The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-07-04
Strong Front Presented
By Republicans
On Maui.
Burial of Worthy Citizen Polo
Challenge Accepted-Bad
Drought.

| MAUI July 2.-On Friday the IJtn.
Just one year after its inception, the
| ditch connecting the new Koolau ditch
with the old Hamakua ditch was COM
pleted. If the Koolau waterway was
finished, the mountain water of Nahiku
and Keanae could now be used to irri-
gate the cane-delds Of Paia and Ha-
| makuapoko Because of unforeseen OBJ
stacles the Koolau ditch will probably
not be fully constructed until Septem-
| Der.
| This connecting ditch, built by the
Hamakua Ditch Extension Co. under
the direction of Engineer George H.
| Baldwin, is five and one-haif miles in
| length,-there being four miles of tun-
nels and one and one-half miles Of open
ditch The four miles of tunnels which
are mostly through solid rock of the
hardest kind, cut out and save ten and
one-half miles of ditch in the open.
The Hamakua Ditch Extension Co.
have been building two sections of
| waterway, the upper section being the
connecting ditch already mentioned
| and the lower section which will be
completed in about a years time will
| lead the water upon some new lands.
| Four thousand feet of the upper sec
ton (of ditch and tunneD will be
| cemented during the summer.
| Seven hundred men, $50 mules and
| SO bullocks have been engaged upon
| these two enterprises. The engineer in
charge has begun already dischargine
laborers and will continue to do so as
| the work of construction is completed.
Engineer Geo. Baldwin, who by the
way is graduate of Stanford Un;ver-
sity, should be complimented upon the
energy and resource displayed by him
in completing so great and difficult an
undertaking as the construction of
the connecting ditch within the speci-
fed time, which was one year from
July 1st, 1903.
w. E. BECKWITHS FUNERAL.
At noon, June 9th, the funeral OF
William E. Beckwith of Kaluanui, who
died at Puunene hospital during the
afternoon of June 18th, took place al
the Makawao cemetery, Rev. o. P
Emerson officiating. The services were
largely attended and the display OF
flowers at the grave was most beau
tiful. The pall-bearers were: H. A
Baldwin, w. o. Aiken, F. F. Baldwin
James Lindsay, w. 5. NicoH and D. T
Fleming
''Will Beckwith," as he was known
among his friends. was a man of re-
finement, intelligence and character
possessing all the attributes of a good
citizen. Springing from a New Eng
land family of farmers he naturally
took a keen interest in sisal. pineap-
pies and other agricultural experiments
Being man of sterling honesty, he
always took a decided position in favor
Of the right and against the wrong or
all questions. He did right because i
was right, not because it was polite
He will be a great loss to the com.
nlunity in which he lived.
POLITICAL.
The election of officers by the differ
ent Republican precinct clubs of tn.
island held during Saturday, June 25th
went off amicably as far as heard
from.
At Ulupalakua no meeting was con
] vened owing to a misunderstanding
but one will be held later on.
In he Kpanae TTacincf no nicotine
was held and no reason given Cor III
neglect to do so, though it is state,
the Nahiku section of the precinct vii
soon form a Republican club. 1t il
stated that the Democrats have &C
Quired considerable influence at Eea
/ nae
At Lahaina, precinct 3, the larges
number of Republicans within the his
tory of the town turned out to vot,
| for club officers, 134 members bein:
present and voting. EX-Judge J. w
Kalua was beaten by Rev. S. Kapu b,
large majority.
The following officers were elected
Presidents. Kapu. 50 votes.
First Vice-President-H B. Wilkins
80 votes.
, Second vice-President-w. Henning
90 votes.
: Secretary-G. w. Keawehaku, 9
votes.
: Assistant Secretary-Wm. Kaluakini
96 votes.
Treasurer-C. NJ. Scrimgeour, 10
votes.
Judges of Election-H. Dickinson, 10
votes: z. Waiaholo 100 votes; and a
Blake 90 votes.
Executive Committee-A. n. Haysel
den, 80 votes; Philip Pail, 1O1 votes; ]