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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-08-12
MAY BE A CASE
OF BODILY ASSAULT

A man lying in a stupor was found
last night in a vacant lot on Bereta-
MIA street, below Nuuanu. At first it
was thought that he was drunk, but
soon afterwards it was seen that he
was sick so he was removed to the
Queens Hospital where he told a tale
which seems to indicate that there has
been an attempt at foul play or hold
up on the part of a japanese. The man
said, in explaining his sickness, he was
a cowboy, and had been hurt several
times in lassoing cattle, the rope get
ting wound around his waist and tight
ening when the animals struggled. He
also said that a Japanese had hit him
during the day with club, and fur
Their than that he could not remember.
There were cuts on his head, and it
was seen that he was injured inter-
nally. Nothing could be learned as to
who his assailants were.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-08-12

The agricultural department at
Washington has sent an expert to the
Pacific coast to investigate the habits
and general appetite of a new worm.
which has made it's appearance in the
walla walla valley.
1t is probably the most remarkable
worm that was ever turned out from
the laboratory of nature. 1t is the
friend of the farmer. It is the only
worm that has ever been known to
prefer noxious weeds to the sweet
cereals grown by the Washington hus-
bandman. No professor of wormitude
hereabouts has ever seen the like.
The worm is coming down the fertile
inland valleys in a crawling army a
hundred miles long and several miles
wide. Everywhere it's approach is
heralded with acclaim by the farmers.
There is talk among legislators of inn
posing a fine for it's destruction. 1t is
also possible that "wormeries" may be
started for its propagation.
In appearance it is a small drab col
ored object with striated back and an
incredible appetite for weeds. 1t eats
kirue-burr as a Mexican burro eats
thistles. Smartweed is pie for it; even
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-08-12
ANTl.MoSQUITo CAMPAIGN.

Printed directions how to prevent the
breeding Of mosquitoes should be is
sued, in brief and clear form, TO every
householder in Honolulu, the text be-
ing adapted to the language of the man
who is expected to read it.
Something should be done to prevent
the wanton destruction, in suburban
duck ponds. of gold fish which eat mos
quito larvae, and to introduce such fish
to all mosquito breeding pools where
they do not now exist.
The Board of Health should consult
the Department of Agriculture at
Washington as to the advisability of
bringing here the plants which, in
swampy countries. prey upon mos
quitoes and the night-hawks which
pursue and eat them: and if the re-
Spouse is favorable get the assistance of
the Department in collecting speci-
mems.
School-children should be given spe-
cial instruction about mosquito-breed-
ing places and induced to see that no
water is allowed to stand about their
home yards in large or small con-
Householders should be induced to
forego lily pools and trickling fountains
Of which there are many in the city, all
IF them propagators Of insect life.
Sufficient funds should be set apart
oy the authorities to give petroleum a
'air trial in all waters where mosqui-
oes breed.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-08-12
POUNDED A GIANT
POWDER CHARGE

There was one japanese at Honolulu
Plantation who thought that the best
way to dislocate pile of rock, was to
bore a hole, put some giant powder in
1t, and ram it down with crowbar.
He tried it yesterday afternoon, and
his curiosity prompted him to look
the charge. He worked hard at his
job. and as a result the force at the
Queens Hospital spent part of last
evening patching him up, and trying to
put the pieces together. His face was
cut and torn in several places, and his
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-08-12
LIGHT ON JUDGE GEAR.

Judge George D. Gear called a re-
porter of the Advertiser to an office
yesterday and wished him TO say that
az Circuit Judge. he would not dismiss
the proceedings against the Campbell
estate which have been instituted at
San Jose. Cal.
The Sunday Bulletin of San Fran
cisco shows why. THE FATHER AND
BROTHER OF JUDGE GEAR HAVE
BEEN EMPLOYED AS ATTORNEYS
TO BRING THE ACTION and of
course they must be paid. A large
share of whatever spells may be secur-
ed there will go into the Gear family's
pockets. II there was to be anything
more for the Gears at this end of the
line the profits OF the little transac-
ton might grow very large indeed.
But OF that more anon.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-08-12
THE DAVlS.ALLEN AFFAIR.

