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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-03
A Natural Gift for Speculation

A Natural Gift for Speculation.
Lady" said Flooding Pete. as he folded
up a newspaper. do you want de snow
cleaned off de walk?''
Yes. I'll give you your dinner"
You amt in no hurry, are your"
no"
An / gifts de dinner as soon as d.
SHOWS cleared OFF,
Yes
"All right. I'll be around tomorrow to
see If dere's any results from de expected
thaw.''
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-03
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Modest Ambition.

so you expect to convince your con-
stituents that you are great. good and
wise man." said the sneering friend
mo. l don't" answered Senator Sorg-
hum. "All I am trying to do is to show
that the other fellow is worse than l
am. The average political triumph doesnt
get much beyond being accepted as the
lesser of two evils
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-03
THE STAR has regular and pefna.
nent Family Circulation much moro
than the combined circulation Of the
other Washington dailieS. As News
and Advertising Medium 1t has no
competitor.

grin order TO avoid delays on account
CT personal absence letters to THE
STAR should not be addressed 20 any
individual connected with the ONCE. but
simply to THE STAR. or to the Editorial
or Business Department. according to
tenor or purpose.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-03

The rapidity with which the President
can produce message indicates a tend
ency to turn from the deliberate ways
of literature to the touch and-go methods
of journalism.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-03

Possession of million by the Stanford
University in shape to be loaned to San
Francisco builders proves beyond ques-
ton that college training may have great
practical value.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-03

President Butler of Columbia University
says that New York is the real capital of
the country. Some Of those Chicago col
lege professors have evidently been pass
ing around the foolish powders.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-03
No Excuse.

Most people purchase their valentine
poetry ready made
Yes, said Miss Cayenne. ut is
shocking to see how many people approve
of that sort of thing without even the
excuse of an authors vanity"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-03

Several republicans would be quite as
well pleased if Mr.. Roosevelt did not al
ford w. ]. Bryan SO many opportunities
to applaud.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-03

An impression seems to exist in the
White House that whoever the next
President may be. he will not wear whis-
kers parted in the middle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-03

The Morse-Thomas-H system of
banking too closely resembled the old
game which consists in guessing which
shell the pea is under
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-03
Hone for All.

If you ne'er take a sparkling drink
And never swear, nor stay up late.
Nor speak too freely what you think,
You may become candidate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-03

1t must be rather lonely for Harry
Orchard to be thus removed from any
encouragement to come forward and con-
fesS something.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-03

Jealousy said Uncle Eben, lis a mean
mans substitute fob ownin' up like a
gentleman dat he's licked"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-03

The fact that the Appalachian park is
expected to preserve the water supply
ought to interest towns where prohibition
and an increased water tax come stimuli
taneously.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-03
Dining and Winning.

From the Providence Tribune.
1t may be that those valorous demo-
Gratis who are opposed to Mr.. Bryan will
succeed in forcing him out by running his
digestion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-03

John d. Rockefeller, senior. is develop
ing a disposition to get around and be
sociable that must cause the cautious
and reserved John D., junior. some appre-
henSion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-03

credit of 100000 is recorded in
Budapest for Count and Countess Szech-
neyi. The American dollar seems un-
aole to get over it's rowing disposition.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-03
No Hurry.

From the Toledo Blade.
Girls who have passed through two leap
years since attaining marriageable age
will not get excited over the possibilities
of 1903.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-03
Tact,

From the Manchester Union.
Everything moves on hinges, and tact is
a good lubricator.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-03

1t has come to point where a speech
by Mr.. Foraker would seem to lack an
essential quality II it did not contain a
few caustic comments on the administra-
ton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-03

The Portuguese have presented another
sad example of the effect of too much
emotionalsm in politics.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-03
The Brvanic influence.
e St. Louis Globe Democrat

From the st. Louis Globe Democrat.
Since Mr.. Bryans visit to the Ken
lucky legislature Mr. Beckham's pros
poets have changed from unpromising to
hopeless.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-03
Incurable.

From the ST. Louis Post Dispatch.
Some of the cripples that the big imam
ciers tried SO hard to save last fall are
now limping off the stage leaning on the
arms of receivers. Was it worth while?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-03
Picturesque.

