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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-13
FIRE LEAVES TEN THOUSAND
HOMELESS IN BOSTON SUBURB
SMALL SLEUTHS
TRAIL LOPEZ
Search Party Finds Them and
the Third Degree Is
Administered.

Lopez is still uncaptured but an offer
of SIS reward by High Sheriff Henry
has put host of amateur detectives
on his trail
Yesterday the highways, byways.
fields and hedgerows of Kalihi were
thoroughly searched by amateur Sher-
lock Holmses. but up to the time of
going to press the bandit was still at
large.
The small boys of the Kalihi district
entered into the pursuit of Lopez with
heart and soul. Detective bands were
organized and the strangers in the dis
trict were submitted to the strictest
scrutiny. Baseball for the nonce gave
way to bandit hunting.
One band of small boys carried a
couple of lariats, an air-gun, and had
the bottoms of tin cans pinned on
their shirts.
A Portuguese who came up from the
makai district TO attend a funeral was
accosted by the band and had it not
been that he was able to make a salts
factory explanation of his presence
where he was surrounded, there is no
knowing that he might have been
roped, tied and taken to town.
Two of the budding Vidocs were so
led away by their enthusiasm that they
stayed out long after sundown, the re-
suit being that their fond parents did
a little detective work on their own
account, which resulted in the discov-
cry of the small sleuths and the admin
istration of the third degree by their
respective peppers and mommers.
The Ka1ihi people do not believe that
1t was Lopez who visited the district
last week. They incline to the belief
that the man was another Porto Rican
who has, until recently, been domiciled
at Iwilei. Lopez is short man while
the man seen at Kalihi is generally
described as being of good height.
The latest report is that Lopez was
seen and recognized early on Friday
near the reservoir on Punch
bowl.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-13
FIFTY GAMBLERS
IN THE TOLLS

Fifty gamblers will face Judge An
drade this morning. with the thirty
three brought in in the Saturday raids
seventeen more being corralled yes
terday in two raids. One bunch Of
four were nipped shooting craps on
WafpsIopilo road out of big crowd,
the members of which scattered and
took TO the algaroba groves. A num-
Der were recognized, however, ana
warrants for them will be issued to-
day. The other thirteen were caught
with a pai-kau outfit in the market
garden at the corner of King and
Piikoi streets. They were all Chinks,
one of whom fed before Apana clear
through the Kalia section, being final
ly brought TO bay.
Besides rounding up the gamblers,
the police raided q resort on Bere-
tania avenue, where some Of the soil
ed doves from Iwilei had taken rel
uge. capturing two men and two
women.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-13

sheet End there is no small competi-
tion for first possession.
To have the library's morning paper
is to hold the same. and il is a curious
fact that the man who first gets
hi~ hands on the newspaper appears to
read it thoroughly and as IL to win
wag that he will leave nothing un-
read, not even the advertisements. At
least. that is how it always looks to
the others who are impatientiy wait
ing their turn.
time heavy on their hands, drop I'm
for a quiet hour. The Britisher seeks
his Punch or London Times, the CO.
lonial his pink-covered Auckland
Weekly News, and each one far from
home gravitates to his home sheet,
even as water runs downhnl.
At noon the Ioafers Of the town are
to be found in the reading room. They
come to escape from the burden ana
heat Of the day, and, seated in front
"a a iildSdEllit HAlANAl lAifg AldhE ilihA1
pretext Of reading. enjoy a luxurious
siesta in the cool room.
Night sees the workingman in the
reading room. He has been busy all
day and this is his only time 10 read
With red, shining face and dressed in
his second best suit of clothes. he
spends the evening. The illustrated
weeklies are his favorite. And that
he doesn't read entirely for pleasure
is attested by the fact that every now
and again he pays a visit TO the great
reference atlas and after much effort
generally manages to locate, say, the
Blight Of Benin or Magdalena Bay.
At ten o'clock the lights are put out
and student, lOafer and entertain
ment-seeker go their several ways
The realm Of books viii remain un-
tenanted until opening time comes
round again. save, perchance, for the
shades of those about whom books
have been written, and Of those who
wrote them.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-13
USERS Of
THE LIBRARY
s~.a1 ~
Always Something to Interest
Human Nature Student
There.

