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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-11-06
REPAIRING Of ROADS
A PRIME ESSENTIAL
CONTINUED from page nveJ

not disappeared entirely, it will be
found in the shape of a deep layer of
dust and fine stone at each side of
the roadway; the stripped surface will
be worn more or less deeply into ruts,
or hammered into hollows; and not
infrequently the underlying courses of
large broken stone and rock will be
clearly discernible
Why do American macadam roads
| go to pieces so swiftly, while those in
Europe maintain their fine surface in
definitely? The answer is to be found
in the fact that in Europe they have
a careful system of road maintenance,
and in the United States we have none,
or practically none. European road
builders and supervisors, or whatever
they may be called, clearly understand
that there is no engineering work that
depends more absolutely for it's in
tegrity and permanence upon careful
attention and upkeep than does a ma
cadamized highway They understand
moreover, that there is no work of
the kind in which the old adage, "a
stitch in time saves nine," is more
true than in this; and, consequently,
their system of road maintenance In
wolves a constant and careful inspec-
ton, and the immediate repair of any
spot in the road, however small, that
shows incipient signs of breaking
down. Hence the work of keeping up
the European roads is being done all
the time; in many places; and by
large army of individual laborers. The
solitary road repairer, with his wheel
barrow, pick and shovel, and little
pile of broken stone and top dressing,
is a familiar sight. 1t is his duty 10
inspect daily his own section. On de-
tecting a low spot where water might
collect (the genesis of the American
"chuckhole"), he makes immediate re-
pairs.
Here, in the United States, we know
little or nothing of such road main
tenance as this. No sooner is stretch
of new road accepted and paid for,
than it is left to the tender mercies
of the traffic and the weather. In
cipient ruts and hollows, instead OF
receiving the immediate care of the
road member, are allowed to remain
full of the standing water of the last
rainstorm, and are quickly deepened
and widened by the wear of the passing
traffic. When the work of destruction
has proceeded unhindered to a certain
stage of ruin, the road is given a
wholesale repair (sic) by dumping up
on it few hundred tons of top dress
ing, which is left to be crushed down
into the irregular and ragged surface
beneath by such haphazard rolling as
may be given by passing traffic.
In the present campaign of good
roads education, more attention
should be paid to the vital function of
road maintenance. Our present prac-
tice of building a first-class road and
then letting it go to ruin as fast as
wind, weather, and traffic can wreck
it, is the height of folly and extra
| yagance
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-11-06
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
THE WEATHER.
Local Office. U. S. Weather Bureau
Young Building.

Honolulu, T. H.. Nov. 6, 1908.
Temporarily s, a. M; 4. M; 10
a. m; and morning minimum.
70; rs; rs; &c; q.
Barometer reamng: absolute humid
ity (grains per cubic FOOT; relative
humidity and dew point at a. M:
30.05; 5.614; 60; 60.
Wind: Ne1octty. and direction at G a.
M; a. M; 10 a. m; and noon:
10 NE; NE; u NE; IA NE.
Rainfall ourlns "a hours ending a.
m; None.
Total vino movement during "a hours
ended at noon: 262 miles.
VIM q. STOCKMAN,
Section Director.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-11-06

T. Sato, Japanese, was this morning
shot by Shikata, another Japanese liv-
ing on Vineyard street, the latter mis-
taking, it is said, the former for a
burglar. The victim became intoxicat-
ed and went to Vineyard street to ask
for job he had heard was open, at an
unsemmly hour. The bullet passed
through an arm and did no serious
damage.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-11-06
CONSOLIDATED SODA WATER

is the purest and best made in Homo
lulu because experts direct its manu-
facture from pure ingredients.
Phone Il
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-11-06

Fine Job Printing. star once.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-11-06
PERSUATION.

After he has hammered his thumb
nail few times it is easy for a man
to feel that he really has not the time
to nail down the hall carpet.-syracuse
Post-Standard.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-11-06

Fine Job Printing, star once.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-11-06
A METEOROLOGICAL OUTRAGE

The idea of summer weather bloom
ing out just when you had laid your
summer clothes to rest in the moth
balls.-Baltimore Sun.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-11-06

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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-11-06
CU.RlOS
HAWAIIAN and S AMOAN
Largest Assortment in Town
WOman's Exchange
Hotel & Union SITS.
WIG. Irwin Il Co., Ltd
suGAg FACTORS, COMMISSION AGENTS
AGENTS FOR

Oceanic Steamship Co., San Francisco,
Cal.
Baldwin Locomotive Works, Phila-
delphia, Pa.
Hakalau Plantation Co., Hilo Sugar
Company, Honolulu Plantation Co.,
Hutchinson Sugar Plantation Co.,
Kilauea Sugar Plantation Co., Olo-
walu Company, Paauhau Sugar Plan
tation Co., Waimanalo Sugar Co.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-11-06
BORN.

