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The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-01-21
CHINATOWN BUT
SMOKING RUINS
Oriental Section Wiped Out by
Ravenous FIames-Just
Ten Years Ago.

Ten years ago today Honolulu g
Chinatown was a mass of blackened
ruins. Ten years ago yesterday flames,
started by agents of the board Of health
in an effort to stamp out the plague,
got beyond control and soon the dis
tIict bounded by the waterfront and
Kukui street and Nuuanu and River
streets was seething furnace.
Among the old landmarks swept away
by the relentless fre6end WAS Kanma-
kapili church which was destroyed soon
after the flames got beyond control.
Practically the entire oriental popula-
ton of Honolulu was rendered homeless
end large proportion of the Chinese
and japanese was made destitute.
At the time the flames got beyond
control Chinatown WAS In strict quar-
antine, and the frantic 0rientals rush
ing from the burning homes became a
serious mennee. Volunteer guards has
lily summoned 10 assist the military
aud the Chinese consul rushed 20 the
scene Vt the trouble where lac rendered
valuable service In quoting the people
When II was no longer safe 10 keep
tbs people in he burning district, the
refugees were formed into columns aud
marched 10 Kawalahao church and "a
the other places designated as shelters
All were nnd0r strict quarantine and
men lnrd King street, ATnad With aKe
holyea hnd baseball bats % make Ger
tain that aone escaped,
81.
Tor their losues, issping bonds Ia Thlse
iLr money Tho settlement VI the ne
claims inlolNod q giepi bmouni 81 hll
Raiian hnd ahlle lhp Lufalng VI China
Toss pui stop 90 ihe pla9ur, 4 piuuR
% ihi Ienlipiy ipis \ pffleg q les
suits ~ fsltl
The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-01-21
COLLECTIONS
SATISFA factory
Water and Sewer Rates Paid
into Treasury Exceed
All Estimates.

Superintendent Marston Campbell is
not worrying any over actual or possi'
BILE designations and appointments. He
is more interested in the collection of
back sewer rates and advance water
rates, and so long as they come in salts
factorily, he is not bothering his head
about who resigns.
Mr.. Campbell announces that from
January to date total of $l5,216 has
been collected for back and advance
sewer rates. He estimated last year
that his collections for sewer rates
would amount to $4,000. Now it look 5
as if, before June 80, the total would
be considerably in excess of that
amount. The delinquency list is de-
creasing rapidly. In May of last year
the total amount of sewer rates delin-
quent was about $4,000. now it is only
that he expects by June 30 of this year
to clear up all outstanding claims of
this sort.
The water rates are also coming in
fast To date, since the first of the
year, $44,602.3 has been collected, as
against total of $41,S96 for last year.
When the books were closed on De-
cember l, there was not a single water
rate delinquent
The high-lift pump, Mr.. Campbell
says, is being got into position as rapid
ly as possible.
The mapmakers of the geological ser.
vice, who went over to Kauai recently,
are already at work and are getting
along as fast as could be expected.
In regard to land matters, Mr.. Camp.
bell, as commissioner of public lands
says that he has received seven appli.
cations from Hawaiians for homesteads
in olaa. The government recently ac'
quired by exchange with Mr.. Lyman
frontage on the volcano road, and ex.
poets to be able in the near future to
open up a number of summer lots.
The auction sale of the now famous
Kamaoa lands and of the Waiahinu
town and taro lots will take place on
March II.
Commissioner Campbell expects to be
on the ground several days in advance
of that date to receive applications fol-
999-year leases of the town and taro
lots. 1t is his desire that the Hawai-
ians who have lived on the land fol-
from five to thirty years be given the
preference. Afterwards the lots that
are left will be sold at auction.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-01-21
IMPROVEMENT OF
KAHULU| HARBOR
Continued from Page one.)

