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The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-04-10
BEER LICENSE.

Despite the many cogent and unan-
swerable reasons of Governor Dole why
the beer license act should not become
law the Legislature has overridden the
veto and placed on the statute books
piece of legislation which, in many
features, is pernicious, and under
which conditions repugnant to the
great mass of our people may arise.
In every modern country the sale of
liquor is recognized as mot within the
class of ordinary enterprises for profit
and is surrounded with safeguards,
being placed within strict police super
vision. Yet here the Legislators choose
to give the traffic such status that the
police may not enter saloons at Will
and see that there is no violation of
law nor does violation of law mean
forfeiture of license.
Protection of the youth is primary
duty of the law, yet $50 feet from any
school in the Territory the saloon keep
er may flaunt his sign and the vicious
may gather to furnish an example
which cannot be other than debasing
to the young.
Under this precious piece of law MAX
ing there is no clause which will pre-
vent woman from becoming the pos
SCISSOR of beer license, and women
may tend bar, frequent the saloons, and
have every privilege there that Is
enjoyed by men. Music and all sorts of
attractions are competent, and the way
is opened for the beer garden and the
brothel.
The belief that there would be a less
number of licenses under this law than
under a proper one is hardly we'll
founded. Applications are piling into
the Treasury and one of the first men
to ask for the privilege. Henry Vida,
voted for the bill upon every occasion,
and as well to override the veto. This
after the application had been filed.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-04-10
THE PLANTtRS MONTHLY FOR
MARCH,
The oficial and Com IN ercial Record.

The Official and Com mercial Record.
! The Planters Monthly for March, in
addition to the shorter articles, has
| two of considerable length. which are
of great Importance to Hawaii. The
first deals with insecticides for use in
| Hawaii" and is the production in full
of the Federal Honolulu Experiment
Station Bulletin on that subject.
The other is the official report of r.
NJ. Griffith, Assistant Forester of the
U. S. Bureau of Forestry, concerning
his recent tour of examination of the
forests of Hawaii.
The two articles together form very
valuable contribution to the subject of
local Agriculture and Forestry, and
should be read by every one interested
in either subject, and that means near
ly every resident of Hawaii, for the
eradication of insect pests and the pre-
servation of our forests has a vital
bearing on not only the profitabeness,
but the very eXistance of agriculture in
this Territory.
The fullness and value of the
article on Insecticides is illustrated by
the subheads, each OF which is fully
treated in detail. They are: "Precau-
tionary Measures" General Use of In
secticides," Biting and Sucking In
sects," Spraying Apparatus" Sue
cessful Spraying" insecticides" poi
soned Bats" Gas Treatment" Thir-
teen different remedies and mixtures
are given, with detailed directions as
to how to mix and use them. and I'M
der what conditions they should be
used.
A third article, bearing upon the
same general subject, is one on the
Introduction of birds into Hawaii"
by r. C. l.. Perkins. Mr. Perkins is
an expert upon the relations of birds
to insect life, and In his article points
out the value of certain birds to agri-
culture and forestry, and the damage
thereto of others.
Altogether this issue Of the Planters
Monthly is a highly valuable contribu-
ton to agricultural progress and de-
velopment.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-04-10
THE vEToEs.

Governor Dole's vetoes of the beer
license bill and of the joint resolution
asking Congress to amend the organic
Act requiring legislative proceedings to
be in English, so that both the English
and Hawaiian languages shall be Off
cial, are strong documents. They are
clear, decisive and unanswerable. They
are credit to the judgment and fore
sight of the Governor. and the passage
of the two laws over. his veto is no
credit to the Legislature.
1t is a remarkable tribute to the Gov
ernor. that the supporters of both
measures admitted that the Governor
was right and the measures wrong.
The reasoning in support of overriding
the language resolution veto was weak.
while the suggestion that new bill
should be Immediately passed remedy
ing the weak and bad features in the
beer law Is idle. There is not the re-
hottest probability that such a law will
stand any chance of passing during the
few remaining days of the session.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-04-10
NOT ABSOLUTE.

