The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-12-27
FAXON OUT Of
AND IN P|L|K|A
Discharged and at Once Arrested
Again-Storm Does DAMAGE
in Growing Hilo.

HILO, Hawaii, December 23.-The
trial of G. B. Faxon, formerly book
keeper for the Hilo Mercantile Com
pany, Ltd, on charge of embezzling
800 from that firm, began on Monday
morning and went to the jury about
three 0 clock on Tuesday afternoon. A
verdict of not guilty was returned
about six clock, it being reported
that the jury stood ten to two for
acquittal from the start.
Faxon was Immediately rearrested on
another charge, that of embezzling
5000 from the same firm, the complaint
being sworn to by E. E. Nichols. This
is the same ease in which a mol. pros.
was entered during the present term of
court.
And All Was Dark.
On Sunday and Monday nights of
this week Hilo was not as well lighted
as usual, nor were the people so happy,
some of them being in condition of
utter darkness which caused growing,
grumbling and swearing, if not weep
ing and crashing of teeth.
It happened this way. There was
a little storm furry soon after five
o clock on Sunday morning when bolt
of lightning proved to be more than
a match for the manufacturing part of
electricity. The result was that six
armature coils were burned out in the
large $50 kilowatt generator available
for lighting the town, for power and
every other old purpose.
Manager Mocine did the best he
could for the downtown section on
Sunday night, and that wasn't much,
while uptown was in darkness. On
Monday night there was an improve,
ment, while last night Hilo glimmered
again with its usual brilliancy.
Giant Powder Victim.
Fishing with giant powder was ac-
eountable for another victim last week,
when a Hawaiian, named John Hall,
some times called Maluna, a resident
of Waiakea, was terribly lacerated by
the explosive while he was fishing near
Keaau.
According to the facts gathered by
the notice. Maluna and three other Ha-
waiians were fishing near Keaau. Ma.
luna had been using a piece OF wood
as finder, and as it did not burn well
he started to blow on it. He held the
wood in his left hand and kept the
stick of giant powder, with fuse and
cap attached, in his right hand. AS
he blew a spark flew from the wood
to the fuse, and the giant powder ex-
ploded right in his hand. The effects
of the explosion were terrific. The I'M
fortunate man IS right hand was torn
off completely His head was injured
and several holes made in his neck and
breast.
He was taken to the Hilo hospital.
Thunder and Snow.
Last Friday s thunder storm was the
most severe that Hilo has experienced
in many years. 1t lasted for six hours,
the lightning being very vivid, the
thunder at times quite close with
heavy downpour of rain in the even
ing. Mauna Kea, when visible was
seen to be capped with snow and the
thermometer dropped to so degrees by
seven o'clock.
Big Island Notes.
At the last meeting Of the Repub-
lean county committee, resolutions
were adopted urging the new provision
al committee to harmonic the Repub-
! lican supervisors, and then to collect
| funds to be used for sending a couple
of men round this island to try and
reorganize the precinct clubs and put
some life into them.
Half a dozen wood ducks arrived
here on the Enterprise for the Rod and
Gun Club, having been sent from San
Francisco by E. E. Richards. They
| were turned into the clubs pond with
their feathers tipped SO that they will
| have chance to get accustomed to
| the place before they can fly away.
Nahookula, the Hawaiian boy who is
accused of having robbed the Kealake-
kua postoffice, waived examination and
was bound over for trial. His bonds
were fixed at $1,000 The accused boy
says that he viii plead guilty and take
his medicine,
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| week on Thursday morning instead of
on Friday, returning from Honolulu on
| Friday afternoon and arriving here
early on Saturday morning She will
leave again for Honolulu on Sunday
| afternoon.
A petition is in circulation urging the
board of supervisors to make an appro-
priation for new fire engine for Hilo.
y aT.l I L 7 II.
the rains which have fallen of late
have been Of the greatest benefit in
his dietriet. He also states, on the
authority of Robert Homer. who is in
the best possible position to know on
account of his residing so far up the
mountain, that it is many years since
the snow has been as far down the
side of Mauna Kea as it was last Sat
urday,
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