The Bulletin uncovers mares nest
in the matter of the Advertiser
George Allen dispatch. 1t was simply
the case of a special message being ac-
cidentally mixed up with Associated
Press news. the special being entirely
correct except as to it's news source.
Inquiry yesterday morning developed
the fact that Davis himself, had adj
mitted the truth of the statement about
his correspondence with Allen, the facts
being known to Senator Cecil Brown
and others. What is gained for Davis
by showing that the Associated Press
was beaten by this interesting piece of
news we leave it to the Bulletin to ex-
plain.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-08-12
UNCLE SAM INVESTIGATING
49, 49,. A NEW AND REMARKABLE WORM


fennel and ragweed do not seem to tax
the capacity of it's stomach
Wheat fields over which it has pass
ed are weede1 out as thoroughly as a
farmer could do it. Corn fields remain
untouched while the vegetation be-
tween the stalks is cut down AMI
eaten.
The worm travels six to eight feet per
minute. In many places they number
100 to the square yard. On the farms
near the coast they are spinning webs
with the apparent intention of turning
into a new moth or butterfly. Millions
are being drowned in the irrigation
bitches which become almost choked
with bodies when the onward march
reaches them.
1t is claimed by persons connected
with the State Agricultural Bureau
that the worm is the product of moths
which were accidentally brought over
from China in the importations of Chi
nese vegetation by travellers from this
state.
Wherever the wonderful worm may
hold forth in it's original state it is
certainly proving a blessing to the
Washington farmers.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-08-12
A CLEAR ISSUE.

In an editorial which reads as IL II
had baen written by Humphreys him
self the Bulletin declares that the dis
barnnent of Humphreys and Davis was
an act of political revenge Such a con-
cIusion was expected Of the Bulletin
That paper has defended every deed OF
knaverv which the carpet-baggers in
public and private life have perpetrated
i'm these islands since the Get-Rich-
Quick game began; IL has been the
prompt and eager apologist for every
estate-wrecker, every accused emoez-
zIer. every manipulation Of primaries
every jury-fxer and every rascal IN
power. 1t defended Gear and Hum
phreys for opening the jails, became
the organ of Turk & Lewis, accused
Of iury-bribing, and II berated the At
torney-General for trapping Chinese
gamblers; 1t has coddled the Home Rule
banditti and shared in the spoil OF the
unconscionable printing ring. Even the
Might of John K. Sumner did not ap-
neal to it for it was too busy trying
to cover up the depreciation and save
the rogues from punishment
No amount Of dust-raising, however
can conceal the issue before the Su-
preme Court. Humphreys and Davis
were disbarred for robbing client IN
der the forms of law. Any court on |
the Mainland, not controlled by polit-
clans of the GaIbraith stripe, would
have disbarred them on that account, |
and we believe that, IL the record of the
case were lodged with the Supreme
Court of the United States that tribunal
would strike the name or Davis anu
of his fellow culprits II they have been
admitted there, from the roll Of its at
torueys. II Judge Galbraith thinks his
absurd and illogical findings would be
accepted or the impartial findings OF his
colleagues rejected by the Supreme
Court of the United States let him
lodge the papers there and wait for
the result. We challenge him or any
OF his friends to put the question be-
fore the Federal tribunal of whether or
not the rights OF men entitled to prac-
tice law in the local courts have been
unjustly taken away by the decision OF
the highest Territorial court. 1t Will
be easy enough to get a verdict Let
them try.
In the meantime it is well for a pub
lie which is asked to sympathize with
not to forget the old man.
robbed of a great fortune by and
through the human harpies upon whom
the iron fail OF justice has at last fall
en-. II there is any sympathy to spare
II should go to him, not to his per-
secutors cringing face to face with !
their deserts.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-08-12
GEORGE DAVIS'S
SPECIAL PLEADING

George A. Davis. before passing
from sight, filed an answer to the pc
tition of Mrs. Campben-Parker for
his removal as guardian of her two
minor daughters. Besides asserting
the absence of Interior motives in as
suming the guardianship. he accuses
Cecil Brown of unfair dealing in in
ducing Fred. Harrison to withdraw as
his bondsman.
He asserts that he received a retain
er of 800 from Princess Kawanana-
koa, whose interests he says are iden-
teal with those of the minors. and
held to the position at her request.
Among the most interesting statements
Davis makes the following are quoted
in full:
That on an examination of the will
of said James Campbell and after con-
sulting II. L. Gear of the San Fran
cisco bar, I instructed him to appeal
to the Supreme Court of the State of
California against the order Of dis
tribution of the Probate Court on the
ground that the will was void under
the laws of that state, and that the
property of the said minors was sold
to Alice Campbell for $4,000. no part
of which has been paid, and that said |
sale to her, the said Alice Campbell, |
was a sham and a fraud upon the |
said minors.
That I have paid the said H. L. |
Gear, Esq, a retainer of 5000 and |
agreed to pay him 800 mo-a, and I |
wrote and told him that at the ter
mination OF said 2rocSe iings his fee |
should not exceed The srn os $500 to
be paid by the two said miners and
the Princess Kawananakoa share and
share alike, to which said H. L. Gear
assented by cablegram now in the
possession of the said Princess KawA-
lanakoa, nee Abbie Campbell.
MMMHMMMEM E N 4 n n HI Il MMuNMMH
ody was covered with small wounds
inflicted by the discharged powder. 1t
! expected that the man will recover.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-08-12

