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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1910-04-28


ELECTION EXPENSES
Estimate to pay same for 1910 81 400 90
BRIDGE ACCOUNT.
Estimate to build same for 1910 IS, 500 90
FOX AND CAT CERTIFICATES.
Estimate to pay same for 1910 $3.50 90
ALMSHOUSE AND ASYLUM FUND.
Estimate for 1910............ $1,000 90
MARYLAND HOSPITAL.
Estimate for l910........... $3.50 co
Estimate to pay State Wit
nesses before J. P.......... 500 90
COMMISSIONERS OFFICE.
Estimate for County Commits
sioners Observation-Disclosures. $500 90
A. G. Rossf Clerk, balance. 800 90
George w. Legge, IT,, Atty. $50 90
$3.50 90
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ORPHANS COURT.

Estimate to pay Judges. ..... $3.50 "a
f. E. Friend, Register of Wills 244 20
G-Co "a
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CORPORATIONS

! LERK IR UT CURT.
E. Z. Tower. Observation-Disclosures. S1,525 90
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DISTRICT ASSESSORS.
FOREST FIRE ACCOUNT

For extinguishing fires on lands
of L. T. Yoder and c. F. Kim
nell
L. L. Kimmill. Observation-Disclosures. s so
For extinguishing fires on lands
of H. c. Prick and Western
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GENERAL ASSESSMENT.
Estimate to pay for same -. 1900 0C
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PUBLIC SCHOOLS

PUBLIC PRINTING AND PUBLISH
ING.
Benz. H. Sincell, Publishing
and Printing, used Garrett
National Bank S462 so
James D. Hamill, Publishing,
use Garrett National Bank. 20 50
Charles a. Detfinbaugh, Pub
fishing. ll6 IS
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1885 81
CONTINGENT FUND.
RECAPITEI.ATION

Estimate for discounts, &c. s., 669 %
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GENERALROAD APPROPRIATIONS.

For Districts No. l, 7, s, 10,
Is and Observation-Disclosures. 81, 200 90
For Districts No. 3, !, 9, II
and l2............ ........ 700 90
For Districts No 2, and g.. 400 90
$500 90
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-21

CMITH reached the hotel half an hour after the ban
- quet had started and even then he chose to climb
the stairs the second floor rather than take the
elevator At the entrance to the reception room, while
he pulling off his overcoat reporter sighted him
and asked for something about his speech Smith, turn
ing the check his fingers. regarded hxedly
and did not seem to hear Then he said slowly, Il
haven't anything, don't know what I'll say
yet
When he reached the doorway of the banquet room.
he paused and from the shadow of the curtains looked
inside 1t square, high ceilinged room, filled with
little tables On platform. at the far end was long
table banked with growing plants and flowers At this
facing the three hundred at the little tables, sat dozen
men, About the middle of their ne beneath festooned
American flag vacant chair. Smith knew that
this his place. and while he paused he the toast
master who seated next to it. peer at the curtains
and then speak waiter who started for the doorway
frown tugged at Smiths bushy white brows, and he
pucked his wisp of beard Then he pushed aside the
curtains and walked into the room.
A warm smile had wiped away the frown and made
welcoming the thin mouth with its clean shaven upper
lip there homey grace about his gaunt frame and
waved greeting to those he recognized and several
times halted to grasp hand thrust out to him. third
of the their feet, waving napkins or dinner
cards. and at the long table the POSTMASTER waiting
for him, hand upon the back of the vacant chair
Smith pulled himself free from clutch at his sleeve and
mounted the platform He bowed the broken cheers
subsidized and sat down. turning to the POSTMASTER with
apology for being late
When he looked up again, minute later they were
all busy their plates eating terrapn and telling
another what they thought of it. complaining that the
champagne too dry not dry enough
Smith understood this; but the inference personal to
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THE LAST STAND