LINDSAY-In Paia Maui, October 20,
to the wife of Geo. R. Lindsay,
son.
RICHARDS-In Honolulu, November
6, 1908, to Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore
Richards, daughter.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-02-20
TO SHIP MORE STOCK.
ANOTHER CONSIGNMENT OF 10.
WA CATTLE TO BE MARKET.
N. ED IN ENGLAND.

Traer, Ia, Feb. 19.-SeveraI mem,
bers OF Dysart's firm OF cattle export
ers were in Traer and vicinity the past
week, securing the country for 800
head of good export beeves to fill out
their third shipment, which they will
send direct to Liverpool, Eng. This
Is the third and largest shipment sent
by the firm. Two previous shipments
have been made of $50 head each,
which were put on board at Portland,
Me. The last shipment will go by a
different but more direct route, being
loaded at New York.
A large number of cattle belonging
to the Chester L. Guernsey estate
were purchased here by the firm the
past week. Most of the cattle are
bought of local feeders, but when ne
cessary they will fill out their ship
ping space with stock bought both on
the Chicago and Omaha markets.
This is a new and venturesome under
taking. but thus far it has succeeded
well. They have never lost a head
and realize about $40 per head more
after all expenses are paid than they
would in Chicago. Ine English mar
ket is much more stable and reliable
than the American market, and does
not fiuctuate nearly so rapidly II
takes about twenty days from the
time they leave Dysart to put the cat
tie on the market there in good, pre-
sentable condition.
They are fed regularly, corn and
hay, but at the shippers expense, the
ship company furnishing nothing but
the shipping space and the water
which is carried in the hold as ballast
and pumped up as needed. All stock
Is generally insured before shipped
At Liverpool the cattle are taken in
charge by the commission ilrm to
which they are consigned, and are dis,
posed of within few days, as the
English law requires that all Ameri
can stock must be slaughtered with
in ten days after reaching port. All
sales are made at the slaughter
weights, the animals Deing killed and
dressed before being paid for.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-02-20
DEATH IN THE STORM
SIX LIVES SNUFFED OUT BY THE
BLlZZARp-lT STRh>ES NEW
YORK TODAY.

Chicago. Feb. 19.--Six deaths is
the toll Chicago and the middle west
paid in the two days conflict with
one OF the most destructive and dead
ly blizzards in weather annuls. One
was Mrs. Anna NJ, Lincoln. aged ",
who was found frozen to death in a
snow bank, and two were drowned on
a fishing tug off Waukegan.
The street car and elevated SER
vice was tied up, while all trains were
delayed. The snow is continuing to-
day and drifts in some places are a
dozen feet high.
There is intense suffering among the
poor classes of the city.
Storm Strikes New York.
New York, Feb. 19.-The blizzard
which has been raging in the west
struck New York early today Four
inches of snow fell in as many hours.
All traffic is impeded and harbor crafts
are practically tied up.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-02-20
SPERRY
WILL COMMAND
SELECTED TO TAKE CHARGE OF
NEW NAVAL STATION.
ESTABLISHED in PHILIPPINES
No Extension of Time To Telegraph
Operators - Pensions For All
Widows-other News OF
-H Washington.

