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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-08-17
SUGAR GROWING TN CUBA
SUGAR GRowING-sAYs THERE
FIFTEEN TWENTY YEARS SUCCESSION AND SOME
TIMES MANY Y YEARS

Frank G. Carpenter, writing from
Matanzas of Cuban sugar growing
says:
Come with me and take a peep into
Uncle Sans sugar bowl. About half
of all our sugar comes from this island
We paid Cuba forty-two million dollars
for short swoetening last year. and we
shall pay more in 1905. as the prices are
higher Cuba produces about half OF
all the cane sugar made upon earth,
and she has some Of the biggest sugar
plantations. For the past two weeks
l have been travelling through the in
terror and have had a chance TO get an
idea of this great industry.
CUBA'S SUGAR PLANTATIONS.
Cuba has several hundred million dol
lars invested in sugar plantations. She
has in the neighborhood of two hundred
which are now in active operation, and
along the line of the Cuba railroad the
forests are being cleared and cane set
out About Nipe bay the new harbor
at the northeastern end of the island,
syndicate of Boston capitalists has pur-
chased more than a hundred thousand
acres of land and is about to build
what't am told will be the biggest su-
gar plantation ever constructed. II
will cost in the neighborhood of two
million dollars and it will have a capa-
city of about 5000 bags of sugar per
day. A bag OF sugar weighs a little
more than 300 pounds. 1t will just
fill a barrel, so that 5000 barrels will
civ Won Of mill g
city. There are at present a number Of
mills here that are turning out a thou
sand bags per day and there are
many plantations worth million dol
lars and upward, Indeed, a big sugar
estate, including it's mill, lands and
houses is a two-million dollar PROPOSE
ton, and the modern sugar mill alone
as it is in Cuba costs from $5OO,0OO to
S1,O0O0O0. The machinery of a mill
that will make a thousand bags a day
will cost half million dollars, and the
buildings yards and other things two
or three hundred thousand dollars
more.
WHERE THE SUGAR CANE GROWS
Sugar is now being grown in nearly
every province of Cuba. About half
the land cultivated is devoted to that
crop, and there are vast areas, which
will yield cane, yet to be set out. 1
have before me a list of the working
plantations Beginning at the west is
the province of Pinar Del Rio, which
is noted as having the best tobacco
lands upon earth and which produces
the famed Havana cigars. 1t has only
make about 10000 bags of sugar this
year. One of it's plantations belongs
to Americans, four are Cuban, one
French and one Spanish. In Havana
there are twenty plantations, chiefly
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there is more beet sugar in the world
than cane sugar, this means that the
price must be fixed by the former, and
that it cannot be less than the amount
above mentioned. At that rate Cuba
can make sugar and pay dividends on
It's plantations. At the present prices
it is receiving more than ever before.
The crop for 1905 will be worth thirty
or forty million dollars more than or
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binary and as a consequence the SUI
gar industry is booming and there is
likely to lie an overproduction. The
chief trouble here is the lack of labor.
This year they haze not had enough
men to harvest the crop, and in some
places it has rotted on the ground.
LABOR ON THE PLANTATION.
The most of the labor On the sugar
estates is done by Cubans and Span
iardG. The Spaniards make excellent
workmen, and a considerable immigra-
tion is now coming in from the Canary
Islands and the northern part of the
Spanish peninsula. TIL, Sc men are
thrifty and indust ous, and Cuba is
doing all she can to encourage their
coming
Wages are good. About Havana they
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c. BREWER & co., LIMITED
QUEEN STREET,
HoNOLULu, II. T
AGENTS FOR

