States) to GER
tain limited areas in Texas and
Louisiana.
Very truly yours,
FRANKLIN SHERMAN, JR.,
Entomologist, Department of Agri-
culture, Raleigh, N. @.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-09-29
STATE NEWS
znow cURRITUCK TO CHEROKEE.
,..,rs of Interest Cleaned From Our Cor
respondents and Exchanges.

SS0 StuQ6uIS ChAOAAON' "UO .
number in it's history.
Henderson will vote on the ques-
+;on Of a dispensary and distilleries
Of an election to be held October 20.
A frst-cIass hotel for negroes, is to
no opened in Asheville October 1.
Noah Murrough will be the proprie-
tor.
The enrolment of students at
Trinity College and Trinity Park
High School is now the largest in
ifs history, over 400.
Superintendent J. W. Jenkins, of
the Methodist Orphanage in Raleigh,
saws there are over 200 applications
for admission on file. In one day
there we're seventeen.
The grand jury at Tarboro found
q true bill for murder against DIR.
Julian NJ. Baker for the killing of
DR.. H. 7. Bass on the main street
of Tarboro last March.
A Greensboro man says that the
Whiteoaks Mill hat the Cones are
building in that city will have a
payroll of $75O,OOO a year. The mill
Will have 10000 spindles.
Dump" King, the negro supposed
to have been the accomplice of Aft.
Daniels in the murder of Mr.. F. G..
Simmons last week, has been arrest
ed in Onslow County and taken to
Trenton jail.
number of Rowan County farm
ers have formed a wood trust. They
have signed a pledge that they will
not sell below a certain price fixed,
which is a considerable advance on
current figures.
Lenoir News: The committee who
have been going over the books and
papers of ex-Sherif Boyd find a
shortage of near $4,000 after deduct
ing all available uncollected taxes
still on the books.
Twenty-four additional rural free
delivery carriers went on in North
Carolina September 1. The total in
the State is now 391. They will re-
celve $24O,OOO a year for their sal
aries from the Government.
Winston-Sa Salem special, 23rd: John
". Hanes, one of Winston-S alem's
WeaIthiest and most influential bust
ness men died of heart trouble this
morning at Atlantic City, N. J., at
the age of fftv-three years.
Wadesboro Observation-Disclosures
Ger: Saturday was the largest cot
ton day Wadesboro has had this sea-
son. The number of bales weighed
was 2l5, and the amount of cash paid
20 the farmers for the staple was
about $4,000.
"A Washington, D. O., special says:
Onarges have been filed with the
Iostotice Department against Post
master j. D. Massey, of S~mithfeld,
ana an Inspector has been sent to
make an Investigation. Gross i'm
moral cNndnct ;s tho ohnnnn mndo
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-09-29

carry a lady to the depot in time to
catch a train after he had agreed to
do so. He had to pay $15 and the
costs of the action.
DR.. B.. W. Kilgore, State Chemist,
says the prevalence of asthracnose,
a fungus disease of cotton, is becom-
ing alarming in North Carolina. 1t
is a disease which causes the she'd
ding of leaves, forms and the rot
ting of the smaller bolls.
Statesville Cor. Charlotte Obser-
yer: Mr.. Samuel Archer, who has
interested himself and other farmers
around in raising sheep, has bought
400 acres of land, in Cool Spring
Township, from Mr.. N. P. Watt and
will establish a sheep ranch on it.
He paid $4,000 for the farm.
The North Carolina Land and
Timber Company, doing business in
Madison County, went into the hands
of a receiver Saturday. The liabili-
ties are over 100000 and the assets
are large. The failure is the largest
that has occurred in the Western
part of the State in recent years.
Col. Olds: The representative of
the American Tobacco Company
here says that owing to the diversi-
fcation of crops in this section the
tobacco growers are able to hold their
leaf, but he does not think those east
of here are so fortunate, as they
depended upon tobacco and cotton
and did not grow so much grain or
other supplies.
Col. Olds: There are now seven
branches of the Audubon Society.
The one here is actively at work
against violators of the game laws.
To-day a warrant was issued for a
man who a few days ago killed a
wild turkey. The warrant is issued
upon a affidavit of the county game
warden.
Kinston Free Press: Mr.. +. W.
Hood, of Jones County, reports a
very fine yield of corn on his farm.
He says that he has about ten acres
of land planted in an improved corn
from which he expects to make
some fifteen or twenty barrels per
acre. Several of the talks bear six
ears a piece and some bear nine ears
a piece. The general run is from
two to nine ears
The Southern Field says it is
claimed that the result of thorough
prospecting of the granite fOrma-
ton in the neighborhood of Sails
bury, warrants the assertion
that it will yield the finest genuine
pink granite in the United States.
A block of this stone was recently
| shipped to San Francisco where it
will be used in the new Government
building.
Stanly Enterprise: North Caro-
| lima always does her share and is
again at the head on a matter that
may please Roosevelt himself. We
refer to DR.. Henry Smathers, who
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-09-29