Washington, d. c., Feb. 19.-It was
announced by the Navy Department
today that Rear Admiral Sperry, COM
manding the fourth division of Admi-
raj Evans feet, has been selected to
command the new Philippine Naval
station on the arrival there of the
fleet. He will take the battleships
Kentucky, Kearsarge, Illinois and Ala.
bama with him.
No Extension Of Time.
An important decision under the
terms OF the law becoming effective
on March A prohibiting railroads from
requiring or permitting telegraphers
to work more than nine hours a day
was made by the Interstate Commerce
Commission today in the matter Of
the application of the Georgia South
ern and Florida Railway Company
for extension of time in which to com.
ply with the law. The decision makes
it clear that the railroads can expect
no aid or comfort in efforts for sus-
pending the law or any part of it.
Favorable to Musicians.
Representatives Bartholdt, of Mis-
souri,, and Hull, of Iowa, are. working
for legislation that will relieve the
civilian musicians of competition from
army and navy bands. which the civ.
ilian musicians have complained was
disastrous to their business. The plan
is to increase the pay of the enlisted
musicians so that there will not be
the temptation there formerly has
been to take outside employment to
make both ends meet.
Pensions For All Widows.
An agreement was reached in the
Senate Committee on Pensions today
whereby there will be no discrimina
tion shown in the bill to give widows
of soldiers $12 a month fat. The
house bill cut out all widows who
married soldiers since 1890 on the
grounds that such widows married
for the sole purpose of soon getting
pensions. The Senate, however, re
fused to take this view. This will
add perhaps $3,OOO,00O to the pension
roll in addition to the $15,000.000 the
House bill carries.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-02-20
IOWA IS FIGHTING
LIVE STOCK RATES
ILLINOIS AND MISSOURI ARE NOW
UNDuLY FAVORED.
COMPETITION IS WIPED OUT.
Much Evidence is Being Brought Out
Before Interstate Commerce
Commissioner Prouty
in Chicago.

Chicago, Feb. l9.--Much evidence ii
being takenssiR the hearing by Inter
state Commerce Commissioner Prout!
of the case of the Corn Belt Mea
Producers association agaist Nilsson
ri, Iowa and Illinois railroads in which
the association seeks a reduction Of
interstate shipment rates on live
stock in Iowa.
Sixteen of the biggest western rail
road systems are defendants. Ac
cording to the complaint, the cattle
raisers of Iowa have practically been
wiped off the map by rates which are
discriminatory and in favor of the
producers of Illinois, Missouri and
surrounding states. There are ship
ped from Iowa about 1000 car loads
of live stock yearly and it is alleged
that the farmers of that state pay from
rs to so per cent more than the farm
ers of other states for like distances
The case involves chiefly railroads
and Iowa stockmen,. but independent
Iowa packers are represented in an
intervening move against the stock
growers and their efforts to get re,
duction of rates. Charles A. Howe
of Albert Lea, Mimi, was the first
witness. He testified that the present
rates in Iowa give an undue advant
age to shippers in Kansas and Mis-
souri, because they are able to make
Missouri-Chicago shipments through
Illinois without touching Iowa terri
tory. BY this means. he declared, the
| Kansas and Missouri shippers get g
low rate because the rate in Missouri
/ IS lower than the state schedules and
in Illinois the two correspond He was
| asked by Commissioner Prouty if the
| average Missouri rate is lower thar
the average rate in Iowa, and he re
piled that they were.
One of the contentious of the rail
roads is that the commission houses
of the Union Stock. Yards in Chicago
are the real instigators of the move
for reduction of the rates from
Iowa. A. J.. Ames, president of thu
Corn Belt Meat Producers Association
denied this accusation on the stand
and asserted that the Co-Operativ,
Live Stock and Commission Company
of which he is member, had nothing
to do with the case, although it wa,
organized for the purpose of aiding
the shippers in their sales in the Chi
cago market.
| George II. Crosby, general freigh
agent for the Chicago, Burlington 1
Quincy railroad, testified that the low
shippers have easier markets at oms
ha and Kansas City than in Chicag
and asserted that any reduction in tn
rates would work a hardship upon tn
shippers of Missouri and Kansas.
| Charles A. Howe, of Albert Lea
Mimi. testified that the present rate
in Iowa give an undue advantage t
shippers in Kansas and Missouri. BIZ
cause they are able TO make Missouri
Chicago shipments through IIlinoi
without touching Iowa territory B
this means, he reclared the Kansa
and Missouri shippers get low rat
because the rate in Missouri is lowe
than the state schedules, and in III
lnois the two correspond,
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-02-20
SHAW MAKES DENIAL
IN INTERVIEW HE SAYS POLITICS
WAS NOT MISSION IN
.. CHICAGO.