AGI-LN l. . III
Agricultural Company, Ono
mea Sugar Company, Bonomu Sugar
ailuku Sugar Company,
Ookala Sugar Plantation Company,
Ranch Company, Kapapala
Ranch.
Planters Line Shipping Company.
Charles Brewer & Cos Line of Bos-
ton Packets.
LIST OF OFFICERS.
Charles NJ. Cooke. President
Geo. H. Robertson. .V-Pres. & Mgr.
e. FaXon Bishop. Treas. & Secy.
f. w. Macfarlane. Auditor
+. 9. Jones. ................Dir Director
c. H. Cooke. Director
]. r. Galt.... Director
All of the above named constitute
the Board Of Director.
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owned by Cubans and Spaniords and in
Matanzas from where this letter is
dated, just east Of Havana there are
ffty-two plantations of which six be-
long to Americans. one of the Anne
rican companies annually produces 49,
600 bags. Matanzas has some Of the
best sugar territory, but it's lands have
been worked for generations and may
be surpassed by the new estates now
being cut out of the woods. The total
output of these provinces will be in
the neighborhood of $1,000 900 bags, or in
round numbers something like SEQ Co.,
600 pounds of sugar.
Santa Clara province which lies east
of Matanzas, has seventy plantations
of which seventeen are American, three
British eighteen Spanish and thirty
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-08-17

two Cuban. Most of these plantations
are very large, and some of the largest
belong to Americans. The Emilio Terry
plantation, which is Cuban-American
will produce 100000 bags this year. The
Colonial Sugar Company will produce
10000 bags and there are several other
American estates which viii yield from
$4,000 to 10000 bags each. In the east
ern end of the island there are other
American plantations, and along the
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-08-17

Purity and Wholesomeness are the
first requirements of a beverage. The
United States Cove nment reports as
sure both Of these to Rainier Beer
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NJ. p. DENNIsOS
Gupt.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-08-17

northern coast are the Boston Central
estate, belonging to the United Fruit
Company which will have an out
put of 10000 bags, and the Chaparra
estate which VIII turn out 100000 bags
In the central province of Puerto
Principe there are only four sugar
plantations now opened, but one of
these belongs to an American and it
viii produce all told about 27,O0O,OOO
pounds of sugar this year. There are
altogether more than $25OOO,OOO of
American money invested in sugar
mills and working cane lands i'm Cuba
and this is today probably yielding a
bigger profit than any American money
abroad
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!. c. SMITH,
q. p. A. T. 4,
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CUBA's NEW LANDS.

The sugar which we now get from
Cuba comes from old plantations, and
the greater part of it is from Santa
Clara, Matanzas and Havana. The in
crease in the crop of the future will
come from the eastern part of the
island, which has been opened up by
the Cuba railroad, built from Santa
Clara to Santiago, by Sir William Van
Horne, and running along Cuba's back
bone. This country is now covered
with forest. One rides for miles through
nothing but woods, woods, woods but
the woods over land as rich if not richer
than any now devoted to sugar and
and which has the virtue of having
never been farmed
In going over the road 1 saw a num-
Der of places where new sugar planta-
tions were being cut out of the woods
The largest is at Jatebonico, where
something like 5000 acres have been
cleared and planted in cane and where
sugar mill is now building. A few
months ago this was nothing but forest
The Cuba Company put in it's men
and cut down the trees. A couple of
months later" the ground was burned
over and the cane is now growing
among the stumps and logs left from
the fire. BY the time it is ready for
cutting the mill viii have been COM
pleted, and the cane will be carried on
little plantation railroads direct from
the fields. 1t is the intention to put in
about 5000 acres of cane for this mill
alone.
Similar mills will be built at other
places along the road and one especial
" is soon to be constructed to supply
the sugar estates of Michigan syn
dictate which has bought a large tract
of land a short distance from CANA
guey along the line of the railroad.
AS it is now, not half the lands fit
ted for sugar have been reduced to
cultivation, and it has been estimated
that the sugar product of Cuba might
be quadrupled and not use all the avail
aole sugar lands.
WHAT IT COSTS TO RAISE SUGAR
Cuba can produce sugar cheaper thar
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any other country. The plantation at
Jatebonico, which l referred to, will
continue to produce cane for fifteen or
twenty years without replanting. There
are plantations here which cane pro-
duce for twenty-five years from one
setting out. and it is said that cane.
has grown forty and even more years
on the same ground, being cut of
year after year and sproutng up again
from the old stalks. No one thinks
of replanting cane here for five, ten or
fifteen years after the plantation has
been first set out, and on this new
ground all that is needed is to plant
and keep out the weeds, and the crop
goes on for years without other culti-
walton.
In many other countries the cane has
Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-11
CHINESE ADOPT NEW RULE
Men Sentenced to Death to BE Hanged
Instead of Being De-
capitated.

