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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-28
Senate AdjOurns at 2 O'clock,
House 10 Minutes Later.
Session characterized by POlit-
icaI Speeches TO the Last.
GOES TO THE CAPITOL.
The President Close at Hand to
Sign Bills.
Panama Canal Measure Among
the Last Signed.

Washington. April 2s.-The second
session of the Fifty-eighth congress
was declared adjourned at 2 o'clock by
President Pro Tenn Frye in the senate
and by Speaker Cannon in the house
at 2.1N
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-28
YVeather TndIcations.

Chicago. April 2s.-Forecast for Kan
sas: Partly cloudy tonight and Fri
day; warmer tonight; sOutherly winds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-28
President signs Many BINS.


Washington, April 28.-President
Roosevelt arrived at the capitol today
at 1925 a m. to attend to his official
duties incident to the adjournment of
congress. Nearly all the members of
his cabinet had preceded him and
were waiting in the presidents room.
He was accompanied by Mr. Loeb, his
secretary. and the whole executive
force of the White House A number
of bills passed last night and today
received his signature.
At 1850 the president affixed his
signature to the last Of the general
supply measures-the pOstofice ap-
preparation bill. Prior to that time
he had signed the sundry civil, the
general deficiency and the military
academy bills, in addition to scores of
measures of minor Importance
The president was in almost con-
stant consultation with senators and
I representatives concerning measures
/ presented to him for signature. Bills
relating to the various departm ents
w re referred strictly to members of
/ the cabinet who were present and as
usual they passed before them before
they We're signed by the president. AT
12:45 p. m. the joint committee of the
1 two bZnches of congress, consisting
Of Senators Hale and Cockreu and
Representatives Payne, Hemenway
and Williams, appointed to notify the
4 president that the congress was ready
4 to adjourn, called upon President
1 Roosevelt in his room at the capitol
/ The president informed the COMMITTEES
/ that he had no further cOmmunca-
tions to make to the congress. The
committee was with the president less
than five minutes.
The last of the important bills te
receive the signature OF the president
We're the river ana harbOr and Pan
/ anna canal measures. -All of the sur
veys which the senate provided for in
/ the river and -harbor bill were stricken
\ out in conference. In one of them
/ the president had a personal interest
as it was a survey near the president
i home at Oyster bay. When he noted
| the fact that among the other surveys
I it had been eliminated, ne signed the
bill and remarked, laughingly. that II
was pretty evident that he had no in
huence with the present administra-
/ ton.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-28
DICKERSON IT is.
Marion Man Gets One of Federal
Judgeships
Appointments Sent to Senate
Today.
POSITION is AGOOD ONE
Salary of Position Is $4,000 a
Year.
Stops Moore Dickerson Contest
for District Judge.

Washington, April 2S.-The president
today sent to the senate the following
nominations:
Thomas Humphrey. Judge of the
United States court for the central
district of the Indian Territory; Louis
Sulzbacher, Missouri. judge of the Uni
ted States court for the western dis
trict of Indian Territory; William r.
Lawrence, Illinois. judge of the United
States court of the eastern district of
Indian Territory; Joseph T. Dickerson.
of Kansas. to be judge Of the United
States court for the southern district of
Indian Territory.
The appointment of Judge Dickerson
of Marion, to one of the new Indian
Territory judgeships doubtless stops
the contest in the Eighth judicial con-
test between Dickerson and Judge Q.
L. Moore of Abilene, over the Repub-
liean nomination for district Judge It
VIII also relieve the state election board
Of the embarrassing necessity Of decid-
ed the contest between Dickerson,
brOther-in-laW of E w. Hoch, and
Moore, who has the support of the Bur
ton faction in the Eighth district.
Judge Dickerson has served as coun-
ty attorney of Marion county, but lie
was practically unknown outside of his
home county until Governor Bailey ap-
pointed him district judge to fill the
vacancy in the Eighth district last win
ter. One of the contentious of the
Dickerson faction in the recent contest
over the judicial nomination was that
the nomination should not have been
made until Judge Dickerson had had
time to hold a term oS court in each
county and let the people get acquaint-
ed with him.
The job to which he was appointed
today by President Roosevelt pays S5,-
600 year and is good four years. A
district judge in Kansas receives only
50 500 a year
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-28
RIVER STILL RISING.
At Kansas City 1t Is Coming Up an
Inch an Hour.

