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Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1904-05-18
Judge BaIIasa Declines.

Solicited g 20 81 both personally
and by petition lg hundreds Of
Layoca couutys Best citizens and
in such a way thasfew men could
resist, Judge James Ballard haa,
after due deliberalion. declined to
become a candidate for county
judge
He gives as'bis Feasonr, his age
and his dislikeef entering a race
for an Office, tbe cares and duties
of which he does not feel like as
Stunning.
Since learning TIE news Of Judge
Billiards. refusal, az least two pros
pective candidate have been heard
from, and thcreis bat little doubt
that the present Incumbent will
have an opponepi at the coming
primaries Eialletsyille New Era,
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1904-05-18

3
Nos II aud IS. Cotton Factor,
Broker or Commission Merchant.
No 10. Cotton Seed Products.
No. ~ Deutists.
Nos q and ~ Electric Light
Companies.
Nos. 81 and 81. Gas Company.
Nos SO and "a. Grain Elevator.
Nos. 81 to 80 inclusive. Ice
Dealer.
Nos. 10 tol4 AZ inclusive. Insur-
ance Agents.
No. 43. Land Agent.
No. AZ. Steam Laundry
No. As. Lawyers and Convey
ANGER.
No. 81. Livery or Feed Stable
No. 81 Loan Agent.
Nos SIS TO 65 inclusive. Mer.
chants; hut does not include mer-
chants selling bankrupt stocks on.
which a special tax il levied)
No. rs Photograph or other
such Gallery.
No, 81. Sewing Machine Deal
ers.
No SO Ship Broker or Ship
Agent
No. %. Toll Bridge.
No. 81 Wagon Yard.
Nos. So and S. Water Works.
We appeal to ull honest and fair
minded citizens and Tax Payers Of
Texas to Join us IN demanding the
unconditional repeal Of this unjust
tax.
S. Z. Edwin,
S. w WILLIAMS. Sub.Gonmiltee
JNo, P. KLINE.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1904-05-18

IIighest price paid for hides At
(. Is. Richgef's.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1904-05-18

Mr.. a. N. Bellamy Of Dreyer
was in town last Thursday on bus
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1904-05-18

Halletsville held her first trade
sales day on Mondey Of last week,
and the Herald claims for tia brill
liant success Sinner will now get
to work and show@hat she can do
in that line
San AntQnioice cream. the fin
est made, az p. q Merseburger's.
There viii % preaching in Ger
man By Rev Paul l3aeuchele on
the third sunday " June at the
Methodist church, Instead of the
first Sunday
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-06-24
now THE SLOCUM'S
PASSENGERS DIED

NEW YORK, June 15.-More than
700 lives We're lost when the steamer
General Slocum, loaded with an ex-
curson party of about 1900 persons
from the st. Marks Lutheran church,
took fire in He'll Gate this morning and
was sunk near North Brother island.
Most of the victims We're women and
children. Captain Van Schaick of the
General Slocum and five of the crew
have been arrested.
1t was spectacle of horror beyond
words to express, the great vessel
sweeping forward in the sunlight in
flames, within sight of the crowded
city, while helpless screaming hum
dreds We're roasting alive or swallow
ed up in the waves, crazed mothers
casting babies overheard. Many of the
survivors are practically insane.
In a compartment in the hold of the
Slocum, forward and just aft of the
forecastle was a room where lamps and
oil for them We're kept. From that
cabin the fire swept back through the
boat with a fierceneSs that no fire.
fighting apparatus could check. In the
fifteen minutes that elapsed from the
discovery of the fire until the Gen.
Slocum was burned to the waters edge.
there was holocaust of the helpless.
The Slocum had been chartered to
take the excursionists to Locust Grove
On Long Island Sound. There We're
between 1900 and 1000 persons aboard.
At the extreme eastern end of Ran
dalls Island the Slocum took fire, and
the woodwork being seasoned she was
soon a mass of flames. The life-pre-
servers We're too securely fastened to
be available and stories are told of
frantic efforts by strong men to cut
them loose, but even If they could have
been torn down, they We're too high
for the children to reach.
The race to North Brother Island
was horribly dramatic. 1t was made
while the flames, famed into fury by
strong head wind, We're consuming
hundreds of persons. The after rail
gave way and the passengers We're
pushed into the river. Little children
holding each other jumped in and We're
so found in the cold clasp of death.
The vessel became choked with con-
Stunning victims and hundreds fell into
the furnace-like hold when the hur-
ricane deck caved in.
The struggle on the decks was awful.
Through all the wild panic, during all
that inferno, with fire and smoke sur
rounding them, the officers and men OF
the doomed vessel, remained at their
posts, but they We're powerless to a.
vert the catastrophe. For hours the
bodies of the burned and drowned
drifted ashore. The stories of sur
ylyors are frightful.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-06-24