HONG KONG, Sept. 1O.-(speoial Cable
gram to The Bee)-The Hong Kong Daily
Press says: "As a result of a pamphlet
written by Chevalier Volpicelli, the Italian
consul at Hong Kong, pointing out the
uselessness Of torturlng prisoners till they
made false confessions an order has been
received from Picking not to decapitate
prisoners sentenced to death save in very
exceptional cases, but to resort to strang-
ulation Up to the present such a mode
OF execution was reserved for officials of
more than one button, who had been sem
fenced to death, and then It was inserted
in the Official records as so and so was
presented with a silk cord with which to
commit suicide" But the man war
strangled by his keepers nevertheless.
Seven men have just been executed I'M
der the new rule and another whose crime,
that of supplying arms and ammunition
to the Kwangs rebels, lwas considered Of
a more serious character. had his head
chopped OF according to the old custom.
The men who were strangled were first
Of all tied TO crosses and then cords about
their necks were screwed up tight. or the
two ! should say that this strangulation
was the slower and the more barbarous
way of putting a man out Of existence.
large body OF spectators turned out to
see the new fashion" several Americans
and Europeans being in the crowd. As
soon as the AFFAIR was over one OF tho
Americans Immediately stepped into the
ring to bargain with the No. exeeutioner
for the cords he had used. It is really too
bad that while some foreigners are writ
ing against these public executions. others.
innumerable tourists ana globe trotters,
should be encouraging them; and. fancy.
for Instance, the indelicaoy of a woman
taking snap shots at such things. I know
Of one instance of a tourist bribing the
executioner to hold his sword in the air
above the condemned mans head for three
seconds so that a clear picture might be
secured. 1t was a gruesome sight. and
after the execution the blood despatched
tourist secured the executioners sword,
even preventing him from wiping IT,"
Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-11
RUSSIAN ARMY SATISFIED
Majority of officers and Men Pleased that
the War is Over.
RANK AND FILE PRAISE ROOSEVELT
Few who Are Dissatisfied, Relieving
the Japanese Have Worn Out
Their Best soldiers and
Could BE whipped.