Kansas City. Mo, April 2s.-The Kan
sas river at this point has risen nearly
two feet in the past "A hours and will
continue to rise for another a hours,
according to the weather observer. No
damage viii result it is believed and it
is predicted that the water will begin
to recede by Saturday after which t
may be expected to fall rapidly.
The Arnott household goods will be
sold at auction at 1924 Tyler on Friday,
beginning at 10 a. m.
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eContonued On PAGE six-l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-28

St. Petersburg, April 2S-1:12 n-
n.-The Russian press is aroused over
the talk of mediation and is inclined
TO attribute the responsibility for the
proposal to the glo-French agrea-
ment the result being the agreement
does not obtain favor. The Novoe
Vryema declares the Anglo French
understanding has rendered poor SER
vice to Russia in prompting the idea
of mediation and adds:
TT is idle to expect an Anglo Rus
sian understanding as a result of the
Anglo-French entente. It Will take a
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-08-26

| group OF Islands. In Haw4ii 1t is as
] serted that, in North and South Kona
and in other districts. an. average fami-
| ly could almost II not quite earn its
| subsistence on ten or twenty acres of
land. II title could be acquired. but
that land owners and the government
will not furnish such opportunities ana
under the leasehold system, forest res
ervations and in numerous other ways,
absolutely stop immigration and set
Element.
Finally 1t Is positively declared that,
II the planters would adopt the plan
of encouraging Portuguese laborers and
the grouping of families ON the plan
tations in lieu of the present system.
II the Territory would stimulate small
farming by the application of the prin-
ciple of the National Homestead Law,
and II preference were discriminate
ingly shown for the addition of per-
manent citizens to our population, es-
pecially in diversified farming and hor-
ticulture, not only would the present
exodus be arrested but a large and de-
sirable immigration would follow.
II Is evident that these points will
justify and indeed demand careful ex-
animation and reflection. In Ireland,
and everywhere else, the plan of land
lordism and the concentration of land
in the hands of the few, may have en-
ormously enlarged individual fortunes,
but 1t has always failed to produce
general prosperity. If the Territorial
lands were administered by the Fed
eral authorities, the same beneficent
consequences, under our free and liberal
institutions, would follow in the Ha-
waiian Islands that have been expert
enced in every State and in every other
Territory within the Union. 1t is GER
tanly within the province and within
the power of the executive and legis-
lative branches of the local government
to analogue our system to that which,
for many years, has proved so success
full on the mainland, and has been the
most influential factor in national pro-
motion.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-08-26
FRUITFUL PROMOTION.

AT Sacramento, California, 14O organ
izatlons for promotion We're lately rep
resented in convention, the object OF
which was TO perfect the already re-
markable unity of the counties, the
municipalities, the farmers, the mer-
chants, the manufacturers, and all
other classes, In concerted and harmo-
Nous movements for the advancement
of the state. The keynote TO the pro-
o''dngs was permanent Improvement
ana permanent additions ~ the best
clements ~ population The program
Was carried out without hitch aud
"n practical lines II Was shown that
california he'd the Union m "a sorlalinna.
ra'h uprHunH within lls particular
rphtrr ANA All Incorporating Tor thp
fru'hi mnrni Hrollunal i,aluuslts
anl lNallirs haNr vNlirW.f boon ga
linHu'ahrl california NRf mnliaslui
Nlih iaWN ts Hfffr in asa, mssrpr
'Ht iNHtl. ihl lNaNuN NJ slaNlf lHri
aiH HH NH'lf HH apitlr M anpraillns
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-08-26
THE PORTUGUESE EXODUS.

