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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-12-28
ANCIENT CAPITAL
STRICTLY UP-TO-DATE

LAHAINA. Maui, December 20
There is nothing slow any more about
this place, even the speed limit having
been nudged up a notch or two within
the past few hours. Yesterday Harry
Heleikalani backed his hack into the
barn. turned his horses out into the
manienie, and footed loud and long
| upon a real automobile horn He had
heard of the fortunes to be made in
burning up gasoline in Honolulu, and
has gone into the auto-hack business
on his own account. All Lahaina turn
ed to see him crank up and to admire
the shiny paint on the mud guards.
Then the chauffeur put ON his isinglass
goggles, sharpened his pencil, and pro
ceeded to book orders for the day. He
filed his slate within four minutes and
ran steadily = between involuntary
stops-alI the rest of the day and far
into the night, when the acetylene
CLOVIS were especially admired. Every
one in Lahaina who was anybody had
at least fifteen minutes of glorious
speeding, and walking as means of
locomotlon dropped off several points. |
Mrs. Burt, Miss Burt, Miss MacDon- !
aid, Miss Burnham, Miss Law, Miss |
Hose and Miss Green are visiting in |
Miss Ho is visiting her parents in
Honolulu.
Last Wednesday Miss Macdonald of
he Normal School, who is visiting at
gave lawn tennis party
and afternoon tea to Mr.. and Mrs.
Miss Mosser of Paia, Miss
Folts of Wailuku, MISS Law, Miss Clap
lam, Mr.. Law, Mr., Kishart, Mr.. Rob
,rts, Mr. Wilson and Mr.. Paschall The
games were exciting, Messrs. Wilson
work over the nets.
Mrs. Macdonald, who has been visit
ng Mrs Dodge of Wailuku for a few
lays, returned home on, Thursday.
On Wednesday evening, under the
Erection of Mr.. and Mrs. Knoll, a very
inc Christmas concert was given at the
parish hail. The children showed much
kill in taking their parts. The play
represented Santa Claus first visit to
Japan. 1t will be repeated ON Wednes
lay next.
On Thursday evening the children of
Nainee church were made glad by a
we'll laden Christmas tree in Hale
aloha hall.
Miss Foltz, who has been visiting
Mrs. Simpson of the Baldwin Home,
vent to Honolulu ON Thursday evening.
Teachers who went to Waikiki to
attend the convention on the 18th say
hat if it had not been for the kindness
If Judge Mckay, the Rev. Mr.. Dodge,
Mr.. Case, Miss Turner and others they
would have been without lodgings owing
% the hotels being filed with lawyers
md witnesses in the case of Waldeyer
VS.. Wailuku Sugar Co.
DR.. Kincaid of Charlotte, North Car
Dina, has sent a Christmas greeting to
MS friends of Lahaina.
A Christmas service was held ins each
Of the leading churches on Friday. The
Rev. c. G.. Burnham preached in the
Wainee church and Mr.. White inter
preted the sermon into Hawaiian.
party headed by Professors Rob-
erts and Wilson went about mile
above the source of the Lahaina water
system on Thursday. Since Mr.. Pratt
has had the ditch extended the water
is good, and the whole system is in ex-
cellent condition, with an anbundant |
supply.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-12-28

The reorganization police present
After the and other
bigb officers are will the
chances falling
of small that tho
force win not have many generals a o pheavy.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1908-08-28

Do you raise ponltry2 II 30.
what kindr How large . flock
have your What did your salea
amount to last yearp How many
eggs did you gather during the
yearr How many during the
best month? The poorest month";
How did you house and feed
your birdss Have you q good
local msrketp Secretary Geo. B.
Ellis, State board Of Agricultures
Columbia, Mo-, will appreciate
answers to these questions; also
anything else concerning your
experience with poultry. Mr..
Ellis would also like to get some
pleasing poultry pictures to be
used in phmpelst soon to be
issued. We hope that many OF
our readers will write to him.
Our county should be represents
cd
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1908-08-28

