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and we had many lords to make Cat least twentv), which, with the swift waters up to the bellies of the animals, at times, made the trip down the cafion both interesting and exciting In crossing at points where the current was very strong and particularly deep l several times noted the small boys eyes as very large and expanded But he set his teeth and plowed through.
 Toward the lower end Tecorita canon is so rough and rocky that the road avoids 1t, and takes up over the ridge. Upon the top of the ridge the road forks, and there we parted with the rest of the com pany, they going on down to Sahuaripa, and the scribe and small boy passing down into the Tecorita again, across that and over | low spur separating the Tecorita from the Sahnaripa river, which it joins lower down. and rode into Arevechi, to again enjoy the hospitality of MT. Charley Somers. under whose hospitable roof we were sheltered when we visited there on our way out.
 Beside the Americans met at the time of our visit two weeks before (AI Lloyd, John Barlow and Jake Beaverich) we met a party of Ann erican prospectors from Cananea, who left there about three months ago, coming down through the Moctezuma district, and into the Sahuaripa district via Lampazos. They are Messers. ". l.. Fisher, Geo. Harsmen, and T. N Black. An associate of the three, Mir. H, R. Whitesides, had gone over to Sahuaripa, and we missed seeing him.
 Mir. Joe Murray. with Lloyd and Barlow, who was out of town at the time of our former visit drop ped into Mir. Somers' store and made himself duly agreeable
 In the course of the afternoon Mir, Henry Rogers, m American residing in Sahuaripa, who is in- terested in mining in the district came in on his way up the river and remained over night.
 Mir. Henry Hansen, formerly underground foreman in the Ores ton mine at Minas Prietas, resides at Arevechi, and was at the store when we went in. He is develop ing an dntiqaa silver mine in the vicinity. There are extensive workings on the property, and upon the dumps he has found rock, Jeff by the aRtiqltos which assays from S6 to POT ounces silver per ton The mine has a wide ledge, and the indications of permanence and value Mir. Hansen considers very excellent. He wants a partner tc supply the capital necessary for development. in consideration oi an interest.
 The Sahuaripa river has been greatly swollen by recent rains Git is said to have been higher than at any time since 1S6S) and the water has done great damage to lands, crops, etc, along the stream. Mr. Hansen stated that the waters had cut out a piece oi land belonging to him for which he had recently refused $1,000
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Labor ceIebrssIon-Redueed Ratss.

Reduced rates Nogales to Tue son and return on account of the Labor Day celebration will be made by the Southern Pacific Dates of sale of tickets will be September ath and 9th Return unit September 5th Rounc trip fare $9.2e
 8t If soar 4N 4gent-
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soYopA, July 18th, 1904

Day before yesterday { Thursday morning we left Arevechi with this place as our objective point, but with the intention of stopping at 'he Mexico mine last aighr Our
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 tion being westward. and leaving | several leagues to the north both Sahuaripa and Bacanora. towns where we stopped on our way out. During the afternoon the trail led down q steep declivity into the Bacanora calon. where there is picturesque ranche, named La Artecina" It is the property of MT, Trinidad Soto of Bacanora. In the bottom of the canon are fertile fields and orchards, while towering above them upon either side are lofty cliffs of conglomerate, rising in sheer precipices to height of 300 feet or more. A tributary canon cuts down through the conglomerate, and up that our road led it's way, winding around among the rayines, and rapidly ] ascending. 1t had been once graded i "a good wagon road-but has been cut out by storms and wants neces- sary repairs
 l In a canon nook upon the east ! side of the ridge, we reached La Nina Megico, and were cordially welcomed by Mr. Arthur Lott, the superintendent MT. Lott has been in charge of the property 4 years, land has done q great deal of work. The present working shaft, an in- cline 670 feet deep, he has sunk I within that time, taking out many hundreds of tons of high grade sil- I yer ores, which have been shipped, 1 and piling upon the dumps thous- ands of tons of second grade rock, l for reduction of which a smelter i will be some time erected The ore ! is sorted. and rock which yielded less than 150 ounces per ton goes over the dump. The shipping ores run from 150 ounces per ton up to 500 and roo.
 Lo Nina Henco has been inopera- \ ton seventeen years. and has made rich men Of its owners-Carmen Ortega and Feliciano Monteverde of Hermosillo. The ledge is mar, row, but rich in lead and iron sul- phides, carrying silver. The form ation Is quartzite, with a lime com tact close it hand, but the ledge is lin the quartzite some distance away from the lime. At several stretches in going down in the shaft the vein is found to be faulted and pushed to one side, where it is reached by drifts and followed down in winzes to the next break, and there 1t is found to have re- turned to the original line, and so continues 150 feet or more, when the break again occurs, and drift ing shows 1t thrown over, as in the breaks above.
 MT. Lott, who has been closely occupied at the Mexico during 44 years, is arranging to go to Call ifornia to make his home there. He resided in Nogales at one time, and is well known there.
 This morning we left the Mexico mine, and with an uneventful trip made the Yaqui river the middle of the afternoon. Our route from the Mexico, still continuing west erly, crossed over the ridge from the mine, down into a deep canon, up that to its head, across another high ridge, over a mesa. and down 8 long box canon for miles, with precipitous rocky walls, or lofty steep hills on either side. When we went over 8 part of the same route just three weeks ago today, there had been nc rain D. many
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-12-09
DlSCIpLINlNG THE SOUTH.

