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The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-04-24
LABOR AND BEET SUGAR.

Utah is having an issue of labor in
the beet sugar fields. The largest
beet sugar company in that State has
sent To California for Japanese field
hands, whereupon white men are pro-
testing vigorously. Touching the
claim that the company cannot get
white labor a correspondent of Salt
Lake paper says that the question is
not one of persons but of pay. III the
Utah Beet Sugar Company would pay
white men white mems wages they
would get all the help they need"
The answer of the manager of this
company is interesting. He says:
I'VE are compelled To resort 10 Japan
csc labor for the reason that il is alb
solutely impossible to get white adult
labor at price that will enable the
farmer 10 raise beets. There are not
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-04-24
LOCAL BREyITlES.
tFrom Wednesdays Daily.)

4
Three Porto Ricans were arrested
last night for vagrancy and one fol
soliciting.
The police gathered in eleven men
alleged to be gamblers. in Pauoa late
last night.
The Gaelic sailed for Yokohama at {
p. m. and the Doric for San francisco
at midnight last night.
News was received yesterday OF the
death in Hamburg, Germany. OF Mrs
Adele Constance Kruss. mother of e. o.
Kruss of this city.
big shark caught at Nawiliwili,
Kauai, contained the arm of n man,
presumably Japanese who disappear
ed some time previous.
The Supreme Court yesterday heard
arguments in the case of McBryde Es-
tate vs. Gay & Robinson, and All Hing
Vs. All On. The last named case is a
suit for damages against the police for
false arrest.
Charles Cuttriss. electrical engineer
for the Commercial Cable Co., who is a
passenger for Manila on the Gaelic said
yesterday that message would be sent
to President Roosevelt from Manila
over the cable on July 4th.
The report of Secretary Cooper of
executive proceedings for the two years
ending January LIST. 1908, was distribut-
ed to the Legislature yesterday. It con-
tains record of. all executive actions,
proclamations, messages, and official
calls made upon the Governor 1t also
has record of all deeds signed by the
Governor.
The temperature tables of 1902, made
up from the observations of VIM. r.
Castle, have just been issued from the
press, and are being distributed by
L. P. Tenney. They show a maximum
heat of 80 degrees and a minimum Of
SO, making an average Of 1887 The
rainfall for is years as gagged at Mr..
Castles place, has averaged 29.n
inches, the maximum being 1882, and
the minimum being 13.46.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-04-24
OPPOSING THE SMALL FARMER.

1t pleases the afternoon press to
sneer at the efforts to bring into this
Territory more American farmers.
Naturally these papers do not attempt
to argue the case, because the facts
and the logic are against them. No
one can deny that the small farmer is
n success in this Territory. The white
man has shown that he can proiitably
raise sisal, pineapples bananas, dairy
products, honey, hogs and poultry;
and the Chinaman has proved his abil-
ity to make a profit on rice bananas,
vegetables, certain fruit, taro, hogs and
ducks. Other products like vanilla,
tobacco, cocoa and Manila hemp are
possible. Having admitted the truth
of all this as any candid critic must.
and conceding that there are great
areas of vacant land waiting to be set
tied and that the Territory cannot be
Americanized unless Americans do 1t
and that there are not enough here now
for the purpose, what possible grounds
are left for any reputable paper, as
Stunning to stand for the development of
this Territory along traditional Amer
lean lines" to oppose the introduction
of the small farmer?
1t is not for the advertiser to char
acterize the motives Of it's contempora-
ries; but they are certainly, whatever
they are, averse to the interests of the
Territory as those interests are seen by
the President of the United States, the
Governor and Legislature, by the practi-
cal working farmers and by every man
who can look an inch beyond his nose.
Eventually, despite jaundiced press
and a knitting Land Commissioner, the
small farmers will come as they have
to every other State and Territory;
whereupon no doubt, our contempora-
ries will claim TO have cleared the way
for them and to be entitled to subscrip-
tions as a reward.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-04-24
MEN
MAY WAIT
Prospect That a
Number Will
Fail.