The local library furnishes a fine
field for the observer of human ma
ture, and there is not a day or a
night when ten minutes spent in the
reading room will not furnish it's re-
ward to the observer OF reading man,
or woman, too, for that matter.
Early in the morning comes the stu
dent with his pencil and pad He
will take q classical work from the
reference department and will pore
over it for hours at a time. Or he
may copy extracts from II. and there
be some who go on writing all day
nor pause at all for food OF rest, even
when the noontide whistle warns the
town that the time for a brief sur
cease from toll and labor has ar
rived.
Some Of these bookworms study
works of science. others guides to the
gifts of tongues. and some there are
whose quest is the lore of ancient
Greece and the ways and customs of
imperial Rome.
Presently the morning paper arrives.
There are usually two or three per-
sons waiting for first glance at the
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-13
STOLE CIGARS
To SMUGGLE
Dix Sailor Tries to Launch
1000 Smokers Over
Ships Bow.

Eric Mattson, a deck hand aboard
the United States transport Dix, is
detained in custody at the police sta
tion on a charge of smuggling stolen
goods. or, rather, he is held for in
vestigation and the official charge has
not yet been placed.
Customs Inspector Albert Mitchell
caught the sailor endeavoring to get
thousand or more Manila cigars
over the port bow of the troopship to
the Alakea street wharf on Saturday
night, and took him into custody. II
was claimed aboard ship that the ci-
gars We're stolen by Mattson and he
was adding smuggling to the crime OF
theft
Aboard snip the capture was as
much of a surprise as it was to Matt
son himself. Many were not aware
until today that the deck hand had
been placed under arrest, or that there
had been any smuggling attempted.
1t was Mattson's idea to sell the ci-
gars and there are said to be one or
two others interested with him in the
contemplated deal Further, it is re-
ported that upon realizing on the
have taken the American Hawaiian
S. S. Despatch for Kauai yesterday
afternoon. They We're evidently not
does not carry passengers, but their
reported determination to get away
from the island, combining SNUG
Cling venture with leaving the ship,
was formed on the fact that the De-
spatch was the only island boat 1eav-
ing this harbor yesterday.
Mattson found the job of getting
cigars in boxes over the port bow of
the high transport at the Alakea street
wharf much more than he reckoned
for. He had sized up the customs
guards in the vicinity during the day
and had learned from some of the men
aboard, who are well acquainted with
the customs officers by sight, just who
was an inspector and who was not for
he was cautious enough to suppose
that there might be an officer on
watch without uniform. But he reck-
oned without Mitchell, who was not
in sight when Mattson took his sur
vey, and when he tried to land the
smokes, Mitchell had him. The cigars
were confiscated and Mattson was
conveyed to the police station, very
much bewailing his fate and con-
demning the Treasury Department
laws.
There has been considerable excite
u1ent on the waterfront of late, with
piracy smuggling. fights and ship
wrecked crews, and the Dix, during
her brief stay here, has had her share
with Saturday nights smuggling
racket and the affair between. Pat
Smyly and John Murphy, in Which
tie latter slashed the formers face
with a razor. Smyly will be SCARED
for life. Lots of excitement on the
old Dix" remarked the man at the
gangway, ''and We're TO be here a
week yet
1t is a difficult task to get anything
by the local customs inspectors. They
have had ample experience with trans
ports from the Orient and keep very
sharp lookout.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-13
Chelsea Swept by the Flames Property Loss
Ten Million---Dead and Injured Militia
Ordered Out to Protect Property Square
Mile of Smoking Ruins.
ASSOCIATED Press Cablegrams.)

BOSTON, April I3-The manufacturing district
section retail of the Chelsea
yesterday by fire. square mile of the included
the destroyed the property will
lion dollars
There thousand people homeless
Hagration their
number of injured least fifty.
At the time the fire broke gale blowing,
flames rapidly the city Thirteen churches hos
pitals the public library hail. FIVE schools hundred
private dwellings and other public buildings destroyed
The militia has been called guard property and prevent
looting
Chelsea city of forty thousand inhabitants and prac
caly suburb of Boston.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-13

The contested list has been increas-
ed solely this week by the Tennessee
convention. where the Taft managers
were unhorsed, after furious battle,
between the Evans-H Hale faction, which
represents the administration, and the
Oliver -Brownlow faction, led by W. j.
Oliver, the contractor who wanted TO
dig the Panama canal, and Represen-
tative Walter P. .Brownlow, whom the
President has been fighting ever since
the Taft boom was launched. Four
uninstructed delegates at large were
elected. but the next day the Evans
Hale faction held a separate conven-
tion of their own adherents and elect
ed another big four, who were in
structed for the Secretary of War. In
Continued on Page Two.)
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-13
SUCCESSOR NAMED
FOR JARED c. SMITH

