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Gilpin observer., 1907-03-07
REcALCiTRANT UTES.
Refuse to Return to Reservation in
Utah.

Fort Meade, S. D.-That it will be-
come necessary to use troops to force
the band Of Ute Indians in camp near
here to return to their reservation in
Utah became apparent when Captain
Hall, agent at the Uintah reservation,
arrived with the announced intention
of taking the Indians back. Chief Red
Cap declared again that under no cir
cumstances would he and his band re-
turn to the agency. and much less with
Captain Hall, whom, he says, his tribe
cordially hates.
The news that Hall had arrived
caused much excitement in the Indian
village, and the bp .Rs were loud in
their declarations that they would fight
to the death rather than return.
Threats were made against the life of
the agent should he visit the village.
and Chief Red Cap hurried to the fort,
where he held a pow-wow with Hail.
and advised him not to show himself
to the Indians. Captain Hall as a re-
suit did not visit the camp.
Gilpin observer., 1907-03-07

Berliners are congratulating them
selves on the gradual disappearance
of their second-class cabs and the
multiplication of auto-cabs. The latest
count showed that of the cabs Of all
kinds, 7,713 altogether, 503 were au.
tomobiles All of these are in such
great demand that their receipts often
rise to SIS day, and never fall below
five dollars. They are allowed to
charge seven cents more than ordi-
nary cabs. The number of auto-om-
nibuses was 947. as against 3.343
street cars. These ominbuses make
almost as good time as the auto-cabs.
Accidents rarely happen, largely ow-
ing to the abundant supply of police
men. At the Potsdamer Platz alone
there arc Ia of them, and they have
very little to do, their mere presence
making the drivers and chauffeurs
careful to observe the ordinances.
Gilpin observer., 1907-03-07
WEIGHING TIE MAILS.
Elementary Principles of Arithmetic
Will Now Prevail.

WIN 'NSNN TiSNdIIs
Washington.-One of the last official
acts of Mr. Cortelyou as postmaster
general was the issuance of the follow
ing order: ~ fl'E
THAT whenever the weight of mail
is taken on railroad routes the whole
number Of days the mails are weighed
shall be used as a divisor for obtaining
the average weight per day"
For many years it has been the prac-
t1ce of the Postoffice Department of
hcials, In determining the average
daily weight of mail carried by rail-
roads, to use as divisor of the total
weight only the number of what the
law termed working" days, six days
In each week, Sundays being omitted.
Mail is carried every day, including
Sundays, and in obtaining the total
weight Of the mail carried by given
railroad, the weight of the mail car
ried on Sundays was included. 1t is
the custom to weigh the mails every
foui years for ninety successive"
working days. The weight of the mails
carried Sundays being included, the
total number Of days the mail weight
actually was taken aggregated 105 in
the three months weighing
Instead of dividing the total for the
1O5 days by 105 to obtain the average
daily weight, it was divided by ninety,
the number of working days" This
system was of immense advantage to
the railroads, as by it their average
daily weight, on which they were paid
by the government was increased ma
terially.
Much criticism of the system was
made in and out of Congress, but the
railway mail officials stood squarely on
their Interpretation of the law and con-
tinued to use as divisor ninety in
stead of 105.
Hereafter, unde1 to-day's order, the
actual number Of days for which the
weight of mail is taken will be used as
the divisor, SO that if a railroad carries
mail seven days each week, it's average
daily weight will be determined by the
contrary, road carries mail only on
| the six working days, the divisor will
not include Sundays. This system, it
is regarded by Mr.. Cortelyou, will in
sure absolute fairness both to the rail-
roads and the government.
Gilpin observer., 1907-03-07
LEGISLATIVE NEWS AND GOSSIP

