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The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-05-01
IMPROVEMENT
Of MAIL SERVICE

The suggestion made by Presiden,
James F. Morgan, of the Chamber of
Commerce, to that organization regard
ing a possibility of lettering the mail
service for Hawaii, and taken up by
the Chamber, bids fair to result in the
suggestion being taken up and put into
effect by the postal authorities The
suggestion was that the letter mail for
Honolulu be segregated from the gen.
eral mail on board the mail steamers
from San Francisco, and should be
handed over for delivery to the Homo
lulu office just as soon as the mail
steamer reached quarantine, thus land
ing 1t ashore an hour or so earlier than
under the present arrangements.
Secretary H. P. Wood, of the Cham
Der, communicated the suggestion of
the organization to the postal authori-
ties here, receiving the following en-
eOuraging replv from Assistant Super
intendent Railway Mail Service George
W. Carr: Mr.. Carr wrote:
In reply to your communication of
10th inst, on the subject of U. s. mail
transportation, and the proposition
that mail steamers from San Francisco
arriving at quarantine, to deliver
Honolulu letter mails for conveyance
by launch or small vessel to dock, and
thence into the Honolulu postoffiee.
In connection Herewith / beg to ex-
plain:
"d) All L. s mail contracts for
steamboat service for Hawaii provide
that the contractor shall deliver the
mails on the mail steamer wharf at
Honolulu, and receive mails on the
mail steamer s wharf at Honolulu.
"(2) At San Francisco, the letter
mails TO be handled as proposed, will
be segregated, and delivered to the
mail steamer separate from the other
mail, waybilled separately, and bearing
address labels TO facilitate
the proposed delivery at quarantine.
"(3) The general offices of all steam
ship lines operating mail steamers. San
Francisco to Honolulu, and the U. S. A.
transport service, will be advised as
to the proper handling of Honolulu
letter mail, by their mail steamers. for |
delivery at quarantine to the L. S. mail |
''These items /, ?, and 8, have al |
ready taken up with my superiors in
the service. l have recommended the /
service as proposed. Have requested
and the requisite authority
70 be made effective by this office.
Mr.. E. R. Stackable, U. S. Collec-
.or OF Customs, Honolulu, has kindly
the use of the customs launch
Tor the purpose of this contemplated
service, whenever it may become eff
active.
All necessary arrangements at San
francisco are now under way, prepar-
tory, in authorization of approval.
which l have no doubt will be grant
d.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-05-01
FAIRCHILD SAYS THE
TINE IS TOO SHORT

The time within which the Makee
Sugar Company were to return an an
Swer 10 the governments proposition
in regard to the Kappa lands expired
day before yesterday, according to a
letter written by Land Commissioner
Pratt before the latter left for the
Coast on the Alameda.
Manager Geo. H. Fairchild has writ
ten the following letter TO the Land
Commissioner, insisting that under the
circumstances the time allowed is too
short.
James W. Pratt, Commissioner of
Public Lands for the Territory of
Hawaii, Honolulu.
Dear Sir: I am in receipt of yours
OF the 21st inst, giving me until the
18th inst. in which to either accept or
reject your general proposition as out
lined in yours of the 18th.
II seems to me common Justice that
I should be allowed to communicate
with Col. Spalding before acting on
your offer or committing myself for
or against your proposition. The Gov
eminent has taken long periods of time
in the past before acting upon various
consideration. and I feel so emphatical-
" the improperly of passing judg-
ment for Col. Spalding on those mat
ters Of such far-reaching consequence
10 him without hearing fully from him
that l must decline to take action on
your offer before this can be done
The Makee Sugar Co. has been in
business for a long time in this Terri
tory. has developed a large business
interest here and paid thousands of
dollars into the public Treasury in one
way and another. It has been a tenant
Of the Government for many years and
1 believe that you will see the i'm
propriety Of considering negotiations
between the Makee Sugar Company
and the Government in reference to
the lands in question closed because I
stand firmly to the right of commune !
eating fully with my principal and OBJ |
tanning his views upon these important
issues. Yours very truly,
GEORGE H. FAIRCHILD.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-05-01
Our Land Administration