GUNSHU PASS, Manchuria Sept. TO-
Since news was received that peace negotia-
tons at Portsmouth were approaching
conclusion, the correspondent of the AS
sociated Press has made a survey Of all
the Russian positions from Mongolia to
headquarters, the object in part being to
ascertain the extent to which the efforts
making for peace were viewed by the
army. The negotiations received no Of
hcial recognition in the field prior to their
successful conclusion, the army keeping
In q state OF preparedness for a battle un-
I'll the receipt by General Linevitch OF a
telegram from Emperor Nicholas declaring
that the treaty had been signed and that
his majesty accepted the conditions ar
rived at. This telegram was officially pub
lished in the army newspaper on Septem-
Der 6, and the outlines of the peace condi-
tions were printed in the same publica-
ton today
The officers thereafter observed military
decOrum in the strictest sense, but the
soldiers, with the consent of the officers,
engaged In feasting and other forms OF
celebration. 1t will be a week more before
the entire army is fully informed of the
conclusion of peace, but the news was
discounted long since by the prevailing
conviction that since the appoint
ment OF the Observation-Disclosures. peace
was a foregone conclusion. II may be
said that TO the great majority OF the Of
ficers and men far informed, the news
that the war Is at an end is most welcome.
Drink ROoseyelt's Health.
Thousands are dahy drinking to the
health of President Roosevelt. The cor
respondent, who is the only remaining
foreigh newspaper man with the Russian
army was everywhere asked by the men
II he was an American and on being
answered in the Affirmative they captured
him and tossed him many times In the air
after the manner of the Cossacks. while
their officers gently protested against this
seemingly questionable form of their ad-
mlration.
Everywhere along the railway where
newspapers could be obtained, the soldiers
eagerly scanned the news and then ex-
pressed their joy by singing, which they
continued late into the night, in intervals
cheering for President Roosevelt
with the exception of the loss of a cap
tain ana two orderlies on the east front
within the last two weeks and OF nine
men In the centre, a week ago, there have
been no casualties. Cessation OF hostlities
was preceded only by unimportant re-
eonnaisances involving small parties Of
scouts
Owing 20 the enormous tract OF country
east OF Hailungcheng and between the
Russian lines along the Vladivostok rail-
road and the Japanese position in the
Chang Paishan range, Il will require some
time 10 reach all the elements operating
in the interests OF both armies and in re-
storing the regions occupied by both
tanks 20 order.
The ofiieers are holding races at Toershu
and at other places.
The Fourth Siberian army corps, which
played a conspicuous part throughout the
Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-11

OF all the diseases known, with
which women are afflicted, kidney dis
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early and correct treatment is applied,
the weary patient seldom survives.
Being fully aware of this, Mrs. Pink
ham, early in her career, gave exhaust
i've study to the subject, and in pro-
ducing her great remedy for woman's
Ills - Lydia +. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound--was careful to see that 10
contained the correct combination of
herbs which was sure to control that
fatal disease, woman's kidney troubles.
The Vegetable Compound acts in har-
mony with the laws that govern the
entire female system, and while there
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Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-11
start on Masonic Home Annex.

PLATTsMoUTH, Neb., Sept, lO-(spe-
cial. 1.-The first shovelful of earth was
thrown yesterday for the large annex to
the Nebraska Masonic home in this city.
The dirt was turned by John Harmon,
whose snow-white hair, beard, and his
feebleness was clearly indicative Of his be-
ing the oldest inmate at the institution
Four other gentlemen who reside at the
home, four Nfemale inmates, two orphan
boys and one girl-comprising quite a
sedate yet apparently happy family-all
took turns thereafter and removed their
small quota OF dirt The contract for the
balance Of the excavating work has been
let and the brick work will be commenced
in the course OF few days. A number
of prominent Masons were present at the
ceremonies.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-11

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Mrs. ]. w. Lang, of e2e Third Ave-
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Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-11

war, was reviewed September by its COM
mander. General Zaroubaieff, who has won
high fame throughout the army because
of his prominence in the battles of Tatche-
kio and Lao Yang, in the protection of
Mukden and in the retreat from that place.
The general is mentioned as among the
first who will return home.
The disability of General Zerpitzky has
steadily increased, and he will be COM
PEELED to return to Europe. This officer
was noted for his singular bravery
throughout the war. He was wounded at
Mukden, where he lost three-fourths of
his Tenth army corps. 1t is reported that
General Linevitch will leave soon, The
general stan is engaged In plans for chang
ing the commanders throughout the army,
preparatory to evacuation.
Among the soldiers generally there is a
feeling of apprehension regarding the in
ternal affairs of Russia, and many of them
have expressed a desire to remain in Man
churia indefinitely.
Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia, who
has been with the army since the begin
ming of May, has announced his intention
of retuI to Germany.
Some want More Fighting.
After a prolonged war on an enormous
scale, and after the great preparations
recently made to continue the struggle,
the Russian army, in complying with the
conditions of peace, surrenders two COM
plete positions with field works of vast
extent and even more intricate than those
at Lao Yang, besides positions Of great
strength protecting its communications, but
Notwithstanding this the correspondent
found among both officers and men a gem
orally prevailing sense of the remarkable
fairness of the conditions by which the
terrible contest has been brought to a
close. The advocates OF further fighting,
however seemed TO be convinced that
the flower Uf the Japanese army had gone,
leaving only old reservists and inferior
recruits, while the constant strengthening
of the Russians with young recruits they
believed gave them q large balance Of
power which would have enabled them not
only TO fight one more great battle, but
to enforce peace thereafter, The impress
sion prevailed among these advocates that
the army was nearly twice its real size,
and their feeling Of strength was due to
this exaggeration of the facts.
Since the reception of the emperor's tes-
timony TO the bravery and self-sacrihce
of the soldiers and the declaration OF the
final acceptance OF peace terms the army
has become obediently passive, All peace
news. except that direct from the ministers
or the emperor, is placed at the end of the
dispatches printed in the army publication
and is given as little prominence as pos
sible.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-11
over night. This morning he was found
dead. He had SO in his pocket.
REPUBLICAN 1oKETs IN FIELD
Large Attendance at Conventions
over the state,


