The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-06-09
LOCAL BREVITIES.

Ilimas defeated Walukus at baseball
on Sunday, five to three.
The Senate is due to meet this morn
ing first time since Friday.
Ex-Queen Liliuokalani sails this aft
ernoon on the Claudine and there will
probably be big crowd at the steamer
The Aorangi Argus, an interesting
shipboard paper, has an article on Ho-
nolulu by Sol Sheridan, late of the Ad-
vertiser staff.
The Maui Racing Association delegat-
ed w. T. Robinson to Honolulu to soli-
cit the entry of animals for the 4th of
July meet at Kahului.
kama, Hawaiian taro planter, aged
thirty-six years, was killed at Keanae,
Maui by an explosion of giant powder
with which he was fishing.
This being the second Tuesday of the
month Princess Kawananakoa will re-
ceive at the old Campbell homestead at
Waikiki, from 8 to o'clock
Dengue fever still figures in the re-
ports of government physicians to the
Board of Health. DR.. Mourtz, of Mo-
lokai, reports seventeen cases.
John Gaspar, an old resident of Ma
poopoo, Hawaii. offers for the st. Louis
exhibit a polished cube of koa timber
measuring six feet on it's faces.
Japanese laborer named Yamada
Hakamatsu stabbed his wife to death
on Puunene plantation, Maui Saturday
morning. He then tried to commit sui
eide but was restrained and is now in
jail charged with murder.
Mrs. Emma Nakuina has been
! subpoenaed to appear before the Maui
grand jury at Wailuku. it is supposed
in connection with the police incident
at Kaunakakai, Molokai, about which
she complained in the press.
| Keliiaa, janitor of the House of Rep
resentatives, died Friday night at his
home in Kewalo. He leaves two chill
dren, one of his daughters being a sing
er in the band. For years he has held
position in Wider's lumber yard.
! In connection with festivities at Wal
luku in honor of the visit of Queen
| Liliuokalani, it is said r. w. Wilcox
will be proclaimed as president of the
Home Rule party, and William White
as Home Rule candidate for Sheriff of
Maui
Col. and Mrs. Fitch have had a monu-
ment erected for their pet dog Mike
which died a short time ago at the Mo-
ana Hotel The monument is hewn
from native stone and is beautifully
polished. 1t bears the inscription "Alo-
ha, Mike, May %, 1903"
A livery stable horse valued at s2O(
fell down exhausted at King and Ii.
liha streets yesterday morning, and wac
shot on the diagnosis that it was q
hopeless case, made by DR.. Rowat
The horse had been taken out on Sun
day afternoon by Ulysses Harris, the
colored pugilist.
Marston Campbell, Assistant Superin'
tendent of Public Works, yesterday re-
covered the valuable gold watch he lost
about a month ago. Mr.. Campbell does
MT know whether it was stolen or not
but he found it in posse ss'on Of Por'
tuguese employed at the Honolulu
brewery. The Portuguese said his sor
had found it and gave it up without
question.
| About 200 men. principally from the
| camp, gathered at the Waiakamilo as
sembly hall and passed resolutions call
! ing upon Governor Dole to appoint r.
c. Winston Superintendent of Public
| Works. President Crabbe was asked
! to press the appointment. The meet
| ing was addressed by II. C. Birbe, John
| Inch, Geo. Kaia and John Kuaana, who
urged the passage of the resolutions
/ and by several others. 1t was largely q
| Home Rule gathering.
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