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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-01-01
JOHN BAKERS
ADVICE To HILO

1t was at last weeks meeting of the
Board of Trade that Governor John
Baker was induced, after very urgent
persuasion, to give few suggestions
to the business men of Hilo who were
assembled to reorganize the Board.
The Governor said that the idea oc-
Cured to him when he was last tra-
yelling the Pacific Coast, and the ap-
plause with which it was received was
evidence that it was appreciated. Gov
ernor Baker said:
when recently on the Pacific Coast
l asked myself repeatedly what benefit
we gained from advertising Hawaii.
Tourists come to the Islands and they
spend money. They go to the Vol
cano, hut what does Hilo get? Moth
ing. l am a rancher. If 1 want my
morse l tie it to a fence Why should
we not tie the visitors to Hilo? But
We don't.
"In San Francisco l went to Golden
Gate Park, saw trees and grass, but
no fruit, a few deer and bears, more
trees and more grass. At Seattle l
saw another park just about the same
as the one in San Francisco. At Van
couver there was another park, Stan
ley park think l was there for two
hours. 1t had trees and grass and a
few birds. In an Australian park there
was a big cannon and some big sta
tues. 1n"Japan I was sent to see q
wonderful waterfall but could not FIND
it. There, was a little water falling
over stone and 1 was told that was it
but it was not a waterfall.
"Why should we not make a parE
here in Hilo? We have waterfalls
waterfalls that are worth seeing
caves and other things that would
make a''park interesting. We car
show them the Hawaiian way of liv
= ing, plant bananas, papaias, pineap
e pies and let the visitors pick the frui
4 for themselves. Strangers ask funn.
:, questions about Hawaii. They asker
me about taro and said, Is it good?
y answered, look at me, l eat it. / tel
{ them to ask for me if they come t
q Hawaii and 1 will show them Hawaii
an things and how the Hawaiians live
But we must have a good hote
i where they can stay, not little plac
where you are eaten by mosquitoes
We must get 500 acres from the Terr
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-01-01

tory for our park. 1t is near here
within drive of Hilo. Leave it as it
is with it's own trees, do not plant
grass, but build our Hawaiian houses
and plant our own fruit for the visi-
tors to see. Then we can keep them
here for a week before they go to the
Voncano, and they will spend money
here, the ladies with Holmes, with
Brughelli for hacks, and with all of
u.s."
Mr.. Scott thanked Governor Baker
for his remarks and there were gen
eral favorable comments made con-
corning them by all present.-Hawaii
Herald.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-01-01
DR.. WAYSON INVITED
TO BERGEN CONFERENCE

Molokai Settlement, DIR. Wayson has
spent more time in the study of this
disease than any other man in the
Territory. His services on the Board
of Health in this regard have been
extremely valuable and have been so
recognized by the members of the me-
dical fraternity here and abroad.
The invitation to DR.. Wayson comes
from the society itself and is signed
by the President, G. A. Hansen, and
the secretary, H. P. Lie. The former
is considered one of the greatest ex-
perts on the subject of leprosy in the
world and it is through his discovery
of the bacilli of leprosy in 1874 that
much of the progress made to combat
the disease is due.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-01-01

Drs. Brinckerhoff, e. s. Goodhue and
w. j. Goodhue have not been the only
ones in this Territory to be specially
invited to take part in the Interna-
tional Conference on Leprosy, which
will be held under the authority of
the Department of Justice of the Ro-
yal Norwegian Government in Ber-
gen, Norway, next year. The last mail
brought a special invitation to DR..
Wayson of this city asking that he
take part in the gathering.
This comes as a recognition of the
services which DR.. Wayson has per-
formed in this city. 1t may be said
with little chance of contradiction
that, with the exception of Dr. Good
hue Of Kona and the doctors at the
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-01-01
MORTALITY MOST REMARKABLE.

