Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1904-01-25
|HAWA|ANS N UTAH
GEORGE kama LOWE TELLS
OF HOW NATIVES PROGRESS
NO POLICEMEN NEEDED-All DIS.
PUTES SETTLED IN CHURCH.
ACTIVITY ON EVERY
HAND.

George Kama Lowe. a young Hawaii.
an, returned very recently from Salt
Lake City where he has been residing
with his family in the Hawaiian col.
ony. He came to Honolulu to settle up
some business affairs and will return
to the land of the Mormons In few
weeks time. In an interview with
Bulletin reporter this morning. Mr..
Lowe had the following to say:
THE Hawalians who left here some
twenty or thirty years ago for Utah.
are progressing very nicely. and |
must say that they are proving them.
selves very industrious people.
Some of the natives live sixty.iiva
miles west of Salt Lake city in a place
called Iosepa. Skull Valley: others live
in the beautiful eastern portion OF
Salt Lake city. Quite number find
employment In the Salt Lake Smelling
Works in Murray and secure from SIS
to $s5 a month. with only eight hours
work. The Hawaiians own lots and
homes In all these places I'm Utah.
"The principal Hawaiian colony is In
Iosepa. Skull Valley. where the natives
have gone into the farming and sheep
business. Many have taken up home.
steads ranging all the way from 100 to
$40 acres in extent. They also own
fshponds which they have stocked
with carp and the like. In these ponds
are three kinds of Hawaiian edible
moss-limu eleele, limu kala and limu
kele.
I'VE Hawaiians In Utah are doing as
the white people do. We own our
homes and try to be independent We
own cattle, horses, sheep, swine. wag.
ons, buggies and surreys, and our
mothers, sisters and wives do the
house.work. We do not believe in be.
ing idle for, as you know. laziness IL
cardinal sin with the Hawaiians In
Utah.
I'm the springtime we plant our 20.
tatOes, vegetables, corn, watermelons.
etc, and SOW our wheat, oats and bar.
ley. We run our own seeders. binders
and threshing machines. In the fall
We do up our potatoes and do every.
thing else that the ordinary farmer
does in his preparations for winter.
Strange to say. In the winter the
old people look healthy and strong. In
fact, they standthe cold weather much
better than the young folks. In the
winter we do not seem to be able to
get enough to eat. We have five or six
meals day. We use -four pal. To
us, 1t tastes better than taro poi and
1t Is much easier on the stomach.
"The -four we use for our poi Is not
the kind you get here, which lies In the
warehouses two or three months be.
fore you get 1t. We take our wheat tc
the mill and get -four that has Just
been ground. Then we make our poi.
"Our children all go to English
schools. They also have the privilege
of attending the Mormon Academy
free of charge. In winter, We also have
a theological class for young men and
women.
1--WE live and dress like Americans
in Utah. Clothing is very cheap. The
kind of suit you pay 81 for We can
get for $3.50. For meat We pay Six
eight and ten cents pound, while you
have to pay twenty-five cents for good
meat here. For -four we pay from
thirty.hve to fifty cents sack.
AS to the behavior of the Hawaiians
in Utah, | want to say that We make
boast of the fact that We have no
police. All the disputes among the
Hawaiians are settled In the church
and such thing as lawsuit Is TN
known. There have been Hawaiians
in Utah for thirty years and during
that whole period, not single one has
ever gone to Jail. There are about 200
natives, all told, In Utah"