The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-04-01


the whole gamut of our island life.
He owned himself very much pleased
with his first taste of Hawaii, and will
want to come back again. He went to
Maui Friday and sails for the coast
this week.
4 Tall Lava Chimney,
Kohala Midget: Mr.. j. F. Rock, the
Territorial botanist says;
North from Honoaula, half mile
distant, are a series of craters and
cones, one being especially remarkable
for its unfathomable depth.
ut is a veritable chimney about
1000 feet high, and composed of rough
a-a with blow hole of ten feet in,
diameter, the inner walls of which are
perfectly smooth, only one side fallen
in. A stone dropped by the writer into
this chimney fell for sixteen seconds
before the first reverberation. could
be heard. Between this cone and Ho-
noaula is plain covered with a thin
| crust of lava which breaks at every
step"
Courts Too Sympathetic.
Hawaii Herald: When, some six
years ago, a man was fined one dollar
for killing a negro, most people
thought that it had been proven to
the limit, that life was cheap in Ha-
wall, The murder referred to took
| place in saloon in Honolulu, and the
only excuse that the attorney for the
defense could put up, was that the
man who was shot down in cold blood,
had insulted his murderer to be, by
calling him a vile name.
Then, years afterwards, came the
terrible murder of the engineer of the
oil tank Rosecrans. The murderer,
filled with rot gut" whiskey, which
was all consumed with the object of
getting Dutch" courage, went aboard
the steamer, and finding the engineer
asleep, dashed his brains out with a
hammer.
The murder was a oold blooded
one, and the paltry excuse that the
man who committed the crime was
drunk, eventually was the cause of the
murderer having his sentence of death
committed to life Imprisonment. That
sentence will, no doubt, within ten
years or so, be wiped out by some
future governor, who will have for
gotten the real facts of the case.
! The latest example of misplaced
clemency is that of Driver and Nc.
Quad and, although no life was lost il
was no fault of neither man. One No
vember morning last year, the two
men met on Fort street, Honolulu, and
there and then one drew a revolver
and fired six shots at the man who is
alleged to have ruined his home. Only
one bullet found it's billet, but five
others flew around and narrowly es
capped killing some innocent bystand-
ers. When his gun was empty, Nc
Quad ran for shelter. Then Driver
drew his gun and, rushing into {
restaurant, calmly fired and dropped
the man who had first attacked him
Without saying anything about tn,
provocation that McQuaid got, anC
while in way sympathizing with him
there is still one thing to be sait
and that is that both men attempted
to commit murder and, at the SAM
time, McQuaid endangered the live
of many other persons.
Life is cheap in Hawaii, and as lonj
as judges and jurymen can be swaye,
by sympathy, irrespective of the act
ual facts of case, there seems n,
chance on any change being made.
General Notes.
Captain Matson of the Matson Nav
cation Company paid a snort visit b
Paauhau on the 23rd The "Wilhelmi
ma" stopped off Paauhau on her wa
to Hilo, about three O'Clock in tn
morning to land him, and in the cours
of the day he continued his trip t,
Hilo on land
The engineers who are making
survey of the Island for government
were down in Paauhau, last week. 4
great deal of excitement prevailed
among the Japanese and Chinese. VIII
were under the impression that tn
engineers were laying out the linz