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The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-08-30
DROWNED IN
IRRIGATION DITCH

The particulars of a sad drowning
accident on the Garden Island, of which
Mrs. Mary Vierra Branco, stepmother
of John Vierra Branco of Honolulu,
was the victim, were received in the
last mail The accident occurred at
Hanamaulu on Saturday. Mrs. Branco
had gone to the irrigation ditch for
water, but the upright pipe from which
ordinarily the supply is got was dry, and
she dipped her bucket into the ditch
itself, where the water runs swiftly.
Evidently the force of the water
against the bucket overbalanced the
woman and she pitched into the ditch.
Four hours later searchers found her
drowned body in the water, her dress
caught on some wire, which prevented
her from regaining her feet.
Mr.. Branco left on the last boat for
Kauai to bring his five orphaned step
brothers and stepsisters to Honolulu.
The youngest of these children is a
baby six months old.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-08-30
National Flag will Be FurIed for
Last Time-Mikado to Be
Absolute Ruler.
STRONG GUARD ON HAND
Annexation May Bring About
Riots-No Surprise Caused by
Formal Announcement.

SEOUL, August 27.-The Associated
Press is permitted to announce that on
Monday next Korea as sovereignty
will cease to exist.
The national flag will be hauled down
and furled for the last time, and Nut
suhito, the Mikado, will become abso-
lutte ruler of Korea.
For several weeks the Japanese gov
ernment has been preparing for the an
nouncement, but all news in connec-
tion with the plans for annexation were
suppressed. Local papers were rigidly
censored and Toxic papers containing
news concerning the Mikado's s designs
were not permitted to circulate here.
The entire country has been placed
under a military guard and Japanese
warships are patrolling the coast. The
situation is extremely puzzling, and out
breaks may occur in many places when
the Korean flag is hauled down and the
Japanese take full control of the coun-
try.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-08-30
LAND SURVEY AND
WATERFRONT WORK

Surveys and subdivisions are com.
plete as far as public lands are con-
cerned at Kawailoalele, Oahu, and will
be advertised in few weeks.
Land Commissioner Campbell reports
that the survey party next week goes
to Waiahole, this island.
The surveyors also have business at
Kahului, Maui, to relocate certain
streets and rights of way granted by
the Kahului Railroad Company to the
Territory as approaches to the break
water. Survey work will soon be ac-
complished at Lualualei, Waianae,
Oahu.
Campbell has given contracts as fol-
lows To Lucas Bros, for 1900 feet
of wooden stave pipe to improve Manoa
water system.
To Defries, for Brewer wharf exten-
sion and Sorenson wharf addition.
Levers & Cooke get the job of sup
plying lumber for repairs to the Hack
field wharf and for repairs in general
on the waterfront.
Waterfront contracts involves over
$4,000.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-08-30
NEW OPTION ON
SPRECKELS SITE
Waterhouse Trust Company Now
Figures in the Federal Build
ing Query.

A cable was received yesterday morn
ing by the Henry Waterhouse Trust
Company giving that company an op-
tion on the spreekels site, Merchant
and Alakea, which is now a prominent
candidate for federal building honors.
The option is neld at $1,000 and fol.
lows the expiration of an option held
on the same property by J. B. Castle.
The latter's option is supposed to have
been $685. 900.
The cable was sent by the representa-
tive of the Spreckels' heirs in San
Francisco.
A letter from George B. Mcclellan
dated from Washington. was received
by the merchants association yester.
day and read at the directors meeting
in the afternoon. Its contents renewed
the discussion of this perplexing ques
tion.
Mcclellan stated that he had assum
ed that the chamber of commerce had
kept the merchants association posted
on the request for valuations and SC
had not cabled the association wher
the. Delegate had cabled the chamber
of commerce.
The assurance that the Delegate &
cable had been addressed to the cham.
ber and not to an individual brought
forth considerable informal and un
favorable comment of the evils Of star
chamber procedure.
The entire trouble which has arisen
through supposed undervaluation made
through undervalued assessments j!
blamed upon the closed door proceed
ings entirely. The business community ;,
general attitude preeludes another at
tempt to secure what more money might
be necessary to meet the real valuation
The Delegate has refused to ask fol
more and his position is generally up
held.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-08-30
HlL0 WHARF LICENSE
HAS BEEN SIGNED
(From Saturdays Advertiser. }