1t would appear to be time for the
Legislature to awake. There is an ele-
ment in the lower house which seems TO
have the idea that the power of the
legislative branch of the government is
absolute. 1t is from this sort of belief
that sprung the resolution of Kupihea,
regarding the leprosy investigation.
The House has absolutely no author
ity to direct the Board of Health to
bring from Molokai any patient. The
Board is acting under law which the
Legislature may repeal. Further than
that 1t cannot go. The Board would be
derelict should 1t obey such an order.
The unreason which fills the minds of
this kind Of legislator, is indicated by
the fact that kupihea would have the
patients examined by a board of two
physicians and five laymen. The Board
of Health gives the utmost care to ex-
aminations, the archaeological diagnos-
is being complete, and the record being
kept where 1t is at the command of
any scientific man. To permit laymen
to undertake such examination would
be a crime.
1t would seem time to call halt in
the assumption of absolutsm. If there
was less of the irrational there would
be more of the productive.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-04-10
TURNING FROM STATEHOOD.

Congress will receive when the new
| body meets, December next, the UNI
signed joint resolution, passed over
Gubernatorial veto, declaring in favor
of the amending of the Organic Act SC
that Hawaiian shall be, Jointly with
| English, the official language of the
Territory. 1t can hardly be imagined,
even by the fatuous Puaa, that Con-
gress will pay any attention to such a
resolution.
That the resolution received such a
large vote is almost inconceivable. It's
passage represents a triumph for re-
actionarism, and the publishing abroad
of the fact that it went through will do
more to injure the chances of Hawaii
being seriously considered as a state
hood possibility than airy other possible
single act. The United States cannot
entertain the thought of an alien COM
monwealth.
Would one of the members of the
Legislature advocate sending a Dele
gate to Washington who could not
speak and understand English? Would
Prince Kuhio consider for n minute
the nomination for Annapolis or West
Point of a lad who is not thorough
English scholar. Does any Hawaiian
stand a show in the public service of
the nation who does not know English?
Then the step taken must be indicative
of the readiness of Hawaii to go back
ward, not forward.
New Mexico lost statehood largely
because the Congress did not think the
people were Americanized. Yet conf
pulsory English education obtains and
legislative proceedings are translated
only for the benefit of the gallery. The
legislative assembly is a dignified body.
Contrast that picture with Hawaii.
where business is done in the vernac-
ular, often without translation. Then
figure how far is Hawaii from state
hood. -sI- ar.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-04-10
s&Na2ssa2rsxlssss
DEATH OF J. B. ATHERTON.

BY the death of Joseph Ballard Ather-
ton there is left vacancy in the varied
| life of Honolulu which, suggested DUR
! ing his long illness, will remain, q
| constant testimonial to the worth OF
the man. So many sided was his char
acter, so wide the range of his capa-
| bilities, that for tn, past quarter oil
| century he has stood the typical
| American pioneer.
The foremost place in the develop
ment of modern Hawaii easily is occu-
pied by this unique figure. Employing
aS he did the qualities which mark the
men of his ancestry wherever they are
placed, his natural ability was shown
all through his business career. lie
had only entered upon his life when he
came to Hawaii, a frail youth, and the
position he earned was that for which
his capacity and habit of application
fitted him.
Business success was his in an unus-
ual degree, perhaps, but the men VINO
have fought their way up the rugS I'd
path of fortune beside him recognized
his right to leadership and his force Of
character stood him in stead through
many trying and critical periods. HIS
life work was here and 1t is an open
book. He wrought for the progress of
his adopted country, and his place In
the esteem of all with whom he came
in contact is secure.
There Is another side to the character
of this noble man. Charitable to the
last degree, not even his own family
knew the extent to which his purse
was open to every call of suffering or
woe. His gentleness of nature made
him free to give wherever he saw that
his aid would Tighten the burden of "A
fellowman. Not in public We're the
gifts made, but so quietly were his
benefcences bestowed that their object
alone knew whence came the succor.
If he gave publicly it was to stimulate
others by his example.
So sought were his counsel and aid
that when he was stricken last No
vember he resigned from official posi-
lions on thirty-nine business, social and
charitable organizations.
Words in appreciation of one of the
truest of natures noblemen are but
poor vehicles for the depth of grief
that will fill the hearts of all who were
his friends, and that means all who
knew him.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-04-10
HIGH CLASS SISAL.