OF the many applicants for beer Ii
censes it now appears that at the very
least one-half may have to content
themselves with waiting for the is
suance. That not above 80 per cent
of the men who have listed their names
will secure the coveted permission to
sell beer is indicated by the thorough
ness with which the officials charged
with the duty of inspecting and passing
upon the applicants and places, are do
ing their work
Treasurer Kepoikai and Sheriff
Brown spent yesterday afternoon in
going about Honolulu and looking over
the several places named in applica-
tons. They visited Kakaako and went
into the Kalihi district and gave at
tention particularly to the vicinity in
which the applicants have chosen TO
plant their places. When the two
parted company it was with the deter
mination on the part of the Treasurer
to make haste slowly. There VIII be
a series of Investigations of the persons
who have made the applications, so as
to determine the quality of the charac-
ter of each, and until this has been
done, there will be no money accepted
for licenses.
on one point Treasurer Kepoikai has
decided views. He believes that IL
censes should issue only where there
appears n necessity for the saloon, and
the habit of having a nest of the beer
selling places aroung one corner or III
one block of buildings is deemed poor
one He said; II do not approve or
clusters of saloons. If there is de-
mand for several saloons in certain
district, then they may be licensed, but
l take IL that the intention was To pro-
vide places where the people who want
liquor viii be given the opportunity
10 get it, not that there must be a long
list of places where il is sold in one
vicinity There viii be n great deal or
attention paid to surroundings, and as
Well | will have To have some assur-
ance of the character of the man who
makes application, so as to know what
he will be able TO do in the way of
keeping n respectable place"
1t has been rumored that the Orphe-
UNI theater was to be abandoned and
the place taken over for a beer garden.
The man whose name has been used in
connection with the scheme said last
evening that he had once asked as 10
the probability of securing the orphe-
um, but the fact that the bill, as pass
ed, makes a limit of distance from
schools and churches, puts the Orphe-
um out of the question, as the church
right across the street would be bar
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-04-24
TOBACCO AT THE ST. LOUIS FAIR.
[The Official aud Commercial Record

olHtIhl duu hctplhl
The st. Louis Worlds Fair will make
a departure from the ordinary way of
exhibiting tobacco and give opportu-
nifty for any one in Hawaii Interested
in the subject, to study the industry at
first hand. The Fair authorities will
make the most complete exposition Of
all the phases of the weed and it's
manufactured forms ever presented to
the public. The exhibit will embrace
every item connected with tobacco,
beginning with the seed and carrying
it through the plant bed, the trans
planting, the field culture and growth,
the cutting or stripping, transporting
to curing barns, the curing processes
of all the types; the transportation to
leaf warehouses, the sales of leaf, and
on to the factory; thence through its
various preparatory forms into the
finished product. Much in the way of
machinery will find a place to illus
trate processes, including cigarette
machines, American and Cuban cigar
makers, and other live exhibits neces-
sary to a full illustration of the plant
from the field to the finished product.
The plans for this "universar' to-
~
with a 20-foot aisle on each of the long
sides of the parallelogram, and bisect-
ed by 10-foot cross aisle. There Is
some friendly rivalry as to which of
the states shall have the honor of pre-
senting a suitable design for this dis
tinctive feature. Kentucky leads the
Union with an annual production of
more than 314, 900 900 pounds of leaf:
IA
than 127,O00 900 pounds then Virginia
with more than 122 900 600 pounds; Ohio
with more than 60 900, 600 pounds; Ten
nessee with $4,000 900 pounds: Wiscon-
sin with 100000 and so on down the
list. Hawaii does not yet produce any
tobacco for export, although the ma
tives raise and cure a coarse article
for home consumption, The whole
superstructure Is to be treated with
tobacco in some of its forms, and with
the tobacco OF the whole country 10
draw upon, the color effects promise
to be most pleasing.
There are some twenty states en-
gagged in tobacco culture and each of
them has varieties of types incidental
to soil, climate, or other condition,
These types are subdivided into many
grades" or forms of commercial sig
niticance. More than n million acres
are devoted to the production of eight
hundred and fifty to nine hundred mil
lions of pounds of leaf annually pro-
duced in these states. The $50, 100000
to $4,000 900 paid to the planters is but
n small part of the sum realized for
the manufactured product,
This central or special tobacco eS-
hibit is not intended to replace the
state collections or special manufac-
turers exhibits. Provision for auxili-
airy exhibits of all kinds Is arranged
for, vet II is hoped that no state with
any distinctive type will be omitted
from this proposed special feature. To
this end correspondence with the Chief
Of the Department of Agriculture is
invited Even though Hawaiian to-
bacco is a coarse article 1t should be
represented Mt the fair and Its repre-
sentation may lead to n definite and in
telligent effort being made to produce
the article on n commercial scale,
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-04-24
SUMMER IN THE TROPICS.