Superintendent of Public Works
Campbell yesterday afternoon signed
the license for the construction of the
big Hilo wharf by the Hilo Railroad
Company, Governor Frear approving.
The license is said to be satisfactory
to all. Attorney Hemenway represent
ed the Inter,Island Steam Navigation
Company and Castle & Cooke represent
ed the Matson Navigation Company.
They yesterday morning approved the
license on behalf of their clients.
The principal differences in the
license as signed from the original are
that the constructing corporation, the
Hilo Railroad Company, shall allow any
other railroad the use Of lis rails and
approaches upon payment Of certain
amonntsj that three appraisers shall be
appointed 10 settle tho value OF the
wharf when the government wants "a
take II oyeTi that two hundred feet OF
the approach for a roadway may be
taken over by tho government, and that
the company shall not keep anyone on
the wharf during business hours.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-08-30
SICK AND HELPLESS, IS
SENT TO POLICE CELL
Minister Believes Unfortunate
Woman to Be Drunk and
Has Her Arrested.
CFrom salurday.s AdvertIserl

Mistaken charity yesterday sent Mrs.
N. +. Percy, wife of a mechanic in a
local garage, to the police station. The
unfortunate woman had just been re-
leased from the hospital and had been
picked up hysterical on the beach at
the Seaside by the Rev. Mr.. Kroll. He
believed her drunk or insane, and sent
for the patrol wagon, which conveyed
her to the station.
When found she was lying on the
sand in torpid condition, with her
little child running about her. Mr..
Kroll took the child home after send
ing the mother to the Jail.
The police learned afterwards that
she had undergone an operation for ap-
pendictis at the Queen Is Hospital and
had been home for the first day. When
her husband went to work she took the
baby and went to the beach. Mr.. Kroll
first saw her on the car, and as she was
acting strangely, followed her to the
beach.
A bottle of alcohol was found beside
her ON the sand, and he believed from
this that she had been drinking it, but
it turned out afterward that it belonged
to another party. She presented pitt
able sight in the police station as she
called hysterically for her baby. She
begged the officers to tell her what to do,
but as Mr.. Kroll had ordered her taken
to the station, they could do nothing ex.
cept detain her while they investigated
She was released and taken home as
soon as her husband was found.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-08-30
WANTED TO END
LIVES TOGETHER

Kalaoa, japanese camp just beyond
Papaikou, was the scene of a ploody
tragedy on Tuesday morning in which
a japanese woman named UmenO Naka-
bayashi and man named Hayashi,
her lover, figured as principals, reports
the Hawaii Herald. The woman is
dead and the man at the Hilo Hospital
with badly cut throat, as the result
of the episode. The coroner IS jury,
called to Investigate the death, brought
in a verdict that the woman met her
death at the hands of Hayashi and
he viii be charged with murder, as
soon as he has recovered from his
wound sufficiently to be brought into
court
An agreement that the two, beirg
unable to live together happily, should
die together, is given as the cause of
the murder. Hayashi was living in the
same house with Umeno and her hus-
band, who had only been married for
little over six months, and it seems
that he fell in love with the woman
and that his feelings were reciprOcated.
They could find no way out of their
difficulty which was satisfactory, so,
according to the murderer, they agreed
that 1t would be best that both of them
should die.
Tuesday morning at about eight
clock, nearly all the persons around
the Kalaoa camp had gone to work,
when woman who came past the place
used by the japanese for washing, saw
Umeno and Hayashi talking together.
She returned about half an hour after
and found the woman, with her throat
cut from ear to ear, lying dead on the
ground. About fifty feet away lay
Hayashi, with bad wound in his
throat, which had been made by sharp
fish knife.
The woman gave the alarm and medi.
cal aid was summoned as quickly as
possible. Hayashi was brought into HilO
and placed in the Hilo Hospital. His
wound, while serious, viii not cause his
death and he explains matters by say.
ing that the two had agreed TO die and
that he had first cut the woman Is throat
and then bis own, making a poor job
of the latter,
The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-08-30
HAWAII IS
THREE-FOURTHS
CORPORATION

Personal and real property owned by
Gus Hawaiians' amounts to over one
hundred and fifty millions of dollars in
value, as per the very latest figures
which, by the way, are likely to find
a place in the report of Governor Frear
to Washington.
OF this amount the corporations of
this Territory own one hundred and ten
millions Outside of the corporations,
forty millions is owned.
The lowest in the list of property
owners are the Japanese. They own
less than two millions, of which about
twenty-five per cent. is in real prop
erty.
The next lowest owners are the
Latins, having over two millions.
The Chinese own as much as the
japanese and Portuguese put together,
and then some.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-08-30
WEBB CAUGHT IN
NET OF THE LAW
Defamer of Priests Is to Be
Brought to Honolulu to
Stand Trial.