The House passed on second reading
Fetzer's bill providing for constit,l-
tional amendment by which the people
can vote on bond issue to refund out
standing warrants to the amount or
1926, ,9346S. This does not include the
war debt" contracted during Gov
ernor Peabody's administration. bill
is pending providing for a constitu-
tional amendment to liquidate that
debt, which. with interest, amounts to
something like $1,OO0,OOO. Fetzer ex-
planned that his bill provided for the
warrants covering the period from
1887 to 1897, including those of the no.
torious "robber Seventh" Two consti-
tutional amendments for bond issues
to cover this debt have been voted
down, for the reason, as Fetzer ex-
planned, that they included some ille-
gal warrants and also interest. The
bill now under consideration provides
only for the face value of the war
rants. 1t does not include $4,000
worth of warrants designated as
graft" by the Supreme Court nor in
terest on any portion of the debt.
Three-fifths of the warrants are held
by the school fund, and if the bonds
are issued it will give the fund three
pSI cent. Interest, WHeTe HOW IL Beto
nothing. Fetzer stated that the war
rant holders, as a whole, had expressed
themselves as being willing to accept
face value, foregoing the interest,
which now amounts to more than the
warrants themselves. The following
table shows the debt by years:
Warrants for 1887 and prior $130,77G.1
Warrants for 1888 and prior. 77,555.G5
Warrants for 1889 and prior. SIC. .704.2S
Warrants for 1892 and prior. 6,l5343
Warrants for 1898 and prior. 5,932.53
Warrants for 1894 and prior. 32,316.13
Warrants for 1897 and prior. 2,4959S
Total ...............$ .$S25, 5,93i6S
Cannon and Young of Denver wanted
action deferred in order to substitute
a bill by Young which includes all out
standing warrants, the war debt added,
but the effort failed.
Gilpin observer., 1907-03-07
Kills VS.. Trousers.

A Scot has written for the London
journals an argument in favor of
wearing kits. especially in cold
weather. A fashionable physician of
London supports his argument. and
the Tailor and Cutter admits that
the streets would be made more pic
turesQde, furthermore the kilt would
put an end to "baggy-kneed trousers"
A pair of trousers that bag at the
knees is indeed loathsome object.
The question of wearing kits is
not one of leg exposure to the cold
of winter, nor is it one of compara
tive durability and economy lin ma
terial. 1t is chiefly question of
legs, remarks Boston Herald. The
Psalmist said of the Lord: "He
taketh not pleasure in the legs
of man" Nevertheless, civilized
man, a vain thing, vainer than the
average woman, is conscious of his
legs. They must be sculptured if the
kilt is to be donned. Thackeray's
marquis of Flarintosh appeared at
Partisan court balls in his uniform of
the Scotch archers or in his native
Glenlivat tartan, and he thought there
was no handsomer young nobleman;
but look at Doyle's picture of him,
and 10, he was a sight. We may all
be deceived in this respect. The
most bow-legged may fondly imagine
that his left at least is poem. There
are eminent statesmen, judges, phil
anthropists who, killed, would appear
as inconsiderable beings, things of
naught, yet they may rise superior
to baggy trousers or even to those
worn at half-maSt.
Gilpin observer., 1907-03-07

A Chicago woman says that 1t is
'inhuman cruelty" to tax bachelors.
because bachelors cannot help being
bachelors. She holds that many men
try in vain to win wife and give up
in despair. This leads the Baltimore Sun
to say the Chicago women have
almost as peculiar views. 1t seems, as
the Chicago men.
Gilpin observer., 1907-03-07

The waiting maids in Ottawa, Can,
belong to the Servant Girls union, and
refuse to serve dinner after six
O'Clock. They expect the aid of the
cook-ladles and the dishwashing dam.
sells, who will undoubtedly encourage
them with sympathetic strike.
Gilpin observer., 1907-03-07

Somebody wants to know whether
there is any difference in the weight
OF water when in liquid form and
when that same quantity is turned to
ice. Offhand we should say not, but
there's big difference In the price.
Gilpin observer., 1907-03-07

The glove.cutters in France earn big
wages, some of them getting as much
as SIS week. So difficult is the art
of cutting kid gloves that most Of
the principal cutters are known to
the trade by name and fame.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-09-13
ANOTHER GANG Of
COUNTERFE|TERS
Marshal Hendry Again Makes
a Very important
Capture.