Nothing Is more difficult than to con-
vince a northern tourist that the sum-
mer is a good time in which to visit
the trade wind tropics. He argues that
AZ the winters are warm the summers
must be intolerable: and so he stays
north where-eave on the immediate
shores of the Pacific coast-the heat Is
more humid, of greater maximum in
tensity and the weather more change
able and therefore more threatening to
the health, than is ever the case in
tropical resorts situated like Hawaii.
Elsewhere in these columns the Adj
vertiser presents the footing of the Ia
bles of Honolulu temperature for 1902,
showing a maximum of 80 degrees for
the year, a minimum of SO and an
average of 1897. The highest tempera-
ture found in June, at p M, Is SO, for
two days; in July 80 for one day; in
August, 81 for one day. The average at
the hottest part of the day and warm
part of the town is about So; but with
temperate mornings and evenings and
cool nights. Usually a trade wind Is
blowing and this agreeably modifies the
weather he can keep far more COM
Portable during the summer in Hawaii
than he can anywhere In the East; and
be much less in peril from fluctuations
of the weather.
The highest charm of life in the
tropics can never. be experienced save
in summer. Warm as it is here in the
winter months as compared with any
other part of the Union, the people ac-
cept winter fashions. They hibernate
in town: they go more rarely to the
mountains and the beach; excursions
and luaus are less frequent; there is |
comparatively little of out-of-door life; I
even the dress of the people takes on ,
northern hue: and most of the in !
digenous fruits of the tropics are not to !
be had. Summer brings the mango, the I
papaia, the avocado pear, the custard |
apple, the breadfruit and the water !
lemon and perfects the pineapple and |
the orange. Summer brings out the |
tropical costumes, the vacation at the |
seashore or the lochs, the yachting, the |
trips into the mountains, the wide-open |
homes all that is most delightful in the
social life of the island group The /
weather becomes of the picnic sort, less
liable to rain.
Not that the winters are unpleasant.
To the northern man, to whom winter
at home means keen physical discom-
fort, a place where the grass and trees
are green all winter and children, in
their cotton clothes, go barefooted down
the shady road, is most enjoyable.
Nobody regrets a winter in Hawaii.
But the point we wish to make is that
Hawaii is an all-the- year-round resort,
its winters being pleasanter than those
of any other part of the United States
and its summers pleasanter than Its
winters. 1t would be a mistake to adj
vertise it as a place where one can stay
with satisfaction only during period
of four months; for that would be doing
injustice to eight other months, each of
which has its peculiar claim upon the
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-04-24

The ship Benjamin F. Packard COM
mences taking in sugar today.
The Republican Territorial Com
mittee has passed resolutions urging
the passage of the loan bill.
Yesterday was the seth birthday an
riversary Of Governor Dole, and the
bani gave a concert at his resiirI &c
in horol of the event.
High Sheriff Brown has received
word from Deputy Sheriff Hitchcock
of Molokai of the death of Kaluna,
native fisherman. Death is said 10
have been caused by the eating or
poisonous native fish, the opuhui.
There was a long session of the
Executive Council with Governor Dole
yesterday at which the municipal Dill
was considered. The governor has al
most finished consideration OF the
measure, and may sign it today or to-
morrow. Saturday is the last day 1t
can remain in his hands without ac-
ton.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-04-24
FOR SALE.

A SET OF FowLER'S STEAM
plow machinery consisting of a pair OF
II horse traction engines, balance pillow,
heavy and medium cultivators, and
harrow.
The plant is in use breaking salt
marsh in California; but will finish the
work in June and will be sold for half
its cost in England.
Apply to JOHN w. FERRIS,
$40 Sansome ST.. San Francisco, Cal.
CASE
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-04-24

A PAIN IN THE CHEST is natures
warning of a threatened attack or
pneumonia. Dampen piece of flannel
with Chamberlain's Pain Balm and bind
over the seat of pain, and another on
the back between the shoulders. One
application gives relief, Try 1t. All
Dealers and Druggists sell it. Benson.
Smith & Co., Ltd. agents for Hawaii.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-04-24