The bill introduced by Senator Platt
for reducing the South's representa-
lion in Congress has been foreshadow-
ed by various Republican threats dur
ing the past few years. While 1t Is a
purely sectional measure, 1t is a just
one. because If the South will not per-
nit n large part of its adult male pop
ulation to vote it should lose the Con-
gressmen whom 1t gained on the basis
of that population.
Still the case of the South Is very
hard indeed. Congress, in the excite
ment of the war period, enfranchised
a class of the Souths population which
needed centuries of civilization behind
1t to fit 1t for the use of the ballot. The
act brought negroes into power over the
whites and they turned the South into
a hell. Finally, in shecr self-defense,
the whites came down upon the blacks
and drove them from the polls. They
would not have been fit white men had
they done anything kss. AS result
the South became peaceful and in the
main orderly and began to progress
like the rest of tina country. This prog
ress, as everybody knows, would in
stantly stop If negro governments were
to be restored. So strongly does the
North realize this that it has long since
ceased to demand political equality for
the black man and 1t is careful Itself
never to elect one to office. =
No doubt the South will feel much
bitterness over the loss of congressman
but there seems to be no help for It,
Under our political system any section
of the country is entitled to as many
congressman as it has votes to sup
port; and when votes are eliminates
representation In Congress must bt
proportionately reduced'-we quot,
from the Republican national platform
las directed by the Constitution o
the United States"
The only way out for the South seems
10 be to fill up its vast unoccupie'
spaces as the North did, with whit
immigrants from Europe. The Soutl
has never been favorable to this course
but there is no other way In whic,
it can maintain strong influence II
the national councils and keep up will
the American procession.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-12-09
PROGRESS IN CHINA.

