davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1909-05-06

Baltimore has developed case Of wife
beating which Is made remarkable by
the fact that the accused makes no pre-
tensions of rare temperamental sensi-
tivenesS.
Evening star., 1909-05-06
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Pointing q Distinction.

"A high financier should be something
of an economist, should he not?'
Il don't think so," answered Mr.. Dus-
tin Stax. 1.-THE object of an economist Is
to see what he can get along with: that
of high financier is to see what he can
get away with"
Evening star., 1909-05-06

AS the returns are about in from the
4th Of March grip microbe, preparations
will presently start for the reception
of the 4th of July tetanus germ.
Evening star., 1909-05-06

A glance at President Tafts engage
ment book would doubtless be a complete
explanation of the necessity of declining
Invitations now and then.
Evening star., 1909-05-06

The activity of Standard Oil threatened
for a time to crowd the sugar trust out
Of popular notice as leading member Of
the octopus fraternity.
Evening star., 1909-05-06

The appropriation of funds to erect
monument to Robert Fulton will hardly
satisfy the men who want steamboats,
encouraged by subsidy.
Evening star., 1909-05-06

The absence of Theodore Roosevelt
does not prevent him from securing COL
umns of editorial attention from various
sources.
Evening star., 1909-05-06
Coruered.

Il hope,'' said the woman of precise
ideas, that you never listen to servants
gossip
Il can't help myself" answered her
nephew. I'm juror in an unwritten law
case"
Evening star., 1909-05-06
The Annual Observation.

Man loves the language of surprise.
You hear, each year. the same old thing
'Mongst people counted weather wise;
ut is a most unusual spring.
Evening star., 1909-05-06

The resignation of the Turkish cabinet
is possibly only natural manifestation
Of the law of self preservation.
Evening star., 1909-05-06

When Mr.. Jerome OF New York faces
the music the louder the band plays the
better he seems suited
Evening star., 1909-05-06
Fellow-Citizens.
From the Mexican Herald.

When Washingtonians saw both the
President and Vice President at the big
base ball game eating peanuts out of a
paper bag they ceased to despair Of the
republic.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-27
Bv Ernest G.. Walker.

(Mail Special to The Advertiser.)
WASHINGTON, November 15.-Big
things are doing in army and navy
circles now almost every week. A re-
organization of both services is grad
ually under way, and a new order of
administration looking to higher eff
cheney, is rapidly coming. The latest
move-which is of national and inter
national interest-was the approval by
President Taft of Pearl Harbor, near
Honolulu, as the chief and practically
the only naval base in the Pacific, and
the virtual abandonment of naval
bases in the Philippines. The station
at Cavite is actually to be abandon
ed. but that at Olongapo, in Subig
Bay, north of Manila, where the great
floating drydock now is, will be main
tanned as a repair station.
This action will undoubtedly result
in a great boom for Pearl Harbor and
Confined on Page Two.)
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-27
Upon His Decision Will Rest the
Settlement of the AIsop
Litigations.
CHILE ACCEPTS PROPOSAL
Agrees to England's Ruler After
Refusing Arbitration of
The Hague.
(By Associated Press.)

SANTIAGO, Chile. November 27.-
After endless procrastination over TAX
ing action towards settling the Alsop
claims the Chilean government has con-
scented to accept the arbitration of King
Edward VII. in regard to the matter
and comparatively speedy settlement
is expected,
At the present time the United
States consulates are closed as that
government refused to continue Dip
lomatic correspondence AS long as Chile
continued her dilatory tactics. 1t is
expected that they viii be reopened.
In 1874 the Alsop company of New
York and Connecticut advanced large
sums of money to the Bolivian govern
ment in exchange for the right to opef-
ate valuable guano deposits and other
concessions in that country.
The government contracted to return
a portion of the loan from the receipt
of customs at the port of africa, before
the contract could be fulfilled, Bolivia
lost africa and the adjoining district
to Chile in war.
In 1885, following representations by
the American state department, Chile
agreed to assume the obligations of
Bolivia to the Alsop company. She has
never, however, made good her prom
ise and the matter has been the subject
of diplomatic negotiations ever since.
The claim now amounts to more than
| ST. 100000.
It was stated in official circles here
that this country was willing to SUBJ
nit the Alsop case to arbitration, but
hat I,ny Frst i
her to omit bringing before the arbster
what Chile considered the most iin-
portant argument in defense of her
rights.
Alsop claimants have not presented
any petitions TO the Chilean courts
since 1900, the date of the Washington
convention, and, therefore, it is argued
that II is not because of Chile q lack
of Willingness that the claim has not
been examined under competent iuris-
dietion
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-27
4, DILLINGHAM;
IS DIRECTOR
Will Manage Floral Parade for
1910-Committee Is
Delighted.