Elmer Barter of Moberly, aged
twenty-seven, was drowned Sat-
urday evening in q pond near
Moberly. He had killed q frog
and started to swim in after 1t.
but sank in twelve feet of water.
Omar D. Gray of Sturgean, who.
made the race for congress
against "Old Shsck'' does not.
seem to have been in the race.
very deep, as Col. shackelford
had 1000 majority in the district.
A visitor in Excelsior Springs
is the champion economizer. In
stead Of spending dollar for q
Turkish bath he watches the per.
formance in some nickle theater
for half an hour every afternoon
with the very, same result.
Ira Silvers of Cass county,
while camping down in st. Clair,
went to sleep leaving his shot
gun on cook. His foot struck the
trigger during the night and the
load ranged. upward through the
boys bowels, intlicting q severe.
wound.
In the eleven counties Of South,
east Missouri, containing swamp
or overflowed lands, thirty -one
drainage ditohes or canals have
been constructed, with q total
length of about $50 miles. These
bitches have reclaimed 255,OO0
acres Of land.
.I got the smartest women in
Missouri" said Pattonsburg
farmer, as he leaned against the
fence and watched his wife in the
field plowing corn with an old-
fashioned double shovel plow and
his daughter in the next field
running a two horse mower,
Mable, the six-year-old daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs, Harry Rubot-.
tom of Greenville, was seriously
burned last week while hammers
ing matches. A piece of o light
ed match few down the neck OF
her dress. Her father in attempt-
ing to tear off her clothes had
his hands badly burned.
One Of the biggest peach crops
ever grown on farm in southern
Missouri was that of the Howell
County Fruit Farm near Brands.
vile, which has just flushed
marketing thirty-six cars of
peaches. This is thirteen more.
cars than was shipped by any
other farm in that section Of the.
fruit belt.
ALI. D. Smith, who was running
for office in Mansfield and was
defeated, knows how TO take his
medicine. In q little ed in the
Chronicle he says: "Hello; Don't
Grow, Igot left for collector,
but | got 666 sheep, seventy-six
hogs, thirty-one veals, eleven
cattle this week, and | guess Pm
lsll right, all right, =
/ At schell City, John otti, ;
German citizen. owed q 75-cent
milk bill to C. r Morton, who
caught Otti and held bin while
/ his (Mortonse) wife and adopted
/ fdaughtsr beat him upwith club
They we're arrested and paid /
$3.50 hne besides being put nm
} slder bond In circuit court, 80 thei
method Of collecting milk bills !
'somsvhat expensive.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1908-08-28