United States Marshal Hendry re-
turned yesterday morning from Hawaii
with four prisoners and a. quantity of
counterfeiting apparatus which it is
believed fully accounts for all of the
| spurious coins which have been in cir
culation in the Territory, especially on
Hawaii and Maui, for some time past
These captures were the result of a
great deal of hard work and of care
full planning and patient investigation
on the part of Hendry and United
States District Attorney Breckons. Five
and ten dollar counterfeit gold pieces
OF very excellent mintage and good ap-
pearance have been detected in circu-
latlon for some time. The minting and
milling IS good enough to escape any
but the most careful inspection, the
weight and ring are of course defective.
Marshal Hendry went to Hawaii on
information contained in wireless mes
sage from Deputy SheriH Richard. He
found that three Koreans, Chu Hong
1ong, Kim Neon Moon and Pa HUI No
had been arrested at Kukuihaele by
clerk in Lindsay's store on whom they
had tried to pass some of the spurious
coin. The men were placed in jail,
where they confessed and implicated
their leader, Kong Chi Soon, who was
found asleep in cave on the land of
Kapulena between Kukuihaele and Ho-
nokaa
With Kong Chi Soon was captured
great lot of counterfeiting apparatus,
including two sets of dies for SO gold
pieces and one set for So gold pieces, |
an eleetro-plating apparatus and other |
material and appliances.
These four men We're all given a |
hearing before Commissioner Hatch yes
terdayt afternoon.
1t is now pretty certain that there
have been two gangs of Korean coun-
terfelters, each operating independent
ly of the other at least for a time.
And there is some indication of a
rivalry between them as to which can
do the best work
The leader of the first gang was Kim
Bong Chuen, who was arrested some
weeks ago on Hawaii, and who has
been In Jail here since, and has demon
strated his experiences as a coiner by
making coins for the instruction of
the federal authorities.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-09-13
COUNTRY CLUB
ANNUAL MEETING

The first annual meeting of the Oahu
Country Club took place yesterday
evening at the makai pavilion of the
Young Hotel. The reports of the vari-
Gus officers were read and approved by
the members present, the treasurer
report showing that the club was in
good financial condition. A letter from
E. Faxon Bishop, the retiring presi-
dent, who was unable to be present,
was read, going over the various note
worthy events in the first year of the
club and congratulating the members
on the enthusiasm which has been
shown.
After the general business of the
had been completed the cleo
ton Of officers for the coming year was
held. The following officers were elect
ed, in each case unanimously: George
r. Carter, president; J. P. Cooke, vice
president; E. A. Mott-Smith, second
vice president; j. o. Young, treasurer;
D. w. Anderson, secretary; E. NJ.
Campbell, auditor; Frank Halstead, S.
G. Wilder, e. Q. White and A. T.
Brock, directors.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-09-13
POSTERS FOR
FLORAL PARADE
Honolulu Artists Working Out
Designs for Advertising
the Big Event.

The posters for the next annual
Floral Parade, which is coming off in
February next, are TO be the very best
that the artistic talent Of Honolulu
can produce. In response TO the re-
quest of the members of the Promo
ton Committee for assistance in the
designing of advertising matter ap-
propriate and suitable for the big
parade, several of the leading artists
of the city are working. out tentative
designs TO submit. d. Howard Hitch
cock and James Wilder are collaborat-
ing on one design and the members
of the Kilohana Art League are at
is assured of something quite out of
the ordinary and of a designed poster
that may be sent with pride to the
mainland
This was the pleasing announcement
made at the meeting of the Promotion
Committee yesterday by Secretary
Wood. At the meeting a general dis
CQSSIOH OF the Work 10 DS CdITISu On
was INDUCED in. The matter of plac-
ing an order with the Gazette Com
pany for one or more thousand num-
bers of Picturesque Honolulu was
gone into, although it was not def
initely settled as to how many copies
of the edition would be secured. Sec
rotary Wood stated that such a pub
lication was of great benefit for adj
vertising inasmuch as it gave the
reader a correct idea of what could
be done in Honolulu in the way of
artistic printing and book making.
The months accounts were passed.
These aggregated s771, of which $416
was for mainland accounts.
The regular report of the secretary
iealt with number of interesting
the good promotion work be- |
ng accomplished through the send |
ng of Hawaiian pines to Chicago be- |
ng especially referred to. The report |
vas:
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-09-13
TotaI

