The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-02-20
DUNG Up
tV|LOOERS
MduI Policemen
Oct Wa king
Papers.
Sentiment Changes With
Regard To I ounty
Government.
KahuIui Looking LshainaIuna
has Eye on $4,000 Fed
sral Subsidy.

| Maui, Feb 1S.-Maui police have been
active recently in executing the liquor
and gambling laws, on Wednesday Of
! last week Sheriff l. NJ. Baldwin of
Waikiki took the steamer for Hama
and returned overland via Kipahulu,
Kaupo and Ulupalakua on Tuesday of
this week During his trip he prose
cuted several illicit liquor cases in XII
pahulu, Kaupo and other places.
The most important case was the one
against Lin Loi. the keeper of a COT
fee shop and store at Kipahulu. The
first case against the Chinese, that for
the illicit sale Of Intoxicating liquor,
was noIle prosecuted. but he was after
ward arrested and tried, charged with
giving away liquor, which a keeper of
a coffee shop is not permitted to do
by law. He was found guilty and fined
500.
The Sheriff discharged from office
Deputy Sheriff Levi Joseph and Police
man Charles Lake, both of Kipahulu,
for having some unwarranted connee-
ton with the foregoing cases.
Several other cases for the Illegal sell
ling of intoxicants have been tried at
Makawao and other places recently
Saturday evening Deputy Sheriff Ed
gar Morton arrested three japanese /
gamblers at Kaheka, Paia, and four at
KaIuanui. They all forfeited bail at
the rate of SO each.
On the following Sunday night Dep !
uty Sheriff Morton and two policemen
raided a fan tan game at the keokea,
Kula, Chinese store. The back room
of the store was filled with Chinese
all standing closely packed around
table, eagerly watching the game. The
stakes were not especially heavy ones,
for only a dollar or two in money was
seized by the police.
About S125 in fines and forfeited bail
accrued to the government from the Is
men arrested during the raid.
LAHATNALUNA INDUSTRY.
On Friday of last week the students
of Lahainaluna Seminary began again
to plant their valley lands with taro
after an interval of five or six years.
While Osmer Abbott was principal
of the school, the water supply of the
numerous taro patches in Lahafnaluna
valley was leased to the Lahaina plan
tatfon (Pioneer Mill Coz for $1,000 per
annum. and the rental used to pur-
chase taro for the students.
This course of action, while perhaps
advisable at the time, was a blow at
industrial education and if persisted in
at the present time would seriously
injure the CLASSES of the seminary in
obtaining the $25. 900 subsidy from the
federal government as the agricultural
college of the Territory.
SOBER SECOND THOUGHT.
It is reported that the Kula precinct
club in its recent recommendations to
the Republican sub-eXecutive commit
tee of the island concerning legislative
enactments fatty opposed county gov
eminent. Though it was the only club
on Maui that did so, there seems to
be a growing sentiment that the cues
ton should be considered from a strict
~ financial point of view.
If the establishment of county sys-
tenn means more taxes and an addi-
tfouai cut in the already diminished
salaries of government employees, then
a strong opposition to the measure will
quickly develop. At the present time
the people at large appear apathetic
concerning county government, in strik-
ing contrast to the enthusiastic feel
ing OF two or three years ago.
KAHULUI GROWS AMBITIOUS.
If Madame Rumor. can be relied up
on. Kahului bids fair soon 20 rival
Wailuku. the future county seat. It is
possible that the pretty square in the
center of Kahului now most attractive
with its green sward. young iron~Wood
trees and other vegetation viii be So
Iected as the site of the new Masonic
building of the Maui lodge Another
report is that H. P. Baldwin has Of
fered another Kahului lot for the con-
struction of the new Maui courthouse.
Then. too it is said that the leases
of much of the land at kahuIui now
occupied by japanese stores and
dwellings viii soon expire, but viii not
be renewed by the H. c. & :. Co. All
this furnishes possibilities for an
architectural advance for the seaport
town.
SOCIETY AND SPORT.
Last Saturday evening fancy dress
party was given at the residence or
Mrs D B. Murdoch, Paia The cos
tunes Of the dancers were supposed to
be copies of the caricatures usually
portrayed on the penny comic vaIen-
tine. a most pleasurable evening was
spent by the young people present
The February evening of the RIA
kawao Literary Society took place last
evening in the parIors of the Paia Fer
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manner Of dress or in some other way