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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-07-28
A great mass of birds covers the ground for miles

A great of birds covers the ground for miles
lleves him. and the male bird then takes up the
quest OF food AS the young birds emerge
from their shells the full attention both parents
is bestowed on them, bird always remaining
at home while the other looks after the food sup
ply However attentive the parent birds may be-
Just as soon as the young old enough to
take care OF themselves they absolutely for
saken and by this time great has been the at
tention to the youngsters that they are too fat to
move, and do not attempt to do so until starvation
compels them to seek food. Then they soon wob-
BILE their way to the water edge and within day
or two have learned the art of flying.
After the Matching season every bird leaves the
islands until the following September. Where
they go is not known. Their flight is very swift
and irregular, and if bird strikes any obstruction
the collision is usually fatal. So thick do they fly
that the lighthouse at Goose Island one of the
FurneauX group, has to be protected with iron
screening Against this tower hundreds of birds
meet death every night for period of about two
months each year.
The old birds unfit for food on account OF
their toughness and strong 1eshy-mutton taste
but great traffic is done in the young birds The
season for gathering the young lasts only about
six weeks but within that short time the inhab
tants of the islands, numbering about five hun
dred souls. earn sufficient money to support them
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-07-28

OIL This oil sells for twenty five cents gallon
The next state of the work is called fatting
This means that the outer coating of the birds,
which is a thick layer of fat, is taken off. This
fatty substance is boiled down in the same man
ner that hogs fat is rendered into lard. This pro-
cess results in a tallowy substance which has
also commercial value. The bodies of the birds
are then dressed, sailed down and packed in bar
rels Tor shipment, just enough being stored away
on the Islands to last the inhabitants until the
next season. These birds shipped to the coast
towns OF Australia, where they are used for food
chiefly in mining districts where fresh food is
hard to obtain and where the mutton-birds are
used as a substitute for salt pork
About one-half of the Inhabitants of the islands
where the mutton bird industry is carried on are
whites and the remainder feast descendants OF
the aborgines of Tasmania. The mutton birders
are required to pay government license of ESQ
year each, and the taking of eggs from the nests
is punishable by fine The birds are SO tame
during their abode on the islands that one may
walk amongst them and gather the young ones
without causing the flock the least alarm Not
withstanding the protection accorded the birds by
the government their numbers diminishing
year by year. This hardly he wondered at
when every year more than million young birds
are captured and killed for their meat and oil.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-07-28

natives OF these faroh islands Mutton Birds,'
for the reason that they exceptionally oily and
have an odor resembling that OF mutton. When
full grown the mutton bird is about the size of
the silver sea gull of our waters, and it's color at
first grayish black, with age becomes jet black
Their most important breeding places are in the
vicinity OF Tasmania and New Zealand, in the lat
ter island being of somewhat different variety and
white instead of black.
Every year, about September goth almost to L
day, these vast focks of birds seek their rocker
ies and for more than month the male and the
female are busy in restoring their old nests or il
building new ones. Where the soil is light and
loose the nests burrowed into the ground close
together but where there is sufficient shrubbery
to afford shelter the birds simply deposit their
eggs on the bare ocean beach. AS the birds are
away at in quest of food during the day the
nestmaking is carried at night, and Their chat
tering and squealing is SO loud that it can be
heard above the roar of the for miles, After
the nests have been prepared the female birds
each lay two eggs, when the pair of birds take
turns at the Matching, usually the male bird taking
the first turn. While thus engaged the female
birds go in search of food, bringing in a supply
at the close of each day to her mate. After the
lapse OF two weeks, by which time the first sitter
has become considerably wasted, the partner
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-07-28

