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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-18
Promoter Liable.

Having taken the case under advise
ment a week ago, Judge Andrade yes
terday rendered a decision in the suit
brought by Wal Chou against Ho Fon
to recover 1926. The decision is in
favor of the plaintiff and by virtue
of it Ho Fon will probably have pilikia
muchly on his hands.
Ho Fon is the promoter of the Sun
Chin Kwock Bo, a Chinese newspaper
published here and incorporated a short
time ago. A hui of well-to-do Chinese
subscribed for the stock to get the
paper going and they have now come
out with statement that there. is fraud
somewhere.
One of the subscribers was Wal Chau,
who bit for the sum mentioned, and
after considering the evidence, Judge
Andrade considers the promoter liable
to him.
Ho Fon denies that he was the prin-
cipal promoter, but the manager and a
paid employee of the paper.
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rs GOING TO ADVANCE.

Invest your money in income bring
ing property. Why give the landlord
all the proits Own your own home!
PAY RENT TO YOURSELF!
The man that owns his own home,
besides being independent, should make
at least 10 per cent. on the money in
vested. If you will give US the oppor-
tunity, we sill figure it out for you,
and also give you any other informa-
ton you desire.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-18

ney yesterday in the juvenile court, his
case going over until today.
Funoda, arraigned in Jude De Bolt 5
court on two charges, one for assaulting
a woman and one for carrying deadly
weapon, yesterday pleaded guilty 10
botn. He was given suspended SEN
tence on the former charge and SEN
fenced to pay fine of $50 for the
second.
For stealing Sam Damon 5 red heifer,
Frank Marks was Yesterday sentenced
to six months at hard labor. Manoel
Ferreira, codefendant. was given a
suspended sentence. Both had pleaded
guilty to the charge.
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BEACH CONCERT.

There will be a public band concert
this evening at half-past seven O'Clock
at the Seaside Hotel. The program
will be as follow:
Overture-The Road to Glory. :. king
Intermezzo-The Flower Girl. ,Wenrich
Idyll-The Evening Chimes. Robinson
Selection-Il Trovatore .... Verdi
Nocal-Hawaiian Songs. Ar. by Berger
Selection-Glittering Glowworm. -.
.... ................... Lincke
Waltz-Count Hoffman -. .Offenbach
Finale-Mary Observation-Disclosures. Berger
The Star Spangled Banner.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-18
COURT SPLIT
ON LAUNDRY CASE
Wilder Dissents From Opinion
Which Calls for a
License Tax.

AS the result OF an opinion rendered
by Chief Justice Hartwell in the
supreme court, yesterday, Associate
Justice Wilder dissenting, it is proba-
BILE that Sing High will sing lower in
future and meanwhile pay his laundry
license like a gentleman. Sing High,
according to the Session Laws of 1907,
should pay twenty-five dollars for a
license to run his laundry and after
the case got TO the circuit court, he
demurred to the charge, saying that
the act was unconstitutional as it de-
MED him the equal protection of the
laws, in contravention of the Four
teenth Amendment.
'The act provides, - says the opin-
ion, "that the treasurer may issue IL
censes 'to maintain and operate a
laundry, and dyeing and
cleaning works upon such conditions as
to location and otherwise as shall be
set forth in the license and that
'such license shall not be issued ex-
cept upon a certificate of the board
of health setting forth that the loca-
ton at which it is proposed to operate
such laundry is suitable for
the purpose.
The opinion continues and says that
the act was probably not intended to
authorize the treasurer to impose con-
ditions for granting an application for
a laundry license and it is only if such
IL
to be declared invalid
''We see no reasons says the chief
justice, "why the legislature could not
properly regard a laundry as liable to
be harmful to the public health and
in the same category as a lodging
house, nor why the suitableness of its
location is not appropriately left for
the board of health to determine. If
at any time the board, in determining
such matters, should go outside of its
legitimate functions in caring for the
public health and act arbitrarily 1t
could be required to grant the GER
tifcate.'
Sing High demurred to the charge
on constitutional grounds in the lower
court and the case came before the
supreme court on a reserved question.
After considering the question as
above, the court decides that the de-
murrer should be overruled.
In his dissenting opinion, Wilder
says: "There is a clear distinction
between occupations which may be re-
garded as harmful or dangerous in
themselves, such as that of selling in
toxicating liquors, and those which, like
keeping lodging house or doing a
laundry business, are necessary to the
welfare or convenience of the eommu-
nifty, and which are harmful and dan
gerous, if at all, only because of the
particular way in which they may be
conducted. In the former no person
has an absolute right to engage; in the
latter all persons have an equal right
to engage. The former may be regulat-
ed or restricted to any extent, even to
the extent of prohibitions; the latter
may be regulated only to a reasonable
extent and with reference to the evils
to be remedied or avoided. Where dis
cretiOnary powers are placed in execu-
tive officers, there should be something
in the statute to guide or control the
action of the officers -
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WHAT PRESS AGENTS SAY.
The Bonine.

