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The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-03-06
NEW ARMY
POST WORK

Work on the twenty-nine big build
ings which comprise the quarters at
the new Kahauiki army post is now
about half way to completion. 1--WE
will be done well within the contract
time" said Superintendent H.. H. Bur-
rell. OF the Burrell Construction Co.,
of Oakland. who are the contractors.
I'VE have until September l, and by
that time will have everything clear
ed up and ready to turn over to the
government, so far as the buildings
are concerned"
Except for three of the buildings, one
of which is the guard room, all the
concrete foundations are in and on
the larger buildings the framework is
all up and in some cases the lack of
paint is the only thing which leaves
them unfinished.
So far has the work progressed that
a comprehensive idea of the plan of
the post can now be obtained. Stand
ing at the big administration building
facing Kalihi bay the parade ground
lies before the spectator, encircled by
the buildings. This ground, about for
ty acres in extent, is egg shaped, with
the big end centering' at the admins
tration building and the hospital at
the extreme makai end. On the right
are the houses of the commissioned
officers, three captains and six lieuten-
ants cottages and three non-commis-
stoned officers houses, all facing in on
the parade commons. On the left
are more houses for non-coms. and be-
yond these the two big company's bar
racks. each with sleeping accommoda-
tons for ITO men and each having be-
hind it a large lavatory and bath
rooms. Between these stand the mess
room and kitchen, each company hav-
ing a wing to itself.
Still farther to the left is the Quar-
termaster's and subsistence storehouse
a two-story building 32x1S0 feet in
size with nine foot basement through
out. Without the curve are the sta
bles, wagon house, blacksmith and
carpenters shop and forage storehouse.
extending to the east behind the bar
racks.
The hospital and the guard house
are in the makai end of the ground,
the former facing the administration
building and the guard house stand
ing in isolation within the ring near
the Quartermaster's building.
The carpenter work on the barracks
and the group buildings, the subsist-
ence store house and the administra-
tion building is about done, the sta
bles and shops only require painting,
and the officers quarters and the hos
pital have gone ahead as far as COM
plotting the concrete foundations. Work
on the guard room has only COM
menced.
The place is almost an ideal one for
an army post, swept by the trades in
10 healthfulness and sloping away 10
the sea giving a natural drainage, The
administration building Is on the higher
ground overlooking the other build
ings and the parade grounds, and
military air 10 given TO the place al
The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-03-06
MOST BRUTAL MURDER
Is DONE BY KOREANS.

The Hilo Herald prints the follow
murders ever committed i'm the Terri
tory:
In working up the evidence in the
Korean murder case. an event in the
recent history of Hamakua, Chester
q. Doyle of the Attorney Generals De-
partment has obtained information
that leads him to believe the atroci-
ties committed in connection with the
murder are unequaled in the history of
the islands except by those recounted
at the hearing of the murderer John
son of Waialua.
The victim, it seems. was suspected
of stealing the sum of fifty-six dollars
from one of his countrymen and in Or
der to recover ii a number of them
took the Korean idea of law into their
hands and began an inquisition. They
first chased the man through the cane
fields and when he was captured they
beat him with sticks and stones until
he was exhausted. Then they cody
sat down to rest and drink a glass of
wine. When the victim had sufficient
ly recovered to feel the wrath of his
tormentors he was again assaulted and
cut with knives and to keep him from
fainting they would give him a little
wine.
Finding the treatment not sufficient
to force MIN TO tell what he knew not
the prosecutors turned the thumb
screws a little tighter and threw salt
in his wounds and when he was
thought to be fainting from the pain
hi,
used a saw to cut him in spots. Next
10 salt as an instrument of torture to
be applied to the open wounds, is Japa>
nese soy and the wounds on the poor
fellows body We're stretched open and
a quantity of soy rubbed into them.
Then fire was kindled under a por-
ton of his body and finally the man
cied. The stolen money was not found
among the mans possessions.
1t will be remembered that number
of men said to have been implicated in
the outrage went to Honokaa and con-
fessed their part in the crime and were
afterwards brought to Hilo. Chester
Doyle found the evidence incomplete
and during his stay here he has I'M
raveled a skein that leads to story
of atrocious treatment, as said before.
unprecedented in the history of this is
land, ii not the Territory, and the
charge of murder against five of the
nine men who surrendered has been
augmented to read under arrocious
circumstances" The men will prob
ably be called to trial during the pres
ent term.
Mail advices from Hilo are to the eff
feet that the five men will plead guilty
at the present term of court, and take
the full penalty. Deputy Attorney
General Milverton will have charge of
the prosecution.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-03-06
PARK
APPROPRIATIONS
ARE NOT LEGAL

