The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1905-10-13
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prom wednesdays Advertiser.)
If lkua Purdy knows any good of
the ranch where he was born and
brought up he has not come to it in
his evidence. His direct testimony oc-
cupied all of yesterday, and was one
long recital of mismanagement and i'm
proper methods, following the bill of
particulars. There were no tilts be-
tween counsel to enliven the proceed
ings, the story flowing on with scarcely
ripple of objection.
Ikua agreed with Eben Low and
young Parker that a fence should be
constructed to prevent cattle from go
ing over to Humuula and Horner s..
Cattle had frequently been detained in
pens without food or water. Inbreed-
ing should have been prevented by cut
ting the ranch up in paddocks and sep
arating families Other methods of
stopping poor cattle from breeding had
been improperly prosecuted under Car
ter s administration.
The witness complained that brand
ing at the Kuihale pen was made a
sport. 1t was Waimea' s birthday.
The best horses were saved for that oc-
casion, and visitors were allowed to
participate in the run. The dairy at
Mana was not properly kept. The but
ter house was dirty and dogs drank the
milk. The cows were MIXED in the
open, and when it rained weak calves
got stuck in the mud. Ivy had
doubled in Carter s time and other
noxious plants had spread.
One item of interest was the recital
of a horse trade between the witness
and Fred Carter, which read like n
chapter from "David Harum.v The
facts were complicated, but at the
close of the deal the witness had the
horse and Carter had $45. But the end
was not yet, for the witness was sur
prised to receive letter from Carter.
demanding $50 more on the ground
that the animal was worth 800 and
that Carter had sold him in Ignorance
oil the fact that he was race horse.
The witness took exceptions to other
morse deals of Carter's. John Cheese
bro had bought horse for $40.
which, in the opinion of the witness.
was worth 500. Akina had secured
an animal for $50 which should have,
brought $50 or so. These two were
the only ones that had struck the
ranch on its bargain day, though the,
witness had heard something about a
sale in which John Lindsay figured.
Inc recital of mismanagement went
on. The horses were broken in way
that caused injuries and death. The
cattle were not properly tanned at all.
The drives were so loosely conducted
that branded animals were counted
two or three times over Needed i'm
provements were not made, while the
Waimea stables, which were built,
were unnecessary as the old ones could
have been repaired. Wild dogs had in
creased, for John Lindsay had de-
clared that ill luck followed those that
killed them, particularly tendency to
fall off horses.
The witness complained that the
sleeping accommodations on the drives
were insufficient, so that the men hau
to sleep with their feet in the middle.
Moreover, the cooking pot was too
small to cook enough to go around.
Wild cattle were caught on the
mountain and tied to trees two or three
days before being taken down. On one
occasion the cattle had to be released
before they were branded, on account
of the excessive rains.
Magoon next asked about the occa-
sion when Fred Carter had been absent
from the branding pen at Waimea for
over an hour. According to the wit
ness, all work had Immediately stopped
and Ikua himself had gone after Car
ter. Fence posts by the ten thousand
had been cut and hauled and then left
to rot.
The direct examination was still un-
finished when the court adjourned for
tho day.