Kansas City, Feb. 19.--Leslie M.
Shaw who was here to address the
Kansas City Bar association last night
gave out a signed statement to the
press in which he declared a number
of unauthorized reports had been pub.
lished concerning his visit to Chicago
yesterday. Shaw declared politics
had in no way influenced his visit to
that city He went there, he said, 'at
no mans instance and in no mans in
lterests." His first visit, he said, was
on a matter of personal business"
Shaw in his statement continues.
Says All Are His Friends.
81 am not seeking to defeat any
mans nomination for the presidency.
There is not a man whose name is
mentioned who is not my personal
| friend and nor whom | would not
cross the continent to bestow a kind.
ness. That / prefer some does not
imply would lift my hand against the
others"
81 am intensely Interested in bust.
ness conditions. The number of men
out of employment and the number
soon to be dismissed is to me alarm.
ing. The interest in these men and
the effect of their enforced idleness
upon business generally far tran.
scends any candidates ambition"
Pleads For United Party.
Il wish that factionalism within the
party to which | belong might cease
and that a convention of broad-mind
ed, patriotic, unselfish, unambitious
men, uninstructed and unpledged
might gather in Chicago on the 18th
of June next and in the light of the
conventions as they then exist TO Sc
lect a man who is believed to be the
most likely to lead the party to vic
tory and whose election will best con
serve the moral and industrial inter
ests of the country. The nominee oi
such convention, if such a convention
can be held, will be elected, whoever
he may be, for the party will then be
united"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-02-20
CASE AFFIRMED BY
SUPREME COURT
w A. WELLS GETS JUDGMENT FOR
HOOKING SALE.
FOR sEvENTY-FIvE THOUSAND
Was Tried Twice In Lower Courts and
Appealed to The Supreme
Court About Sixteen
Months Ago.

Des Moines, Ia, Feb. 19.-The su.
preme court today affirmed the de-
cision of Judge Preston in the case
from Mahaska county wherein w. A.
Wells secured judgment against E. H.
Gibbs and the Hooking Coal Company
for $4,000. The Judgment was for
commission which the plaintiff claim
ed in the sale of the Hooking mining
property. His contention was that he
was to receive sum equal to about
100000 if he could secure the price
named about 100000 for the proper
ty. Before the option which Mr..
Wells claimed he held nad expired,
the property was sold by the company
direct and Mr.. Wells brought suit
against Mr.. Gibbs and the company
for the commission.
The case was first tried In Mahas-
ka county before Judge Clements
about four years ago. resulting in a
disagreement by the jury. The sec
ond trial of the case was taken to
Washington, Iowa by change of ven
ue and there tried before Judge Pres
ton about eighteen months ago. This
trial resulted in judgment of $751;
900 in favor of Mr.. Wells. An appeal
was taken to the Supreme Court, and
the case has been before that body
for sixteen months. 1t was one of the
biggest cases ever tried in Iowa and
was stubbornly fought through the
courts. Lacey & Lacey and Fl. w.
Gleason, of Oskaloosa. and Mr.. Gurn-
sey, of Des Moines, were attorneys
for Mr.. Wells, and L. G. Blanchard
and G. w. Sewers, of Oskaloosa. and
Mr.. McNett, of Ottumwa, attorneys
for tie defense
The total amount of the Judgment
TO date amounts to almost eighty
| eight thousand dollars.
The supreme court vote was i've te
one in favcr of Sssfsss. we s;.Gl.:, 4
ment of the lower court the dissent
| ing opinion was written by Judge
Sherwin.
The suit was filed in the Office of the
clerk of the court, Sept Is, 1902, and
after due process of law with answers.
etettSIiOheS, SohIiiiudiCcoJduu lHO ilhS,
it was tried during the summer of
1904 to jury Of eleven men, one
Juror being excused. The trial re-
suited in disagreement, the jury
standing ten to one in favor of allow
ing Mr. Wells the judgment petitoned
for.
Change of venue on the new trial
was ordered November 10, 1904, and
the case came to trial at Washington,
April H. 1905.
The costs in the case are about
S1,000.0U.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-02-20
BRYAN AND JACKSON
THIS WILL LIKELY BE THE DEM
ocRATic BATTLE CRY OF
THE CAMPAIGN.

p Albany, N. Y, Fb. 19.-William r.
Hearst plans to be represented on the
democratic presidential ticket IL his
name doesn't appear personally in the
chief roles on the ticket of his own
making. is the statement issued by
the democrats today William Schuy-
Ter Jackson. Attorney General of New
York, is reported to be his choice for
vice-president on the democratic tick.
ct. If Bryan accepts Jackson as a
running mate the Independence
league will support the Commoner,
Bryan and Hearst have had several
conferences recently and it is known
that Bryan wants the New Yorker as
running mate,
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-02-20
GAL WESTON PLAN
FOR DES MONIES
SUPREME COURT SAYS MEASURE
is CONSTITUTIONAL.
Law is FIRMLY ESTABLISHED
Opinion Is a Unanimous One and
Covers the Subject In An Ex-
haustive way--Points
In Decision.