M tbo,ands of people killed in the great Italian earu-
,? About four years ago San Francisco was shaken 50 @
deds Of buildings ruined and the loss OF me was oaoe
| b the fashion since that the fire did the great
I The first dispatches right after the shock ana Ge
naagraton was under way reported the city wrecke Dy %
No. little loss Of life easy to understand now 5Oo pr
were stricken dead by awful blast at Martinique pu now c
italian and Sician cities very clear Probably the S Wa
mich more severe either San Francisco or valparaiso am
No escanes and possibly report of great illumination Oh W
e inst before the shock indicating blasts from StromDo ana
nav mean wave of such deadly fumes as wtered all tney
% G. pierre blew up or scattered dust the SKIES al
d the gobe after Krakatoa exploded Tidal waves would also
account for many deaths.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-01-01
A GOOD RECORD.

Husace retes from the headsp of the Oahu county
government its last term with great credit himself His col
leagues the Board of Supervisors necessarily be included
any acknowledgment of faithful management of the coun at
for the directing capacity and the financial
wisdom of the chairman the record might have been much less mat
congratulations It the initiative of Mr. Husace that
expenditures during the closing three
months of the year, with special view that the Board of the
municipal system should have begin its with empty
treasury The balance the county leaves the municipality is more
handsome amounting to between $4,000 and $4,000
disappearing county administration should leave such sub
the city and county housekeeping is the
that leaves record of extensive
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-01-01

HILO, Dec. 31.-H. M. Ayres, the
best sporting writer of the Territory,
arrived yesterday by the Mauna Kea
and was welcomed by hosts of friends,
Only three cases of drunkenness
during Christmas week indicate that
Hilo is a good temperance town. With
one case of assault and battery there
were no other entries on the police
court blotter.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-01-01
EXIT SENATOR FORAKER.

Foraker has withdrawn candidate for reelection to the Unit
ed States Senate finally admitting his political death During the
present session he is carving Brownsville fight with all his ola
gor and ability but will feelings that he will retire on
March dscredted and his old Ohio enemy take
the Presidency the next day. His the Senate to be
Congressman Burton Ohio who chairman of the Rivers and
Harbors Committee has done lot for Hawaii.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-01-01

~ s ooinp the rounds little joker was inserted IN tne
% and county act in the provision that the mayor must make %
Of anponents before Board Of Supervisors met ana u
all the old county appointments should expire no WI"
20 have n1aned this little chucked the story De uue
when they thought nice time the first mayor would
r The NV BOARD of Supervisors had legal existence But hen
thew Toured on different mayora Repub1canand they uoue
the Democrats danger of getting too many supervisors H.
LIGHT Of the present situation this story is very s.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-01-01

Teacher of Eloeution-Now, Mr..
Brown, do be more spirited! Just open
your mouth and throw yourself into
it.-Exchange.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-01-01

The LARGEST estimate numbers dead in the great Italian as
.ste annoXate the total population of the great city OF San F
cisco at the time of her calamity double the population OF an
these islands at the the of 1900 1t three times
number Of men killed in during the tour years o.
never surpassed fighting American Civil War and is about
eoa1 to the sum all the armies with which General Wa
ton won American independence In the light of calamity like thar
others of history dwndle
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-01-01

improvements every department of the public services under its
troll
Mr. Huace colleagues fully demonstrated for Oahu
which capital of the Territory that county government
has not a failure
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-04-02

James Stillman, ex-president of the
National City bank of New York, pos.
sesses the distinction of being the
most silent man in the business world
who is still capable of speech and
when Mr.. Stillman designs to speak
it is usually to say "No" IF called
upon" says Mr.. Stillman, Ito advise
a youth on the Threshold of his career
as to the shortest, surest, easiest trail
to wealth and power, my counsel
would exhaust itself In bidding him to
say Noon all occasions. Yes is a
drunkard, bankrupt, sometimes a
felon. 1t is frequently pitied, always
despised. No" leads in responsibility,
in solvency, in the enconium and con-
fidence of men"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-04-02

seems probable that at the coming
city election the largest vote in Nor
folks history win be cast. Every
effort has been put forth to make it
possible for all the voters in the new
territory to share in the FIRST election
under the new rule.
With the last obstacle removed
Norfolk is right now up to the paving
proposition and the way is clear to
put the question up to the public at
an early date.
The News believes that the people
of Norfolk are tired of mudhole for
a main street, that they want to
pave aud that they will emphatically
declare for paving by rejoicing j. D..
Sturgeon mayor
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-04-02
THE STURGEON PLATFORM.

