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The Hawaiian gazette., 1907-09-17

Co. require that the Ditch Company
shall secure from Paauhau a modifi-
cation of an agreement made about
December 16, 1905. by which Paauhau
will forgo it's right to demand twenty
thirty-fourths of all water in both up
per and lower ditch in excess of 34.-
900, 900 gallons daily. The Ditch Com
pany also agrees to pay $500 a year
to the Honokaa Sugar Company and
Pacific Mill for the release of this l.
SOC, 900 gallons of water day for Pa
auhau. The requirement that the Ditch
Company shall deliver 4,500,000 gallons
daily to Honokaa and Pacific Mill
within twenty months after the con-
struction of the lower ditch is begun.
and 100000 in addition with within
sixteen months after the beginning of
delivery from the lower ditch is still
insisted on.
The principal purpose of this agree
ment seems to be to give the Ha-
makua Ditch Company more time in
which to float it's bonds and construct
the lower ditch, and meanwhile to al
low a little larger amount to Paau-
hau than that plantation has been
getting, but to cut down the proper
ton it will eventually get when the
ditch system as contemplated is COM
pleted.
The original agreement between Ho-
nokaa and Pacific Mill and the Ha-
makua Ditch Company in regard to
| the proposed lower ditch, which Is
dated January "a, 1906. provides that
q % tar Aatl
shall be furnished to Honokaa within
twenty months after the work OF con-
structing the lower ditch shall begin.
which shall not be later than January
l, 1907, and an additional $500. 0o0,
making 5,5OO,OOO in all within sixteen
months after the beginning OF the g.
| 900, 900 gallons. The ditch is to be located
at an elevation between 1000 and hoo
| feet above sea level and the planta-
! tions will give the right of way for 1t
for fifty years. The ditch is to be be-
tween waipio Gulch and Paauhau
Gulch. If the supply of water is less
than 100000 gallons day Honokaa
is to be entitled to eleven-sixtieths OF
the entire flow. The water Is to be
| delivered by the Hamakua upper
dutch If practicable. If the now =
more than 100000 gallons daily. Ho-
nokaa has the right to buy the addi-
tional flow up to eleven-sixtieths Of its
volume.
The water Is to be paid for at the
rate of $500 for each 365, 100000 gall
Ions up to 2,O07, 500, 900 gallons delivered
in 365 equal parts each year for TWEEN
| ty years. But water which flows on
the 18th of February is not to be
counted in the computation. There IS
provision for extending the contract
| for ten-year periods after the expira-
ton of the first twenty years. There
! IS provision for ascertaining the meas
urements of the water and for arbi-
tration of disputes.
\ The contract with the Pacific Sugar
| Mill Company is almost identical ex-
cept that 1t is to get 2,5O0.OO0 when the
water begins to flow, and 100000 gal
Ions daily in addition within sixteen
months after water begins to flow. and
| shall be entitled to buy nine-sixtieths
OF the entire flow.
| But as the water Is of most value
between May and November the
amount supplied during that portion is
the basis on which pay Is to be given
A.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1907-09-17

company is at the same time granted
to January l, 1912. The reason of
these arrangements is that the bonds
to provide money for building the low
er ditch have not yet been f1oated.
Holders of the bonds sold to pay for
the upper ditch, now in service, as
well as the plantations interested in
the irrigation enterprise, consent to
the extension.
The Su San Kabushiki Kaisha, Ltd,
is the name of a japanese company
just incorporated under the general
law of corporations to conduct fish
cry at Waiakea, Island of Hawaii.
It's capital stock is $4,000, with the
privilege of increase to $4,000.
A deed has been recorded from John
Utterstrom and wife to Itsu Yoshioka,
of a lot of land at Ponahawai, South
Hilo, for $1,000. A release of chattel
mortgage from Bank of Hawaii to A.
D. Scroggy for $4,000 and Z mortgage
of land at Waikiki by Lar Wo Sing
& Co. to Bank of Hawaii for $4,000
have been recorded.
Reports in probate have been filed
showing that the Bishop Estate has
increased the value of its real and per-
sonal property the past year by $685.
| 1913. Its present total valuation is
1890. 572.96, of which s2,210,042.19 is
represented by real estate. Receipts
on current account for the year were
$3.50, 410.4 and expenditures 1858, 1855.
By the will of the late Princess Ber-
nice Pauahi Bishop the estate is en-
| tirely dedicated to the establishment
and maintenance of Kamehameha
schools for boys and girls, in which
! industrial as well as ordinary educa-
ton is impaired. Scientific farming is
part of the training the boys receive.
At its annual meeting the Hawaiian
Engineering Association elected the
following officers and directors for the
ensuing year: A. Gartley, chairman;
c. G. Ballentyne, vice chairman; E. G.
Keen, secretary; A. B. Arleigh. treas
urer. Directors: l. E. Pinkham, E.
Kopke, Marston Campbell. Director
for Hawaii, D. E. Metzger; for Kauai,
Norman Greig: for Maui, VIM. Searby.
The Humuula sheep Station, an ex-
| tensive estate on the Island of Ha-
wall, has been conveyed by Samuel
Parker to his sons-a half interest to
| S. Parker Jr. and quarter interest
each to Ernest and L. James Parker.
According to the San Francisco
Commercial News the following total
| tonnage is on the way to the Hawai-
| ians Islands:
The Hawaiian gazette., 1907-09-17
INHERITANCE TAX
AND DEATH RATE

