The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-10
kONA'S BIC CROPS
AND COURT TERM
What Happened to the Criminal
Calendar and Why-Sugar
and SisaI.


weeks Kona has been enjoying the
usual spasm of excitement incident to
the meeting of the jury term of court.
The only item of special interest Incl
which the grand jury gave to County
Attorney Williams for his inefficiency
and lack of attention to the duties of
his office. 1t is a poor month when
somebody does not take a slam at Will
liams. But then the people of this
county appear to like that kind of an
Attorney, or they would not elect him.
so those of US who think differently can
only swear under our breath and hope
that at sometime in the dim and misty
future we may be permitted to have a
County Attorney who understands his
business.
The Jap gambler who kined a COM
panion in Kau few weeks ago was
permitted to plead guilty to manslaugh-
ter, and received a sentence of ten
years. The evidence against him was
chiefly his own confession.
WILLIAMS WAY OF DOING.
The balance of the criminal calendar
went pretty well to pieces, chiefly ow-
ing to the inefficient preparation of the
evidence on behalf of the prosecution.
particularly rank case was that of
the Deputy Sheriff of South Kona who
was charged with embezzlement. His
case came before the grand jury at
Kau last year; but, at the request of
District Attorney Williams, was post
poned to the present term, he agreeing
to present it then. An essential part
of the evidence was to prove by cer-
tificate of the County Clerk that the
Deputy Sheriff had been elected as
such. Williams came from Hilo with
out this evidence, although he knew it
would be required, so that when the
case came on for trial there was moth
ing to be done but mol. pros. In
another case an essential witness was
in Kau, and, although a subpoena was
issued, no effort was made to secure
the witness, and this case went the
same road.
HOLUALOA SCHOOL LOT AGAIN.
The old squabble over the ownership
of the government school house lot and
the residence of NJ. F. Scott at Holua-
loa, again came up in the shape of
civil case to quiet title. This is the
case in which some of our distinguished
fellow-citizens were indicted for riot
and convicted on the evidence of Mrs.
Mary Atcherley who saved herself from
the legal dragnet by turning states
evidence. The case resulted IN the
claim of the Board of Education and
Mr.. Scott to the possession of the land
being sustained.
MwAYNE SISAL PLANTATION.
The McWayne sisal plantation has
been developing very quietly for the
last four years, and has just begun
its first crop of fiber with
a well-constructed plant similar to the
one at Eva, Oahu. The first shipment
of fiber has gone forward to the Coast,
with every appearance of being as fine
an article as that produced at Eva,
which means that it is equal to any
thing in the world. The company ex-
poets to transport the leaves to the
mill by overhead trolley, the posts and
cable being on the ground, but it is
not yet in working order. The trans
Dortation is now being done by wagons.
The water to operate the mill is
secured from a surface well at Kailua,
being pumped a distance of some 1900
,eet to the mill. The progressive char
acter of some of the Kona "old-timers'
: evidenced by the fact that the sisal
Mill is located within 800 feet of where
water : is obtainable, the intervening
and being chiefly rocky waste, but
he owner refused to allow two-inch
oipe to be laid across the lot, neces
stating the mill company laying 1900
eet of pipe to get around the inter
-ening land. The company has ap-
1000 acres of growing sisal
n an extremely healthy and flourish
ng condition and has good reason to
xpect a prosperous future.
PINEAPPLE PROSPECTS.
The superiority of Kona over some
ther localities. for growing pineapples,
S shown by the fact that the Bruner
in South Kona is already in
,peration for the crop of 1908, while
he canneries on Oahu will not be un7