The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-10-27
WEEDS RUN
RIOT THERE
Jois and Ivy Are Hard
to Keep Down in
Hamakua.

KuaweIa was the first witness called, |
in the Parker ranch case yesterday, |
his examination being confined to the |
familiar subject of noxious weeds. Jois |
were plenty in parts of the Paauhau |
paddock and parts were not covered, |
but the witness was shy as to the APP |
proximate proportions. When he was
asked as TO conditions outside of the
paddocks he cheerfully answered that
the weed was all over Hamakua, but
fagoon hastened to confine him to the
Parker ranch. where it f1ourshed in
a degree that could not be expressed
in figures. The witness had been one
of the gang of five to root it up but
where the ivy was destroyed it grew
again.
Upon cross-examination Kinney de-
veloped that the witness had seen jobs
in Hamakua ever since he was boy
and that he never knew any ranch that
had cut them down. Work on the ivy
| had been suspended about six weeks
| the weather was so wet that it was
| impossible to burn it. The reason that
| he had testified that Kalopa paddock
| had been abandoned because of jois
was that his luna told him so about
five months ago.
| The usual question as to the witnesses
| relationship to Sam Parker or Eben
Low brought forth that the witness
was a brother of Eben Lows step
father.
| Are there any relatives of Low left
in Hamakua or are they all down
here?'' asked Kinney sarcastically.
You do not call that relationship,
do you?" put in Magoon.
| 1T is very close relationship in Ha-
waiian," answered Kinney and turn
| ing to the witness asked: Are not
Jack Low and Eben Low your children
according to Hawaiian custom?'
| Yes answered the witness, they
are my keikis in Hawaiian fashion
| Sam Mahuka, bookkeeper of the
ranch, was next called to the stand.
Magoon asked him statistical questions
| which necessitated long searching
| through the books of the ranch until
| the court intimated that this work
might have been done before the wit
ness was placed on the stand, and the
case was adjourned until half past one
to enable the required information to
be looked up.
| AT half past one the statistics were
not ready and Mr.. Wagner was called
to the stand. He was the most inter-
L.,
in the hog business all his life and on
two occasions had ridden across Wal
mea with his brother, who had remark
ed that the Parker ranch looked like
good hog country. He was therefore
produced as an expert and readily told
how many filters of pigs could be ex-
pected to arrive every year and how
much they ought to weigh. He made
out a menu consisting of alfalfa, arti-
chokes and corn which was warranted
to put the fat on hogs rapidly and in
certain definite proportions. When,
however, MagOon led him to the sub
ject of the cost of operations on the
Parker ranch he Immediately disclaim-
| ed any knowledge of the cost of
freight, lumber, wages or anything else
| that went to make up the cost of oper-
| ations. and the court relentlesSly SuS-
| tanned objections to Magoon showing
net profits under these circumstances.
! On cross-examination it developed
| that while the witness knew a great
| deal about killing hogs, his only ex-
! perience with raising them had been
| in a corral in San Francisco and in Ka-
| lihi valley. His brother, who had made
the remark concerning the Parker
| ranch, had been the hog farmer of the
| family, and the witness was gracefully
| excused from giving further evidence.
! The bookkeeper was then recalled to
] the stand and asked the cost of various
| paddocks and other improvements on
| the ranch. Magoon also wanted many
! things which the books did not show,
! including the areas of the paddockS, the
number of dead cows that had been
seen, the number of hogs on the ranch
at any given time, and the number of
cattle at periods between the annual
drives. Magoon also quarreled with the
| bookkeeping system because the dis
position of the cattle in the various
paddocks was only on the monthly
statements and did not appear in any
book Both the attorneys had prepared
statistics of the cattle in the paddocks
and most of the afternoon was con-
sumed in checking this over.