A pamphlet entitled 1.-THE Solution of
the Chinese Question" written by Sun
Vat Sen, the Chinese reformer, who
spent several months in Honolulu, has
been extensively circulated and has at
tracted much attention in the Eastern
States. 1t Is strongly written and very
condensed and lucid in expression. 1t
dwells considerably on the relation of
China to the United States and to the
extension of commercial relations be-
tween the two nations.
With the conclusions of the pamphlet
that is the practical measures pro-
posed-it is not within the province of
American journalism to deal. But the
historical facts presented are of great
interest and, except to specialized few,
probably unknown. 1t is brought to
the notice of our people that the Man
chu dynasty was established by the
capture of Pekin in 1914 through coup
de guerre in the midst of a great civil
war, and has ever since maintained its
authority by terrible massacres, by the
extinction of ancient literature and by
the destruction of all freedom of the
press or among the people. 1t is claimed
that now the entire number of Man
chus, who are treated as Tartars, is
less than five millions and that the
Chinese proper number about four hun
dred millions and are virtually without
government except an iron and re-
pressive autocracy.
Mr. Sun Vat Sen further insists that
the Western nations are under a great
mi a mn rah he inr a
Chinese TO be seclusive people, He al
ludes to various facts in confirmation
of the proposition that, prior to 1914.
they maintained close relations with
their neighbors and We're, very friendly
to missionaries and to foreign traders.
The HISTORIAN tablet at Sian Flu is
mentioned as a clear exposition of the
work of missionaries as far back as
the seventh century. The Introduction
| and spread of the Buddhist faith, the
conversion of a Prime Minister under
| tina Ming dynasty to the Christian re-
! ligion, and numerous other matters, are
grouped together as demonstrating the
statement.
1t is circumstantially asserted that
the policy of seclusion originated with
tiiS VI al tai lldStys
the empire was closed to foreign trade
that missionaries We're deported; tina
native Christians were massacred, an(
that emigration was prohibited. 1t Il
further declared that the Manchus can
not reform the country because fiv'
millions are despotically controlling
four hundred millions, and because tn
administration of the Government 4
not only fossiliZed but rotten. Ten spec
ifications of wrongs inflicted under tn
Tartar rule are a condensed summar.
of leading points in our Declaration c
Independence.
) The most important element in thi
brochure, however, is its statements O
the present condition of the Chimes
people. THE whole nation" II is de
: clared, 'is ripe for revolution" T
prove this references are made to tn
: Weichow uprising of 1900 to the cou
r de main which failed at Canton in 1900
to the steady growth and expansion c
the Chinese Patriotic Socisty, whic
has existed for two hundred years an
. Is now advancing with rapid stride
and to the trend OF the Chinese press
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-12-09
CHILLlNGwoRTH INDICTED.

The Grand Jury has indicted Charles
+. Chillingworth for extortion. charging
him with having, while Deputy High
Sheriff, conspired with one Ahoo to force
the payment of $3.50 from Chinese
whose domestic arrangements were
amenable to Federal law.
Comment upon the matter must nee
essarily be reserved at this time, but
every honest citizen has cause for salts
faction in the manner with which
grand jurles are doing their duty. So
far as they go they mean to compel
an accounting from men whom they
believe to have gone wrong, especially
in the conduct of public offices.
II quarter of what has been said
about the methods of the late police
authorities is true, the indictment of
Mr.. Chillingworth was logical Sc
quence. AS to that the trial Will tell
There are many people, knowing Mr..
Chillingworths agreeable qualities and
remembering him as brave officer,
who hope that he will be able to prove
his Innocence. But the responsible
public demands a trial which will be
as fair TO the Territory as to the pris-
Oner.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-12-09
As TO PEARL hARBOR.

An evening paper asks why 1t Is that
the interests of Pearl Harbor are not
pressed by the Naval Board of Strate-
gy and suggests that the present
authorities may not agree with their
predecessors as to the value of a naval
station here.
Service periodicals have already
shown what the matter is. The Navy
wants to fortify three stations in the
order named, Subig bay, Guantanamo
and Pearl Harbor, one to secure the
Philippines, another to command the
West Indies and the canal the third
for the outer defence of the Pacific
coast of the United States. A division
of the fund available would not brinl
results to any one place for man!
years; so the program is to finish ap
propriating for Subig bay first, ther
Guantanamo and finally Pearl Harbor
II Hawaii had any influence in Con
gress it might, perhaps, secure large
appropriations, out of which Pear
Harbor could get something.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-12-09
THE MERRY DAYS BEFORE THE FALL

One of the 'lovelest social events"
of the past few years has been the
continuous luau given by Ahoo to the
police, with Judge Gear as a special
guest. The press. with the exception
of the Advertiser, was usually invited,
and while this paper cannot speak
personal experience of the feasts it I'M
derstands that they were-as the So
cial reporters say-"entirely recherche
and attended by the creme de la creme
of official life." Ahoo had a fondness
for the police and the criminal bench
which led him to spend extraordinary
sums of money, even during hard
times, for their entertainment. No
wealthy Mandarin spent money more
generously than Ahoo, who was the
keeper of a livery stable out of which
his business partner, Mr.. Chilling
worth, testified before the Federal
Grand Jury that he only derived an
income of SIS a week, or month, we
forget which. But call 1t SIS per week.
AS luaus go. this amount. assuming
each partner to have had the same
dividend, could not carry one far and
Ahoo's luaus were sumptuous events.
Just where the revenues came from
which paid beyond the SIS limit for
these Lucullan or Kamehamehan
teasts, no one has yet made clear. One
may put due stress on the fact, how
ever, that they abruptly ceased when
the police change occurred.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-12-09

