The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-12-17
FINE SIGHT
At VOLCANO
Notes of Progress--The
Graft Charge
Items.

Il VI 1ifhictiidOIIciu ." cS lISl ItOllCSd "a
week ago Saturday but since then it
has increased greatly. Last Saturday
night there was a great display which
was viewed by a number of visitors
who had gone up the mountain for the
special purpose. Three lakes of fire
were found to be boiling turbulentIy
at depth of about five hundred feet.
Fountains of lava were spouting from
them continuously. A succession of
explosions and the continual swish of
the disturbed lava added to the i'm
pressiveness of the occasion. The most
remarkable display occurred at 1920
when there was a sudden flow from
a corner of the pit which had been
dark before. The forbidding black
rock split open with a roar and a tor
rent that looked like molten gold
sprung forth. The unusual brilliancy
lit up the whole pit AS the flow con-
tinued the color changed from bright
yellow to pink and then to an angry
scarlet.
Manager C. c. Kennedy of the Wal
akea Mill Company in a letter from
San Francisco says Henry Deacon, who
accompanied him, was well and adds:
San Francisco is no place now to go
to spend a few weeks. 1t looks to me
like no place at all. 1t is simply a
picture of desolation."
ington by L. A. Thurston, as part of
the data to be used in urging the Hilo
breakwater proposition, said Land
Commissioner Pratt, was a statement
lie lands which might be made settled
quickly if there We're only a suitable
harbor at Hilo. The breakwater
would be followed by overland rail-
roads. and it was pointed out in my
letter to Mr.. Thurston on the subject,
that a railroad would cause the set
Element of lands which are now idle
because, though capable of producing
valuable crops, they are not within
reach of a market The breakwater
anu lIie IdiliOdu WHICH, Will lOlIOW WILL
make a city of Hilo in no time. The
lack of a harbor is what is now pre-
venting the profitable use of a lot of
land.
The Kinau recently brought a lot of
machinery and four miles of railroad
track for the Hawaiian Mahogany
Lumber Company, which is working on
a railway from behind the Volcano
House to the Volcano House road at
Shipman's place. Surveying has al
ready been done for the road, and
work has been begun on grading for
the tracks. The railroad line is to
haul the koa logs, which the Mahog-
any company is cutting, from the for
ests to the government road. With
the rails came an engine and other
machinery
The land office is about to offer land
to settlers in two places on this is
land The Onomea Sugar Company is
some leases of Kaapoko lands
and they will be offered for home
steads, and arrangements are being
made to settle about fifty or sixty
families on homesteads at
on lands for which the leases
are nearly expiring. These two prop
ositions, and the settlement of the mat
are claimed to have failed to comply
with the law, were the occasion Of
Commissioner Pratt's visit to Hilo til.
week
Attorney Irwin is reported to be
slated for the office of deputy county
attorney. The appointment lies with
County Attorney Williams, subject to
the approval of the Board of Supervi-
5ors. Under the rule of the fusion con-
vention, the Democratic county COM
nittee is urging the appointment of a
Democrat. and as the board fixes the
salary, the board has considerable to
say in the matter. N. w. Aluli, the
present deputy may remain, however.
A similar state of affairs exists in the
office of County Clerk Pua, whose late
opponent, Ewaliko, has been mentioned
or the deputyship. Sheriff Keolanui,
t is said, has declined to recognize the
recommendations
T. J. Ryan has sent a new commu-
lication to the Board of Supervisors in =
he matter of the alleged road graft, ,
which is now under investigation. :
RYAN has also made and transmitted
IN affidavit regarding the matter adj ,
led in handwriting to one of the affl- r
Iavits, which matter, according to =
.dded after the document was sworn .
o. Still another affidavit shows the in +
-estigators where, it is alleged. more /
estimony as to the graft may be sec
red.
The Piano club was very enjoyably |
last Wednesday afternoon i
" Mrs Jarrett T. Lewis. Among
hose who took part in the program
we're Mrs. L. Severance, Mrs. Marsh, |
fiss Catherine Westervelt. Miss Lilinoe |
4apai. Miss Potter, Miss Bertha w
stevens. and Mrs. Lewis.
Yasube Sasake. a Honokaa japanese
n the last stage of consumption. com
nitted suicide lasc Saturday by slash- |
ng himself in the abdomen.
The Rev. H. H. Wyman and Rev. H. |
stark, the San Francisco Pau1st
athers now in Honolulu. will soon
ONE here TO deliver a course of lee
ures.