chant of Chicago. Judge Parker's friends
have recently made second proposal to
him which Mr.. Field has looked upon
with more favor. But MIR. John r. Nc
Lean of this city and OF Ohio. is moving
for the nomination and parleys during
the past week have been somewhat in his
favor. 1t is even said that the New York
delegation may be for him. Mr. Mclean
was the Democratic candidate for gov
ernor OF Ohio few years ago and was
proposed for candidate for the vice presi-
dcncy with Bryan in 1000 but Mr.. Bryan
did not want him, because of his conscr-
vative tendencies. Afterwards Mr.. Bryan
asked Mclean, who is very wealthy
man, to contribute to the campaign Of
1000 and Mr.. Mclean gave him merry
ha ha
1t is claimed that Mr.. McLeans nom-
ination would help towards carrying In
diana. He could be counted on for a
large contribution and then his paper,
the Cincinnati Enquirer. circulates ex-
tensively through Indiana and is the most
widely read in the state of any Demo-
cratic paper All the large and influential
journals in Indiana are either Republican
or independent with Republican leanings
which puts the Democrats somewhat al
disadvantage in a, campaign.
The best judges of the situation here
think that the nomination rests largely
between Mr. Field and Mr.. Mclean
Several weeks ago Mr.. Mclean surprised
many of his friends by printing in his
paper an article commencing the Hearst
boom. 1t is now thought that that arti-
Gle was for purpose and that the Hearst
delegates will take the Mclean boom
kindly.
Senator German. of Maryland, is sup
posed to he writing the Democratic plat
form, although whether he has definite
understanding with the Parker people
on the subject is not known. 1t is re-
garded as certainty that he will be
chairman of the committee on resolutions
at St. Louis. for he will be delegate at
large from Maryland. Ex-Attorney Gen
eral Poe, of Maryland. who is an exper,
in the phrasing of platforms, may be
clothing Mr.. Gorman's ideas about wha,
the platform should be with appropriate
words and phrases. If this has been
done it does not follow that the platform
will exactly follow any draft Mr.. German
may take to St. Louis. The committee
on resolutions will likely have ideas to
put into the resolution, but the expecta-
ton here is that it will be conservative
platform. The fight over the platform
may be the most spirited in the conven-
ton, for it will be adopted before the
nomination of candidates and MIR. Bryan
is expected to make stand in behalf of
the two platforms on which he has been
a nominee for the presidency.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-06-24

