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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-18
T...-R BULLETIN
Noticeable News Of Today
Tho Watcher.

Tho Watcher.
Sun rises Aug. 19 at b:13: sets at 6:45.
Iowa. Illinois and South Dakota -
Generally fair tonight and Thursday.
Missouri-Generally fair tonight and
Thursday; slightly cooler tonight.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-18
KILLED WHILE SWITCHING.

Illinois Central Brakeman Crushed Be-
tween Cars at Jesup.
Special to Times Republican.
Waterloo, Aug. 1S.-D. F. Sweeney
aged %, a brakeman on the Illinois
Central. was caught between cars at
Jesup today and crushed. He died Ave
minutes Later He came here recently
from Nashville, Tenn, where his par
ents reside.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-18
life resulting from the disturbances.
They declare only two persons were
killed at Acapulco.
,e...l eh..L :. ell.

Earth Shock at cadix.
Cadiz. Aug. 1s.-Earth shocks were
experienced here today. Several houses
were damaged but there were no cas-
ualties.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-18
RIorINo RENEWED.

Trouble Asain Breaks Out at Mekss's
Roeks-Several Injured.
Pittsburg. Aug. 1s.-Rioting again
broke forth today at the plant or tho
Pressed Steel Car Company at Mc-
KEGS Rocks. One man was shot and a
number OF others were injured.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-03-25
MULTI PLANTATION

cane Is mostly delivered to the mill by
cane fields have fumes laid through them to
supply water, and connect with main fume
leading down to the mill. The cane as 1t Is
cut Is moved to the portable fumes by pack
ing and shedding. The feeding has to be done
with care and regularity. The cane falling
on mill conveyer passes on through Smith
cutter and train OF mills, termed nine
roller MILL under hydraulic pressure. The
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-03-25

S<HE LaupahOehoe Sugar Company's hold
ings of some 5000 acres, $500 of
which are planted to cane, the remain
der lying fallow, are situated In the
Hilo district between Ookala and Honohna
extending along the sea coast for a distance
of about five miles and reaching about a
mile and three.quarters toward the noun.
tains.
Lahaina cane was first planted upon these
lands in 1877 by VIM. Lidgate father of
Manager A. Lidgate of the Hamakua Mill
Company. The first mill of three rollers
was erected at Laupahoehoe in 1879. In
1884 a seven-roller mill was erected at Pa.
raaloa, both being used until 1890, when the
Laupahoehoe mill was discarded.
At the present time the company grows
Yellow Caledonia cane almost exclusively.
During the season of 1908, $50 men were
employed upon the plantation.
Cane is transported from field to mill by a
twelve.mile system of main and lateral V
fumes, which radate to every corner of the
plantation. Cane grown at the Hilo end
of the plantation is fumed into cars stand.
ing in the bottom of the large Maulua gulch.
the cars being hauled up the AZ per cent
grade by steam power. The cane is then
fiumed from the hoist to the mill
In preparing the land the soil is plowed
by moleboard and reversible disc plows
drawn by mules, the Fowler steam tackles
not being used owing to the difficulty which
would be met in moving the engines over
the lands the soil of which is usually soft
and muddy because of rains which prevail
in this district. One hundred and fifty i'm
ported mules, fifty Hawaiian mules and
twenty.three horses are kept on the planta-
ton. The lands at this place are heavily
fertlized
The old two-roller mill has been made in
to crusher and the cane passes from this
into a modern nine.roller mill, three rollers
of which are driven by an old Scotch glide
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-03-25
LAUPAHOEHOE SUGAR GO.

