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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-04-27
MIGRATION
DIFFICULT PROBLEM

WASHINGTON. April i3.-undcr
the regulation governing the entrance
into this country Of japanese laborefs,
there is no way Of preventing the
Japanese from Honolulu transshipping
at San Francisco for British Columbia.
II is evident from inquiries that
have been made by officials 81 this
Government that the japanese, 90
whom the japanese Government issues
passports 90 Mexico or g. the Ia.
waiian Islands, have no intention ~
remaining there. Their destination. -
the laborers themselves have admitted
on cross-cxamination, b. the United
States. Recently several hundred Japa
nese laborcrs were Intercepted IN
Mexico a. TO their intentions. livery
one Of them said be expected sooner ~
later 10 reach this country. some ~
them were in serious financial straits.
They were awaiting an opportunity o.
get across the border into this c0un.
try. The same IL true Of japanese who
are going 60 British Columbia. There
is no work for them down there, and
they expect to get into the lnitcd
States as soon as possible.
Commissioner Sargent Of the Bureau
Of Immigration declines 90 discuss the
subject. uut IL j. known that Secretary
Straus of the Department Of Com.
meree and Labor is keeping In clos
touch with the situation. ne. too, o.
reticent. Trouble j. being experienced
in handling the question. however,
particularly in relation % the JaPa'
nese immigrants who are arriving in
Mexico. n j. practically impossible to
prevent them from being smuggled
across the border. and the Government
has no means of identifying them after
thev reach this country. The question
is likely 90 become more serious IN the
near future.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-04-27
CONGRESSIONAL
EXCURS|ON|STS
Aeceptances and Outstanding
Invitations---Four Bring
Their Daughters.

Under date of Washington, April Ia,
tary Atkinson relative to the Congress
sionaI excursion. He encloses lists of
declinations, acceptances and invita-
tions not answered.
1.-The list of acceptances already re-
ceived,'' Mr.. Mcclellan says, shows
that we are to have a good represen-
tative party, being made up wholly OK
committeeman directly concerned with
Hawaiian legislation.
Another group of four or five MEM
bers will probably come out on the
transport early in June. This group
are coming at their own expense, but
| think that something should be done
to entertain them during their stay.
Chairman Tawney of the Appropria-
tions committee was unable to accept
a specially urged invitation on account
of previous speaking appointments.
Four of the members Mcclellan
writes, made special request that they
be permitted each to bring a daughter
with them, and Mr.. Hatch and L potn
concluded it was best to extend thaL
privilege. We would have preferred TO
have had more of the space occupied
by members, but under all circum-
stances we could not well do other
wise than to permit them to come
since the member in each case pays
for his daughters transportation.
Those accepting We're Senator sam
ueI H. Piles and, on the Representative
side. w. P Hepburn and Wife, T. l..
Hamilton and wife, A. b. Capron ana
wife. A. l.. Brick, wife and daughter;
d. s. Alexander and wife, Jas. Fl. Da-
wilson, w. L. Jones and wife, Geo. Il.
Lilley and wife r. D. Cole. VIM. T..
Humphrey, E. c. Ellis and wife, Jas.
c. Needham, j. Warren Keifer, Chas.
f. Littlefeld, wife and daughter; Jas.
r. Mann. F. F. Acheson, wife ana
daughter: Jas. P. Conner and wife'
Jas McLachlan, Edwin Y. Webb, A.
L. Bates and sister, Chas. McGav1n,
Jos V. Graft, wife and daughter; Geo.
w. Norris.
Invitations outstanding comprise the
names of Senator Alonzo Stewart and
Representatives Benz. F. Howell, Hen
ry S Boutell, E. D. Crumpacker, Fred.
C. Stevens, Oscar w. Underwood ana
Burton L. French.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-04-27
Morning Session.

An Executive measure, House Bill
146, making special appropriations of
$2OS,050 for school building purposes
and carrying an item of $4,000 for the
Honolulu High School new building,
was tabled on a report of the Finance
committee, which recommended that the
bill be so treated 'tfor the reason
that all the available money from cur
rent receipts has already been appro-
priated'' All the. items in this tabled
bill, with the exception of the High
School item and for the purchase of
additional land for the Waialee In
dustrial school, have been transferred
into the shell of House Bill 131, after
the original meat had been picked out
of that measure.
LEPER SUSPECT BILL.
The remedied draft bill regarding
Continued on Page Three.)
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TWO VETOES
IN SENATE
Governor Against Kauai
Item and Mausoleum
Appropriation.