DR.. z. V. Wilcox, A B., A. NJ, Ph.D.,
of the office of Experiment Stations,
L. S. Department of Agriculture,
Washington, has been appointed to
succeed Jared G. Smith as Director in
Charge of the Hawaii Experiment Sta
ton. He will arrive here from Wash
dngton about June Is to take charge
of the work here.
DR.. Wilcox is a well-known scien-
tsst and author and aNmember of a
number of leading societies, including
the Economic Entomologists, Feteri-
nary Medical Association. the Orien-
tai Society and the Washington Ento-
moiogical Society.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-13
NEW BRITISH CABINET
HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED

LONDON, April I3.-The personnel of the Cabinet
chosen Premier Asquh has been announced Asqh will hold
portfolio Treasury himself Campbell
did David Lloyd President
Trade Chancellor of the Exchequer
Churchill being taken the Cabinet President of
member of Cabinet
President
Education.
The of the formation of the Cabinet and the
changes made received with favor.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-13

Steamer Helene. Captain Richard
Nelson, arrived yesterday morning
from Punaluu with 1900 bags of su-
gar for c. Brewer & CO. From Ka-
waihae she brought - head of cattle
for the Metropolitan Meat Co.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-13
SCHOONER ADA DISTRESSED.

The little island schooner Ada. which
left here last week, has reached La
haina, Maui. leaking badly. Purser
r. ]. KeIlett Of the steamer Iwalani
reports that the Ada landed her cargo
of feedstuff for the Lahaina store in a
wet ana much damaged condition. she
had a stormy trip and about as much
as she could stand.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-13
FLORIDA STATE TROOPS
OUT TO PREVENT TROUBLE

JACKSONVILLE Florida, April 13-The militia has been
Pensacola clash arising of the
in that city When the company attempt
their service this morning. feared that the strikers will
trouble.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-13
GOVERNOR OF GALCIA ASSASSINATED

LEMBERG, Gaicia April 13The governor of the province
of Galicia assassinated yesterday by student
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-27
NEW LUMBER COMBINATION.
Chicago to Be Sole Selling Head
quarters for Big Syndicate.

CHICAGO. November 27.-The Tribune
in a news story printed today says:
Chicago is to become the sole selling
headquarters of the new lumber combina-
ton and Edward Hines is to be president
Of the syndicate.
while figures publicly stated have fixed
the combination as $20,O00,000 affair."
competing lumber interests can see no
limit to its capitalization. At the same
time they expressed no fear of Its at
tempting to restrain trade by fixing rates
Frederick Meyerhauser, the lumber king
of the continent; Mr.. Hines and others
directly concerned, vanished from Chicago
yesterday and it was believed they had
gone to the home of Mr.. Meyerhauser at
st. Paul, MINI. 1t Is believed they are
completing the details Of the combination.
"A capitalist named I'm the venture was
L. 3. Walker, the largest individual
owner of standing white pine in the
world.
The new combination not only controls
the key to the white pine situation. but
it also has large voice in the hemlock,
yellow, southern and western pine fields.
Mr.. Meyerhauser controlling the supply
of Mississippi.
"Cloquet, Mimi. Is the center Of pro-
duction Of white pine and the controlling
elements there are Mr.. Meyerhauser. the
Northern Lumber Company, Cloquet
Lumber Company and the Johnson
Wentworth Lumber Company-which also
came into the new combination with the
Cooke and O'Brien people
The Cloquet concerns have been manu-
featuring all their cuttings of timber into
lumber and doing business with the East
ern Lumber Company, wealthy corpora
ton at North Tonawanda, N. Y. When
the finishing touches are put to the new
combination all will be sold out of Chi
cago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-27
CHICAGO TERMINAL DEAL.
Proposed Purchasers Offer to Pay All
Expenses Covering Transfer,