]. ID. Sturgeon has served but one
term as mayor of Norfolk. His record
and the attitude which he takes upon
public questions of uppermost interest
to Norfolk at this time, bespeak for
him'a second term.
During the past year Mr.. Sturgeon
as mayor has conducted the affairs of
his Office literally and progressively.
He is not a radical or an extremist in
any direction.
Contrary to certain statements
which have been circulated during the
past few days, J. D. Sturgeon is not
in favor of making Norfolk a dry"
town. He is distinctly against any
movement to introduce prohibition
into this city.
AS against prohibition, Sturgeon
stands in favor of reasonable regula-
tion of the saloons of Norfolk. Saloon
keepers share this belief that the
saloons should be regulated accord
ing to the demands of good order and
common decency. Such regulation
has been exercised during Surgeons
administration during the past year,
and as a result it has been year of
unusual good order and of little
drunkenness or crime, great or
small.
Mayor Surgeons idea of regulating
the saloons is not necessarily ex-
pressed in the ordinance passed a
year ago at the instance of the saloon
men as a compromise measure. Some
other plan, embracing liberal regu-
lation and insuring law and order in
the community, would probably prove
equally acceptable to him.
Mr.. Sturgeon was elected mayor
year ago as an advocate of paving
Norfolk avenue at the earliest possible
moment. He found legal obstacles
which were temporarily insurmount-
able and Immediately set about it to
clear the way so that paving would
be possible. Just this week the last
legal barrier to paving was cleared
away when outside districts were an
nexed to Norfolk city, giving Norfolk
more than 5000 population and thus,
under the law, making it possible for
people of the city to vote bonds for
paving the street intersections.
The litigation having come to an
end, the ordinance enlarging the cor
porate limits and increasing the num-
ber of legal voters within the city,
was passed under suspension of the
rules Thursday night, and 1t now
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-04-02
ANY DUTY ON LUMBER A CRIME

ANY DUTY ON LUMBER A CRIME.
1t is well known that the big lum-
ber interests of the country have been
at work for months in an attempt to
prevent the abolition of the favors
which they now enjoy They have
camped down at Washington. They
have had command of a literary
bureau. They have canvassed mem.
bers of the new congress and the old.
OF course they have all kinds OF
money to spend, and they have the
support of powerful men like Aldrich
in the senate and Cannon in the
house. The result of all this appears
in the proposal for only a moderate
reduction of the duty on lumber.
1t is to be hoped that there will be
a revolt against this in congress, no
matter what it costs in delay. Such
crime should not be permitted. The
Republican party cannot afford to be
responsible for it. The country will
never let congress rest while the in
fanny continues. From the very first
moment there should be concentra-
ton of effort upon the destruction of
the lumber tariff, which has never
had one legitimate excuse for exis-
tence, and which is today the brazen-
est of all frauds and the most con-
spicuous instance in this country of
the power of graft.
Not one of the reasons that may be
given in support of the principle of
protection applies to lumber. The
supply here has always been more
abundant and cheaper than anywhere
else. To assert that Canada has
cheaper labor in her forests than we
do, when there is no tariff on the
laborer, and he can walk across the
line any day he pleases If wages are
higher on the other side, is to insult
First, We gave away
these invaluable supplies of timber,
which should have been the resource
Of the nation for generations to come.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-04-02

Sir Hiram Maxim, the American
born and British titled inventor, be-
lieves that the perfecting of the flying
machines marks the end of war. 1t
Is Sir Hiram's belief that flying ma
chimes will be carrying the mails
within short time, that they will be
cheaper to build than motor cars and
will fly eighty miles an hour 1t ap-
pears to Sir Hiram that with the per-
fection of these powerful airships, no
nation can fortify itself against at
tack. Under cover of darkness and
clouds an enemy will be able to rain
destruction upon city be it ever so
carefully fortified. 1t is true that this
wholesale destruction would be just
as possible to one nation as to an
other. But such mutual destruction
would accomplish nothing but ruin
and that on such scale as of neces-
sity to preclude war. Whether Sir
Hiram's prophecy overleaps the mark
no one can say at this time but it is
certain that the world is on the eve
of great changes that will have a
Transforming effect upon our future
civilization.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-04-02