valve engine and the other six by new
Hamilton Corliss engine.
The Deming Qualification system is being
installed, there are two triple effects, two
5.ton and one 9.tOn Vacuum pans and four
teen centrifugals of the Weston type. Three
pairs of tandem tubular boilers furnish
steam and a 60 horsepower water wheel can
be used at any time for driving the centri
fugals.
Bagasse Is taken by an endless carrier and
fed direct to the furnaces automatically.
The sugar Is taken from the sugar room
In the mill and placed in the storehouse at
the landing, which is built upon the bluffs
adjoining the mill, and sent over a wire
cable direct into the steamer lying of shore.
Three hundred and fifty tons of sugar can
be shipped over this cable in one day.
The total sugar output for 1908 was 1910
tons. The estimate for 1909 is about the
same.
Carpenter. blacksmith and machine shops
are near the mill and the company operates
a large general merchandise store situated
upon the Government road ut Papaaloa,
managed by Guy l.. Duckworth.
Colin McLennan has been identified with
the Laupahoehoe Sugar Company for the
past twenty.eight years, twenty years of
which time he has been its manager.
Following is a list OF the employees:
Head Overseer, A. Chalmers; Chief Mil
Engineer, A. G. Stodart; Bookkeeper. J. II.
Wilson; Assistant Bookkeeper, w. G. Law.
son; Timekeeper, J. w. Williams; Sugar
Boiler and Chemist, J. E. Biela; Store Man.
ager Guy l. Duckworth; Carpenter. James
ID. Fraser; Physician, Archer Irwin.
The names of the officers follow:
President, Mr.. +. NJ. Swanzy.
Vice-President Mr.. George f. Davies.
Treasurer, Mr.. T.. II. Wodehouse.
Secretary, Mr.. w. II. Baird
Auditor, Mr.. II. w. NJ Mist.
Theo. II. Davies & Co, Ltd, Of Honolulu
are the local agents.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-03-25

A unique system of fertilization is In use
~ ON the Multi plantation. The early cut
rattOOn fields are pastured for about
two months, then planted with Bengal
beans in the spring, which grow well during
the summer. Some of these beans are
plowed under before coming to maturity
some are fed TO working animals, certain
fields allowed to ripen during December
and large proportion of beans gathered in
January for seed. The remaining ripe beans
with vines, grass and weeds. are then plowed
under and a second crop results, which in
its turn Is plowed under, May to June; and
this land planted to cane July and August
The onecrop bean fields are planted to cane
earlier.
There is considerable work attending this
method Of increasing nitrogen and humus,
but indications are that II Is justified.
The Multi Mill and plantation. situated
at the east end of the District of North
Kohala, Island of Hawaii is owned by Hon
c. f. Hart, now residing in Honolulu, who
started the enterprise In the year 1876 and
reaped his first crop in 1878.
The property consists of sugar factory
and all necessary buildings, houses, animals
and implements, with 300 acres Of the lands
of Multi, Makapala, and Waipuku in fee
simple. or this about 1900 Is cane land
In addition to this about 800 acres of cane
Is under lease.
This plantation adjoins that stretch of
country composed of ridges and gulches,
from which the Kohala Ditch Co. has devel-
oped water for irrigation purposes.
The plantation has been gradually increas-
ing its area under cane, and the factory its
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-03-25
OOKALA SUGAR PLANTATION COMPANY
Where The Transportation of Cane Is Solved By An
Interesting Gravity System.

rOME thirtyone miles from Hilo. and
y bounded by the waipunalei lands up.
- on the east and the Kukaiau planta.
ton property upon the west. are the
land holdings of the Ookala Sugar Planta.
tion Company, comprising 5000 acres. 1900
acres of which is planted to sugar cane
the remainder pasture and forest lands.
Yellow Caledonia is the principal variety
of cane grown. Lahaina cane. which until
recent years. was grown extensively upon
this plantation has been totally eradicated
partly because the leaf.hopper attacks II
readily and also that II did not grow as
well as In former years. owing to the soil
needing another variety of cane Like con.
ditions are met on all of the older planta.
tons. When a variety OF cane which has
been grown for number of years does not
thrive as formerly 1t is customary to rotate
with another variety. Very little Rose
Bamboo will be planted at ookala in the
near future, It being the intention of the
management to grow Yellow Caledonia al.
most exclusively during the next few years.
Yellow Caledonia which now is the FREEDOM.
mating variety grown on the Island of Ha.
wall, was first cultivated upon the windward
side of the island at Ookala nine years ago.
VIM G. Irwin who obtained II in Kau
The sugar output for the year 1908 was
1923 tons the estimate for 1909 is 5000 tons.
Planting, cultivating. stripping and har.
vesting cane was previously nearly all per.
formed by companies under the contract
system All work upon the plantation is
now done by day labor the system proving
much more satisfactory, the work performed
better and cheaper and with less trouble to
the management. During the past season
the company employed 300 japanese. Chin.
ese, Portuguese. Koreans and Hawaiians
and worked some 22O head of stock.
Cane Transportation.
portion of the cane is transported from
the fields to the mill by a system of steam
railroad tapping the most available points
for reaching the cane fields. Cars used on
this railroad have capacity of five tons of
cane each. Cane is planted upon a gradual
slope running up from the sea, the altitude
ranging from 200 to 1900 feet In addition
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-03-25

