The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-05-22
PETER SILVA
HAS 4 KICK
SMALL Farmer Thinks He
Was WrongfuIly
Treated

HlLO, May 1S.-Peter Silva. one of
the kaiwiki small farmers. was at one
time the supposed owner of lots 81 and
p and as the owner of the latter he
donated to the Board of Education a
site for a school. The people in his
neighborhood were anxious, and were
led to believe that the intention of the
government was to build a road on GER
tain lines that would carry it direct
ly past the school house but the sur
veyor, or road engineer, Mr. Bruner,
Willed otherwise and the road ran a
hundred feet or more above the school.
Without permission from Mr.. Silva the
people In that locality cut a road
through his lot and it was used by
teachers and pupils, and is being used
by them at present. Not long ago the
land commissioner notified Mr. Silva
that he had forfeited his rights to lot
q for not residing upon it, though he
had cultivated it. A compromise was
afterward made whereby he was al
lowed to relocate the lot and build his
house there instead of on 81. He had
paid all charges up to date. and was
obliged to lose what he had paid or
accept the situation. Mr.. Silva has
taken up the lot and paid the charges,
making double what he had agreed to
pay in the beginning, for the appraise-
ment was increased. His benefactions
in the way of a school lot were not
fact that his land was used as a public
highway. He now asks the government
to reimburse him, in part. for the ex-
pense he has been put to in the con
struction of a road to his place and
asks that he be paid the sum of one
hundred dollars, which is one-fourth
the amount he has expended. Should
the authorities decline to do this then
he will close the road now used as a
school road He feels that he was I'M
justly treated when his lot was taken
away from him and he was made to
pay a second time for the same land.
He says he was Informed that he
might build his home on lot Il and
cultivate q by a former land agent
here and acted entirely upon his adj
vice.
HILO NOTES.
Aug. Hamburg arrived in Hilo early
Sunday morning on the Maui. He
went Immediately to the Falls of
tl,A
tina Davis from the deck of that yes
sci. Mr.. Hamburg had just returned
to Hilo after an absence of two months
spent in California.
1t is said that there are more horses
on the track on practice days this sea-
son than have ever been seen there be-
fore. Some one has suggested that in
view of the fact that SO many have
been promised for the races here that
it might be we'll to send some of them
to compete on Maui. but this is scout
ed by a majority of the committee.
The ship Bangalore, Capt. Blanchard,
got away for Delaware Breakwater on
Monday afternoon with a cargo of ST.
722 bags of sugar from Hilo. Richard
son. who shipped as cook. gave up the
place on Saturday and returned to
shore.
1t is reported that a japanese wom- |
an in Kaumana was choked to death |
Yesterday and her body thrown into a
cane field. An arrest of Japanese |
suspect has been made.
Charles Weatherby has been appoint |
I'd bookkeeper for Olaa plantation to |
succeed J. F. Clay, whose res gnation |
will take effect at the end of July Mr.. |
Nea therby was the bookkeeper at Pu-
IA during the life of that plantation |
md has since been acting for the !
'eceiver in the management of the |
place. He will not begin his duties |
1t Olaa until final disposition has been |
made of Puma.
The masquerade at the residence of !
dr. and Mrs. w. H. Shipman last Fri
lay night rendered Miss Emile Peck
" Mrs. c. Castendyk and Miss Ship
nan was a very delightful affair. Near
Y all of the guests were in costume
nd they presented very pretty APP
,earance, some of the characters por-
rayed being familiar to those present.
t would be difficult to say which part
vas the best sustained or which cos
ume the most unique
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