a few weeks ago the Sisal Company
announced that ii would clean speci-
mems of sisal fibre. free of cost, andifor-
ward the samples to the Tubbs Cordage
Company in San Francisco, for analysis
and report. A number of samples were
submitted. Returns from three of them
have been received, and in every ease
the fibre is pronounced TO be of the best
quality.
or the greatest Importance are the
reports on the sisal raised in the forest
reserve. back of Punchbowl, and in
Manoa. The former was grown in hard
clayey soil, of "A similar composition
10 the foot hills throughout the Island
OF Oahu. The report on this sample Is
that it is IAN excellent fibre, plenty
long, very strong and well cleaned; an
Al fibre"
The Manoa specimen was grown in
sandy land, where there is a large rain
fall. This is reported to be MORE
THAN EXCELLENT FIBRE; Is EN-
IRA LONG, VERY STRONG. WELL
CLEANED. AND is THE BEST SAM
PIE OF THIS FIBRE THAT HAVE
EVER SEEN"
The Importance OF these analyses con-
sists in the fact that they negative the
theory that low coral land near the sea,
| alone, is good for sisal. and opens up
an enormous vista of land available for
| cultivation with this fibre.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-04-10
BRITISH WARSHIPS
START APRIL IS

The two British torpedo boat destroy
ers Virago and Sparrowhawk were to
have been placed in dry dock at Vic
toria, b. c., on April to be overhauled
in connection with their forthcoming
voyage from Victoria to Hongkong via
Honolulu. The two boats will become
pirate chasers on the West River In
China. The two four-funnelled tor
pedo-boat destroyers will be escorted to
Honolulu by the cruiser Amphion, and
If the present program holds all VIII
sail from Esquimalt on April 10. The
absence of the destroyers and the AM
phion will be compensated by the ar
rival here of II. NJ. S. Grafton. The
Amphion will not come further than
Honolulu, one OF the squadron on the
China station coming to Honolulu to
escort the two small craft from Homo
lulu to the Chinese port.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-04-10
LOCAL BREVlTIES.
(From Wednesdays Daily)

William C. sproull of Great Britain
was admitted to citizenship by Judge
Estee yesterday
McAuliffe, the jockey, returned to
Honolulu yesterday from Australia.
McAuliffe rode Weller in last years
races, and will probably have some
good mounts his season.
! Deputy Marshal Handy left on the
| kinau yesterday for Hilo to arrest
three Japanese for Illicit distilling.
They are already in the custody of the
police and the informations were issued
here on a wireless telegraph message
from Hilo.
The examination of NJ. G. silva as
to his bankruptcy schedule was con-
cluded yesterday before Referee Raw
Inns. 1t developed that Silva though a
grocer sold liquor and bought $500
worth month. He had United States
but no Territorial license.
A. NJ. Shields has filed suit against
David Land Henry Waterhouse e Co.,
and the Equitable Life Assurance So
ciety to recover SITS and interest The
plaintiff claims the money was loaned
to David Land in June, 1902. The plain
tiff claims that Land has goods con-
cealed with Henry Waterhouse e Co.
and the Equitable Assurance Society
which cannot be attached or levied
upon.
John Rice, father of the Misses Ellen
and Alice Rice, teacher of music, late
of Victoria, Australia. and native of
Somerset, England, died yesterday at
his Beretania street residence. He was
born January IA, 1919, and was there
fore S4 years of age. The funeral will
take place today at p. m. at the
family residence, No. 655 Beretania
street, the Rev. Alexander Macintosh
officiating.
Judge Robinson yesterday made an
order of partition in the case of Har-
riet Bailey ct al VS.. Elizabeth Cush-
ingham ct al. apportoning the property
as follows: To Harriet Bailey, Chas.
Lewis, A. Lewis, Elizabeth Cushing
ham, j. d. Lewis, Margaret Grieve and
L. L. McCandless each 9-64ths and to
Harry Aud 1-64th. The land involved
is located at King and Bethel streets,
in Waikiki and other places. w. Aus
tin Whiting is appointed commissioner
to report as to the feasibility of divid-
ing the property.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-04-10
THE SEATTLE LINE.
THE Official aud Commercial Record.l

