The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-10-07
IN9BR-ISbAND HAPPENINGS
printing coat for the new materials. -
Anti.Treatind Opposd.

I printing coat for the new materials.
Anti-Treating opposd.
The promised anti-treating rule
, failed to materialize at the meeting
of the Board of Liquor Commission
ers last Thursday. The granting of
a license for a retail house to Kubo
at Honauunau, Kona, was laid over.
The license will only be issued to
him when he has filed bond which
is satisfactory to Chairman NOR of
the Board of Commissioners. He was
represented in his fight by Judge
Wise, while the application was OPP
posed by County Attorney Beers. The
members of the commission stated
that they did not know the bonds
men even by name and that only one
of them appeared on the assess
ment rolls, he having but $40 worth
of land.
The matter of an anti-treating rule
which was suggested by one of the
commissioners has occasioned quite
a storm among those interested in
/ the saloon business in this city, but
! still more with the hotel men. The
general opinion is that the sugges-
ton, which was only made by one
commissioner, will not be adopted.
Demosthenes Bycurgus was out
spoken in his opinion of the propo-
sition, saying that it would. mean that
the Hilo Hotel dining room would
be closed and that it would run as a
rooming house, with a woman and
two Japanese boys as the only en-
:, ployes. He also said that the rule
proposed would mean that practically
4 every hotel on the island would close.
n Desha's Newspaper.
l. Three shares of the Hoku, the local
}, Hawaiian newspaper edited by Rev
It Stephen Desha, sold at auction last
e Saturday for $35 each, while two went
r, for $27 each, as the result of competi
d ton for the control of the publication
J. Desha holds the control, and after the
d sale the annual meeting took place, al
s which the following officers. were elect
It ed: President, Rev. S. L. Desha; vice
president, X, Keliikahi; treasurer, w
H. Beers; auditor, c. X. Mcguire, sec
= reary, Stephen Desha, Jr.; directors
Bernard Kelekolio and J. p. Hale.
J. Hawaiian Board Appeals.
+ One hundred and twenty-five dollars
per acre, plus the rentals for two
, years, is not high enough price tC
g satisfy the Hawaiian Board of Mis-
sions for the land which is needed fol-
# the FIilo watershed, and which is tC
o be purchased by the Hawaiian LoaT
+ Commission, under an appropriation
d made by the recent legislature. Wha
q they think would be right price has
y mot been stated, but it is now eviden
d that the matter must go before the
+ courts and be fought out.
+ In the report of the board of ap
D. praisers the price set for the land
A. which is fifty acres in size, was Sl2!
IL per acre. This price was to be paiC
at the present time, but the lessee
which in this case is the Hilo Suga
Company, was to be allowed posses
u sion for two years more and the rent
. from this were to go to the Board Of
IL Missions. The board was notified 0
IT this and took no action when stirret
Is up, stating that they had never hear
of the appointment of appraisers
"a Finally they acknowledged receipts o
the letters in the matter, but nov
al claim a higher price. This will mea
Mt that the matter will be taken befor
10 the courts for verdict of jury in re
I gard to what may be considered fai
te price.
it Kau Notes.
Mt Rain, rain, all the time on the uppe
,e lands and a good deal of the time o
lg the lower lands. Cane on the high a
Sc titudes looks bad in consequence
MS while it is getting just what it need
IT. on the lower fields.
Sam Kauhane is making eXtensiv
We and elaborate improvements on hi
ne homestead. With the large fine builC
10 ings he plans he will have splendi
in place. All these things cost none
st and this money is spent at home. A
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