Harold G. Dillingham; has agreed to
the request of the Hawaii Promotion
Committee that he undertake the direc-
ton of the 1910 Floral Parade to take
place on February %, next.
A letter of thanks, expressing their
belief that the community would be
highly pleased with his acceptance of
the dictatorship, was authorized by
the promotion committee at its meet
ing yesterday afternoon, and was TAX
en- to Mr.. Dillingham; by special com
mittee composed of Messrs. w. A.
Bowen, G.. Bush and Win J. Cooper.
The committee expressed its delight
when Chairman Bowen informed the
members that Mr.. Dillingham; had de-
cided to accept the oner OF the import
ant post, and they also expressed their
belief that he would be able to easily
marshal coterie of efficient assistants
from among automobile owners and
patrons, both men and women, to pre-.
pare a plan for a parade which would
easily keep pace Win the SUCCESS VI
former parades.
Although Mr.. Dillingham; expects to
leave shortly for San Francisco to be
away about three or four weeks, yet
from the knowledge the committee has
of him they feel that he will so shape
plans locally that in his absence many
details will be worked out and that
in the interest of the parade he will
gather some useful statistics and sug-
gestions while on the Coast.
Cheap Publicity.
The meeting was largely devoted to
Continued on Page Five.)
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-27
GOV. CLECHORN
CLEARS THE AIR
Gives Details of Presentation of
the Cook Monument Site
to the British.

FThe Advertiser has been totally
misinformed regarding the Cook s
monument land" said Governor Cleg-
horn yesterday. "That land was given
by the Princess Likelike and myself
TO the British government, through the
commander-in-chief of the British Pa
cific fleet, Admiral Cochrane. This was
exact date. After that my wife erected
a cottage on the remainder of the lot,
which is still standing there.
after the death of Princess Kaiu-
lani in 1899. I leased the same to Hon.
John D. Paris and less than two years
ago sold the same to Mr.. James R.
Castle, subject to Mr.. Paris lease. The
land Mr. Cook holds the receipt for
has nothing whatever to do with the
Cook monument land.
''In 1877 H VI. s. Fantone, Captain
Long. RN., went up to Hawaii taking
the Princess Likelike and the infant
Princess Kaiulani. with their attend
ants to Kealakekua Bay. That was
the year when the old 6S-pounders were
landed for the monument fence, which
are there today and my wife planted
the cocoanut trees which are growing
there now.
II understand for some years back
that the authorities at the local naval
station were to have charge of the
monument and the care of the grounds.
I think these should he directly under
the charge of the United States Light
house Service, which could best care
for them. -
Cook Corrects Statement.
John Cook. who gave some informa-
ton TO The Advertiser on Thursday
Continued on Page Five.l
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-27
CUTTER THETiS TO
COME HERE AT ONCE
Revenue Boat to Be Rushed
From Seattle to These
Islands.
(By Associated Press.l

WASHINGTON, November 27.-Or-
ders were issued yesterday from the
treasury department for the Revenue
Cutter Thetis, now at Seattle. to pro
coed with all speed to Hawaii and
patrol the southern waters.
She was some time ago assigned to
the Hawaiian post and was the first
revenue cutter to be sent there, but
has been leisurely undergoing minor
repairs in the Sound city before start
ing South.
With the agitation over the slaughter
of the birds on Laysan and outlying
islands, the department has thought it
best to get the revenue boat on the
scene at once and the present opium
smuggling investigation going ON in
Honolulu Is another cause of its has
tened despatch.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-27
BALL|NGER MAY
COME To HAWAII
Promises Treasurer Conkling to
Visit Islands and Learn
of Our Needs.
CONVERTED TO SUSPENSION
Local Official Presented Facts
That Probably Resulted
in Decision.
CONVERTED TO SUSPENSION

