The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-02-20
LUMBER EXPERTS
GIVE TESTIMONY
Contractors and Buyers Tell
What They Know of
Prices.

A number of witnesses were examin-
ed before Commissioner Hatch in the
lumber trust case yesterday, the ses-
sion lasting throughout the day. The
morning session was enlivened through
the cross-examination of Jack Lucas,
whom u S. Attorney Breckons threat
ened with contempt of court proceed
ings unless he produced the bills and
receipts asked for to show what prices
he had been paying for lumber. The
bills and receipts of Irwin &. Co. will
also be produced in court this morn
ing for the same purpose of comparing
under investigation.
| Yesterday afternoon Contractor Oud-
erkirk was put on the stand. He testi-
| fed that the lumber business of the
Cooke, Wilder & Co. and Allen & Rob-
inson, although there We're other firms
| importing lumber to this and the other
| islands. He was unable to state the
/
named firms nor the total imports of
the other dealers, but formed his opin-
| ion of the proportion of trade from the
| sizes of the different lumber yards. He
| testified that the prices charged by
| the three firms were the same and the
discounts allowed for cash also the
same. He had never received any cut
prices from any of them.
Richard Ivers, secretary of w. G..
Irwin & Co, was asked as TO the pur-
chases of lumber made by his company
for the various plantations represent
ed by them. He explained that for
large orders he called for bids from the
three firms, but for small orders he
merely bought from which ever one Of
them came handiest at the time. His
firm had also imported lumber during
the past five years, but he was unable
off-hand to state the price paid. He
was ordered to produce in court what
ever papers We're on file in his office
to show these prices.
Among the other witnesses examined
along the same lines were Manager
Ballentyne, of the Rapid Transit Com
pany, and c. K. Al, manager of the
City Mills Company, formerly lumber
importers.
TWO TOO MANY WIVES.
All Leong, one of the most promi-
nent Chinese merchants in Honolulu,
is in serious difficulty with the Federal
authorities, having been put under ar
rest yesterday for unlawful cohabita-
ton. An Leong, it appears, has long
kept a harem here, having three Chi
nese women as inmates, to none of
whom he is married. Two of the
women are alive and said to be living |
with him, and children have been born |
to each of the three. In an examina- |
ton yesterday before u. S. Commits |
sioner Hatch, All Leong was bound
over to the April term of the Federal |
court.
During the past few weeks Leong has |
been a familiar name about the courts |
his son having served three terms for |
contempt arising out of refusal to |
pay alimony ordered by Judge De Bolt
Leong pere was himself in the police
court a short time ago, charged with |
being a common nuisance, his offense
in blocking up the sidewalk |
in front of his store with bags of rice.
CAST DOUBT ON THE SIGMA
TURES.
Mrs. Theresa Wilcox appeared as an /
attorney on her own behalf in Judge /
Lindsay's court yesterday in Dickey
VS.. Cummings, in which the validity of |
the deed held by her to certain Ho-
nolulu property had been questioned. |
The bulk of the evidence offered by |
the de- ense was to the effect that both |
the signatures of W. H. Cummings /
and his attorney w. La Peterson,
which appeared on the deed in ques-
ton, were spurious.
NOTE MUST BE PAID.
Judgment was rendered yesterday |
by Judge Lindsay in the case of Ma
COON VS.. Campbell, as administrator of /
the estate of Livinia. Kapu, deceased,
to recover payment of a balance of |
1926 on a promissory note. The note
had been made out in favor of the |
plaintiff by the deceased, the original |
amount being $4,000, various payments
having cut down the amount to the
figure sued for. Magoon had presented |
his claim for the payment of the ball