The long arm of the federal law,
pivoting on the Island of Oahu and
swinging in a wide circle which inelud.
ed Australia, has now Topped its hand
on to one James Webb, or ]. J. Webb,
whose true or other name is unknown
to the authorities, and will drag him
back from Indiana to Honolulu to an
swer charges of sending obscene pic
lures and doggerel through Uncle Sam IS
mail.
Some time ago Webb created sen,
sation, almost melting religious riot in
this city, through mailing scandalous
printed matter which attacked the
Catholic priesthood.
There was cry of Holy Rollerism
going rampant and, at the time, the
Holy Rollers, so called, were deelaim.
ing everything to the devil except their
own elect.
Just how much Holy Rollerism was
but the police and the federal author
verse proposition on Webb, who was
indicted about the time he skipped the
country.
1t was not known in what direction
he had made his flight, but soon there
came a postal card from Australasia,
addressed to the Honolulu postmaster,
asking that Webb g mail be forwarded.
Either the disagreeable Webb thought
hn ~ bod IL ha "a
more reckless than was good for him.
In any event he must have been very
anxious to receive certain mail. A few
DAYS ago another postal asking for his
mail was received from Indiana.
A federal official, being interviewed
on the case yesterday, had the follow
ing to say:
t'valparaiso has been discovered to
be the present abiding place of one
J. J. Webb. Before many moons have
paled, the Paradise of the Pacific will
be his residence and the cell so un-
tremendously vacated by Anderson
Grace will be given him as an appro-
| pirate place wherein to lay his head.
Sheriff Jarrett became aware of certain
obscene matter being sent through the
mails dealing with alleged practises of
Catholic priests. Where was Webb
when he was not in Honolulu During
periodical attack of insomnia United
States Marshal Eugene R. Hendry
dreamed that the man wanted was in
Australia, and while taking vacation
by reading over postal cards Postmaster
Pratt discovered that the man wanted
was in Senator Fairbanks kuleana, in
Indiana. BY cable Mr. Webb was locat.
ed and identified and by today's mai
will proceed certified copies under the
authority of one William Howard Taft
lU.S.A., admonishing one Eugene r
Hendry to present before the Hon. A
G. NJ. Robertson, federal Judge, the
body of the aforesaid Webb whose other
oretrue name is unknown, in order that
Mr.. Webb may make explanations il
he can as to why he has not behaved
The obscene pictures and doggerel viii
not bear reproduction.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-08-30
Remaining Troops Of Fifth Are
Ordered to Join the
Regiment.
HERE IN A FEW WEEKS
Temporary Quarters Are to Be
Rushed-MOre Soldiers to
Come to Other Posts.
lFrom satnrdny 8 Advertiger.l J

The entire Fifth Cavalry has been
ordered to duty and station at schofeld
Barracks, Leilehua, and the three
squadrons will be encamped by the end
of October
Col. Walter Schuyler, Fifth Cavalry,
commanding Schofeld Barracks, receiv-
ed notice yesterday that the third
squadron had been ordered to prepare
for change from the Yellowstone Park
to Leilehua, and he expects the four
troops of cavalry here this fall, prob.
ably before November.
Orders have also been received by
the colonel and the depot quartermaster
to commence Immediately the eonstruc'
ton of officers quarters, barracks, and
stables to house officers, troopers and
horses of the remaining squadron. Cap
tain Falls viii begin work early in
September and rush the completion of
the structures. The stables will re-
quire the most work.
The present command at Schofield
Barracks, when each troop is recruited
to its full strength in time of peace,
numbers about $40 men, and the re-
naming squadron numbers about $50
men, so that the garrison at Leilehua
will in future number over 500 enlisted
men.
Colonel Schuyler stated last night
that the policy of the war department
is to make Oahu an impregnable posi-
ton and new additions to the armed
forces in the island could be expected
every now and then, so that no power
would figure on Hawaii as an easy mark
from strategical point of view.
Colonel Schuyler expected to leave
for Washington in September to take
position on the general staff as chief
of the cavalry arm of the service, but
he may not get away until October
When he leaves the command will de-
volve upon the lieutenant.colonel of the
Fifth, as during the time Colone
Schuyler is on detached service thC
Fifth will not have a colonel in com
mand. Lieutenant Colonel Wheeler will
command the entire regiment, when the
third squadron arrives from the main
land.
No instructions have yet been re
ceived to commence work on the per
manent post at Leilehua, which vii
eventually become brigade post.
Department of Honolulu.
In connection with this important
news, the following Associated Press
despatch is of decided interest:
MANILA, August lS.-Secretary o.
War Dickinson announces that he ha
authorized the formation of the De
partment of Honolulu and the estab
lishment of a considerable military de
tail in the Hawaiian Islands. The new
department win include two regiment
of infantry, one regiment of cavalry
six companies of coast artillery and
regiment of field artillery.
The present defenses of the Hawaii
an group have been strengthened an,
enlarged during the last year and ae
commodations for the increased garri
son are practically ready.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-08-30
Beer, EIOquence and JObbery Are
in Evidence in Some of the
Precincts.
HARMONY IN SOME OTHERS
Intense Interest Manifested in
AII-Liquor Interest Very
Much in Sight.
(From saturdays Advortisor.)