NEW YORK, November 27.-The stock
holders protective committee of the Chi
cago Terminal Transfer Railroad Com
pany today issued a circular to share
holders stating that a binding offer for
the preferred shares represented by the
committee, at price netting $50 per
share, has been received, provided the
committee deliver not less than $1,000
shares on OR before January I, 1909.
The proposed purchasers, whose identity
is not disclosed, offer also to pay all ex-
penses covering the closing Of the trans
action and the stock transfer tax. Pay
ment Is to be made by the purchasers as
soon as the committee had made delivery
of the minimum (5O,OOO number OF
shares.
Acceptance Of the terms is recommend
ed by the protective committee, whose
circular says: 1.-The committee had hoped
to arrange a reorganization Of the COM
pany, but it has been found impossible to
bring together the different interests con-
cerned in the properties. and as against
the alternative of a long and expensive
litigation the committee recommends to
the preferred stockholders that they ac-
cept the present Offer
The minority stockholders, who have
issued the circular, hold about Sc, 4OO, 900
preferred and $1,SO0, 600 common shares.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-27
German Men Blossom Out.
,m the Ladies' Pictorial

From the Ladies fictoflaI.
In Berlin a really serious effort is being
made to introduce coiored evening dress
for men. and SO tar the favorite color
seems to be the very deepest shade of
violet, which is not obtrusive and Is yet
effective In the smart restaurants in Ber-
lin several colored suits have been seen.
some being of dark blue. one or two Of
brown, and at least one of maroon. Eng
lish do not readily adopt fashions that
come to them from the continent. the
Hamburg hat being the most noticeable
exception to the rule. There seems to
them q suggestion of comic opera about
them. But as We have SO long discussed
the desirability Of colored evening dress it
may be that our men may adopt this
mode. although 1t is made in Germany
One feels sure men will be warmly en-
couraged by our sex If they do break
away. from the conventional suit of SOL
emn black
Wheat rust is limited to no section or
grade of grain. but Is encountered all the
world over.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-27
D1sHwAsH1Na MADE EASY.
One Way Of Making Work Subserv.
lent to the Worker.

From the Housekeeper.
housekeeping is the continuous washing
and wiping of dishes. Methinks I hear
a cry of horror from a horde of house
keepers, but many Of them have. never
theless, at one time or another rebelled
against the stack OF dishes which looms
up, like the schoolboy's hash. three
times a day" 1t is queer how some wom-
en- will wear themselves out rather than
step aside from the beaten path. They
have yet to learn the joy that comes
from taking an independent tack and
making the work subservient to the
worker, from being the master instead Of
the slave.
To many women the bugbear OF house
work is dishwashing Why wash dishes
three times a day? Do 1t In the morning
when fresh: scrape the dinner Dishes
water. and cover. Treat the supper dishes
the same way and do not allow your
conscience to keep you awake one single
hour 1t will not make the task too
heavy the next morning II you try my
way After washing each piece in hot
suds and rinsing in hot mot warm) water.
put them piece by piece In the wire
drainer (price ten cents) as nearly on edge
or aslant as possible and let stand until
dry. Glasses, of course. and silver must
be wiped, but the former can be left
filed after using and the latter put into
pitcher or deep jug until some odd
minute when one is not so weary with
we'll doing that another turn of the screw
seems next to impossible.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-27
REAL ESTATE TRANEFERS.

314 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE SOUTH
EAST-Joseph j. Darlington ct al,
trustees. to Clarence F. Donohoe, lot
II. square $50; s., 400.
SECOND STREET SOUTHWEST be-
tween Z and V streets-W. Walton
Edwards ct ux. to Galen E. Green,
part lot 8. square 611: $40.
INGLESIDE@Luther A. Swartzell to
Oscar j. Ricketts,, lot &c. block IA;
MATTINGLY TRACT-Harry B. Wilson
ct al to Florence E. Gidley. lot 2,
square 1885; $40.
1910 9TH STREET NORTHWESTERN
ert A. Miller to William v. Mahoney,
lot 81, square 361; $40.
FOURTEENTH STREET NORTHWEST
between L and M streets-Charles c.
Wilson to Fannie ]. Barrett, part
original lot II, square PAT; So
WASHINGTON HEIGHTS-JOhn NJ.
Henderson to William s. Garland. lot
g. block A. $40.
STREET EXTEND
ED-Jesse H. Wilson. trustee, to Ellie
Fabre, part lot 266 square 1900;
S1S74.2s.
N STREET NORTHWEST between 9th
and 2sth streets-Raphael A. Castelar,
ct al to trustees OF Alexander Me-
mortal Baptist Church. lots Al. AZ and
part lots 40 and 43, square 1886: $40.
M STREET NORTHWEST between 34th
and 35th streets-Elie Fabre to Thorn
as c. Homiller. part lots 80 and 81.
square 1904; SO.
GREENVALE-Juia p. Evans to John
Miller. lot Is: $40.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. II. Hazard ct ux.
to Henry A. Vieth. half interest m
lot Z, square B; SO.
ANACOSTIA-Henry HI. Bergman, trus-
tee, to James T. Farrall, lot 696; $40.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-27
THE GRAIN MARKETS,