Uncle Sam has now paid his last
annexation debt to Hawaii excepting to
be good to her forever. The Treasury
of the Territory has Just received from
the Treasury of the United States
eleven thousand and odd dollars, being
the balance of interest on the 'fawaiian
debt paid by Hawaii since annexation
and before the United States actually
took over the four million dollars of in
debtedness named in the bond.
By an Act of the Legislature this in
terest money was dedicated to the pay
ment of awards by the Fire Claims
Commission. There is about $4,000
still due on fire claims, after the dis
bursement Of the s1,OOO,OO0 granted by
Congress and the issuance of s315,000
of the four per cent. bonds authorized
by Congress for that purpose. The to-
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-06-24

| him for four years more in the White
House by an election in his own right
There is bound to be less zest in the
selection of vice president at Chicago
1t looks as though Senator Fairbank:
would be the man, but no one can say
there will not be something of tussl,
of popular interest before the thing j:
settled
1t is almost safe to say that the. con.
, vention will not pass off without some
excitement. When 1000 delegates gel
together in National convention, there is
no telling what some delegate or set oil
delegates may attempt that will prove a
diversion. The program cannot be abb
solutely all arranged in advance and il
is the unexpected that makes the outlook
interesting. President Roosevelt will re-
main i'll the city, while the convention
is in session. All the important details
of the proceedings will be communicated
to him Immediately. When the commit
tee of the convention comes here to no.
THY him of his nomination, he will be
ready with a ringing speech on political
NhlNli WIN 1OilIlIdliI
tention OF the country.
THE DEMOCRATS.
Every Democrat in and around Wash
ington OF any prominence is trying to get
the time and to scrape together the
money for a trip to St. Louis conven-
ton week. They are anticipating lively
old time, because so little OF that con-
vention's program is settled and be-
cause there is so much promise OF a
spirited tussle between the factions. The
Democratic leaders say that it is their
purpose 10 have just as orderly a con-
ycntion as the Republicans will have at
Chicago. They want to make an impress
sion upon the country by their orderly
transaction OF important party business
even under adverse circumstances, SEN
aiur Bailey OF Texas, who will be one
of the presiding officers of the -, Louis
convention, Is very much bent upon rs
being AN orderly affair lie wants no.
body Kicked oui ~ the hall aud no scenes
which could lead iu nlaNulahle COM
w.nl ~ 10 hlllpr feeling amluB Dome
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The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-06-24
THE DRIFT OF POLITICS
BEFORE THE CONVENTION
(Mail Special to the Advertiser.)

(Mail Special to the Advertiser.)
WASHINGTON, d. c., June H.
Within a few days there will be large
exodus from Washington for the Chicago
convention, where Mr.. Roosevelt will be
formally nut in nomination for the Presi-
dency. Stirring events there are not an
ticipated, but none the less there will be
a large attendance of officials and on
lockers from Washington. The corps of
newspaper correspondents, nearly all of
whom are trained men in national poll
tics, will leave Thursday and Friday, but
a few go on earlier than that to attend
the hearings of contests before the Ma
ton committee. In this journalistic con-
tingent will be one or more representa-
tives of every large newspaper in the
country. AT the convention they will be
joined in many cases by other men from
the home offices, who will look after the
doings of the local delegations and like
matters OF news of local character.
There likewise goes out from Wash
ington early in the week corps OF ex-
pert telegraphers, many of whom are
specially skilled in handling political mat
ter and all OF whom are swift in sending
dispatches. These telegraphers, who
have had long service at the Capitol in
sending political messages, know the
newspaper correspondents and in more
ways than one are better able TO handle
the newspaper messages. III il is
matter OF interpreting bad handwriting
for not all OF the correspondents are
able TO use typewrters or to dictate to
typewrilers during a conyention-those
operators are The best in the business
Then they have nearly all had expert
ence ia facilitating messages during the
confusion II convention and ln ullls-
ing lhe wires % ihe utmost
From the Washington standpoint obs
th.oagp convention promises lu be- less
interesting even Than lhe Philadelphia
convention low yur ago lhne Nai Al
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from NW iWh upM lhf lFhG llruI
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The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-06-24