"The Pretty Side of Molokai" will
be on again at The BONNIE tonight Per-
haps no series of descriptive pictures
ever exhibited here has aroused the
same curious interest and favorable
comment. They depict new phase of
the situation long overlooked by those
who have attempted to describe the
place and conditions to the outside
world
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Courthouse Notes.

Mary Borges has filed petition in
the circuit court for letters OF admins
tration for the estate of her late hus-
band, Marianne J. Borges. The estate
amounts to $3.50. and will probably be
divided between the widow. two daugh-
tiers, and four sons
Letters of administration have been
issued by Judge Robinson to John Mott
for the estate of Caroline Mott. He has
not been placed under bond.
Saburo Koga yesterday changed his
plea in the federal court on one of four
charges against him to read guilty in
stead of not guilty. He will be SEN
fenced today. The demurrer of the de-
PENDANTS has been overruIed in the Ko-
dana case. where three japanese are
charged with conspiring to sell woman
for 800.
FL lie Markham. arraigned lately for
Steanng chickens belonging to one Har-
MS, has been graduated to Panama hats.
and IS at present in trouble for mis-
apProPriating that article OF headwear.
lie was arraigned before Judge Whit
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Long-Distance Witnesses.

Attorney Glenn X. Quinn yesterday
filed in the circuit court a motion to
have the case of the Territory versus
Tom J. Quinn set over until March 10
at ten o clock in the morning There
are several reasons why the continuance
is asked but chiefly for the reason thar
Quinn S witnesses are not here
The motion states that one of them
is at present in New York and the
other in San Francisco. Quinn is charg-
ed with needless driving, having whisk-
ed man off the running board of a
tram car with his automobile and in,
jured him. The witnesses he wants
were probably passengers in his
machine at the time the accident hap
pened
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WE DELIVER FULL-WEIGHT rcr
TO YOUR DOOR FOR TWENTY
FIVE CENTS PER HUNDRED
BARNHART, TELEPHONE 1as ,rrr
CHANT STREET.
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DAMIEN COUNCIL, NO. SIS, Y. MI,
meets every second and fourth Wednesday at
1880 o'clock p. m. in St. Louis College
Alumni Hall {Dreier Hal), Union street.
Visiting members are always welcome
W. J. GALLAGHER, President
Fl. P. O'SULLIVAN. Secretary
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POLYNESIA ENoAupMENT NO. /.
HARMorY LODGE NO 8, I. O. O. =.
PACIFIC REBEKAH LODGE NO. /,

Meets every second and fourth Thursday,
at 7:s0 D. m, Odd Fellows Hall. Visiting
RebekAhs are cordially invited to attend.
FREIDA Won BERG, N. G.
ALICE NICHOLSON, Secy.
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General Demand

