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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-01-26
kAHUKU BURGLARY
4 PIECE: OF FICTION

A harmless young Porto Rican, not
quite full-witted, wandering around
the plantation buildings at Kahuku
on Friday night and brought into Ho-
nolulu as suspicious character, fur
nished the grounds for the report that
two men had robbed store at Kahuku
that night. The boys name is Manuel
de Costa, who was liberated yesterday
after being examined by the police.
According to sthe published reports
of the imagined robbery, the two men
implicated were not Lopez and Rod
erigues, the escaped prisoners.
Melekule, q cowboy at Eva, was
held UP, according to his own story,
by two men on the same night. but
after struggling yaliantly effected his
own escape. No report of this occur
renee has been received. by Sheriff
Iaukea.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-01-26
SACRED CHINESE TURTLE
CAUGHT At OAKLAND

Misunderstanding $40 pounds and
having silver band bearing an i'm
perial insignia in telegraph about one
of its legs. a monster sacred turtle of
China that may have swum in the
gardens of an emperor as far back as
the Ming dynasty fell a victim to the
American lasso yesterday and was
landed kicking against the profana-
ton of its dignity from the waters of
the Oakland estuary.
In the thirty-third year Of the En-
peror," reads the silver band about the
turtles leg.
Chinese swarmed about the pier in
wonder.
1t may be a thousand years Old"
said one of them. 1.-THE sacred turtles
are born on the moon, and white
herons fly with them to the pools of
the royal gardens. One never was in
a white mans country before, but all
things are possible to a being so aug
ust." Tales more bizarre were spun,
but how the turtle happened to be in
the estuary could not be explained
Gus Olsen. Fred Kohler and John
Forrest, longshoremen, were out in a
shiff >near the Webster-street bridge
when the turtle came swimming to-
ward them. Tt was more than four
feet long and three feet in breadth
but appeared larger. The longshore-
men We're for pulling away from the
turtle, but it came so near that For-
rest put a running hitch in a length
of rope and finally succeeded in lasso-
ing it.
When the. turtle dived the PROV of
the skiff was pulled under the water.
All three men hung to the straining
rope and when the turtle finally ap-
peared on the surface Kohler and Oh
sen grabbed the oars and pulled hur-
riedly for the pier, where great diff
Guilty was experienced in landing the
turtle.
Ng Poon Chew, editor of the Chung
Sal Vat Pc, said he thought from the
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-01-26
THE DENTAL SOCIETY
HAS ANNUAL MEETING

The Dental Society of Hawaii held
its annual meeting on Thursday even.
ing at the office of DR.. ]. NJ. Whitney
Officers for the ensuing year were
elected as follows:
President. Dr. E. L. Hutchinson;
vice president, DR.. A. C. Wall; secre-
tary. DR.. F. E. clark; treasurer, DR..
Henry Bicknell; director, DR.. John F.
Cowes.
A very interesting discussion was
held over the subject of Gold Inlay"
This is the latest wrinkle in the dental
world and has many advantages.
Following this discussion there was
an informal talk on incidents of office
practise.
The society has about sixteen MEM
bers and is in a healthy condition.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-01-26
BLIND PIG FINED.

Another proprietor of a blind pig
went to the bad in the police court
yesterday to the amount of $3.50 and
costs, in spite of g-fought-out de-
Tense. He is the third Japanese to be
fined from among the nine recently ar
rested. Otherwise there was. little do
ing in police court circles. Nine cases
We're on the calendar, five of them
going over for trial. PAX Chew was
discharged on a case of alleged opium
selling, one drunk was fined and David
Kalihi. a youth arrested for larceny.
was sent to the Industrial School.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-01-26

inscription that the turtle had been
branded during the reign of Tao
kwang, who preceded the present en-
peror.
CHEW Is radical modernist. He in
timated that it would be nature-fak-
ing to say the turtle crossed the Paci-
nc unaided. and that the more ra-
tional view to take. of it's recovery from
the estuary, would be that it was stol-
en- by Yankee sailors for gain and es-
capped.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-01-26

A lady entered railroad station not
a hundred miles from Edinburgh, the
other day, and said she wanted a
ticket for London. The pale-looking
clerk asked, "Single?" 1T amt any
of your business she replied. II
might have been married a dozen
times q I'd felt like providin' for some
poor, shiftless wreck of "a man like
you
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-01-26
FAVORABLE CONDITION
Of MANAGER BULL

