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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-08-26
CITY DEAL
IN HAY IS
PAINFUL
AUGUST DELIVERY OF FODDER
AT JULY RATES WINS COUNTY
SIG

City and County Road Supervisor
Wilson is chuckling to himself and in
vestigation this morning revealed a
dim, religious smile on the face OF
Clerk Cathcart of the road office.
The way of it all is this: The City
and County IS in just sixteen dollars
on hay deal and both Wilson and
Cathcart being Democrats, the sixteen
to one proposition appears to them as
good omen.
1t seems that on July 81 Cathcart
observed that there was no more hay
for the City and County mules and
horses and he telephoned the hay fEc-
tory for 800 bales of the packed-grass
Now the hay-factory had given
quotation for hay at the July rates,
which appear to be just one dollar less
a ton than the August rates. The
bulk of the hay was not delivered till
August, in fact only a couple of bales
were needed for July 81, but the afore-
all the hay was delivered and Wilson
declined to o. K. the bill until the hay
was delivered. Hay in August being
higher priced than hay in July, ae-
cording to Honolulu figuring, the hay
agent rather felt that he had been
deliberately buncoed out of sixteen
dollars, for he won't be paid until all
the hay h& been delivered and he is
paid at the July rate because he bid
for July delivery and it was ordered
on July 81 though he is practically
delivering August hay. This is
nice matter for figuring. but Wilson
chuckles and there is the suspicion
of dim, religious smile on the face
of Clerk Cathcart-and the City wins
by $16.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-08-26
THE TREASURER.

Hawaiian Star Newspaper Association
Honolulu.
Gentlemen:-I beg to acknowledge
receipt of your communication of Au-
gust 2nd relative to bid made by
you at the request of the Registrar
of Conveyances. The matter has been
referred to the Attorney General for
his opinion. Very truly yours,
d. L. CONKLING,
Treasurer, Territory of Hawaii.
August 2, 1909.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-08-26

CHAMBERLAIN's COUGH REMEDY.
This is a medicine of great worth and
merit. Try it when you have a cough
or cold and you are certain to be
pleased with the quick relief which it
affords. 1t is pleasant to take and can
always be depended upon For sale
by all dealers, Benson, Smith & Co.,
agents for Hawaii.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-08-26

in honor of the visiting Congressional
lists and their wives.
Tourists by the dozen and guests az
the city's hotels by the score are ac-
tually besieging the Mayor and his
secretary with requests for invitations
to the festive board.
Ferns luaus are famous. Fern has
CONTINUED on Page Eight)
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Have your typewriters, cash regis
ters and adding machines repaired by
the Office Supply Co. They have a
complete repair department for this
PARTICULAR work which they guarantee.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-08-26
THE STAR

Hon. c. X. Hemenway,
Attorney General Honolulu.
Dear Strive herewith transmit
correspondence in re call for bids is
sued by the Registrar of Conveyances
on July 20.
We understand that upon legal
ruling, practically all of the merchants
of Honolulu declined TO bid on the
supply contracts for six months end
ing December 81, 1909. In accordance
with this view The Star also declined
to bid. The Star as the lowest bidder
on a call for bids dated July %, is
now refused the contract on the
grounds that another company's bid
on the six months contract controls
the matter.
AS the matter is one of considerable
importance, involving government con-
tracts for work and supplies of all
sorts for all of the period up to the
meeting of the next Legislature, we
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-08-26
NEW RICE MILL.

The X. Yamamoto Rice Mill is the
largest as we'll as the finest in the
islands. All the machinery is OF the
very latest pattern. The famous
Tengu Rice is cleaned at this mill.
With the large cleaning capacity they
are able to handle considerate outside
wortk.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-08-26

SATURDAY MORNING SPECIALS.
Ladiesl Do you want to save money
Saturday morning? Then read Sachs
ad in this paper and note the extra
ordinary specials. This is your op-
portunity.
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THE REGISTRAR.

Hawaiian Star Newspaper Association,
George f. Henshall, Manager, Ho7
nolulu, Hawaii.
Dear Sir:-Your favors of August
2nd and 3rd, received this day have
had my attention and I beg TO advise
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-08-26
AFTER CHAMPIONSHIP

J. F.
in the mems singles of the national tennis championship
a
Coher
the
August Spanish
$50 fighting
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BEVERLY 26Pesdent
that will postal
dred millions the disposal the The President
himself
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HAM SURPASSES WRIGHTs.