one backwards. Some places tn
backward tracks had Slipped half
inch. The both tracks was by
tn same feet. The doubled tracks
stopped ten feet from tn crick.
Right opposite tn place where
they stopped was some mud
splashes on tn snow beside the
crick. 'Uh-huh, Mister Badman,'
says. you've jumped sideways"
Now, ten feet is a hell av Juno,
chief especially sideways, an |
only knowed av one man that
could make it. Then it all got
clear to me. l seen Spider as
plain as print, in tn whole lob.
Follerin' up the stream | comes to
tn spring at the head av tn run.
an there all traces stops. l know
he can't fly, but / see some snow
scraped off ay dog-wood limb
above. an agin I'm after i'm. One
av tn big branches av that dog
wood led right into a big beech
that has big limb reachin' over
tn chimbly of the old Lavigne
tenant hut. I goes all around tn
house an sees no tracks goin'
away. barricades all te' doors
and windows except tn front, an
that l knocks in with a big stonn
l digs from tn snow-an here he
is. III admit was lucky in hav-
in my gun held on i'm when tn
door busts in, as he was ready t.
git me with his knife. He said he
expected t stay there till dark, an
then hike"
VS. tn old man, with a twinkle in
[dering that you wear a blue uni
night-stick, you have used almost
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-07-28

pris Clancy was stickin' t
tn chap with tn wrist ornaments
an tryin' not t look proud-like a
Teller that jisht made ten-strike
in owlin'alley. Barrett an Lo-
gan was clost by. an whin they
pulled up tn hat from tn face av
tn guy, nobody was surprised in
cept t think we hadn't been better
prepared for what we seen.
1t was Spider" Lavigne, alias
Morgan, that tn gossips said had
good deal better right to tn
name O Lavigne than tn records
would show or that tn now muir
dered man had ever admitted. And
Spider was TIL toughest nut in
two or three counties and had been
known to be bitter against tn old
man. He had done time, between
circus ngagements-he was
dicknafler av an acrobat-in two
or three pens, an had been oct
only month or so.
@3Did you do it?" says TIL chief
to Spider
Spider" nodded.
II HEN OF Hawkeye's face went
green agin an tn old man
seen it an grinned joyful at
i'm.
TIL job av writin' down tn cr1m-
malls confession was short
one. In spite av tn warnin'
that his wurrds wud be
used agin i'm, he insisted on
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-07-28

selves in practical idle
ness for the rest of the
year.
The first stage of NUT
ton birding is known as
oiling. A stick pointing
at one end and driven in
the ground at the other
serves as a kind of spit
of skewer on which to
fix the birds as they are
gathered. AS the young
birds are taken their
necks are broken by a
quick and skilIful jerk OF
the hand, and they are
then fixed to the stick by
their beaks. When a cou-
pie OF hundred birds
have been hung up in this
manner the oil is ex-
tracted by squeezing firm
ly the body of the plrd
and passing the hand
gradually along towards
the neck until the oil ex-
udes from the beak. 1t
takes about 100 birds to
produce a gallon OF
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-07-28

Clancy says tn old man, with twinkle in
his eye, considering that you wear blue uni
form an carry nightstick, you have used almost
human intelligence in this case-what Mister
Hawkeye Harkins, not goin'. are you?"
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-07-28

Now"
Its a short yarn says Clancy winkin' con-
temptuously at OF Hawkeye, who seemed uncom-
Portable under the collar. Lookin' at tn
tracks, seen they doube-one forward an
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-07-28

b1urtln It all out. An when tn poor wretch was
safe In tn murder cell, tn chief give Clancy's
nand grip that wud've put lots o. arms in sling
fer a week, an then wild that warm teller feelin'
said:
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-07-28
ITO speak of a flock
of birds forty miles
in length and near.


in length and near
" half that many miles
wide and flying so close
together as to darken
the earth like the pass
ing of a storm cloud,
brings to mind the days
of the wild pigeon way
back in the seventies.
But that fine bird has
passed away. as our
robin, too, is passing,
and one would now have
to travel half the dis
lance around the earth
to see such flocks of
birds. The birds OF
which l write are the
sooty petrels which
make their home on and
about the Furneaux
group of islands, situat-
ed to the northeast oil
Tasmania and under the
government OF that Aus
tralian state. These
birds are called by the
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-12
Bid on Supplies.
MOTT-sM|TH CkBLED
GOVERNOR 70 TIMES

