The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-12-10
H|lO CRAFT
QUESTION
Grand JuryReport Does
Not Convince
Board.

| HILO. December Five true bills
were found by the grand jury before
Judge Parsons. The grand jury could
| find no evidence of fraud in the pay
rolls of the South Hilo road board.
Attention was called to delinquency
guardians. a case was stated of a
| guardian of his own minor children
VINO kept no accounts of the trust,
thinking it was not necessary as he
was supporting the children and spend
ing the income of their estate for their
own benefit. One of the bondsnen of a
guardian absconded a year or more ago
and now he is without sufficient bonds.
Notwithstanding the grand jury's re-
port of no fraud in the road payrolls,
sat,c strong affidavits We're presented
to the contrary at last meeting of the
Board of Supervisors, on the strength
of which a special investigating COM
nlittee was appointed.
Supervisor o. T. Shipman, having
failed to induce the Board of Super
visors to reopen the award of a con-
tract for road machinery to the Homo
telegram to the company on his own
responsibility holding up the contract.
He had been absent when the contract
was voted and contended that it was
void as being against the provision OF
the County Act forbdding the con-
tracing of debts beyond the income in
any fiscal year. At last meeting of
the board Shipman had his way to the |
extent of having special committee
appointed to investigate the matter. |
Mr.. Metzger of Hilo was ready to bid |
for the contract, but had been unable |
at first to do so on account of short
notice given.
County Auditor Mcguire is quoted |
as saying there is a debit balance of !
S367S in the county general fund ac-
count, but credit balance of $31, 140. 90 |
in the road fund account, with 81, 900
forthcoming from the Territory to the
county. According to the Herald the
debit balance is understated by the
Auditor, as SO warrants are registered
aggregat ting s6431.9S.
Officers and trustees of the Hilo Pub
lie Library were reelected as follows:
President, Mrs. L. Severance; vice
president, G. c. Kennedy; secretary,
Adam Lindsay; treasurer, E. E. Rich
ards; trustees, ]. A. Scott, Dr. F. NJ.
Wetmore, E. y. Holmes. Rev. c. E.
Shields. A. S. LeBaron Quincy. The
librarian. Miss Trowbridge. reported
that there had been a daily average
attendance during the past year of
c. NJ. LIE Blond was the orator at the
annual memorial service of the Elks.
exalted Ruler Campion conducted the
'ftual and a quartet rendered the
music
The steamer Helene on Wednesday ,
anded "a families of the Portuguese
Who came to the islands in the Suveric
They comprise 215 persons and are now
ettled on four plantations near here I
DR.. c. B. Greenfield has made claim {
N the county for the value of a buggy /
wrecked on account of the absence of t
lights on a road under construction /
'wo of the doctors daughters We're a
irving the rig and one of them was
brown out when the horse fell down t
n the obstruction but as neither of II
he young ladies was injured no claim a
made by their father of personal Ii
t
t Kohala, the line of the new ir- f
lgation ditch. was killed by a landslide E
aused by the heavy rains of Thanks
living Day. He lived at the edge of h
ali and section of bank gave way Il
nd buried his little home. The body a
as recovered on the following day. p