One of the arguments-a sort of ad
captandum ene-which has been heard
why the county should relieve the
straitened circumstances of the schools
is that the Board of Supervisors has
voted money for the benefit of Kapio-
lani Park.
According to present impressions of
County Attorney f. A. Douthitt, which
are likely soon to crystalline into his
official opinion in writing, the county
has no authority for expanding money
on Kapiolani Park. Mr.. Douthitt was
seen yesterday by an Advertiser rep
resentative and expressed himself as
follows Oh the subject:
Supervisor Adams has made a re-
quest upon me to give an opinion to
the Board of Supervisors upon appro-
priations for Kapiolani Park, that is,
as to their validity.
1T seems to me that the matter is
on a par with the school proposition
and, although l have not gone into
it yet, my ideas and impressions are
inclined to the view that there is no
more authority for the county's inter-
vention in one case than in the other.
Had they asked me for an opinion be-
fore acting, this is probably what l
should have given.
Il did not wish to give an opinion
in either case, because both objects
are good. Now that an opinion has
been asked upon the park question, as
was earlier done with reference to the
schools, by a member of the Board of
Supervisors. l feel it my duty to COM
ply and, as / have said my present
Impression is that / shall be constrain-
ed to render an opinion holding that
parks controlled by the Honolulu Park
Commission are on par with schools
controlled by the Board of Education.
That is the way the matter strikes me
now.
II thoroughly realize the fact that
the appropriations made by the Legis-
lature are not adequate for the schools.
l know that the teachers in this Ter
ritory are absolutely underpaid, as
compared with other states and terri
tories. 1 do not think there is one
that pays its teachers such small SAL
aries as ours receive. 1t is ridiculous
to expect to get a good teacher for $50
or $40 a month. The general run of
teachers salaries here is absurdly
small. My personal ideas would be in
The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-03-06

favor of raise in salaries, but off,
cially my duty is plain to define the
law as l find 1t
1T is the desire of Mr.. Adams to
ascertain just where they stand. II
the appropriations for the park are not
valid, then they should not be made.
When 1t was proposed to expend money
for improving the park, not being ask
ed for an opinion did not care to butt
in. because. as l have remarked. the
object itself was perfectly worthy.
Now that a legal opinion is solicit
ed. however, it is incumbent on me as
law adviser of the Board of Supervis-
ors to go to the bottom of the ques-
ton. What makes me, at first thought.
feel strongly impressed against the
county's expending of money on Kap-
iolani Park Is the fact that there Is a
specific Territorial statute placing that
park under the care and control of
trustees or commissioners. These
trustees are specifically prohibited by
the statute from disposing of any por-
ton OF Kapiolani Park
Indeed the argument against the
appropriations for the park is stronger
than that on which my opinion ad-
verse to the making of school appro-
priations was based. For. while there
is no statute giving the county power
to aid the schools, neither is there
any such specific prohibition of inter-
ference on their behalf as. in the other
matter, the Kapiolani Park legislation
implies
mot that the county is without
jurisdiction of parks. because it has
charge of public roads and grounds in
general, but the question now present
ed has relation particularly to the ex-
pendlture by the County of oahu upon
the Improvement of Kapiolani Park.
This, as already stated, is trenching
upon a matter for which the Legisla
ture has otherwise provided. Any pub
lie grounds not by statute under the
care of the Honolulu Park Commits
sion are on a different footing"
Referring casually to the matter OF
present school necessities, Mr.. Douthitt
said he could not see how the Board
of Education would be able to eXpend
the school tax" money If it We're sur
rendered by the, county.
The money would have to go into
the Territorial treasury as n govern
ment realization" becoming o portion
OF the consolidated current revenue for
drawing against by warrant of the
Auditor This official could not draw
a warrant for one dollar-to pay either
teacher or janitor-over and above
the amount of money appropriated by
the Legislature for the Department of
Education.
As to whether the county can pay
money out directly for aiding the Ter
ritorial schools. County Attorney Dou-
thitt had already by formal opinion
answered in the negative.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-03-06

