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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-11-01
WILHELMINA
FROM FRISCO

The Matson Navigation Companys
steamer Wilhelmina arrived this morn
ing from San Francisco, berthing at
me company's wharf at 11:20 a. m.
The vessel was reported before nine
o'clock but though there was no sick
ness on board the vessel did not get
through quarantine and up to her
wharf until two and a quarter hours
had elapsed since she was off Koko
Head The Wilhelmina has large
cargo of genera. merchandise, amount
ing in all to 7177 tons. she has among
the cargo large amount of dredging
machinery which is from the Califor-
mia Bridge Company and is consigned
to Pearl Harbor. There are also five
automobiles. Pleasant weather was
experienced on the voyage, though
strong head winds prevailed through
out the trip.
The passenger list totals 112 in the
saloon and eleven in the storage.
Among the passengers are DR.. and
Mrs. Scudder, who are returning from
a five months trip abroad; Mrs Frank
Andrade; Mr.. and Mrs. John Ross, Mr..
Conner, an engineer who is to join the
dredging company at Pearl harbor;
Mr. and Mrs. F. F. Baldwin, parents
of Frank Baldwin of HIIo, who pro-
posed to spend a vacation in the is
lands; and Mrs. Lucy Painter and Mrs.
NJ. A. Ellis, we'll known Californian
residents.
The Wilhelmina reports the Neva-
dan in dock, where it is expected she
will remain for a couple of weeks.
The Wilhelmina brought along con-
siderable of the Nevadan's cargo, but
there were still 1000 tons awaiting
shipment at Frisco when the Matson
liner pulled out. Leaving San Fran
cisco on Wednesday last at one o'clock
the Wilhelmina completed the run
across the Pacific in five days twenty
two hours and eleven minutes.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-11-01
FINE PRIZE PIANO
At JORDAN s STORE

e. w. Jordan & Company have de-
cided to offer fine Foster piano to be
voted for between now and Christmas
eve, the person receiving the highest
number of votes to be given the ele-
CANT prize.
A coupon will be given with each
purchase of fifty cents worth of mer-
chandise, each coupon representing a
vote.
The contest will undoubtedly be of
particular interest to the ladies of the
city. Voting is now on
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-11-01
HIGH AUTHORITY
ON SUGAR MARKET

The Federal Reporter New York; ,
recognized sugar authority, contained
the following on October IA:
Raw Sugar-The market has been
quiet but steady and with no business
reported until yesterday, when Messrs.
B. H. Howell, Son & Co., bought $500
tons Javas, per S. S. Drumgeith, due
to arrive next week, at los / I'D, c. /.
f. basis &c, the parity of say 8 soc.
dues paid. There is a cargo of Javas
now at the Delaware Breakwater, for
which sellers are asking los 4 1-2d, C..
/. +. 1t is claimed that los 1 l-2d could
be secured, but whether or not this
is true at the close is somewhat doubt
full Stored sugars are offered at 3.95c
without finding buyers, and the closing
is quiet, with buyers and 3 40c duty
paid for SO deg. Muscovadoes, and g.
loo duty paid for SO deg. molasses SUI
gars. The worlds visible supply is
100000 tons, as compared with $4,000
tons year ago. Messrs. Willett G.
Gray estimate the total stocks and
afboats together as showing a visible
supply of 9S3,93S tons, an increase of
49,l26 tons from last year. Stocks in
the United States and Cuba together
are 19S,93S tons, an increase of 3S,156
tons from last year. Estimated ahoats
to the United States total 10000 tons,
against $4,000 tons last year.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-11-01
ED. POLLITz TALKS
CHEERFULLY OF MARKET

Ed. POLITE, the well-known San
Francisco stock broker, arrived in the
Wilhelmina this morning to take up,
on behalf of Hutchinson plantation,
the matter of an irrigation ditch
from around Olaa to Kau, with the
promoters of that great enterprise.
Mr. POLITE is favorably inclined to-
ward the project and seems ready and
willing to meet the promoters more
than half way. Upon his arrival this
morning Mr. POLITE was asked if the
following from the San Francisco
Chronicle correctly stated the objects
of his visit, and replied that it did:
Edward POLITE, senior member Of
the weli-known banking and broker
age firm of Edward Pollitz & Co., of
this city, will sail for Honolulu on the
Wilhelmina tomorrow morning. The
particular object of Mr. POLITE visit
to the islands is in connection with
the great irrigation project, by which
the Hutchinson Sugar Plantation Com
pany, of which Mr.. Politz is presi-
dent, will be made one Of the greatest
producers of sugar cane in the world
The project is, in brief, to turn the
great desert of Kau, on the island of
Hawaii into fertile land of flour
ishing homesteads and sugar planta-
lions. McCrosson proposes to CON
struct a great irrigation ditch around
the mountain of Mauna Loa through
Kau to carry to that now desolate
country the waters that pour down
the TANKS of the great volcano and run
TO waste into the sea. The proposed
ditch would be ninety miles long
would cost not less than S3,OOO,OOo'
and would be one of the biggest en-
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-11-01
HONOLULU
LUMBER MEMS
NEW DEAL