bAAA1 bndt uc sA0u6h Weo 0oo w
consump ion. OF late he has
been coughing more strenuously
and the other day he coughed up
the broked piece Of tooth that he
had swallowed fourteen years
ago.
Willie olds, and Walter Ben.
nett, fifteen years old, were at
tackled by seven wolves on the
farm of Old's aunt, Mrs. Matte
Rice, who lives south of Colum-
bia, Mrs. Rice had missed chick
ems and the boys came over with
muzzle loading shotguns, expect
ing to kill mink. Back Of the
orchard they found the wolves in
the grass, olds who was in the
lead, fired both barrels and killed
one. The others raised their
bristles and made for him. Olds
skinned up an apple tree and
called his companion, who was
beating some brush nearby, who
drove the others away.
The Hornersville correspondent
to the Dunklin Democrat says:
Monday evening, while In boat
with his father and Sidney John
son, George Hall was struck and
killed by lightning. He was
pulling the boat when the light
ming struck the paddle. 1t stun
ned Hall and Johnson, knocking
George out Of the boat. The
first they noticed Of him, he was
seemingly, trying to swim.
johnson jumped from the boat
and picked him up, but he only
breathed two or three times after
ward. His middle finger on the
left hand was torn off.
| A petition containing over
fifteen h0ndred names was pre.
scented TO the county court or
Monday, August 8, praying the
court to order an election to sub
NIT the question as to whether or
mot the county seat should be re-
moved from Bloomfield to Dexter
The court set August 25th for q
hearing on the petition. The
names on the petition are from
every township in the county,
and was cotton up in about one
weeks time with small effort up.
on the part Of the two men who
who carried the petition.
| A Mr., Mcdaniel of Fisk, Mo.
while at church last Sunday
morning lost his house and con-
tents by fire. He lived on
small farm in the edge Of town
and was a hard working man who
had q wife and family to support
He had been saving his money
for . year with the intention o
building a new house this fall
The money amounting to s400.0C
was stored away in a little trunl
and was burned with the house,
The Chautauqua at. Mexico
come to Q sudden ending one
night last week. While ths
manager of the Chautauqua wal
explaining to the audience thai
there was some trouble with the
electric light company, the lights
were suddenly turned off and the
people were left in total darkness
tIt seemed that the light company
had been unable to get their pay
for putting in the lights. and shu
the light out.
II A Kansas City journalist says
"Some newspaper men are terri
BILE liars, In writing up . cy
, clone out west one Of them sal,
, liz turned . we'll inside out,
cellar upside down, moved
township line, blew. the stave
out Of 3 whisky barrell and lei
nothing but the bunghoIe, chang
! ed the day Of the week, blew
! mortgage of 8 farm, blew
crack OF of 8 fence and knooke
: the wind out Of q pclitican.h
r,4s 49, -.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1908-08-28

'ROUNDABOUTTHE STATE.
Cleaned from mExchanges--Madeb by the Shears,
the Pencil and the Paste Pot--Some Origi-
nal. Some Credited. and Some Stolen,
but Nearly All Interesting Reading.

ience postS anu cars Oh cooper.
age that went out from the coun-
ty amounted to s776,894. Ag-
gregate value of the surplus
shipments Of the county, 1885,
919.-Sikeston Herald.
Boone Terre Star.-Of all the
foolish tricks ever performed by
a careless boy, this one caps the
climax. While VIM. Poston was
drawing some gasoline from his
oil wagon yesterday, spilled
some of it on the ground, and as
he took his seat on on the wagon
a small boy threw a lighted match
into the gasoline and in q few
seconds the wagon was wrapped
in flames.A large amount of wood
work was burned off the wagon,
but the 10 gallon gasoline tank
did not explode.
The breaking Of q telephone
wire near the Bryant Mercantile
Company's store Friday created
ino little excitement. The wire
fell across an electric light wire
and one end reached the ground
near where win Krause's team
Twas standing. The damp weath-
Ter and q pool OF water carried
THE current to the team. Both
horses were knocked down but
not hurt.-=Charl Enterprise.
An English syndicate bough Of
u. M. EIvins, a real estate dealer
iof Doe Run, 1,5o0,000 acres OF
land in Old Mexico last week.
The land was owned by parties
represented by Mr.. Elvins
who can now retire from business
and live on the commission he
received on the sale.
The watermelon market has
slumped, and there are many
carloads Of fine melons in this
county that will most likely be
fed to the hogs, ss the prices are
too low 70 pay to load them. Ex-
ira fancy melons range from SEC
to s75 per car, No sale for din.
keys.-=Dunklin News.
The Kansas City Post is quite
correct in saying naturally
enough, the newly nominated
democratic ticket is the target Of
the slurs Of the republican and
venal independent press. That:
lone evidence of the fact that the
democrats of Missouri have NAM
ed the winners.
! A school house at Annapolis
was burned on the 30th ult,
The school was moved into the
church building and that also hai
, gone up in the smoke. Both
fires are thought TO be Of inoend.
iary origin. Perhaps some boy
'jwho hated ahool is responsible.
/ Cape Girardeau is to have /.
new city hall and Jail, on th'
cornor Of Frederick and Inde-
lpsndsnoe streets. There will b,
eight cells for the accomodstior
tof the city's guests. They viii
! also install Q regular FIRE alarm
system at cost of s1v5o
The Evening Democrat Of Pop
. lar Bluff has changed ownership
Eugene Travis and Harvey Fur
lIgurson, two st. Louis newspaper
linen, purchasing the plant from
sIW. B. Hays and Fay D. Bacon
The new management promises
iirst class daily paper.
n Hsdlsy ran behind bis stat
! Ticket In his home town ans
! flcounty. Kansas City and Jacksol
. Ioounty, while Cowhsrd receives
: q, 137 plurality.
The chewing gum sIot mscbiu
) = he Arcadia station receive
!. lo00 pennies each month.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1908-08-28