"I have burnt up the wires with
cables more times during the present
trip of Governor Frear to Washington
than ever BEFORE" said Acting Gov
ernor Mott-Smith last night. "During
the time that the Governor has been
gone this time, / have sent exactly
twenty cables to him.
Governor Frear, who is now en- route
to Honolulu on the Pacific Mail liner
Siberia, which left San Francisco on
Saturday last, left here on November
II, arriving at Washington on Deem
Der g He left Washington on the re-
turn trip on December 81. He was
just twenty-nine days in the Capitol
city, and almost got cable day.
The Governor sent twelve cables in
reply.
During the May-June trip of the
Governor to the mainland, Mott-Smith
sent two cables to the Chief Execu-
tive, while the latter carried away the
honors with seven.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-12
NUUANU VALLEY GETS
FAIR SHARE OF RAIN

The present kona weather is going to
relieve the water situation very mate
rally and allow resumption of active
construction work at the Nuuanu dam.
About noon yesterday a drizzling rain
set in at the reservoir and this has CON
tinued steadily since, soaking up the
ground, starting the waterfalls to spray
ing and gradually bringing up the level
of the waters behind the toe of the
dam. This time there has been no wild
Nuuanu zephyrs to hustle the raindIops
away, the wind this storm being up
instead of down the valley.
No measurements of the rainfall or
of the water accumulations were made
last night, but Contractor Whitehouse
is resting assured that the drought has
finally been broken.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-12

adjournment when Aylett got up and
presented Ordinance No. /. This was
entitled An Ordinance to " abolish all
Boards, Committees, Commissions, Off
ces, Positions and Employments created
by the Board of Supervisors of the
County of Oahu and after the enact
ing clause was Identical in wording with
the resolution which the County of
Oahu Supervisors adopted as their final
act; and with the motion which the
City and County Supervisors adopted
as almost their initial act, and which
they re-enacted on Tuesday night.
Apparently those ''boards, committees,
commissions, offices, positions and en-
Payments, - are hard to kill Perhaps
it won t be known whether they are
dead or not until the Supreme Court
has its say.
Quinn offered Ordinance No. 2. This
is entitled An Ordinance directing and
authorizing certain standing committees
of the Board of Supervisors to engage
and discharge all employees that such
committees may deem necessary for the
municipal service, to prescribe them
duties and to fix their compensation.
1t is in effect an ordinance to turn over
the road department to the Road Com.
mittee, the fire department and the cleo
trio light sysem TO the Fire Department
Committee, and all other departments
to another committee, to hire and dis
charge employees and fix their con-
pensation at will. without much let or
hindrance either from the Mayor or the
Board of Supervisors ITSELF For in,
stance the Road Committee is q directed
and authorized to engage and discharge
all employees by such committee deemed
necessary to maintain the public work
of the city and county on the roads,
bridges, garbage, parks, and public i'm,
provements thereof, to prescribe the du-
ties and services of said employees and
to fix their compensation. -
The committee under this ordinance
is not controlled in the number of en-
ployes it appoints or the compensation
it fixes by the Mayor or the Board OF
Supervisors or by both acting together
but can go ahead and employ as many
as it wants and pay them as much as
it wants, but at the last meeting of
the month must report what it has
| done to the board, and if the board by
majority vote disapprove of any
thing, E'such action so disapproved
shall be of no effect after the date of
Continued, on Page Two.)
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-12
THE SUPERVISORS
TRY TO BRACE UP
THEIR POSITION
Are Enacting for the Third Time Measures
the Validity of Which Is Questioned
by the Mayor.

