The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-03-28

| spector Bowman and his assistant. l NC
town has been practically cleared OF
tin cans and other rubbish that fosters
MOSQUITO breeding. A number of loads
of this material have been carted away
during the past month. Next week,
Mr.. Bowman expects to begin work on
the canal through Waiolama swamp,
after which he does not believe mos
uuitoes will infest the place in such
numbers. The canal will be cleaned
out and the edges cut clear of grass
and Instructions, allowing free cur
rent
While in Honolulu Mr.. Bowman dis
covered that cesspools are a prolific
source of mosquito supply. They breed
and multiply in these places by the
million. The mosquitoes deposit their
eggs in the water in the flush tanks
| These eggs pass with the water into
| the dark subterranean pool, where they
hatch in due time. They escape to
the outer world through the vent pipes
and fresh air fnlets. In some cases the
| cesspooIs are not air tight and mos
quitoes enter from the outside to de-
post their eggs. Such should be made
air tight at once.-Tribune.
JAPS CONVICTED AGAIN.
In the Fourth Circuit Court this
week the trial of Funacoshi and Wata-
nabe on the charge of conspiracy oc-
cupied four or five days, ending Thurs
day morning in verdict of guilty.
C. c. Biting, attorney for the defense,
av allied himself of every means to turn
the tide in behalf of his clients. In his
final address to the jury hes spoke for
two hours and that his theories of the
case found sympathy in the box is
shown by the first ballot cast when
was six to six for acquittal and con-
viction The defense put no witnesses
on the stand at all but argued the case
as shown up by the prosecution. The
attorneys for the Territory were
Carl s. Smith and Thos. C. Ridgway.
After the verdict was handed in de-
PENDANTS counsel filed a motion for a
new trial.
The defendants are under sentence
of long terms to the penitentiary for
murder in the second degree, appeal on
which is now pending in the Supreme
Court. The crime of conspiracy was
committed in connection with the muir
der of which they were convicted.
From the evidence it appears they
were holding MotohirO for a ransom.
In other words they conspired to ex-
tort-Tribune.
YOUNG REPUBLICANS.
The Young Mems Republican Club
of the First Representative District
held a meeting Tuesday night and a
dopted a constitution and bylaws and
elected officers. The club starts out
with a membership of over thirty
| charter members and will seek re-
| cruits from every precinct in the dis
| trict The constitution is one approved
| by the Republican Club at Honolulu,
| and among it's strictest requirements
! is loyal republicanism on the part of
| every member.
The officers elected are as follows:
| James d. Lewis, President; r. A. Ly-
man, Jr, President; Charles
! Akau, Second President; w. H.G
| Beers. Secretary; s. L. Desha, Treas
urer; G. F. Alfonso, Corresponding
! Secretary; T. NJ. Rowland, Sergeant
t-Arms.-Tribune.
BRIDGE TO THE ISLAND.
| James NIcNichols of the HiIo Elec-
| trio Light Co. has a good scheme up
| his sleeve and through our columns
this week gives the public the benefit
| OF it. Mr.. Nichols suggests that the
| now idle cables of the old Wailuku
| suspension bridge be utilized in the
| building of a suspension foot-bridge
| from the mainland at Kainehe across
| to Cocoanut Island. The building of
| the piers, etc, would cost but a few
hundred dollars, but the benefit to the
| public would warrant the outlay which
should be by public subscription. a
toll-keeper could be employed and a
nominal figure charged and collected
| from persons using the bridge to get
! across TO Mokuola. Who will head the
| list with 500? Only $500 would be re-
| quired.-A Voz Publica.
THE NEW RAILROAD.
The surveyors are at work on the
| line of the Kohala-Hilo railway. Stakes
have been driven from Hilo to the
Honolii gulch. The work is being done
under the supervision of Robert Hawk
hurst, engineer for the Kohala-HiIo
Railroad Company.
\ MONSTER SHARK.
japanese captured a shark off HiIo
| harbor this week measuring over
| fourteen feet in length. This monster
OF the deep had a mouth twenty inch
es from jowl to jowI. and could easily
swallow any man in town except
| Souza, Berg and LIE Blond. The big
| salarhiau was turned over 10 r T
Guard who viii preserve its head and
| skeleton.
NEED KOREAN INTERPRETER.
Judge Hapai ran up against a diff
Guilty in dispensing justice Wednesday
tina; viii require some little time to
| overcome. The defendant was Ko-
| ~ean arrested for disturbing the peace.
When he came up for trial, the next