The fact that the income of the
Territory has been spent, by promise,
almost twice over did not deter the
Senate from overriding the Govern
or,s veto of the burial-of- the chiefs
BILL This appropriates the sum of
twenty thousand dollars for the erec-
ton of a mausoleum in which will be
place.. the remains of the monarchs and
chiefs of old Hawaii. Senator Smith
was the sexton who undertook the dis
interment of the bill after the veto
had been read and carried the affair
through successfully.
Another bill among the crumbs swept
from the table was that relating to
permission for the County of Maui to
go into debt This was taken up after
being tabled and passed. 1t may en-
courage the emissary from Hilo who
is supposed to be on his way here for
the purpose of getting similar bill
through for the Island Of Hawaii Presi-
dent Bishop stated unoficially yester-
day that he had been asked by wire
less two days ago if there would be
any use for Hawaii TO try and he wired
back negative encouragement. The
Senator from the vicinity of the Mauso-
leum opposes anything like unwarrant-
ed debt.
The bill to provide for the distribu-
tion of the net profits of the Industrial
School and Lahainaluna met defeat in
the Senate by the amendment offered
by Senator Dowsett.s 1t changed the
aspect SO greatly that Senator Haysel
den concluded that it would be better
to take what they could get under the
present bill than to fly to things they
were not quite sure of. The principal
objection advanced by the Senators yes
terday during the debate was to hav-
ing the money distributed by one in
dividual instead of passing through the
regular governmental channel.
A rather important bin lost was that
which prohibits the use of firearms for
hunting purposes within three miles OF
the postoffice. There are lot of aliens
who shoot in the rice patches by the
side of men who know how to use guns
and the result is not always pleasant
to the people who reside in the neigh
borhood of the rice patches. They com
plain that it is not safe for them to
walk around their yards or to sit on
their verandas on Sunday on account
of the falling shot. This argument was
advanced yesterday but the bill was
too heavily weighted to move it from
the table.
House Bill No. 23s, relating to the
manufacture of electric light and pow
er on Maui, passed first reading
House Bill No. 235, providing sink
ing fund for the redemption of County
bonds, passed first reading.
Continued on Page Two.)
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-04-27
BOARD SLAPS
|AUkEA's WRIST
Courthouse Incident Is Closed
Good Road P0Iicy---Music
in Demand.

The great investigation of Sheriff
Iaukea, in the matter of the prisoners
who were left in Judge Robinson s
court last month, fizzled out in an ex-
adopted without enthusiasm, making an
exceedingly weak ending for so spirited
a beginning.
The meeting of the Board of Super
visors last night was an exceedingly
quiet one throughout. Even the
estimates failed to produce a discus
sion. The cherished dream of a belt
road around the island found tangible
realization in part from a statement
by Captain Otwell that he would have
to build a road via Koko Head to Ma
kapuu incidental to his building of the
new lighthouse there, and the Board
formed a high resolve to lay a little
money aside each month, which it would
spend in macadamizing the road run
ming through the Koolaus, which work
IS intended TO be monument to the
Board, more lasting than brass.
Those present at the meeting were:
Supervisors Hustace, Archer, Cox, Ke-
aloha, Fern and Dwight; County En-
gineer Gere, County Clerk Kalauoka-
lani, Assistant Clerk Buffandeau, STEM
ographer Aea, Criminologist Lake, Su-
perintendent Frazer of the Electric
Light and the press.
Archer reported for the Ways and
Means committee that he had seen the
Deputy Auditor. He had said that the
County would be furnished $4,000 for
the month of May.
After this the following bills were
approved:
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-04-27
AFTERNOON
CABLE REPORT

