The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-03-08

| Sixty-nine tourists are said to be
coming here In the Sierra due on the
9th inst.
Attorney General Peters In prosecuting
the Jones murder case.
The rice famine is raised by the ar
rival of large consignment of that
esculent in the steamer Siberia.
The second Jones murder trial viii
begin today before Judge Robinson.
Extra jury panels will be required. .
The entire wireless system is now in
good working order except the one sta
| ton on Kauai Repairs are now being
made there also.
The trio of voucher defendants are to
plead to indictments, or show reason
why not, before Judge Robinson at
| 10 a. m. tomorrow.
p. Maurice Mcmahon, stenographer
in Judge Gears court, has been laid
aside with rheumatism for some days.
Messrs. Jones and Bell have been doing
his work in turns.
c. j. Hutchins is expected to return
| from San Francisco on the Sierra this
week. Some action may then be taken
relative to the rehabilitation of the
Kona Sugar Co.
Reports from all precincts indicate
! increased ferocity as well as fecundty
| of the mosquitoes in consequence of
prevailing rains. 1t is a case of sur
vival of the fightest.
Several Honolulu attorneys will leave
for Waikiki today to attend the Sec
| CiroIiit Do,
| Inns will represent the Attorney Cen
erals department..
Judge Dole granted the request of
! George A. Davis to accept as part of
| his defense the testimony given by w.
l.. Stanley as to his character in the
Territorial Supreme Court.
The Territorial Central Committee at
its meeting Saturday night failed to
| consider the communication from the
| Home Rulers relative to joint action
| on the county act in Congress-.
Two white men have been arrested
| and released on bonds, the warrants
being placed on the secret file in the
U. S. Marshals office, for aiding and
abetting the escape to Japan of Ada
Chi, witness in the conspiracy cases.
Curtis P. Iaukea's loyalty to the
Home Rule party, whittier he only re-
Gently went from the G. o. p, is under
| investigation by a committee of the H.
,, r. organization. Curtis has been CO.
quoting with the Democrats.
The Hawaii Promotion Committee
sent away on the Siberia about $500 CO.
pies of it's recent publication, Hawaii,
Its People and Their Legends" The
books are distributed generally over
the mainland, and some of them go to
| foreign countries
DIR. John McMullen, lately of the U.
S. Marine Hospital Service at Hong
kong, was seen at the Alexander Young
! Hotel last evening and stated that Dr.
and Mrs. White, formerly of Honolulu
are comfortably situated in their new
1 home at Hongkong.
| What Prof. Alexander said at the
Historical Society was that he did"
attach significance to the verbal coin
cidence of some Hawaiian and Philip
/ pine names remarked in Mr.. Town
sends letter. The contrary sense as
printed was an error.
F. M. Brooks is credited with sacri-
ficing desire to leave the Territory
on business trip so that he can an
swer any accusation that may be made
against him relative to the Japanese
conspiracy cases. Mr.. Brooks en-
ployed Adachi, the star witness, as a
clerk in his law office prior to the Fed
eral crusade.
Fifteen Home Rulers from Maui
headed by Thomas Clark have come
to town to promote fusion with the
Democrats. Until their arrival they
We're not aware that their fellow-parti-
sans of the capital had been stretching
Curtis p. Iaukea on the inquisitorial
rack for suspected coquetting with the
Democrats.
Nj. G. Santos, editor of Setta, the
Portuguese paper of Hlo, and A. G.
Silva and NJ. r. A. Vierra of Honolulu
We're decorated with medals by Presi-
dent j. NJ. Vivas of the Sociedade Lusi-
tana Benificente de Hawaii on Sunday
to reward them for each having re-
cruited fifteen new members of the So
ciety in the past year.
One Home Rule legislator has solved
! the financial problems of the Territory
He advocates a special session. cit
! will be very easy" he said 1--WE will
pass merchandise tax, that will bring
In $4,000, which will allow $4,000 for
the expenses of the Legislature, and $780,
600 for the Territory. In that way the
| session will cost the people nothing"
| The Promotion Committee has receiv-
ed mail advices from San Francisco to
the effect that the party of tourists
booked on the last Alameda are coming
on the Sierra, due here Wednesday
morning. There are twelve in the par
| ty. In addition a score or more tour
lists are coming on the Oceanic liner.
! Senator C. ii. Dickey came over from
Maui on the Claudine yesterday.
Judge Dickey sent to prison yester-
4 day Carl Won Probst and Williams
Eske. Each man received one MONTH
sentence, being convicted of gross
cheat. The men had given orders for