Continued from Page One.)
pleted. The tonnage of the vessels,
large and small, which visited MANU-.
kona during the year 1909 was 140, 900.
After brief discussion the chamber
passed the following resolution:
"Whereas, 1t is important to the
shipping and business and sugar in
terests of the district of Kohala that
an official survey of the port of MANU-.
kona be made at as early date as
possible,
''Be it resolved by this chamber,
That it does hereby approve of and
endorse the effort now being made to
have this official survey carried through
by the United States engineers, believ-
ing that such survey is of the first
Importance to the Island of Hawaii,
and especially to the district of Kohala
on that island. And be it further
Resolved, That a copy of this reso-
luton, together with copy of the
statement submitted at this meeting
relative to this port of Mahukona be
forwarded at the first opportunity to
the Hon. J. Kalanianaole, delegate to
congress from the Territory of Hawaii,
and that he be requested to use his
best endeavors to secure action in the
premises.
Hanapepe Bay.
At the same time the chamber passed
resolution surging upon congress that
provision be made for harbor work on
Hanapepe Bay. This action was taken
owing to the fact that information had
been received that efforts are being
made to induce the federal authorities
to delay any action regarding a port
for Kauai until other localities, as well
as Hanapepe Bay, have been consid-
cred. sieroiHa b2p3ah
The resolution states that: ~ n
"In 1909 the Island of Kauai pro-
duced S9,7S7 tons of sugar. OF this
amount 37,474 tons, or forty.two per
cent, was shipped from Hanapepe Bay.
Nearly the whole amount was received
by large steamers, varying from 5000
to 10000 tons burden. The remainder
of the sugar produced on said island
was shipped from various points by
small Inter.Island steamers to Homo.
lulu and thence reshipped to the main
land. The Kauai Railway Company,
Limited, with its plantation rail con-
nections, handles practically all of the
freight shipped and received at Hama
pepe Bay. With only three or four
miles Of railroad extension an addition
al 10000 tons of sugar with a CORE
spending amount Of inward freight can
be made tributary TO said hArbor.n
The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-01-21
Forced 70 Lay TO.

SAN FRANCISCO, January TO-
The schooner james Rolph, which a..
lived yesterday from Honolulu, ran
ini0 terrific gels January !, ~ sas
Ia latitude 80 north and longitude 100
Hfbi, Hhen the storm struck She Yos
fel Tho Nind cama from tho norlA.
sfsi, sud Iaafd Niih Hueh fury that
iamuln ulten sas eampelled ~ hesYr
90. The hpl.h comes in ballast az
uina, hoiph 4 ~. u wes ~ dals
nssbg 40 $40 fiem lhe lFlands
The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-01-21
DANCER PROM GROUP.

A few minutes delay IA trestinR some
eases " rTopp, even Chs length " uBae
u takes 10 20 foT doei0f often proves
dangerous The safest say u 90 Keep
Chamberlain Cough liemeay Ia tho
House. Hnd ~ chs bret lpdlfHtien ~
ffpup give chs child = dese, iflfpsaui
a. tabs An4 slsagf euIra iof aalf ~
all fYsieff iifpsoni hmllh 4 re,
aeenis ~ usnpil
The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-01-21
New Float for Fleet.

When the fleet arrives here on Febru-
airy /, there will be special landing
place for the launches. A scow has
been built by Sorenson and Lyle with
two long gangways. The float will he
anchored at the maulta end of the first
naval slip and launches will have plenty
of room in which to make the turn and
come alongside. This will obviate the
necessity of having to come alongside
n narrow ladder and consequent in
convenience to those coming ashore.
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the President to direct the withholding
of it in order that he himself may ex-
anime the evidence us to the validity
of the claim.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-01-21
Reflects ON Taft.


limitations in your letter are, first,
that | had reached wrong conclusion
as TO the good faith of Secretary Bal
linger and the officers of the land office.
although you and your subordinates
had only seen the evidence of CLAWS,
the accuser, and had never seen or read
the evidence of those accused or the
records that they disclosed which WIRE
submitted to me; and, second, that,
under these circumstances, without the
exploitation by Messrs. Shaw and Price
in the daily, weekly and monthly press
of the charges of CLAWS, the admins
tration, including the President and
the officers of the interior department
and land office, would have allowed Ger.
tain fraudulent claims to be patented
on coal lands in Alaska, although the
matter had been specifically brought to
the attention of the President by the
CLAWS charges.
"You solicited the opportunity to
make such a declaration in congress
for the purpose of offsetting, if pos.
sible, in the public mind, the Presi.
dents decision in the CLAWS case, sup.
ported by the opinion of the attorney
general, after full examination by
both, of the evidence adduced by the
accuser and the evidence on behalf of
the accused, while the latter evidence
you and your subordinates had never
seen.
"You did this against the advice of
the secretary of agriculture without
notifying him that you intended to do
so, and without comforting with me al
all.
Appeal Improper.
| "Your letter was in effect an i'm.
proper appeal to congress and to the
| public TO excuse in advance the guilt
of your subordinates before | could
act and against my decision in the
| CLAWS ease before the whole evidence
on which that was based could be con.
sidered.
al should be glad To regard what
has happened only ms personal reilec'
ton, 10 that I could pass II over and
take no official eognlzance of IL, But
other and higher considerations must
govern me. When the people of the
United States elected me President,
they placed me Ia an office of the high,
eat dignity and charged me with the
duty Of maintaining that dignity and
proper respect for be 0niee on tho part
If my fuhOfdihRies Moreover n 4
we're 10 pass over this matter 10 silence
N would Doe most domorallaing 10 The
discipline ~ ihe eAeeuiile bIaneh If
tho government,
"ly your own r0ndnci you baie Do
siroyed your usefulpnss be helpful
snhofaingle NJ tho government, and n,
therefore, npW hpe0mss Ny duiy i1
diffei ile neerriafy ~ sgrleuliute 49,
rmpNs 500 flom yflf oinre as forester
The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-01-21
GRAND JURY TIED UP.