The Republican majority in the
Board of Supervisors began a third at
tempt yesterday to legalize their effort
to take all appointing power away from
the Mayor, and vest it in their own
committees. This time the effort is
made to do it by ordinance. Two ordi-
nances and a resolution were introduced
covering identically the same ground
and couehed in almost the same word
ing as the motions that were made at
she special meeting of the Board On
Monday, and done over again at the
regular meeting on Tuesday night in
the effort to cure the doubt as to the
validity of Monday proceedings,
which the Republican majority's legal
advisers evidently felt. Doubts of even
the efficacy of Tuesdays curative pro-
ceedings seem now to be felt, for the
whole thing is being done over for a
third time, and this time by ordinance.
Whence the doubt of the validity arose
did not appear at the meeting yester,
day unless it came from w. o. Smith s
letter in the Advertiser Saturday, and
his public statement at the Men 8
League meeting Friday night, that the
law undoubtedly put the entire appoint
ing power in the Mayor with the right
of the Supervisors to approve or dis
approve.
There were some signs that yester,
days curative program had been de,
cided on in haste. Supervisor Logan
had not been informed of it, and the
introduction of the ordinances and reso-
hutton by Aylett, Quinn, and Kane, in
procession, came to him with the force
of novelty. He voted with Mcclellan
and against his Republican colleagues
on one motion in the program, though
he finally fell in with the programers,
and helped carry it through.
&. The Board met at 3 o clock yesterday
afternoon. All the members were pres,
ent except Cox, who hasn't been at any
of the meetings for several days. The
minutes of all the meetings since the
first were read and approved. The order
of business was called through without
anything of much Importance being pre-
scented, and Logan had risen to move an
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-12
BRAl)NEN NAHOME DUPES
THE TOWN AND SKIPS OUT
Smooth Dealer in Fruits Undersels EVERYBODY
Else, Pockets the Cash and Leaves
Creditors Behind

rush Braunen went to May & Co. and
made arrangements for fruits, but Man
ager Lucas insisted on cash payments.
The man ordered about $40 worth of
fruits and paid for them, but that was
his wedge. In some way he contrived to
get additional lots from May 6 Co.
Then he got cigars from Fitzpatrick;
he had a telephone put in and didn t
pay for it. He had lights installed and
didn t pay for them; he had a Chinese
assistant, and the boy hash t been paid.
May & Co. have receive no pay lately;
DR.. McGrew who owns the building
is out on the rent proposition. In fact
everybody with whom Nahome had deal
ings is out of pocket.
Braunen Nahome did up the town to
the tune of several hundred dollars He
disposed of his stock and converted
everything into cash and a steamer
ticket On Saturday when the Makura
was in port boxes of fruits selling at
$3.50 went for 81, and so on. Shortly
after noon Saturday the Greek left his
place of business and went aboard the
Makura. He booked as Braunen. Yes
terday morning May & Co. found out
they had been duped and took posses
sion of the stock remaining in the store.
By a curious coincidence Braunen is
a fellow passenger with Hugh Mcintyre
of May 6 Co. Mr.. Mcintyre is taking
a vacation and will be in the Colonies
for about three months. If May & Co.
decide to take any action they may
cable TO Mr.. Mcintyre at flaming ISL
and. or Suva. If Braunen has any
money Mr. Mcintyre might induce him
to part with it or a portion of it under
threats to make him sweat in a British
jail. OF course, even to cable TO Nc
Intyre costs money, and to the firm
it seems like a waste, or at least like
sending good money after bad.
The Syrian priest faker whom the
Advertiser headed off, also got away.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-12

Quick sales of other peoples oranges,
apples, grapefruit, pineapples, cigars,
etc., at prices lower than other dealers
could afford to sell the same things,
gave Braunen Nahome pocketful Of
ready cash, part of which went into a
steamer ticket and the remainder IS
with Nahome aboard the Makura en-
route to the Colonies. In short, Nahome
did up Honolulu and is now far away
from the islands. In fact, he was two
DAYS on the high seas before 1t was
known that he had duped the business
community.
Braunen Nahome is Greek who ar
rived in town a few weeks ago and
rented the vacant store at the corner OF
Beretania avenue and Alakea where he
set himself up as a dealer in fresh
fruits. The opening of this establish
ment was watched with considerable
interest by passersby. Boxes of oranges,
apples, lemons and pears were tempt
ingly displayed. The big windows were
opened SO that the fruit could be bought
quickly by persons waiting for cars.
The fruit came in large lots from Cali
fornia and was placed on the market at
very low prices. That caused wonder,
but Braunen had ready explanations.
"Quick sales, small profits Just cash
business all around.
However. Braunen was not always an
agreeable salesman. IF a person asked
for fruit and started to pick it ont him
self he received rebuke from Braunen,
and much trade was driven away on this
account. The goods from the coast were
received from an uncle of John Detor,
the manager of the Union Grill. A bill
of about $3.50 was run up, and this has
not been paid. Then during the holiday
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-12
EARTHQUAKE SHAKES THE
PUGET SOUND DISTRICT
WILL NOT PRESS
FOR LAND RETURN
U. S. Government to Retain
Valuable WahiaWa Pine
apple Land.