TACOMA (Wash.), October 24.-After
fifty years of association as purchas-
ers Of lumber with the Puget Mill
COmpanys Sound plants, an arrange
ment that has involved handling of
hundreds of millions of feet of lumber
for the Hawaiian Islands, Levers &
Cooke Company of Honolulu have
severed relations, and hereafter their
schOoners, Alice Cooge and Robert
Levers, will load at other Sound
mills than those of Port Gamble and
Port Ludlow The announcement of
the change of operations was made
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-11-01

Continuing the subject this after
noon Mr. POLITE said: "The propos-
ed ditch will be an immense underta-
king but I am confident that it will
be a success. 1t will be the greatest
thing that could possibly happen to
the Kau district of Hawaii In the
past few months we have had good
rains down there, but the district is
VIGOROUSLY dry and may now run for
months without rain to speak of. With
this ditch in working order there
would be no trouble about water and
the whole country down there would
be changed for the better
ITO particularize, Hutchinson could
and would, with the proposed ditch,
be raised to 10000 to $4,000 ton
plantation. We now have the land
rich land-but lack water; and the
extra land is consequently idle all
the time.
81 will be here about month and
in that time hope the project may be
definitely worked out
Mr.. POLITE assigns the slump in SUI
gar stocks on the coast to a cause not
hitherto thought of. He says, in effect,
that the scare over there was caused
principally by selling orders from Ho-
nolulu In other words, Honolulu sell
lers got frightened over quotations
which they themselves were making
by cabling in orders to sell. Had the
market been left to itself, and the
flood of selling orders not piled in
there from Honolulu, prices would
have kept up
THE Spreckels proposition had no
thing to do with, declared Mr.. POLITE.
I'm fact the people who count in the
| San Francisco stock market regard
the Spreckels scheme as a huge joke,
and pay no attention TO it. OF course,
this bugaboo frightened few small
holders at first. but the effect from
this source alone was small.
81 think sugar stocks will improve
just as soon as Honolulu and San
! Francisco understand each other be-
ter. At present they are simply swap
ping cold feet by cable.
Sugar authorities still disagree as
to the beet output, the two LIGHTS, for
instance, being about 100000 tons
apart; and, moreover, when the in
creased demand is considered in con-
nection with the increased production
for this year, the sugar interests have
nothing to fear.
81 am of the opinion that sugar VIII
go down lower, perhaps to 1855 or ev-
en- $780, but it must and will advance
again as soon as the beet and Cub
an crops are digested In other words
by the time Hawaii has sugar to sell
again am confident that the price
will be four cents or better.
"Of course, the situation is not SO
cheerful as we would like, but 1t IS
not so bad as many people would have
it appear"
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-11-01
MAcFARLANE RETURNS.

F. w Macfarlane returned in the
Mongolia this morning after rush
trip through the mainland states, go
ing as far as the Atlantic seaboard
He was full of business all the time,
one of the items being the closing of
contract with the manufacturers for
handling the Marmon automobile in
the Islands.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-11-01
GAMBLERS FINED.

The trial of All Chez and four 9th
ers charged with having been pre-
sent at gambling game, was begun
before Circuit Judge Cooper and the
following jury this morning: Jacob
Landen. William X. Jordan, H. Lemke'
Bruce Cartwright, Jr, George Hen
derson. J. e McChesney. R G Moore.
E. L. Kauai, p. o. Schmidt, F II
Kilbey. w NJ. Buchanan and Thomas
Newcastle Each Of the defendants
was fined S25 and costs.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-11-01
.OLD7IMER ARRIVES