RHEIMS 26The
the Wrghts During the last twenty minutes the fight there
Spectators
enthu a he O daring await
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you that the matter has been referred
to the Attorney General for an opin-
ion. Yours respectfully,
CHAS. H. MERRIAM,
Registrar of Conveyances.
Honolulu, Oahu, August g. 1909.
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NAVY TIE AM WINS.

PERRY, trophy yesterday
the namely 1852
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of the decedent situated outside of Ka-
laupapa. In sustaining Judge Kepoi-
kai's construction the Hawaiian SUI
preme Court-then Frear, Hartwell
and Wilder-said: THE original of
the will shows more clearly than does
the evidently defective translation
that the intention was to dispose of
also all the other property known to be
mine.
In affirming the latter decision the
Federal Supreme Court merely pursued
it's fixed policy of going, in matters of
fact, by the findings of the Territorial
court.
Between the Federal decision and the
of the present suit Mrs. Gray
died These plaintiffs are her nieces
and grandnieces Of Hikaalani Hebron
Noholoa, the maker of the will in con-
troversy. They deny that at the hear
ing upon defendant = petition for the
probate of the will on Dec. 12, 1906,
the translation of the will was adopt
ed by Judge Kepolkai as the correct
one. They allege that the translation
of the will was not an issue under the
petition, and that it is not a correct
translation of the will
They deny that by the will Hikaa-
lani Hebron Noholoa did devise the
land in question to her husband, the
present defendant, and deny that he
is the owner or seized of an estate or
inheritance in fee simple in, said land.
f.. They deny that Mrs. Noholoa left
surviving her as her only heirs at law
the defendant and Kaimiloa Nakookoo
Gray, and deny that their only claim
to the land is as heirs at law of Mrs.
Gray. They allege that they were and
are heirs at law of Mrs, Noholoa in
that Kahune, their father who died
in 1905, was a brother of Mrs. Gray
and a nephew of Mrs. Noholoa.
Plaintiffs deny that their right, title
or claim in and to said land has been
adjudicated or that they are barred to
maintain their action against Noholoa.
They pray judgment that their title to
said land may be quieted and their
ownership therein as alleged may be
confirmed.
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John Paaluhi appeared in court at
o'clock this afternoon.
City and county Attorney ], w.
Cathcart, with whom NJ. f. Prosser ap-
peared for the prosecution, stated the
facts of the charge and arrest and said
he presumed the only thing to be done
now was to fix bail for Paaluhi.
Paaluhi, in answer to a question,
said Mr. Chillingworth was his attor-
ney. AS the latter was not present
Mr.. Cathcart suggested letting the mat
ter rest until he could be sent for, and
on his arrival the speaker could be
found in Judge Robinson's court.
A recess was then taken.
S. F. ChilIingworth arrived at ESQ
and asked for ten minutes, and re-
cess of that duration was taken.
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ghlin is a Californian play er.

ASSOCIATED Press Morning Cablegrams)
TAFT FAVORS POSTAL SAVINGS BANKS.
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John Paaluhi, wealthy kIawaiian,
who went on the bonds of Maxine, Ne
goro, Soga and Tasaka, found guilty
by jury and sentenced by Judge De
Bolt to ten months Imprisonment
without hard labor and fines of $500
each, is under arrest and may have
to stand trial for perjury in that he
swore he was not on any other bonds
when he was being examined as
bondsman for the Japanese conspir
ators above named.
1t develops that when Paaluhi declar-
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Fine Job Prinsas. var once.
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REGISTRAR MERRIAM REGRETS
BEING FORCED TO WASTE MONEY

resolution Legislature
calling bids decided
the ruling
this youLeer
bidder instructions of
contrary generals
r
D
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CONTINUED on Page Five.)
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latham FLIES 95
MILES IN TWO HOURS
HAWAIIAN TALKS
FOR CONSERVATION

opened
E.
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-08-20
new JERSEY STATE NEWS
South Jersey Crops Large.