<HE Laupahoehoe Sugar Company's hold.
II ings of some 5000 acres, $500 Of
which are planted to cane, the remain.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-03-25

a unique system of fertilization is In use
"A on the Multi plantation. The early cut
rattOOn fields are pastured for about
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-30
Beginning of Story Completed by Juniors

among its interesting historical
objects. Its collection of num-
mics the girls found most inter-
esting, and the picture galleries
were visited again and again, as
long as the family stayed in Lon
don.
After lunch they visited the
Tower of London, and, as the
guide narrated the many bloody
deeds that had been transacted
within it's walls the girls began
to experience creepy sensations.
The visit held such strong histori-
cal associations that they soon
forgot the present era, and
seemed to be living in the days Of
Queen Elizabeth.
1t was late when they finally
reached the torture chamber,
where the guide related many
blood-curdling tales of the royal
prisoners who had been immured
here. They all felt tired out
when they left this gloomy spot
and hurried away to the hotel.
AS they approached the wait
ing cabs Jessie discovered that
she had lost her handkerchief, a
handsome one which she valued
highly. Thinking that she must
have dropped it on the stairs, she
turned and, calling to Mary to
wait for her, ran lightly back
along the way they had come.
Mary turned to explain to her
father, but he had stopped near
the wall to light his cigar, and
lust then her mother called her
to get in the cab with her, and
they drove away.
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Prize Story

TESSIE hurried through the long,
winding passages and small
- rooms. searching for her hand
kerchief. As she entered the torture
room she saw her handkerchief on the
floor. She stopped to pick it up, and
as she did so she heard some one say
What are you doing, young lady?
Do you not know that you might get
lost in these dark passages, and
scream as loud as you could no one
would ever hear you?"
Jessie turned and saw a well dressed
man looking at her Il just came back
after my handkerchief, sir, and l am
sure I would not get lost in this tower.
But [ must hurry and, passing the
man, she ran down the passage.
Meantime the rest of the family had
not noticed Jessies absence until Mrs.
Hopkins addressed a question to her
and, hearing no answer she turned and
saw only Mary and Carl. She was very
much frightened and she said to the
driver Take us back to the tower at
once Jessie has been left behind"
Jessie found her way out Of the tow
er and walked to the curb, where she
thought the rest of the family were
waiting. She looked, but saw no ia
mll1ar faces, and so she stood IN front
of the tower waitig for them to come.
When it began to get dark Jessie
was frightened, but she stood in the
shadow of the building and waited.
Finally she was almost ready to give
up, when she saw Mary coming toward
her Jessie uttered a cry of joy and,
running up to Mary, said, ooh, Mary,
I thought l had lost you and the rest.
Where are they? Are you lost, too?"
NO, I am not lost, sister, dear; hurry,
now, for we will go to the carriage,
where mother is waiting. She was
frightened nearly to death when she
discovered you were not with US"
Hand in hand, the two sisters walked
to the carriage.
MYRTLE BROWN.
Florence; grade 8; age 10.
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loved parents again. and she began TO
sob harder every minute, for no one
seemed to care about her.
A policeman came to see what the
trouble was. whats the matter, lit
tie girl ?" asked the policeman, smiling,
for it was his everyday experience
attending to lost children. Jessie told
him her story, and the policeman said'
Don't cry any more, for you'll soon be
with your parents again." Then he
took Jessie to the police station and
telephoned to the Cecil hotel that
little girl had been found. Then
promptly the answer came back,
"Where was the child found?" And the
policeman described everything just
how it was. In a few minutes the tears
in Jessie's eyes were dried when her
mothers arms were around her neck.
Then Mrs. Hopkins thanked the po-
liceman for his kindness and they
started for home. On their way home
her mother asked her how everything
happened and Jessie told her the whole
story, and when they came home Jes-
sizes father and Mary and Carl and the
others were all happy to see her with
them again, and Mr.. Hopkins gave
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-30

