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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-11-30
Object Set Forth.

Mr.. Leigh called the meeting to order.
and on his motion Judge Lunsford L.
Lewis was called to the chair and re-
quested to state the object OF the meet
ing. Judge Lewis. on taking he chair, re.
cues ed Mr.. Page to state the object Of
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1904-01-09

o similar, so.called outrage on the vo.
ters. They crawl and bubble to ex-
cuse their violation of the Organic Act
by saying, in this instance, that the
road supervisor Is not Territorial
officer" under the meaning Of Section
16, but is purely county officer and
not disqualified by the Act. If it was
the intention of Congress to limit the
disqualification of a legislator to of.
fees purely and distinctly In the gift
of the Governor, why were the words
cor elected" used in this section when
Congress well knew that no "Territor-
ial' officers were or could be elected
by the people.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1904-01-09
Party EeaIty' Must Prevail.

When candidates nominated and
elected upon any political partys plat
form begin to ride the high horse, even
soing so far as to ignore and disregard
the orders and dictates of the party to
whom they owe their election, even if
any of them owe allegiance to another
party, it is about time to call a halt
and bring such recalcitrants round
about with sharp turn. If any should
still persist, the party should then de-
clare them recreant to party ethics
and principles, and post the banns
that they are unreliable and unworthy
OF consideration as men of party or
party men. In our opinion, when they
disregard party advice nor even con-
out "Aln thelr party's executive organ
ization' they are untrustworthy and
undependable, lacking even the first
principles of being considered as such
and therefore despicable. When they
OecOme so unruly, then they should
Lot be forgotten the next time thev
seek and ask for popular favor. Mark
them well and don't ever forget them
III the future If they are strict party
men, party must rule and dictate 9th
erwise what use is there for seeking
party favor recognition and endorse
meht' unless 1t be only to kick over
the traces Of loyalty.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1904-01-09
is the bone.pile of our Republican con-
trolled County Supervisors.
A Dangerous Example.

County Treasurer Damon's pay is
only 5000 month and he is made to
put up bond of s25O,OOO; Assessor
Iaukea, $3.50 and s15OOOO bond, and
the other officers as fixed by the Coun.
ty Act. But on the face of this, the
Supervisors have dlsregarded the
Governors watchword of "retrench.
ment' and are appropriatlng salaries
for less important officers worse than
the last Republican Legislature. Why,
the Water Works Brown man gets
more pay than the Treasurer and ia
placed on a par with the Assessor. An.
dltor and Attorney. But where ia
that cry of retrenchment, is it then
only false? The Supervisors are set.
thg dangerous example for the fu.
ture and Republican grafters are az
the bottom of it all, We always did
ieel that they were lnslncere in their
policy the same as they were with 70.
gard to the establishment of county
government.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1904-01-09

The "OfIicers of the Territory" are,
by Section so of the Act named, which
provides that they shall all be appoint
ed by the Governor with the consent of
the Senate. None of the strictly "Ter-
ritorial officers" are by any possibility
to be elected" therefore, why use
that word in Section 16? In the con-
struction of an Act of this character
mere quibbling over one small word is
never tolerated to defeat the real in
tent and meaning of the legislative
body making the enactment, and the
use of the words "of the Territory"
taken in connection with the language
used in Section II absolutely means
the same as the words IN OR UNDER
OR BY AUTHORITY of the Territory,
and beyond all cavil, the office Of
Road Supervisor is one of these.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1904-01-09
AlT1NkTaD LAND STEAL.

