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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-19
WHITE WAS
BLAMELEss
Coroner's Jury State Death OF
Victim of Collision to
Be Accidental.
Advertiser Photo.

With an audience which almost
jammed the intersection of Beretania
and River streets at 5 . clock yesterday
afternoon the coroner's jury in the
White auto accident case took ocular
testimony of the witnesses who saw
the Chinese boy, Lau Kai Foy, meet
with the accident which caused his
death at the Queen s Hospital later on.
1t was the time of day when people
were homeward bound after the day s
work and each one, attracted by the
presence of the police and the evident
tact that something official was trans
piring, stopped to look on.
Deputy Sheriff Jarret, Mr.. Milverton
of the County Attorneys office, attor-
neys interested the jury, witnesses and
Mr.. Whites auto, were the center of
interest, for seldom has coroner s jury
held its session in the open air. The
witnesses, still at variance as to just
where the accident occurred, endeavor-
ed to trace the manner in which the
tragedy occurred Mr.. White s machine
was run over the course. The wit
nesses, however, placed the spot where
the collision between bicycle and auto
came together, in two different places.
A manhole, connecting with the sewer,
is almost at the point of intersection
of the two streets. One witness placed
the location on one side of the man
hole and another witness, just the other
side, while Mr.. White, who ran his ma
chine over the course, as told of in his
own testimony, gave different version.
Then the jury retired to the jury
room at the police station and rendered
a verdict to the effect that the boy met
his death as the result of an accident,
no blame attaching to Mr.. White. The
text of the jury's verdict was as fol
lows:
''That the deceased, Lau Kai Foy,
came to his death from concussion anu
hemorrhage of the brain caused by
fall while riding on the handle bars Of
a bicycle driven by Lau Kwai Foon,
which was accidentally struck by an
auto driven bv z. o. White. -
The accident occurred, as previously
stated, on Saturday evening as Mr..
White S auto came into River street
from Beretania, colliding with wheel
propelled by Lau Kwai Foon. The bicy.
Gle rider was giving a ride to a little
Chinese boy named Foy who was sit
ting on the handle bars.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-19
DOES NOT WANT
KAPAA At
PRICE
.Spalding Thinks the
Figure Above
Reason.

The Kapaa land question was taken
up again yesterday by the Governor.
George H. Fairchild, manager of the
Makee Sugar Company, was caller on
the Governor both in the forenoon and
in the afternoon.
No conclusion was reached in regard
to the matter The distance apart the
government and the Makee Sugar Com
pany are ON the question of the rental
value of the lands may be judged from
the following letter from Fairchild,
written yesterday and addressed to
Land Commissioner Pratt, but taken up
by Governor Frear. 1t was dated at
Honolulu yesterday, and said:
son the 23rd ultimo you honored me
by making the following inquiry:
s'De you care to have the Anahola,
Kamalomalo, Kapaa and South Olo-
hena sugar lands, or any of them, with
the necessary water Except about 90
acres of Kapaa which it is proposed to
lease for rice), put up at auction for
a lease long enough to raise three cy-
cles-that is, plant and ratoon, of crops
of cane at the upset rentals named by
the appraisers in their report of the
18th of last April; in other words, If
such lands should be put up as afore-
said would you bid the upset rentals
for them or any of them?'
TO which | replied on the following
day as follows:
20 beg to acknowledge the receipt
of your letter of July %, asking
whether the Makee Sugar Company will
bid the upset rentals named by the ap-
praisers for all or any of the Anahola,
Kamalomalo, Kapaa and South Olo-
hena lands, if same should be put up
at auction by the government.
"<As these rates are in excess of any
thing | am authorized to bid, | am for
wardiag your letter to Colonel Spalding
for definite Instructions As this gem
1leman is now in the States, | expect
an early reply. which | will communl-
cate to you bv first opportunity
81 now have the honor to advise
You that Colonel Spalding has returned,
and that / have informed him concern
ing the matter of our said correspond
ence, and am able to give you his opln-
ion confirming my own to the effect
that the appraisement of rentals recon-
mended by your appraisers is in excess
of fair valuation for said lands, and
therefore the Makee Sugar Company
Continued on Page Seven.)
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-19
REPORT WILL
BE. SWITCHED
Special Committeeman Have
Had Another Think Over
Iaukea Matter.