WASHINGTON. April 2e.-The pres
ent military division, except az effect
ing the Philippines, will be abolished
on June 80. That department will be
retained.
CHICAGO, April -congresHmen.
en- route TO Hawaii Territory. have
passed through this city and are In 81.
Louis today where thoy join the south
ern delegation.
NORFOLK. April 2e.-The James
town Exposition was opened today.
President Roosevelt delivered an ad-
dress. There was an imposing naval
display.
SAN FRANCISCO, Apri: 28.-The
examination Of jurors in the trial Of
Abe Ruef Tor extortion was resumed
today.
VERONA, April Pa sharp earth
quake was felt here today.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-04-27
VAN Dimes MISSION
ATTRACTS ATTENTION

d. L. Van Dine, experiment station
entomologist for Re Hawaiian Islands,
was a passenges on the steamer Ko-
rea, which arrived Friday. and left a
few hours after landing for Washing
ton, -. c. where he goes TO confer
with DR.. l. O.. Howard, chief OF the
Bureau of Entomology of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, concerning sever
al problems that have come up in the
chronological affairs Of the islands.
one Of the most interesting Of these
is in regard to the honey produced on
the islands. There is some substance
there that the bees obtain that gives
a very high percentage Of glucose in
the honey. The government pure-food
law allows only a certain percentage
of glucose, as that substance is one OF
the chief adulterants that is common
lv used. While the island honey Is
pure and Just as wholesome as that
produced in any part of the world,
this comparatively large amount OF
glucose shows badly in the analysis.
The honey shipment Of the islands VIII
amount to over 500 tons. this year,
and the producers are greatly inter
ested in having the law so modined
in their case as to allow the honey 10
come under the pure-food products.
Another problem that the entomolo-
gist has to contend with is small n.y.
that in some parts Of the Islands Is
almost driving out the cattle Industry.
This fly has been abundant for a num-
Der of years. but it has only been OF
late that il has so seriously threatened
the interests Of the cattle men.
van Dine will be I'm the United states
for two months, and will then return
To the islands.-San Francisco, Chron-
icle
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-04-27
IMMIGRANTS ARRIVE AFTER
MANY WEARY WEEKS AT SEA
HeliopoIis Brings Clean
and COntented Lot
of Spaniards.

The immigrant ship Heliopolis arriv-
ed off port at 2:3O p. m. yesterday
and anchored outside She brought
22s7 Spanish immigrants from Malaga.
The voyage took A. days, which is con
sidered very good time
There are 500 children in the party.
800 of which are infants. On the
voyage there were Il deaths and l.
births. Three who died were women
and the rest young children.
As soon as the Heliopolis anchored,
the quarantine and immigration OIL
cials, customs officers, Secretary At
kinson and Walter Dillingham; went out
to her. Dillingham; took charge of the
steamer in the capacity of executive
officer of the Territorial Board of I'm
migration.
The regular quarantine inspection
found all well with the exception of
seven cases of measles and two of
mumps. The ailing are all babies.
DR.. Mackall and two nurses were
taken out to the steamer and the sick
folks and their families were taken TO
Quarantine island.
The HeliopOlis will dock at a. m.
today at the immigration wharf and
those aboard Will then undergo the ex-
animation of the immigration inspec-
tors.
Three stowaways beat their way to
Hawaii.
The steamer is in excellent condition
and those who saw the S. s. Suverie
say that there is no comparison be-
tween the condition of the two YES
sells and the passengers thereon.
The Spaniards are an exceptionally
fine-looking lot of people and appear
to be clean and goodnatured. While
naturally anxious to get ashore they
took their enforced detention in good
part, doubtless coming to the conclu.
sion that after AZ days away from
terra firma, a day or so more didn Z
matter.
1t is expected that all the immigrants
and their baggage will be clear of the
steamer by this afternoon.
Secretary Atkinson had the follow
ing to say of the visitors last night:
"The people are as clean looking
lot as / have ever seen.
"Though the ship is not in the
cleanest possible condition, it is not
any worse than might have been ex-
pected after so long a voyage with so
many people on board.
"They have had no trouble whatever
on the way out. You may have heard
talk about Spaniards and knives, in
connection with the immigration Of
these people, but there was never a
knife shown by anyone during the
whole passage.
"There were twelve births and nine
teen deaths on the voyage. An out
break of measles occurred.
"Walter F. Dillingham; has full
charge in taking care Of the immi-
grants when they are landed. None
but the sick will be landed tonight -
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-04-27
GIFT TO OAHU COLLEGE.