In reference to the exodus of Por-
tuguese from the Hawaiian Islands, in
telligent men of that extraction, now
citizens of the United States, assign
reasons for the movement which, in
any event, whether sound or not, de-
serve public consideration. They claim
that Portuguese labor made the plan
tations success, but that the mere
difference of ten cents per day led to
the substitution of Japanese. they fur
Their claim that the Portuguese cannot
live so cheaply as the Japanese and
that nearly all the money they earn
is spent here and distributed among
merchants and small traders and
mechanics, while the Japanese live
mainly on the products OF their own
country. to which they send all their
profits. This it is insisted is the re-
suit of policy that is penny wise
and pound foolish"
But their complaints do not stop at
this point. They assert. as the fact is,
that the Portuguese inhabitants con-
sist chiefly of families, which are
thrifty, industrious, and well versed in
small farming. In other parts of the
United States, they are welcome and
are deluged with invitations for per-
manent settlement Here they declare
II is impossible for them to secure
homes, owing to the policy of holders
of large tracts of land, backed by the
Territorial government. 1t is the gem
eral aspiration of their countrymen, as
they say, To own their homes in fee,
and to develop them in such a manner
IN lxa N
Territory, they find themselves blocked
in every direction. The sensible men
who discuss the question, furnish illus
tration upon illustration of this fact
For example. they point to the Punch
bowl district in Honolulu, inclusive of
the crater, which, II divided into small
tracts ana made available for settle
ment on reasonable terms, they feel
certain could he speedily ana densely
inhabited and cultivated, with the re-
suit OF adding largely To the local
wealth ana population. But they state
that, under what they consider the
present suicidal policy of the Territory,
the greater part of this district h held
under lease, Which has Srt about
eighty years "a run, that the pouur
Eursr can unly obtain short rms, Hi
ran the pmmr win halr" oud Inst
when thusu terms uNprh wnrNplH r,p
0ulY hp hai Hi raorhliAnl rates. Nl iNl
un Nlnrs NJ rliItrus rHN Innfl lu lHA
nni uui ,Nur IhHn Win ans plnspr 3 ui
| ulilWAt" WNhHHf
lhH situation rn ana uuuuulint
! Iun.hnHNI IH atI.'rl m lh.sN ul.la A.
'ih1 lHlla W iNH anl nl ih. uiNN
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-08-26
CARTER AND PUBLIC LANDS.

There is not much encouragement to
small farmers in this interview which
Governor Carter lately gave the WELL
known correspondent, Frank G.. Car
penter. We quote:
How about men with money? Are
there many opportunities for good in
vestments?"
Yes" Gov. Carter replied, but the
conditions are not far different from
those of other parts of the United
States 1t takes large capital to oper-
ate sugar plantation, and the best
OF the sugar lands are taken up and in
cultivation. There are some oppor-
tunities in coffee-growing and in
raising pineapples and other fruits for
shipment to the United States. The
available lands are comparatively few.
The Islands all told have an area about
one-fourth as large as the State of
West Virginia, and very large pro-
portion is mountainous and uncultiva-
BILE. Such of the soil as can be used
is. in many places. exceedingly rich;
but, as | have said, the best lands are
already owned and have been so for
many years.
Are there not some Government
lands?"
Yes, there are altogether about q
100000 acres, but much Of 1t is sterile
or inaccessible. or covered with lava.
There are perhaps 100000 acres that
have some value, and half of that
amount is good land. The Government
is anxious that its lands Should be
taken up by, small planters, but, at 100
acres to the man, they could accom-
modate comparatively few people,
This paper differs from the Governor
in its views of the land question on
several essential points.
ID Present ownership of the best
lands does not imply that people COM
ing here with money cannot purchase
acreage property, especially from
grazing tracts.
CID Land called sterile is shown to
be productive of sisal. a salable crop.
Moreover there is no land here as
sterile to look at as that of Southern
California which has been made to
yield abundant returns. Generally
speaking, the land in Hawaii is far
from sterile. We hold that there are
not less than 100000 acres of public
lands here upon which livings may be
made.
Gid One hundred acres to the man
Cor family Is not necessary. In South
ern California it is estimated that
twenty acres, well-cultivated, will sup
port a family and do something more.
The 100 acre idea is derived from corn
and potato belts, not from the spe-
cialized agriculture of the tropics. If
the whole susceptible area of Hawaii
We're divided into fifty acre tracts, it
ought to sustain 10000 families or 100000,
people. Observe other tropical islands
and the suh-tropics of California-the
latter a country of sand and drouth
yet carrying a large population and
seeking more.
UV) The question of getting farm
ers does not depend upon the extent
OF public lands alone. Bring the peo-
pie here and there will be movement
in all sorts of real estate.
1t won't take very much "hoodooing"
by the local government on this land
question 10 create strong public feel
ing in favor OF Federal control of our
public lands and their opening to set
tiers under the Homestead law.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-08-26