wv HEN the Hopkins party
wv arrived in London they
went at once to Hotel
Cecil, where their father had en-
gagged rooms. The girls wanted
to start out at once sightseeing,
but Mr.. Hopkins advised them
to wait until the next day, when
they would start in the morning
and would spend the day view
ing the town.
When the party assembled at
the table the next morning, the
two men were much. disguised
with the English breakfast. "The
idea" grumblcd Mr.. Hopkins,
"any one would think that I asked
for a 5 o'clock tea, if they should
see this. Who wants tea and
marmalade and cold roast beef
for breakfast"
"You must remember that
when you are in Rome, you must
do as the Romans do. laughed
Mrs. Hopkins.
81 won't in this Rome, any
way" declared her husband.
Here, waiter, bring me a
poached egg on toast, slice of
broiled ham and some pancakes.
The waiter stared, then gasped,
Eyes, SIR" and hurried away to a
consultation with the head waiter
and cook. Mr.. Hopkins Ameri-
can appetite having been salts
fed, the party Put on their wraps,
climbed into their cabs, and sal
lied forth into the London fog.
They first visited the British
museum, and spent the morning
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Jessie Finds the Tower of London Place
honorable Mention)

TESSIE ran back to the tower and
up the stairs looking everywhere
- for her handkerchief. She finally
found the guide, who told her he had
seen and picked up her handkerchief
from the steps. He gave it to her, and
thanking him, she hurried down the
steps expecting to see the cab waiting
for her, when to her dismay all she
saw was the rear of her fathers cab
disappearing around the corner quite
distance from the tower
She attempted to run after it and call
to her father and mother, but When
she reached the corner where she mad
seen it, it was out of sight. The tears
ran down Jessie's cheeks, but she hastl-
ly brushed them away with her hand-
kerchief, and running up to a kind
looking policeman who stood near, told
him her story, ending with, And, on,
please, sir, won't you take me to Hotel
Cecil?"
The policeman complied with her re
quest and hailing a passing cab, htted
Jessie in, jumped in after her and
they rode away.
In the meantime Mr. and Mrs. Hop
kins, Mary Carl and the Wellers were
riding toward the hotel. Mary had
supposed Jessie had come at her moth
er's call, and no one noticed her alb
sence till they were at the hotel Carl
jumped out to help his cousins out and
said, why, where is Jessie?'
Mary began to cry, and told her story
as best she could, saying she thought
Jessie had come with them or she
would have said something before.
Mrs. Hopkins tainted and had to be
taken to her room right away. Mr..
Hopkins, Mr.. Weller and Carl jumped
into the cab and rode back to the
tower. They had been gone but few
moments when Jessie and the police
man drove up to the door. They both
went up to the Hopkins suite, and
Jessie told her mother and aunt her
story, loud in her praise of the police
man. Mrs. Hopkins offered him money
and thanked him again and again.
Carl, Mr.. Hopkins and Mr.. Weller
were by this time back to the tower,
where the guide told them Jessie had
run down to the corner after cab.
Finally after much search Carl said,
WELL there is no use in staying here.
Jessie may be home by this time
move that we go home.' The gentle
man acted upon his suggestion ana
soon were home, where they found
Jessie and heard her story.
GRACE M. WALKER,
Age 10 B grade, 519 Ganahl st.
Cornwell st. School.
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Jessie a good lesson, never to stay be-
hind or run away again.
ELIZABETH AGNES.
1923 North Catalina, Pasadena; prl-
vate lessons; age IA,
Mrs Hopkins supposed Jessie was
with her father; he thought she was
with her mother, and Mary thought
he and Carl would wait for her. When
they reached the Hotel Cecil there was
great confusion until Mary explained.
Mr.. Hopkins and Carl drove to the
Tower, only to find the entrance gate
locked.
Meanwhile Jessie looked carefully in
the gloom for the handkerchief, and,
not finding it on the stairs, went to
the torture chamber. Remembering
the horrible stories the guide had told
of bloodshed and cruelty, she hest
tated to go in. but finally gathered
courage, and found her handkerchief
on the thumbscrew.
Starting back to the gate she heard
it slam shut, and the ponderous key
was turned in the lock-
At that she ran, shouting to the
keeper, then remembering that he was
deaf, she sank down on the cold stones
every minute at the ghostly sounds,
and tried vainly to put the awful tales
out of her head.
She waited for seeming hours and
then heard a grating sound. She realized
that the gate was being unlocked. ran
to it and saw Carl, her father and the
old deaf keeper with a lamp in his
hand Her father caught her up in
his arms, saying, 1--WE found the gate
locked and had to rouse the keeper and
