The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-03-27
INDUSTRIAL NEWS.

IN N II w
W. H. Field, the insurance man, paid
the Nahiku rubber men a visit last
week, and is just bouncing" with joy
of the new industry, he being a stock
holder. Everything is elastic Rub
Der foot thick and a yard wide. has
been manufactured from Hugh How
ellis trees.
Mrs. Mossman's and w. Hardy's in
dependent plantations are in splendid
sery, which bids fair to keep up with
the new company.
The thing most needed in our appro-
priation from the loan fund is to COM
plete the belt road. so that small farm
ers will be able to go into the fruit
business, principally bananas. Mr..
Hardy of Nahiku has over one thou
sand lunches in bearing of the Ha-
waiian variety known as the Kahiki
species. For cooking they cannot be
excelIed. He will not be able to get
a single bunch to market simply on
account of the miserable condition of
the roads.
L. Barckhausen, manager of Pioneer
Mill Co. will leave shortly for an ex-
tended trip to the coast and possibly
to the fatherland. c. L. Scrimger, the
chief engineer. will assume the reins
of management during Mr.. Barckhau-
sens absence
Puunene mill has turned out about
$4,000 tons of sugar to date and at the
present rate of progress will be through
grinding early this year.
FATALLY BURNED.
Ivan Burrows, the six-year-old step
son of John Scoble, an employee of the
Wailuku Sugar Co, was fatally burn
ed last Wednesday by the upsetting
of a candle in his room. 1t is supposed
that the child was playing with a can
die which had been left burning. The
boys mother. who was out in the yard
heard the childs cry and ran to it's as
sistance, and managed to extinguish
the blaze after the childs left side
had been burned. Every assistance was
rendered. but on Friday evening the
little boy passed away.
CRIMINAL MATTERS.
Sheriff Baldwin received a telephone
message Sunday from Deputy Witt
rock that two Porto Ricans had been
caught in Hononaunau with a demi-
john of okolehao. One of the men was
landed in Hama jail and the other,
who got away, is now being looked
for and will probably be apprehended
in few days.
People in Keanae are very much ex-
cited over the grand jury Investigations
of the Keanae homestead scandals and
sincerely hope that the principal Gull
prit Will be severely dealt with by the
government. This is what the grand
jury has said about it: In the matter
of the application of the residents of
keanae for homesteads we are unable
to come TO a final decision from lack
of evidence
Miss a. u. Hadley. teacher of La
haina, has received the sad news of
the death of her father, Theodore D.
Hadley. He passed away unexpected
ly at his home in Kennett Square. Pa.
near Philadelphia, on February %.
The road between Keanae and Kali
lua, built by Wilson & Duggan. is
nearing completion and bids fair to
rival the celebrated Alps for scenery.
The kailua section to Peahi will be
started about the first of the month.
A Hama correspondent of the News
says: The Hama district favors a
wide-open Sunday law. We are dead
enough as it is with six Sundays week
days.
The dry spell on Central Maui was
broken by a good downpour of rain
early Thursday morning.