On account OF the Illness Of +. u.
Mestoeker, tho territorial grand jury Is
tied up and there will be no session Of
the inqusiiors to-day. Mr.. Meftoeker
Il confined 10 bis bone by severe Mt
tack of the grippe, aud unless be either
RECEIVERS sa0n ~ resigns, the work Of
tbs grand Jury will hr delayed,
The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-01-21

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cold u avfllgp.
Connecticut western news., 1910-03-03
Mules and Kindness.

"In the fifteen years that I have been connected with societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals in this and other cities I never have re ceived a complaint alleging cruelty to a mule," said the humane looking man. That immunity of mules from harsh treatment is an interesting ques- tion. Why are they immune? There are plenty of mules, even in New York. Does nobody beat them? Doe nobody underfeed them? If not, why not? Does q mule show such n de cided ability for taking care of him self that his owner is afraid to abuse him, or do men beat mules and escap, punishment because the persons who witness the beating think it is only q mule and not worth bothering about? What is the explanation of that phase of the mule question anyhowT-New York Press.
Connecticut western news., 1910-03-03
The CIinchino hroument.

A young man representing a well known make of motorcar had called, discussed intellisently the points of the automobile he was endeavoring to sell, had given a flawless demonstra- tion-
 But the prospective amateur motor ist before mortgaging his house still wanted to be thoroughly convinced, and so he said: What you say about your car may be all right. The en- zine runs very nicely, and it looks good to me, but tell me one thing have you ever sold any of these cars to your own personal friendsT
 The salesman smiled. Have I? Why, three months ago I was engaged to a girl, and I sold one of these iden- tical cars to my prospective father-in- lawr
 Did you marry the girl?"
 "Yes, indeed! I've now got the girl, a contented father-in-law and an en- thusiastic customer as we'll"
 He made the sale.-Life.
Connecticut western news., 1910-03-03
Tragic Jokinq.

Oswald'S friends were alwars on the lookout for some ruse He once noti- fled them that on New Years day he should get the best of them all in some joke, and New Years morning each received this notice, Remember" They were on their guard
 As they were leaving n house where they had breakfasted Oswald slipped on the steps and fell on his back on the sidewalk His friends rushed to his assistance, but paused before they reached him.
 'This is his ruse," some one said.
 Clearly the man who was so proud of his talent for mimicry was bent on deceiving them all into thinking him dying man, for he lay there moan ing pitifully, his face drawn and twist ed as if with terrible pain.
 His friends stood around and made jokes and puns and hummed lines of comic songs. assuring him all the while that they were not deceived by his acting. At last he gave a hoarse, mournful cry. looked at them sadly and then ceased to moan or writhe. In a never to be forgotten moment of horror and sorrow his friends realized that Oswald was dead.-"Souvenirs dun VieuX Libraire."
Connecticut western news., 1910-03-03
Caught the Old Sailor.

It was clever lawyer in a Boston court who took advantage of the nau- tical knowledge he possessed to work upon the mind of juryman who did not seem to show much comprehension of a case of suing a street railway for damages.
 The dull member was an old sailor, who, though doubtless very keen of perception along some lines, was nev- ertheless rather slow in his under standing of the points involved in the case being tried, says the New York Journal. The lawyer noticed this and made his strike with this particular man. Approaching the jury box, he addressed himself to this one juryman and said:
 MT. Juryman, will tell you how it happened. The plaintiff was in com- mand of the outward bound open car and stood ill her starboard channels. Along came the inward bound closed car, and just as their bows met she jumped the track, sheered to port and knocked the plaintiff off and ran over him."
 The sailor was all attention after this version of the affair and joined in a $5,000 verdict for the injured man.
Connecticut western news., 1910-03-03
BEEF TRUST AND 21
 DIRECTORS INDICTED
New Jersey Grand Jury Alleges
 Immoral Conspiracy.