Albert F Judd as Commissioner ap-
pointed by Judge Robinson to appraise
the estate of the late W. F. Allen for
the purpose of fixing the inheritance
tax, has FLED d very interesting re-
port in the Circuit Court. He says
that as there have been very few cases
under the Hawaiian law, there are no
precedents or adjudicated cases in our
courts and he has therefore been OBJ
liged TO give much consideration and
study 10 the matter from the adjudica-
tons elsewhere, although the subject
is nowhere thoroughly worked out.
After discussing the various provi-
sions Of the Will in relation to the
various devises, he concludes that
some Of them have lapsed by reason
OF the death of the devisee prior to
that of the devisor. Other devises
have been paid and the inheritance tax
collected, so that the appraisement to
be made is as 10 the value of the life
estate OF the widow, and of the re-
mainder TO the remaindermen. The
value of these is by law required to
be computed according to the combin-
ed actuaries experience tables of NOR
Iality, computed at six per cent. No
such tables existed in the Territory
but they were secured from a life in
surance company in the east through
its local agency. The value of the
property which goes to the widow ac-
cording 10 the return of the appraisers
in the probate court is S77,959.5S. APP
plying the rule of the law as to the
experience table and the rate of in
terest Of the computation he finds:
% Present value of an annuity Of
81 per annum payable during the life
time OF a person aged 90 with provi-
sion for a proporuonate payment to
the day OF death, S6.241.
% Present value of 81 payable at the
death OF a person aged 90 years in
Guiding half a years income during
the year Of death $O62554.
Six per cent. of the value of the
corpus Of the trust, is s4,677.574S. The
value Of the life tenants estate will
therefore be
s4677.574Sx6.2 41 or s29, 1872. 744S26S
and the remaindermen's
S77,959.5Sx. 62554 or IS, 766. S3567S2
The Hawaiian gazette., 1907-09-17

can ships, two British steamers and
one American barkentive from New
castle, n. S. W.; one each American
barkentine and schooner and one Nor
wegian bark from Nitrate port.
Ocean steam arrivals for the week
have been the Persia from San Fran
cisco. the Amiral Olry from Yokoha-
ma and the America Maru from San
Francico. Departures have been the
Hilonian for San Francisco, the Persia
for the Orient ana the Amiral OlrJ
for San Francisco.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1907-09-17

Total of both interests. .s77, 959. 5SOO0OO
This proves the correctness of the
computation, as the value of the life
estate plus the value of the remainder
must equal the present value of the
estate. But by the provisions of the
will. the life tenant, the widow, is not
liable for waste or for diminution of
the estate, so that she has a perfect
right TO use It during her lifetime and
therefore the remaindermen may never
get anything. 1t is not just, therefore,
to compel them TO pay an inheritance
tax on an estate they may never get.
And inasmuch as if they do get any.
il will be through the process of the
court, the inheritance tax can then be
paid. But the life tenant, if she spends
more than the income of the estate,
ought TO pay inheritance tax on what
she spends in addition to the inheri-
lance tax on the present value of her
life estate The appraiser assumes that
in this case as in others, a trustee
of the estate will be appointed
on the approval of the final accounts
of the executor. His annual reports
Will show whether or not the life ten
ant is spending more than the income
of the estate. and if she is, the in
heriJance tax can be collected each
year on that part Of the principal of
the estate which she uses. Thus the
Territory will be protected both ways
in its inheritance tax, and at the same
time devisees viii not be required to
pay inheritance tax on devises which
they do not get.
Mr.. Judd therefore finds that as the
present value Of the life estate is s2s,-
1924, from which must be deducted
the $1,000 exempt by law, the inheri-
lance tax due al two per cent. is
s56SS5, and al that figure he appraises
the tax due
The Hawaiian gazette., 1907-09-17

REMEDIES
he s.

