The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-08-14

That official has on request set tho
ball rolling and now retires from the
matter except as n private citizen.
(From Thursdays Advertiser.)
c. II. Jennings, the Koloa merchant,
arrived yesterday on the Kinau on a
business trip, and will return home to-
day.
While playing with matches little
girl residing with her parents on
Young street beyond Piikoi, set fire
to bed. The fire was discovered in
time, but the affair resulted in a shock
to the mother, who is now seriously ill.
b. ]. Kuhns of Kukuihaele, lately APP
pointed principal at Honokaa mauka
| school, has received an appointment as
| assistant in the Bureau of Forestry and
| will not take charge of the school. He
was highly endorsed for the position
in the bureau by Jacob Kotinsky.
George Rodiek of II. Hackfeld &c
Co., Ltd, received cable advices the
other day of the death of his father
near Bremen, aged eighty-one years.
Last year Mr. Rodiek and his family
visited Germany and joined with his
parents in the celebration of their
! golden wedding anniversary.
Further information of the accident
in which Mrs. Harry Klemme met in
slant death in San Francisco on Mon
day last is to the effect that she was
riding with Others in an automobile,
which was upset owing to the bad state
of the roads Mrs. Klemme was the
only one Of the occupants killed.
Samples of the sand brought up in
dredging at Pearl Harbor show that a
large proportion of it is made up of
decomposed shells, which makes it un-
suited for the use of the concrete work.
ers in the proposed big works there.
On this account the Engineers corps
officers here are studying the feasibility
of bringing sand here from the Coast,
to come as ballast The Pearl Harbor
work will require seventy.five thousand
tons of the material.
DIR. Brinckerhoff will probably have
charge of the treatment of lepers at
Kalihi under the new rules of the Board
of Health.
The politicians are busy rounding up
voters to pat their names on the Re-
publican club roll The taxpayers are
slow in following suit.
Sheriff Iaukea has refused to issue q
police commission to the head of the
new detective agency, concern which
proposes to gather evidence in divorce
cases and do other work of that kind.
On Lin, the Chinese arrested LAST
week for malicious injury, cut a neigh
Dor s cow with hoe, because the AMI
: NAL broke into his garden and ate his
| vegetables. He was .fined $25 and costs.
/ Pedro Rodriguez, Porto Rican
+ chad man. was sentenced to six
months on the reef for an unprovoked
assault on Chinaman. Rodriguez has
, habit of continually falling foul OF
, the officers. Joe Cadi, who was also
charged as man assisting Pedro, was
scharged.
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{ of the people at the course of Mr.. Taft
, in taking, like good little schoolboy
s going to his teacher, his acceptance
speech to Mr.. Roosevelt for approval
!. before it's delivery; and the demon
stration of the practical working of
{ the teachings of Bryan which Presi-
!. dent Roosevelt has given, are all pow
t erful factors in the present contest.
5 Both of the leading candidates are
S clean men, and able men, and we
{ should have a clean contest. Never
n theless, the refusal of the Chicago
9 convention to adopt the publicity plank
Q touching campaign donations, weakens
Q Mr.. Taft, fact which he realizes and
r which induced him to have the state-
l. ment made that the names of contrib
r. utors would be made public after cleo
e ton. But this viii not satisfy the
q people, who, since the insurance iHves-
e tigation and scandals thereby disclos-
{ ed, desire to know who it is that is
II putting up the sinews Of war; Small
Q men and eurbstone politicians win en-.
Q deavor to belittle Bryan as a vision
/ airy and political dreamer; but the pee.
l. pie win not lose sight of the fact that
i Roosevelt, following his better judg-
9 ment, In an hour of peril, called Bryan
r in, together with other great men, to
It advise him as to what should be done
d in the best interests Of the people.
u This is palpable; Every slap az Bryan
i is slap at Roosevelt, and Roosevelt
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