Our strenuous Governor seems to be
about as Strenuous" in handling his
business affairs as in doing politics
and working President Roosevelt. His
attempt to exchange the Kapapala
lands on Hawaii, comprising 172,OOO
acres, with Brewer & Company for the
measly Boardman lot on Lunalilo
street, is an instance in point In 9th.
er words, it is proposed to give away
an immense tract of grazing land and
land that may in the very near future
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1904-01-09

In discussing the subject cores
pondent of the Advertiser of this
morning makes the following very
sensible propositions:
without discussing the merits or
demerits Of this particular proposition
| submit that the whole principle of
exchanging enormous areas of unde-
Ve!oped country land for city lots in
Honolulu is wrong.
THE prices put on the city lots are
the boom ones of four years ago, while
the prices of the country lands are put
at the lowest which an ingenious pen
artist can figure out.
1T may be that the thousands of
acres of land at Kapapala are now only
lit for pasture, and are for that pur-
pose worth only few cents an acre.
Who knows but that within a few
years some new industry may be es-
tablished here suitable for develop
nIent on the Kapapala lands?
In such case, If the government still
owns the lands, prosperous commu-
nifty of people may be established there.
while if they are turned over to a cor
poration, they will be removed from
homestead settlement and will continue
the home of the festive goat and the
frolicsome COW.
IF the lands are worth SO little to
The Government now, it can afford to
nold them for a while longer instead
of letting them go for song and per-
petuating them as range lands only"
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1904-01-09

Let these technicalists explain why,
under Section 80 of the Act, the Road
Supervisor is not Territorial off,
Ger" as the true logical result of their
premises would make him, for that
section reads "All persons holding
Office in the Hawaiian Islands at the
time this Act takes effect shall con
tinue to hold their respective Offices
until their successors are appointed
and qualified" Does not the Road SUI
pervisor come in under this and here
is another reason why the County Act
is unlawful, because it makes a Ter
ritorlal officer" a County officer as
they claim.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1904-01-09
County Bone Heap.

County Auditor Sherwood is wifi.
ness of record in the Registry of Con.
'eSances as well as in the Circuit and
supreme courts to a fraudulent deed
ny MS iate father'in-law upon the late
King Kalakaua, The matter mo.
eN anu fought through the courts
~ 'ne iatters late rellct and won NV
"ei' 'ne supreme Court finally declar.
Ae ~ 10 DE fraud upon its face u
'"iS mas no bearing upon the Auditors
p"'' record, we would like to know
"na' Is lie recommended the eonar
nation Of the appointment Of IT,.
iaw to a clerkship under
I'm ana the Supervisors concurred
from our past experience with tb,.
young man, the saying comes t,,,o
that like father, like SON." uo t.,
miSnt' and for such was let out nv
territorial Auditor Fisher, and is as
well "a smooth article" But Of s,,ot
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1904-01-09

Why should he not urge the deal?
In the words of Daniel Webster: "Sure,
Moike." BY putting the deal through
he and his family will have acquired
one of the largest estates on Hawaii
for mere song. 1t is property already
recognized as being very valuable for
grazing purposes and land to which
the eyes of agriculturists are already
turning. All of this property he pro-
poses to give to himself and the other
stockholders of Brewer & Company on
condition that Brewer & Company buy
the Boardman building lot on Lunalilo
street and turn it over to the Govern
ment. Ye Gods and little fishesl Gov
ernor Dole had a weakness for re-
warding his friends with nice little
blocks of public land for mere songs,
but we never heard of his having ap-
any to himself without
properly accounting for it. But Car
ter starts out to beat the record. At
one fell swoop he would fasten his
Ialons upon 10000 acres of the peoples
land for the benefit of himself and his
family!
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1904-01-09

BY Section IT, no person holding Of
flee UNDER OR BY AUTHORITY of
the Territory is eligible to election to
the Legislature. Mr. Vida, If he had
held the Office of Road Supervisor, was
ineligible" to election to the Legisla-
ture-why therefore is Mr.. Vida a leg
islator eligible" to hold an office UN-
DER OR BY AUTHORITY OF THE
TERRITORY. Can any sane reason
ing or logical man imagine for q mo-
ment that Congress meant to make
flesh of one and fowl of another and
enact such an absurd paradox as the
contention of the Vidaites seeks to es
tablish.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1904-01-09

Section IL of the same Act reads as
follows: THAT no person holding Of
fee IN, OR UNDER OR BY AUTHOR.
ITY of the Government of the United
States or of the Territory of Hawaii
shall be eligible to election to the Leg
islature, or to hold the position of
member of the same while holding said
Office"
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1904-01-09

What is the clear intention of Con-
gress shown in these two sections? Is
1t not that no legislator may, at the
expiration of session of the Legisla-
ture, be rewarded for his services
therein by appointment to some fat
billet in the gift and under the control
OF the party for whom he has probably
rendered valuable political services
during the session.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1904-01-09
TOPICS OR THE DAY.
government.