1t is probable that D. L. Conkling,
treasurer of the Territory, has a right
to take considerable credit to himser
in connection with the cable stating
that Secretary Ballinger has gone on
record as being in favor of the sus-
pension of eoastwise shipping laws.
While in Washington. Conkling spent
the greater part of an afternoon in an
interview with the secretary of the
interior, and during his talk with him
attempted to get statement from him
regarding his stand on suspension, and
at the time did not succeed. Balm
ger showed interest in the matter, and
also ignorance, and got Conking to
explain matters little more fully.
ConkIing did so and arrived home yes
terday on the Alameda to read the
cable stating that Ballinger was on
record favoring it. 1t is probably due
to Conkling s representation of the
truth in the case that Ballinger was
won to the cause of Hawaii.
" hCA NOhhilhS fiSittd thC sStAC-
tary, in company with Ernest G. Walk.
er, The Advertisers correspondent. it
was with the intention only of paying
his respects and did not intend to stay
more than fifteen minutes. He stayed
two hours and a half. Several times
he arose to depart, but Ballinger mo.
toned him to sit down, saying, 81
want to hear more about it. 1t is not
often that | can talk to someone from
the Islands. -
1t seems, from what Conkling re.
peats of their conversation, that Bal
.linger ideas on the matter were Gull
ed mostly from the reports of the
steamship companies.
F'But the steamship companies say
that they carry forty or fifty people
away from there every trip" said
Baliinger, during the course of the
conversation.
"That is the truth" answered
Conkling, "but they have only told
you part of the truth. They do carry
forty or fifty people away from there
every trip, but they leave a hundred
and fortv.''
''Is that so?'' asked Ballinger.
'It surely is" Conkling assured
him, and laid before him the unassail-
able fact of the matter. While Conk-
ling was on the sea between Frisco and
Honolulu, Ballinger came out in favor
of suspension, whereas he had been
passively opposed to it before
Mr. Ballinger, says Conkling, is re-
markably interested in Hawaii. Before
Conkling left Washington, the secre-
tary promised him to come to Hawaii
next spring to become intimately ac-
Continued on Page Four)
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-27
ZELAYA TRAPPED.
(By United Press.)

BLUEFIELDS. November 26-Ad-
vices from the interior declare that
President Zelaya Of Nicaragua and his
men have garrisoned Managua and will
he forced 10 a conclusive fight tomor-
row. General Sanez : investing army
numbers FIVE thousand men and Zela-
va 6 situation i critical.
WASHINGTON. November 26.-Dis-
patches from Consul Caldera at Mana
qua. waited for by this government as
contributing 10 evidence in the matter
Of the execution Of the two Americans,
Grace and Cannon, by order of the
Niearaguan president, have not been
received here, and it IS believed that
they have been intercepted by orders
Of President Zelaya.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-27
STANDARD MAY
FIGHT MUTUAL
Rumor That Inactive Telephone
Company viii Try to Block
Operations.

There appears to be possibility
that the STANDARD Telephone Company,
which owns franchise and an Office,
but no telephones, may, on some ground
not explained and known only TO the
LAWYERS, contest the right of the
Mutual Telephone Company to put its
wires underground.
There have for some weeks been
rumors of the possibility of such a
contest. but nobody took the matter
seriously. as it appeared difficult to
see what reason the Standard could
have for taking such action, in view
of the fact that it has never availed
itself of the privileges of its own
franchise and is only keeping the fran
chise alive by maintaining technical
office-the only requirement to keep
the franchise alive.
The Standard franchise was grant
ed by congress while George r. Car
ter. now Of the Mutual company. was
Governor of Hawaii. It gave the com
pany the right to operate telephone
system and to put its wires under
ground.
But the Mutual company also has a
franchise which gives Il the right 10
operate telephone system and TO put
its wires underground. In fact, it has
two franchises giving it this right, for
the old wireless company had fran
ehise giving it these rights. and the
wireless company was amalgamated
with the Mutual. The company is OPP
Grating under the Mutual franchise.
However, almost anything will do
for a ground Of contest. and the mat
ter may be taken to the courts. The
STANDARD people are lying low and
Continued on Page Five.)
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-27
BREWERS GET
READY TO MOVE
Government Also Preparing to
Get Busy Tearing Down the
Brewer Building.

