The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-06
WHY THE HEN
CROSSED ROAD
Judge Dole Solved the Mystery
on Kauai-Garden Island
Happenings.

Anyone going by the courthouse last
Monday might have been forgiven il
| he had come to the conclusion that
Judge Dole had gone in for small farm
ing, or at least chicken raising on the
| premises of justice, says the Garden
| Island. The Judge was walking about
with a flock of chickens at his heels
and looked very interested.
The interest was, however, not Sc
much in the feathered birds as it was
in the reason for their being allowed
to desecrate the unspotted premises of
Mrs. Justitia, and he listened more in
tently to the story of their migration
than he did to the cluck- chuck of the
mother hen.
1t appears that the flock and its
forebears for some generations back
have lived with Madinpo Madeira over
in Hanamaulu and have been both a
pleasure and a source of revenue to
him. Whether it was jealousy of Ma
dingo's joy or kleptomania pure and
simple that possessed Kahiku Keau did
not come out at the trial, but wit
nesses told, and he himself admitted,
that he had lured the feathered tribe
from it's ancestral hall to his own
domicile and then proceeded to enjoy
the pleasures and emoluments that for
merly were the lot of Madingo.
Judge Dole termed the transaction
larceny, and explained the meaning of
the word to Kahiku, who admitted
that he thought the definition was cor
rect. Translated into dollars and
cents it meant an even SIS in fine and
81 for cost.
IN HIS STEPS.
Jammes Gilmore Wyman has come
out strongly in favor of prohibition,
and will be the Jack Atkinson of
Kauai. Mr Wyman says that prohibit
tion is the only thing for Kauai He
is ready to sign his name on the first
roll that the party puts into circula-
ton on the island The Kauai people
have been ruined by liquor and he
knows it. Gin is the worst of them
ALL It is the same stuff whether you
pay fifty cents bottle or think you
are getting the unadulterated thing by
paying dollar for the same quantity.
He is busy making proselytes in Ma
wiliwili.
LIHUE NOTES.
The Misses Kinney and Lyons of
California are the guests of their
former college mate, Miss Elsie Will
cox. Mr. Lyman of Cleveland is also
visiting his relatives at Grove Farm.
w. HI. Rice, ST., took a jolly party out
on picnic last Tuesday. The Califor-
MIA visitors were taken to the Spout
;np Horn to view one of the Kauai
sights.
The district has been blessed with the
very respectable precipitation of nine
teen inches during the last two weeks.
Friends of Karl W. III. Roendahl,
'ormerly of Waimea and now manager
of Hama store, will be pleased to hear
that he has found a lady to guide his
steps through future years. The bride
was Miss Irene Gladys Deas, sister
in-law of DR.. Deas, known to the Wal
mea residents from the time he acted
as DR.. Sandow g substitute some five
years ago.
WAHIAWA ITEMS.
The British steamer Adabo is still
anchored in Eleele harbor, but expects
to be discharged in the beginning of
next week
Rumor has it that Fl. III. Brodie is
puttino in a new water
works in Hanapepe in the near future.
The weather has been very uncom-
mon during the last three weeks. Rain
has fallen almost every night, but
drop in the temperature. The rapid
without being accompanied by any
growth of the cane proves how favor
able the conditions have been.