The beef trust of Chicago, its vari- ous corporations and twenty-one of its individual directors and agents were indicted by the grand jury of Hudson county on Friday on charges of con- spiracy to raise artifcially the prices of beef and poultry.
 The corporations specifically named are: National Packing company, Mor ris & Co.,, Swift & O., Armour & Co.,, Hammond Packing company and the G. H. Hammond company. The twen- ty-one directors indicted include:
 J. Ogden Armour, A. Watson Ar mour, Edward Morris, Louis F. Swift, Edward F. Swift and Charles H. Swift.
 The indictment charges that these men met ill Jersey City, N. J., at the annual meeting of the National Pack ing company and did "Willfully and feloniously cOntriye and intend for their own unjust, excessive, immoral and unlawful profit and gain to injure, defraud, cheat, impoverish and op- press the public by cOrnering and linn iting the supply of meats and poultry so as to produce an artificial scarcity of the supply and to greatly increase the cost thereof"
 Furthermore, the indictment charges that they did "willfully, unlaWfully, fraudulently, eXtOrtiOnately and cor ruptly combine, copspire and bind themselves together by agreement to exercise control and monopoly of the meat and poultry supply and not to market any of their meats and poultry except in quantities inadequate to SUD- ply the needs of the public for the purpose of raising prices and to cause great Injustice, mischief, eXtortion and oppression to the public"
Connecticut western news., 1910-03-03
FLOOD IN NEI.y YORK STATE.
Sudden Rise of Hudson and Mohawk
 Rivers Causes Great Havoc.

Sudden Rise of Hudson and Mohawk
 Rivers Causes Great Havoc.
 The Hudson and Mohawk rivers roS ] from twelve to eighteen feet in the tWenty-four hours ending on Tuesday and many villages in New York state were flooded. Herkimer was q great sufferer, the flow breaking the gas and water mains and disabling the electric lighting plants and doing $2OO,OOO GIm1@e. FOur-fifths Cf the village was submerged.
 President Grogan of the village of Herkimer sent a telegram to Governor Hughes asking for aid. State en- Utica with dynamite to blow up a big ice jam which had formed in the Mo- hawk river
 The high water greatly interfered with railroad traffic. The New York Central, main line between Fonda and Herkimer, was tied up, and trains were run over the West Shore. Dela- ware and Hudson trains were unable to reach the station at Albany, and cars of the Albany Southern Electric line were held up by the water south of the city.
 Thousands of dollars damage was done in Syracuse and in sections of ElmwOOd and OnOndaga valley by the overfiowing of Onondaga creek and Furnace brook. Dozens of families were imprisoned in their homes.
Connecticut western news., 1910-03-03
PINCHOT AND WILSON
 AT ODDS ON STAND
Secretary of Agriculture Angry
 Wlth Ex-FOreSteT.

Clifford Pinchot testified before the Ballinger-Pinchot joint Investigating committee of the senate and house at Washington on Tuesday that he had the consent of James Wilson, secre- tary of agriculture and his superior officer, to write his letter to Senator Deliver. This is the letter that re- suited in PinchOt's dismissal by Pres ident Taft from the forestry service on the ground of insubordination.
 Secretary Wilson, who is said to have voted in cabinet meeting for PinchOt's dismissal, sat only a few feet from the former forester when the latter made his statement Later the veteran cabinet member took the witness chair and, angry clear through. declared that he never had authorized the sending of the letter.
 It was the most dramatic incident that has occurred in the Ballinger- Pinchot investigation. The aged sec retary fairly shouted his denial and brought his fist down on the table with a bang. The secretary, it is true, was obliged to qualify his de nial. He admitted giving MT. PinchOt permission to write to Senator Dol liver, giving him departmental infor- nation, but he never intended the au- thorization to cover a letter which would insult the president of the United States"
 Secretary Wilson made a poor wit ness. He seemed to be very much worked up over the incident and on several occasions lost his patience and got mixed up in his answers.
 MT PinchOt and the secretary of az riculture have been friends for many years, but when the secretary left the witness stand it was apparent that they were no longer on speaking terms. MT. Pinchot. pale and some what nervous, arose from his seat to let the secretary pass, but MT. Wilson stepped by without giving a sign of recognition.
Connecticut western news., 1910-03-03
DALAI' LAMA WELCOMED.
Refugee Escorted In India by Crowds
 of Adoring Buddhists.