explain everything before he would let
us in" and Jessie answered, sobbing,
at seemed so long and 1 was so
frightened"
HELEN B. NICHOLS,
Aged IA, Box 47S Monrovia, Eighth
grade, orange avenue school.
After Jessie had run block she saw
a runaway coming down the street and
in trying to avoid it she was lost
She ran on and on until at last a
friendly policeman directed her to the
Tower. She soon reached it and walked
up to a man at the gate. She told him
the circumstances, and he said she
could go through, but she would have
to go without guide. as all were at
dinner but two, and those were busy.
Jessie started bravely up one stair
way and down another till at last she
came to the torture chamber. All at
once she began to think of the guides
story Yes, this was the room where
when q lever was pulled up above the
walls would move together and crush
the unhappy prisoner Just then she
heard a dull clang. Jessie gave little
scream, for she thought the lever up
above had been turned.
Then door opened at the other end.
With glad cry, she sprang forward
and saw her father. Jessie's father had
had the cabman turn around and drive
back to the Tower, but they had been
delayed Jessie was glad to get back
to her father and mother again.
PERRY BYERLY.
1910 West Seventh street, Riverside;
Grant school, sixth grade.
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Jessie hunted for her handkerchief
for a little while, then as night was
fast coming on and the many halls and
passageways were but dfrnty lighted
She could not see well enough.
81 suppose I'd better go back, be-
cause Mary will get tired of waiting
she thought. So she started to retrace
her steps, but in entering so many
halls. which We're all alike, she had
lost her bearings and could not tell
the particular passageway which led
out of the Tower. Then the awful fact
dawned upon her she was lost iii the
Tower.
Jessie felt at that moment love for
her home and country that she never
knew she possessed. 1t seemed to her
she would give all she had now and
all she hoped to have to be once more
back in dear America.
1t was growing dark, and the UNI
certain light of the lamps produced a
weird effect 1t seemed to poor, fright
ened Jessie that long, bony fingers
were reaching out to catch her in
ghostly embrace. The enchantment of
the afternoon had hardly worn off, and
the lost child thought of the horrible
deeds which had been committed in
this tower. Just then steps were heard
approaching, resounding through empty
corridors and a figure was seen adj
vancing from the gloom. This was the
climax, and Jessie fell with a faint
Shrek into the hands of the night
guard
1t was several days before Jessie
was again her sweet self, and then the
doctor recommended a change, so .Jes-
sic was taken off for a rest at a small
English village.
BERTHA WARDELL..
Sentous school. BIS grade. 1909 Rich
street. Age 10 years
In the meantime Jessie had got to
the Tower steps, and, sure enough,
there lay the handkerchief
She picked it up and started back for
the gate, where she supposed her
mother and father were waiting.
When she saw that they were gone
she ran to one corner and then the
other but they were not in sight.
ooh, what shall 1 do?" moaned Jes-
sic.
The cab was four blocks away be-
fore Jessie's mother noticed that Jes-
sic wasn't there
Mary told her that Jessie had lost
her handkerchief and had gone back
to get it.
Mrs Hopkins had the cab-driver
drive back to the Tower.
When Jessie had turned to go back
to the gates she saw the cab, which
was now only u half block away.
Jessie got so excited that she ran out
in the road and was nearly run over
by an auto.
Then she ran up to the cab, which
was not yet stopped, and tried to get
in but it was going too fast.
(Contin1ed on Page seyenl
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Honorable Mention)

/ ESSIE went into the tower, but did
not find her handkerchief. She
looked around in the many halls
for long time, and when it began to
get dark she was frightened.
At last, when she began to give up
hope she thought she would look in
the torture chamber. 1t was just dark
enough now to make shadows. AS she
opened the door she saw something
white blowing around on the floor. The
window was open and the wind blew
in there. Jessie was thinking of the
terrible deeds that had been done there.
She thought she saw man in the cor
ner. She was frightened really now.
She picked up her handkerchief, which
had blown quite close to her, and ran
into the hall as fast as she could. She
ran all around the halls, but she
couldn't find the stairway.
In the meantime Mary told her moth
err about Jessie. Mrs. Hopkins told the
driver to drive back to the tower. The
guide and Mr.. Hopkins took lantern
and went back into the tower and
found Jessie in one corner of the hall
crying. 1t was~all they could do to
comfort her. MARY BURNS.
Allen avenue, r. F. d. box 210, PAS
adena, sixth grade; age II years.