The death of the widow of America s
famous Civil War admiral recalls the
visit of Admiral Wilkes to Hawaii half
a century ago. The United States Elk
ploring Expedition, commanded by
Commodore Wilkes was at the Islands
from September. 1910, until April, ls4l.
The squadron consisted of the flagship
Vincennes, the sloop.of-war Peacock,
the brig Porpoise and the schooner
Flying Fish, According to Alexander s.
History their intercourse with the king
and people was of the most friendly
nature, while their researches have
proved to be of great value to science.
An observatory was built on the sum
NIT of Mauna Loa and occupied for
three weeks in the middle of winter
and surveys were made of the principal
craters on Hawaii MS well as of all the
important harbors of the group.
Several monuments erected by the
Wilkes party are still pointed out on
Mauna Loa.
Major Wilkes, son of Admiral and
Mrs. Wilkes, resides in Salt Lake City.
Utah. During the Civil War he was in
arms against his father being major
in the Confederate army and he was one
of the engineers who raised the de-
lenses about Charleston and other
southern cities. The Major tells n
story of visit of some Hawaiiaus to
the Admiral s house in Washington,
d. C. He was not certain what their
rank was, but he thought one was a
king and two others princes.
The Admiral had an old negro butler,
who had been in the family service
since long before the war. When the
butler saw the three imposing men, he
went to the Admiral and whispered:
"Massa Wilkes, | have been good
servant to you for many years, haven t
II But | can't wait on people with
brown skins; please ask one of the
other boys to do that" The Admiral
replied: "Why, Lewis, they are
princes in their own country How
ever, when the three princes came
down the staircase, arrayed in their
gorgeous uniforms, Lewis was dazzled
and he was the first to run to wait on
them.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-03-06
FEDERAL CONTROL
INCREASES TRADE

CHICAGO, February 1.-THE occu-
patton of Panama by the United
States Government, and especially its
control OF the Panama railroad. has
had a marked effect upon the Pacific
Coast countries of South and Central
America, according to Paul Gonzen-
bach United States Consular Agent
at Mantn, Ecuadar.
According to Mr.. Gonzenbach, the
control by the United States OF the
Panama railroad ana the consequent
abolition Of the monopoly OF that COM
pany over trade across the isthmus
win increase greatly the exports OF
Central and South American countries
20 the United States. This viii result
N cheapening many necessary articles
II commerce IN the United states,
which hitherto have been exported to
Hamburg Germany, anh thence across
the Atlantic 10 the United States,
The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-03-06
STRENGTHENING FLEET
IN CHINESE WATERS

WASHINGTON, February 15.-The
Government is alarmed by the situa-
ton in China, and is convinced that
the uprising against foreigners there
will not be delayed longer than the
middle of June.
President Roosevelt and his Cabinet
have discussed the threatening state
of affairs in China and decided to pre-
pare II once to defend American lives
and property there.
The cruisers Galveston and Chat
tanooga have been detached from Ad-
miral Sigsbee's European squadron ana
ordered to Chinese waters. Admiral
Trains Asiatic squadron Is already
formidable. 1t consists Of the battle
ships Ohio, Oregon and Wisconsin, the
cruisers Baltimore, Cincinnati. and
Raleigh, the gunboat Concord, the
monitor Monadnock and the river gun
boats Callao, Ell Cano Quiros and VII
lalobos.
The Philippine squadron. which can
be sent to China in two days If need
ed, consists of the cruisers Rainbo..
Adams Charleston, Columbia and
Minneapolis, the gunboats Arayat,
Frolic, Mindora, Pampanga, Paragua.
Eagle and number of auxiliary YES
sells,
one hundred marines now guard the
American Minister and his staff at the
Picking legation, and this guard will be
increased The First and Second In
fantry regiments and the Eighth and
Thirteenth batteries of field artillery
are on the way to Manla-from which
point they can be quickly landed in
China-and more troops Will be sent to
the Philippines.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-03-06
.RUSS|k'S NEW CABINET
IS GOING TO PIECES