General Demand
of the Well Informed of the World has
always been for a simple, pleasant and
efficient liquid laxative remedy of known
value; laxative which physicians could
sanction for family use because its COM
ponent parts are known to them to be
wholesome and truly beneficial in effect,
acceptable to the system and gentle, yet
prompt, in action.
In supplying that demand with its ex-
cellent combination of Syrup of Figs and
Elixir of SIENNA, the California Fig Syrup
Co. proceeds along ethical lines and relies
on the merits of the laxative for its remark
able success,
That is one of many reasons why
Syrup of Figs and Elixir of SIENNA is given
the preference by the Well Informed
To get, its beneficial effects always buy
the genuine-manufactu by the Cali
fornia Fig Syrup Co, only, and for sale
by all leading druggists, Price fifty cents
per bottle.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-02-11
ssOId Fashioned Winters?,,

1t isn't necessary to go back to 9TH
er days to know what "old fashioned
winters" are. We have that kind
right along. A bit of December with
much October and touch of April the
first few weeks of winter is nothing
new. The oldest inhab will con-
fess that if cross questioned OF
course he remembers the tough win
ters and likes to harp on them just to
make the ''tenderfoot" shiver. But it
is down in his diary, if he has one,
and if not there it is in the officially
compiled records that there have al
ways been "all sorts of weather." and
the label exceptionally mild' and
Exceptionally severe was often
placed within the same decade.
Ten years ago we had severe win
ter when compared with the many
mild ones which had preceded it. Five
years ago there was another cold win
ter and as the one following was also
colder than some that had been expe-
rienced it was argued by certain
prophets that increased severity might
be expected right along. The predic-
tion failed. And if we should have
rivers frozen to bear the heaviest traf-
fic and good sleighing across country.
over the highest fences. it would MOI
argue that the climate is changing
Such winters are remembered by the
oldest inhabitant, but he is stopped
from claiming that they were the fash
ion in his boyhood by the official rec
ords of temperature for the past fifty
years. The winter averages have been
about the same, and there have been
no cold groups or periods. If any
thing, the cold weather record belongs
to the last twenty-five rather than to
the first twenty-five of the fifty years
here considered So the ways of win
ter have not changed, and the old sort
fingers with u.s.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-02-11
Scenery as a Resource,

The public reservation principle,
grand as it is in theory, is likely to
follow the general law and strike a
snag whenever strong interests clash.
The Yosemite reservoir is a case in
point The Yosemite reservation owes
Its existence to the fine scenery in
cluded in the area. The dispute be-
tween the defenders of scenery and
the people who want to break in and
get drinking water which the scenery
guards and makes pure resolves itself
ultimately into question as to who
shall come in for the benefits of res
ervation. In a double sense the PRO
tected" scenery is resource 1t at
tracts tourists, who must spend money
to get there and to live there, and it
supplies water in abundance.
There are numerous instances of nat
ural scenery proving a valuable re-
source. SwitZerland's chief resource
is tourist money. Italy's scenery and
history attract tourists from all over
the world. Norway and Scotland have
found their scenery to be veritable
gold mines. In this country the White
mountains and the Adirondacks draw
money to the neighborhood. The peo-
pie nearest are the greatest bene-
factors, but all within the sphere
get something out of natures plant.
It isn't all profit, and naturally those
who make access possible and sojourn
comfortable and are always fright on
the job" expect to be consulted as to
the fate Of the scenery. 1t is their
problem first, and their states will not
be inclined to tolerate federal restric.
ton here more than with mines or any
Of natures bounteous gifts. Whether
the scenery is the most valuable or
the only valuable feature Of the reser-
vation seems to be essentially a local
matter.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-02-11
The Right of Asylum.

The principle of the right of asylum
has been put to a severe strain in this
hemisphere within few months. The
defense Of the Russian refugees Rudo-
vitz and Pouren has been that they
were political offenders and not ordi-
nary criminals. In the case of Rudo-
vitz the mere fact that the evidence
left our state department In doubt as
to the nature of the offenses for which
Russia asked his extradition entitled
him to the protection Of the flag under
which he sought asylum.
The ruling Of Secretary Root was
liberal one, yet accords with the prac-
tice of the United States in the past
The question as presented when the
Haitian dictator refused to permit the
.embarkation Of subjects who sought
asylum in the French consulate after
being condemned as revolutionists was
not thrashed out because the dictator
was deposed by the people. The case
In Haiti was clear. Only political
crime was alleged as justification for
attack on the right Of asylum. In like
circumstances South American revolu-
nonists have found asylum under the
stars and stripes and would have had
the protection Of warships II neces-
sary.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-02-11
When you count them up, 100 years
ago made lot of dates with 1909.
Inability of a President Elect.