But he paid attention. Then. abruptly, his voice
jumped out of his throat rasping and penetrating:
and stand Just where | always stood. out in the
open and you going to hear what think because you
asked here tonight to speak, and because throwing
flowers at each other won't get step closer to-
gether!"
The in the corner gave warwhoop, and
was suppressed The of them very quiet and
Smith went
What he said for the next ten minutes to be found in
the newspapers under big headlines The reporters sat
the table directly beneath him and wrote it all down
in shorthand because he let himself out just about
they hoped he would. At first there violence in
his speech attitude and for little while he held to
the narrow lines of the business upon which they
just at odds. But that business inextricably
tangled with those other issues which divided him from
them, and at every turn he reminded of his
tremty So his temper grew more raw, and the bitter
that flooded his soul began to edge his tongue.
Prom defense of his position he slipped almost in
sensby into attack upon theirs And the whole
field of their differences lay between them Behind the
long table he ragged strdng up and down. his chin stuck
his eyes blazing cracking his heels together smack
ing his palms-the backwoods orator in frenzy.
His waistcoat gaped to the lowest button, his tie flung
its loose ends the crmped and bullying shirt 'front.'
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himself caused him neither chagrin nor amusement
Neither did it have anything to do with the redoubed
wish that he might have way to avoid this dinner
everyone of those with whom he sat was his political
enemy secretly if not openly, and their invitation
he looked at it. had been hardly less than challenge
For that matter he enjoyed fighting He had never
away from anything and certainly he felt fear of the
men about him. 1t rather that vaguely he dis
trusted himself.
FOR almost twenty years his political rule had been
iron listed and directed only by his own judgment
In that time he had built up around him organization
that seemed almost impregnable. He had made
what were known as friends for he n1exibly loyal
and was prompt reward what he considered right
wrong he never resorted lie where fat refusal
the choice and he had retained that spirit of youth
which wins largely by virtue of its vices which at times
made him fling himself into Responsibilities with the
most reckless of them ALL Indeed it his very
cess in dominating that imperiled him. His per-
sonal power had made him bitter and energetic enemies
and his organization, which only an extension of
himself was good deal like pyramid upside down.
it was the trick of juggler quite much that
of a strong man to hold it steady.
This fact should have been entirely plain from the
start 1t also should have been plain what would hap
pen if he stumbled. Yet for long while he had fooled
them all and made his pyramid appear to be resting upon
broad. safe base. But time passed and the pyramid
grew at the top, the menace of its widening shadow
forced home the truth and then the random fire of his
foes began steady his person. and before long he
feeling its effects. Now it fight his part,
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his direction should rise and begin variation
upon the time auson to a veteran of thousand
fields of wit and politics who possessed another
name perhaps but long since by reason OF the deeds he
has DONE the battles he has enshrned himself in
our hearts as-The Colonel Against this announce
ment Smiths single provision was one bred of whim.
With his dinner card he covered full glass of sauterne
and placed it at his elbow. 1t his contention that
with this glass of wine below the belt and the tang of
still upon the tongue after dinner speaker worthy of
the name and able stand upon his feet should fail
to say what would bring his fellow diners to theirs.
GO the dinner marched through its diminishing courses
- the talk and laughter swelled the veil of smoke
thickened the fragrance of coffee and the fumes of
brandy began to spice the air; the POSTMASTER clearing
his throat At the tattoo of his knife handle the
table, the conversation died away amid scrapng of
chair legs and simultaneously every faculty in Smith
sprang to attention. Only one thing was in his mind
now. His shrewd eyes began to rove the room, APP
prasing the before him by one, testing their
temper in this hour of ulness weighing his chances in
the light of their hostility to him and Of his
sources In half minute his decision had been made,
and he was leaning back in his chair cigar tilted in his
mouth, when his name was spoken.
Automatically his fingers found and closed about the
stem of the glass of sauterne He put the glass down
empty and rose lifting his chair and placing it several
feet behind him. Then he came back to the table and
leaned it with both hands, his head craned from his
hunched shoulders like hawk. They yelled his name
again and again. but for nearly minute he did not open
his mouth When he began to speak his voice was husky
and faint. and some one in corner cried, "Louder!
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and his arms hreshed the air and nearly struck the
Consul General of Nicaragua from his chair. He knew
he fighting with his back against wall and furious
desire to smash them made him loose words that
against all rules of the game. And the three hundred
the fighting man in him. 1t was that perhaps which
made him fancy they were routed-almost to the last
minute. 1t little thing that sharply brought him
to sense of what was really passing in their minds
FAR back in the room two gravey reached across
the table and shook hands. Smith had not picked
out those two from the crowd his vision merely
registered their act had hundred shifting postures
among his hearers. Yet it was as if tumbler of ice
water had been poured down his back. He stiffened
convusvely and his voice traed away into whisper.
Instantly he that he had blundered. Men shook
hands like that, not misfortunes doubts but
when things going their way. He had lost his tenn
per- and they had II and reasoned out for them
selves what it His violence had exposed his
tremty.
For moment he stood transfxed Then great ply
steal weakness made him lean forward and rest his hands
the table, his shoulders stopped his body relaxed all
the passion wiped from his face His seventy years
on him. and he sagged under their weight.
The utterly still. Every face turned up
his. Duly regarding those faces he wrestled with
himself. Then little movement began among them
saying. He had broken off-yes, in the middle of a SEN
tence. What was it? He couldn't remember. But they
must know! Why didn't some one help him outl They
weren't going to refuse him that much, were they!
And then. just when it could not last any longer.
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By Churchill Williams
Drawins by Herman Pfeifer