All this as evidence of the folly of
| buying many departmental supplies as
far away as possible from the base of
operations. y
Last week the Kinau arrived with
Onomea, Papaikou and other nearby
school houses, and the local storekeep-
ers at once got interested.
School Inspector Charles E. King
said to the Herald:
TT is true that school supplies have
been bought in Honolulu and sent to
this island that could just as we'll
have been bought here. I have been
fighting against this and this year
have been able to place orders here.
How that lot Cat least a dozen pack
ages besides a wheelbarrow) for Pa
paikou got by me, / don't know. OF
course, the text books are ordered in
large quantities by the department
and all delivered in Honolulu for re-
shipment, but there is a house here
that sells the text books at the same
price as the government. Paper, PEN
ellis, ink and other ordinary supplies
ought to he bought here, and now
have permission to get them"
Among the truck load of stuff for
Papaikou there was abundant and un-
mistakable evidence of the breakage
of at least one bottle of ink, so that
there will be a damage loss in that
consignment and it is problematicai
also whether it reached the school
house by the opening of the term on
Monday.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-09-13
GRAVEL SLIDE
GOUGES DAM
Continued from Page one.)

Continued from Page One.)
discussed considerably, however, some
contending that such material, wash
ed free as it was of. earthly matter,
was not the proper material for the
fill. Rowland had his own way about
it, however, and persuaded Superin-
tendent Holloway that he was right.
Governor Frear and Secretary Mott
Smith were also favored with How
lands views on gravel as a filler at
the time the official inspection Of the
dam was made. And now the gravel
has slid out, as was predicted. The
only difference between the fears ex-
pressed and the reality has been that
the gravel slid sooner than had been
expected, just as the pump broke down
sooner than had been expected.
On Tuesday the water from the
fiuming and the flow from the water
shed of the sluicing basin had bank
ed up behind the sluiced-in wall until
it was thought by the contractor and
the government inspector that the
danger point had been reached. An
inspection of the wall showed that
the part of the wall made up of the
gravel was leaking badly and it was
IuOuSuL D6Sl 10 ISIlSNC l1IS
of the water and provide for any
further inflow. Orders were given, ac-
cordingly, for the cutting of a tenn
porary Spillway through the solid
bank of the pond. This would drain
off q part of the accumulated water
and allow any that might come in
later to escape.
The digging of this spillway was be-
gun on Tuesday morning. In the af-
ternoon Howland junior appeared and
ordered the men to stop work on their
digging and to fill back the earth they
had taken out. Although remonstrat-
ed with by the government inspector
he insisted that the work was un-
necessary. That night the wall gave
way from the pressure of the water
behind it, cutting down the wall to
the level of the riprap work and
draining out a large quantity of the
good earth which had been sluiced in
to position next the core wall. The
result of this has been that the fill
ing on one side of the core wall is
gone, leaving the filling on the other
side to press it far out of plumb.
To straighten the core wall it will
be necessary now to take out the fill
ing in the trench on the nlakai side,
refill on the mauka side and let the
earth shove the wall back into shape.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-09-13

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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-09-13
A CONSCIENCE FUND.

A man in a small Western town
bought a quart of milk, and, on arriv-
ing home found it was adulterated
with water. The next day he posted
in different sections of the town the
following notice:
Il bought quart of milk yesterday
which / found to be aduiterated. If
the scoundrel will bring me another
quart I'll not denounce him.
The next day he found three quart
cans on his doorstep. There We're
three dairymen in town.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-09-13
: BABB|TT'S BROOM"
AND LIKE THINGS

HILO, Sept. 9.-"Babbitt's broom"
time superintendent w. H. Rabbit,
of the Department of Public Instruc-
ton, is said to have once shipped
broom to a school in Hilo. Evidently
it had been reported TO him that the
school house needed sweeping. At any
rate Rabbit, so the story goes, sent
the broom.
At current market rates the Homo
lulu price of Rabbits broom was
quoted at forty cents. The freight to
Hilo, lowest rate, was twenty-five
cents. Delivery to school house anoth-
er quarter, for the teacher could hard
Iy have been expected to have walked
three miles to the Kinau wharf and
return, carrying the broom on the
homeward trip. Had the teacher TAX
en- a hack that would have been
another quarter, or a total of $1.15. But
the claim is that the cost of delivery
in Hilo, at school house as per bill Of
lading, would only have been $50.
Would have been? Yes. For the
broom never reached the school house
1t was probably seen on the dock by
one of the wharf hands at cleaning
UP time and naturally put into re-
QUESTION as company's property.
Ultimately another broom was
bought here at So cents, less by 5
cents than the prime cost in Homo
lulu. So that the Territory's account
for one broom for the Department of
stood thus:
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Yokohama, Shanghai, Hongkong and
Colombo. We also sent a supply to
Cooks agencies throughout the Orient.
Respectfully submitted,
H. P. WOOD,
Secretary.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-09-13

