The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-11-14
INJUNCTIONS ARE
MET BY SMILES
"0ld Friends Of Mine" Says Dr..
Blue, as One Greets Him
With Welcome Aloha.

Injunetions were quite tho fad at tho
headquarters Of tho antimosquito cam
paign all day yesterday. The committee
cracked jokes about injunctiOns, got
out hasty injunctions against PROPOSE
tions which they did not approve of
instead of arguing them, and in other
ways expressed their appreciation of
the fact that several prominent citizens
had injunctionized" them.
Sheriff Jarrett was kept busy almost
all day serving them on the members of
the committee, officers in charge and
district overseers who were named in
them. Almost the first thing that DR..
Rupert Blue met on his arrival was an
injunction.
Both petitions were handled by At
torney Leon M. Straus, the second one,
that of Deputy Sheriff Charles H. Rose,
being almost replica of the first one,
which was that of Il. t. Mills, leader
in the sanitary survey" engineered
by the residents of Kaimuli.
Doctor Blue took the notice of the
two suits Enthusiastically and both
accepted them and dismissed them with
a quiet little smile.
''Injunctions are old friends of
mine" he said, and continued in his
work
Banana Mills.
Harry T. Mills finds it necessary to
feed his family on bananas, and cruel
band of men would take away this
means of subsistence, if it got the
chance, at least Mills says it would,
according to the complaint fled by him
in the circuit court.
Mills appeared before Judge Robinson
and asked for an order to restrain ID.
II. Currie, j. S. B. Pratt, Walter Dill
bingham and e. j. Buchbee from cutting
down his banana trees. The order was
granted. The question will be taken
up, said Attorney General Lindsay, and
settled as quickly as possible, so that
there will not be any more trouble then
can be avoided.
Mills states that he has fifty banana
trees. On these he sets great value,
for he says they are good for food, they
provide shade, they are ornamental.
and moreover, their trunks are valu.
able for. they would yield fiber. He has
family, and, therefore, it is incum-
bent upon him to supply the members
of his family, and incidentally himself,
with fruit, because it is a necessary
article of diet. He and his family
subsist on bananas.
The defendants, however, have
threatened to enter his premises and
destroy these valuable banana trees,
and worse still, carry them away, not
even. leaving the stems, which are
valuable for their fiber. If the defend.
ants are permitted to do what they
threatened, then he and his family viii |
be deprived of necessary food, and will |
be irreparably injured in property and |
property rights.
Mills banana trees are not like |
some of the ordinary ones that are un-
clean, for his are clean, they are !
healthy, and entirely free from nox.
ious insects, parasites and the eggs
and young of insects and parasites. |
Mills mentions that the persons named |
have been warned not to carry ont |
their dire threats to destroy the BAN
ana trees.
Rose Also Has Valuable Trees.
Deputy Sheriff Rose would seem to
be a formidable rival to Mills in the
AhOsSoA VI OAScilOhC0 VI DhQdna Trees.
Rose, sad to relate, only has thirty
banana trees, but in every other re-
speet he is situated exactly in the
same way as Mills, for Rupert Blue, D.
II. Currie, j. S. B. Pratt, Walter Dill
bingham and j. Fisher have threatened
to cut these valuable trees down.
His request for an injunction re-.
straining them from doing SO, was also
granted by Judge Robinson yesterday
afternoon.
1t took but short time for Attorney
General Lindsay to prepare the gov
ernment's answer to the suits. Prac-
tically all the allegations in the pc.
titions are admitted, but the action Of
the board Of health in ordering them
cut down is defended on the grounds
that the action is necessary in the
view of the circumstances under which
the order was made, in enforcement of
the law and by reason of the fact that
bananas are breeders of mosquitoes.
The matter will probably be before
The court for argument today and will
be pushed to a speedy settlement, one
way OF the other.