CHICAGO, November 27.-Buying by
shorts caused a mild rally in the local
wheat market today, following slight
weakness at the opening, when prices
We're shade to Mass below the previous
close. December opened at 1.031s to 1.03hz,
and advanced to 1.O3%.
December corn opened 70 to 70 lower at
GO, to 63h, and for time held within
that range.
December oats opened a shade to *
lower. at 40, to 49a491s, and sold off to
4S7sa49.
Provisions prices at the opening were
21h lower to &c higher.
The wheat market continued firm the
remainder of the day, the high point for
December being reached at 1.O4M Bullish
advices from the northwest, where re-
ceipts were predicted to be on the de-
crease. formed the basis Of the strength.
The market closed firm, with December up
Aaasc, at 1.OSA.
the day owing to reports of larger offer
ings in the country. December sold on
to 629sc The market closed weak, with
December down %c. at 62&.
Close: Wheat-December. 1.o3s4; May,
1.Os1sa1. Osh; July. LOIS.
Corn-November, 62a4; December, 62%
May. 62ssa62S; July. 6o1s; September.
62ls.
Oats-December, 4ss; May, SOS; July,
46ss.
Pork-December, 1910; January. 1900;
May. 16 2Oa16221a.
Lard-November, go; January, 9.25;
May, 9.40a9. 421e.
Ribs-January, S.37h: May. $50.
Rye-Cash. 75a76; December, "a: May,
79a79s4.
Barley-Cash, 5Sa64.
Timothy-March, 1856: November. 1856.
Clover-November, 9.25; March. $50.
Liverpool Grain Prices.
LIVERPOOL, November Enclosing:
Wheat-Spot, steady; No. 2 red western
winter, as lid; futures quiet; December,
rs load: March, Is sgd; May, Is nd
Corn-Spot, new, Is. Futures steady.
January, 5s 6Ad; March. IS sgd.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-27
LOCAL FINANCIAL NEWS.

An advance in the figures for some
OF the securities at the meeting today
of the stock exchange with a renewal In
the case OF others, together with a slight
volume Of trading. were the features Of
the days business. The general market
was stronger after the holiday and re-
covery was made toward higher levels.
but this more active condition was not
reflected in the current of business on the
local exchange.
The Washington railway stocks were
marked up as If ii was thought the
prevailing rates were too low. This was
accomplished without bringing out any of
the stock. those who have 1t for sale
do not appear to be disposed to part with
1t at the existing price.
Better prices were paid for Mergen-
thaler. and one ten-share lot sold for
212h which is high recent level for
that security. as II experienced quite
decline from the figures which were cur
rent but a short time ago. The move
ment which appeared to some observers
to be of sufficient strength to carry the
short of that and since then the move
ment has been in the opposite direc
ton.
A>otHInk WdS uoIle LII gas SloCh uuiiiiS
the call except that the principal dealer
in the stock renewed the figures last re-
corded. which were 81 and 67A. and ad-
vanced the bid an eighth Of point. After
call he bought one hundred shares at 67A
and made that bid for the stock. Several
lots sold for 67a.
The bid for the stock Of the United
States Trust Company advanced from 81
to o. but the stock that was for sale at
% Wednesday was not on the market to-
day at that price, as the lowest offering
was &c. 1t looks as II the block OF stock
that was supposed to be hanging over the
market sometime ago has been disposed
of. and If that is the case 1t may be ex
pected the quotations will go back to the
former level. which was nearly at par.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-27
TROOPS SUPPRESS STRIKERS.
Further Efforts Today to Secure
Peace at Perth Amboy.

PERTH AMBOY, n. J.. November 81
While there was anticipation of trouble
when the plant of the National Flreproor-
ing Company attempted to resume opera
tons today after the holiday suspension,
the strong guard of troops evidently dis
couraged! any demonstration on the part
of the strikers, even had they been SO in
clined and quiet reigned throughout lne
entire district.
The rumors of conflict between the SOL
diers and the strikers last night were
found to be without foundation. The only
incident OF the night was a stray shot
fired by lone sentry. in an effort to halt
a passerby, who proved not to have been
a striker.
Further efforts to bring about a settle
ment of the differences between the men
and the officials of the works will be
made today.