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The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-02-09
THE HAWAII OF COL. FITCH.

Hawaii as seen by the eyes of
this charming raconteur was n country
too strait laced. too narrow and mis-
sionary" to suit broad. generous, ma
ture. Col. Fitch found the newcomer
persona non grata to the old timers
and they We're evidently not of his
kind. Moreover, the Colonel felt COM
PEELED to disclose the fact as he saw
1t, that It was the sugar planters who
had stolen Hawaii and that they
would yet see the fate of Bermudans
and Jamaicans.
II our critic had taken himself Sc
riously here he would not have INDUCED
himself in such badinage. No one
knows better than himself the truth
of the poets words, "coelum non
animum mutant qui trans more cur
rant" Honolulu Is cosmopolitan
enough to enable the new corners to
find almost anything he is looking for.
Gentle, kindly, hospitable ways are
here still, in spite of the hard
times, while the hypocrisy and mean
ness OF human nature can also be
found But the newcomer who ex-
poets to find himself pioneer in the
making OF Il new community Itit WIN
have the same rude awakening which
would meet him in any eastern or mid
die western town of long established
ways of living. Time was when
visitor in Hawaii was so rare bird
that he might well consider and often
did consider, his entertainers, rather
than himself, as the recipients of fav-
ors. But 1t is many a year since the
social life of the group depended on
lessons in good form charitably offered
by the globe trotter.
As for the sugar planters of Hawaii
they are far from being perfect; they
have made, and like every one else,
will make mistakes; but they are the
men who. have made Hawaii what II
is. But for their development of the
sugar industry, the same conditions
would prevail here now which exist
in Samoa, Fiji and Tahiti.
In the January days of 1893. when
the Queen tried to abrogate the consti-
tuition, and Americans in Honolulu re-
solved to take the chances of annexa-
ton, it was not the planters who took
the initiative, or who caused it to be
taken. That first step, with all its
consequences for good or Ill, the for
mer, as we believe, entirely outweigh
ing the latter, was not taken by them.
Most of them were against it at first,
but, like practical men, they made the
best of situation which the majority
of them disliked, and stood on the side
of law and order.
The history of the Hawaiian revolu-
ton as written by Blount, Richard
Harding Davis and Thomas Fitch will,
like Sam Weller's watch, have to be
reset several times before it will go.
But really Col. Fitchs portrayal of
Hawaii is written in the perfect style
of which he is master, and therefore
perhaps we ought not to object to his
facts-so much the worse for the facts.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-02-09

AS soon as the news came out that
Marshal Hendry was seeking Adachi
under the eXtradition treaty with ia
pan, statement was made by Law
yer Brooks that the mission would be
useless inasmuch as Adachi had gone
to Shanghai. Now by the receipt of
letter from Adachi, District Attor-
ney Breckons learns that the much
wanted witness is in Japan, as the
United States officials had supposed
him to be. Mr.. Brooks who, as a law
Yer and an officer of the court, is nat
urally glad to See justice done, must
share the general qualification that his
advices about Adachi We're wrong and
that there is now a fair prospect for
the whole truth about the Japanese
Ten Dollar Club and its white accom-
plices coming before the Federal court.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-02-09
THE WAR At LAST.

This mornings cablegrams give the
momentous news that the Empires OF
Russia and Japan are practically in a
state of war with each other. Japan
becoming tired of the hedging of Rus
sia and irritated at her declining OF
proposals whose moderation the Lon
don Times says will astonish the world,
has suddenly broken off diplomatic re-
lations. Without waiting to make or
receive a declaration of war, Japan, 1t
is announced from Toxic, will imme-
diately seize Korea. We shall now
await news of battle on land and sea-
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-02-09
LOCAL BREvIrlEs.
(From Saturdays Daily.)