D. p. r. Isenberg has received word
that Edward K. Bull, manager of
Oahu Sugar Company, has undergone
a successful operation in San Fran
cisco and is doing very nicely. Mr..
Bull expects to return home in the
steamer Mongolia, which will be due
on February 8. This is good news for
his many friends here, as when he
went away it was thought possible he
might find it advisable to go all the
way to Germany for treatment.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-01-26

Jones-I am going to marry an Eng
lish girl. Bones-You will never again
hear me say that the English have no
appreciation of a joke.-Town Topics.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-01-26

Watch the dirt fly before Pau-Ka-
Hama soap.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-28

prices of ivory. He tells me that the or
binary price in the interior for a tusk Of
1SO pounds is about 100 rupees, or $40. At
Mombasa the same tusk would be worth
800 or $500. The ivory varies in price ac-
cordlng to locality, and that which is worth
l6 cents a pound on Lake Tanganyika will
sell for sees a pound at the sea coast. In
buying ivory Of the natives the current
money is American cotton sheeting, which
is turned in at the rate Of 10 cents a yard.
The same cloth sells in Europe for about
4 cents a yard. The European and indian
cloths are cheaper, and the traders try to
put them in instead Of the American. Many
of these cloths come from Bombay. They
are so thin one can see through them. The
German cloths are little better.
Our goods are known as Americana all
over East Africa, and they are the only
kind that really sell themselves. This man,
Klein, keeps a big stock Of Americana at
a number of interior trading stations. He
has a branch office at Tabora- which lies
about midway between here and Lake Tan
ganyika, where he has now something like
$4,000 worth of Americana on hand. This
gives one an idea of the extent of the
trade. Indeed. the demand is such that |
do not hesitate to advise our American cot
ton factors to study the market and to send
their agents to Africa to investigate the
possibility OF building up a big business
in colored cotton and print goods.
FRANK q. CARPENTER.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-28

of the boat and when It was first sighted
off Omaha coming through the draw OF the
Illinois Central bridge it presented an al
tractive sight as it glided on the angry
current and into the big lake formed by
the bend of the river between the Illinois
Central bridge and the smelling works.
The boat made a graceful turn so that Il
could come down to the landing under the
Douglas street bridge with Its bow up
stream.
Just a couple Of newspaper men were at
the bridge when the first teamboat of the
season put in at Omaha. They rendered
their services in catching the cables that
the boat might tie up. The steamboat re-
manned at the Omaha landing until Thurs
day evening when it went on down 10 Kan
sas City, and will return to Omaha about
July Is.
The James p. Mcpherson is one of the
largest steamboats, on the Missouri. The
boat is differed by Captain f. H. McFar-
%nd, with George c. Keith as pilot.
Both are old river men. The crew consists
of about a dozen men, including the engi-
neer and assistant engineer and is used for
removing snags from the Missouri river
between Kansas City and Sioux City. II is
about $50 feet in length, and twenty feet
beam, with compound engines, stern
wheeler and Is strongly built. The hull is
of steel. The boat is of a peculiar CONSTITUTE
ton at the bow. which is a shovel-nose
shape. the bow being of heavy steel and
sitting low in the water. This bow is util-
ICED as a ram to work up under snaEs,
thus lifting them so that they can be
grappled by the heavy cables and then
drawn out OF the water or sand bars by
powerful derricks operated from the en-
CINE room OF the vessel.
The snaRs are almost invariably deeply
embedded in the sand, and thus form a
basis for the silt to settle and form sand
bars. which have always been the bane
OF Missouri river navigation 1t frequently
happens that the snags have to be blown
up with dynamite and the fragments after
wards pulled out by the cables. When the
snags are lifted out the roots are sawed
off and towed to the banks, where they
rapidly sink and assist in forming the re-
vetments along the banks The rest of
the snag Is cut into smaller lengths and
allowed TO float down the river.
The James B.. Mcpherson is almost con-
stantly in commission during the naviga-
ton season. Snags are constantly appear
ing through the frequent rises and falls
OF the river. Some Of these may have
been embedded in the river for scores OF
years, and 1t is never known when oil
where they may appear, hence it is neces'
sary for the snag boats to be in constant
commission. There are three OF such boat!
on the Missouri, one operating from Siou1
City to Fort Benton, another from Kan
sas City to st. Louis, and the James B
Mcpherson. which operates between Kan
sas City and Sioux City. The work To-
this district is unde, charge of Captain E
II. Schulz OF the government engineering
service.
Captain L. II. Mcfarland Of the Jane
b. Mcpherson has been a steamboat cap
tain for ovpr thirty years, and has beeI
steamboating on the Missouri and Mlssis
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-28
One of the Early Fish Stories