Consisting of CUTICURA SOAP, to cleanse the
skin, CUTICURA Ointment, 10 heal The skin, and
CUTICURA RES0LVENT, TO cool the blood, IS
often sufficient to cure the most tOrturing, dis
figuring skin, scalp, and blood hunourS, raSheS,
feelings, and irrtations, with loss of hair, when
the best physicians, and all other remedies fall
The Hawaiian gazette., 1907-09-17
GENERAL ITEMS.

Agreements have been recorded
whereby Honokaa and Pacific Mill
companies grant a portion of the wa
ter to which they are entitled from
the Hamakua ditch to Paauflau plan
tation. An extension of time for be-
ginning the lower ditch of the water
The Hawaiian gazette., 1907-09-17
HOnBUTQ, Bremen Fire Insurance Go.

The undersigned having been -ap
pointed agents OF the above company
are prepared to insure risks against
FIRE on Stone and Brick Buildings and
on Merchandise stored therein On the
most favorable terms. For particulars
apply al the office of
F. A. SCHAFFER & CO., Agts.
North German Marine Insurance Co.
OF BERLIN.
Fortuna General Insurance Co.
OF BERLIN.
The above Insurance Companies have
established a general agency here, and
the undersigned, general agents, are
authorized to take risks against TIE
dangers of the sea at the most reason
able rates and on the most favorable
terms.
F. A SCHAFFER & CO.,
General Agents.
General Insurance Co. for Sea River
and Land Transport of Dresden.
Having established an agency at Ho-
nolulu and the Hawaiian Islands, the
undersigned general agents are author
lied to take risks against the dangers
Of the sea at the most reasonable rates
and on the most favorable terms.
F. A. SCHAFFER & CO.,
Agents for the Hawaiian Islands.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1907-09-17

Besides its own sugar, the Honolulu
Plantation CO. will refine The sugar
cf the Hutchinson plantation on Ha-
wall
Following are quotations, bid and
asked, on the San Francisco Stock
Exchange for Sept. 8: H. c. & S. Co.
SIS, 80 IS and 100; Honolulu Rapid
Transit 6's, los 1-2 bid; H. C. & S. Co.,
so and 81: Honokaa Sugar Co., 10 bid;
Hutchinson Sugar Plantation Co.,
Il rs and Is IA: Kilauea Sugar Co., 5
asked Makawei, 80 bid; Onomea, "a
bid; Paauhau, Is and Is Is; Union
Mill Co., As asked. H. c. & S. Co.
and Paauhau are advances on the pre-
vious day.
PROMOTION AND PROGRESS.
Articles of association were filed
yesterday for the Hawaiian Copra Co.,
with a capital of 100000 in shares of
$50 par value each, with privilege of
extension to $4,000. It will cultivate
cocoanuts in Koolaupoko district, Is
| land of Oahu, from which to make
copra. The article is selling in San
| Francisco at S95 a ton, the price hav-
ing been on the rise for several years.
| A Chicago dispatch of Sept. 2 an
nounces the arrival there, after a jour-
ney of eighteen days from the fields
in Hawaii, of the carload of fruit TAX
en- thither by ]. E. Higgins, horticul-
turist of the Hawaii agricultural ex-
pertinent station. While the car had
not then been opened, Mr.. Higgins be-
lieved the fruit had stood the trip
well. One of the first results of this
experiment comes back to Jared G.
Smith, special agent in charge of the
station, in a letter from a wholesale
fruit company in salt Lake City soli-
citing a trial consignment of our
! fruits.
The Haiku (MauD Fruit & Packing
Co. has increased its output nearly a
hundred per cent. Last year its rec
ord was 1900 cases of canned pine
apples. This year $4,000 cases is the
estimate. with a winter crop of 10000
cases additional.
A scheme has been adopted by the
! Chamber of Commerce to gather in
dustrial information throughout the
islands fer the purpose of answering
outside inquiries into the chances of
| investment and settlement.
Fred W. Carter, formerly head over
seer of the Parker ranch, Hawaii, has
| brought here in the steamer Hilonian
a herd of thirty-three thoroughbred
bulls from the best herds of Oregon
and Washington, for the Parker ranch.
the American Sugar Co.'S ranch on
| Molokai and John Hind in Kona. Most
Of the animals are Herefords, but
there are three Shorthorns and two
| Devons.
The Hawaiian Mahogany Lumber
! Co. expects to close a contract short
ly to supply railroad companies on the
mainland with 100000 ohia railroad
ties. This follows shipment by the
| schooner Robert Levers recently of
| 5000 ohia ties to the Southern Pa
ciic and Santa Fe companies. Ties
are worth a dollar each and upward.
GENERAL ITEMS.
Agreements have been recorded
whereby Honokaa and Pacific Mill
companies grant portion of the wa
ter to which they are entitled from
the Hamakua ditch to Paauhau plan
tation. An extension of time for be-
ginning the lower ditch of the water
The Hawaiian gazette., 1907-09-17