The offices of w. G. Irwin Co..
where are located at present the pas
sepger and steamship offices of the
Oceanic Steamship Company. the in
suranee department and sections de-
voted to Mr.. Irwin s personal business
interests, are being measured off with
view to a remodeling of the interior
and putting the Brewer & Co. business
into the building. The merger of the
two companies becomes an actually on
the first of the year. when the present
building occupied by Brewer & Co. will
be vacated.
1t is understood that as soon as pos
sible thereafter the building viii be
RACED TO the ground and the site en-
tiIely cleared off. the territorial pub
lie works departments having plans
under way for its use in connection
with the enlargement of the wharf
shed Of the Matson Navigation Com
pany and the lengthening of the slips,
II permit the company steamers hav-
ing better berthage The Brewer
building stands on a site which is OF
SAtIcLh0 "iue 60 t"t AcEfitoIN anu
shipping interests just now. owing to
the continued increase of business.
With the knowledge in mind that
the Territory contemplated alterations
in the slips and wharves along this
section Of the waterfront. Supervisor
Quinn of the road committee has per-
mitted the waterfront parks there TO
be neglected. there being little use in
keeping them in proper shape.
There may be changes among the of
fee stats of the two companies of the
merger, but it is thought that these
viii be confined to very few employees.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-27
Do We HAVE
HOOKWORMS?
San Francisco Has, and Says
That She Got the Parasites
From Hawaii.

Was the late unlamented female rock
scientist Wallach wise in his own ig-
norance when he announced that he had
discovered that certain disease IN Ha-
wall was caused by hookwOrms =
Does the festive h0okworm really and
truly luxuriate in the soil of these Is
lands, and is the parasite the true cause
of laziness heres Is the hOokworm in
digenous to Hawaii, or is laziness in
digenous and a natural condition when
is not be laid up against the bug
which scientists have recently discover
ell is the cause of the lassitude Of many
of the inhabitants Of the Southern
States2
These are a few questions that are
suggested by a San Francisco despatch
to several Eastern papers to the effect
that Hawaii is infested by the hook
worm and has even sent it TO Califor-
MIA to increase the lassitude of the
inhabitants of the State.
San Francisco admits that she has
hOOkworms. But she says it Is not her
fault; they came from Hawaii. How
ever, she generously admits that the
hookworm is not A native of these Is
lands hut was brought here from Porto
Rico when laboreTs were imported from
that island. Also, San Francisco, ac-
cording 10 the eastern advices from
that place, claims that she got hook
worms from Porto Ricans who deserted
Hawaii for the metropolis of the west
coast.
DR.. Herbert Gum, Of San Francisco.
SAYS that he has treated more than one
hundred eases Of hookworm in that city
and knows of at least one death that
is TO be attributed to the parasite. The
Continued on Page Four
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-27
TWENTY-FIVE MILLION
IN CORPORATION TAXES
Regulations Governing Collection Ready
for Printer and VIII Soon Be Issued.
(By Associated Press.)

WASHINGTON, November 27.--The
regulations governing the assessing and
collection of the corporation tax is
ready for the printer and will be is
sued from the government printing Of
flee shortly. The latest estimates set
the amount that the government win
net annually from this tax at twenty
five million dollars.
From the reports of the federal
agents over the country it has been
figured that one hundred and twenty
two thousand corporations will pay
taxes into the Golfers of Uncle Sam
every year.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-27
SAW | DEEP
JAPANESE PLOT
Protest Story at First Denied
by Japanese Embassy but
Later Confirmed.
HONOLULU REPORT WORRIED
Knox's Last Statement Based on
the Japanese Reception of
the American Protest.