More p~erishable freight was SHIPPED
by farmers of Southern New Jersey
IL July than in any previous month in
history. Produce valued at $1,500,-
900 was distributed over the New
England States, the Middle West and
Canada from points en- the West Jer-
sey and Seashore Railroad, a part of
the Pennsylvania Railroad system.
In July, 1907, the value of produce
shipped by farmers of the six lower
counties of New Jersey was $746,800.
In 1908 the estimated value of the
shipments was $1,178,000, while July
Of this year shows ain increase oven
1908 of $~3S5,600. The total number
of cars used to transport this freight
was 1909, or more than thirty-seven
miles of cars, If placed end to end.
Potatoes required 1922 cars and to-
matoes 1047. The other $40 cars
were loaded az follows: Apples, s.;
berries, 148; clans and oysters, 1865;
fish, 148; peppers, 10; poultry, IS,
and mixed carloads, 8. OF the 1909
cars 1900 were sent to Jersey City
and New York City. In the last three
years the Pennsylvania Railroad has
been conducting a development cam
paign in behalf of the agricultural
and commercial interests of New Jer-
sey. Commission merchants and buy
srs all over the country have been
supplied with lists of reliable grow
ers and shippers in that section, and
the result has been that the market
for Southern. New Jersey produce has
been greatly widenell.
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-08-20
SIX BABIES DIE AS WITCHES" CHANT.
Reading Coroner investigating Deaths of Infants Treated by
incantations--Had Summer Complaint Operations of
doctor" Not Only Allowed Infants to Perish,
But Started Nelghborhood Eeud.

Reading, Pa.-Coroner Strasser is
busy procuring evidence in the cases
of six infants, all of whom died within
t~wenty-four hours. 1t is charged by
the Coroner that all six of the chill
dren were treated by witch DOCTORS"
but that the only thing they were
suffering from was summer COM
plant. Coroner Strasser has reported
the matter to the District Attorney.
Reading has many witch doctors"
and there have been cases In court
time and again of persons who de-
clared that neighbors "verhexed"
them.
No soone does a child become Ill
in this section than the neighbors
rush In and declare the child is "ver-
hexed," and a witch DOCTOR with
his lamentations, is sought out.
In the cases of the children that
died while undergoing this treatment
several were simply treated by chant
ing mystic words while a red cotton
cord was passed over the body. In
other cases a bag containing charmed
words was hung about the neck. The
Coroner said:
MANY children die every summer
from summe complaint that do not
have an attending physician. Upon
investigation find that the parents
are of the middle class, and spend
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-08-20
GUILLOTINE REvIsITs PARIS.
de Needed to BeIead a Parr7cide--An
AwesOme Scene.

around the corner and up the boule-
ward and stopped opposite the guillo-
tine. Two men let down the back.
which formed steps from the vehicle.
Then down these came first tbs
prison governor, then a priest and
then a figure which might have been
Lazarus coming from the grave at
Christ's command. 1t had its hands
fastened behind it's back and a loose
covering hanging from the shoulders.
The body was naked except for a pair
Of linen trousers.
thin enough to allow the features to
be visible, for the Code enacts that
PARTICLES must be taken to the scat.
fold in bare feet and with yelled head.
Duchemin was twenty-eight years
old, but the livid face might have
been that of a man any age over
sixty. 1t was the face of a man with.
out consciousness or feeling of any
kind for whom assuredly the bitter.
ness of death had already passed.
Within fifteen seconds from the
time the prison van stopped the knife
had fallen. This seems incredible,
one of the newspaper correspondents
took the time by a stop watch. In
those fifteen seconds Deibler's aids
seized the cloak and veil, conducted
the condemned man three PAGES be-
tween the van and the machine and
laid him in place. The knife fell in
stantly and the body was pushed into
a basket.
How such perfection can be at
tanned when the men have so little
practice on living subjects is little
short of marvellous. The speed COM
bined with the evident insensibility
of the doomed man robbed the specta-
Gle of its horror. 1t had more re-
semblance to a clever performance of
the disappearing lady act Of the mu-
sic halls than to a tragedy of death.
For those who were watching with.
in three yards the work of setting up
the dread machine in the darkness
and slIence will remain a memory
long after the recollection of the &C.
tual execution has faded away.
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-08-20
Negress Deaes oficials.