that they are not mandatory. The I'M
written law land it is very forum ate
for us that so many of our best laws
are of that kind) provides that all
cane lands shall be leased in large
bodies to-wen, it isn't necessary to
state. The American custom of first
come, first served, and fair play to
ALL" applies only to large land hold
ers in Hawaii. Everybody knows that.
The editor of The Vealery admits it,
and SO does his only Constant
Reader
1t is really distressing that anyone
should take US seriously when we talk
about wanting small farmers and di-
versified industries. What we particu-
larry want is tourists, and a Congress
of Song, and the fleet, and Chinese
labor, and a modification of the coast
wise shipping laws, so that Japanese
bottoms can compete with the Inter
Island and reduce sugar freights; also,
we want more protection on sugar.
Thirty four dollars a ron isn't enough.
They say" as the editor of The
Times says, that there are three hundred
families in Honolulu who would go on
the land If they had the chance. Some
malah1m said, a few years back, that
Hawaii could support one hundred
thousand American families. But,
thanks be, our land laws, written and
unwritten, are still in force, so that
there is no immediate danger.
AMERICAN.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-05-01
THE CABLE THE
KOREANS SENT
From Thursdays Advertiser)

CFrom Thursdays Advertiser)
Further developments yesterday fol
lowed the investigation which is being
made in the Korean plot against Bishop
n c. Harris.
The cable message which was sent
from here by Koreans to the Korean
League in San Francisco, spoken of il
the Advertiser yesterday, quoted in
substance some of the things Bishop
Harris had said in his interview in the
Advertiser regarding Japan and Korea
II then closed with request for the
league to ask the Bishop if he did ex-
press the sentiments he was reported
70 have done.
Taken in connection with the course
OF events and the Korean method in
the Stevens ease; this is considered
very significant. Stevens, on his ar
rival in San Francisco, was interviewed
by the papers there. The evening of
the day on which these interviews ap,
peared a committee of the Korean
League called on him at the Paramount
Hotel and asked him eategorieally if
he had said these things attributed TO
him. He replied that he had, where
upon he was set upon by the Koreans
seeking TO do him violence, and the
next morning when he went down to
the ferry to start for Washington he
was shot and MORALLY wounded.
The eablegrams from San Francisco
show that Bishop Harris, warned by
the press messages from here, did rot
land in San Francisco at all, but in
Oakland, thus foiling. for the time at
least, any plot for his murder that may
have been formed.
The investigations yesterday were
along the line of fndirg out who was
responsible for the sending of the cable
message from here TO the Korean
League in San Francisco. The authori-
ties now know pretty we'll who are
among the conspirinG Koreans here,
and the origin of the eablegram is
pretty well authenticated. Whether
any arrests will follow or not depends
on what further developments trans
pire.
The state of feeling among a large
element of the Korean community is |
very high. 1t has been learned that |
there Is in Hawaii a considerable num-
Der of Koreans who were formerly |
governmental officials of one grade or |
another. and who were thrown out of /
government employ when Japan took |
charge in Korea. or who left at about /
that time. 1t is this class Bishop Har-
us said were responsible for most of
the cutlery and dissatisfaction against
japanese control in Korea. Naturally
II is this class which would be par
ineensed at statements of that
kind by Bishop Harris or anybody else
So bitter is the feeling among H.
reans that the friends Of Rev. J. W.
Wadman are concerned for his safety.
Not that he has said or done anything
for which the Koreans should be in
sensed at him. but because il is feared
hat the Koreans may become angry
because he is a friend of Bishop Harris
District ATTORNEY Breckons. too, be
.ause of his activity in investigating
he matter, it is feared may become an {
'bjeet Of Korean attention. 7
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-05-01
Honolulu, T. H, April %, 1908.

Honolulu, T. H, April %, 1908.
Editor Advertiser.-Why is that the
land question is continually cropping
up, especially when prospective small
settlers try to acquire holdings? Not
month passes in which large holdings
are not offered for lease for varying
periods under special conditions.
We all know that certain large acre
ages advertised on Hawaii are to go
to one certain ranch, where tree plant
ing conditions are to be required; and
to certain plantations, where special
conditions confer special privileges as
regarding the use of the adjoining pub
lie domain. We are all kept informed
in regard to the prospective disposal of
cane lands in large areas at high 90
rentals, and there is tacit understand
ing that each body of cane land offer
ed goes to one certain and particular
corporation, and to 70 others.
But when an individual prospective
settler, or a group of them, headed, we
viii say, by Van Candies and Nc
Dine, want land, we all and severaIly
wake up, and unanimously denounce
the whole iniquitous transaction. 1, for
one, as sugar plantation stakeholder.
demand to know by what right our
public lands are to be thus parceled
out. There may be some sugar land In
Our land laws have been
carefully drawn, and any man who
makes a study of them must know
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-05-01