:
run into each other would turn the
stomach of professional bigamist.
/ How could Curtis i. laukea tamper 50
wantonly with political affection! Why,
only a short year ago. there or there
abouts, he wooed the Republican maid
en-, blushing in her modest conscious
ness of his approach, In tones as sweet
as the melodies of his native Hawaii.
On his Blended knees, with the odors
OF island flowers exhaling from his per-
son. his face suffused with tenderness
and the crystal drops or ioVe shower
ing from his soft eyes, he vowed the
| constancy OF bearded para Oh the age
OF chivalry. The m9ment the rites We're
performed. however, because the iair
young wife had settlement, winch ne
had overlooked before marriage ana
which she refused to divide, he LETT
her and she g.adly consented TO dls-
solution or the union.
HIS next was MISS Home Rule, ana
she was easily captured because lau-
kea mad originated In her FAMILY, al
hhough he had repeatedly changed ms
anecuons in MS Garner Ire. with her
apparently ne was at nome Iheir
melodious voices blended In those eX-
qulsite strains, III Whlch trlpe anu
chlef ana monarch ana republlc were
ts"eetly deIlheated--ahdr regretted. Ihere
was perfect dlapason OF the antique
ana the superseded ana Wheh 'he
ceremony was performed. the heaFts Oh
MISS Rome Rule numerous relations
ii'eraiIy sloWeu WIN ahticipa.iohs Oh d
new regime IN Which annexation "ould
De forgotten ana lauhea rlch baritone
ieau the chorus Oh lhe past
but again there had peeh hnlscalcu-
idlloIi' Inc item OF support had peeh
forgotten, ana the parties TO the union
were poor III everything except seh'-
hlehl' ne iresh ana roseate cream
was shattered Ahother divorce De
came inevitable ana was procured
without the lorhallty Oh service or
even the pupilcatlon OF summons. Inc
| TACT Is that MISS home fuie, oecelNed
ana betrayed consented gladly to the
suhderlhS oil ue that Is sometimes
lHousht 10 ne !huISsoluple' laukea was
growing oiuer ana ne could not I'VE
Mi'Lout "i4e' ana ne also heeued
iiAeu poai''oh anu an iicolle' mere
ioie' WIN par''ls s'sh coiiiii'iIsieu
WIN hoPeiu' siiII'e' ne '"iheu 10 'he
antique uaiie OF fia"alian democracy
ana was speedily ciasped III her arms
M"'e LOT '"e .iliiu tiiile "i'hlh yeaI'
'heie OF tiiei 'he ii'ai rage pel1S
were souiiueu'
was rare anu an inspiring
"a iN'''i''S "''' .,'e an"
' ''e' ,"e PEI ioi NJ
"n.e' Mni'n " every one pul MN was
oiu ne hau pee'i opposeu 10 .he
,''"'''' anu .housh. II s'ileit Vi Lucilei'
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-08-26

Barometer corrected to ~ =. and sea
level, and for standard gravity Of Lat.
Vs. This correction is-0s for Honolulu.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-08-26
THE DEMOCRATIC wEATHERcocK

The national democratic party of
1904 should adopt the weathercock rs n
symbol. In most parts of the mainland
the weathercock changes rapidly and
frequently during each day. and fairly
represents a party that has slid off the
constitution, that is governed by its by
laws, which can be quickly amended
without two-thirds vote, and that,
with its weather eye upon the spoils,
has no regard to its own historical con-
sstency and embraces n diversity of
antagonistic elements, only temporarily
held together by the cohesive attrac-
ton of public plumber With a respec-
table negative at the head. who prac-
tically endorses the leading features in
Republican administration, with plat
form largely stolen from the Repub-
licans, and with w. j. Bryan and his
numerous followers as the apostles of
un-American socialism the dynamitical
combination hardly needs a match or
"A fuse to insure its explosion
In this territory, however, the wealth
eroook may be an Inappropriate demo-
cratic emblem, for here the trade winds
AZ least blow with considerable stendi-
moss curtis y, laukru, Ia his own
person, has been selected not only as
tho standard bearer but as tho stand
ara llsrlf This ~ peculiarly nllpltuus.
Ito BE- thu natural nguryrhuai uf ne
last political Affiliations A man may
Do married three times lu h.s mo-. and
}rl retain 20 certain husInus uul sos
'lni position a. Do p0sHbIr oven ln
Some nmWunItHf mr h.W lp buld uu
hla h'Hl hlih Ma inIr .uWHlt I'm
lNlnH al lht raWr uWr lFnA.i m.
nA"fffs HtlF uHHHrl aN.Ui Hul
~ itaH lH Wflll ihn. lIH.a M M.
l'sf GOA hHIt lt lNHN HHNHIHt
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-08-26
Aching Joints