An oldtimer arrived by the Mongo-
liza today in the person Of w. A. S.
Beals, accompanied by c. E. Wright
of Sacramento, the two gentlemen
intending to spend four months in
touring the islands. Mr. Beals was
boolzkeeper and shipping reporter of
the Bulletin in the eighties, when 1t
was the property of the late Walter
Hill He left here twenty years ago,
or about, the same time as King Ka-
lakaua departed on his last journey
journey. Mr.. Beals will find a few
of his old acquaintances here remain
naming, who will be glad to see that
time has dealt kindly with him.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-11-01

With the arrivals of the Mongolia
and the Wilhelmina from San Fran
cisco this morning, and the departures
of the Helene. Maui, Mikahala, Noeau
and Mauna Kea for island ports in the
afternoon. today was busy on the wa
terfront
= = \ 4 \ \ y \ \ y = ' \ \ y
with the arrival at Port Townsend
yesterday of the schooner Robert
Levers.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-11-01

The organizers of the Hilo Trail and
Mountain club held a meeting last
week and received a report from L
A. Thurston, one of the principal or
ganizers. The club VIII affiliate with
the similar club in Honolulu as cen
trail organization It proposes to make
a campaign at once to have the volca
no of Kilauea and surrounding lands
made national park reservation.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-11-01

In the list of officers of the Hawai-
ian Trust Company, published yester-
day, the name of c. H Atherton was
given as vice president in place of
G H. Cooke.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-11-01
DIVIDENDS TODAY.

The following plantation dividends
were paid today: Haiku, 81 a share,
or $4,000; Paia. 81 share, or $685.
900; Pioneer, 50 a share, or $4,000.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-11-01

The latest ideas in Wall Paper Will
he found at Levers & Cooke Ltd, ~
South King street. Beautiful and eX-
elusive patterns,
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-11-01

Fifty enlisted men of the marine
force at the Marine Barracks have
been detached from service here and
ordered to join the battalion of mar
ines designated for duty at Picking as
legation guard, and will leave here
about November 10 on the transport
Sheridan.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-11-01
STOCK EXCHANGE
1890 A. NJ SEPT. 16

Diyidends-Hailu, 81 loo share;
Paia Sl.0O share; Pioneer, 81 90
q share.
Between Boards-S0 Oahu Sug. Co.
SIG so 60 llaw, Sue Co. $50 so; 100
Waialua. S100. 90; 30 Waialua, $780,
90; 8 Waialua, 500 90; 25 Waialua.
10000; s Eva. $2S.75.
Session Sales-2O Olaa 81 IN
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-11-01

gineering enterprises ever undertake
en- in Hawaii
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-12-23
OFFERED TO WE'D IF SHE
WOULD CUT OUT POWDER

SOUTH BEND, Ind, Dec. "a
After he had written a letter to
Miss Winifred Green wood, an act
ress, declaring that he was going
to marry her provided she would
leave the stage powder" off her
face, John G. Wagner, one of the
wealthiest citizens of South Bend,
was arrested today and confined in
Jail pending an examination of his
mental condition.
When taken into custody he
was trying to sell a merchant
stock in a $50,00O,000 moving
picture theater. He has been go
ing to the theater twice a day for
more than year, wearing white
silk evening clothes most of the
time and paying high prices for
choice seats.
Yesterday he wrote the actress
the letter, resulting In complaint
to the police and his arrest. The
letter follows:
my Dear Miss Greenwood
day at 1 O'Clock / am coming to
your theater to meet you and you
are going to become my bride
my consort through life and etern-
ity. I only ask that you keep
the stage powder off your face and
lips. Yours,
JOHN G. WAGNER"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-12-23
Anti-Treat
Up Saturday

The anti-treating ordinance will
be up before the council for spe-
cial action Saturday morning. 1t
is likely that an election Will be
called for about the middle of
February.
A determined effort is being
made by the saloons to get the
council to repeal the ordinance
and not put It to an election.
Commissioner Lawson has prom
ised the mayor that he will not
vote for repeal, however, and
there Ia little hope of the saloons
using Freeland to pull their chest
nuts out of the fire.
About 30 per cent of the names
on their petition for a referendum
were thrown out by the city clerk
but there will be enough left.
Already the anti-saloon vote as
we'll as many drinkers who be-
lieve in the ordinance are pre-
pairing for battle on the question
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-12-23
IN
SPAIN
(By United Press Leased Wire.

