The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1905-02-14
WA|LUKU
MATTERS

wAILUKU Feb. 11.-At meeting |
of the Waikiki Improvement Associa- |
ton on Thursday evening a report from
the wide tires committee was adopted.
IL recommended that steps be taken,
by petition to the governor or other
wise. to obtain a suspension OF the
wide tires act until 1t can be discussed
by the Legislature. The committee
found that given hard or macadam-
lied roads. the working of the afore-
said act would result in public benefit:
but on soft roads, very rocky or rough
roads, narrow and crooked roads or for
| hauling in the woods, wagons con-
structed in accordance with the re-
uuirements of the act-that Is, having
one axle longer than the other, and
tires of a width double the diameter of
the iron axle-require more power to
pull, and in many cases cannot be used
at all" Also, that the enforcement of
this law operates to deprive some of
our fellow citizens OF their means OF
gaining a livelihood"
Communications were ordered sent to
Health Officer Wright relative to dis
eased dogs, and to Sheriff Baldwin re-
garding the carelessness of dress while
| on the street of japanese men and wo-
men.
JAII, AND FIRE STATION
A committee consisting of Judge Nc
| Kay. w. T. Robinson and r. A. Wads-
| worth was appointed to correspond
| with Superintendent Holloway concern
ing the location of the new Jail and fire
station, which according to the plans
has been set so far back in the lot that
| the floor of the fire station will be lower
than the street line. A wireless was
sent to the Superintendent Wednesday
asking him to come to Wailuku.
Work of demolishing the old jail
building was begun early in the week,
to make room for the new structure.
Temporary quarters for police and jail
purposes have been taken on the old
school premises. 1t is expected that the
new building will take three months to
| complete
| AS near as can be learned from the
old residents, the building which has
heretofore served as quarters for the
sheriff. his corps of assistants, the
Tailor and Maui's derelicts was built
somewhere in the sos or COS, and with
the exception of some few minor re-
pairs has done continual service, rain
or shine.
HUMAN SKELETON IDENTIFIED
| Noah kamakau, cowboy, while
hunting cattle on the flats above Maa-
| laea Bay, stumbled across the body of
what proved to be Japanese named
Nishiyama. That the body had been
| there some considerable time was con-
elusive as nothing remained but a bum
die of bones. He reported the matter
to the sheriff's office. Deputy Sheriff
Saffery went to the location which was
on the old trail between Wailuku and
Lahaina. Among the personal effects
was found a. tax receipt from Kona
dated 1901 as well as certificate from
the deputy tax assessor of that district
| exempting Nishiyama from taxation
on account of insanity. There We're no
marks on the remains showing possible
! foul play, but an inquest will be held.
| ITEMS.
BY the mail to Honolulu last Satur-
day the Wailuku Sugar Company for
warded copies of specifications to con-
tractors calling for bids for twelve
thousand feet of tunneling. The work,
consisting of eleven tunnels, will be
let out I'm two sections. The bids will
be opened in Wailuku on the 18th of
this month.
| James l.. Coke, who has just passed
through an operation at Puunene hos
pital. is reported to be rapidly improv-
ing. The operation was entirely success
| full.
w. G. Scott has just received a caul,-
hover grown in Kula, which weighs six
and half pounds