the present ruhng passions ~
Missouri.
Bolivar and Pleasant Hope are
each dignified with fensls base
ball teams.
Ball carried seventy counties-
Cowherd thirty ailace four
and Stapel two.
Cantaloupes bring the growers
something over $3.50 per car in
she extreme Southeast,
There seems to Be considerable
activity in Iron mining thsough-
out southeast MissioufL
G. T. Tyler, Knebnoster's
..honey man" is harvesting his
crop. It will be 1900 pounds
a.
George Webb died in Milan
Saturday from peritonitis caused
by eating poisoned canned fruit
During the week before the
primary, 5000 candidate cireq-
lars were handled in the Joplin
postoffice.
AClinton boy who swallowed
a pin 8 year ago died as the re-
suit in . hospital In GAINESVILLE
the other day;
"a Tree ride on hay frame y
the inducement held 6uf R Nsr-
saii5ss people u attsnd IN dee
cream supper" in the country
Evidently there are two towns
the same size in Missouri. Every
burg in the commonwealth boasts
that IL 'is the best town Of its size
in the state.
Leo Prost Of Perry county
claims to have the heaviest colt
Of it's age in this section. II is a
three months-old Percheron colt
and weighs $50 pounds,
In Audrain county the two
Democratic candidates for rep
resentative tied at the primary
election, The tie will be decided
BY lot as provided by law.
tits said that there 10 not 8
negro living within the borders
Of Hickory county but the lds'
at Hermitage Is making q furiou'
campaign to keep the darkies lin
ed up for Tart.
The engineer Of q Frisco trair
sixty miles east Of Springfield tn
other day saw q flock Of seven
teen turkeys and ran over an'
killed a big gobbler that sough
70 outrun the engine.
Judge Hindmanao of Holden wa
properly stung last week. Tw'
swarms Of bees got into one Q
the upper rooms in bis house
and the result was 9 hundre'
pounds ofhoney for the "Jedge.
The Southeast Missouri Loi
Rolling Association, composed o
Various camps Modern woodmel
Of Annerics in this section Of th'
stale, win hold It's annual cele'
trstion ct Cape Girardsau Sep
tember, 2 ands.
Robert Lynn brought us in tw'
ears Of corn Wednesday tha
takes the whole bakery. Tn,
ears measures 10 1-2 and Il In
ches in length, are wen filed ou
and are Of the yellow variety
Bob says he has about IS acre
Of this corn. n.-Esss Prairie Easls
Scott county last year market
sdgrain TO the value ofs1, ,o0a, 90
The number Of melons msrkste
vas s.efs, 800, The ahipmspt .
i've stock amounted to hslf
million dollars, while the valu
81 the -four, corn mea
6rsn and chops was more than
I mlllior1 and ! haH doIIar1
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1908-08-28