The suggestion of Governor Carter
'na' W. NJ Ginard be appointed ar
Ol'rator in Kau land exchange deal
'0'ne"na' peculiar and hshy.
why SO? We have no personal obiec.
''on 10 Mi Giifard, but don't all sugar
men assist one another? It is patnro,
'n'' those with common interest in
BUSINESS is bound to help another, and
i0r that reason We think he cannot he
altogether disinterested party. but
. much interested party.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1904-01-09

OF the stock of the Hawaiian Agri-
cultural Company, the concern with
which the proposed deal is to be made,
G. Brewer & Company own 2,23S
shares and the family of Governor Car
ter own 5S4 shares. OF the stock of
G. Brewer & Company the Estate Of
the late II. A. P. Carter, the father of
Governor Carter, owns 1888 shares.
Governor Carter as guardian and rnR-
SONAL owns $40 shares. In addition
to this Governor Carter's family owns
277 shares.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1904-01-09

p' was rife on the street cor
1''' TINS forenoon that the meeting of
,1' democratic Central Committee to-
luo''0w morning is called for the Dur.
DO'' Oh selecting a National commit.
'eeman' We hope that il # &c 90 a..
~ should fall upon prominent or a
so,,. '' Hawaiian, For our
''''''' we have not yet found out the
ra D''V '0r this Sunday meeting, but
We do hope that some action At onoe
next campaign. '"'
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1904-01-09
SATURDAY, JAN. 9, 1904.
CHAR LEGAL CONSTRUCTION


That the appointment of Henry Vida
to be Road Supervisor of the Honolulu
district is certainly and clearly one
made in direct violation of the princi-
pies and intention of the Organic Act
can be readily seen by careful read.
ing of two sections of that Act Sec
tion 16 provides THAT no member of
the Legislature shall, DURING THE
TERM FOR WHICH HE is ELECT
ED. be appointed or elected to any Of
fice of the Territory of Hawaii"
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1904-01-09

Why is he behind it? Why should
he be so strenuous in his efforts to Sc.
cure popular endorsement of the steal ?
The reason is that 1t is deal between
George r. Carter and his business as
sociates on the one hand and Governor
Carter on the other. 1t is not to be
presumed that George r. Carter would
disagree with the views of Governor
Carter on the proposition, and surely
the public should not muster up an OBJ
lection.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1904-01-09

During the days of the Monarchy,
one of the biggest howls of the Mis-
slonary, now the Republican, party
was the appointment to Office of mem
bers of the Legislature, yet at the very
out-step of County government, these
iowlers through their tools are forcing
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1904-01-09
tnxcept Sunday

Entered at the Pos omce at Honolulu
The Tomahawk., 1904-05-12
JOHN BASSETT DEAD.

Information Of the death Of
John Bassctt has been received
here by his friends. In letter
from Neutrality-suspicious., of Bear
Island, in which vicinity Mr..
l}assett has been living for over a
year, he states that the latter's
gun went off accidently, and the
charge struck him in the legs, and
that he fell out of his sleigh on to
the ice on Leech Lake and fractur-
ed his skull. This is the only in
formation given in the letter.
John Bassett was member Of
this reservation although related
to the pillagers of which band his
father, O-cun-deacon, was a mem
Der. John was well liked by all
the Pillager Indians, and during
the Indian outbreak at Leech
Lake in 1898, he rendered valu-
able service to the government in
suppressing it. He expected to
reach White Earth last week to
visit sister, Mrs. Richardson,
whom he had not seen for thirty
years.
The Tomahawk., 1904-05-12

