The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-02-18
VOLCANO KEEPING
UP ITS ACTIVITY
Another Japanese Murder
Horses Cooked in Volcanic
Steam Crack.

| HILO. Feb. 15.-The volcano is keep
ing up it's activity. Major Wall, OF
Wall, Nichols Co., Honolulu, was q WIS.,
itor this week and he returns to Homo
lulu today with enthusiastic accounts
of Interruption. 81 had no idea, =
said the major, "that there was any.
thing like such display of fire as |
saw in the crater. At times the whole
floor would be covered with streaming
red lava. Like many others in Homo
lulu 1 had something of an idea that
| the reports of the outbreaks were part
fake, but was certainly agreeably sur
prised when got to the pit
JAPANESE MURDER.
Matsumoto Riburo, alias Rikuro,
| charged with a brutal murder at 90
kala on February 8, is being earnestly
hunted for by the police. He skipped
last traces of him led the police to
think he had gone towards Waimea.
The victim of the tragedy was Kon-
do Lukushiro, Japanese aged %. He
was stabbed in the abdomen and his
throat was cut. According to his dy
ing statement Rikuro, his roommate,
while he was asleep. No motive is
known, Kondo having died before he
could answer questions. The accused
has hard reputation.
COURT TERM.
court will open on Wednesday, Febru-
ary 90 There will be no work for
jurors until March 25, when the grand
jury is to appear before Judge Parsons.
Trial jurors are summoned for April 1.
The grand jurors are +. S. Lyman, J. d.
Kennedy, George Tucker, J. T. Moir, J.
B. Kramer, K. s. Gjerdrum, F. G.
Snow. VIM S. Mansfield, F. H. Berg
gren, r. I. Lille, Frank E. Hime, Ed
ward Madden, Henry Louisson, Roder
lex Ross, w. G. Saffery, J. A. M. Oscrio,
III. T. Broderick, Charles K Motley, |
Daniel Porter, E. Fl. Austin, Arthur c. /,
Horner, w. P. Giberson, Antoine G.
Chaves.
OBITUARY.
Paul John Kai, well known citizen |
of Hilo, died last Friday morning at the |
age of 6S, as a result of stroke of |
paralysis which he suffered six hours
before. The deceased was at one time
member of the Legislature. His
father was Akina, the pioneer sugar
planter and partner of Along, and John
Kai is said to have been the first half
Chinese Hawaiian born in the islands. |
The funeral took place on Saturday,
from the home of deceased's son-in-
law, Frank Medcalf, and was attended |.
by large gathering of mourners. The
Rev. Father Wendelin conducted the
services, and the pail bearers were:
Governor John Baker, B. FL. Brown,
George Kaihenui, Henry West, w. A.
Todd and Kealoha. John Kai left four
out of IA sons and daughters, Mrs. ST.
mon Kahana, Kalamaikai Kai, John
Kai, Jr., and Mrs. Frank Medcalf.
William Fernandes, of the firm of
Fernandes G Fernandes, died last Fri
day morning after several weeks illness.
Rheumatism of the heart was the i'm
mediate cause of death. The deceased
was native of Madeira, 81 years of
age. He had spent most of his life
here. The funeral took place on Sun
day afternoon, the Rev. Father Louis
services at the Catholic
cemetery, large number of relatives
and friends attending. A number of
the members of San Antonio society
made the long march in the rain from
town to the home of the deceased. The
pail bearers were: A. M. Cabrinha, NJ !.
NJ Cabrinha, and M. d 'Agruda, Jr., of
the Lusitana society, f. F. Spinola,
John Lawrence and Joaquin Martins,
Of San Antonio society
ITEMS. Ii
Lord Goshen, the British statesman,
who died lately, was a relative by mar
rage of DR.. G. l.. Stow of Hilo
Four of the Volcano Stables com
oany horses were stampeded at the Vol
,ano house last Wednesday by the ma !
1ogany company's traction engine.
They ran across country and met death
by falling into hot crack. They
we're almost cooked before the bodies
we're taken ont. III