the direction OF democracy. II II claim
ed that eighty per cent OF the Chinese
population or three hundred and twen-
" millions. belong 10 this organization.
which is known In the United states
as the Chinese Free Mason Society. The
existencl of cultured minority Of gen
uine Chinese who are touched by the
spirit OF modern progress seems to be
established.
The interest of the American people
In the facts and suggestions thus
brought together converges upon the
possible results of the present war in
the Orient. Two antagonistic policies
are argued all over the world. On the
one side the forcible partition of China,
in order to drive the wedge of COM
merce into the heart of the empire, is
advocated. On the other side the pres
ervation of Chinese autonomy and in
dependence, with the adoption of lib
eral policy that would open the closed
door to the competition and civilizing
influence of the great powers is far
more forcibly presented. 1t Is this out
come of the struggle, to which, by
treaties and by their internal concep-
tons of liberty and order, the United
States, Great Britain and Japan ar-a
committed. The open door" is the
terse compression of the highest views
entertained by the nations, and the
story of Manchuria is regarded as plen-
airy evidence of the danger of occupa-
ton of Chinese territory. In what man.
ner the open door" rightly understood
is TO be secured is a mystery of the flu
ture of the solution of which Mr.. Sun
Vat Sen has offered a theory that in
vites consideration.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-12-09
AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES.

The United States is becoming the
land of universities. One does not need
to count the seminaries which adopt
the all-embracing title, nor the little
colleges which bring contempt upon
the good work they really do by try
ing to put themselves in the titular
class of Yale, Harvard, Johns Hopkins
and Columbia, but dealing alone with
the places of higher and varied learn
ing in the United States the sum of
possession promises great things in
future.
A study of the figures of the Amer
lean Alamnac goes to show that of real
universities enjoying incomes of $780,
900 and more, the United States now
has twelve, and that the total number,
all of them with very considerable in
comes and doing sound work, is thirty
six. The whole collegiate roster is 42O,
representing in each case some grade
of advance beyond the High School
schedule of instruction.
A very hopeful sign of the times is
that so many rich men are either en-
downing old schools of higher learning
or founding new ones. But few in
stances appear where what the So
cialists call "plutocratic teaching" is
the result of this philanthropy. The
chief object of the men of millions
seems to be to train up more efficient
helpers for the worlds work and to
hot, 10 r, fnlr
oblivion which comes to those who
leave nothing for the public good when
they pass away. That was the motive
of Ezra Cornell and he was me of
many. Into this class Mr.. Carnegie is
soon to come: for not satisfied with
building libraries for the people, he is
Joining with other rich men to found
the University of Pittsburg and give
1t an endowment as great as that en-
joyed by some of the oldest and best
of our greater schools of learning.
What democracy needs most to
save its institutions is wide posses
sion of trained minds. This may be
spared in an autocratic monarchy but
1t cannot be spared i'm a government of
and by the people; for where the rulers
are unframed, the government be-
comes a muddle, injustice and preju-
dice reign and the Strong Man, with
sword and scepter, has to come to re-
store social order as Napoleon did to
France. The license of the French
revolution was that of ignorance gone
mad with power. There Is ignorance
enough. God knows, flowing into this
country from the underworld of
Europe; and more and more men must
be trained to deal with it and the
problems 1t creates. To the universe
ties the nation must turn for these
and in the multiplication of such great
schools, lies the hope that, however
huge the crisis, the nation will moi
have to turn in vain.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-12-09
THE CALIFORNIA PARALLEL.

