The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-01-18

LOCAL BREVITIES.

| The band viii play this Afternoon
at the football game at Makiki.
William Mckinley Lodge No. s. x
of P, viii meet in K. of P. Hail TIN
evening at 7;30.
Conditions now normal is a cable
gram Bishop & Co. bankers, received
from san Francisco yesterday.
This evening the band will play at
the Portuguese celebration at Lunalilo
and AIapai streets, the new clubhouse
Theodore Roosevelt Camp No. I. L
s. w V, win held regular meeting
this evening in Waverley block at 7:30
H Waterhouse Trust Co. yesterday
received a cablegram stating thar SUI
gar had sold in New York at 4.1C
cents.
Governor Frear will attend the cele-
bration of the anniversary of the Luz
sitana society at its new headquarters
tonight.
Walter Thurte1l, of Nuuanu valley,
tiser. is out after a long and severe
illness.
Yamashita, the second Japanese
blind pig keeper to come to trial be-
fore Judge Andrade, was yesterday
convicted and fined $3.50.
Commissioner Hatch yesterday heard
dispositions in the maritime libel of
Chief Engineer Diedrich against the
German steamer Tolosan for S16S7.39.
Nine cases of tuberculosis and one
of typhoid fever constitute the death
IN. Il -
of Honolulu for the sixteen days end
ed January 16.
Jacob Rosenberg is due to appear
for trial on Monday upon one of the
two remaining indictments against
him for receiving property stolen from
the United States.
For the machines that will take part
in the automobile endurance race
around the island today, a wre>klng
and repair car is to be sent along by
the Won Hamm-Young company.
A further delay to next week has
occurred in prosecuting delinquents
for sewer rates. There is about $1,000
involved and it is several years since
the decision was made to bring suits.
Y Wakamoto, proprietor of the Mel
jiya hotel, was arrested yesterday for
enbezzlement, j. Okada complaining
that he gave the hotel keeper s35 to
keep for him and is unable to get it
back.
Oliver Kane, who will be tried on
Monday for burglary, was yesterday
surrendered by Willie Crawford to the
police He was out on a thousand dol
lar bond and Crawford had grown sus-
picious.
In a police raid on the other side
of the island on Thursday night, led
by Joe Leal, nineteen fantan players
were captured. They were booked
yesterday and viii be up for trial this
morning. Each has ten dollars bail
at stake.
Mrs. Emma Nakuina, member of
the minor judiciary as commissioner
of private ways and water rights has
Joined the Wallach forces. She called
on Governor Frear yesterday to OPP
pose the plans of President Pinkham
in the matter of the female rocks"
specialists experiment.
John Freitas and Enos Fragas were
arrested yesterday for stealing some
chickens and eggs from Mrs. Freitas.
They had sold their booty to a China
man. but it was recovered. A charge
against Freitas for maliciously smash
ing a showcase was also laid against
him yesterday.
The most deliberately coIored calen-
dar that has yet been produced in
Honolulu is the one now being dis
tributed by the Man Chen Wal (Anti-
Opium League). The center engrav-
ing is a Chinese scene in which six
rich colors are used. Surrounding this
are advertisements. Theo. H. Davies
& Co, Ltd. occupy a large space with
the picture of their offices and sales
rooms. 1t has made a decided hit
among the Chinese residents
Every time the police visit the store
of Lum Zip Kee, on King street. OPP
posite Aala, they make a haul of liq-
uors Yesterday they made two hauls.
the first being forty-nine bottles Of
whfskey and gin, found under a trap
door in the floor, and the second be-
ing seven bottles of Chinese wine. In
both cases the finds were accidentally
made by Lieutenant Luahiwa and LII
cense Inspector F'ennell. Lum Zip
Kee himself has been in the hands Of
the notice as a blind pig keeper for