Des Moines, Feb. 19.-The Supreme
Court of Iowa has by unanimous opin-
ion upheld the legality of the Calves
ton or Commission plan OF govern
ment for the city of Des Moines. The
opinion is a signal victory for the
friends OF the movement. 1t meets
| all of their anticipations so far as
their contentious as to the legality
and the constitutionality of the law
were concerned.
One of the main points of conten-
tion on the part of the opponents of
the measure was that the law was un-
constitutional for the reason that 1t
Joined the coordinate branches of the
government in placing the control of
the administrative, legislative and ju-
dicial in the power of one commission.
The supreme court wiped away this
contention with, ease, asserting the Des
Moines law was perfectly legal in
combining these branches and that
the statute books were full of in
stances where these functions had
been combined. The court cited the
villages and towns of the state where
the mayor had a right to vote upon
the city council. Many similar cases
were cited where the functions were
combined in the state laws.
Tie Points Decided.
The opinion occupied forty-five type
written pages and goes into the ques-
tions exhaustiyely. Judge Bishop
prepared the document. The main
points in the decision are:
Capitalization of power legal and
not in opposition to the state consti
tuition.
Referendum legal because the peo-
pie have legislative powers.
Recall sound because it is in the
hands of the people to determine.
Combining of flinctions-legislativ
administrative aad iudicial-is held to
be constitutional for the reason that
the state has followed the practice
in its laws from its earliest history
The right of a special act or charter
passed by the legislature cannot be
questioned. (
The claim that the change in the
powers of the park board nullifies the
act is declared erroneous.
The method of placing the names
upon the ballots is declared not to be
contrary TO the spirit of the constitu-
ton.
The constitutional right of the leg
iSlature tn create Sllch lau mud tho
right of the people of certain cities
to accept it If they want it is upheld
The court declares that it is consti.
tutional to refer matters of municipal
concern, as provided in the plan, to
the people themselves.
The claim that men who become
voters between primary day and cleo
tion day lose their rights to become
candidates is held not to be sufficient
reason for invalidating the law, al
though the opinion declares that there
may be question.
The claim that the voter is restrict.
ed in his choice of candidates is de.
clared to be ill-founded. .m.
The fact that another question was
submitted at the time of voting on
the plan is held to have no effect up.
on the decision as to the plan itself.
The method of calling the special
election is upheld.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-02-20
FORMER HUSBAND HELPS.
Goes With Divorced Wife to Get Mar
riage License For Another.

Iowa City, Feb. 19.--An extraordi-
nary license to wed was issued here
today, when William Warner, aged 23,
secured license to marry Mrs. May
Pierce, aged 20. The brides former
husband, Gilbert Pierce, appeared with
the divorce decree, and made affidavit
to the fact that no legal barrier ex.
listed to prevent the marriage of his
ex-wife and her new lover. This is
unprecedented in the annals of John,
son county's court.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-02-20
JAPAN MAKES REPLY
WILL ABIDE BY ALL PROVISIONS
OF PROPOSED iMMIGRA-
TloN TREATY.

Toxic, Feb. 19.-Japans reply to the
American memorandum of Jan. 26,
concerning immigration, which the
Mikado believes will be satisfactory
and end the pending controversy. was
handed to U. s. Ambassador O'Brien
today. Japan has conceded practical
ly all America asks, and assures the
enforcement of restrictions which are
expected to prove quite effectual.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-02-20
WILL KNOW THEIR FATE.
stoessel and Others Ordered to Ap.
pear in the Morning.

st. Petersburg, Feb. 19.-The mill
tary judges who have been trying
Gen. Stoessel and other commanders
for surrendering Port Arthur, have
ordered the accused generals to APP
pear at eleven tomorrow morning to
learn their fates.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-02-20
MAKES ICE WITH HAY PRESS.
IlIinoisan Congresses Snow and
Claims Success.

Arcola, ILL.,, Feb. 19.-W. w. Pepper
is now manufacturing ice by baling
up blocks of snow with an ordinary
hay press. The experiment is prov
ing highly successful and he claims
the ice thus manufactured is better
than that frozen on lakes. and will
stand more hot weather without melt
ing