by inch.
when about to reach out to grasp the
prize 1 heard a sudden flutter of wings
and an hawk darted down, seized
the prey and was off in an instant, To
say that l was disappointed would be
putting 1t mildly. but there was nothing to
do but descend to the ground, and l did
so with a sad heart and saw my prize
disappearing in the distance.
II went slowly toward the camp. dis
couraged over the days work. My partner,
Sam, who was getting the dinner ready.
said he had a surprise for me and when
the time camo he brought on about the
finest specimen of a trout that I had ever
seen, excepting mine, OF course.
HE asked me how / liked his fish and
I told him I was charmed with It. Then
he said: I hooked that fellow in rather n
curious way. I was sitting here on the
rock, smoking my cigar, when a big hawk
flew over my head, and, grabbing my gun,
I brought him down. And what do you
think! You will never believe me. but that
hawk had, wound around his leg, a piece
Of fish line and on the end was the speckled
beauty you have Just eaten. fresh out Of
the water and without a scratch on him. I"
-Boston Journal.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-28
Carpenter Letter
Continued from Page Two.)
Negroes Of Zanzibar.

The bulk Of the population of Zanzibar
is made up of Africans. The Arabs are the
nabobs, the Indians the traders, but the
black men do the work. There are on the
island altogether $4,000 or more negroes
of various tribes.
There are more Swahills than any other.
They are fine looking, black people. The
men and women are straight and the young
girls in their long, white cotton gowns
are quite handsome. Many Of the men
speak a little English. and my guide knows
enough to tell me about the city and its
people. They are the most efficient of the
natives Of Central Africa. and are employed
by traders TO cary goods to all parts of the
continent. l find the matched villages OF
the negroes along the roads as l drive
about the country. They work the plan
tations taking care of the Glove trees and
gathering the crops.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-28

years ago they moved to David City. where
they still reside, living in comfort and with
the respect and confidence of their neigh
bors. Five children have blessed their
union, and five grandchildren were among
the celebrating party at the golden we'd
ding. The Masons Of David City, desiring
10 show their esteem for their honored
brother, gave him a reception on the oc-
casion and made him a very handsome
present. Mr., Sleeper is Il and his wife Is
Ct years Of age, showing that the early mar
riages Of their day sometimes panned out
very well indeed.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-28