Armed with a baseball bat and a
bed Stat, Temperance Miller, of South
Burlington, . powerful negress.
fought off health officials and police
who tried to tear out a pump in her
yard which draws water from a well
condemned by the health authorities.
1t was the tenth time the official had
called on the same errand, each visit
leaving the well untouched because
Temperance had made good her
threat to keep a baseball bat behind
the door for health officers. The
health officials sought the help Of the
police department and Patrolman Sell
was sent to the Miller castle with the
health brigade. Temperance defed
the augmented force. you is a big
man, Mistah Policeman" she shout.
ed, but de hearse will sure cart you
away in chunks If you tries to tech
dat old pump" Uncertain of thei1
legal status the attacking party with
drew until they can gain legal advice
on the case.
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-08-20

their money calling in old women
who make a practice of 'powwowing'
and using charmed words.
What is more, these women de-
scribe the hex 70 the parents, and
this is the cause of manyof the neigh
borhood feuds that are aired in court.
"The parents of these children in
nearly every case imagined that their
offspring were suffering from witch
craft, and they Immediately hustled
them off to a hexerai doctor. 1t is
about time that the authorities inves-
tigate the illegal practice that has
existed so long in Reading and Berks
County, and which is the fundamental
reason for the many deaths.
Parents are entirely too super
stitious. In many cases they believe
that their children have a spell cast
over them and instead of consulting
a regular physician go to a hexerai
doctor and procure either a hoodoo
or a charm to drive away the evil.
"This charm or bag is worn on Ger.
tain parts of the child's body and is
kept there for a certain length of
time. Certain passages Of the Bible
are repeated daily by one of the fam.
lily to break the 'hoodoo,' and the
powwow doctor calls daily and goes
through funny stunts in an effort to
chase out the imaginary spirits.n
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-08-20
IN LAND SUITS
BROUGHT BY GOVERNMENT
755, 341 Acres UnIawfuIIy Fenced
Restored to United States.
s43O,oss TREsPAss AND FINES
1884 Unpatented Entries, Having
$4,000 Acres, Cancelled For
Fraud and HIegality-35,0O0
Cases Awaiting Investigation.

Washington, D. C.-There are
$40, 900 involved in pending suits
to recover land to the Government
and 141 special agents last year and
1892 now are Investigating alleged
land frauds, says the annual report
Of the General Land Office in re-
ferring to field work for the last fiscal
year. There were 755.341 acres of
unlawfully fenced lands restored to
the Government. Uncle Sam netted
$430,096 in cash for coal and tim
Der land trespassed and fines in GRIM
inal proceedings regarding lands. On
July / there remained $4,000 cases
awaiting field investigation.
There were Cancelled for fraud and
illegality 1884 unpatented entries
having about $4,000 acres, and fifty
six Alaska coal entries were allowed
to lapse In face of the special agents
Investigations. One hundred patents
were vacated and 25,729 acres addi-
tional restored to the public domain
by proceedings in court or in settle
ment thereof.
In timber trespass suits 101 ver-
diets were obtained and $77,677 paid
upon such judgments. In the GRIM
inal cases there were twenty-four con-
victions for ~trespass, thirty-nine for
conspiracy, FIVE for perjury, thirty
four for unlawful Enclosure and thir-
teen miscellaneous. DEGREES were Sc
cured in removing forty unlawful in
closures. The fines collected were
$32,S96. and twenty-six prison sen
fences were imposed.
OF the suspended coal cases re-
naming for action about TOO are in
Alaska. There remained in the De
partment of Justice for suit July 1,
127 trespass cases, GIG suits to re-
cover lands, 1T fencing cases and
AIS criminal cases. The value OF
some of the land recoveries is indi-
Gated by one case wherein coal lands
were returned by a railroad company,
The company and its alleged grantees
had paid about s70,000 for the lands
Since recovering the lands the
Geological Survey has fixed the sell
ing price at over $5,0OO,0 600, and this
on the basis of less than four cents
ton for the coal. OF the total
moneys collected about three-ifths
was collected since March /.
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-08-20