~@~ASA W NOOOO1SO@ $1,000
seems that a very large proportion
of the people of this State would
about as soon have smallpox as not.
They will not take any precautions,
by means of vaccination, unless
forced to do so by a policeman, or a
deputy sheriff, and so it comes about
that this disease is even now, in this
time of year, which is not it's ia
vorite season, widely scattered over
the State. There will be a vast num-
Der of cases when the cold weather
sets in.
Rocky Mount Motor: The Atlanta
Constitution publishes statistics show
ing the birth rate in the States and
makes a comparison between the
Southern and Northern States, which
shows about a third greater number
of births proportionately for the
Southern, and comments that there
is no race suicide in the South.
North Carolina leads all the States
in percentage with 1871, except Indi-
an Territory, which has 34.6. North
Carolina, all round, is undoubtedly
the most productive State of them
all.
Roxboro Courier: A few years
ago Winston had more than forty
tobacco factories and to-day she has
less than a dozen. What did it? The
American Tobacco Company. Now
if this company has the power to
force firms, which have been in the
business and making money for a
number of years to either sell out to
them or be run out, what show have
the small concerns without either an
established trade or the money neces,
sary to build up a trade, to succeed
Any business man will answer
none.
A Raleigh special says: 1t is very
evident now that there is going to be
a very interesting contest between
Judge Hoke and Justice for the
Western Supreme Court Judgeship
Both are superb men. Judge Hoke
has for years been considered one of
the finest judges North Carolina has
ever had. Judge Justice was one of
the best liked and soundest men ever
in a North Carolina Legislature. It
is due probably to him more than
any other man that the time for the
preparation of voters under the
| grandfather clause was extended to
1908.
Statesville, Landmark: The Audu-
bon law passed by the last Legisla-
ture for the protection of birds is
very strict and people who disregard
it are getting into trouble. Some
days ago Mr. Geo. W. Anthony, a
prominent citizen of Alamance
County, saw a lot Of swallows take
refuge in a chimney during a storm.
He covered the top of the chimney
with a wire screen and then set straw
afre in the fireplace. In a few mo-
ments 246 birds had been killed.
The occurrence was published in the
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1903-08-12
GREEDY GOAT EATS
STAMPS OFF
BARRELS
TROUBLE FOLLOWS AND THE AMI
NAL Is KILLED IN ORDER
TO GET PROOF.
ny ASSOCIATED PRESS.

Memphis, Tenn, Aug. Is.--Thc stomach
of goat is to be analysed by expert
chemists in an effort to account for the
disappearance Of number of United
States revenue stamps, involving several
hundred dollars.
This morning a wholesale whisky firm
sold five barrels of whisky to a saloon
keeper. The whisky was delivered and
left on the pavement in front of the store.
The proprietor's pet goat ate the
revenue stamps on the heads Of the bar
rels, and soon after government in
spector inspected the whisky and found
the necessary stamps missing Thereupon
he conhscated the whisky.
The propriet6fs explained that the goat
ate the stamps. The inspector declined to
accept this explanation.
After a conference il was agreed TO xii,
the goat and examine its stomach to locate
the missing revenue stamps in order TO
protect the saloonist from a heavy fine.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1903-08-12
OFFICIALS ARRESTED
ON CONSPIRACY
CHARGE
ATTEMPT TO DEFEAT THE ADMINS
TRATloN OF PUBLIC JUS
TlCE Is ALLEGED.
~ ASSOCIATED PRESS,

Chicago, Aug. is.---llcnry j. Mohcr,
president of the village board OF Harlem,
Justice of the Peace Eugene Malhiot and
G. W. Yonkers, an alleged representative
of the village board, have been arrested on
warrants which charge conspiracy to de-
feat the administration of public justice"
The warrants result partly from the
action OF the board in suspending Chief Of
Police lanpc under charges Of drunken
ness, after he had begun an active cant
paign against the officers Of the Harlem
race track aud the bookmakofs doing bust
ness at the Harlem track.
Chief langc arrested several bookmakers
last Friday aud had prepared to raid the
track again on the following day, when he
was suspended from office.
The warrants were issued by the states $
attorney on accusations by Chief Iangc
that money was used TO persuade members
of the board to Dust him from office.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1903-08-12
NO SIGNS OF PANIC
IN THE FAR
GOVERNOR ODElL OF NEW YORK
TALKS OF CONDITIONS AS
HE FOUND THEM.
ny AssoclAtrp rRrss.

Mohawk Lake, n. V, Aug. is--Gov-
crnor Odell, who has just returned from
tour of the West, says the people outside
Of Wall street are too busy with big crops
and other business to pay any attention to
the recent furry and failures.
There is no sign of panic anywhere
except in the Fast" he says. "In the
West there is plenty of money and plenty
OF common sense. Business is good. crops
are abundant and money cheap everywhere
! have been.
The excitement and decentralization of
the East arc regarded with indifference in
the great, busy, productive West" he con
tinuod.
"Of course, | found labor strikes in the
West, as in the East. but they were strikes
for higher wages and shorter hours, not
strikes against lower wages. which are
signs OF bad times. That is a very im-
portant fact TO remember just now"
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1903-08-12
CURIOS IN CLASSIFICATION
Old Bowie Knives and Horse Pistols
Subject to Duty.
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.