From what is known Of the temper
shown by Judge Estee towards PLAIN
fnfractions Of the Federal law, it may
be deemed probable that his grand
Jury, on his return, will be instructed
to take up the question of the legis-
lative vouchers. The Advertiser be-
lieves that the next great legal sensa-
ton will occur in the Federal court
and that the disposition of the vouchers
will be probed into with an unsparing
hand and the men who destroyed them
found and punished.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-08-12

Hongkong has been added to the list
of places which are fighting the mos
quito scourge. The crusade is now
very extended one and has had much
success. especially I'm such centers OF
insect activity as New Jersey and
suez. 1t seems. from experience else
where. to be entirely practicable to rid
the inhabited towns on the group Of
their mosquitoes and perhaps clear the
country Of them as well.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-08-12

One among all the lawyers concerned
in the recent Sumner litigation Mr.
Henry Z. Highton comes out unques-
tionabIy clean. 1t is conceded that he
earned his fee and that he took no adj
vantage OF his client. When testifying
in court he was bitterly assailed by
the defendants in the action for dis
barment. but the result shows that this
had no effect upon the bench as it GER
talnly did not upon the public.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-08-12

body was covered with small wounds
inflicted by the discharged powder. 1t
it expected that the man will recover.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-08-12

II an anti-missionary politician was
caught stealing sheep would Judge
GaIbraith be able to convince himself
that sheep stealing was a crime which
reflected on anybody but the plundered
owner7
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-08-12

PARlS France August 11Eghty bodies have been
cred from the yesterdays wreck
opotan Electric Railway. The list
scenes within the tunnel and its have frghtfu
In instances bodies beyond possibility
of recognition Crowds relatives
of the company and the o the tunnel
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-08-12

Which was the most "severe'-the
robbing of old man Sumner or the pun
ishment given the men who robbed
him? ,,Jssx
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-08-12

With Davis on board. the Sierra will
probably enter San Francisco bay fly
ing a yellow flag.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-10

From the Detroit Free Press.
 Hobbs-What makes you such an op-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-10

The extra session ended at noon of Monday, and the regular session began at noon of Monday, and "the appre- ciable lapse" is a legal figment to up- hold an unearned promotion. It is a quibble that President of the United States should not have resorted to. It is straining authority unnecessarily. The constructive recess is an undigni- fled proceeding.
 The constitutional question thus raised will no doubt be considered by the senate, and it must be considered by the courts, for a case relating to one of the 167 nominations sent in along with that of General Wood is to be made up and carried to the courts, with view of securing a decision as to the pay of the officers thus nomi. mated
 There is no feature of the Leonard Wood case that is ercditable to the country, or to the good discipline of the army. The haste of promotion has exceeded all decency. From assistant surgeon to major general is a big jump, especially when the appointee is with out military education or experience, and the country is at peace with all the world and the rest of mankind. !"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-10
HANNA's POLITICAL SUCCESS.

From Golfers Weekly.
 If Uncle Mark Hanna owes his facu1tv or winning elections to any one trait. it is to the candid way he has of putting confidence in others. Nobody knows bet ter how to get reportorial favor. At tho outset of his tour of Ohio during the lats election he callel the newspaper men on his private car around him.
 Now, boys" he said. well be together Tor several weeks, and while we are on board we'll be just like one big family. You are my guests and you will be treat. ed as though the car was my house. will have many things to say that are not intended for print. We will form many plans that we do not wish to be made public I don't intend to chase you out on to the platform. and I will not whis- per. You'll hear every word and you will know as well as I do what is not intended for publication"
 And some of the things said on the car would stir politics from coast to coast if printed but they will remain secrets
 In a few words at meeting in small town in the interior of the state his an- swcr to a question was one that was a key to his whole character.
 Isn't it true that you got jobs for ff- teen of the men who voted for you for senator?' man in the audience asked.
 That's a lie," was Hanna's answer There were more than fifteen. for I never go back on my friends"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-10
Gen. Leonard Wood Again.

President Roosevelt has again sent in the nomination of Gen. Leonard Wood to be a major general of the army. He did this on Monday morning last. considering it a recess appoint ment. The President holds there was an appreciable lapse of time between the adjournment of the special session and the meeting of the regular session, although no one else saw or appre- ciated it. The nomination was osten- sibly sent in in this "appreciable" lapse of time. General Wood will therefore continue to wear the insignia of ma jor general and to receive the pay of one until the new or second nomina- tion is rejected by the senate.
 The case is an extraordinary one.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-10
Pecans.