liza and are coming money. You hav,
to keep out of the way because no one
can put on a better show and make
it pay. Jack Cameron, who managed
the Wirth show here, has abandoned
the canvas tent for a pastoral life anc
is managing a dairy for his mother
who is a wealthy woman. He is a
strong prohibitionist and feels lone
some.
THE Bristol show was at Tientsin
at the time of the American troops
visit and Denver the trick mule that
walked up the steps of the Advertiser
office, was killed by a Russian The
horse that would do sums in arith-
metic broke his leg and was killed.
The last 1 saw of Denver he was float
ing down the river at Tientsin. Bristol
got something like six thousand dollars
for his loss and went back east to
Massachusetts Where he is making
money in the real estate business
Wilfred Burns, the strong man of the
Wirth company, is, 1 think. playing
with lions in a circus throughout Aus
tralia. Mario, the wonderful horizon
tai bar artist who was here with the
Flying Jordans about the same time
we were, died in Bombay of smallpox
after his wife, Virginia Aragon. the
wire walker, had elopsd with a drum
mer for a champagne house. Mario
would have died of a broken heart if
he had not contracted smallpox"
While here Mr.. Frasier completed
with Manager Adams of
the Honolulu Lyceum Bureau for
season of musical comedy. He will re,
cruit his company on the mainland and
return here. After this engagement
ne will return to the mainland and Sc
cure a company for a long season II.
he colonies.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-05-01
SUPERVISORS ON
THEIR DIGNITY

! The Board of Supervisors of the
I County of Oahu intend to have the
members of the Park Commission UT
on the carpet to explain about some
back bills that have been gathering
for the past nine months. To force
the commissioners to call around with
and for an explanation the Supervisors
have cut out the May appropriation
from the estimates and there is moth
I ing to buy peacock feed with, not to
mention other necessary things to be
done, during the whole of next month.
The Supervisors also object to the way
the Territorial Superintendent of Pub
lie Works writes to them, but that i
another story.
For the past several meetings various
accounts for articles and goods ord cred
by the Park Commissioners have been
turning up before the Supervisors ana
being as regularly turned down as
something the board had nothing to
do with. Every meeting they came I'D
and every meeting thy were turned
down, until the creditors began to ASH
questions and then some action had
to be taken. This acton was the re-
fusal Of the board to vote any more
kapiolani and Kunst park expense
money.
Chairman Hustace said Yesterday
that the Supervisors would see that
the bills run for the parks were paid
but before this was done and before
any presidents were Established there
would have to be an understanding be-
tween the commissioners and the SUI
pervisors about things in general. we
don't know how many more back bills
may be rung in on Us If we pay these
without question" he said.
BISHOP STREET EXTENSION.
The kick the Supervisors have
sgainst the epistolograrhy of the Su-
of Public Works is the
somewhat peremptnry way in which nc |
tells them to get busy on the roads. !
At the meeting of the county fathers
on Tuesday night the letter from Mr..
Campbell regarding the new extension
Of Bishop street said: AT your earliest
opportunity remove the fences and
open, grade and maca damize ne street
to line and grade"
The Superintendent respectfully re-
luested this, Du.c the Supervisors
thought that there was 10 ~ of aa-
vising them what to do. You would
think that he had forgotten that there
was county government in this coun-
Try and that he was running the whole
show" was the way Chairman Hus-
lace sized up the matter.
In spite of this, however, the Super,
'isors are going to rush work on Bish-
'p street and open up the street along
he block between King and Merchant
The authority was given the Road
supervisor to commence on the WORK
Is soon as the month Of May arrived
md charge it up against that months ,
appropriation. AS requested by the
Naterhouse Trust Company, the coun- r
y will put in the curbing along this
'lock as the road work progresses. be- :
ng paid for it on the completion of the {
OBJ. r
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-05-01
AUSTRALIAN NEWSPAPER MANS
EXPERIENCE WITH DIAR-
RHOEA