There are in the list four American
ships from Baltimore (to the U. S.
Government), one America bark from
New York, four British and one
Dutch steamers from Norfolk Ito the
q. S. Governmen); one British ship,
one German bark, one French bark
and one German ship from Hamburg,
one American bark from Iouique, one
British bark from Leith; four Ameri-
The Hawaiian gazette., 1907-09-17
Wounds and Skin Diseases cured by
1.-THE HOUSEHOLD sURGEON"e

Druggists refund money if DR..
PORTER'S ANTISEPTIC HEAL
ING OIL fails.-Made by PARIS
MEDICINE CO., Saint Louis, U. S.
of A.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1907-09-17
Commercial News
By Daniel Logan.

Centrifugal
European
weekly
thing
$780, Oahu
co., $685. go 25s714; (seo
(s2O) ($20
olaa $4,000 $685. O. R. L. Co. 6 $4,000
SOME PUBLIC MATTERS
In probability at
Territorial bonds amounting
however, Washington
proval of President the
Congress-
public inaugural
the required adjust recently acquired County
government original territorial
this Territory
Hlo breakwater
will probably action expnding
appropriation
upon
undertaken
bill, money
would lie idle the treasury drawing interest from the Territory
immediate purpose.
within months He opened bids the other for the dredging
being
50 feet below low tide level the material brought be used
height above tide There
Immediately available for the work.
opened Holloway
overlooking
projected
will with Tantalus
up desirable farming suburban residence lands.
Decisions rendered by the appeal follows
expended
EARTHQUAKE aside court holding with the taxpae
expenditure appeal
ground that derived from sold
disaowed
in
Having distinguished specialist
president $4,000 Hawaiian College
Agriculture president,
faculty shall
organizing ability the institution
homesteading Hio
Puma districts about be opened appraised valuations from $3.50 to
SO an acre.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1907-09-17

Mr.. Adam Lindsay. of T. H. Davies
& Co.. came on the Kinau for couple
Of weeks.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1907-09-17
RELATING TO SUGAR.

of the the
which The
(21 the
valuable of all
called Hawaii organize expert
Queensland
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-14
DISTRICT COURT AT MANTI.
Case Against Web. Green, Prominent
State Politician, Will Be
Called This Term.

Manti. Sept. 13.-District court has been
in session this week, with Judge Ferdi-
nand Erickson on the bench. Quite a long
criminal calendar will be heard at this
term of court. Among the most notorious
is that of Webster Green of Mt. Pleasant
charged with adultery Mr.. Green pleaded
not guilty and his case was set for to-
day. Mr.. Green is a prominent politician
Of this county among the Republican fac
ton and in the past has held some pres
tige.
The State VS.. Alex. Justesen, charged
with grand larceny, resulting from the
case of Alex. Justesen VS.. Niels P. Mel
sen. mining case heard by Judge Erick-
son at the last term of court, was dis
missed.
The State VS. James Larsen of Sterling
charged with perjury. The defendant
pleaded not guilty and was sentenced by
Judge Erickson this morning to serve
three years in the state penitentiary at
hard labor This case is in connection
with the famous Justesen-Nielson mining
suit tried at the last term of court, in
which the defendant perjured himself to
assist Mr.. Justesen.
William II. Gribble VS.. Frank l.. Copen-
ing. the defendant, charged with perjury
has occupied considerable time and last
evening the jury were given the case and
rendered a verdict of not guilty for the
defendant
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Varied Program of Matri-
monial Infelicity Aired at the
Friday Matinee :: :: :: ::