SuO auiukOu oiio lVCty -1Ourl
thou sand Ave hundred and thirty
miles is q good long way, yet a
Missourian has travelled that far
by rail without even having been
out side Of Boon and Audrain
counties.
Snake story from the Fairfax |
Forum: They talked Of mob
bing q man who killed q snake
which had ten rattles and q but
ton. 1t happened in q dry coun-
ty and it meant the loss of a
good excuse.
Government work on the Cas-
coaade river during the past
year such as the removal Of
snags, trees from the banks and
the construction Of wing dams
and retaining walls, has been
done at g cost of $7, ,760,504.
William Martin, a Galena min.
er, fell sixty-five feet into q
shaft last week and escaped with
only q few bruises. There was
only three feet of water in the
shaft and the protecting angel
was surely watching over him.
Pettis county, Misso uri, is all
right. Last year, besides an
abundance Of farm and garden
crops. Pettis county marketed
104, ,758, ,240. sggs and $4,000, 900
pounds of poultry. That's keep
ing up the reputation of the
"Show Me" state.
There were just ffty.three
votes cast for Nation, the Re-
publican "dry" candidate for
congress in the primary election
in Iron county last week. The
Republican leaders are not 80
ardently "dry' now as they
were (a) last fall when the local
option election was on.
Weighing less than one pound
and but nine inches tall, a
Coatesville baby in an incubator
is q rare curiosity, says the Ben.
ton County Enterprise. He is
Ralph Clewell, the two-weeks-old
son of Edward and Anna Bruce
Of this place, formerly of Easton.
When born bis head was about
the size of lemon,
jackson county is supposed to
be going dry and yet the farmers
OF that county say they have xii.
led more snakes than usual this
year and tell Of a new and awful
| kind from two to five feet long,
red with yellow stripes, poison.
GUS because they have tri-
anglar heads and don't run when
in q close place. Gee Whizl
While Jacob Walters, night
lwhatchman, was taking Solomon
Clay, a negro, from the Jail to
the train at Edna, he was sur.
rounded by 100 men. The mob
disarmed Walters, took the pris-
soner from him, bound the negro
to q telephone pole and whipped
him. The negro is accused Of
attacking Miss Bessie Walters,
Saturday night. Her screams
frightened him away.
| A Daniel has come to judg-
ment in Cole county. A man
who, while intoxicated killed a
companion, was sentenced for
two years in the penitentiary, bu,
the Judge changed this to q ten.
year parole with the provision
that the paroled man should moi
touch liquor during that time,
The Judge said he considered ten
years good citizenship better thar
eighteen months in jail.
Shan Lewis, who resides in tht
south part otButler county, wal
probably fatally injured Tuesda,
: by an explosion Of dynamite
He was digging we'll on the Be-
Covington farm and had in
Icharge of dynamite. The dyna'
i u .
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1908-08-28

Pouluos
Here's some cracking good
news The Missouri nut crop is
going to be in the bumper class.
The new M. E. Church at Cape
Girardeau will be ready for SER
vices within . month. $4,000
edific.
The railroad shops at DeSoto
resumed work Monday of last
week after being closed for FIVE
months.
VIM. Hamblin of Frederick
is under a $500 bond for trial on
a charge Of criminal assault on q
11-year old girl.
A tomatoe fifteen inches in cir.
cumfersnoe and weighing %
ounces was presented to the edi-
tor of the Piedmont Banner last
week.
Marshal Cadwallader of DeSoto
lshot and killed a man named
Bellman, who was resisting arr
rest for passing forged checks at
DeSoto on the 20 ult.
! 1t Is reliably stated that the
East Prairie Canning Factory is
now running full blast, and
thousands of cans of tomatoes
,are being canned daily,
i An Eldorado man refused 10
talk over the long distance tele.
Iphone the other day to New
York because the proposed con.
lservation wasn't prepaid.
a Alta baptizing at wardsll oil
the 36th ult., 81 converts were
baptized in Little. River. A
thunder storm effectually bap-
tized the rest Of the crowd.
Mango peppers grown in Ten
nessee have yielded 800 bushels
to the acre, and they are worth
81 q bushel. We are close
enough to Tennessee to try this
crop.
J Fred Lock, 1S, Of Jonesboro,
Ark, who has been stealing
horses at East Prairie and else
where in this state, has been sent
for eight years to Kentucky Re-
form School, having extended
Ibis operations into that state.
IN the circuit court at Jefferson
City, the IA cases against the
Missouri Pacific railway for
working telegraph operator over
! eight hours day were dismissed
by the state because the supreme
court In recent decision from
johnson county declared the law
unconstitutional.
Legal proceedings have beer
instituted by the prosecuting at.
torney Of Wayne county to re.
cover from the bondsman Of D
N. Holiday, circuit clerk and
recorder Of that county, the sdn
of $4,000, which he is alleged tc
be short, and also to have hin
) ousted from his office.
I Albert Filley, now in the coun
, lty Jail at Kingstown, waiting for
the time OF his hanging 10 arrive
has expressed himself to hil
, brother.in-law that he desireI
time to come, thathe was becom'
ing tired Of waiting. He talk
: freely on III subjects and doe
|, mot seem to dread his fate. HI
: has not yet made q confession
: but still denies that he committed
the crime.
Il williamI .sw . DeKalb count.
farmer who lives just north o
Maysyille, had an experience ont
sday last week that might be call
! ed . meracle. About fourteel
I years ago he had . tooth extract
: ID and part Of it was broken OF
which he accidently swallowed
i Il. =
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-12-07
TIE THUG IN OUR MIDST