Captain A. p. Niblack. naval station
commandant, left for Hawaii j =
day In i, capacity os !ighthous. H.
spec.or.
j. y. cobb OF the Fish COMM, so.i
arrived in the Alameda 10 MAXI . -
,Aer investigation of the CONNER al
fishes of Hawaiian waters.
MIR. William L. Whitney Will
lead the round-table. study at the Y.
NJ. C. A. after the brief song service
at 43O Sunday Supper follows at
$3.50 o'clock.
Superintendent of Public Works Hol-
loway has assured the Wailuku fire
company that hydrants and water
pipes will be furnished to that town as
soon as possible.
w. NJ. Campbell, the architect, re-
ceived word yesterday that his plans
for the geodetic and magnetic station
to be built at Waianae for the U. S.
Government had been accepted.
John H. Wilson's portable cane cut
ter, operated with compressed air,
has been tried at Eva plantation with
results that seem to prove 1t will be
a great saver of labor. The inventor
has patented the machine.
President Roosevelt has appointed
Lorrin Andrews, Attorney General OF
Hawaii, as a Federal delegate to the
Universal Congress of Lawyers and
Jurists to be held next September in
connection with the st. Louis EXPOSE
ton.
VIM. S. Fleming, Assistant Attorney
General, has rendered an opinion to
Road Supervisor Sam. Johnson to the
effect that the Territorial law forbids
the employment on the roads of any
but American citizens or persons eligi-
BILE for immediate naturalization.
Test cases of the Hawaiian proprie-
tary sea fisheries category are set for
hearing in the United states Supreme
Court, Washington, next month. I'm
der the Organic Act, such fisheries as
are proved to be of the nature of vest
ed rights must be purchased through
condemnation proceedings by the Ter
ritory. For the first while here the
owners We're having things their own
way in court, but suddenly one day a
point was raised which make vested
rights rather hard to prove, at least
in some cases.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-02-09

The First National Bank of Wailu-
kU had deposits of $33,S90 subject to
check on January 20.
Commissioner Lyle A. Dickey has
set March at Lahainaluna Seminary
as the time and place for hearing the
water controversy between the Ter
ritory of Hawa.. and the Pioneer Mill
Co.
An assessment of ten cents a share
on Hama Plantation Co. stock being
No. 4, is called by the head Office in
San Francisco. Any stock on which
the assessment is unpaid March l will
be delinquent and sold at public auc-
ton March 25 If not previously made
good,
Hugh Coke and Thomas Church are
starting a guava jelly factory at Ka-
hului, with new machinery and a
capacity of 200 cases a day. None but
white labor will be employed. A whole
sale grocery concern in San Francisco
agrees to take 5000 cases every season.
Carmen Bros. will have charge of the
factory.
Despite the San Francisco telegram
to that effect, Alexander ~ BALDWIN
have never had any connection with
Hama Plantation.
Count and Countess Bonzi, the lat
ter daughter of Col. z. S. Spalding,
arrived from Italy yesterday to make
their home for a while on the island of
Kauai.
Judge Robinson has granted the petit
ton of Edgar Henriques for the re-
moval of Mrs. Jessie Kaae as executriH
under the will of the late Margaret v.
Carter
The Republican Territorial Commit
tee stands adjourned until Saturday
evening of this week, bad weather hav-
ing prevented n quorum last Saturday
evening.
From his sizing up of the appoint
ments yet to be kept, Land Commits
sloner Pratt thinks Governor Carter
will not return to Honolulu before the
goth inst.
Judge Philip L. Weaver of the Court
OF Land Registration, the Supreme
Court approving the appointments ac-
cording to law, has named ]. M. Mon
sarrat and Enoch Johnson as examin-
ers Of titles for the First Judicial Cir
cult.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-02-09

During seven months of last year
California must have had a tourist in
come of not less than eight millions
of dollars. Here are the Argonaut's
figures of immigration. THE month in
which the largest immigration took
place was November, when no less than
1920 persons entered this State over
S. p. lines. The table also shows a
general, though irregular, increase
during the entire year. The figures
for April for example, were $780, for
May, 300: for October, 1902. About
twice as many people came by way of
Ogden as by way of FL Paso. During
the period February 15th-June 18th
-four months) the total number of i'm
migrants was 44,136; during the period,
September h-December 18th Cthree
months) the figures We're S9,7S7 making
total for seven months of S3,92S per-
sons" At an average outlay of 800
apiece these visitors would have spent
IS, 392, 300.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-02-09

The Indian in politics has his coun-
terparts elsewhere. There Is much in
this extract from an Indian Territory
paper which sounds familiar in Ha-
wall: 1.-THE fullblood or halfbreed never
had much politics, and many would
about as soon be on one side as the
other: would be n Democrat as easily
as Republican. 1t is exceedingly
hard to keep them in any party long
at time. They care nothing for the
fundamental doctrines. They are usu-
ally against the party in power and
eagerly looking for a change. They
want the fellow in office turned out and
are glad when the other party gets in.
In the Cherokee nation at the last
election the man whom the Downing
party elected chief four years ago, and
who was therefore the leader of that
party, was staunch supporter of the
national party in last years chiefs
election The party that promises po-
litical preferment can enlist many
votes, but with absolutely no assurance
of holding them through more than one
campaign"
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-02-09