/ There has been change of opinion
somewhere, induced by the enlighten
ment that time and consideration
!! brings, and it is now pretty safe tc
predict that the report to be. presented
at the meeting of the Board of Super
visors tonight regarding Iaukea and
the attempt to bribe him will be very
much along the lines of the Grand Jury
report on the same matter, that the
Sheriff is poor but honest. At first
when the idea sprouted that an adverse
report might result in the forced resig-
nation of the Sheriff, thus opening the
way for the appointment or someone
who would swing in with the push with
an extemporized police machine, it was
tacitly agreed that such a report would
be forthcoming. This sprout maintain.
ed its growth until the frost of ex-
posure came, which cut it down. The
report that will be presented tonight
is the second growth, which came up
with the light of a clearer understand
ing of the public temper.
In the meanwhile the parties are still
looking for someone to put up to sue
ceed laukea. The persistent report
that A. NJ. Brown, despite his own de-
malls, will be jammed through the con-
vention, is still in circulation, much
to the alarm of some of the prospective
candidates for other of the offices on
the Republican ticket. These hopeful
ones want to keep the friendship of the
ex-sheriff for the good he may do them,
but they do not want to have to carry
him on their shoulders in the campaign
because of the harm he would do them.
But the sheriffship seems to be a sort
of prize package this time that no
one wants who anyone wants. There
are those ready to take it but no one
very enthusiastic about taking them up.
1t seems to be generally agreed that
the salary attached to the job is away
out of proportion to the responsibility
attached, and the fact that the present
Sheriff is finishing up his term in such
financial straits is being advanced as
an argument why the coming Legisla-
ture should be asked to increase the
salary to a proper figure. "'Instead of
the people of Honolulu being mad be,
cause Iaukea borrowed a hundred dol
lars, they ought to be ashamed of them
selves because he had to, is the epitome
of the opinion of a good many over the
situation, as expressed by Joe Cohen.
1t is pointed out that the County At.
torney, who devotes not over one-third
his time to the public and who is sup
piled with an Office and Office staff by
the public to carry on his private bust
ness with, still draws a bigger salary
from the county than the man who has
to put all his time in on his lob The
County Treasurer, whose salary is paid
him for the responsibility he incurs,
CONTINUED on Page Two)
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-19
SEVERAL DIRECTOIRE GOWNS
OWNED BY HONOLULU WOMEN

On the last steamer from San Fran
cisco there arrived several sheath or
prectoire gowns, the recipients being
well known ladies, but just when any
of them viii be seen in public is a
question, that interesting moment mere
ly awaiting some one bolder than others
to break the ice. The gowns are said
to be the modified creations which have
lately passed fashion s censorship in the
eastern cities and in San Frnciseo, and
slthough entirely new in style and con-
spicuous, are certainly not the type
which electrified even gay Paris.
The sheath gown, while it may not
have received royal consent, yet has
been worn in the presence of the King
sas Queen of England. On the oeea-
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-19
KUDO COT into
MESS Of TROUBLE

japanese witness, named Kudo,
who appeared for the prosecution in a
liquor case which Inspector FenneH
brought into court, was yesterday held
at the police station for investigation,
because of some mixed testimony he
gave in the case before Judge Andrade.
Last Friday when the case first came
up for hearing the Japanese testified
that the amount of money given him
by Mr. Fennell to purchase liquor
amounted to $3.50. Yesterday he stat
ed that it was $1.75. This varied as
sortment of testimony, with other cross
features added, called for some sharp
remarks from the bench, the dismissal
of the charge against the accused, and
ended with the Chief of Detectives
holding the man for investigation.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-19
GOVERNOR I'M THURN.