From the Chicago Tribune.
Undoubtedly Col. Watterson would in
fuse some ginger into the United States
Senate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-03

The Thaw case despite the verdict man.
| a ges to retain it's continued in our-next"
characteristics
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-03

Col. Watterson knows enough about the
difficulties of journalism to correct an
interview without losing his temper.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-03

The London Times is accomplishing its
sale with characteristic seriousness and
elaboration
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-23

brother, Johnnie Piggott,'' also con-
sidered master in this class OF
thievery. She soon outelassed her in
structor and went East with another
pickpocket, Kittie O'Brien.
The pair worked Eastern cities and
went abroad and returned wealthy.
kfttie O'Brien was killed in New York
State by jumping from a railroad car
window with 100000 worth of jewels
which she had stolen on the train. An
ME Piggott returned to San Francisco
and operated there with her brother
until told to leave the city by Chief
of Police Isaiah Lees This was ten
years ago.
The couple went to Seattle. and in
that city she married a pickpocket
with whom she had operated in the
East. This man was mysteriously
killed at a 1odging-house in Seattle.
and Annie and her brother. johnnie
Piggott. were tried for murder and
acquitted, the jury being convinced
that the man committed suicide.
Her brother Johnnie is now doing a
SeEen-year term in some Eastern penf-
tentiary on a charge of grand larceny
for pocket-pieking. The pictures of
the Piggotts disappeared from the
rogues' gallery of San Francisco short
ly after the great fire of 1906.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-23
TOYO K|SEN LINE
MAY WITHDRAW
If So a New Japanese Line Win
Take the Honolulu Run by
the New Year.

There is a probability of the Toyo
Kisen Kaisha withdrawing its liners
from the Hawaii trade at the first OF
the year and running direct from Yo.
nolulu out as a port of call. This was
hinted at short time ago by Manager
Shiraisha, who went through here a
short time ago on his way to New
York, and the information has been
confirmed by recent advices from Jap
an received by the Hawaii Shinpo. The
mission upon which Manager Shiraisha
has gone to the mainland is the open
ing up of negotiations for railroad
connections between his line and the
Southern Pacific, which if successful
will mean the severing of the COM
bination between the Toyo kiSen
Kaisha and the Pacific Mail and the
changing of the It. K. K. schedule to
eliminate Honolulu from their ports of
call.
In this connection it is reported that
the Osaki Shosen Kaisha, a newly or
ganized company, will put on a line
of boats to make the run between
Puget Sound and Yokohama, and if the
T. K K abandon Honolulu wifi add
this place to their run. Mr.. Kafuku,
who passed through on the Mongolia
has been on the Sound looking into the
business possibilities and 1s returning
to Japan to lay his plans before his
directors. Mr.. Kafuku stated while
here that his company would prefer
to enter the Yokohama-San Francisco
service but would not be able to COM
pete against the T. X. K. line, which
was heavily subsidized by the Japan
ese government.
Mr.. Kafuku also stated that it was
probable that the Chargeurs Reunis
would soon abandon the Honolulu
calls. The reason for this, which is
also one of the reasons given why the
T. X K We're considering abandon
ing their Hawaii business, is that the
coastwise laws prevent the carrying or
American freight from here, leaving
their cargo room, after the discharge
of their Honolulu freight, a dead loss
on the rest of the run to San Francisco.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-23
CHEAP HATS FOR MEN
WITH SMALL HEADS

A travelling salesman from Seattle
has discovered that cheap hats are
worn in Hawaii only by men with
small heads. In a letter, published in
the Post-Intelligencer he boosts the
volcano, as follows:
This is Sunday" wrote Mr.. Dietz,
'.and l am sitting on the veranda of
the Kilauea Volcano House at the
edge of the crater watching the pyro-
technics. Sulphur fumes are rising out
of the ground on ever side. The crater
of Halemaumau is particularly active
just now. / went down to the pit a
short time ago. after dark. Two cones
were in eruption, spouting fireworks in
honor of Washington's birthday. A
large crack had formed in the side
from which was running white hot
lava in immense streams. It's a great
sight; in fact, it looks like Hades
might
A~peculiar thing about Mr.. Dietz's
orders in the Islands is that all of the
cheaper grades of hats run in small
sizes. These are worn almost entirely
by the coolies. The better grades,
which are doubtless purchased by the
white people, are in average sizes,
ranging from "a to 3-s.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-23
BARRED DOORS
GOOD PROTECTION
Gamblers Make Good and Are
Discharged Through Lack
of Evidence.

