The Hawaiian gazette., 1907-01-15

Members OF the Legislature are hear
expressing the opinion that there is n
need or the office OF stenographer {
the House. They point to the fact tina
the Senate has never INDUCED in tn
luxury OF shorthand
Deputy Attorney General Milvertol
has filed a reply brief, on behalf o
Land Commissioner Pratt on the La
mai land exchange injunction. 1t fol
lows the, lines OF Mr.. Milvertons ora
argument reported by the Advertiser.
| (From Sundays Adv-rttserl
S. Keliinoi will be the editor of q
paper to be started at Kahului by &
company organized with capital OF
$4,000 1t is to be n weekly in English
and Hawaiian editions.
Judge Lindsay granted the motion
OF r. W. Breckons that the attorney.
fee of $3.50 paid by Alice X. Macfarlane
to thompson q Clemens in the Camp
bell will case be paid out of the funds
of the estate.
III. Birbe is still untried for the as.
sault he is said to have committed
upon Chinaman some weeks ago
He was up before the beak yesterday
being remanded again until the 18th. II
| Is understood that Birbe's boat for the
Coast will have left before that time.
Senator Chillingworth's draft of a liq-
uor bill has $1,000 saloon and a $500
cafe license. 1t gives no concession to
the local option or the exclusively citi-
zen licensing idea. but 1t sets the maxi
mum penalties on breaches of the con-
dition of selling liquor to women or
minors.
The Hawaiian woman who died at
the Queens Hospital short time ago
from the result of a bullet wound in
fiicted by Charles James, negro in
the employ Of the Bowers Patrol, who
afterwards committed suicide, was not,
as was supposed, the wife of the negro.
This fact was learned after the in
quest, all the testimony there going
to show that the couple were man
and wife. The real wife is still alive
and claimed the months wages due
to her husband from Captain Bowers,
by whom she was paid. The little girl
the sole witness of the tragedy, who
was supposed to be the child of the
couple, was only an adopted daughter
The American ship Great Admiral,
recently lost at sea, was DISTINGUISHED
among other things for being the craft
which bore w. F. Sabin, the local PEN
pusher, to these smiling shores.
drunken native on horse tried to
race with a trolley-car, in Palama,
yesterday afternoon. The car had to
be stopped, owing to the inebriated one
cutting across the line in front of the
car ana endangering his life.
There was darkness along the cock
tail route last night. Many of the cafe
annexes of the saloons were closed al
together and at the others the sale of
the sandwich was insisted upon before
any other order would be entertained.
Henry George, Jr, is at present in
Japan looking into social and economic
conditions there. 1t is probable that
he will shortly pass through here on
his way to the eastern states. Believ-
ers in reform in taxation should not
lose the opportunity to have him ad-
dress the public on this momentous
question.
The farewell reception to Fathers
Wyman and Stark will take place this
evening at st. Louis College Hall at
o'clock. Father Wyman will speak
on his impressions of the islands and
1850 S' 'i'S SuDJSNl VI rum
Rock to Peters Rock" Father Stark
VIII also speak. A musical program,
under the direction of Brother Fran
els, will fill out the entertainment. A
general invitation is extended to the
public to be present.
sam Thomas, a gentleman of color,
who registers from the Magoon block,
was hauled in yesterday afternoon and
charged with furious riding. Sam, it
appears, had borrowed the horse of a
friend to ride around the block and try
its PAGES. Instead of bringing the horse
back, however Sam concluded to give
the mount a thorough try-out and pro-
ceeded to take in the town. The friend,
after waiting some time for Sam to
return, got tired and wandered to the
station house, where he wanted to lay
complaint against him for horse steal
Ing. While arguing the merits of his
case to the lieutenant in charge a
mounted officer brought Sam in for
trying to run down a hack. The own
err of the horse joyfully mounted his
steed and left, while Samuel wander
ed down to the cells, protesting.