ST. PETERSBURG, February 49,
The disruption of the Russian Cabinet,
which was predicted last Friday, is
coming to pass more speedily than was
expected Although Premier Witte and
Minister of the Interior Durnovo re-
main, Minister of Collections Meme
chaeff and Controller of the Empire
Filossofoff, it is stated, will follow
Kutler and Timiriazeff into retirement
in a few days. Finance Minister Ship
off is said also to be slated for re-
tirement.
Nemechaeff has just returned from
swinging around the circle" inspect
ing railways. He is said to have de-
clared that it is impossible to MAIN
tain an efficient service while the po-
lice'are imprisoning the best and most
intelligent of the railroad operators.
The vacancies in the Cabinet probably
will be filled temporarily until the
meeting of the national assembly by
the promotion Of vice ministers.
Timiriazeff has severed his connec>
ton with the bureaucracy and will
come out as a full-fledged parlia-
mentarian. He has been offered the
leadership of the party of commerce
and industry, one Of the most import
ant factions Of the Constitutional Mon
archist Federation and will be its can
didate for the national assembly.
The retiring Ministers propose to
train their artillery on NJ lister OF the
Interior Durnovo and to lay the re-
sponsibility for reaction at his door.
While disorder prevails here. the
note OF alarm is sounded at Moscow.
1t is doubtful II the revolutionists can
precipitate another outbreak there, but
their brethren in ST. Petersburg are
plainly expectant of big developments.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-03-06

same influence as formerly. say Is to
20 years AFRO. when the consumption
of Brazil coffee here was only mill
ion nals,
The trade has been buying with
yreat caution in this country, and with
still greater reluctance in Europe, so
uhat 1t is highly probable that interior
stocks are kept within the closest
range of necessities
No. Rio today is nominal at 1Sc.
Rio Is are quoted Mt &c. and Santos As,
&c. to 1-Sc., regular store terms
February options. week ending Feb
ruary Is: Highest, $50 to eos; lowest,
$50 to 6.s5: closing, $50 to 6.S5, against
last year closing 6.S5 to $780,. No. :
asst year, $ 3-Sc."
The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-03-06
HIGHER COFFEE PRICES
SEEM ALMOST ASSURED

That an era of high prices for coffee
Is approaching seems almost a certain
ty Willett e. Gray's estimate of the
visible supply of the world on Febru-
airy is 1881, 63l bags, against 1854, sos
on January 1, 1906, and 1881, 72O bags
on February l, 1905. A reduction of L.
$50, 0S9 bags, in comparison of even
dates last year and this, makes an
encouraging prospect for the superior
coffee Hawaii Is able to contribute to-
ward meeting the steadily increasing
demand.
Willett & Gray's Journal of Febru-
AIRY Is contains the following very in
teresting remarks on the coffee situa-
ton:
IGNORING OF FACTS.
"At present it is fact that the cof-
fee world is willing to ignore the actual
position, desires to ignore what is
plainly to be seen and more willing to
lay attention to that which is in the
future, unseen and unknown.
THE present Rio and Santos crops
are running much below what was
confidently expected and this naturally
leads importers to inquire as to the ex-
tent of the balance of the crop. In
some cases answers have been received
that it is supposed the Rio receipts are
held back owing to the heavy rains
and landslides on railroads, also tina.
the Santos receipts may possibly not
The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-03-06

reach the total which had been expect
ed, but the Brazilians do not give fig
ures for the balance of the crop. which
Is more properly expressed by saying
they are not able to tell. They know
all about the next crop, but do not
know how much is left of this one! OF
course, the current crop is getting close
to finish, and If the Brazilians know
anything at all they should be able to
give an intelligent idea about what Is
left of the current crop.
Their inability to judge of the i'm
mediate future and professed ability
to know all about that which has not
yet occurred ought to impress the
trade with the Importance of forming
judgment more upon facts, and less
on future possibilities. 1t must also
be known that the Brazilians can only
make estimates of the future by COM
parison with the present there being
no other possible way of arriving at
figures. So If they do not know the
extent of the balance of the present
crop it is easily seen how little weight
attaches to their estimates of the flu
ture.
CONSUMPTION INCREASING.
with the fact that consumption
continues so much ahead of produc-
ton, the only restraining feature to an
advance in prices is the accumulation
OF stocks from former years. but then
these are diminishing very rapidly, and
with the consumption of Brazil coffee
in the United States alone Of 6 million
bags, larger stocks do not have the
The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-03-06
OLAA TO GIVE
ONE ACRE
LOIS