Concerning the retirement of Lord
Everard i'm Thurn of FIJI, his wife a
passenger on the Manuka, the FIJI
Times says:
cit is understood in official circles
that the question of his Excelleney Sir
Everard i'm Thurn S retirement from the
administration of affairs Fijian is a
very open one. and that if his Excel
lency can satisfy himself that he may
still do good work in Fiji, he will have
much pleasure in returning here after
a short period of very necessary leave. -
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-19

sion of the Olympian games, Mrs.
George Keppel, who is one of the king 8
close personal friends, appeared in a
sheath gown. Knowing the Queen s
aversion to extraordinary fashions, Mrs.
Keppel remained in a private room back
of the royal box, until every one per-
mitted there had been seated and their
attention directed to the stadium,
whereupon Mrs. Keppei entered unob-
trusively and took a seat near the king.
Mrs. Keppel endeavored to avoid the
Queen S inspection of her gown. The
gown was so closely modelled to her
figure that Mrs. Keppel had to walk
with mincing gait.
The first Direetoire gown worn in Ho-
nolulu was that shown at the Orpheum
Monday night by Miss Fuller, ths
gown arriving on the Siberia.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-19
COMPLETE IN 1918.
EUREKA SHAKEN BY
A SEVERE EARTHQUAKE

earthquake
himny vibrations
umbled
o
a the earth.
to
distinct.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-19
BATTLESHIpS
ARE WHAT WE REQUIRE
Admiral Evans Says Atlantic and Pacific Should
Zach Have Large Feet---Castro Still
Hunting Trouble.
tAssociated Press cablegrauls.)

LAKE MOHONK, August Io.-Yesterday the of
retirement the list of navy
declared speech that America have large
tain her position among
country battleshps both the At
antic and Pacific oceans.
Yesterday being Admiral Evans birthday well the date
of his retirement receipt kilograms
from all the country.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-19
KETCHEL'S SHORT ROUTE
TO THE CHAMPIONSHIP


knocking in the
This Francisco promoters Thomas
twenty-five Coma, after both
Thomas Knocked
Keehe down the champion the interval
out in
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-19
GEORGE F. DAVIES. VICE CONSUL

George F. Davies has been appointed
by Consul Forster to be Acting British
Vice Consul at Honolulu during the alb
sence in Europe of Vice Consul T. Give
Davies.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-19
PACIFIC FLEET
ENTERTAINERS

) Governor Frear yesterday ap-
). pointed a Pacific Fleet Enter
tainment Committee.
) 1t is composed of the follow
ing:
. GEORGE w. SMITH,
:, JAMES F. MORGAN,
A. L. c. ATKINSON,
F. L. WALDRON,
) L. T. PECK,
J. W. JONES,
H P. WOOD.
This committee is to take en-
tire charge of the plans for en-
> tertaining the Pacific fleet, and
1T viii proceed in it's own way
) to do it. and according to its
own plans.
, o @ @ o o o o o @ o 300 O.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-19
WHITES DRIVING NEGROES FROM WORK

Tennessee whites driving
the ,.-s
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-19
CASTRO REFUSES FRANCE
ANY REPRESENTATION


Brazilian
during
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-19
OVERDUE BARK ARRIVES SAFE

TACOMA Washington August
safely yesterday
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-19
CHAMPIONS DEFEND TITLE

NEWPORT
yesterday championship
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-19
FLEET VERY CLOSE TO SYDNE'

SYDNEY Australia August 19The position Of the Amerl
fleet on this date as reported by miles out
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-19
ANNIE PECK IS WRECKED

LIMA Peru August here the loss of the ship
Peck off the coast.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-19
DIRT FLYING IN DITCH WORK

HUAscARAN
excavation
COMPLETE
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-19
MANILA INVITES ROOSEVELT.

1sPreden Roosevelt 10 be invited to visa ss
sisy aftsr She OF sacs.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-19
SHERMAN OFFICIALLY NOTIFIED.


UTICA chairman of the noh
ton committee city formally Republican Pred
a1 Candidate York his nomination Secretary
and prominence responding
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-19
CANDIDATE CHAFIN HEARS THE NEWS

CHICAGO 19-Eugene
National Prohibition party yesterday
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-19
SOLDIERS LEAVING SPRINGFIELD

SPRINGFIELD here
of the militia regiments
Bisbee daily review., 1908-12-06
Montana Man Pays $1.000 On S40C Debt of 26
 Years Standing.