When the first questions were ask
ed at the state department at Wash
ington concerning the truth of the
Honolulu despatch regarding a report
ed protest from Washington to To-
kio concerning the Japanese Chinese
treaty. a direct denial of the truth OF
the report was given.
Yesterday, the further particulars OF
the state department announcement
of November IA were received by
mail. This announcement says that
Secretary Root, after going care
fully and fully into the matter
of the Picking treaty, had come to
the decision that there had been no
violation of the "open door, agree
ment made some months ago between
Takahira and Secretary Root.
Yesterday, also, came the report
that the Honolulu report had been con-
firmed and that the decision of Sec
retary Root as to the open door
agreement was the result of the Jap
anese answer to the American protest.
The answer of the japanese foreign
department was that America need not
fear the result of the Picking treaty,
as Japan would bind herself not to
interfere under it with the right of
Americans to open mines in Manchu-
ria, to share in Manehurian trade and
generally to 60 in and out of the open
door as pleased them.
State Department Denial.
When the Washington correspondent
of the New York Herald which first
received the news on the mainland,
carried the Honolulu despatch to the
state department officials, there was
considerable interest taken in it, the
denial issued being based for large
part on one particular part of the de-
ssateh, part in which an error had
been made in translation. This was
the clause referring to the Pratas IS
land, the japanese translator being I'M
able to name in English the actual is
land mentioned in the Toxic despatch.
Japanese Scheming
The state department saw in the
despatch a deep scheme of the .Iapa-
nese foreign department, an attempt
to draw out Secretary Knox.
The Herald s story of the denial
was:
Officials of the state department see
evidence of Japanese handiwork in the
despatch from the Hawaii Shinpo rela-
tive to Ambassador o 'Brien s reported
protest to the japanese foreign office.
No such protest has been made, ac-
cording to the state department, and
there is no basis whatever for such a
report, according to the officials, who
are inclined to believe the story was
concocted in Toxic by japanese infu-
ences and for the purpose Of drawing
Continued on Page Two>
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-27
LIrEBOAT CAPSIZED
AND THREE DROWN
(By Associated Press.)

TILLAMOOK, Oregon, November q.
The steamer Argo yesterday struck
bar off the north coast Of Oregon
and a rush was made for the boats.
Either through mishsndling or through
the force Of the seas running, one of
the small boats was capsized and three
were drowned. Their bodies have not
been recovered. The Argo is a small
steamer and is used for eoastwise SER
vice.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-27
MIDDIES WILL GET
REAL BATTLESHIPS
nv Associated Press.

WASHINGTON, November 27.-For
the first time in the history of Amer
lea battleships in active commission
have been given over TO the use of the
midshipmen of the Naval Academy of
Annapolis. BY orders issued yesterday,
the battleships Iowa, Massachusetts
and Indiana have been assigned to a
practise cruise and win carry the com
ing commanders Of the navy ON their
annual "real experience.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-27
DEFENSE Of
OAHU GREAT
ISSUE NOW
Millions in Money, Thousands of
Men, and Battleships and
Guns to Come.
MAKE ISLAND IMPROBABLE
Chief of Staff Would Station Ten
Thousand Men Here Now
if Practicable.


Before three years have pass !
ed there will probably be more !
soldiers, including both infantry ,
and cavalry, stationed in the !
vicinity of Honolulu than in the :
vicinity of any other city under !
the stars and stripes.
The most powerful naval sta :
ton in the world will be at =,
Pearl Harbor.
Expenditures for the new :
naval station on Oahu will soon
aggregate ten million dollars.
General Bell, the chief of :
staff, would send ten thousand :
soldiers to Oahu at once if he
could have his way and the war
department is working to so en-
large the army as to make de-
tachment of that many for Oahu
possible.
The navy department will sta
ton some of the older battle
ships in reserve at Honolulu as
soon as practicable. Advertiser
correspondence from Washing
ton.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-27
HAILSTONES PELT
CALIFORNIA CITY
(By Associated Press

Los ANGELES, November Gas
a herald of the coming rainy season,
terrific hail storm struck this city
yesterday and continued, alternating
with heavy sleet, all night. The hail
stones were as big as walnuts. and
the rain of them continued for some
time. The season promises to be a
very wet one.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-27
SHIP SUBSIDY
PROSPECT GLUM
There Appears Little Chance to
Secure Legislation at
This Session.
BY Ernest G.. Walker.

SMail Special to The Advertiser.)
Q X X X X *xx kk X q
X "The prospects for ship sub X
Il sidy legislation at the coming 4
X session of congress are believed X
+ not to be very bright. That is X
X the way it looks from a prelimin- 4
4 airy survey of the field. There K
Il win probably be considerable agi- 4
4 tation for such an enactment dur X
X ing the winter but it is exceed 4
4 ingly doubtful whether a subsidy 4
X bill can pass the house of repre- 4
4 sentatives just before congress 4
4 sional election - 4