not further his power but to hold what he already
had. And this he knew better than anyone else.
But telling other people what they must do and max
ing them do it had grown to be almost habit with
Smith, and perhaps also he dimy that he
too old to change his habits and live So it that
facing his heaviest task there pressed upon him for the
first time realization that he seventy years Old
Age, as applied himself, except for the few COM
panionships it mellowed, had before this been
to him than piece of arithmetic loosely used by
newspapers and speech makers something that gave
him sort of first claim public notice. But tonight
age was very real, and he uneasy. He wanted to
think it all He didn't want to talk and especially
he didn't want to talk about what had to be handled
with care.
The fact remained that they expected him to speak,
and that if he didn't speak about what lay directly be-
tween him and them he might make the worst mistake
of ALL &c. with plenty say and the courage to say it.
he hesitated Something had slipped from him. and his
decision hung fire.
But he liked good food and drink, and gradually his
uneasness was lued With the comfortable feeling of
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a well fed stomach he thought
better of himself. After all, he
knew more about this sort Of
thing than anyone else in the
room. He had beaten them be-
fore; he would do it again!
And as for the speech, it
would shape itself as was best
when the right time came. And
that would be, as usual with
him, only when the toast
master, with a side glance in
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-08-07
FIRE CONTROL
IS NOW READY
Mortar Battery Connected With
the Diamond Head Lookout
Station.
WIRING FOR FORT De RUSSY
Guns for De Russy and Arm
strong Not Ready, but Every
thing Ready for Them.

Inc eight mortar guns of Battery
Harlow, Fort Ruger at Diamond, have
been connected up with the fire control
station on the foreface of Diamond
Head back of the lighthouse. and the
guns are practically ready for firing
under the direction of the officer in
charge
The work has been rushed for sew
eral months and it is now complete and
the workmen are now engaged in com
pletlng the extension to the 14-inch
batteries at Fort De Russy. From there
the fire control will be extended to the
battery at Fort Armstrong at the en-
trance to the harbor of Honolulu and
the army officers will then carry il
along by submarine cable to Fort Ka-
mehameha at Pearl Harbor, thus giving
the control of the firing of all the great
guns from the single trig station or
the summit of Diamond Head.
This station will have centered in il
the control of eight mortars at Fort
Ruger, two 14-inch guns at De Russy
two at Armstrong and two at Pear
! Harbor, or fourteen high-powered guns
all told In addition tc this the wal
department has under contemplation
the erection of smaller batteries fur
Their along the Oahu coast along the
/ Waianae and Waialua way.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-08-07
EXCUSE,
TRIAL MARRIAGE
Russian Accused of Selling His
Daughter Has Novel
Defense.