children with her. He finally followed her
to Los Angeles and returned with the
children. In September, 1906 Mrs. Ander-
son again removed the children from Salt
Lake. This time Mr.. Anderson found
them in q home, Mrs. Anderson having
left Denver for Portland. The husband
said he had given her no excuse for her
conduct. His mother. Mary Bruce AndeT-
son. apparently under the stress of great
emotion, corrOborated the facts and he
got his decree and the custody of the chill
dren-
x x x
The remainder of the session was taken
up by a revival of the case of Joe Mas
zuchi. His wife. Angela Mazzuchi, got d
divorce from him last spring and an ali
mOny which the receipts of his candy
store had not since justified. As he
couldn't talk English. and the interpreter
whom he had brought with him cOuldn't
either. and as both sides We're represented
by attorneys who took careful note of
everything that went into the record
the process was very tedious. As it final
" went into the record the expense ac-
count of the candy man read:
For the first three months of 1907, av-
erage earnings of shop, 81 per day.
Money contributed to wife, SO.
Personal expenses per month: Rent, So
clothes, 81: light in store (electric), 50;
food. IS cents per day; coal, 49,; wash. 81
Also he owed $500 which he was gradual
ly" paying back.
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ATTORNEYS In SHEETS CASE DODGE
DOUBLE HOODOO, FRIDAY THE 18TH

Superstition played its part in securing
a postpOnement of argument for dismissal
OF the bribery charge against George A
Sheets, former chief OF police, by Judge
Morse yesterday morning. 1t was Friday
yesterday, and besides being Friday it
was the 18th day of September The de-
tense would just as soon have argued on
Friday or the 18th day of any month,
but when the 18th came on Friday the
double hoodOO proved too much and Judge
Morse realizing the predicament consent
ed to hear the attorneys Monday morn
ing, September %
Sheets was present with his counsel, So
rem y. Christensen and E. A. Wedgwood
Inc state was represented by F. c. Loot
borrow, district attorney, and Willard
Hanson, county attorney. The motion to
continue was made by Mr.. WedgwOod.
The contention of the defense is that
because the conspiracy information
quashed by Judge Armstrong had as its
basis the same state of facts as the bri-
berry information that the latter is invalid
and the case against the former chief
should be dismissed. The Jurisdiction of
the district court also is attacked.
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FIX BLAME FOR
RAILROAD WRECK
Engineer and Conductor OF
Freight Train Discharged
by Short Line.

The blame for the disastrous wreck
which occurred on the Oregon Short Line
mile and a half north of Beck's Hot
Springs last Tuesday afternoon, has been
IlXeQ OFFICIALLY by the operating officials
or the road on Charles +. Devine and
George W Young, respectively engineer
ana conductor of the freight train.
both men, II was stated at the office of
General superintendent Buckingham yes
terday, have been discharged
The inquiry was completed yesterday
into the cause of the wreck. The mem
bers of both the feright and passenger
crews were called on the carpet by the
division superintendent and put through
2 severe examination
II developed that the air brakes on the
freight train became set and stuck a
short distance from the siding north of
Beck's Hot Springs. which the freight was
attempting TO make. A brakeman was
sent on ahead to flag passenger No. 5.
He did not get far enough TO enable the
passenger train 10 stop before hitting
the freight
The officials of the road declare that
as soon as it was found that the air
brakes had stuck on the freight train the
proper course for the engineer and con-
ductor was to have uncOupled the engine.
sent il at least a mile and a half ahead
and set a brakeman down there with a
flag to stop the passenger, instead of
waiting till the latter tram nearly
due at the point of the wreck and then
sending a man out afoot to stop il.
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in answer to the plea of jurisdiction the
district attorney filed the following yes
terday:
Comes now Frederick c. Loofbourow,
district attorney in and for the Third jul
dicial district. state of Utah, Salt Lake
county, who prOsecUtes for the state in
the above entitled action and says that
Notwithstanding anything affirmed by
the said George A. Sheets in his pleadings
this court ought not be percluded from
taking cognizanCe of the information
filed herein, because he says that the
matter and things alleged and shown in
defendants plea to the jurisdiction of the
court herein are not sufficient in law to
justify the court in abating this action.
Wherefore he prays that said George A.
Sheets be required to answer to the said
information"
The district attorney opposed the grant
ing of a continuance of the case but was
overruled by the judge, who stated that
sufficient time should be allowed the de-
Tense if they so desired to perfect their
arguments.
u guess he will die before we can get
to try him" remarked LoofbourOw as he
left the courtroom.