district. by Kaneohe Ranch Co., rent
on lease Kaluapuhi and Halekou.
Third count: March g. 1901, s1552.50,
paid Il. S. Boyd. sub-agent 5th land
district. by Hamakua Mill Co. rent on
lease between opihihala and Paauilo.
MAHAULU'S INDICTMENTS.
First. count: August %, 1902,
s140O. paid Stephen Mahaulu, sub-agent
9Th land district, by estate of j. /.
Dowsett, rent as tenant at will on
lands at Lualualei, Waianae.
Second count: Sept. 2, 1902, s2io, paid
Stephen Mahaulu, sub-agent. etc. by
Edgar Wood, purchase price in full lot
No. 9, map 25, Wahiawa-
Third count: Sept. 2. 1902, $500, paid
Stephen Mahaulu, sub-agent, etc., by
Addie o. Clark. in payment of pur,
chase price in full lot 4, map %, Wahi-
ava.
First count: Sept 2, 1902, 1925,
paid Stephen Mahaulu, sub-agent, etc.
by Mrs. Mary e. Clark, purchase price
lots A and b, Wahiawa.
Second count: Jan. 90, 1908. $4,000,
paid Stephen Mahaulu, sub-agent. etc,
by Waianae Company, six months rent
in advance lease Lualualei.
3.-First count: August rs, 1901, $780,
paid stephen Mahaulu, sub-agent, ETC.,
by Theodore F. Lansing, rent under
lease $500 and rent under tenancy at
will, Waiahole, 5000.
Second count: August 26, 1901, $3.50,
paid Stephen Mahaulu, sub-agent, etc.,
by Mau Sing Wal, rent under two
leases named $3.50 and 5000 respectively.
COURT NOTES.
The Hilo waterfront land case, c. A.
Brown VS.. j. d. Spreckels ct al. is still
on before Judge Gear. with evidence
being given for defendants. 1t Is said
there are IL or IA witnesses yet to be
called, and If the trial Is to be con-
cluded this term night sessions may be
necessary.
Under stipulation between the par
ties, Judge Gear signed an order dis
continuing the equity suit of the Ger
man Savings and Loan Society VS..
Charles S. Desky, trustee, and Minnie
S. Desky and S. NJ. Damon, S. E. Da-
mon and II. L. Waity, copartners in
Bishop & Co.
Suye Kawasak was granted a di-
vorce from Yukitoro Kawasaki by
Judge De Bolt, the ground being nom
support. w. 7. Rawlins appeared for
the libellant, while the libellee was abb
sent and unrepresented by counsel.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-06-24
OLD DEBT INTEREST
HAS ALL BEEN PAID
Eleven Thousand Dollars Just Received From
Washington Obviates Further Borrowing
To Pay Fire Claims.

tai authorization of these bonds was
s326,000 With small balance in the
fund and the last instalment of Fed
eral interest money paid as stated,
Treasurer Campbell has in hand some
thing more than $4,000 to pay fire
claims. This, from the statement of
these obligations already made, is In
excess of the amount required.
Accordingly there is no necessity to
issue any more of the four per cent.
fire claim bonds. In other words the
Territory is enabled to avoid borrow
ing any more under that special loan,
which has been placed at disadvan-
tage in the money market from Gov
ernor Chen Secretary Carters success
full floating of the TERRITORIAL million
dollar five per cent. loan for public i'm
provements at shade above par.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-06-24
KATE" KELLEY
HAS RESIGNED HER OFFICE
Chief Clerk in the Office Of the Secretary oil
the Territory Has Rounded Out Ten
Years of Faithful Service.

Miss Kate Kelley chief clerk in the office of the Secretary
of the Territory has resigned her position and will leave in few
No fill vacancy,
but probable c. r. Bucand the statistician
the Secreary's office, will be advanced position.
The retiring chief clerk has occupied the Office for the
first under the Provisional Government and then under the
Republic Hawaii Ministers of Foreign Affairs
and lastly under the Secrearshps OF Henry Cooper George r.
Carter and A. L. c. Atkinson of the Territory.
Acting Governor Atkinson regrets the loss of Miss Kelley,
stating that she has been the conscientious careful
workers the Capitol Miss Kelley has enjoyed little fame
the her duties owing humorous references made
her Governor Kate when she signed Governor Doe
official documents during his absence.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-06-24
CRAW'S FRIENDS
WANT TO KEEP HIM

