Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1906-03-19


that company are to hold communion
with each other. In conversation with
the manager of the transportation
company he mentioned, casually OF
course. the price at which Dillingham;
would carry freight. Tor the hgures
were as green in his memory as they
were legiple on the leaf of the menu
orandum pad lying on his desk at his
Office in the-but no matter. When ex-
Judge Humphreys settled in Honolulu
as a plain practitioner before the courts
in the first circuit his first question TO
a Juror after learning his name was
Are you related to the defendant by
marriage or consanguinity? That
question was prompted, have always
thought, by the fact that in the early
days the families of the pioneer set
tiers in Hawaii were so connected by
ties of blood or marriage that one
could not step on the toes of a resident
OF Punahou without someone In Nuu
anu valley feeling the pain. mention
this merely as suggestion TO other
promoters: in dealing with the man
who draws INTEREST," rom bank stocks,
first ask him II he cuts coupons from
the bonds OF the transportation COM
panies, otherwise the scheme may fail.
Senator Woods came down out OF
the Mills the other day to view his lat
est acquisition-the HilO Herald. and
now II is authoritatively denied that he
writes the Coffee Shop talk in that
journal. Nor will he use the columns
of the paper for his personal aggran-
diZement To own a newspaper is
lad with him and is really the only
visible evidence that he has waxed fat
In the stock business. AS a diversion
he says he may contribute to the
Helps to the Farmer column of the
Herald but beyond that he will not go.
| have heard said that Senator Woods
Is the only successor that can be found
10 himself for the next Legislature ana
that he can 20 to Washington as a del
egate II he desires That seems to be
another evidence of his popularity on
this island.
| talked with Mr.. Cooper the other
day when he was here on the subject OF
settlement associations and learned
from him that II Is the wish OF the gov
eminent to divide up the lands for set
tiers and TO give local people the same
opportunities as are offered the Molo-
kans or any other outsiders. In so far
as the Hakalau lands are concerned
Commissioner Pratt Is willing that
each man in the association shall have
twenty acres OF land on the outside of
Hakalau. being a portion OF the lease
hold OF that plantation company, or
three acIes II the land selected hap
AZ, IA To-, Ha xslt O.. 10 haV
Is quite satisfactory TO a majority OF
the members but he put a condition
TO the end OF the offer or proposal, To
the effect that each settler must live
on the land and not keep his family
there while he spent his time making
u living in the metropolis OF the island.
And there the settlers kick in u mild
sort OF wey. The lands are worth to
the plantation company about three
hundred dollars an acre and at that
value they should yield sufficient rev
enue to maintain family In splendor.
II this clause Is insisted upon by the
government II means that Hilo will
lose more OF its valuable citizens. for a
majority OF the applicants are residents
off this place.
A pineapple cannery is among the
possibilities OF Hilo. Mind you, | say
possibilities, for there is some opposi-
ton, not to the result but to the plans
OF the proposed corporation and II may
be another instance OF the donkey and
the two stacks OF hay. The protector OF
the scheme IL l.. A. Andrews, who took
II up after II had been buffeted for a
couple of years by the waves Of adverse
comment on the part OF many who have
prayed for diversified industries. An
drews. acting upon the advice OF few
conservative people, wants to have a
cannery that will be a part OF com
pany organized to cultivate pineapplcs
And just NJ that point the opposition
arises. Some OF the men who have
money TO invest believe that the cul-
tivatlng side OF the business should be
delegated to people who have small
tracts OF land and who will be induced
to enter into contracts 10 grow the
fruit for the cannery. On the other
hand the men who believe In cultiya-
ton are asking who is to furnish the
grist for the mill in the event OF tn,
small holders OF land going into other
business lust at time when the fruit
is needed. So far number OF persons
have bought shares and there is a like
lihood OF greater number being taken
; Andrews is working practically alone
: and his success has been marked, The
people here feel that something Il
/ needed to stop the exodus TO the states
, and they believe the cannery will, IN Q
measure, act as a counter irrltant Il
, the inducements offered at the Coast,
Ed Paris and Tom Birmingham have
: been doing this side OF the island IN
an automobile. SO far as Hilo is con
termed autos are old tales but out IN
the country they are not common anS
! the result is all Of the live stock along
= the line are not equal TO the shocl
caused by the doleful music OF The
: honk as a machine butts around {
, curve. There Is no record OF the mum
. Der OF hand springs turned by stray
r burIos when Paris sped into a bunci
A but Charlie Dement, will tell you tina
; the pair OF horses drawing the bugg!
, in which he rode from Hilo TO HOnOkai