lnaD1l1Cy or a PRESIDENT Elect.
Judge Taft's trip outside of United
States territory makes pertinent dis
cussion of methods for providing for
the filling of the presidential chair in
case of the death, resignation or in
ability Of a president elect The con-
stitution provides for the succession to
fill vacancy created by death or other
cause, but there can be no vacancy un-
til the events of March place the new
president legally in Office.
1t is the opinion of experts that there
is no authority whatsoever conferred
by the constitution for filing the pres
tdential chair in the case of the death
or other inability Of a president elect
between the confirmation Of his cleo
ton by the electoral college and March
q. The term Of the outgoing president
expires and creates vacancy, but the
incoming vice president cannot fill it
because he can become president only
In case of vacancy created after the
inauguration of his colleague. In 9TH
er words, disability Of the president
elect between Jan. II and March 4
this time must result in an ~exigency
for which there is no direct constitu-
tional remedy.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-02-11
Another Stage Downfall.

Manager Belasco's latest dramatic
production is a reckless plunge from
the moral plane of "The Rose of the
Rancho" This romantic and whole
some picture of old Spanish days in
California had long run and seemed
to refute the allegation that the thea
ter going public demands degeneracy
on the stage. Unless the police inter
fere Belasco's new play may beat the
record of 1.-The Rose of the Rancho if
the degenerate and even the curious
elements in New York are numerous
enough.
The ultra bohemian drama, "The
Easiest Way" is what it's name indi-
Gates, the story of one who seeks the
broad and glittering path for it's pleas.
ures. The one moral of the play is.
"Do not lie." for lying will rob the liar
of the spoils of sin. The role of tht
heroine in "The Easiest Way" has
been assumed by the actress who play
ed the part Of the unsophisticated
Spanish girl in "The Rose of the
Rancho" and in which she displayed
unusual talent. From the dramatists
point Of view she has scored a success
In the newer and more difficult role
Nevertheless it is of the type which
many self respecting actresses refuse
to appear in because it is necessary to
sink the woman in order to depict the
creature.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-02-11
The Cadet Famine.

There is a shortage right now in
cadets at West Point, according to the
complaint of the Military academy Off
cials. This means that the prize of a
first class education and keep at Uncle
Sans expense, a life career of in
creasing honors and emolument and
royal provision for old age have lost
their power as lure for ambitious
American boys. 1t is remarkable that
there should be vacancies at West
Point. Perhaps there is string to
the gift that repels young men of the
stuff from which generals are made.
Nomination for the cadetship rests
with congressman. If all who are
nominated should pass, then the re-
sponsibility for vacancies might be put
up to the members whose districts are
not represented. Yet it is but few
months since an authority at the acad-
emy reported wholesale reflections of
applicants for failing to pass e4amina-
tions not above high school grades.
One failure creates one vacancy unless
there is capable alternate on the
waiting list Even the possibilities be-
fore an alternate to an alternate should
have charm to nerve boy of military
bent through the study grind which
precedes the "exam," and some sort of
official dragnet would doubtless gather
In plenty of the right timber.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-02-11

The lawyer who fired "dementia
Americana" at the Thaw jury proba-
bly, picked up the wrong ammunition
and certainly wasted good powder. 1t
would score a hit on the more and
bigger battleship craze.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-02-11

The forestry bureau asks for an in
creased appropriation for 1910. 1t
speaks well for past methods-or even
want of method-of handling the for
est lands that IS per cent of the time
OF the staff is now taken up with
sales. leases and other strictly busi-
ness details of the administration.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-02-11

When the president says that some
means must be found to insure CO.
ordination among the naval bureaus
he probably intends to hint that some
means must be found to stop their dis
graceful wrangling.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-02-11