Editor Robertson of the Maui News
believes in coming up to county govern
ment gradually, through amendments
to the Organic Act by Congress. This
is what he says:
1t now seems definitely settled that
Congress will not attempt to make a
county bill for the Territory of Hawaii.
But what Congress should do would be
to amend the Organic Act, dividing the
Territory into counties along the lines
of the recent county bill and adding
some features of county government.
These could be further added to as fast
as we can assimilate them until we are
ready for complete county government.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-02-09

If the Land Department had some
tracts ready for settlement now, the
Promotion Committee might find peo-
pie for them Homesteaders on the
mainland are importuning the COM
mittee for facts about available farm
ing land here, but they have to be put
off. 1t is amazing that private own
ers Of great island estates do not see
the advantage of settling up some of
their surplus acreage; but 1t is still
more so that the Government is blind
to the need of encouraging farmers to
add themselves to our limited white
population.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-02-09

Ali Ashgar Khan, who let the light
of his countenance shine on Honolulu
short time ago. has been recalled
home. He was travelling at the in
stance of the Shah who wanted his job
of Grand Vizier for the Royal son-in-
law, Prince Ain Ed Daouleh. It seems
that Ali Ashgar had irritated the Shah
with proposals to become modern and
the Prince, being reactionary, SEEM
ed to be a good substitute. But the
Persian ruler finds that in dealing with
modern diplomacy his Foreign Office
must know modern ways, hence the
decision to invite the banshed Vizier
to return and resume business at the
old stand. The Prince will probably
go back to princing.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-02-09

There need be no fear, in the event
of war, of Russian invasion of Japan.
Possibly the Cars men could get a
precarious foothold in the extreme
northern island, but Japan as a whole
is the best fortified country in the
world Every navigable approach is
guarded by formidable batteries and by
complete submarine mine systems, An
enemy trying to force itself into the
great bay on the shores of which are
Yokohama and Toxic, would have to
approach the narrow entrance through
placed on elevations Within the
heads he would confront steel forts
on artificial islands-stationary battle
ships-as we'll as masked batteries on
either side. The floor of the bay I'M
der him would be a network of mines
and torpedoes. Further along would
be Japanese warships and the Yoku-
suka defensive zone. All in all the
place is impregnable. The Inland Sea,
which divides the most populous parts
OF the empire, is as we'll defended as
the approaches to st, Petersburg. Not
only are there great forts at the EN-
frances but on various strategic is
lands. Hakodate is a Gibraltar. The
only vulnerable point in all the Japan
csc possessions is Formosa, which
might fall to Russia in case she got
command OF the sea.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-02-09
BALTIMORE BURNING

AS this issue of the Advertiser goes
to press, Baltimore is burning down.
Already an immense gap has been
gouged out of its richest business sec
ton, representing fifty million dollars
gone ap in flame and smoke, and the
rest of the city is in grave peril. The
fire department is utterly beaten in
the fight, and assistance is implored
from neighboring cities. 1t is one of
the great fires of history.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-02-09

If the Logan had made the custo-
mary stay her men would have spent
from $4,000 to $4,000 on the street 1t
was a pity to hurry her away because
of one case of varioloid which was
landed here anyway. The U. S. Quar-
antine people saw no danger and We're
entirely willing to let the people come
ashore. What is our loss will be San
Francisco's gain.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-02-09

a rural paper of Central New York,
received in the last mail, states that
the temperature on January 19, was
from A to 50 degrees below zero. on
that day in Honolulu the minimum
temperature was SO degrees above and
the mean temperature 72,7 The diff
ference between the extremes Is 12+7.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-02-09

The aftermath of the Baltimore fire
may be the wreck of some of the
smaller insurance companies, Indeed
large ones may find 1t difficult to meet
their share of quarter of billion
loss. No such strain has been put on
the insurance corporations since Chi
Cago burned.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-02-09

Howes-"Don't like this cold weather,
Ell? Why, only last summer you were
complaining of the heat" Barnes-'Not
of the heat itself, but rather because
of it's untimeliness. Ii would be all
right II reserved for such weather as
this. "-Boston Transcript.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-02-09

