The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-03-30
CHEATING FOUND
OUT At KAPPA
Dishonest Cane Weighing--iIIicit
Liquor Traffic--0ther
Kauai Notes.

Lib bE, Mafch ZS.-One hundred
dollars in fines and two months in TAI
was the fate that met two japanese
over in Kapaa yesterday and all be-
cause they We're not satisfied with legi-
innate earnings. The hapai ko men
work on contract over in Kealia am
also in gangs. The different gangs
may vary a little from time to time
in the amount of cane that is down
to their credit, but at the end of the
month they generally foot up pretty
evenly. The management became sus-
picious when it found that one gang
averaged much higher than the rest of
! the hapai ko men.
Manager Fairchild discovered on in
vestigation that the head men of the
| gang had come to the man who weigh
| ed the cane at nights and persuaded
him to raise the figures as well on the
| plantation book as on the hui book.
| County Attorney Kaeo was notified
of the get-rich-quick scheme and he
promptly had five men arrested on the
| charge of conspiracy to commit gross
cheat. The two who arranged for the
transaction were convicted and were
sentenced as above. As the cane
weigher had turned states evidence
the case against him was nolled
BLIND PIG BUSINESS.
Manabe added another one hundred
dollars to the treasury fund on We'd
nesday. He lives down by the mill
and is anxious to improve his fnan-
cial standing. For that reason he i'm
H. D11 h., AL, IT,
and retailed it at profit. The police
caught him at it and made him put
up one hundred dollars as bond for mis-
promise to turn up in court the next
day. As he failed to do so he ire
trievably lost his money.
To Judge from the amount of stuff
that is weekly landed from the Ho-
nolulu steamers there must be quite a
number in the same business in the
neighborhood So for instance did the
Hall land about three hundred gallons
of assorted booze at Nawiliwili this
week, more than both the licensed liq-
uor houses in the district received.
The cargo consisted of three casks of
wine. two kegs of whisky and a score
tubs of sake In order to avoid sus-
picion of the identity of the retailer
the larger packages were assigned to
a number of different persons, from
five to eight for cask of wine.
THE PRIMARIES.
Republican nominations for delegates
to the Territorial convention are as
follows:
Kekaha-A. F. Knudsen.
waimea-J. K. Kapuniai
Hanapepe-B. D. Baldwin.
Wahiawa-J. I. Silva, W. D. Nc |
Bryde.
Koloa-Jas. K. Kula.
L.ihue-J. H. Coney, Chas. S. Dole, |
A. D. Hills, j. L. Hjorth, J. A. Hogg,
C. A. Rice, C. w. Spitz.
Kealia-Geo. Fairchild.
Kilauea-Rob. Scott.
Hanalei-Wm. Werner.
Niihau has not yet been heard from. |
In Lihue the club decided to in |
struct their delegates to throw the
first two votes for J. Kalanianaole
and A. G. M. Robertson, leaving the |
other four names to be decided by the i
developments of the proceedings at |
the convention.
OUR FRUIT APPRECIATED.
The Garden Island gives the fol-
lowing items from Riverside (Cal) /
paper to illustrate that Hawaiian |
fruit is a welcome luxury even in the
great fruit country of the mainland:
Ed Miller of the Glenwood will |
have pineapples to eat for several days
to come. He is the happy recipient /
of a box of the luscious fruit from
Lihue, Kauai, Hawaiian Islands, as
the gift of his old friend, w. Hyde |
Rice. Mr. Rice, with his wife, son and |
daughter. spent a portion of last sum-
mer in Riverside and fell in love with
the city. This makes the second box
of pineapples that Mr.. Rice has sent
Mr.. Miller
George N. Reynolds yesterday re- |
eeived a box of fine pineapples from
Ex-Governor Rice of Hawaii, who spent
several weeks in Riverside at the |
Glenwood last summer. Mr.. Reynolds
speaks of these pineapples as wonder
fully fine specimens, which his family /
has enjoyed as an exceptional treat"
ITEMS.
Rev. and Mrs. H Isenberg started |
out last Tuesday on their Grip around |
the world, which they intend to make |
a leisurely one, not expecting to re-
TURN until April or May, l5US. "A great
many of the Lihue residents had turn
ed up at the landing to bid them a .
hearty goodbye. The sentiment of |
very many of the less fortunate of the |
people here was perhaps fifty stated |
by an old Portuguese who in all de- |
voutness described Mrs Isenberg as
the Holy Mother of Lii1ue. The Lihue |
band was on hand to play them off. /
At the second whistle it greeted them |
with the inspiring strains of Die |
Wacht am Rhein,' and sped them over
the bay toward the steamer with |
aloha De-" The Japanese were also |
on hand and had lined the bluff oppo- |
site the wharf with frecrackers, which |
they set off as soon as the music was
started.
The many friends of Aug. Fries. |
lately of Makaweli, will be pleased to /
hear that he has arrived safely in |
Germany, yes. Last week postal |
announced that he was having a look
at the Singhalese beauties in Ceylon, |
and Yesterdays mail hrOIIoht tho news