~ erratic, perverse and u~naccount-
able for its moods, and never
A have these features of its per-
AMN2WE verslty been more manifest than
sy during the last two weeks when
1t has been crawling up from a fourteen
foot stage to nineteen feet and one and a
half inches, or a foot above the danger
stage 1t reached the stage of nineteen
and one-tenth feet Thursday, June 70,
which Is the highest stage OF the river
since 1881. when the gauge marked twenty
three and eight-tenths feet, April "a Of
that year, which Is the highest recorded
stage the river has reached. The lower
part Of the city was flooded badly at that
time and the bottoms where the Union
Pacific shops and the smelling works
stood then, as now, were inundated. The
next highest stage was in 1899. when the
river gauge at the Douglas street bridge
showed eighteen and five-tenths feet. The
result Of that flood was that the river ran
into Cutoff and Florence lakes, doing
considerable damage. and flooding the low
lands both on the Nebraska and Iowa
sides of the river, doing immense damage
to crops.
The present rise Of n~ineteen and one
tenth feet is remarkable from the fact
that aside from encroaching in Cutoff
lake and the Florence lake dams danger
ously close has not succeeded In breaking
through into either lake, and aside from
causing considerable anxiety to the camp
ers at Cutoff lake and hustling them out
20 pile up a few bags along the top OF the
dam one or two nights, no especial incon-
venience has resulted. Neither has there
been any serious damage to crops alons
the river bottoms except in a few isolated
cases in this locality. Another peculiar
feature Of the present rise in the river Is
thai the significant rise has been between
Sioux City and Omaha, and while the rivel
gauges showed the river to be falling abovt
Sioux City and below Omaha, It kept up
slow but steady rise at Omaha until tn
maximum OF nineteen and one tenth fee
had been reached before it gave any sign
OF receding,
No one seems to be able to give any tan
gible reason for this freakish rise a
Omaha. or how at the 1893 stage Of eighteen
and one-half feet the river broke into Cut
OFF lake. that with a rise of nearly a foo
mons in June 1908 It did not break into tn
lake or seriously flood the bottoms. TIL
only plausible solution is that by constan
filling in OF the banks along the bottoms
has caused the current to scour deeper an,
thus keep tho river tractable and With
reasonable bounds.
There are few prettier sights than that o
a mighty river In full flood, and the Mis-
souri, 10 one of the mighty rivers OF tn
world and during the last week has bee
a sight worth SEEING. 1t was veritabn
pleading It's right as a navigable stream
and roinoident with this pleading tn
United States James b. MoPheI
son left Sioux City, Monday morning fo
Omaha. arriving here Tuesday noon. TIL
boat had a stormy trip AID was compelle
to lay up for the night about fifty mile
from Omaha on account OF the storm
There was no announcement Of the comm
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-28

Il was about making up my mind TO
pack up my traps and start for camp, when
1 felt a strong pull on the line that nearly
took me off my feet. Here's a good one,
thought I, end I played out the line and
reeled in for half an hour or more, till
finally I could see the beauty through the
clear, limpid water a few feet away.
"Then 1 lifted the pole with excitement
over my catch. But l was rather too
strenuous. He rose in the air, but some
how the line parted about a foot from the
hook and the momentum carried the fish
high among the branches.
Just at that moment he gave a gasr
and when his jaws came together they
Fripped a small branch like n wise and
there he hung by his teeth twenty-five feet
above me. suspended in the air and glisten.
Ing in the sunlight. What a beauty
declared, and determined he should still bC
mine, so l began climbing the tree ant
worked my way out on the branch. Incl
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-28

yet to see the day when you people along
the Missouri shall never be out Of sight
of a steamboat. There is plenty Of work
for the steamboats, to do"
George G.. Keith, the pilot Of the Nc
Pherson, has been steamboating on the
Missouri since 1851 Captain Mcfarland
gave It out confidently that Mr.. Keith
piloted the Ark onto Mount Ararat. Mr..
Keith is an interesting character and
knows more about the Big Muddy than
probably any man alive today. He said:
"Oh, 1 do not know how many trips l have
made up the Missouri to Fort Benton, but
1t has been a great many. That was Of
course in the old days. l have been on
the Missouri all this time, for when navl-
cation ceased on the Missouri 1 went back
to the Mississippi and piled between st.
Louis and New Orleans. But 1 liked the
old Missouri best. Most of my life has been
spent on the river and it is sort OF a part
OF me. In the early days we had mary
exciting experiences on the river, espe-
cially above Omaha. OF course when l
started in there was might little Of Omaha.
We did not always make a landing here.
Bellevue was a bigger and more important
place. The Indian agency was there and
we had a good deal of freighting to do
there.
we saw many Indians, though they never
particularly bothered us. We had two pas
sengers killed once by Indians. That was
up at the mouth Of MIX river. Some In
dams came up to where we were tied W
In their buffalo boats. These boats were
build round and OF buffalo hide. The In
dams could manage them all right with
their big paddles, but 1t was all day with
a white man II he tried one of the things
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-28