Alexander Craw Is sought by the Ha-
sugar planters. They want his SER
vices badly enough to offer him $4,000
per annum ana to guarantee him that
rate of income for five years. Mr..
Craw receives from the State only 5000
per month as quarantine officer to pre-
vent the introduction of pests injurious
to vegetation and also to make cultures
and importations of beneficial parasites
that prey upon scales of many varie-
ties. He has occupied this position
many years and his labors have saved
millions of dollars to the fruit growers
by preventing the determination of
trees and the ruin of growing crops.
The loss to the sugar planters in the
Hawaiian Islands last year by the leaf
hopper, that destroys the sugar cane,
is estimated at millions of dollars.
There are in the Territory of Hawaii
seven entomologists of ability, but not
one of them has wide experience as
quarantine officer to keep pests out of
the country. Good work has been done
in Hawaii in extirpating pests that
have been found to be ravaging the
growing cane, but new pests have been
brought in and the planters have de-
termined that something radical must
be done.
Mr.. Thurston of Honolulu Is in the
city and he has urged upon Mr.. Craw
the desirability of the position that Is
offered him. The Government is to pay
IA part of the salary of $4,000 per annum
and the planters the remainder The
Government guarantees the payment
of the entire sum. Craw is offered the
place of chief entomologist, or head of
the chronological service. Within the
last two days the cable between Homo
lulu and this city has been used to per-
suade Mr.. Craw What his decision
will be is not determined.
knowledge of the efforts to get Mr..
Craw's services in Hawaii has reached
the fruit men of California. Mr.. Stab
Ter of Yuba City first learned of IL,
and he has been trying hard to per-
suade Mr.. Craw to remain in Califor-
MIA. Mr. Stabler says that the Gamers
of this State are all anxious that Mr.
Craw shall remain at his present post
Governor Pardee has been Informed of
the move in waii.--Call.
Entomologst Craw of California, who
has been requested To come to Homo
lulu 10 take charge of the entomolo-
glcal work for the Territory, may ac-
cept the liberal terms offered by L. A.
Thurston, His favorable answer Is
early expected by the Bureau of Agri-
culture and Forestry, lie may have
10 make arrangements for the taking
over OF his office In California before
being able % come, The proposition
rs not Tor him Ia merely take charge
~ the leaf-hopper nght, but to take
the chronological bureau which has
formerly been carried on by II, q, Per-
klns Prof rwW h one ~ tho leading
rntomuloHisls ~ the United states ANA
has had R Hrrai deal 40 DO Win lAo
br.llng of parasites which have boon
used iu rulllnluiH.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-06-24

PASS ~ gHh sV0NAnu uks
lnplhafhf. Hr 1904 aanEsFaNf. hui apf
pllNilY nNpllAfAHi lusHNF Nhn Rle
fNhifNi M sH.h aiiaftf Nll hf pleased
M kpHa lhHi ppmpl lfllif W4} NJ hai
hf lttlHH * lHfs M $3.50 "A haWfl
lAlNH fNlil NNH'.H ana iHllhHH
lianli4 ~ tsl. ID fll n.hlf afA
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The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-06-24
BAND ON MAUI
FOR THE FOURTH

owlng 10 the plans made by Maui
people foF a big celebration ~ tho
Fourth of July, lRclpdng race meet,
Acting Governor Aiklns0n has giyen
permission for The Hawaiian Govern,
msnl band i0 SO % kahumi fnr lhat
DAY u 10 believed that hlp band can
pp transported rhraply
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-01
STATE ) CAPITOL
MUST DIVIDE THE FEES
SECRETARY OF STATE HAS TO DO
SOME FINE FIGURING WITH
S1,62o PAID BY CANDIDATES.

