The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-03-31
CHEATING FOUND
OUT At KAPPA

innate earnings The hapai ko mel
work on contract over in Kealia ans
also in gangs. The different gang
may vary a little from time to tim'
in the amount of cane that is dowI
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 tie 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-quiek 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 lund on We'd
nesday. He lives down by the mill
and is anxious to improve his inan-
cial standing. For that reason he i'm
ported some Dago Red rom Honolulu
and retailed it at a profit. The police
caught him at it and made him put
ND one hundred dollars as bond for MS
promise to turn up in court the next
dav. 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
neiohborhood. So for instance did the
Hall land about three hundred gallons
of assorted booze at Nawiliw iii this
week. more than both the licensed hq-
uor houses in the district received.
The cargo consisted of three casks OF
wine. two kegs of whisky and 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
n 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.
Lihue-J. H. Coney, Chas. S. Dole,
A. D. Hills. ]. L. Hjorth, ]. 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
etruct their delegates to throw the
first two votes TOR ]. Kalanienaole
and A. C. NJ. Robertson, leaving the
other four names to be decided by the
DEVELOPMENTS of the proceedings at
the convention.
OUR FRUIT APPRECIATED.
The Garden Island gives the fol-
lowing items from a 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-
ceived 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 trip around
lIe NOIlu, WHICH lASS lAlbSll " mani
a leisureFy one, not expecting to re-
turn until April or May, 1909. 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 Lihue. The Lihue
band was on hand to play them of.
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 Oe' The Japanese were also
on hand and had lined the bluff oppo-
site the wharf with firecrackers, 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 a postal
announced that he was having a look
at the Singhalese beauties in Ceylon,
and yesterdays mail brought the news
that he was freezing in the Vaterland.
He can not have tarried much on the
road.
The Ke Au Hou arrived at Waimea
on Wednesday with the piledriver TO
be used on the wharf work that will