The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-05-03
NORTH H|LO
IN A HURRY
County Officers
Are Already
Picked.

to select candidates for county Off.
GERS was held at Laupahoehoe this
week. Those present agreed that the
County commissioners for East Ha-
wall should be selected: one member
from Hamakua, one from North Hilo
two from South HiIo and one from
Puma.
The Tribune says: The Laupahoe-
hoe meeting was unanimous in the be-
lief that w. G. Walker of Ookala
should be their first member OF the
County Board
The name of E. w. Barnard was
cheered Justify as a winner for the
Treasurership and Geo. Kaihenui OF
Hilo was mentioned as a satisfactory
man for County Auditor. The conven-
ton spirit settled heavily upon the
meeting and expressions were numer-
GUS as to candidates for other County
Offices.
u Nv. H. Beers seemed to be the choice
for the Office of County Clerk and
Paul Jarret of Puma was considered
an ideal man for the position now oc-
scupied by L. A Andrews In discuss
ing the office of County Attorney,
Laupahoehoe sentiment crystallized
around the name of Carl S. Smith.
MAY USE sPRECKELS HALL.
At the meeting of the Elks last
Monday it was decided to enter into
negotiations with representatives of
the Sprecke1s whereby the Lodge will
make material alterations to Spreckels
Hall making it suitable for theatre
cal performances. If the proposition
is accepted the Elks performance will
take place there.
HILO'S FOURTH.
Plans for the celebration Of the
Fourth of July have crystallized. It
will last two days and will begin on
the 3rd with Cowboys Congress with
all the attendant features. On the
fourth the soil will be broken for the
Hiio-Kohala railroad which will be ac-
conpanied by music and oratory, to be
followed by barbecue. There will
also be a race meeting in the after
noon.
METEOR WAS NOT A DREAM.
The Tribune says: Many Hilo peo
pie were awakened at $3.50 Thursday
morning by a laundering roar, suppos-
ed generally to have been a thunder
clap or the rumble of an earthquake.
Those who were up early, however,
were privileged to see the brilliant
cause of the morning disturbance. 1t
was the flight of meteor, which, came
so close TO earth that the blazing aerol-
tie left a trail of fire hundreds OF feet
in length behind it. It's velocity and
the increasing density of the atmos-
phere as it neared the earth produce
scarcely a mile above the earth it ex-
ploded, leaving cloud of smoke
which foated over the city. No pof-
lions of the aerolite were seen to strike
the earth or sea. Mr.. KuhnS of Kau-
mana saw the phenomenon. He says
it was ball of fire two feet in dia-
meter describing an arc over the city
and falling toward the sea. When
lower than ordinary clouds
it exploded leaving a great cloud of
smoke, which remained visible for
several minutes. 1t was about one
minute from the time that the smoke
appeared when a long laundering de-
was heard. Sound travels
celestial visitor was not more than
four miles distant at most when fric-
ton neat caused it's extinction.
G. e. Wright, manager of the Vol
cano Stables, also witnessed the heav-
emily pyrotechnics and gives the same
description.
HENSHAW ON FLIES.
The gradual increase in the number
Of common house flies in Hilo is no.
dceable. There was time when the
nouse-t1y was as scarce as snakes now
are. But each year sees the domes-
Heated fly in larger numbers and it is
but question of time when this pest
Will be as great a nuisance as the
mosquito !
This at any rate is the testimony
If PROT Henshaw, who keeps track of
such things and who knows the cause
Ind effect of thousand things in the
natural world, which are not noticed
~ the ordinary observer.
There will come time" said Prof.
1enshaw the other day, when the
louse fly and the mosquito will be sup
pressed by ordinance just as certain
'ther nuisances now are abated. Civil
zation marches slowly, and it may
)e long time, but it will come The
louse fly, like the mosquito, afflicts
because people are careless.
The affliction does not end with the
ly, however, for it, like the mosquito,
S also vehicle for the distribution
# disease germs. Tribune.
THE VOLCANO HOUSE.
st. Clair Bidgood, manager of the
Volcano House, has completed the
ennis court and made many improve
nents in the hotel since he assumed
is management One that will be ap-
'reclated by the guests relates TO the
Tapor baths. There are now two clean
y looking cabinets instead of one and
he surroundings have been so rem
waited that one does not have the
,reeps" during the process of sweat
ng.
A KAMAAINA GONE.
Walter holloway, for many years
proprietor of the Hallway House Kan.