over the state.
BAssETT, Neb., Sept O-(speoiaL)-The
republican county central committee met
here yesterday for the purpose Of fixing the
time for the county convention and select
ing delegates to go to the state convention.
The following persons were named as dele
gates to the state convention: j. A. Doug
las, e. L. Myers. George siert, NJ. ]. Lip
man and ]. d. Brayton. The county con-
vention will be held at Bassett on Septem-
Der co.
A1NswORTH, Neb.. Sept. 1O-tspecial.)-
The republicans OF Brown county met in
the court house yesterday in delegate con-
vention and organized by eeoting J. s.
Dawson chairman and A. scattergood sec
rotary, and they proceeded TO elect the
candidates to fill the following offices; II.
s. James, county clerk; E, E. Dentler.
treasurer; L. NJ Bates, county Judge;
Merrill c. Wright sheriff; Miss F. John
son, superintendent; r. Seamore. surveyors
Or. E. c. Black, coroner; Uriah Chester
assessor; Frank Lessig, commissioner
There we're several candidates for all posi-
tions. and the convention passed off har-
moniously.
The democrats hold their convention next
Saturday afternoon.
ST. PAUL, Neb., Sept 10.-(special 1.-The
republican county convention was held at
the court house yesterday afternoon with
a good attendance OF delegates and the
manifestation OF harmony and enthusiasm.
The convention was called to order by
Chairman Ches Chinn. ]. B. Williams was
elected chairman OF the convention and II.
]. Paul secretary. Among the resolutions
adopted was one strongly endorsing the
magnificent and prosperous administration
of President Theodore Roosevelt, and also
the following anti-railway pass resolution:
Believing that the issue and use of polit-
ical railroad passes has reached such a
stage as to be a serious menace to the
proper functions of government, besides
against the cash-paying public, we favor
the adoption of a law by the next legis-
lature prohibiting the issue of free passes
to any persons except bonaflde railroad
employees, and fixing adequate penalties for
/ the violation OF same.
Delegates were elected to the state con-
| vention as follows: Ches Chinn, Clark
Perkins, T. T. Bell, Peter Todsen, H. b.
vanDecar, Frank Pierce. George McMillen.
Frank zeleski. william Erickson, J. H.
| Applegate and c. c. Hansen.
The following county ticket was nomi-
mated with the best of good feeling and
enthusiasm, there being competitors only
in the cases OF treasurer and clerk;
! County Judge. Henry Mum; treasurer J.
M. Erickson; clerk Samuel w. Roe; sheriff
Frank Wasgoner; superintendent John G
| Hall; surveyor. j. L. Paul; coroner, DIT
! Soils o. Pitts; commissioner from First
district, s. M Sonderup
new central committee was chosen and
Ches Chinn reelected as it's chairman.