How Ivory is Bought.
I asked this young man as to the selling
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-28

and his agents are travelling through
Abyssinia, Uganda and German East
Africa. He has his cotton made to order
in America in pieces Of forty-two yards
each, and he brings a shipload of about
1000 tons across the ocean every year.
I met one Of Klein's agents on Lake
Victoria This was a Eurasian who had
just come from Bismarckburg on the south
ern end of Lake Tanganyika, and was then
on his way to Mombasa. He had gone to
Lake Tanganyika to investigate the con-
fiscation Of 5000 worth of ivory tusks
by the Belgians.
Klein trades a great deal of American
cottons for ivory. The elephants tusks are
carried on the heads of porters down to
the coast. or they are brought to Lake
Tanganyika and sent to Mombasa by the
Uganda railway. The ivory in question
had been bought in German East Africa,
and the porters were taking a short cut
through the Congo territory to get It to
the coast. While on the way they were
captured, and the Belgian officials claimed
the ivory on the ground that the portcrs
were smuFglers. Klein's agent succeeded in
getting the ivory back, and it Is now com
ing here to Zanzibar across country on the
heads Of p~orters. 1t will be transferred by
boats at the seacoast and brought here for
shipment.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-28

He might as we'll try to ride in a tub.
These two passengers got into one OF these
buffalo boats and started down the river.
They could not manage them very well,
and they drifted over toward the opposite
shore into a sort Of creek that came in
there and that was the last we ever saw OF
them. We waited there for them for a
day or two, but could find nothing of
them, but later heard that the Indians had
killed and robbed them.
"The country up around Cannon Ball and
below Bismarck used to be alive with buff
falo. We could kill them from the boats
at they came down the river to drink.
The country was just black with them.
There were also vast herds of antelope
and deer and we occasionally seen bear
along the river.
I'VE brought a good deal of corn down
the river. a cargo consisted of about
1000 sacks. Most Of our freight from the
upper river country was buffalo hides and
meat. We frequently had as many as 800
bales of buffalo hides ON the coat There
were about forty hides to the bale. Some
times we had as many as 500 hogs on the
boats going up the river. We used to cure
our own buffalo meat, by just hanging 1t
in strips over the deck rails and then COW
ering it with mosquito bars.
Yes, l believe the Missouri Is navigable
as we'll now as 1t was forty and fifty
years ago. And / pretty near know.
There is just as much water in the river
now as there was then. All you folks need
to do here now is to put some boats on
the river and set them going. You will
get the freight and passengers. and the
government will take care of the snags
and sand bars"
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-28
Trade.

This city should be a center for our trade
Africa. 1t is the warehouse OF this coast
and its business is several times as large
as that Of any other port on this side Of the
continent. It naturally belongs to the
United States, for we were the first to open
up its foreign trade. AS far back as 1896
Uncle Sam established a trading consulate
at the court OF the then sultan Of Zanzibar
and we then began to send In cotton goods
and hardware for distribution over the east
ern part of the African continent.
The work Of that time is still in evidence.
American cottons are known ~everywh,re
They are considered the best made, and II
our exporters would push them they could
crowd out the poorer goods from India,
England and Germany. The other nations
fight American goods, and they do every
thing they can to destroy our trade. They
are studying the wants and tastes Of the
natives and are making patterns to please
them. The most active merchants at pres
ent are the Germans, who are selling a kind
Of cotton known as kangas, used as
women's dresses. A kanga Is a square OF
calico about two yards long by a yard and
a half wide, 1t is printed in bright colors
and two kangas form a complete dress for
a woman. one goes around the waist and
the other about the body under the arms
or over the shoulders. There is a change
in Ia, fashions Of these cottors from time
to time, and the women want the new
styles and culors as soon as they come.
Here in Zanzibar / see some which have
patterns Of playing cards and others which
are covered with animals, and especially
lions or leopards. They cost about 70 cents
a pair. / understand there is a demand
for flannel kangas printed in colors, There
undoubtedly would be a large sale for
American ksngas il the patterns were right
Q
American Goods sold by Foreigners.
The bulk OF the American goods brought
Into this part OF the world Is through
Europeans. There are sons American
firms, but the most Of the profits OF our
trade go to outsiders. There is a man at
Marseille named Klein who Is doing an
enormous business in American oottons
Shoroughout eastern Africa. He has a
branch house here and Ons Gt AombaSa
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-28

lie Missouri river always was
erratic, perverse and unaccount-
able for its moods, and never
have these features of its per-
verslty been more manifest than
during the last two weeks when
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-28

Ne day." said an old fisherman,
I was out fishing under the
trees on the banks Of LAX"
Kessawangansokoechee ara had
been rather unsuccessful, hav-
ing landed only a few small fry.