The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-02

Master of a LibeIed Vessel
Leaves Funds With
H. N. AImy.

yesterday afternoon with the money
left on deposit with him as Commits
sioner by Captain Yarneberg, master
of the schooner A. J. West. which is
, under libel by five of the sailors who
helped work her here from Grays Har-
Dor, and who are taking steps to get
wages alleged to be due, subsistence
money until they are able to get home,
and passage money.
i Amy appeared with his record, that
| he might show cause if any there be.
| why he should not pay out to the men
their wages from the money in his
custody and entrusted to his keeping
by the schooner's skipper.
U. s. District Judge S. B. Dole took
the matter, as to whether Amy should
| thus be appealed to. under advise
nent, after lengthy and learned argu-
ment on the part of .. S. District At
| torney R. w. Breckons, who represents
| the vessels owners, and Attorney
George A. Davis, who appears for the
complaining seameI.
The proceedings are exciting much
interest and there are numerous sea-
faring folk attending the session.
Christian Christensen, John Fehle-
son, Victor Matson, Oscar Wrinkle and
Emile Piedvache each ask $40. AS wages,
$75 passage to Grays Harhor, and 500
subsistence until arrival home.
= he f5y- Of
sells to place in the hands of shipping
commissioners or consuIS money to
cover payment of wages of sailors who
are to be discharged and they are paid
off after the accounts have been ar
ranged between master and men,. In
the event of a dispute as to underpay
or otherwise, the shipping commission
er or consul is appealed to and fire.
quently settles the matter without it
getting to the courts. This, however,
appears TO be case where there is no
settlement outside of the courts.
There are the usual two sides to the
story, the masters and that of the
men, each side claiming the other has
not dealt fairly, the men complaining
of the masters manner and the cap
tain having no recommendation for the
men.
LEPER HABEAS CORPUS.
Before Judge Lindsay yesterday
there appeared men of medicine, doc
tors of law and defendants, or petit
TONERS, AnamaHa Maunakea and Mary
Keliihopoole Kaumakahia, two Hawai-
ian women declared to be lepers by
the health authorities and detained at
the Kalihi receiving station prepara-
tory to being sent to the settlement I
on Molokai.
The private physician of these pa-
tients. DR.. Atcherley, refused to ac-
cept the diagnoses of the Board off |
Health bacteriologist. DR.. J. T. Nc |
Donald. Habeas corpus proceedings
We're instituted and yesterday the
hearing of the writs came up after
several continuances.
Attorney Clarence w Ashford, rep
petitioners, had DR.. McDon-
aid on the stand and bombarded him
with a fire of technical questions of
a. very carefully studied nature with
a view, evidently, to showing that the
physician may have been mistaken IN
one or both of the diagnoses.
Doctors Sinclair Pratt and Wood
were among the doctors attending as
witnesses.
DR.. Ateherley's contention is that the
women are incapable of transmitting .
The disease.
Ashford. for one of his interroga-
ions, wished to know the length of
he bacillus of leprosy and was in
ormed by Bacteriologist Mcdonald,
who gave the measurement in micro
as near as he could re-
member. Ashford was anxious to
know what that figured out in inches.
Deputy Attorney General Whitney,
lfter scribbing, announced that a mi
romillimeter was about a thirty-nine-
nilIionth part of an inch.
Attorney General Hemenway and
Deputy Whitney represented the Ter
itory. Since there is considerable
Inference in the evidence to be
out the two cases are being
leard separately. Mary Kaumakahias
ase comes first and it has been agreed
hat questions of law be argued after
IL testimony has been taken.
DR.. Mcdonald testified to having ex-
mined the woman and found her to
e a leper. Ashford looked to every L
possible opening for a mistake on the I
art of the doctor in his diagnosis and
you'd not think of allowing the physi-
ian to state, for example, that water
ad been boiled, during the test unless
he doctor had himself seen the water Y
oiled. Mcdonald remarked that the /
acillus of tuberculosis was sometimes q
aiken for that of leprosy, but the GER '
ainty of leprosy was usually arrived '
[ through confirmatory Investigations, y
Il things together being carefully :
onsidered and no certainty being at T
ached TO any one Indication. =
STRAWBERRY MILK SHAKE. t
All Toy comes into court and accuses Z
ylyano Nobrega of being accessory Z
Y ownership Of the animal perpetra-
ing the crime, TO the spelling Of a !.
patch, through the action r.
cow. and he wants damages 1t l.
7as tried once before, during last term. s
nd the plaintiff awarded $50 damages a
n default. through a misunderstanding "
new trial was granted and, though q
OF getting as much as when defendant Fl