The dalai lama of Tibet, who fled from Lhasa owing to Chinese aggres- sion in Tibet, arrived at Darjeeling, British India, on Tuesday.
 There was an imposing demOnstra- ton of devotion and reverence by a great congregation of Buddhists of va rious races. A majority of these went a long distance to meet the dalai lama and escort him, accompanied by pro- sessions of monks from the local Bud dhist mOnasteries.
 The dalai lama exchanged the pony on which he had travelled most of his journey for palanquin, from which he blessed the adOring crowds, among whom were many women who held children aloft to receive the benedic- tiOn.
 AS the dalai lama approached the town a British official and military escort went to meet him, and he was conducted to the Druid hotel.
Connecticut western news., 1910-03-03
BOYS BLACK HAND PLOT.
Threat to Blow Up Mrs. Havemeyer's
 Home Unless $2,5o0 Is Paid.

i'OhlS OHICSS PGJOOO iS ' 6iNs
 The New York police on Thursday arrested George Stoll and Samuel Williams, two small boys, on a charge of sending a Black Hand letter to Mrs. Henry o. Havemeyer, widow of the former head of the American Sugar Refining company. The letter con- tained a demand for $2,500 and threat ened to blow up her home and destroy everybody in it unless their demands were complied with. It continued:
 'No matter if you offer us $1OO,OOO we will not let up. Rich people pay our demands, and they have no more bother, and we protect them. If you tell the police we will blow up your house and destroy everybody in it with revolver or dagger and send them poisoned food"
 On the letter were rough sketches of a heart pierced by dagger, a re- vOlver and bottle marked "POisOn."
Connecticut western news., 1910-03-03
ROOT APPEALS FUR
 FEDERAL ii:o0.i5 TAX
New York S30aiOr Taxes ISsE}
 With Gcy3rnOr Hughes.

A letter from United States Senator Elihu Root to State Senator Frederick M. Davenport taking issue with Gov ernor Hughes on the Taft federal in the New York state legislature at Al bany on Monday. In his letter Mir Root said:
 Much as 1 respect the opinion of the governor of the state, I cannot agree with the view expressed in his special message.
 '"The objection made to the amend ment is that it will confer upon the national government the power to tax incomes derived from bonds issued by the states or under the authority of the states and will place the borrow ing capacity of the state and it's gov ernmental agencies at the mercy of the fedeOl taxing power.
 "l do not find in the amendment any such meaning or effect. I do not con slider that the amendment in any de- gree whatever will enlarge the taxing power of the national government or will have any effect except to relieve the exercise of that taxing power from the requirement that the tax shall be appOrtiOned among the several states. The effect of the amendment will be, in my view, the same as if it said, The United States may lay a tax on incomes without appOrtioning the tax, and this shall be applicable whatever the source of the income subjected to the tax leaving the question, What incomes are subject to national taxa tiOn? to be determined by the same principles and rules which are now ap- plicable to the determination of that question.
 "This amendment will be no new grant of power. The congress already has power to impose taxes on incomes from whatever source derived subject to the rule of construction which eX- cludes state securities from the opera tiOn of the power. but the taxes so inn posed must be appOrtioned among the states. Under the proposed amend ment there will be the same and no greater power to tax incomes from whatever source derived, subject to the same rule of construction, but re- lieved from the requirement. that the tax shall be apportiOned.
 ''It appears therefore that no dan ger to the powers or instrumentalities of the states is to be apprehended from the adoption of the amendment.
 Tt would be cause for regret if the amendment were rejected by the leg islature of New York.
 "The circumstances that originally justified the establishment of the rule of appOrtiOnment in the constitution have long since passed away. The power of taxation which the rule makes it impossible for the nation to exercise may be again, as it has once been, vital to the preservation of na- tional existence. It would be most un- fortunate if the several states of the Union were to insist upon the contin- uance of this unjust and useless limi- tatiOn upon the necessary powers orig inally and wisely granted to the na- tional government
Connecticut western news., 1910-03-03
Tn Rc st His ENas

The people who quit reading just to rest their eyes" might take hint by inference from the reply made by an old illiterate. A passing man found him apparently deeply interested tn q paper.
 On looking close it became apparent that his paper was upside down, and he was asked forthwith why he held 1t thus.
 His reply almost knocked the ques- tioner out. It was:
 Just to rest my eyes!'