Teodor Kolishenkoff. the Russian
from Maui, who is accused by the fed
eral authorities with having peddled
his stepdaughter about, trying to get
a price for her from a Korean and a
japanese and letting her out to each
counts yesterday by United States Com
missioner Judd, under bonds of $1,000
in each case. to the October term of
the United States district court.
The Russian took the witness stand
in his own defense, and his excuse fo1
his conduct was that he spanked his
Continued on Page Eighty
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-08-07
CHOPPED DOWN
FLUME WITH Ak
Homesteader Rogers Rises and
Smiles Hutchinson
Plantation.

Another incident of the trouble that
for so long has existed between Hutch.
inson plantation and the homesteaders
of kona occurred recently when a
homesteader named Rogers, believing
that he was being mistreated by the
plantation, took an ak and tore down
the plantation flume that crossed his
land. The reason for this was the
the plantation fumes, railroads and res
ervoirs when settling homesteaders on
land.
The trouble, which at one time prom
ised to be serious, has, Land Commits
sloner Campbell says, been satisfac
torily settled, Homesteader Rogers hav-
ing been persuaded that he was in the
wrong. Mr. Campbell states that al
though it is true that the land agent
failed to exempt the fumes, railroads
and reservoirs, still the legal notice Of
the proposed disposal Of homestead
/ lands contained this exemption and con
sequently the plantation was within its
rights in crossing Rogers land.
! VIII Marston Campbell was on Ha-
! wan recently, he was told of the row
and went over to Kona to investigate.
He found that the plantation had a
; right-of -way crossing Rogers land and
along this right of way was a flume.
The plantation people went upon the
right of way and altered the grade
of the fiume though they did not alter
! its location.
J Continued on Page Five.)
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asked for. on Mr.. Scott s part. is CON
taiued in the following copy of letter
received yesterday by Governor Frear.
Mr. Scott writes:
"Hon. Walter f. Frear. Governor, Ter
ritorv of Hawaii, Honolulu.
''Dear Sir:-The matter of granting
a license or franchise to the Hilo Rail
road Company to construct a wharf
in the harbor of Hilo, has only been
brought to the notice of the Hilo public
by articles published in the Honolulu
papers of a late date, and very few
people. unless they have a direct inter
est in this work. know that a valuable
and almost exclusive franchise is being
asked for by this company.
At the public meeting called by
Major Winslow short time ago. only
the harbor and pierhead lines were up
for discussion. and the impression CIV
en- in Honolulu that this franchise was
also considered is not correct. There
has been issued call for public
meeting to be held on Saturday at two
D. m. to thoroughly consider this very
important matter. and | am please to
see by TOdav's News that you VIII
defer action until the Hilo public can
have a hearing.
E'I am heartily in favor of granting
this franchise. (and so have Informed
Mr.. t. 4. Thurston) to the H. K. II.
Co. to build this wharf for the carry
ing on Of their business. but | am
strongly opposed to it unless there is
clause inserted compelling them to
buiIi a proper public approach to same,
whereby the public can have access
to it by any means they see fit TO use
If granted without this clause being
inserted the public will be completely
at the mercy of this company, as not
pound of freight or other article can
mass over it without paying tribute
to l. ,..5
..When this structure is completed
if j. reasonable to expect thai the
steamers of the American Hawanan n
and Matson lines viii make use Oh
CONTINUED on Page Two.)
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-08-07
AME RIGA AND
FRANCE IN
DUEL
Representative Aviators Engage
in Contest of Skill in Flying
Race.
DIVIDE HoNoRs EQUALLY
Latham Sets Pace for France,
and Weymann, for America,
Duplicates Feats.