How long did the Kula small farm
ers last In the California marketf How
were they driven out OF III And what
did California wheat growers amount
TO "up to 1869 In comparison with
what modern conditions and railroads
made them? How would wheat
farmer, as far from a market as they
were up to 1868" succeed now, under
the difficulties they ad?-Star.
Kula farmers lasted as long In the
California market as there was a de-
mand for their staples. If Hawaiian
farmers last as long as there is
market for the sisal. rubber. tobacco
pineapples, bananas and wine they
could raise and make 1t would be
plenty long enough for the Advertiser.
California wheat growers did not
amount to so much in the early years
OF their work as they did after they
had demonstrated what the soil could
do and raised enough salable COM
modities to induce the transportation
men to come after them. That kind
of development is needed in Hawaii,
substituting tropical products for
wheat.
Because California wheat farmer
could not do well now without ample
transportation, does not prove that the
Hawaiian rubber, sisal, tobacco, pine
apple. banana and wine-grower could
not make a profitable start with the
transportation facilities he may now
command.
And by the way: When sugar began
to be planted here what was the
market and the means of reaching it?
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-12-09

1t is a mighty good thing for this
city that the police have begun to ap-
ply the driving laws to automobiles.
Autos that traverse the narrow streets
of Honolulu at twelve miles an hour
are bad enough, but when they essay
twenty-five and forty it is time for the
law to interfere and make some ex-
amples. Much leniency has been
shown here towards auto enthusia SITS
but the legal rules of the game should
apply as we'll to the man who drives
with a crank as to the one who drives
with reins.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-12-09

(From Wednesdays Advertlser)
Gustave Kuntz is building public
market at Apla like the ones here.
The Sheridan sails today at II o'clock
this morning for san Francisco. She
will carry mail.
MIR. Ernest Il. Hartman, the chemist,
left yesterday by the Ventura on a
business trip to Mexico.
The government dispensary reports
that the number OF tracnoma cases
among school children is decreasing
fast.
Land Commissioner Pratt departed
yesterday for the coast TO join the
members of his family and will ac-
company them back to Honolulu.
Detective Charles Halter wanted to
go to the mainland to spend his Christ
mas. but it begins to look now as
though he Would be kept here for awhile
longer.
Paddy Ryan has written his idea OF
the liquor license question to the Gov
ernor. He favors a fat rate for all
dealers, Sunday closing to be strictly
enforced.
Homer ]. Carleton, recent graduate
of Harvard University who is about to
enter the Philippine Government SER
vice, left for Manila Saturday after
brief visit with relatives here.
Some excitement was caused last
night by the attempt of Japanese
woman to jump from rapidly moving
car at the corner of Beretania and
Alakea streets. She was caught by the
conductor just in time to save her.
Rev. r. B. Taylor, pastor Of the First
Presbyterian Church of San Diego, was
drowned while sailing on the bay of
San Diego two weeks ago. His wife
is a niece of Miss A. Smith of Homo
lulu.
The 600 soldiers on the United States
Army Transport Sheridan are almost
without reading matter. Anything left
at the Y. M. C. A. before 10 o'clock this
morning will be taken to them and will
be most gratefully received.
w. H. Goetz was the guest of honor
at banquet last evening given at the
Masonic Temple by his brothers of
Lodge LIE Progress. The hall was taste
fully decorated C. G. Bockus. master
of the lodge, presided. Mr.. Goetz leaves
for the mainland on the Mongolia.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-12-09

From the map printed in today's Adj
vertiser. the cable advices of the dam
age to Russian ships lying in the har-
Dor OF Port Arthur become very clear
indeed. 1t has been puzzling, hereto
FORE to understand why the Russians
did not shelter their fleet. AS the map
will show, the Japanese were in posi-
ton some time ago to rake a part of
the harbor with their fire. And they
have been gaining ground since.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-12-09

Most assuredly. Kula small farm
ers helped feed the California miners
In 1880. Men who started little
sugar plantations after that, faced
precisely the difficulties which the Star
imagines to exist now. Up to 1868
California wheat farmers were further
from a market than Hawaiian pine
apple and sisal farmers are now and
It cost them more to get there. What's
the matter with the Star, anyhow?