Parfs.-The French mind being
pre-eminently logical it is difficult to
believe that 1t will not demand a
change in the method of carrying out
execution. The law demands that
they be publicly performed in a public
place. In practice no member of the
public, strictly speaking, saw any
thing of the execution of Duchemin,
the only eyewitnesses being 150 jour-
nalists, a dozen mounted gendarmes
and twenty policemen.
The difficulty in finding a place for
the g%uillotine since the Roquette
prison was pulled down has always
been proffered as an excuse for the
practical abolition of capital punish
ment which Paris has enjoyed or suf-
fered for the last ten years. That this
difficulty does not exist was shown
when the guillotine was erected at the
middle of the 800 yard wall of the
Prison de la Sante.
1t stood in the centre of four chest
nut trees belonging to the double line
of trees that border the Boulevard
Arago. Opposite this wall are the
grounds of a huge ~unoccupied con-
vent, SO that nothing overlooked the
spot. The only drawback was that
there is no door to the prison on this
side. Therefore the condemned man,
leaving by a door on Sante street at
right angles to the Boulevard Arago,
was driven some seventy yards along
this street and then $50 yards to the
place of death. Some 1900 troops
were on duty, barring every road
around the prison. Double and some
times triple cordons both on foot and
on horseback fifty yards apart made
1t an assurance that nobody could ap-
preach except those possessing a po-
lice pass.
At about 3.45 Deibler's men began
erecting the g~uillotine. Silently,
without the sound of a hammer, with
out a spoken word of command being
given, it was put together by the light
of a candle Pickering in an old time
lantern, and this was used even when
Deibler wished to test the machine
with a spirit level. Everything was
exact. In an hours time one of the
executioner's assistants blew out the
candle. All was ready. The knife
was run up to the top OF the frame,
but no test drop was made, so conf
dent was Deibler in his men and the
machine.
It was now the dawn of a perfect
summer day. AS the sun rose it re-
vealed the maroon colored @timber OF
Justice" Its position among the trees
robbed 1t of much of its crude horror.
Shortly before 8 o'clock, when it was
full daylight, the prison raj came
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-08-20
Sells sci GIFT Bill.

Thinking that a $40 bill given tc
him by his mother was a worthless
imitation, Raymond Leigh, thirteer
years old, son of Abraham Leigh, OF
Burlington, sold it for ten cents OF
"real money with which to buy can.
dy, and is looking fol- his customer
The $40 bill was in a purse in the
pocket of clothing sent by a New York
City friend.
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-08-20
ATLANTIC CITY FOR G. A. R.
Next Encampment to Be Held on New
Jersey Seashore.

Salt Lake City. Utah.-The forty.
third national encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic ended
with a fireworks display on Ensign
Peak, a mountain rising at the edge
of the city.
BY a vote of 307 to 293 Atlantic
City was chosen over st. Louis as the
place for the next encampment, after
a spirited fight.
After the final details OF the cor
vention were disposed of Commander
in-Chief Van SAINT. Ex-Governor OF
Minnesota, and his fellow-oficers
elective and appointiye, were in
stalled.
The Woman's Relief Corps elected
Mrs. Fannie w. D. Harden, of Den.
yer, senior vic~e-president, and Mrs
Jennie l.. Jones, of Salt Lake City.
junior vice-president.
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-08-20
Burglars in Carriage.

The police of Merchantyille
searched for a closed carriage, in
which, it is said, two burglars are
travelling about the country. Two
burglaries near Merchantville are
blamed upon the men. The house of
William Holmes, on the southwestern
limit of Merchantville, was entered
and a lot Of silverware stolen. The
same night thieves entered the home
of George Cook. at Colestown.
Among several things they stole
Cooks best suit of clothes. changed it
in the yard and left an old suit on the
lawn. At both places a closed car
riage was seen.
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-08-20
Out of the

Geraldine-"Why did you ask for
an introduction to me and why do
you now, knowing so little of me, ask
me to be our wife?''
Gerald-'I decided, the day that
[ saw you alight from a street car
and noticed that you did not get off
backward, that you were a remark
able woman New York Times.
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-08-20
Mrs. Thaw Raises 100000.

Pittsburg, Pa.-Proof that Mrs.
William Thaw is not yet done fight
ing for her son was given when she
disposed of a portion of the front
lawn of famous Lyndhurst to W. w.
Wilcox, the consideration being
cash and in the neighborhood of
100000 1t was but recently that
Mrs. Thaw borrowed 100000 on
Lyudhurst.
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-08-20
bow Falls 12O Feet.

A 18O-foot cliff rising from the
shore of the little lake at Newfound-
land, where the United Boys Brigade
Of America has its summer camp, has
proved a temptation to every youngs-
ter in the camp. Fourteen-year-old
Waite Broughton, of Hackensack,
when near the top, lost his balance
and pitched backward down the side
of the cliff. The entire camp was
aroused, and rescile parties found
him bruised, bleeding and uncon-
.cious, with both legs broken above
the knee and one also broken at the
ankle, whers-s bone PTetruded
through the skin.