Mrs s T. Alexander has gwen
money to Oahu College for a new attn
letic field. The site of the field is IN
the pasture above the swimming tank.
The field will have one-third OF mile
track, a football field and baseball
ground.
The field will be a memorial to ;. L.
Alexander
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-04-27
EAMES TO GET
A DIVORCE

NEW YORK. April 27.-The referee
has recommended that the divorce de-
manded by Madame Emma Eamcs from
her husband. Julian Story. be granted.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-04-27
CARMEN AND
MAGNATE

SAN FRANCISCO, April 27.-The
conference between the carmen and the
representative Of the United Railroads
has failed.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-04-27
RAILROAD MAN
BROWNS HIMSELF

NEW YORK, April 27.-DAniei WI
cox. ex-president Of the Delaware q
Hudson Canal Company, has committed
suicide AZ sea.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-04-27
FLOODS AT KIEV
DISASTROUS

ST. PETERSBURG, April 27.-Dis-
astrous floods have taken place at
Kiev.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1907-07-10

Comptroller General Jones yester-
day awarded to The State company
the contracts for printing the audit
ors' and ~treasurers' duplicates and all
other books and stationary used in,
the tax departments. There were a
number Of bids fled and much inter-
esttaken 81 the award. The contract
went outside OF the State of South
Carolina last time and Comptroller
General Jones was not at all satisfied
with the work.-The State, July3.
We are glad that The State com
pany has. been awarded this contract.
This is as it should be. It is neither
just nor rightfor printing Of this kind
TO go to concerns outside of the State,
or outside of Columbia, for you can
get just as high-class work done at
The State Company as you can get on
any part Of the globe. Besides, it
doesen't look right to give work to
asoutsiders.n It doesen't show the
right spirit tits not patrqnizing those
vino have worked so hard to build up
enterprises without which no city can
prosper. W. are glad The State got
the Job and its dollars to doughnuts
that Comptroller General Jones will
bemuch better pleased with the work
than he was the last time.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1907-07-10

Any statement or rumor to the
effect that Sheriff Corley is giving the
Fallaws, now in jail charged with the
murder of George Mabus special
privileges is false. Sheriff Corley
ia human-an men are human to a
certain extent-and he treats the
FaIlaws the same as other prisoners.
AS q matter of fact, he would lock
them upin cells, separately, if it were
possible for him to do SO, but the
locks to the cells are not in working
order. The Sheriff informs US that he
has called attention to this time and
time again, but so far his requests for
new locks has been ignored. We
protest against these reports, and
trust that they will cease. Lexington
has as good sheriff as there is in the
State, and anything to the contrary
is deliberately false.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1907-07-10
Col. Fort Heavy Loser.

We are indeed sorry to learn of the
heavy loss Col. J. @. Fort, of Pelion,
sustained on the night of July the
4th, when his mill dam gave way.
They were wakened at2:25 a. m, by a
peculiar noise of the water, and upon
going to the mill found the pier-head
and boat house gone, the dam was
falling in, and soon the old saw mill
house went down; The dam was
completely wrecked. The lower dam,
which was just completed about a
year ago at a considerable cost,
could not Withstand the wild and
turbulant water, broke too. Col.
Forts fine steel pleasure boat, single
machine, hay press, disc plows and
harrows, and numbers of other things
were taken away by the treacherous
waters. Millions of fish were carried
to the Edisto.
The loss cannot be fully estimated,
but will u up into the thousands.
Fever, it is feared, will follow the ter
rible disaster, as the pond is down
and the mud odorous.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1907-07-10

Truly, Leesville is a beautiful little
city. There is no town in South Car
DINA or in any other State that is
situated more f~avorably than she is.
Her merchants are composed of bust
ness men of sound judgment-men
who pull together. for greater Lees
vile. No matter when, or how often
you visit this town, you see signs of
improvement on every side-evidence
of growing prosperity. There is no
people on the face of the earth that
treats the stranger within their gates
better, and a place inhabited by such
people cannot but continue to grow.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1907-07-10

From the number of complaints
Gov. Ansel is receiving from the va
rious counties in the State in refer
ence to violations of the dispensary
law, it seems chat the predictions of
many are coming to pass-that under
the county system the law would be
tr~ansgressed to a greater extent than
under the old State dispensary law.
Governor Ansel and Attorney General
Lyon are doing all in their power to
enforce the law, and they should be
commended for their endeavors in
this direction.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1907-07-10