BILLINGS, Mont, Dec. 5.--To re
 ceive a check for $1,000 in paymen, of adebt of $400 contracted 26 years ago, and that after the incident or
 the early days had long since been forgotten, sounds something like a fairy tale in these days Of strenuous
 materialism, but that is exactly what occurred in this city this morning, the recipient of the check being Mayor Fred H. Foster.
 Twenty-six years ago. Mayor Eos. ter. who is also clerk of the districs court, arrived in the little settlement of Billings, coming from Minneapolis.
 Minn., where he was born and where he grew to manhood. He was cry1l engineer in the employ of the North ern Pacific, and hen that company decided to throw it's steel hands across the far northwestern wilderness, young Foster was one of the several engi. neers who assisted in surveying the route.
 With the young engineer came an acquaintance, in fact, a boyhood chuI.s,
 scion of wealthy family, who sought adventure in the west. When tlns scion arrived in Billings, luck Nas against him.. and he went broke in q short time.
 Evidently not desiring to apply 1o
 his family in Minnesota for assistance
 the young man sought loan at one of the mercantile establishments,
 there being no banks in the little vii
Bisbee daily review., 1908-12-06
THRILLING ADVENTURES IN
 HE WILOS IF PANAMA

rsn so that they ran away, as we were the first white men they had ever seen. That night council wa3 held by the men or the tribe. all squattins on the sand around their wooden idol to decide what to do with us. While the tom toms were beating the Man. d'nga Indians, another tribe, came down iU their canoes and laid claim to us because we had been captured in their territory. They joined in the hullabaioo. which could have been hsard for miles along the short. Al dawn the interpreter passed our hut and shouted cut in the native tongue that the Americans were to die.
 Smith hurried to the chiefs and told them through the interpreter that a gunboat was on its way from Colon to rescue Us and destroy their town Luckily at that moment one of the In dians shouted out and pointed to the sea where a cloud of smoke could be seen rising to the sky. Bradley died that day, and his body was taken tc Colon by Smith in sailing boat, who also took Bartlett to the hospital
 My brother Carl and then set out in a canoe for San Caristoyal. The In dians seemed content to ,cf us go on account of the supposed gunboat which afterward proved to be one oi the canal commiss'on's seagoing tugs
 We spent night at San Christoyal and toward morning were awakened by loud shouts and sounds of firing The Indians had followed us to the negro camp and killed the two men VITO guided us up the river After wading along waterways we arrived at Playa de Damas, where our gaso line launch was hidden. but we re, turned to Colon in the government launch that had been selt to meet us"
 Baron von Teuber said that there were immense anthracite coal fields in the San Bias country, which would be valuable when the canal is opened He is here to organize another expe' dition to start in February.
Bisbee daily review., 1908-12-06
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POLITICAL NOTES.
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- WY
 Owing to the close contest between the republican and democratic candi- dates for the minor state offices in Missouri and the provisions of the law respecting the tabulation of cleo tion returns, the result of the Novem- Der election on those offices may not be definitely known until after the general assembly corvenes in Jan. uary.
 It costs big money to become gov. ernor of Connecticut. George l.. Lil. ley, the successful republican candi- date in the recent election, reported his campaign expenses as s23,375 It cost Judge A Heaton Robertson his democratic oponent, $33,000 to be defeated. The eovernorship pays $4000 a year.
 On his way from his home in Ne braska to Mexico William J. Bryan stopped of in Corpus Christi, Texas long enough to buy twenty acres O. suburban property at that place. Ii Is understood to be his intention to build a home on the property, ana spend a part of each winter there.
 Eight times in succession has the state of New York been carried by republican candidates for governor and four times in succession has il been carried by republican candidates for president. Before 1895 New York was the most doubtful states politically in the country. From 1859 up to thai tine, there had been democratic gov ernors for twenty-thTee years and re publican governors for thirteen years, while in presidential campaigns the state had a habit of switching from one party to the otter every alterB- ate election.
 For the Indiana senatorship. it is said that ex-Chairman Tom Taggarr and his friends are solidly behind John W. Kern, and that there is lit tie possibility of Nf Kern's defeat, but on the contrary. every assurance that he will succeed Mir. Hemenway.
 The prohibitionists in Missouri pro pose to lose no time in taking ad- vantage of the initiative and referen- dunn law adopted last month. Under the law il will be necessary to secure about 10000 signatures to petitions for the submission of prohibitory amendment before it can be submit ted to the voters of the state
Bisbee daily review., 1908-12-06
PROPOSALS FOR PURCHASE OF WATER WORKS BONDS AND STREET IMPROVEMENT
 BONDS,