The Advertiser goes into the homes
of the purchasers Of the articles you
have to sell. There IS room here for
your advertisement.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-09-10

either the steam or the trolley rail-
road that the deadly peril iurx. De-
spite all warnings. and all precautions
scoFee. perhaps hundreds. OF lives are
lost in this country every year We
NAV put IN slsn.. station HzSrssn a
them. talk about * in the newspapers
and IN our horree- resolve To take no
risks, and Yet in some gatsi. urg:arc-
ed moment the grade crossing may ret
Us. DR.. Waldron undoubtedly was a
thoughtful and cautious man. he IN
tended never to get caught on a
crossing: vet through some strange.
unexplained nechantcal o. phrs1ceI
defect on his side. or some error OF
or re.kiessnesS on the SIDE
or the railway motorrnan. the .wo
cars came together al that fat7i srane
crossing and four lives were instantly
extinguished-
The public never will be safe so long
as railways and public highways cross
at grade. The evil has been done All
over he country and cannot be rem
edied in a month or a year IL "ila
require the expenditure OF millions 20
abolish these accused grade cross
ings; but cost what IL MAY. the people
should demand ~peremptortly that the
work Of aboiishing tfHm-ai OF 'hetn'
suburban trolley as we'll "a steam rail-
ways-shAi begin now ana continue
until none is left 10 slaughter innocent
citizens. often within sight or their
homes and families
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-09-10
GRADE CROSSING CURSE.
The Public Will Not BE Safe So Long
as Railroads and Public High
ways Cross at a Grade.

Dorchester Democrat and ChronfcIe.)
The tragedy near Canandiagua on
Wednesday, when DR.. George VALID
on, of this city, and three ladies, lost
their lives, attracts renewed %ent
to the accommodating horrors Of the
railway grade crossing.
In this case the vehicle, whose oc-
cupants We're killed, happened to be
al automobile, it might have been 2
pleasure carriage or q democrat wae-
on. 1t was not an automobile acct
dent, not essentially a trolley car acct
dent. but a grade crossing tragedy.
the like of which is occurring here or
there. month after month, and year
after year
Further. this was not a steam rail
road grade crossing calamity, but a
trolley railway grade tragedy The
significance of this is obvious when il
is considered that trolley lines have
constructed anywhere and
without much regard for nublic sec,r-
lty. They run by the side of high
ways. in the middle Of highways. as
best suits the convenience of trolley
corporations and their engineers.
over these lines run large high
power cars capable of q speed of six-
" or seventy miles an hour. and ire
quentiy making that rate. by the side
OF country roads, along the roads and
across the roads.
But it is at h grade crossing OF
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-09-10
TRADE IS ACTIVE
Volume of Business is
Satisfactory
High Prices Paid for Farm Products
Benefit All Departments of Trade
Reports for August Make
Good showing.
(By the Associated Press.)

(By the Associated Press
New York, Sept. 6.-R. G.. Dun and
Corpany's weekly review OF trade to-
morrow will say:
Aside from some conservatism in
preparing for remote requirements, di-
rectly due to stringency in the money
market, the volume Of business Is sat
isfactory. Trade exceeds even the &C
tivity OF last yea in many sections.
and as the crops are secured there
is a demand for goods at leading job
bling markets that makes the outlook
bright for fall. Wholesale dry goods
sales are nearly concluded at the
South and merchants are now hurry
ing shipments forward to meet the
autumn retail demand that is about to
open. Prices of farm staples have
risen to ma unusua position for this
eason but this is caused V large for
eign needs rather than any reductions
in domestic yield. and the Increased
amount Of money paid to the farmers
will benefit all departments of trade
and industry. The weeks results are
somewhat irregular because of the
holiday and interruption to tele-
graphic communication but complete
report for August indicate that the
favorably with 1906 in almost every
department except the market for Sc
curitleS.
The expected improvement m the
volume of new contracts for steel is
beginning to appear.
Activity continues at textile mills.
the cotton goods situation maintain
ing It's position of strength because of
the large amount of business already
under contract and the high prices
quoted in dealings in the raw mate
riaN.