The great Importance of having a
complete system Of waterworks can
not be over estimated. One afternoon
last week the alarm of 'fre" was
made and had it not been for prompt
work in all probability the entire
town would have been swept away
by the flames. This same thing will
be repeated sooner or later, and then
it will be too late to cry for water
works. So, with this awakening, let
us have the ~waterworks at any cost.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1907-07-10
CIRCULATION 1854.
Wednesday, July 10, 1907
Our esteemed contemporary, The
Columbia State, of July 5, says.

Our esteemed contemporary, The
Columbia State, of July 8, says.
"Editors are not without honor
save in their own country, They go
abroad in the land and Immediately
become senatorial timber, colonies,
honorables, and all other manner OF
GOOD things. And the waistband of
their hats are made to expand ex-
ceedingly.o
How could it be otherwise when
this honor comes so seldom and from
abroad? The truth is, people don't
appreciate their home paper as they
should. All too often the editor and
the entire force is censured for pub
fishing facts as they really are, when,
as . matter of fact, he is only doing
his duty, and working for what he be-
Ieves to be right. Editors often diff
fer with their best friends, but this
should not make them any less adj
nirsd Ia their own country. Some
people, however, are SO narrow mind
ed that they can't appreciate any
thing or anybody that differs with
them. So, then, when the editor
goes abroad, and this is very seldom,
andreeeives all this attention OF which
The State speaks, it would not be SUR
prising to hear of some EDITORS .sbelly
bandn expanding.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1907-07-10

The citizens or Lexington county
are going to stand by their dear old
county. They are going to forever
bury the new county schemes of St.
Matthews and Edisto at the ballot
box. We believe that the citizens of
Orangeburg and Aiken counties will
do likewise. We can see no reason
why they should not, for both these
counties are prosperous and are run
by good county governments at a
very low rate of taxation. The date
has not been set yet for an election
on either of these propositions, but it
behooyes us, as citizens of these grand
old counties, to work while 1t Is Gay,
lest the time might come when it will
be needless to work.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1907-07-10

We want to see the supervisor and
county commissioners make a move
toward better roads through the sand
hills. The government, through the
efforts of Congressman Lever, is
about to establish what is known as
county rural service, and with this
better roads must come. There is
nothing that the people of this county
needs more, and if there is any one
thing that she is behind her sister
counties, surely it is good roads.
Every county in the State is taking
an active step towards this end, and
why not Lexington? The commits
sioners should begin now and not
stop until every road in the county is
put in frstclass condition
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1907-07-10
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,

OooAVy Va
By Geo. S. Drafts, Esq, Probate Judge.
WHEREAS, Mrs. Maggie L. Epting
made suit to me, to grant her Letters of
Administration Of the Estate of and
effects Of John M. Epting. ,
These are therefore to cite and
admonish all and singular the kindred
and creditors Of the said John NJ:
Epting, deceased, that they be and
appear, before me, in the Court of Pro
bate, to be held at Lexington c.. H., S.
c., on 16 day July, 1907, next, after pub
LEGATION hereof at II o'clock in the fore
noon, to show cause, if any they have,
why the said administration should not
be granted.
Given under my hand. this 1st day
Of July, Ammo Domini, 1907.
GEO. S. DRAFTS, IL. ST.
Probate Judge, Lexington county, s. G.
Published on the 3rd day of July,
1907, in the Lexington Dispatch. So
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1907-07-10

w. Capers Bates was elected Mayor
Of Batesburg last Tuesday. 1.-The will
make half as good mayor as the one
now in ofice-and there is no reason
why he should not make just as good
a mayor-Batesburg will continue to
grow as the green bay tree. Mayor
Edwards will leave the Office with the
twen done'' of all his fellow citizens.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1907-07-10

It puts new life in US to receive
such letters as the one received from
DR.. M. L. Martin, of Texas, which is
printed in full elsewhere. We shall
strive to add new laurels to The Dis
patch's crown as the weeks come and
90. We'd Ike to have DR.. Martin
backi in South Carolina;>he's too good
a man to live in Texas.