Hr- S. G. Mathers. publisher of
Chronicle, Normantown, Queensland,
says: "Chamberlain's Collie. Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy completely cur
ed me Of chronic dysentery from which
I had suffered for years. I feel con-
fdent that this remedy also saved the
life Of my infant daughter, who when
teething was severely attacked with
oiarrhoea and was given up by the
doctors" For sale by Benson, Smith
& Co, Ltd, agents for Hawaiian Is
lands.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-05-01

ct all L ne Htlle SnOpkeeper cannot
understand why he should be in a rush
simply because his customer is in a
hurry There are no near prospects
OF the collapse of the universe. and
there is an endless succession of to-
morrows TO draw upon. Therefore
why should anyone be in a hurry? He
decides that it probably is some foreign
whim that must be humored and re-
plies that the work will be finished In
four days at 10 o'clock in the morning.
The four days pass and the work
is not yet delivered. A messenger
brings word that it will be sent that
afternoon at three o'clock. An hour
later a boy comes TO say that il will
be delivered the next morning without
fail. And thus two or three more DAYS
go by. Finally the householder finds
that his contractor knows nothing
about the work he processes to carry
on, and >that he is not only unable r,
deliver the goods, but has not even
started the work. In explanation. a
catalogue Of distressing family afflic-
tons Is given, one or the other Of
which has befallen him or his WORK.
men so that nothing whatever can be
done at the moment But in two or
three days more the job will be finish,
ed. There is no use to hunt up sortr.
other philosopher in the same trade. as
1t would be but to go through the
same experience again. The trade has
it's laws to which those who want 10
get things done must bow.
TT is a fallacy that Japan has an
abundance Of skilled and cheap labor. |
The employer here is always more O,
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-05-01
ACTING GOVERNOR
REQUISITIONS IROOUOIS

The q. S. S. Iroquois, requisitioned
by Acting Governor Mott-Smith for
the trip to Molokai, will leave at 7
O'Clock this morning. 1t is expected 10
arrive at the settlement about one
o'clock, and leave for Honolulu twenty
four hours later.
Those who will go will be Acting
Governor Mott-Smith. Attorney Gener-
al Hemenway. DR.. L. E. Cofer, James
F. Morgan, District Attorney Breckons.
Captain Rees, U. S. N, Captain Hum
phrey, U. S. A
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-05-01
DEEDS RECORDED
AMERICAN.

Deeds were fled for record yesterday
conveying to the Honolulu Iron Works
a large portion of the block bounded
by Nuuanu and Maunakea, and King
and Queen streets. The deeds were
from E. 5. Cunha, and from Mrs.
Cunha, and from F. VI. and A. L. Swan
of Santa Cruz. The purchase price of
all the pieces amounts to about 81 900.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-05-01

chief Clerk Lloyd Conkling of the
Governor office yesterday celebrated
his birthday He received congratula
lions from many friends.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1908-07-31
Lived Together For Sixty Years.

The recent celebration OF the 5Oth
anniversary OF Judge and Mrs. r.
4. Burns has brought out the fact
that John Picklesimer and wife, Of
this place, are nearing the sixtieth
anniversary of their marriage. II
they live until Sept. 2lst they will
have lived out this long span of their
life partnership
They We're married in Floyd coun-
ty when Mr.. Picklesimer was in his
21st year and his bride slightly young
er, The former is now almost 81
years old and is well preserved for
a man OF his age. His wife is also
In good health and they have good
grounds for hoping to see their dia-
mond anniversary, which comes at
the end Of seventy-fiye years Of mar
ried life.
I Mr.. and Mrs Picklesimer are high
ly esteemed by all who know them
They are living quietly and comfort
ably in their cottage opposite the
freight depot. They have number
OF interesting relics OF pioneer days
One OF these is razor and the wood
ell box In which II wasearried through
the Revolutionary war by his father
May this venerable couple live tC
enjoy many returns OF this ami
Sersary.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1908-07-31
BACK TAXES
viii Be Collected By Kentucky's
Auditor From Corporations
and individuals.