Good specimens of oceans grown in Alabama are now marketed in Brming- ham. and this fact suggests mention of the thought that this luscious nut has become one Of the most valuable prod ucts of the south. A recent report Of the agricultural department has been made showing the volume of the crop but certain it is that as a money-maker the pecan has taken high rank. The tree is indiguous to the soil of all the south ern states, but the nut attains it's high est perfection by cultivation; and in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi Georgia Florida and Alabama 1t Is a source of immense revenue to those land owners who have given it attention. The Mississippi delta swamps produce an abundant yield every year and shipments of the wild nuts from there to the great markets is of immense proportions.
 At this season of the year the negro men, women and children leave the cot ton fields and hie themselves to the pecan forests, receiving double the remunera- ton for gathering oceans to that afforded for cotton picking and the pecan has thus become one of the difficulties in the way of the cotton growers
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-10
THE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
Considering the weather, a taller man than will take cold.
 Tanning of the shrew.
Mill curtaiIment Improbable.

The meeting at Charlotte of cotton manufacturers seems to have been con fined to those of North Carolina. At any rate no names of other states ap- pear in the reports of the proceedings of the meeting. Nothing was done be- yond appointing a committee to ar range for national curtailment through a meeting of all cotton manufacturers to be held in Washington in May of next year.
 It is plain that nothing will come from this effort Not even the opera tors of North Carolina will act united ly. and as it Is not proposed to begin curtailment before next July it is req sonable to say that the effort is a flash in the pan. There will be no or ganized national curtailment. Each mill will continue to stand on it's bot tom, and the New England mills must conform to the general condition or shut down.
 , This effort is to go over until next May, when meeting will be held in Washington, but before that time the prices of goods and of cotton will be at parity, and there will be no occasion for national or state action. There should of course be proportionate prices in the raw material and finished product. and the course of trade will bring that about before May.
 The proposition was in substance one to turn operatives out of employ. ment on the one hand and to depress the price of cotton on the otber-both to please the unstocked mills, particu- larly of New England. The mills of the south should keep out of any such scheme. They owe it to the section they live in to go ahead independently, having due consideration for their op- dratives and for the farmers who sup ply their mills with the great staple. This will no doubt do, and the May meeting may as well be called off. It will be anticipated by events.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-10
SOME OF THE POPULAR
 NOTIONS OF THE BIBLE

discontented persons, it may receive ap- probation and patronage from so learned and judicious a Prince as Your Highness is whose allowance and acceptance of our labors shall more honor and encour- age us. So that if, on the one side. au hard interpretations of other men shall dismay us. So that if, on the one side, we shall be traduced to Popish Persons at home or abroad, who will therefore malign us." etc., etc.
 The rest of the sentence is too long to a quarter of a column. This Is enough to show that the translators knew that they were throwing down the glove to the ''Popish Persons" and they could therefore scarcely expect the "Popish Persons" either then or subsequently, to approve their work
 And by the same token, when has 1t been possible for translators, where doc trinal points are involved, to steer quite clear of their predictions in rendering a passage? Witness the case of the fifth verse of the ninth chapter of I. Corin- thians, referring to the holy woman who ministered to St. Paul. The meaning of the words in the original Greek is per- fectly simple and plain, put the Douay and Authorized and Revised versions have variously translated certain of them as woman wife" sister" and be liever,' according to the translators' notion as to what she should have been.
 
 Miss Gould's essayists are to attack the denominational question squarely. It is evidently to be open to the acceptors of the Douay version to explain why the Vulgate, itself a translation, should be taken as the basis of another translation, when the original exists. It will also be open to the advocates of the English versions taken from the Greek to tell whether the Greek version from which the authorized version was translated was not itself a corrupt variant, much more recent than the Vulgate. It is admitted that chaos of variants had grown up. as the result of unnumbered copyings, at the time of the invention of printing. To re-establish the text of the apostles was given up long ago as hopeless.
 By the way, the notion of the Dutch that their version was original, or at least inspired, recalls the belief of the Jews and the early Christians concerning the Septuagint. They believed that the Septuagint was thus obtained: Seventy two men, six from each of the tribes of Israel, were sent to Egypt to translate the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek. They each separately translated it, and by vir- tue of divine inspiration the seventy-two translations were identical
 And the divinity was proved to be He- brew by this. because the Septuagnt is full of Hehraisms F.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-10
The Birminaham District.

Every one familiar with the Bir- mingham districl feels and, indeed. knows that it has a great future, but 1t is nevertheless gratifying to have prominent capitalists of the east come this way and accentuate Birmingham S importance in the industrial world.
 In the Seaboard Air Line party that spent yesterday here was James A. Blair of New York, who invested money in the Birmingham district about fifteen years ago, but who had not been to Alabama since that time. Mir. Blair had a good opinion of Bir- mingham then but he has a far better opinion of it today. He is a practical man of business and represents vast moneyed interests. He marvels at the rich resources of the district and will from now on be an enthusiastic and a very potential advertising agent of Bir- mingham.
 During the lull in business in the north the attention of capital is turned more than ever toward Birmingham, and unless all signs fail this district will enjoy unprecedented prosperity within the next few years.