J. J: Lomen, assistant secretary Of
state, is engaged in an interesting
mathematical pursuit. He is dividing
the filing fees received from the eighty
one candidates that filed with the sec
rotary of state, among the eighty-three
counties. Each candidate running in a
district comprising more than one coun-
ty paid fee Of 500, which under the
law must be divided evenly among the
counties in his district. The 81, 500 re-
ceived is now being apportioned. 1t is
not SO simple as it seems. For instance
Aitkin county gets one-eleventh of the
fees from the eighth congressional dis
trict, one.seventh Of the fees from the
fifteenth judicial district, and ono
fourth Of the fees from the fifty SECOND
legislative district. The division is pc
ing tabulated, and the money will 81
| divided in few days.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-01
WASHINGTON NOTES

Rural free delivery route No. 2 win be estab-
lished Oct. 1 at Churchs Ferry, Ramsey county,
n. D.. population. 515; houses, 1o3.
Rural free delivery carriers appointed: Min
nesota-Barrett, route No. 2 Il. R. Johnson;
Candy, route No: 2, a. R; Peterson; Elizabeth,
Dickelman; svea, route No: 1. Aleek swedberg;
Ulin, route No. 1. O1of Lo&ken; Webster, route
No. /, John A. Thompson, North Dakota--aEal-
ley City, routes Nos i and 2, c. 81. MCGEE.
South Dakota-Howard, route No. 2 c. E.
Hoard; Parker, route No 3. John E. Clayton.
Post masters appointed: Minnesota Highwood,
Ramsey county, Wallace a. Noble. vice Martin !,
J. Clum, resigned. South%D akota-Pallner,, Deuel.
county, Jacob De Young, vice P. W. Bemisz re-
signed. "a
Assistant Secretary H.~A, Taylor will deliver
an address of welcome to. the International PIN
terparliamentary union at its first gathering. at
West Point, n. Y, next Tuesday. After that
gathering the members offthe union will start on
their tour Of the country preliminary to holding
an official meeting at St. Louis.
The contract for the construction of the public
building at Wausau, Wis. was today awarded
! to Hanson Brothers of Chicago, at their IBID
of $40,651. The building is to be completed by
Sept. 1, 1905.
| All the officers and stockholders of q
bank in the Creekanation are negroes
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-01
THE SUMMER IS GONE
IT WAS A COOL ONE, $40 DEGREES
BELOW AVERAGE FOR FOUR
TEEN YEARS.

Cold, drizzling rains mark the pass
ing away of the summer Of 1904, which
was 80 degrees below the mean aver,
age of the months of June, July and
August for the past fourteen years.
This is almost q recordbreaker, being
in fact but 10 of a degree above the
summer of last year, which holds the
record. The mean average for the sum-
mer has been 66.70 and the mean aver
age for the fourteen years, $3.50.
The following statistics have been
complied by the local weather depart
meut.
The summers cooler than the average:
1891, 200; 1892, Ito; 1895, 0;so; 1884,
The summers warmer than the aver
age: 1898, 200; 1894, 4.90; 1895, 0.SO;
1890, 100; 1900, $50; 1901, 80.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-01
SEPTEMBER WEATHER
Weather Bureaus Pamphlet Showing
Records of Month in Past.

Weather Bureaus Pamphlet Showing
Records Of Month in Past.
"What may be expected in the
weather line for September is en-
bodied in pamphlet issued by the
weather department. The. pamphlet, IS
not a forecast, but merely gives the
records for the month during the past
thirteen years.
The normal temperature: is 60, and
the average temperature for thirteen
Septembers has never varied much.
The warmest month, in 1897, was 6S
degrees, and the coolest, 1902, 81 de-
grees. The hottest day recorded was
the 18th, in 1895, 90, and the lowest
temperature was 20, the 3Oth OF the
month, in 1899. Frosts have occurred
in September, but as a rule the tenn
perature does not fall below the freez
ing point. The prevailing winds are
from the south.