Yesterday in the police court was a
day of significance for the gambling
fraternity of the island, assuring them
that under the present laws they were
immune from punishment provided
they so arranged their gambling joints
that no easy entrance for the police is
possible Thirty Chinese gamblers, ar
rested in a joint on Liliha street which
is being run in impudent defiance of
the authorities, joint protected by
three heavily barred doors, with all
other approaches to the rooms protect
ed by heavy wire lattice work and the
openings so guarded with sharp spikes
and other ingenious contrivances that
it is impossible for anyone to gain an
entrance, were discharged yesterday
through insuf1ciency of evidence
against them. And, according to the
existing laws there was no other course
for the magistrate to pursue than dis
charge, and according to the same laws
there is no authority that can be given
the police to make successful raid
on a joint so protected.
The evidence at the trial, given by
Sheriff Iaukea, Detective Leal and De-
tective Apana, was to the effect that
Continued on Page Seven1.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-23
ERNEST N. SMITHS PEN
BRINGS HIM SUSPENSION
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, April 23.-Ernest NJ Smith Of
Honolulu has because of his editorial criticism of
Affairs Committee in the Sequoia.

undergraduate editor was expelled for
taking part in the recent student DEM
onstration. so the Sequola reverted to
MIR. Smith, who undertook to get out
one more issue. Evidently the paper
hit the Student Affairs Committee in
tender place, the suspension of the
Honolulu youth following. His two
predecessors of last year had been ex-
PEELED. Ernest Smith is a graduate of
Punahou. has been at various times
president of his class at Stanford.
stroke of the crew, secretary of the
Engineering Board of Reconstruction.
private secretary TO Professor Max
Ferrand and has taken an active part
in college journalism and in newspaper
correspondence. He was formerly a
reporter on the Advertiser.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-23

Ernest NJ Smith has not been a
student at Stanford University since
three weeks before he was previously
summoned by the Student Affairs Com
mittee to explain the source of his
criticisms of that body in the campus
paper which he edited, the Sequoia. AT
that time he was exonerated, so the
San Francisco papers said Mr.. Smith
is, and was at the time, employed in
San Francisco, in the advertising de-
partment of Hale Brothers stores. He
had undertaken last September to run
the Sequoia for the college year but
after the student trouble grew serious
he turned the paper over to an under
graduate and attended strictly to his
business in the city. Unfortunately the
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-23

Secretary Mott-Smith has begun to
put in operation the election maehln-
ery. 1t is more than FIVE months yet
before the election will be held, but
preparations are now beginning to be
made for it.
Yesterday the Secretary sent word
to the various party organizations
throughout the Territory asking them
to make any suggestions they might
have in regard to the appointment of
members of the boards of registration
and officers of election. He did not
ask them to make any suggestions IN
regard to the division of any election
precincts that they might think ought
to be divided, but he will be very glad
to hear any such suggestions if anyone
has them TO make.
There will be several members of
boards of registration to be appointed
this year, and complete set of judges
and inspectors OF election.
Registration must be done between
the last day of August and the tenth
day of October. There is a provision
in the election law now whereby voters
who were absent from the Territory
during the period of registration, or
who by reason of sickness were unable
to register, may vote anyway. This
is a new feature of the election law
in this Territory.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-23
QUEEN OF PICKPOCKETS
SAILED ON ALAMEDA

Among the passengers who sailed for
the Coast yesterday on the Alameda
is a women known to the police of the
world as the Queen of the Pickpock-
ets,' her real name being Annie Pig
gott. She has been visiting relatives
in Honolulu for some short time, hav-
ing arrived here from San Francisco,
where her arrival was noted by the
police, although her departure for
Honolulu appears to have escaped
them, no mention of it having ap
peared in the Coast papers nor any
notification sent to the Honolulu
police. The detective force here have
known of the woman's presence in
Honolulu, however. and have watched
her movements closely. She stated to
the police of San Francisco and re-
peated the statement to the police here
that she had reformed and desired to
ise an honest life hereafter if al
lowed.
Annie Piggott was reputed to be mar
velously adept in abstracting valuables
from their owners pockets.
She learned her profession from her
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-23
MILLS SPENT
LAST NIGHT
IN THE CELLS

