The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1906-11-19
LOCAL BREVITIES.

/ Hilo is TO have standard time anC
the church clock be governed accord
ingly.
The late Harriet F. Coan's estate ha:
been inventoried, in probate in Hilo
at $17.97367.
| There viii be work in the first degree
this evening at the meeting of Harmony
| lodge in l. o. O. F. hall.
J Walter Andrews. infant child OF
Joseph A. Andrews, 13 miles. Olaa
died on Sunday before last of pneu-
monia
Leahi Chapter No. ?. Eastern Star
meets this evening at 7:3O o'clock
in Masonic Temple. All visiting sisters
and brethren are cordially invited tc
attend.
The recent purchaser of a lot in the
Palolo tract has camped thereon with
his family beneath an algaroba tree
pending such time as he can have a
house erected.
Machinery for the Hilo pineapple
cannery, to have a capacity of 10. O0O
cases a year, will be shipped in the
steamer Texan from New York on De-
cember TO-
b. F. Dillingham; after a visit there
reports the crop prospects excellent at
Olaa plantation. The new variety of
cane is proving a success, and Olaa is
apparently going to have fine year.
The box plan for Mrs. Wiggs Of the
Cabbage Patch,'' will be opened at
Wall, Nichols Co.'S store today. Tickets
can be exchanged there for seat cou-
pons. The play is presented on Thurs
day and Saturday of this week.
With the advent of Editor Henshall,
the Hawaii Herald resumed it's old
place at the head of the Hilo press.
1t must be a great satisfaction to the
Herald's readers to find their favorite
paper again under intelligent control
Harry E. Richards, brother of Man
ager E. c. Richards of the Hilo tele-
phone company and who visited Hi1o
not long ago, has been appointed train
master of the Union Pacific railway,
for the section from Junction city to
Ellis.
1t is rumored with considerable posi-
tiveness that Oahu Railway & Land Co.
will shortly declare a two per cent
dividend. 1t pays one-half per cent.
monthly straight along. The rumored
dividend, if it materialiZe, will prob
ably be a special one.
According to the law there is a pen
atty of d fine OF not more than $500,
or imprisonment at hard labor for six
months, or both fine and imprisonment,
for any candidate failing to file a
statement of his campaign expenses.
Under decisions later than the law, the
hard labor must be cut out, as the Of
fense is a misdemeanor
Gus Rose, of the Treasurer's office
spent a week in Hilo collecting license
fees, principally among Japanese. He
found that collections had already been
pretty thoroughly made by Sheriff Ke-
olanui, and there was not much to be
done there. He left for the Hamakua
coast and will visit all parts of the
island before returning to Honolulu.
Members of the Mystic Shrine in Hilo
are discussing a proposal to have the
next hot sands walking conducted
on the floor of the crater of Kilauea.
They figure that the initiatory cere-
mony in such a place would make Ha-
waiian masonry world-renowned. An
idea is to have such an
event await a Shriners' excursion from
the mainland.
Yamada Yinchiro, a Japanese who
has been wanted since September %
for the murder of a woman of his ma
ton, was found dead in a Pepeekeo |
canefeld. It is supposed he committed
suicide. The murder was an atrociouS
one. the victim having been knitted re-
peatedly. On the night before the deed |
Yamada had sold the woman to a fell !
w-countryman.
Among the Portuguese immigrants |
with the crowd coming on the |
Suveric early next month, the Hawaii |
Herald is informed, is a Portuguese 67 |
years of age, who some years ago |
worked in this Territory under. con-
ract. Another of the immigrants is
7oung Portuguese who is said to have
wasted a torture of $4,000 and who
las a cousin in Hilo. !
The wedding of DR.. Fred. Irwin OF
)laa and Miss Florence Mckenzie, OF
4airg, Inverness, Scotland, took place
asst Wednesday evening at the resi-
Ience of Mr.. and Mrs. Patten, of Hilo
The bride is sister of James NC
<enzie of Hakalau, and it was While
he was visiting her brother some
months ago that she met her future
husband. The ceremony was perform