New York, Aug. Is.-Not long ago the
board of classification of the United States
general appraisers passed on an invoice of
bowie knives, which the importing firm
classed as side arms.
The articles were reclassifed and the
duty reduced.
Now the board has settled the tariff
status of the horse pistol. Although these
ancient weapons remain only in names and
curio cabinets, the collector of customs at
Boston had held up an invoice of them on
the ground that they were manufactures
of metal" and dutiable at the As per cent
ad valorem rate.
The board of classification here found
the horse pistols were only imitation an
tiques, to be sold as the genuine thing.
They were classified as side arms and as
sessed 10 per cent.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1903-08-12
STOLEN BY TRAMPS
AND LOCKED IN
THE CAR
NlNE-YEhR-OLD BOY Is FOUND IN
A STARVING CONDITION BY
CHICAGO POLICE.
ny ASSOCIATED pRFsS.

Chicago, Aug. IA o-ycar Old boy,
who gives his name as Percy Bigclow,
and who says his father is a wealthy resi-
dent OF Fort Wayne Ind, was found by
the police today in famishcd condition
in a boxcar in the Wabash freight yards.
lie said he had been seized by two
tramps, while playing in front of his
home, thrown into the car and kept a
prisoner, without food, and under threats
Of death if he attempted to outcry.
His cap,ors had disappeared before the
boy was found and no trace Of them has
been secured.
The child is being cared for by the
police while his father is being communi-
Gated with.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1903-08-12
GOV. TAFT MAKES DENIAL
Says He Does Not Want Position Of
Secretary Of War.
By ASSOCIATED PRESS.

Manila, Aug. IL, p. m.-When the
news arrived here by cable that Secretary
Root Of the war department would be
forced to resign the portfolio by his duties
as member Of the Alaskan boundary
commission about to meet in London, his
resignation 10 take effect under certain
conditions In December next if not sooner.
q reception was taking place at the palace
In honor of Major-General George w.
Davis, until recently in command of the
division of the Philippines and now on
the retired list.
Governor Taft, who was present, when
shown the statement contained in this
dispatch that he would succeed Secre-
tary Root on his retirement, laughed and
replied that the report was untrue.
Later on when second message was
received confirming an alleged offer of
the appointment the governor denied the
statement in similar terms.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1903-08-12
Mystery of Early Days of
Virginia City Cleared
Up By Two Boys.
DISCOVER SKELETON
Remains of Stranger Who
Killed Mclaughlin
Found.
SPECIAL TO THE INTER MOUNTAIN.

SPECIAL TO THE INTER MOUNTAIN.
Virginia City, Aug. IA murder
mystery Of nearly 40 years standing was
cleared up yesterday when two small boys
playing in tract Of wild ground known
as the Raspberry Patch," mile and a half
northeast of the city, found the skeleton
Of the murderer Of James Mclaughlin,
whose death here in 1868, in the Alder
Gulch days, was one of the sensations of
the time.
The name of the man who shot Nc
Laughlin or the cause for the shooting has
never been learned.
Private Grudoe.
Mclaughlin kept dive in what was
then the negro quarter of the city, but is
now upper Jackson street. One night q
stranger came to town and without ado,
went straight to McLaughlin's place and
killed him.
He then threw the body over his sad
die and rode out of town with it.
A posse gave chase and recovered the
body on what is now known as Masonic
Cemetery hill. But no trace of the MUIR
derer was ever seen.
After Many Years.
Now his skeleton is in possession Of the
sheriff.
The body lay in an old prospect hole.
The clothes had all rotted away, but by
the side of the bones lay the fatal re-
volver from which the wooden handle had
rotted. The man had evidently shot him
self.
The weapon identifies the remains. 1t
was Of a curious make and was described
by witnesses of the murder
The remains are in possession OF Sheriff
Hill and will be buried today.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1903-08-12
CELEBRATE IN A
VERY PECULIAR
MANNER
TWO YEARS AFTER DEATH OF WIFE
HE CALLS IN FRIENDS TO oB-
SERVE SILVER WEDDING.
ny ASSOCIATED PRESS.

New York, Aug. rs.-Despite the stren-
uous objections of the members of his
family, Henry Michael. an east side ner-
chant, has celebrated his silver wedding,
two years after his wife's death.
1t is said his two daughters appealed to
the police, who refused, however, to in
terfere.
According to Michael and his friends,
his married life was not happy one, so
that he decided to celebrate the anniver-
sary in his own way.
Eight hundred guests gathered in hall,
rented for the occasion.
Seventy-hve kegs OF beer. 1880 bottles
of wine, and enough chickens, turkeys,
fish, soup, ETC., to satisfy everybody pres
ent we're served as fast as they could be
consumed, and Michael footed the bill of
several thousand dollars.
Several Of the deceased wife's relatives
were present, and said they coincided in
Michaels views.