The japanese have cut the cable
passing from Korea across the Yellow
Sea TO the mainland, but have retained
that which connects Korea with Japan.
Probably the Russians will do their
best to clip the latter, SO as TO Isolate
Korea except through military tele-
graph lines of their own, running into
Manchuria.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-02-09

1t may be safely assumed that Co.
lombia is waiting upon the fate of the
Panama treaty. II the treaty shall
be ratified. Colombia viii do nothing;
II not, and Congress determines TO re-
move the American protectorate from
the isthmus, Colombia will move in.
Meanwhile there is nothing TO do but
saw wood.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-02-09

VIM. Allanson Bryan of the Bishop
Museum, departed for the mainland
last evening on the China taking with
him the ashes of his wife and infant
daughter. The Kamehameha School
Glee Club was on the dock and sanP
number of farewell songs,
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-02-09

With the Bryan faction sharpening
its knives out West and the Cleveland
faction grinding its axes on Olney's
jawbone, Democratic harmony seems
TO have as many possibilities in it as a
Donnybrook fair.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-02-09

Los Angeles has sidetracked our
tourists. That is a habit Los Angeles
has with everybodys tourists. The
kuack has cost San Diego some mil
lions of dollars during the last twelve
Years.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-02-09

The successor of Justice GaIbraith
VIII probably be Democrat as II is
not customary to appoint a fun bench
belonging TO any one party,
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-02-09

1t is lucky for Peary that he isn't
trying to get ashore back home in the
prevailing 52-below-zero weather.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-02-09

There may be peace yet. The war
that was sure to happen last summer
between Turkey and Bulgaria has not
yet made connections.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-02-09

The Russian press would have more
response TO it's war cry, Christianity
against Paganism," If II could get the
Kisheneff survivors to join in.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-02-09

Nobody seems to ask what the 90
100000 Koreans propose to do about II.
They might make a deal OF trouble II
they wanted to even in the Land OF
the Morning Calm.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-02-09

Senator Foraker used to be a Presi-
Dental candidate but he seems to have
convaesced.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-02-09

Whenever anything seems likely TO
happen on the Far Eastern stage the
eald-headed rows ill up with Japan's
elder statesmen.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-02-09
OlG as the Pyramids

And as little changed by the ages,
is Scrofula, than which no disease,
save Consumption, is responsible
for a larger mortality, and Con-
sumption is its outgrowth.
1t affects the glands, the mucous
membranes, tissues and bones;
causes punches in the neck, ca
tarrhal troubles, ricketts,, inflamed
o.'' Ids, sore ears, cutaneous erup-
tons, etc.
AZ suffered from scrofula. the disease az
fecting the glands VI my neck. 1 did every
thing was told to do to eradicate IL, but
without success. / then began taking
Hcad's Sarsaparilla, and the swelling in my
neck entirely disappeared and my skin re-
sumed a smooth healthy appearance. The
cure was complete" Miss ANITA MITCHELL,
915 Scott St., Covington, Ky.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-02-09
TIDES, SUN AND MOON.

New moon on the 10th at 0:33 a. IN.
Times of the tide are taken from the
United States Coast and Geodetlc Sur
rey tables.
The tides at Kahului and Hilo occur
aDout one hour earlier than at Homo
lulu.
Hawaiian standard time is 10 hours
30 minutes slower than Greenwich time,
oeing that OF meridian OF 1877 de-
srees 20 minutes. The time whistle
blows at 1880 p. m. which is the same
as Greenwich, 0 hours minutes. Sun
ana moon are for local time for the
whole group.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-02-09

AS usual the Chinese court is sign
Ing talent for a ee-for-all footrace.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-02-09
PHYS CAN.

DIR. MILAN SOULE-Office removed
to 121 Geary street. Residence, Palace
Hotel. San Francisco, Cal.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-02-09
METEOROLOGICAL RECORD.

SSW-NE.
Barometer corrected to 80 F. and sea
level, and for standard gravity of Lat.
As. This correction is--OS for Honolulu.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-02-09
(From Mondays daily.)

The First National Bank of Wailu-
ku had deposits of $33,S9O subject to
check on January 20.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1904-01-27
y. :. TESLA. Proprietor and Tub
Residing In Honolulu.
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 81, 1904.
Dr. KOCRATlC CHANCES.