Frankfort, Ky, July 25.-Auditor
Frank p. James is going to step into
tne breach and endeavor TO raise
enough money for the SAFE treas
ury IN back taxes from corporations
tions and individuals TO tide over
the period until there shall be a
good working margin in State treas
ury, so that there will be no neces-
sity for an extra session. He says ht
believes that there Is fully an aggre-
ate of 100000 owing 20 the State In
such back taxes, and lac is on the
lookout for good, live Auditors
agent in each county in the State
to ferret out the delinquents and
make them come In with the cash
Mr.. James will make an especial ef.
fort along this line during the nexl
sixty or ninety days, aad he believes
that at the end OF that time he will
have results to show for the finan'
cial campaign which he has under
taken.
] II suits are necessary to collec
the delinquent taxes they will b.
brought, and he has secured an opin
/ ion from Attorney GsLeral Rreathit
that the claim OF the State for take
remains as long as Judgment un
der the law. Every corporation II
Kentucky must pay license tax o
80 cents ON each $1,000 of its capita
stock, and but few corporations hav
paid this tax, but Mr.. James says the
must pay It, and the sooner they d
It, the less expense they will be pu
to, The penalty increases rapidly an
largely.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1908-07-31
The Dog Law.

Frankfort, Ky, July 27.--Dogs in
Kentucky are going TO prove an Inn
portant factor In educating the chill
dren. The "Croan dog tax law" has
brought more revenue for the school
fund Of the counties than was dreams
eli OF by the trainers OF the bill,
There is now in the state Treasury
something like $4,000 that has not
been claimed for dead sheep, and
much Of Il will go into the school fun
Jn Franklin county the school fund
will be increased s4OO, and when II
Ia taken into consideration that this
IS sheep growing county, then II
Il will be seen the amount that will
be paid into the school funds OF the
counties that do not raise sheep.
The law Is working a hardship on
the dogs. for thousands of them are
hcing led to the slaughter house an
nually. In 1907 there were over $780,.
O0odogs reported by the Assessors,
-agd this yelr, so far, there have beel
$4,000 dogs reported
ng to the fact tsiat the consti
itedlity of the law was question
/ the suit deciding its con
pality wns not passed upor
Court Of Appeals until a few
&fore the court adjourned fo'
ammer vacation, there arr
lands Of dollars Ne dog take
have not been lnto ;n'
x sasury this year In 4 there Wa
.Ilected si25,796.SS, and out of tina
Inn but sS2, 2,SS76O was paid out fol
NE sheep killed.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1908-07-31
Barn Burned

Last Monday morning the barn be-
longing to Harrison Wilson was,
with its contents, destroyed by fire.
The barn was new one, and the
hay, onions and other farm products
and some good machinery worth a
bout one hundred dollars. Mr.. VIII
son, who lives on Lick creek, about
three miles from this place, is an
Industrious. good citizen, and his loss
Falls heavily upon him. The case
CT the fire is unknown, but incendiar,
Ism is suspected.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1908-07-31
New kentucky Novel,

The mountains Of Kentucky are
again used as the location for the
plot of a novel. We have not seen
it, but the following is the wording
of an advertisement sent out
about It.
Ginseng county, KY, beyond the
famous Bluegrass region-Ginseng cou
ty, a succession of hills and powders
and miniature canyons and sparkling
streams, where the rarest wild flow
ers grow and the sunset glorious;
Cimseng county, where the people
/ live as their gre,t-grandfathers hv-
ed, where the mail IS carried on horse
back, and comes twice week in
favorable weather; where the houses
are built OF hewn logs, the women
weave their own linsey-woolseys and
the men talk the politics of twode-
cades ago. That is Ginseng county
beyond the beautiful Bluegrass coun'
Y
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1908-07-31
BIGGEST YET.
State Superintendent crabbe
Fixes School Per Capita
at 500

Frankfort, KY, July 23.-The larg-
est school per capita ever khowng
in Kentucky has been fixed by Sup
erintendent of Public Instl uction ].
G. Crabbe, the per capita this year
is $3.50, which is twenty cents high
er than it was last year, and last
year was the high water mark The
increase in school children is Abs.
Prof Crabbe has been at work on the
figures from which he computes the
school per capita for some days and
completed the task only late this af-
ternoon.
The following is the statement is
sued by Prof. Crabbe
The State school fund (estimated)
distributed for the payment Of teach
ers for the fiscal year ending June
80, 1909, amounts to $2,661, ,667,2O.
The per capita is declared $3.50. The
per capita last year was $40; this
year is an increase OF twenty cents,
hence this per capita for the year
19OS-O9 is the largest in the history
of the State.
The school census last year was
7S4,617 pupils. This year the increase
is Abs pupils.