Nominations for delegates to repre-
sent the precinct clubs of Oahu in ter
ritorial and county conventions were
made last night and fur few. beer spill
ed, eloquence was scattered broadcast
and knives were barred. In the major
ity of the precincts the nominations
were decorously made and solemnly at
tested to as in order, while in a few
there was such harmony that the cleo
tions of Saturday next will be merely
a matter of form. In other precincts it
was different
Out in Kaimuki, where the comet
Lives, there were shooting stars last
night, President Douthitt of the pre-
einct club paying his respect to Ed
TOwse, which precipitated battle
royal.
Down in Kakaako, where brewery
beer was on tap, the brewery crowd at
tempted to ride roughshod over al
others, with the result that the county
committee will have row to settle
The brewery push, headed by Bartlett
nominated delegates who do not live
in the precinct and whose main quail
ucaIlOns COnslsJ III the ldCJ tndJ IhSy
either work behind the bars for the
brewery or in front of them for the
same corporation.
In Manoa the regulars and the in
surgents put their champions in the
field for fight to finish. There were
no open hostilities during the nominal
ing.
Beer found its way over to the fifth
appearing in the various precincts
where "Wise" tickets were being pu
into the field. In some fifth precinct
there appeared to be Wise.Lane com
bination.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-08-30
ROOSEVELT WILL NOT
SETTLE MINERS STRIKE

GRAND ISLAND, Nebraska, August
~ Colonel Roosevelt yesterday de-
clined to act as arbitrator in the
miners strike, saying he lacked time.
The request to oficiate was wired yes
terday from Galesburg, Ill. He an
nounced that he would address the Colo
rado legislature.
Against Bosses.
CARROLL, Iowa, August 26-Col-
onel Roosevelt in speech here today
definitely allied himself with the pro-
gressives in New York State politics,
announcing his personal attitude as an
opponent of the present controlling
leaders of the party in that State.
Colonel Roosevelt said that he was
with the opponents of the Woodruff ele-
ment of the party, which nominated
Vice-President Sherman for temporary
chairman of the State convention. He
said he was in the fight to wage war
against corruption and bossism in the
party.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-08-30
DEATH ROLL REACHES
NEARLY TWO HUNDRED

SPOKANE, August 27.-The revised
list of fatalities in the forest fires yes
terday showed 1856 dead and 90 missing.
MISSOULA, August 27.-The Hahn
party of fifteen is safe.
Will Not Cannonade.
WASHINGTON, August 26.-The
war department. has refused the request
from Puget Sound that war vessels be
instructed to do heavy firing of guns in
the hope of causing rainfall that
would stop the forest fires. Assistant
Secretary of War Oliver declined to
undertake the experiment.
SPOKANE, August 26.-The latest
estimates are that over two hundred
persons lost their lives in the forest
fires.
AVERY, Idaho, August 26.-A forest
ranger party of seventy has perished
while trying to fight the progress of the
flames.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-08-30
CHOLERA BREAKS OUT
IN AUSTRIAN CAPITAL

VIENNA, August 27.-The cholera
epidemic has broken out in this city
and the people fear it will spread as in
other cities recently.
ST. PETERSBURG, August 27.-The
Russian army maneuvers for 1910 have
been abandoned on account of cholera.
ST. PETERSBURG, August 26.-The
number of deaths from cholera during
the past week was 7743.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-08-30
THOUSANDS LOSE JOBS
IN BIG COTTON MILLS