Daniel Frohman, one of the head
moguls in the theatrical trust, has
recently been figuring in a new role,
that of divorce. And like other en-
terprises with which Mr.. Frohman has
been connected, he did the business up
in the best way possible in true Chester
fieldan fashion. He issued an artis-
tic little statement of the matter of his
own account in which he explained
that he had perhaps been over ambi-
tious for his wife's professional sue
cess, while she, he had discovered too
late, was pining for a domestic
career. His hope was that she would
get her divorce, marry the other man
who was a splendid fellow, and live
happily forever after. If divorces
must be, Mr.. Frohman has certainly
shown us how to do the thing in a
genteel way.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-04-02
FEDERAL EXPENDITURES.

The single criticism which the
country will pass upon the new ad-
ministration is that, while it shows
appreciation of the financial condition
of the treasury and of the need of
raising an adequate revenue, it has
not considered apparently the neces.
sity for any retrenchment of eXpendi-
ture. AS this will have to be con-
sidered, and that before very long,
the sooner the administration sets
about it the better. IL should do this
pressure, and not under compulsion.
Let any one turn to the total of ma
tional appropriations twenty years
ago and he will understand what is
meant. 1t would be foolish to as
sumo that expenses can always be
kept at the same level. The country
grows, and expenses must grow with
it. 1t would be unfair to ignore the
cost of enforcing new policies which
the country has approved and to
which President Taft alluded in his
inaugural These regulative and pre-
ventive policies require the expendi-
ture of money, and the people will
contribute it willingly. But all these
things combined do not account for
the actual doubling of expenses with.
in comparatively few years. They
do not excuse the steady rise, session
after session, of the appropriated
total To speak of them in this con-
nection may not be insincere, but it
is disingenuous.
The great increase in the nations
expense account is in items which can
perfectly well be scaled down. We
could cut quarter of a billion and
be none the worse off. Our total ex-
'penses in connection with the army
should shock all Americans We do
not need as much money for the army.
Our navy has grown beyond all reason,
unless we mean to embark on a
career of world conquest, and mil
lions upon millions are spent in the
navy yards for political work purely
Our pension system is wide open. And
in every department and every appro-
priation bill swarm the scavenger
flies, looking for sustenance and gen.
orally finding it. A change has to come
Either we will retrench or we will
keep on increasing outgo until taxes
berome oppressive and the people re-
bel. Would it not be good policy to
anticipate that by judicious economy
now?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-04-02

The Valentine caucus of the Citi-
zens' party nominated w. S. Jackson,
George Elliott and E. C. Davenport as
trustees, the first two being renomi-
mated.
The Wayne caucus nominated the
following ticket: For mayor, Henry
Leu; for clerk, Martin Ringer; for
school board, F. l.. Neely and ID. C.
Main; for councilmen: w. w. Kings.
bury, F. l.. Nicely and Albert Jacobs
in the three wards.
For trustees the Hoskins caucus has
nominated Fred Miller, John Kaulen,
Ed Pfeil, j. w. Overman, August
Deck and Gus Schroeder, of which
number three will be elected
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-04-02

Prince Michael Hillkoff, the great
railroad builder of Russia, is dead. He
learned the railroad business from the
track laborer up in America when a
young man and in Russia was master
under the government of every line of
railway in the entire empire. He con-
structed the Siberian line and during
the Japanese war took personal
charge of it. He was colaborer with
Witte in planning to develop Russia
into great industrial and commercial
nation. They had accomplished much
before the grand dukes decreed the
war against Japan which threw the
nation back into misery and poverty.
Had the czar been strong man they
might have succeeded, but today the
case is more hopeless than when Hill
koff and Witte began their work.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-04-02

