The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-09-11
.HAWAI|'S
DUAL POLICE
Question to Be Tested
Weeks Events on
Big Island.

HILO, Sept. Sat the last session
| of the board of supervisors motion by
| Fernandes was carried, the intent of
| which is to have settled once for all
| which has the power of appointing
| poIicemen-the sheriff or the board.
| There are now two sets of police officers
| throughout the county. The motion
| was that a committee of three supervi-
sors, one of them being the chairman,
| be appointed by the chairman to take
| all necessary legal proceedings to test
| the legality of the appointments by the
! board of supervisors and by the sheriff
| of the county of Hawaii of certain
| police officers and other subordinate Of
ficers of the county of Hawaii now act
| ing as such.
The question of the legal powers of
| circuit judges to naturalize applicants
! for American citizenship has been
raised in the Kaisu murder case before
| Judge Parsons of Honokaa, and it will
| probably be taken to the Supreme
| Court. C. S. Smith, attorney for the
defendant, has challenged the indict-
| ment on the ground that the grand jur-
! ors who found it were not citizens. A
number of them are Portuguese who
were naturalized in Territorial circuit
| courts, and there is reported to be con-
| siderable indignation among the Portu-
guese over the claim that their citizen
ship is not genuine.
Since Saturday afternoon, native
| fisherman by the name of Kaluahalawa
has been missing from his home near
Hakalau. He left early in the after
noon for the beach with fishing tackle
and a bag to gather opihi, shell fish
that grows on the rocks. He did not
return at night, whereupon search was
instituted, without finding the missing
man. His fishing pole was discovered
on the beach and it is supposed that he
was washed from the rocks and over
come by the heavy surf which runs
along the Hakalau COAST He was mar
ried, leaving a wife, who resides near
Hakalau.
Word has been received through A.
Richley, who is now in the East in the
interest of the koa lumber trade, that
the United States government viii uti-
| lie only Hawaiian woods for interior
| finishing of public buildings in Hawaii
This was the decision reached after an
| interview by Mr.. Richley and Supervis
| ing Architect Taylor. In other words,
all specifications for the construction Of
| federal building at Hilo and Honolulu
| will provide for the employment of Ha-
| waiian woods for interior effects.
On Saturday afternoon, Rev. Father
Wendelin united in marriage Miss
Emma Elderts, daughter of Captain j.
E. Elderts, and Jos. K. Pau, an overseer
on the Piihonua plantation.
AS an evidence of the need of a
school for higher education on the Big
Island the steamer Kinau last Friday
carried nineteen girls and boys from
Hilo to Honolulu who will enter vari-
Gus educational institutions of the cap
ital city.
The japanese laborers employed at
the Hilo Sugar Co., through the assist
anee of Manager J. A. Scott and other
kindly disposed gentlemen, have built a
large japanese schoolhouse between
Hilo and Wainaku. The school, which
is to be known as the Wainaku School,
was dedicated Sunday afternoon, when
large gathering of pupils, parents and
friends assembled to witness the cere-
mony.
J. NJ. Gouvea, Jr., the blacksmith,
and wife, who left Hilo about year
ago to take up his residence at the
coast, have returned. Mr.. Gouvea is
employed in the Volcano Stables horse
shoeing shop,
Mrs. &. E. King and Mrs. F. NJ.
| Wakefield were passengers on the
Kinau from Honolulu on Wednesday.
Both ladies will teach in the Olaa
| schools. Mrs. King is the wife of Nor
NAL Inspector King.
| Mrs. j. Kai, whe has been in the hos
| pital for the past two weeks, returned
| home yesterday. Geo. H. Williams is
improving rapidly and will soon be
home. Dwight Baldwin, who has had
recurrence of his trouble, was taken to
the institution again on Tuesday. His
| father returned from Honolulu yester
| day.
| The night before the departure of Mr..
Ross, the retiring manager of Hakalau
| Plantation, for the coast, the employees
of the plantation called upon him and
| Mrs Ross and surprised them with very
handsome tokens of the esteem in which
| they are held. The remembrance to
| Mrs Ross was handsome solitaire