For the last tlve or six years a lame
and hating attempt has been made by
the people of Seattle to establish a
steamship line between that city and
Honolulu. There is every natural rea-
son why such an attempt should be
successful. The country tributary to
Seattle produces what Hawaii wants,
and Hawaii produces what the people
Of Seattle want; and yet the steam
service is not only not established but
instead it has established a reputation
for uncertainty and inferior service that
Is serious prejudice to the future of
the line. Just now the line Is suffering
one of it's periodical lapses, the one
steamer employed having, without
previous warning, simply failed to ar
rive.
The promoters OF the line are to be
commended for their perseverance
more than for their judgment. If they
can put a steamer on the route OF such
quality and power that freight shippers
can be sure of delivery within a month
of the schedule, and with capacity
enough to carry the freight offered and
n few passengers n good paying bust
ness can be built up in a short time.
The business that is available cannot
be judged by that obtained in the past,
as the service has been such as to drive
away business. Any old second hand
tub seems to have been thought good
enough for the service. One of the
first, the Columbia nearly foundered
in an attempt to get home on her first
trip, and after spending months in Ho-
nolulu in repairs and litigation sailed
out of port and went to the bottom in
sea as smooth as Puget Sound.
The next broke down half way to
Honolulu and after drifting around for
several weeks, fetched up in San Fran
cisco. Where she went then we do
not know. She did not reach Honolulu.
Several successors have been Of the
same type-cast offs that no other trade
would have. The last to drop out of
sight looked like a mid-ship section of
Noahs Ark, with the ends boarded
up. Not only has this been the type of
ship; but their movements We're so
utterly uncertain that through freight
from the Eastern states has at times
laid on the wharf at Seattle for months
awaiting a ship for Honolulu.
Hawaii would like to see a steam line
to Seattle established, but the promo
tiers of the enterprise had better stop
spending their time and money until
they can put on a good steamer, which
can be depended on to make a SEM
blance of schedule time, and be relied
on to take freight which Is offered.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-04-10

e. NJ Grltiiths. the assistant forester
of the United States Bureau of For
estry, who recently visited Hawaii and
made an official examination of the
forests of the Territory, has reported to
the department of agriculture the re-
suit of his Investigations. Three pages
or the report are devoted TO general
conditions. on Hawaii, the districts of
Hamakua, North Kohala, South Ko-
hala, kona, Kau, Puma and Hilo. are
each treated separately. Maui and Ca
hu are each treated as a whole. The
whole report is printed in the Planters
Monthly for March. occupying ten
pages of that magazine.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-04-10
Island Steamer Movements.

Especial by Wireless Telegraph.)
MAHUKONA, April 9.-The steamer
Nihau arrived at Honokaa this morn
ing, and the steamer Maui arrived at
Kukaiau in the afternoon The Helene
came to Mahukona at noon with load
of Japanese laborers.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-04-10
HAWAII SUGAR
AWAITS SHIPMENT
Especial by Wireless Telegraph

especial bY wireless TeleSrapn.)
HILO, April 9.-Every plantation
around Hilo is so blocked with sugar
awaiting shipment that the arrival of
the steamship American is eagerly
awaited. The American will relieve the
situation to the extent that most of the
reserve output will be cleared off, and
make needed room for the remainder.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-04-10
ISENBERG ESTATE
VALUATION FIXED