PARIS, August IA remarkable
duel of skill was fought out yesterday
between France and America, as repre-
scented by the aviators Latham and
Weymann, the outcome of the contest
being a draw with both navigators of
the air covered with honor and shar-
ing in the applause of thousands of
people who watched the start of their
duel and of other thousands who wit
messed the end Of it.
Latham, in his monoplane, started
from Chalons-sur- Marine and sailed to-
wards Paris, eighty seven miles away.
lie made two stops en- route, twice cir
cling the Eiffel Tower after reaching
the city to show the absolute control
he had over his machine.
Scarcely had he disappeared from
sight from Chalons sur Marine then
Weymann, the American aeroplanist,
started in his wake, following the
same course to Paris and duplicating
everything accomplished in his flight
by the Frenchman
Paris Press Excited.
A Paris newspaper has offered prize
of twenty thousand dollars to the
! aviator covering the circuit from Paris
to Troyes, thence to Nancy, thence to
Arienes and back to Paris in the short
est elapsed time. A number of avia-
| tors have announced their intention of
| living for the prize.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-08-07
GERMANY SELLS TWO
BATTLESHIPS TO TURKEY

BERLIN, August . The German
government yesterday announced that
it had disposed of two battleships, the
Weissenburg and the Kurfuerst Fried
rich Wilhelm, to the Turkish govern
ment, the price paid being four and a
half million dollars.
The two battleships are among the
Oldest of the serviceable vessels of their
class in the German navy, being of the
Brandenburg class, of which four were
laid down in 1891 and 1892, being re-
boilered since. Each carries four Gold
modeD eleven-inch, forty caliber guns,
and two eleven-inch, thirty five-caliber
guns, with soEle smaller armament.
Each cost, complete, $3,750,O00.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-08-07
v|CE-PREs|DENT WAS
AGAINST THE DEAL
Testimony Shows That He Did
Not Favor Side He Is Charged
With Bribing For.

MUSKOGEE, Oklahoma, August g.
Before the congressional committee
named to investigate the charges made
by Senator Gore that he was offered
bride of $4,000 to withdraw his oppo
sition to the public land contracts, Sen
ator Curtis testified today that he and
Vice President Sherman advised Presi-
dent Taft against the McMurray con
tracts.
A representative of the Cherokee
Nation testified that McMurray offered
him $4,000 to approve the deal that
was to give the men involved absolute
control over a vast acreage of former
Indian lands
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-08-07
HAMBURG SHlPYARDS
ARE TO CLOSE DOWN

HAMBURG, August THE ship
builders, in consequence of strike
among their mechanics, have decided
TO close down their works as a lockout,
discharge fifteen thousand workmen on
Thursday next and stop all construction
work on the vessels on the stocks.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-08-07
MORE EVIDENCE OF
A BLOODY TRAGEDY

SANTA ROSA, California, August 7.
An upper jaw, from the body of a
young man, was found on the Kendall
ranch Yesterday, the ranch from which
family disappeared last month, sup
posed to have been murdered and their
bodies chopped up and burned by
japanese servant. Near the jaw was
also found a club covered with blood
and a hoe, on the handle of which
showed bloody finger prints.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-08-07
BET ON THE GAME
AND ARE PULLED

LOS ANGELES, August In the
crusade against gambling, which in
cludes all betting in public places, the
police yesterday arrested fourteen spec
tators of baseball game who were
placing wagers on the result of the
match
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-08-07
m WANTS RAILROAD
c0MPANY To Get WHARF
LICENSE FOR H|LO BAY
!, ~ Unanimous in Favor of immediate Inn.
movement of Their Harbor---Scott
Writes One Obj lection.

Special by Wireless to The Advertiser.)


~ ncns 6-The following resolutions adopted at
citizens, attendance that filled the
only one dissenting the meeting
the building
he moment that would protect the public.
,ehtnns passed were;
wv +i of Hio Island of Hawaii, in public meeting
build wharf in Hio harbor,
by the superintendent of public works the Iilo Railroad
after full of said proposed license
that the public interests fully and properly protected by
license and that the should be promptly
suggest and request clearly forth the public
~ a access to said following clause be added
n said proposed license viz:
Provided however that the company shall not make any
L and regulations do which will any
no, the nuble and ingress and egress and
fm said any public approach said wharf during
4 ordinary business the time of arrival de-
parur of ship locked at said wharf
u, Re It Further Resolved That opinion there should
~ wagon said wharf when built and hereby request
int Governor superintendent public will recommend
legislature appropriation such purpose and hereby
senator's also work for such appropriations
That the chairman Of this meeting
instructed copy of these resolutions the
| Governor