What are the people ol Seattle going do 20 protect
themselves from the thugs that have the cityP Our
paid guardians and watchmen the police incapable
astonishing degree OF coping with the situation which grow
ing alarming ratio from day 10 day The limit OF
civic endurance have been reached For reasonable
and number rohheries and assaults assuring
interesting read OF and furnish topics for idle momens
discussion but thuggcry has reached the perfection and
prevalence that is longer mpcsona natter there
naas oi Them the chances OF being victim getting
close Tor comfort and q for worry.
Yet What be doue2 We have tolerated piticd seorncd
and stoned the failures OF the police department until
faith any Improvement IN that has been dsspatcd
Private citizens taking to carrying reviewers for self
protection aud vgiaue talk heard from otherwise law
abiding Surely city Of the size and development OF
Seattle should not be necessary carry revolver This
practice ony adds the general prccaouncs Of already
menaced lives Some tragic mistake certain 90 be made and
honest citizen viii give UP his life equally
honest bait precpate citizen TOO abrupt with his firearms
The condition today is simply intolerable. Hold-up men
murdere thugs OF all burglars aud thieves smuggling
and robhng with audacy that IS almost uderous They
running the whole eamat Of crime with the loud pedal
they Haunting their abilities ia the face q the police and
Dragging 81 their exploits their victims and al the while
ptng mp their loot with much security il they were
engaged highly honorable and conservative business
We have laughed and oked about this until there no
longer any humorous features The With
police ehiei admittedly unqualified Tor his duty police
force demoalzed and only anxious prove that crime
has been committed with these npossbies staring us n
the face what going to do'
Must the respectable. aw-abdng Of this city be
forced skulk the dark in fear until TIC thugs m them
.seles Tepeson leave the in disgust "casi
ness Actually aside from the OF profit,
puzzle why things and hodups here their lives be
Of monotonous paciiy stroll after dark with piece Of pipe
bludgeoning ansuspceng woman empying the
pockets; home to bed
WAY, the bookkecper his high stool. the grocery
boy with his basket leads wild adventurous life when COM
pared with the unrufed esicnccoi the Seattle high
will be question 81 a short time until ali
the supcrannuaed crooks 81 the country viii come here o
spend their declining years in peace and security
Seattle simply has 20 do something Chief Ward wants
his old position back the price Of his resignation II would
be the best bargain the city made give him
get at the head 81 the department who can get the
results the rank and Ic u the force stupid beyond
the all 81 them cougeui,aly incompetent A
little life Infused little discipline exer,ed and little intei
gencc displayed would work wonders
w need It. and We must have H.