The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-06-12

Two companies of engineers left today
for st. Mary's, Kas., to rescue the
heavy artillery, which Is encamped at
that place and starving because of the
floods. which have completely sur
rounded the men and forced them to
flee to the hills.
Scanty reports received at the post
from the place where the battery Is en-
camped show that the condition there
is critical. The only nourishment the
troops have had for several days con-
sisted of chewing their feathers and
drinking the muddy flood water.
1t will take the engineers three days
at the least to reach their comrades
even though the marches will be forced
Two companies of infantry were also
sent to Kansas City, Kas.
TRAIN WILL SUE.
NEW YORK, June IA special to
the Sun from Stamford, Conn, says:
Citizen George Francis Train ANNOUNCE
ed tonight that as soon as he should be
discharged from the city smallpox camp
he would bring suit against the city
of Stamford for $4,000 damages. AS he
cannot get any Stamford attorney to
take the case, he will put 1t in the
hands of "Rosey," the lawyer of the
Essex Market Police Court, New York,
and he is confident "Rosey" will win
out for him. He will give him half the
damages If he does
further that he VIII
refuse to leave the care of the city
without receiving a new suit OF clothes
to take the place of the suit that was
burned. This was famous suit OF
clothes, he declares, and cost a lot of
money.
BONES OF CAVE-DWELLERS.
NEW YORK, May 30.-A dispatch to
the Sun from Norman, o. r., saws:
Professor C. N. Gould has returned
from Southwestern Missouri where he
inspected cave of much archaeology
cal value. The cave is seventy feet
long. a hole dug out of solid rock. The
bottom is covered with ashes three feet
deep. 1t is believed that it was inhabit-
ed by cave-dwellers.
out of the debris of ashes and clay
| have been dug four human skeletons
| together with the bones of several ami
mails The arms of these skeletons
were unduly long and the legs very
short. Flint instruments. knives, spear
heads and drills, as well as bone and
stone instruments, have been found II
| profusion. Stalactites above the coal
of ashes in which these skeletons were
| found, must have taken thousands OF
years to form.
Only four prehistoric skeletons have
| been found up to the present, three II
| Europe and one in America, conse'
quently this find will prove of meal
culable benefit to scientists.
GERMAN GENERALS INCOM-
PETENT.
NEW YORK, May 3O.-A cable to the
Journal from Berlin says: 1t is learned
that the retirement of forty-four gen
erals from the German army, whicf
| has taken place within the past sixty
days, was due to the discovery thai
| most of them We're incompetent. II
some cases old age and similar causes
| led to the retirement, but the majority
| of them We're employed in the great
maneuvers last autumn and committed
plumbers which excited the Kaiser
wrath. Their names were entered on
the military blacklist, but they were
not Immediately dismissed for fear OF
exciting a scandal. Recently, however
the offenders, one after another, re-
ceived an intimation that they had bet
ter resign. The hint was taken in al
cases.
ANOTHER TESLA VAGARY.
NEW YORK. May 3O-The Sun
makes the following announcement
1T is now little more than two years
since the Sun gave to the world Tesla
announcement that, some time within
eight months following. he would send
a wireless telegram across the Allan
tic. With the failure OF that predic-
ton the public is familiar, although not
with the immediate cause. AS we UNI
derstand it, progress toward fulhllmen'
revealed possibilities SO much greater
| that il was determined TO aim at q
higher mark, and we are now author
time within the present year he VII
send wireless kilograms to the Other
side of the world The Tesla oscillatoi
| is to deliver to the earth n shock thai
will be felt and recorded on its utter
most confines. AS before. we have e
wait and see, doubtful because of th'
miraculous character of the task bu
hopeful on the strength of the wonders
that science has already done"
VEGETARIANISM AND DIVORCE
SAN BERNARDlNO. May 27.-Grea
surprise was caused here today by th'
filing of a suit for divorce by Mrs, Al
fred H. Seccombe, prominent society
woman, who alleges as her cause OF ac
ton that her husband for five years ha
persisted in prescribing a vegetarian
diet for herself and three children
When he discovered any violations o
his dietary rules. it is said, he woul,
launch into TRADE of abuse.
According TO the complaint whisa =
free from any charge of personal Vic
lence, his usual pastime during meal