The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-03-02
LOCAL BREVITIES.

Mrs. Lishman and child returned
from Kauai yesterday morning.
March came in like a lamb and. ac-
cording to the old saw, should go out
like a lion.
Honolulu Temple No. /. Pythian Sis
ters, will meet this evening at 7:30 in
K. of P. Hall.
Hawaiian Lodge No. q. F. and A
NJ, viii meet in Masonic Temple at
7:30 this evening.
Regular business at Harmony Lodge
No. 3, I. Q. 0. F.. in Odd Fellows Hall
at 7:30 this evening.
Each purchaser of a ticket for the
Mardi Gras ball will receive a copy of
the souvenir magazine
Mr. and Mrs. T. NJ. Church of Paia.
Maui, have lost their five-year-oId son,
who { ed of pneumonia.
There will be rehearsal of THE
Mascot" in the Kilohana Art League
hall at 7:30 this evening.
The March session of the Supreme
Court, with a long calendar, will open
at 10 O'Clock this morning.
Mrs. ]. F. Brown, Mrs McCorriston
and II. McCorriston arrived in the
Maui and Molokai steamer yesterday
T. NJ. Church manager of Paia store,
will probably leave Maui to take a
better position with Alexander &
Baldwin.
Harry Bruins, Z. S. Deputy Marshal,
and Ralph tombstone, Deputy Collector
of Internal Revenue, returned in the
Hall from Kauai.
Allan Herbert entertained the mem
bers of Branch $50, National Associa-
ton of Lettercarriers, with luau at
his Wailele Home, Kalihi.
J. r. Comes, recently employed in
a Kahului store, has gone to Naalehu,
Kau, Hawaii, to become a team over
seer for the Hutchinson sugar plan
tation.
The Lee Sa Kee case, whose trial
occupied four days last week, contin-
ues today in the Federal court and it is
doubtful if it will be ended before the,
middle of this week.
Residents of Omaopio, Maui have
brought an injunction suit against
that county to prevent it from OPEN
ing UP an old road that ran through
lands now held by homesteaders there.
s. Sakai, who runs a billiard room
on River street, allowed the game to
crowd over into Sunday and was ar
rested shortly after midnight yester-
day morning by Detective Madeiros.
1t was at the house of Mrs. A w.
Mclean, not Mrs. John McLain, that
the late Mrs. w. C. Roe was taken
suddenly i'll on Saturday. The news
was sent in typewriting to the .Ad-
vertiser.
John Putnam. who has been begging
on the streets for the past few days,
and whose actions proclaim him to be
a professional bracer, was picked up
at the bail game yesterday afternoon
at Aala Park, by Detective Harry
Lake, and booked as a vag.
For the benefit of the Honolulu at
torneys required in attendance in Hilo
before the Circuit Court Judge Par
sons), during the month of March cur
rent, the clerk of that court has sent
word to Honolulu that the grand jury
of that circuit will not be in session
until Monday, the 18th inst. and that
the trial jurors will not be in attend
ance until the Monday following.
President D. c. Lindsay reported to
the annual meeting of Nahiku Rubber
Co that of the entire amount of the
assessable stock there was less than
one hundred dollars delinquent and of
the assessable stock held in the county
of Maui not a dollars worth of the
stock was delinquent. Treasurer F. T.
P. Warehouses; report shows assets
of sS2,7s0 and liabilities. other than
capital stock, of $685..
A wireless message was sent from
Maui last week for the arrest of r. J. !
Murphy in Honolulu in connection
with a fraudulent check for $50 for
warded by Bishop & Co. to the Bald |
win National Bank at Kahului. The |
check was made payable to Murphy |
and signed by Joseph w. Wrenn, the |
latter a name borne by no one at Ka-
hului. The cashier of the Baldwin |
bank states that the signature to the
check was evidently written by the |
same r. ]. Murphy whose name APP |
pears on the back of the check. |
Murphy recently married a Hawaii |
woman who was formerly Mrs. Cyrus
T. Green. She was in Honolulu with |
him last week.