The inventory and appraisement of
the Paul Isenberg estate was filed yes
terday showing a total value of over
81, 900. The inventory is made only
by one of the executors, II. A. lsen-
berg, as j. +. Hackfeld and Mrs. Beta
Isenberg are both in Germany. The APP
praisement is by all three of the APP
praisers: w. f. Pfotenhauer, c. III.
Cooke and j. II. Fullerton. The APP
prasement took but one day and the
cost of appraising a s5.00O,00O estate is
just fifteen dollars.
The appraisement shows the follow
ing values;
Real Property
Lot on Beretania street near
keeaumoku .............S lO,Ooooo
Personal Estate
9.lOO shares IL. Hackfeld &
Co, 1925 ................ 2,O47. 10000
e. 100 shares are in Germany
$500 shares Lihue Planta-
ton, 5000 ................ l,26O, 100000
1900 shares Koloa Sugar Co.,
500 ................... 100000
$40 shares Kekaha Sugar
Co, $500 .............,...... 6s,ooo
S shares Waianae Co., $780,. 10000
3 bonds Oahu Sugar Co.,
$1,000 .,.......,,.,...... 3ooo'oo
80 shares Hawaiian Tram
ways Co. sg5 .............. $4,000
Life Insurance policy +4.l6s
New England Mutual Life
Insurance Co. ...... 100000
Promissory notes .......... 64s.7OO,Oo
Mortgage A. V. Gear and II.
F. Lansing, covering Wal
amaze tract ..,..,.,,,..,,, 35OOO,oo
Agreements, contracts and
claims ,.,,.,...,.......,. 'fi,fVs'o'
April 2, 1865 ...............' lassO,O0
--------
Total .............. Sc. os5. so2. 81
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-04-10

Forty days of the session passed ami
members of the House are still insist
ing upon time for the study of facts
concerning the industry which has been
in existence for years. If this is to be
the course there with all important
matters not yet put through, there will
be many left in the air. Some lockers
on ere curious enough to enquire why
The report was not printed two weeks
ago when presented.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-04-10

Hats off TO the original Senator who
has discovered that night sessions are
illegal, because the session is for sixty
days" When the appropriation bill
comes up he will want TO provide for
putting holes under the bridges for the
water to run through.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-04-10

President Roosevelt did not take to
the woods any too soon. Pulaa asserts
that the Legislature is. as big as the
President. for it can remove the Gov
ernor. That assertion will convince
Roosevelt that Hawaii is ready for
statehood.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-04-10

One of the missions of President
Roosevelt TO the West is said to be to
find members for the Panama Canal
Commission. Unless California has
taken a new course of action the anvil
club will tune up for the chorus as
soon as the chief executive crosses the
continental divide.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-04-10

CHAMBERLAIN COUGH RENE
DY cures the cold and does not produce
any bad effects. 1t strengthens the
lungs and leaves the system in a
healthy condition. 1t always cures and
cures quickly. All Dealers and Drug
gists sell 1t. Benson. Smith & Co., Ltd,
agents for Hawaii.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-04-10

The United States Government is
still pursuing the post office site, with
a zeal which indicates that the build
ing which Honolulu win get. in time,
will be worthy of the city.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-04-10

To tell the story of Joseph Il. Ath-
erton's life would be to write a very
large chapter in the religious, social.
political and commercial history OF the
Hawaiian Islands
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-04-10
"Rritish Consulate.
Manila, January 90, 1908.

Manila, January 90, 1903.
"Sir: AS, in accordance with the age
limit. / am relinquishing my post as
II. 3. NJ consul in April and am pro-
ceeding on leave of absence early next
month, | wish to express to the mem
bers of the Army and Navy club my
thanks for their kindness in electing
me a temporary member, and for the
cordiality and courtesy l have always
received.
"As an old cavalry and infantry
officer, / shall always remember with
great pleasure and pride my association
in Manila with. the most splendid ana
humane army Of our Anglo-SaXon race
on earth and while as an Englishman
I naturally glory in your hours of trl-
umph and victory, my sympathy with
your trials is as strong as 1t Is with
the British soldier who, like your own,
has often to suffer from the malignant
and malicious falsehoods of those VINO
ought to support and honor him. l
have the honor to be, sir, your most
obedient servant,
III. II. HARTFORD,
III. Il. NJ. Consul, Manila.
Late Captain II. b. M. Gordon High
landers.
''To the Secretary of the Army ana
Navy Club, Manila, P. l.
Will the Anti-Imperalist carpers
have aught to say to this, other per-
hans than that it is the old soldier
standing up for his fellow profess
SIGNALS?
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-04-10

1t would appear that there are many
slips between reciprocity treaty adop-
tion and the free entry OF Cuban SUI
gar.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-04-10

How will the Senate compromise with
Its declaration that pumping should be
discouraged when II comes 10 putting
through the second water scheme.