Having got the assessed valuation of
the United States down to about $685.,
600 100000 the Star concludes that liza
bilities of eight hundred billions are en-
tirely feasible. 1t is pity that Tom
Reed, who boosted a few years ago
that this was billion dollar country"
could not have lived to see it in debt
for eight hundred billions. However,
it is easy to add ciphers to estimates,
though fortunately one does not have
to pay interest on them.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-04-24
PAUOA WATER FINANCIERING.
UNDER THE pAUoA WATER BILL EACH 100000 GALLONS OF
WATER WILL COST $36H OR $4,000 PER ANNUMv THE SAME
AMOUNT CAN BE PUMPED FOR $l3 OR $4745 PER ANNUM.


make the Pauoa proposition cheaper than
pumping
heoniyt proposition that with
the facts
which
If
be with
by
BILL
have
In to
million
will call the rate the same
the
admins
on amou 5000
$4,000 be $4,000
AS official
sS million gallons For the elevation
reduced
of pumping 100000 gal
T lie
PAUoA PLANT.
Buying sOoOooo
Development reservoir and pipe 5oOOnW
Annua Opean
o 500.
o
Total annual of ............
S50
in
gallons Pauoa this BILL will cost 6
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-04-24

III the Legislature is going 10 investi-
gate charges against its own integrity,
We suggest that 1t start with the
query: What II any percentage has
been paid for public printing during
this session, who paid It and who got
the money!" That might be fruitful
field of inquiry.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-04-24

Nothing that can be said editorially
will add force to the appeal of Alice
+. Beard on behalf of the Kona Or
phanage. 1t is printed elsewhere in
this impression. Readers of the Adver-
tiser ought not to skip IT, for it is a
story full Of unconscious pathos and
self-sacrifice and one that impels con-
fidence both In the writer and the
school.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-04-24
(From Thursdays Daily.)

A. r. Rowat, who has been sick the
past week with dengue fever, Is up and
around and able to attend to business.
Mrs. Maria Love, wife of James r.
Love, formerly of Honolulu, died in
Japan April 9th according to a letter
received yesterday by Detective KAPPA.
The Hawaiian Agricultural Society
will hold a meeting on Saturday at
7:15 p. m. at Wahiawa school house, TO
precede the meeting of the Farmers
Institute.
Judge Estee was engaged yesterday
in hearing the bankruptcy case of Tam
Pong. Tam Pong resists the attempt
to place him in bankruptcy, and claims
exemption as a tiller of the soil.
Judge Robinson yesterday approved
the report of Commissioner Whiting in
the case of Harriet Bailey ct al. VS..
Elizabeth Cushingham ct al. and order
ed the property sold as recommended.
An answer has been filed by w. C.
Achi to the complaints of Jacintho and
Jose Furtado, in which he claims that
they never paid in full for the lots
sold to them, and that deeds were not
given.
A private letter received here from
Manila states that Collector of Customs
=. A. Stratton, of San Francisco, will
be a passenger on the steamer Nippon
Maru. due in this port from the Orient
on May LIST.
There is said to be probability that
Rear-Admiral Sterling will be here on
the battleship Wisconsin, which Is
expected to arrive in port some time
in May, and If he comes his son will
accompany him as flag lieutenant.
The Supreme Court yesterday heard
the cases of Henry Smith vs. Mrs S.
b. Rose ct al, Territory of Hawaii vs.
Dengiro and c. A. Brown VS.. A. w.
Carter. Argument in the Brown-Car-
ter case will continue this morning.
High Sheriff Brown has received from
Deputy Sheriff Hitchcock of Molokai
reply to the complaint of Mrs. Emma
Nakuina. He declares that the car
which struck Mrs. Nakuina was going
only at a moderate rate of speed. He
denies also that he was intoxicated.
Treasury Agent MacLennan discuss
Carter yesterday the plan for payment
of the fire claims. No decision has been
reached as yet, though the idea. still APP
pears to be, to secure the assistance of
the claimants, in making a pro rata
distribution of the bonds.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-04-24