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
MADRID, Dec. 23. = Despite
Carlist and clerical attempts to i'm
pede the progress of the measure,
the cortrs t>|1ay passed the fa-
NOUS paddock BILL" virtually
providing for the separation of
church and state in Spain and re-
strtcting the establishment of re-
ltgious orders.
Premier Canalejas did not no.
.tify the opposition that the bill
would be considered, but quietly
directed the anti-clericalS and
mem bers of the government party
to be in. their seats. When Suffi-
Client votes were on hand the
measure was presented and pass
ed.
Perfectly aware that the pass
age of the bill will cause the
church to appeal to the people
to overthrow the government, the
premier has announced that he
will proceed with further anti
clerical legislation and seek the
adoption OF a plan for the I'm
provement of the condition of the
Spanish masses.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-12-23
SAYS CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
IN WASHINGTON A FAILURE
(By United Press Leased Wire.)

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
SALEM, Ore, Dec. 23. = 1T
does not appear that the increas-
ing number of executions IN this
state has operated as a deterrent
of the crime of homicide, says
Superintendent G. w. James of
the Oregon state penitentiary in
his annual report to the governor
just made public, "anId as result
of my Investigation, observation
and experience during the past
eight years I am fully convinced
that capital punishment should be
abolished.
Life imprisonment with re-
stricted powers of pardon would
prove equally, II not more effec-
tive In protecting society against
those who commit the crime for
which capital punishment Is the
penalty and would not only be
more in accord with the suI:ir of
our constitution, but more in
harmony with the progressive
spirit and advanced conditions of
the present century"
Superintendent James believes
that the constitution should be
amended SO that anyone serving a
life sentence could procure a par
don from the state Legislature
only.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-12-23
DOC. COOK TO
REMAIN I'M
AMERICA
(By United Press Leased wire.)

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
NEW YORK, Dec. 23.-Dr.
Frederick A. Cook, following his
return from Europe on the steam
er George Washington, declined
today to be seen at the home of
his brother, William Cook, in
Brooklyn, where he will spend the
holidays. Over the telephone, DR..
Cook said that he would give out
long statement Monday.
Il expect to remain under the
American flag" said the explorer.
81 am not going to lecture, but
intend devoting myself to scien-
tific matters that have engrossed
my attention for 90 years. will
also convince the American people
that ! really believe that l did
reach the north pole"
At this point DR.. Cook left the
telephone, failing to hang up the
erceiyer, thus preventing any fur
ther calls.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-12-23
MRS. Won CLAUSSEN
WANTS DIVORCE

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
NEW YORK, Dec. 23-Mrs. Ida
Won Claussen is preparing to
bring suit in a New York court
for absolute divorce. Mrs. Won
Claussen, who threatened to bring
suit against Col. Theodore Roose-
velt because of his alleged refusal
to source for her presentation
at the Swedish court, was divorced
several years ago in South Dakota.
She said today that she wants a
decree from a New York court.
Until 1T is granted, she says, she
will not feel that her decree ds
binding here.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-12-23

LABORERS MAY
HAVE BURNED !
(By United Press Leased wire.)

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
CHICAGO, Dec. 23.-Reports
that a dozen stock yards laborers
perished in the fire yesterday
which killed more than 80 Chi
cago firemen, caused great crowds
to gather today about the smok-
ing ruins of the beef warehouse
of Nelson Morris & Co., at the
Union stock yards to watch the
firemen who are still digging in
the wreckage for the bodies of
their comrades.
Forty-three engine companies
and three truck companies are
still at the fire. The blaze is
smoldering in the NUNS and
streams of water are being poured
in to keep the fire from breaking
out afresh.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-12-23
English Spies
Sent to Jail i'm
Germany

LEIPSIC, Germany, Dec. 28.-
Captain Bernard Trench and Lieu
tentant Vivian Brandon, English
army officers. convicted of spying
on German Notifications at Box
rum, were sentenced to four years
Imprisonment each by a German
court here today.
The Englishmen admitted hav-
ing taken sketches of the Kokrum
and then having
given the sketches to the British
officials.
The outcome of their trial, IL is
expected, will bring about interna-
tional complications between Ger
many and Great Britain.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-12-23

Turnbull after the witness had
employed the term null and void"
during her testimony. Did you
ever read in books of law?"
NO" Mrs. Turnbull replied,
"but l have been much associated
with lawyers-so much SO, in fact,
Mr.. McNab, that believe I would
make a good one myself"
Il believe you," McNab said,
and turned his line of question
ing.
The attorneys for the defense
now are in a measure going over
the ground covered by Mrs. Turn
bulls early testimony. 1t was
apparent last evening that they
are concluding the cross examine
ton. An adjournment will be
taken for Christmas, but 1t has
not been decided whether this
will be declared tonight or tomor-
row."
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-12-23
GIVES OUT NEW
SET OF FIGURES
Public Opinion Is That Bank Officials Attempted
to Hide Real Facts in Case.