Yesterday Lorrin A. Thurston, presi-
dent of Olaa Sugar Company. who re-
turned from Hawaii by the Kinau was
asked in regard to what had been done
at Oiaa in connection with homestead
ing laborers. He replied that the COM
pany had recognized the justice of the
claim being made by Portuguese Ia
borers already on the plantation that
they were entitled to consideration as
we'll as new immigrants, and the COM
pany had therefore decided to offer
homesteads to laborers now working
on the place who would stay with the
company for a term of three years.
Mr.. Thurston stated that while he
was at the plantation he consulted
with Manager Watt in regard to the
matter, and Mr.. Watt is entirely In
accord with the policy. An inspection
of the plantation was made by Mr..
watt and Mr.. Thurston and a 2O0-acre
tract of land situate near the "1l-mile
post on the Volcano road was selected
as the site to be cut up into home
steads of one acre each.
A house costing between $3.50 and
$500, with 1000 gallon water tank, will
be furnished to each Portuguese Ia
borer who will agree to stay with the
company for a term of three years.
The wages to be paid are the same
az the laborers are now receiving.
They will also receive free fire-wood
and medical attendance, and hospital
services for which a charge of from
10 to Is cents a month is made for
each laborer and his family.
The offer was Immediately accepted
by a number of the Portuguese work
ing on the plantation and the indica-
tons are that practically all of them
will take ii up.
If there is a demand for more land
than the location already selected
other sites will also be set apart. Later
on another village site will be laid
out near Mountain View on the upper
Olaa land.
Surveyor Thrum is already engaged
in laying out the lands at "11-mile'
and the erection of buildings will be
proceeded with Immediately. The land
being utilized is of the best cane lands
on the plantation. 1t is land from
which a crop has just been harvested
and was in process of preparation for
planting another crop when set aside
for demonstrating.
The company is of the opinion that
it is a wise investment as it will make
the laborers more comfortable and tend
to make them more contented and less
liable to want to leave.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-03-06
WHooPING COUGH.

The quick relief afforded by Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy in eases of
whooping cough, makes il favorite
with the mothers of small children.
This remedy liquifes the tough mucus
making 1t easier to expoetorate, keeps
the cough loose and counteracts any
tendency toward pneumonia. For sale
by all Dealers aud Druggists, Benson,
Smith a. Co., Ltd, Agents for Hawaii.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-03-06

PALMER WOODS AND BAKER
CONTROL THE tiILO ''HERALO'

j. T. Stacker has resigned the oshp of the o Herald His
and
controlled Burns formerly
of the Star, Loa and
umored that he is edoshp
Burns received wireless Friday nrung
the Mauna
Palmer Woods a Democrat National
meeman for the Hawaiian
Ruler and later supporter Kuhi
dependent,
The statement has been a
but this is denied by those
TO make the paper independent,
The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-03-06
WIDOW OF ADMIRAL
WILKES PASSES AWAY

FLORENCE, Italy, Feb. 19.-Mary
Wilkes, widow of Rear Admiral Wilkes,
U. S. NJ, is dead. Mrs. Wilkes, who was
eighty-five years of age, was attended
by her daughter during her last mo-
ments.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-03-06
CHINESE IN MANILA
LOOKING FOR TROUBLE

MANILA, February 2l.-Major- Cen
eral Leonard Wood VIII leave here
Saturday for two weeks tour OF in
spection on the island OF Mindanao.
This trip OF the commanding general
Indicates that no immediate movement
of troops to China is contemplated.
The Chinese In Manila, tflieving
that trouble Is imminent, are limiting
their business contracts to their coun-
trymen In China.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-03-06

The Supreme Court sits this morning
and may have some decisions TO hand
down,
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1906-06-29

-Four out of ten applicants for vacan-
cies in the force of apprentices en-
ployed in the various trades at the
Norfolk navy yard were rejected by
naval surgeons on Tuesday because
they smoked cigarettes. The ediet
has gone forth that the government
wants no cigarette smokers in its skill
ed force. The baneful effects Of
cigarettes have often been set forth BY
medical men, and the time has come
when those using the same are debarred
from securing positions thereby, as
they are believed to impair the respon.
sibility, especially of young persons.