Sealed proposals are hereby in
 vited by the City of Bisbee, Cochise County, Territory of Arizona, for tae purchase of bonds to be issued for the Construction of Water Works ill said city in the sum of One Hundred and Twenty-Five Thousand ($125, ,000)
 Dollars, and for the Improvement ul Streets in said city in the sum of One Hundred and Twenty five Thousand C$125,000) Dollars. authorized by the
 vote of the qualified electors of said city, owners of real or personal prop erty within said city subject to taxa tion, on October 24, 1908, in conform ity with an Act of Congress, approved March 4, 1898, entitled, "An Act to amend an Act to prohibit the passage of local or special laws in the Terri' tories, to limit Territorial Indebted ness, etc" Said water works bonds are to be numbered serially from one
 to one hundred inclusive, for the sum of $1,250 each, dated the 2nd day of January, 1909, and said street i'm proyement bonds are to be numbered serially from one to one hundred in elusive, for the sum of $1,250 each, dated the 2nd day of January, 1909, all said bonds shall become due tweh- ty-fiye t25) years after the date thereof, and bear interest at the rate of six per cent per annum, payable
 semi-annualIy, on the first Monday in January, and July of each year;
 Provided, however, that it shall be stipulated in said bonds that the Mayor and Common Council of said citv of Pishee reserve the right to pay of and retire any and all of said bonds in their numerical order at any time from and after the expiration
Bisbee daily review., 1908-12-06

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Bisbee daily review., 1908-12-06
TRY ID AGREE ON
 BRYAN DIVORCE
Agent of the ComnAoner On His Way To France To See
 Eeayitt.

LINCOLN, Neb., Dec An emis. Sary of William J. Bryan now Is on his way to France-he may be there by this ttme-for the purpose of see ing Mir. Bryan's son-in-law in regard to the divorce suit about to be brought by Ruth Bryan Leayitt. The object, It is said, is to agree upon a settle ment.
 Mrs. William Horner Leayitt, who Is still a girl in experience and years, has established a residence in Colo radO for the purpose, it is understood, of bringing divorce suit under the liberal laws of that state It is not merely paper residence. Mrs. Leav1tt time in the state, the remainder be- ing spent with her parents at Lin coin, Neb.
 In Colorado, which is a state where women vote, Mrs. Leavitt is promi. nent. She is president of the princi- pal woman's democratic club in Den spends probably two-thirds of her yer, and her brilliancy and wit make her a prominent figure among the brightest women of that state, though she never has given the least coun. tenance to anything of the "suffra- 5SlIS
 End of Noted Romance" The divorce suit which she is about to bring marks the end of one of the most interesting "romances" of mod ern American life. A romance" Tn this sense meaning g marriage where the girl defes the wishes of her par onts. Ruth Bryan was a self-willed, beautiful, brilliant and foolish girl of F. An artist named Leavitt came to Lincoln to paint her fathers portrait He was twice her age, but good look ing, clever and with a slap-dash way with him that fascinated the imagina- ton of the school girl and she an nounced her determination to marry him.
 Mir. Bryan warned his daughter against the marriage and did all he could to prevent it. So did Mrs. Bry- an, but Ruth was too self-willed to permit interference. She had to wait for her eighteenth birthday, because her father and mother had legal con tFol of her up to that time, but on that birthday she vas married. : Mother Absent at Wedding. Mrs Bryan absented herself from the ceremony. MT. Bryan attended the wedding. though every guest marked on his face the grief it cost him. Then i'll starred married life be- gan. Leavitt had n,J money, but that defect the Bryans night have Teme- died but for the ineradicable defects of his temerament. He had the curse of the bohemian" idea. He dragged his sweet young wife through the Denver hash h0usee when ha noulo as well have dined her at good hotels.
 At last Mrs. Leavitt's eyes were opened and she left him. A year ago Ws J. Bryan found that his two grand children, Bryan anf Ruth, were liy- ing in squalor in Denver. He went there and rescued them and their mother. The outcome was the Colo rado residence aDc suit for divorce.
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