have Agent Scott take up the
matter, as he stated, that Bay-ne-
gwah-nay walked from Red Lake
to White Earth to ask me to write
the letter in his behalf. And in
doing this he followed your
suggestions made to all the mem
bers of the Leech Lake band. who
aided in suppressing the outbreak
in 1898, that if at any time in the
future any of them wished to reach
you personally, to call on me to
write you for them.
He took your suggestion liter
ally.
If you have forgotten your OBJ
legations to the Leech Lake Chipp-
ewas made during the outbreak, ]
have not Forgotten mine made to
them at the same time and place.
>And even if YOU had not advised
them how to communicate with
you, | would have written YOU in
the past rs unhesstating y as |
will IN the future whenever any
of them request ne TO dc SO, and
if you denN their REQUESTS from
motives of pre- uuic;' their right to
appeal from your decisions are
always open to them.
Your refusal to consider Bay
ne-gwah-nay's application for q
transfer from the Lcech Lake to
the Red Lake rolls because, evil
IDENTIFY, of the prejudices of your
office to the person who wrote the
application. savors SO much OF
autocratic rule, and one which has
heretofore never been adopted by
the United States Governments,
tllau III is more open 10 crltlclSnn
than any act Of infringement on the
business methods of the Indian
department..
In your official capacity OF COM
missioner of Indian affairs, deem
it my privilege, as member of
the Chippewa tribe and citizen
Of the Uritsd States, to write 10
you not only in my own behalf
bat on behalf of any Chippewa In
dian, who is unable to write,
whenever he requests me to do SO.
Respectfully,
Gus II. Beaulieu.
The Tomahawk., 1904-05-12
REMAINS UNSETTLED,

During the past winter some of
the employees of this agency visit
ed Cass Lake on official business
and while there they met Mr..
Bruce. chief of the forestry
division of the Morris Act,
who stated to them that the Tom
AHAwK was wasting it's energies
in it's opposition to the forestry
provisions of the act, and that the
Indians would surely receive COM
pensation for the lands which
have been taken from them for
forestry purposes. 1t is now
nearly two years since the Morris
Act became a law and yet no steps
have been taken by any of the
officials of the government, or the
members of congress in whose
district the land taken lies, to Sc
cure compensation for the Indians
although two sessions. OF congress
have passed since then.
Mr.. Bruce knows as well as we
do that the government will not
reimburse the Indians through his
efforts or recommendation or
The Tomahawk., 1904-05-12

nW A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER de-
voted to the interests OF the
White Earth Reservation and gem
eral Northwestern News. Publish
ed and managed by members OF
the Reservation.
subscription rates: $3.50 per
annum. For the convenience OF
those who may feel unable to pay
for the paper yearly or who wish
to take it on trial, subscription
may be sent us for six and three
months at the yearly rates. All
SUMS sent to us should be forward
ed BY registered letter to insure
safety. Address all communlca-
tiol., to.
The TOMAHAwK
WHITE EARTH, MINI.
The Tomahawk., 1904-05-12

through the efforts of any of tie
officials of the government; that
they will ignore the justice of the
Indian claims until some party
favorite is employed by the In
dians as their attorney to prose
cute these claims.
The Indians do not care what
the government does with the
land for which it was made
trustee under the terms OF the
Nelson Act, but they do insist up
on compensation from this trustee
since it has arbitrarily taken over
two hundred thousand acres of
land from them.
In view of the fact that the
present administration has evi-
IDENTIFY been guided entirely by
political influences in it's dealings
with Chippewa matters, we would
advise our Indian brethren at
Leech Lake, Cass Lake, Winnie
begoish and White Oak Point to
all 90 to the polls at the next
election and support a candidate
for congress who will pledge him
self to work for the payment of
their claims against the govern
nent, or who will at least work to
have these claims referred to the
Court of Claims.
The Tomahawk., 1904-05-12
DEATH OF CHARLES H.
BEAUL|EU