In the fingers, toes, arms, and
other parts of the body, are joints
that are infiamed and swollen by
rheumatism - that acid condition
of the blood which affects the mus
Giles also.
Sufferers dread to move, espe-
cially after sitting or lying long,
and their condition is commonly
worse in wet weather.
1T has been long time since we have
been without Hoods sarsaparilla. My
father thinks he could not be without It.
He has been troubled with rheumatism
since he was boy, and Hoods Sarsapa-
rilla Is the only medicine he can take that
Will enable him to take his place in the
Held" Miss ADA DoTY. Sidney. Iowa.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-08-26

The counties, If they are formed, will
not get much from the Territory owing
to the fact that the public property is
an asset against the bonded indebted
ness. What they obtain will come
mostly from the, pockets of their own
residents, a fact which will make the
ultimate, expression on county govern
ment sound like the VOLTS long howl on
Unalaska's shore.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-08-26
LOCAL BREvI1lEs.
tFrom Wednesdays Advertiser)


The postofiice at Kapoho. Island of
Hawaii, has been discontinued.
The weekly meeting of the Board OF
Health will be held on Thursday instead
of today.
Paddy Ryan has been elected TO sue
coed Judge Humphreys as president of
the Good Government Club.
John Mehrtens was arrested Monday
on the charge of having stolen some
polo trappings at Kapiolani Park.
A large number of tools of various
sorts have been stolen recently from
the McCandless warehouse on Queen
street. The police are working on the
case.
The meeting of the Puma stockholders
has been postponed until Thursday
when the future of the property will be
discussed, Olaa having withdrawn its
support.
Eleven gamblers We're arrested last
night by Detective McDuffie. Nohoomi
was taken in for assault. Moses Adam
and Malu Adam were arrested and held
for investigation.
W. G. Cooper, of the First National
bdlh Ol I1dNull, leIl OH lile SIERRA yes
terday to attend the Bankers /Conven-
ton in New York City, September IA, Is
and 16 He will be. absent about
month.
William Goodman, an inmate of the
Hospital for Incurables, committed sui
cid, yesterday morning by cutting an
AFTER in his arm. He was suffering
from an aneurism. Deceased was ma
tive of England and about 40 years of
age.
C. II. Lindsay has been appointed
District Magistrate of Lahaina. Maui,
vice Judge Kahaulelio whose commits
sion has expired. The former incum-
bent was endorsed by the Republican
party, but the Governor believes he has
appointed the right man.
Detective McDufie is at work on a
case that is rather puzzling. S. Koji-
mas place on Hotel street was robbed
of nearly $500 by man who opened the
window bars. broke the window and I'M
locked the safe. 1t is thought that one
of the employees is the guilty party.
Miss Culbert and her mother. Mrs. f.
=. Culbert, who have been visiting on
Maui for some time with Mrs. Church,
daughter of Mrs. Culbert, We're among
the departing passengers on the Sierra
yesterday. They go to their home in
Jackson, California. Miss Culbert may
return to the islands next year.
The Henry Waterhouse Trust Co.,
Ltd, is in receipt of a cablegram from
San Francisco, stating that Hawaiian
Commercial sold on the Exchange there
at $500 and Honokaa at $1475. Other
Hawaiian stock listed on the San Fran
cisco Exchange remain unchanged This
is an advance of $1.00 per share in Ha-
waiian Commercial since last report.
Curtis Iaukea wants to put into the
field another daily newspaper as the or
gan OF the Democratic party. Iaukea |
is said to have been looking up prices |
for type, machines, presses, etc, and |
is pleased with the prospect. William |
Langton of the Paradise of the Pacific |
may do the mechanical work if plant |
is not bought. AS to the editor the |
Democrats believe they have plenty of
talent to sign.