Joseph Frank Fuhrman,
the defaulting paying teller
of the National Bank of Com
merce, and bank officials met
In the office of the U. S. mar
shall this morning for anoth-
er interview as to the ac-
counts which the accused de-
faulter juggled.
Thurman has not yet been
able to furnish the $4,000 re-
quired to gain his liberty
pending his trial before the
u. S. district court.
This morning the prisoner
showed no effects of his first
night spent in the county jail,
except for a certain nervous
ness which was evident.
The conference with bank
officials this morning is ex-
pected to result in Fuhr-
mans bail being provided by
his friends.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-12-23
|. w. w. NE MBERS
PUT ON BREAD
AND WATER
By United Press Leased Wire. }

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
FRESNO, Cal, Dec. "a
Eighty-five members of the Indus
trial Workers of the World, lock-
ed in the county jail here on
charges of vagrancy, or for having
violated the anti-street speaking
tordinance, were placed on diet
of bread and water today. The
change of fare followed a demon
stration In the Jail last night,
when the workers cursed and
abused Sheriff Chittenden and the
other officers.
The demonstration followed
what the Industrial Workers
claimed was the sheriffs abuse of
drunken prisoner who had to be
subdued after fighting with the
guards who took him to his cell.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-12-23
Mrs. Turnbull Would
Make a Good Lawyer

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 23.-Be-
fore Mrs. Lillian Ashley Turnbull
resumed the witness stand today
in her daughters suit for a por-
ton of the estate of Lucky Bald
win, 1t was predicted that the or
deal of her CROSSE
would be concluded tonight or at
the latest, tomorrow.
Mrs. Furnbull is the growing
wonder of the trial. So apt has
she proved herself in answering
the stinging questions asked by
attorneys McNab and McEnery
that regular spectators have be-
come imbued with the belief that
she would have been a clever law
yer herself. McNab also might
have entertained such thoughts,
judging from remark during his
cross-examination.
81 have heard you use that ex-
preston BEFORE" he said to Mrs.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-12-23
TELEPHONE Girl.
MUST NOT MARRY

(By United Press Leased Wrie. }
SPOKANE, Dec. 23.-When
Miss Margaret Perkins went to
work as telephone operator in a
local hotel today the management
requested her to give a bond not
to marry within six months. This
instrument, duly signed and seal
ed, holds Miss Perkins bondsmen
liable to the extent of $500 in the
event she becomes a bride on or
before June 21, 1911. The sure
ties are prominent business men.
The reason for this unusual re-
quirement by the hotel manage
ment is that half a dozen tele-
phone operators have married
within as many months.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-12-23
Those Who Give Money
to Times Santa Claus

John d. Rockefeller and his
friend Andy Carnegie. who re-
Gently gave $40, 900 each of
the money they had wrested
from the people of this country,
might do some real thinking could
they sit In the Times office for q
few hours these days and study
the people who come to help the
children of Tacoma.
5 Well dressed men and well
dressed women have come; also
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-12-23
JILTED GIRL SLASHES
THROAT WITH RAZOR

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
NEW YORK, Dec. 23.-When
Gertrude Bannell, 10 years old,
was araigned in police court,
charged with cutting the throat of
her fiance, Benjamin Silver, she
admitted her guilt. Silver Is now
lying mortally wounded in a hos
pital.
who can blame me?" said the
girl. 81 intended to kill him and
then commit suicide, but the po-
liceman stopped me before / could
kill myself. Ben and l have been
engaged for year and we were
to be married last night. ALI ar
rangements had been made for the
wedding. had my wedding dress
and the hall and the musicians
had been hired. There were 800
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-12-23
FUEL DEPOT FOR
BREMERT0N, MAYBE
By United Press Leased Wire.)

CBy United Press Leased Wire
WASHINGTON, Dec. "a
Fuel depots at Bremerton, San
Francisco and San Diego will be
established soon, if a recommend
alton made by Secretary Of the
Navy Meyer meets with the ap-
proval of congress. Olongapo,
Pearl Harbor, New York and Bos-
ton also are mentioned as likely
locations for coaling stations.
"An ample stock of coal is as
essential as powder and shells in
preparing fleet" said the secre-
tary.