In some cases honestly, but In many
others by the grossest frauds, and in
all for a pittance, this property passed
into the hands of capitalists who have
destroyed 1t as rapidly as possible for
the satisfaction of present greed. You
may find them among the millionaires
in the United States senate, and their
sons among the most offensive high
rollers of the new generation. Their
wealth was accumulated at the cost of
every farmer, of every working man.
Now our forests are nearly gone. Is
this outrage to continue?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-04-02

The need of reforestration of the
cut over wooded lands has been re-
peatedly mentioned in these columns
and the many reasons why 1t should
not be longer neglected dwelt upon,
but there is one thing which works
strongly against the reforesting of
large tracts, this is the fact that as
soon as trees are planted the taxes
start and grow as fast if not faster
than the trees do though a long
series Of years must pass before any
profit can be realized on the enter.
prise. 1t is of inestimable value 10
any and every state in the union to
have its forests renewed, both for the
value of the timber to future gener-
ations, the good of the soil itself and
the effect the forests have on rain
fall and drainage. If suspension of
taxation upon barren lands will en-.
courage their reforestration it ought
by all means to be granted until such
time as the forests become valuable
again.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-04-02

hard to forgive and forget the sneer.
ing laughter over his signal failure TO
deliver the fair weather he promised
for Inauguration day. The science of
weather prediction has made great
strides since the first crude attempts.
With the planting OF every new sta.
tion the weather man gets more of q
grip on his subject Nine times out of
ten he gives the country reliable in.
formation as to what will happen and
the people accept 1t and forthwith
forget all about the weather man. But
once let him make a slip and the
whole country Is up in arms.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-04-02

Quite a contention is in progress be,
tween literary critics as to whether
Dickens was a Socialist or not. 1t is
very true that Charles Dickens did
more to reform social abuses in Eng
land by his exposure, sarcasm and
ridicule of existing conditions and
those who were responsible for them.
But he had no social scheme to recon-
mend. He made war not so much on
the institution as upon the evil in
human nature which conceived the
institutions, Dickens was not a
Socialist. He simply possessed a re-
markable insight into human nature
and a genius for portraying 1t. The
only remedy advocated by him was
the plain old gospel remedy Of per-
suading men and women to leave their
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-04-02

Wilbur Wright, who is now known
abroad as the "bird man." has many
crowned heads turned admiringly to
watch his wonderful aerial journeys.
But among royalty King Alfonso Is
the worst victim of the fever to fly.
1t has been his fond ambition to be the
first sovereign to fly. He was about
to make a trip with Wright when the
dowager queen objected to the risk
and the affair had to be called off
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-04-02

If there is one man on the face of
the earth who deserves the sympathy
of his fellow men, that man is Eng
lands prime minister. He is pursued
day and night by ungentle hordes of
the so-called gentle sex. His official
residence is beseiged all the time by
bands and mobs of suffragettes, who
shy bricks through his plate glass
windows, hold up his carriage and
employ every conceivable trick and
device to gain entrance to his house
There seems no possibility of stopping
them. Arrests have no effect. They
believe that the greater the persecu-
tion and publicity the stronger is their
hope of winning the ballot 1t is not
strange that the premier and leaders
of parliament are determined not to
give a voice in the government to
women who will degrade themselves
by such exhibitions of unwomanliness.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-04-02

Henry S. Prichett in the North
American Review argues at consider
able length that the war with Spain
was entirely unnecessary, but 1t
doesn't seem to change the fact that
the war was carried to successful
finish, with results that have effected
many millions. Isn't it little late to
discuss whether it was necessary or
not?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-04-02
MEYER COUNTY OPENING.

The fact that Major Mclaughlin IS
now in the Rosebud negotiating with
the Rosebud Sioux Indians for treaty
whereby Meyer county shall be
opened, confirms the statement given
to The News last fall by Judge
Witten, that it is the policy of the
government to open these lands as
quickly as possible.
Prospects seem good now for an
other land rush, therefore, within the
next three or four years at the least.