Harry 7. Mills spent last night in a
cell In the pollce station, having been
taken into custody yesterday afternoon
by Sheriff Iaukea for failure to come
through with the ten spot Judge An
:! drade fined him for having INDUCED in
/ fisticuffs on Monday in the police court
with an attorney. Mills had been given
until four o'clock to come through
| with his fine. He was thirty minutes
/ past due when placed under arrest,
coming to the police station to give
himeslf up when telephoned for.
AS result of his arrest he threatens
! to make things interesting for the
Judge, promising for one thing to lay
complaint against him for destroying
a public doeument. There may be dam
/ age suits in the near future.
Mills and the attorney roughed it as
/ the result of some repartee on the part
of the former in the progress of a case
| in which Mills was the plaintiff and
! the LAWYER the attorney for the de-
fence, these positions being reversed
during the active, hostilities. For the
fstic argument Judge Andrade fined
each ten dollars for contempt. The
lawyer paid up on the nail, but Mills
filed an objection and noted an appeal.
Yesterday he wanted to argue the
matter in court, accusing Andrade of
having altered the mittimus materially.
This the Judge admitted, stating that
the first one had been made out imme-
diately after the hurly yburly at a time
when no man could be expected to be
technically correct. This, however, he
decided was a minor matter, and did
not affect the point at issue.
80 am not going to be technical about
this matter at all, Mr.. Mills, said the
Judge 81 have told you that this fine
must be paid by four clock this af-
ternoon or / shall ask the Sheriff to
put the mittimus into execution. The
orders of this court must be carried out
or we might just as well close up
shop
The charge of destroying a public
document, which may arise, comes from
the switching of the mittimus, the court
clerk having thrown the original in the |
waste paper basket when the amended |
one was issued by the Judge. This i
order to the Sheriff directs him to take |
the body of Harry T. Mills into custody |
and hold it until the fine of ten dollars
is paid, such Imprisonment to be for not /
longer than ten days. The mittimus
was delivered to Sheriff Iaukea prompt
ly at four clock and served.
Mills made no objection to being ar
rested. With Attorney Lightfoot he
walked into the Sheriff s Office and
took chair while the official gave or
ders for a cell to be prepared. lie
waited in the Sheriff s office until ar
were made with Judge
Quarles and c. w. Ashford for the pre-
paration of habeas corpus proceedings,
which will be begun this morning.
A telephone message was received
from Mills from the police station last
night, stating that he was unavoidablyf
detained and the victim of circum-i
stances over which he had no control,
but that he was quite comfortable and
expected to be around this morning.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-23
BOYS FROM SETTLEMENT
MAY BE HERE ON SUNDAY

The non-leprous boys from the leper
settlement may be brought to the
Quarantine Station this week. The de-
cision to bring them there to be taken
care of until the home for such boys
provided for by the Legislature is
built, only awaits opportunity to bring
the boys, to be put into effect.
Superintendent Jack McVeigh left
here with instructions to bring them
just as soon as he could, and they may
be here next Saturday or Sunday.
Dr.. Cofer, President of the Board of
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-23

Health, says that it is quite possible
that they may be here next Sunday
morning. There are twenty-eight OF
them, and for the most part they are
quite small children, three and four
years old, and some a little older.
The arrangements for caring for
them viii be practically duplicate of
the arrangements and appliances at the
Kapiolani Maternity Home. At the
home to be provided for them, better
and more extensive facilities will be
provided.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-23

Right Honorable Sir Henry Camp
was the leader of the
Liberal party of Great Britain since
1899, following Lord Rosebery. He
was born in 1886, his father being the
Lord Provost of Glasgow, linen drap-
er who had been knighted for services
to his city. He represented the district
of Stirling, Scotland. from 1868 until
his death and served in every Liberal
Ministry since 1871, when he was chos-
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-23

en- as Financial Secretary to the War
Office. He served as Secretary to the
Admiralty, Chief Secretary to Ireland.
Secretary of State for War and as Pre-.
mier. One of the acts which gave him
fame was the retiring of the Duke OF
Cambridge, the uncle of King Edward.
as Commander-in-Ch of the Army.
and another was his pro-Boer attitude
during the South African war. His
home in Scotland was Belmont Castle.
Perthshire
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-23
HAWAIrS WHITE LABOR BILL
IS DEFEATED IN THE HOUSE
Measure Allowing Contributions to the Local
immigration Board Outvoted---A
Bomb for Gallagher
ASSOCIATED Press Cablegrams.)

WASHINGTON, April 23-The House has defeated
introduced by Delegate allowing Territorial Board
OF immigration contributions from private persons
corporations for the purpose of assisting the immigration
aborers into the Territory of Hawaii
and by Commissioner Immigration
porlon aborers
Malaga of
South had been introduced
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-23
TRYING TO KILL A
GOOD-DOG SUPERVISOR

SAN FRANCISCO, April a3.-The Oakland residence of
Gallagher the booders forced resign from the
damaged by bomb yesterday The
believe that the bomb placed attempt assassnate
has of the witnesses depended
material evidence by the graft prosecution.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-23
ROOSEVELT WILL HAVE TWO
BATTLESKIPS OR NOTHING

WASHINGTON April 23-President Roosevelt
bill before Congress carries appropriation
construction of balesips he will veto it.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-23
PERSIAN SITUATION GETS
SERIOUS FOR RUSSIA

ST PETERSBURG, April 23The Persian situation is
ing available for the of
entrapped within the Persian borders
inadequate the work in hand
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-23
CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN.
EX-PREMIER, IS DEAD

LONDON April 23-Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman,
Gently retired from the Premiership because failing
here yesterday The funeral will place
On Monday
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-23
HARVARD OUTROWS NAVAL CADE7

ANNAPOLIS April 23-The eightoar yesterday
defeated Naval Cadet by half a length