Professor Ferrerro has discovered
that American business men hustle in
town and live in the country. hiring
city slum dwellers to go out and till
their gardens and keep their lawns in
order-a sort Of "going back to the
land" and letting the heather do the
work.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-02-11

Cuba had ideal weather to inaugu
rate Gomez, but there's time yet for
the power behind that Inauguration to
hatch storms which will make our
cyclones green with envy.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-02-11

Admiral Sperry paid $1SO,0OO to get
the fleet through the Suez canal-ap-
parently the old trick Of half dollar
to get in and your entire roll to get
out.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-02-11

The same nerve that kept Jack Binns
at the wireless key right where the Re-
public got the punch was equal to
turning down that $1,000 a week offer
to go on the stage.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-02-11

A simplified spelling reporter can
have man "dogd," "clubd" and "kild"
by "led" bullet, yet he'll not be done
dead, simply "ded.'
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-02-11

AS to the defendants getting out
from under Kenesaw Mountain Lam
dis huge fine, history shows that the
other fellow lodged the original Kene-
saw mountain clip and came up smil-
ing to repeat the malefaction.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-02-11

These centenary celebrations throw
side light upon the contemporaries of
the great and bring up history that
otherwise would be neglected.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-02-11

jeff Davis cry for "a Caesar in the
White House" recalls Lincoln's retort
to a similar suggestion when ''confu-
sion worse confounded" seemed to
threaten the nation. 'I'll attend to the
Caesar business myself" said he, and
all the world knows how he did it,
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-02-11

Having struggled SO long and got So
close, the forty-seventh and forty
eighth states ought to count on having
a boom with life enough to bridge the
gap between congresses.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-02-11

1t seems that Senator Bailey spoke
up for 2O640,O0O horses when he
Knocked" the auto as an all round
menace to the horse. Last year the
number was just under 20,000000. So
there is no horse suicide to mourn over
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-02-11

Paris had but one day of sunshine in
two months, yet the Parisi4Hs insist
that things shady in the gay rnetropo-
lis vanished with the second empire
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-02-11

Now that the ground hog promises a
prolonged and severe winter we NAV
be thankful that this ground hog busi
ness is rank superstition.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-02-11

While congress Is about the work of
resurrecting the Maine in Havana
harbor it might be well to bury the
mystery of San Juan hill.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-02-11

The seismograph, which is to warn
us of earthquakes, will have to set the
clock ahead a bit since it took but
twelve seconds to level all Messina.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-02-11

Government problems are always
about the same, and as we can't have
man to show us what Lincoln would
do now it might be well to study up
on what Lincoln did then.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-02-11

No need of extra diplomatic phrases
to describe the situation in Venezuela.
Every time Holland butts in she sim
ply "beats the Dutch"
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-02-11

After all, the change March 4 is only
change of fgurehead, for the ship OF
state remains the same old ship, and
the people are the sovereign.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-02-11

The army mule is not to be kicked
out of service, after all, which shows
that in spite of his faults he has a
permit to keep on kicking.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-02-11

A novel on the unwritten law had
best follow the example Of said law
and remain unwritten.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-02-11

There's discord in the Come back.
Jeff. come back" chorus when the
Limekiln club butts in with, "Way
back, Mistah Jeff, way backw
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-02-11

Uncle Sam is boarding $50O,OOO, 900
which nobody cares to see put in cir
culation. for it is that emergency cur
rency.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-02-11

People who are cunning for the COM
1c supplement will be inconsistent if
they allow the more guilty comic val
entine to escape.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-02-11

Europe tells us that America lacks
ruins, and yet we recklessly threw
over patch when abolishing that con-
sulate at Messina.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-02-11

John Burroughs mo happy million
aires" thesis was sprung just in time.
After March it may be the other
way.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-02-11

Jungle people will be glad if the
earthquake habit extends to Africa in
time to defer the big hunt until hot
weather is due
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-02-11

It was not a heroic stunt that Fitted
Binns into the hmelight, but the doing
commonplace duty heroically.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-02-11

If marriage is involuntary servi-
tude" for the woman. then the man
who backs out is some sort Of eman-
cipator.