MANCHESTER, New Hampshire,
August 26.-Fifteen thousand persons
have been thrown out of employment
here by the closing of seventeen cotton
mills, The owners of the mills give
overproduction as reason for shutting
down.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-08-30
SHIP AT SEA LEFT
A BURNING DERELICT

BREMEN, August 26,-The ship
Harvest Queen has been abandoned
burning, by her crew, She was left in
the South Atlantic. burning dereliet.
y . S~ . @oO
and regret at the loss of so jealous a
member of this association.
A" In fond memory of our departed
associate, we desire this memorial to
be entered upon the records Of our as
sociation aud direct that copy be
sent 10 his widow and family as an
expression Of our sincere sympathy ia
their great bereavement. 4"
The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-08-30
AER0NAUT ATTEMPTS TO
CROSS GOLDEN GATE

SAN FRANCISCO, August 27.-Capt.
Ivy Baldwin attempted an aeroplane
flight across Golden Gate yesterday
morning, but the sun was hidden by
smoke from forest fires and he was
compelled to give up the undertaking.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-08-30
LOCAL CAPITALISTS
GET IN AND DIG

Articles of incorporation have been
aled by the Morgan Dredging Company,
capitalized at $4,000, with privilege OF
increase 10 100000, Of which the on.
GERS are TO boi }, j Belser, presidenti
"A. J.. Castle, secretary, and j r. Flem.
ing, treasurer Those concerned are, be-
sides the three officers named, y. H.
Morgan, w. n lloogs and D l.. with
lupton. with the great works Of har.
bon Improvement no these Islands con
templated fedonl and otherwise, the
gentlemen who have banded together
are ,n hpe iof some important con
irafff
The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-08-30
PILEs cURED IN Q TO d DAYS.

FALO OINTMENT Is guaranteed
70 cure any case Of Itching, Blind.
Bleeding or Potuding Piles Ia o 70
"a days or money ded,--Made by
PARIS MEDICINE CO.. Saint Louis
~ 9 Of a,
The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-08-30
MAYOR GAYNOR
LEAVES HOSPITAL

NEW YORK, August 20,-MaypF
Gaynor, shot IN the neck By j, J, Gal
lagheT, q discharged city employe, hae
LETT the hospital aud has gone 10 bic
Long lalapd heme,
The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-08-30
A TIME SAVER.

Keep Chamberlain Pain Balm on
hand N ia an antiseptle liuiment and
rausef Wounds 30 heal ln less time than
bY apg other treatment fof sale by
an doAlfH. Benson, Smith a Co.. Ltd,
agenia fof llaWult
The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-08-30
PHILOSOPHER
OF HARVARD is DEAD

oHoooRUA, New Hampshire, Au-
gust 27,--Prof. William James, the
philosopher, writer and educator of
Harvard University, died here yester-
day
The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-08-30
PORTUGUESE eUNB0AT
LOST, CREW SAVED

LISBON, August 27.-The gunboat
Teio was lost of Berlengas Island yes
terday The crew was saved.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-08-30
MORE STRIFE STARTS
IN TROUBLED SPAIN

BILBAO, Spain, August e6,-The
Workman p Federation has proclaimed
general strike throughout Spain,
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1910-10-22
THE PASSING OF w. T. VERNON.

There is a rise and wane in the
lives of all men. AS will be seen by
the news columns of this paper Regis
ter of the Treasury W. T. Vernon has
a successor. This news will surprise
many of us here in the west who
have loked upon the eloquent Kansan
as our personal representative be-
cause he is the Administrations
"furtheres West" In last weeks
paper we recorded the election of a
successor to Prof. Vernon as the head
of Western University. Now we re-
cord his loss of the public position.
So much loss of place and power,
coming at once makes us think that
no man rises so high but that the fall
may be just around the turn Of the
road. We sympathize with Prof. Yer.
non, but perhaps he needs no SYM
pathy. For if he has the elements of
greatness in him, the crisis in his af-
fairs will bring out all his latent pow
er so that he will mount again the
faster for his loss. In the meanwhile
we take the liberty of informing the
President that the Negroes west Of
the Missouri vote the same as those
east of it, and unlike those south OF
the Ohio, their votes are counted. If
office is properly given to the support
ers of the winning party, the negroes
between here and the Pacific coast
have some rights that the President
would do well to consider.