Writing in the Saturday Evening
Post, David Graham Phillips discusses
The question of whether or not the
Democrats can elect President this
year. He points out that when the
new apportionment added twenty-nine
members to the House of Representa-
tives 1t also added twenty-nine votes to
the electoral college. In 1900 the two
candidates for President received 447
votes. In 1904 the two candidates will
divide 476 votes between them. If the
new votes had represented the addi-
ton Of one, or even two or three
States there would have been much
anxious specializing and calculating.
But because they are scattered among
twenty of the forty-fve States, no State
getting more than three, most of the
twenty getting only one, the politi-
clans and the arthmeticians are CIV
ing the matter far less attention than
1t deserves. Where are these new
votes?
Nine will be cast in that group of
"sure Democratic" Southern States
which represents all that Mr. Bryan's
two campaigns left Of the "Solid
uth"-Virginia, North Carolina (D,
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida (D,
Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mis-.
sissippi ~, Louisiana W, Missouri
(D, Arkansas a., Texas (3).
six will be cast in the States that the
Republicans feel sure of carrying =
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Mas
sachusetts (D, Rhode Island, Pennsyl'
vania (2), Ohio, Michigan Minnesota
(2), North Dakota ~, South Dakota,
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1904-01-27

ss,r |st''ss vl2h,nR to disru.v u,ts
oil u.intsnSt
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1904-01-27

But of the $4,000 sterling, 1t is an
old matter; the sum of money is held
In trust in London by the S. p. G. for
the endowment of the See of Honolulu
and known as the Bishopric Endow-
ment Fund, the interest of which may
be applied here, if deemed necessary,
when demand is made. The principal
remains in trust with the Society in
London, until it is advised by its legal
adviser that it may be withdrawn and
invested here, where more can be got
than what is being at present gotten.
AS it takes time to accomplish every.
thing, it is hoped that this money may
yet find its way out here 1t is one of
the fruits of Bishop Willis efforts in
that direction for the perpetuation of
the Episcopal See of Honolulu, the
benefits of which he has not tasted, but
that others are about to reap and en-
joy.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1904-01-27
GSI lGS CT TER OILY.

eve went into the aboriginal Maori
country and saw some very fine ma
tiyes. They are Of the primitive type
Many are much finer looking than the
Hawailans, that is some that | saw
Prof. Brigham, on his New Zealand
tour.
"some very fine natives is good
Judging from his past record, they
must have been exceedingly fine to
have attracted the notice of Brigham
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1904-01-27

The decision of the stockholders to
sell Nahiku plantation to Alexander u
Baldwin means that the estate Will
now be properly developed. 1t is a
good thing for the stockholders, for
they will at least be able to get back
some of the good money they sent after
bad. 1t will also be a good thing for
the profit-sharing planters on the land,
for their chances of making something
out of their holdings are greatly i'm
proved.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1904-01-27

between her and Bishop Willis, if we
mistake not, two pews, formerly the
foremost and known as the royal
pews were reserved for her use. The
action recently considered by the for
mer Board of Directors was made on
the ground Of complying with the
special arrangement previously entered
into
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1904-01-27

And again, in its yesterdays account
Of the Convocation, it gives out infor-
nation, new to some of the members
Of the Convocation" (pela paha, in its
mind) that the civil corporation had
the ownership and absolute control Of
all the property of all the churches,
and that the parishes could do nothing
except with the consent of the Board
OF Directors" This is nothing new,
as it has always been so, since the
Church was first implanted here, but
it may be to malihinis and not to ka-
maainas. 1t was made by those who
have gone before conformable to the
needs and conditions found here and it
is right and proper that such should
ever remain so undlsturbed from the
touch of either Gentle or Philistine.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1904-01-27
Certain UneaIth2d "SeCretS."

OH How tis wonderful The great
and only Star recently discovered as
to certain free pews in st. Anrdew's
Cathedral to be set apart for Queen
LiIiuokalani as well as $4,000 sterling
now held III trust by the S. p. G. Of
London as if these matters were never
before known and only lately. 1t
sought to make these matters appear
sensational, but it egregiously failed
in the attempt If it didn't know be-
fore, it should now that all pews in st.
Andrews Cathedral are always FREE;
no one has a right or claim upon any
of them; none are rented or paid for
but each and every one are free to all
But of the pews to the Queen, they
are but the former "royal pews." and
under some special arrangement made