Last week it was our sad duty
to announce through the ToMA-
HAWK. the death of our uncle,
Henry H. Beaulieu. At that
time we had hoped that the dread
visitor, death, would not claim as
it's own any more members of our
family for many years. But this
hope was a vain one, for even
then death was lowering around
our brother, Charles, who was
stricken with paralysis last Thurs
day, and who breathed his last at
1880 a. m. Sunday last,
Charles H, Beaulieu was born
at LaPointe, Wis. October 23rd,
1859, and was therefor in his
65th, year. On Sptember 1st,
1862, he married Emma E. Bell,
daughter of Capt. Edwin Bell of
St. Paul, and from this marriage
he had three children two of
whom died and the other, Rich
ard, now young man of twenty
four years Of age, is employed by
the Great Northern Railway as a
civil engineer in Montana and
Washington.
After his first wife's death,
which occurred nearly five years
ago, Charles married Jane Beech
er, who besides his son, Richard,
and and infant daughter, survives
him.
He attended an academy at
Elizabethtown, New Jersey,
where he was educated for the
profession of civil engineer. In
1862, he enlisted at Grow Wing,
in this state, and with a large
number of the members of the
Chippewa tribe was assigned to
Go. g. 9th, Minnesota volunteers.
He was appointed as the lieuten-
ant of his company by Gov. Ram
sey, and before the end of the war
became it's captain. After he was
mustered out of the service he be-
came quartermaster clerk at Fort
Ripley, which position he left to
engage in the fur trade. When
the Northern Pacific was being
built through this state he was
employed by the road as one of its
engineers. In 1877, he received
an appointment in the Indian
branch of the government service
WITH which he has been connected
almost continuously since. At
the time of his death he was in
charge Of the White Oak Point
Mississippi and Lake Winnebe-
gosish Chippewas under the Leech
Lake Agency.
Besides his wife and two child
ren, he leaves the followingnamed
brothers and sisters to mourn his
death; Clement H., Julia B., Gus
II. Theo. B. and r. G. Beaulieu.
The Tomahawk., 1904-05-12
HANDS OFF,.

Hereafter our friends, who are
unable personally to write to the
commissioner of Indian affairs,
must keep away from the Office of
the publisher of the ToMAHAwK
and not ask him to write their
letters to the commissioner for
them if they wish to accomplish
any results favorable to them
selves.
Recently Pillager Chippewa,
who has been living at Red Lake
since the outbreak at Leech Lake
in 1898. made an application to be
transferred from the Leech Lake
to the Red Lake rolls.
From the reply Of the acting
commissioner OF Indian affairs it
will readily be seen that he does
not want the publisher of the
ToMAHAwK, to whom the letter is
addressed, to interfere with any
of the affairs Of the Indian office
and arbitrary directs the latter not
toassume the position of an inter-
mediary. This is what the acting
commissioners says:
THE office is in receipt of your
,tstter of April 18th submitting the
of Bay-ne-gWah-nay to
be transferred from the Lcech
Lake rolls to the Red Lake rolls.
The application it seems is based
largely upon the recognition this
Office gave Bay~ne- gwah-nay for
the part taken by him in helping
to suppress the outbreak which
occurred in October, 1898. You
add that Bay-ne-gwah-nay states
that several of the Red Lake IN
dians have requested Major Scott
70 transfer himself and family
rom the Leech Lake rolls to the
Red Lake rolls. but that the latter
TO do this Oh the ground
that the authority would have to
be granted by this Office.
You enclose the certificate issued
by this office February 8. 1899,
recognizing the services of Bay
ne-gwah-nay in helpingto suppress
the outbreak Of October. 1898.
The certificate is returned here
with and the office has TO state
shat if Bay-nc-gwah-nay will in
person take the matter up with
Acting Agent Scott, it is quite
probable that he will be able to
secure the desired transfer.
1t is not deemed advisable that
there shall be Intermediates in
securing this class of transfers. -
Very respectfully
A. G. Tonner,
Acting Commissioner
TO this letter we made the
following reply:
White Earth, MINI.
May 3. 1904
Hon. Commissioner
of Indian affairs,
Washington, ID. G..
Sir
Replying to your communication
lands 27117-19O4, permit me to
say, your suggestion to Bay-nc-
gwah-nay, who asks to be trans
ferred from the Lcech Lake to
the Red Lake rolls, should have
been made through Acting Agent
Scott since you do not deem it
advisable that there shall be in
termediaries" in securing the
class of transfers desired by the
former.