On account of the extended plans
that are being worked out at the Unit
ed States military reservation at Lei
1ehua, it is now felt that the Terri
torial authorities will not press for the
return of the eastern portion of tho
reservation, as was at first seriously
contemplated Some time ago move
ment was started to get about half
of the e. S. reservation back by the
Territorial authorities, as this land,
near Wahiawa, includes over one thou
sand acres on which pineapples are
now being cultivated.
According to the letter received here
from Governor Frear, the probabilities
are that this matter will be entirely
dropped. The land in question is Just
beyond Wahiawa, and is very valuable.
There are 1467 acres in the tract, and
of this 400 acres are now being used
by private corporations for the cult
walton of pineapples. The Governor
speaks of the great things that the
military authorities are planning for
that reservation, and hints at plans
more vast than have as yet been dream
ed Of
Tie Governor states, however, that
the probabilities are that good por
ton of the government land lying back
of the face of Punchbowl will be re-
turned to the Territory. Easements
for rignts-of way to the two Terrific,
rial reservoirs at Diamond Head will
also probably be granted by the Fed
eral Government.
Bid on Supplies.
Governor Frear is urging the mill
tary authorities that the merchants OF
Hawaii should be given an opportunity
to bid on the supplies for the Army
posts soon to be in full blast here. This
matter is one that has not yet been
given very serious consideration by
the local merchants, though it is vital
Continued on Page Four.)
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-12
INSANITY IS
NOW CHARGED
AtcherIey to Be Brought Be-
fore the Court for
Examination.

A formal charge of insanity was en-
tered against DR.. John Atcherley at 5
o clock yesterday afternoon, and the
presentation of the charge will be made
before the district magistrate this
morning. The complaint is signed by
DR.. Emerson and DR.. Sinclair. DR..
Emerson has been treating DR.. Atcher-
ley constantly ever since he was
brought to the police station on Sun
day morning, two hours after mid
night, and just after he fired several
shots into the house Of DR.. John Way
son.
Mrs. Mary Atcherley, wife of the
imprisoned doctor, tells a grotesque
story of how DIR. Wayson was the ag-
gressor, not her husband on Sunday
morning, and that Dr. Atcherley mere
ly followed the doctor up and pumped
his revolver at Wayson S house, after
first taking a shot at him in front of
the Atcherley office on Emma street.
The story of Mrs. Atcherley goes
back several days to Thursday and
Friday. when she alleges the founda-
ton of DR.. Atcherley's retaliation :
to have been laid. She says that some
one has been providing around their
home on several nights. Thursday
night they heard the mysterious in
truder. On Friday morning at 2
o clock, she says, she was awakened
by some one knocking on rear door
and calling out Doctor Mrs. At
cherley says she called to her husband,
but they decided to pay no attention
TIC the midnight visitor, although the
doctor, as a physician, is supposed to
Continued on page g.
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there is this much The over-expendi-
lures in Honolulu were made by Super
visor Dwight and Road Supervisor Cum
Minis without the authority of the Board
and in the direct face of the Chairman g
warnings and protests
The effect of this is going to be felt
for the next six months. When Super
visor Logan introduced his fnarcial
budget for the first six months of this
year, he figured on balance remaining
to the credit of the municipality of
$4,000, and his bill appropriated this
as well as everything else in sight in
the way of money, coming out even
then with estimated expenditures $500
over total receipts, including surplus.
Now that this surplus is found to be
sliced to the amount of $1,000, the six
months appropriations, if spent as
voted, will leave the county eight thou
sand dollars in the hole by July I,
while it is not improbable that expenses
other than those included in the first
estimate will be found necessary.