The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-04-03
HARD DEATH
Of JAPANESE
Fuel Oil Explosion on
L.ocOmotiVe-.-Other
Maui items.

MAUI, April TUESDAY night a
| Japanese employed in Paia plantation
| mill was drawn into the trash carrier
and instantly killed. 1t is thought that
| as he was walking by the carrier his
foot slipped and to save himself from
falling he placed his hand in the ma
chinery and was thus pulled into the
| under part of the endless chain, where
he was horribly torn and mangled.
After the mill had been stopped the
body was found, with head. neck and
shoulders damned into the revolving
chain. The japanese was employed in
| the mill as a clarifier and was a most
excellent workman.
COURT DOINGS
! The present session of court of the
| Second Judicial Circuit at Wailuku
has been a long one. beginning on
March it still has several cases to
be tried
On Monday the petty jury tried the
case of Territory of Hawaii VS.. ]. L.
Osmer and J. Correa, common nuisance.
| The government nolle prosecuted the
| charge against Correa and the jury
! convicted Osmer, who was fined by
Judge Kepoikai S..
On Wednesday the trial of John
Richardson for embezzlement began.
There were two indictments against
! Attorney Richardson-one for $1066.66
and the other for about $400 The form
| err case went to trial first and all of
| Wednesday and Thursday was taken
/ UP with it. AT midnight on Thursday
/ the jury reported no agreement posi-
| bic and a mistrial was entered. On
| Friday a motion for change of venue
| to Honolulu was made, which Judge
| Kepoikai denied. He set the case for
| trial on Wednesday next and ordered
I a special venire of jurors for the pur
one week.
| Reaches are rfpening in the Makawao
Section.
I Puunene hospital has 50 patients
most of them Japanese laborers afflict-
| ed with beri-beri.
1 oH wednesday lIISIlC joe I'd Uhcbbos
! a well known member of the Portu-
guese colony of Kokomo (Makawao).
+, died suddenly of apoplexy. He was "a
! years old and leaves a widow but no
children. The same night Joe Franco,
| II years of age, resident of kappa
kalua, died of pneumonia.
| Paia plantation has recently import
/ ed the largest oil-burning locomotive
| on the island and has named it the
Maui. The other day the Portuguese
fireman turned on too much fuel oil
and the vapor from it blew off with
such force that the iron-roofing of the
round-house was bent upward. Alex.
McNichol, the engineer, had his face
badly blistered from the, fiery blast.
Congratulation were due Rev. and
Mrs. VIM. Ault of Wailuku last Sun
! day night upon the advent of a baby
! girl into their household
| DR.. G. s. Aiken is acting as deputy
collector of Ka.hului during the illness
of w. O. Aiken at Puunene hospital.
The Ladies' Reading Club met last
Thursday afternoon at Maunaolu Sem
! mary. Paia. In addition to the usual
/ program, each one present told an in
! teresting story. Eighteen ladies We're
! present
! Inc NSQUlnS Oh MISS Iuiltl lSSutAI-
waite of WaiIuku and Mr.. George
Keeney. bookkeeper of Puunene plan
tation, is set for the goth. The ceremo-
ny will take place in the pretty new
residence recently completed for Mr..
Keeney at Puunene.
! SHIPPING.
| On Monday the British ship Kinross
arrived in Kahului from Iquique, Chill,
with a cargo of fertilizer nitrate of
soda) for Alexander & Baldwin plan
tations.
On Wednesday the schooner Olga
sailed from Kahului for San Francisco
The trade wind which was blowing a
gale quickly speeded her on her way
On Thursday the schooner Robert
Levers cleared from Kaanapali for
San Francisco with cargo of Pioneer
mill sugar.
Weather-Several light showers dur
ing the week but still the drought.