boys enough to do the work of thinning
and harvesting the beets; for thinning
| they must get down on their knees. IL
has been impossible to get men for the
work. and japanese had to be i'm
ported.
During the coming season there will
be $50 Of these japanese used in Idaho
and 100 In Utah. They take the work
on contract, and any white man can
\ have the contract at the same figures.
| The company does not hire one of them
by the day. They work in gangs Of
twenty-five or fifty each under boss,
and they do good work. The company
had to secure these Japs for the rea-
son that the farmers would not con-
tract to raise the beets unless the la
Dor was supplied"
II Is obvious that at the present price
Of sugar, beet farmers cannot pay
white mems wages They have failed
in trying to do so all over the East.
particularly in New York. With them
1t has been either a question of getting
cheap labor or going out of business
and the cheap labor could not be had.
Utah now faces precisely the same
problem; and SO does California, though
in a less degree owing to the number
of crops per annum the California cli-
mate will permit.
Here is where the exclusion law and
the proposed restriction of Japanese
emigration to the mainland, does Ha-
wall some good. Obviously If the
mainland cannot get large amount of
cheap labor-and it can't and won't
1T will never be a serious competitor
of the reproducing regions. 1t
seems as IL eventually the beet indus
try must subside in the United States.
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One representative is stated to have
received $50, ION account" for influence
on the liquor bill. 1t was a case of
changing the license district limits, and
5000 is the reported price for the de-
sired change. On request $50 was put
up account, according to the story told
by one interested.-Star.
The man named as having been soil
cited for bride of 5000 by a member
of the Legislature is connected with
the Occidental Hotel One of the street
rumors is that he yielded to the ex-
tent of $50. The Advertiser sent a re-
porter to inquire of him and he declin-
ed to answer leading questions saying
he was too ashamed'of his part in
the matter to say anything about it.
If the story of the street is true, the
or the Grand Jury or both
ought to get at the facts. If not, the
accused legislator should have his name
cleared. AS the Star says, accusations
of be-seeking and bribe- getting are
very rife and there are circumstances
of legislation that give color to them.
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The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-04-24
VISITING CARDS SOC PER 100.

Send &c stamp today for type style
book and samples. Mercantile Print
ing Company. general printers. rulers
and book binders. Box 5s1. Honolulu.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-04-24
LOCAL LAND POLICY.

1t is the duty of the Territorial Off
cials, If they really want to preserve
their control of the public lands, to as
sist the small farmer movement by eV-
cry means in their power. The legis-
lature has done something to help but
the Land Department is proving hin
drance rather than an aid to the proper
settlement of the soil. According to
the Hilo Herald it has turned large
tracts of Olaa land over to Settlement
Associations, not three per cent OF the
members of which fulfill their agree
ments to cultivate. AS fast as new
land is surveyed or comes out of lease,
the Department suggests its bestowal
upon other spectators. But when
small farmer, who wants to add him
self, his family and his savings to the
resources of the country, writes the
Land Department for information, he
gets an answer which conceals every
truth about the crops that pay and tells
the farmer about some one crop that
has long ago failed for want of fair
market price. If the answer Is not in
tended To be discouraging, II is well
fitted to accomplish that object. In
point of fact, every practical small far
mer in the Territory is doing well and
the outlook for sisal and pineapple
farmers is of the best, indeed the
conditions are such as to warrant earn
est effort to get other farmers here
1t was hoped that the threat of the
Senatorial Commission to work for the
transfer of land control from the Ter
ritory to the Federal government,
would stir our land administrators up
and make them alive to the need and
opportunity of immigration. But II
hasn't. Scores of farmers are writing
the Department for information and
they get nothing that induces them to
come and much that induces them TO
stay away. This kind of thing can't
go on forever; Congress will hear of it
sooner or later and there will be Il sud
den revolution in our land matters,
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-04-24

1t appears that the circular which
Land Commissioners Boyd is sending TO
mainland farmers who write him ask
ing what the prospects are now in Ha-
wall for making a living on the soil,
was written by his predecessor, j. f.
Brown, In 1898 when the coffee boom
was at its height. This circular in
tact, with a line or two added saying
the coffee farmers are not making eN-
penses, is now going abroad signed by
Boyd. Since il was written our agri-
cultural conditions have wholly chang
ed, and crops are being raised which
put coffee out of the running. Yet
Mr., Boyd says nothing about these to
inquiring farmers and leaves them to
infer that the only possible crop here,
except sugar, liz one that does not pay,
No wonder the agitation among main
land farmers over Hawaii has come TO
nothing in the way of immigration.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-04-24
TIDES, SUN AND MOON.

New moon on 9th at 81 a. m.
Times VI the tide are taken from the
United States Coast and Geodetic Sur
vey tables.
The tides at Kahului and Hilo occur
about one hour earlier than at Honolulu.
Hawaiian standard time is 10 hours 80
minutes slower than Greenwich time, be-
ing that of the meridian of 157 degrees 80
minutes. The time whistle blows at 1880
.. m. which Is the same as Greenwich, .
hours minutes. Sun and moon are for
local time for the whole group.