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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1912-09-05

boeca ediado bajo vdeo pensador escrtor erato
la direction de: etc.
Don Jose Toribio Medina, secre-
~ ~ ~ tario de la Facutad de Humani-
ayo, miembro de las reales Aca 11 - - rr;;1al - Co.
demias de la Lengua de la His cI:,
toria, Director de la Bibloteca
erudto Don Ricardo Palma miembo
correspondence de las aes Aca
literature espanoa antigua VI demas Espanoa de storia
moderna Director de la Bbhoeca Nacional
de Lima
Sierra ex-NIinistroI r, ~. ~, n.o 49, g -
de instruction P1blica Belasl l. Ia Tr;;aa7 49, I,oa
Artes de Mexico historador poe .i - pt
ia, orador
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co pubicista. Sus obras lie acre
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patna meJor equiibra- diio ue ID i'iollo'ec" u'
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saber la literature de la Gran ~ a. rtra4,no o Ia rn;,or
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existe;
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tura la Universdad de Montel Congeso Washington
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conene paginas de del las lsacione dc la
Bboeca la cua puede Salon Exposition
Para seguridad obtener de los eempares
tenemos os Immediate enveeno enseguida
el modelo de peddo.
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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1912-09-05

Don Marcelino Menendez y Pc
layo, miembro de las reales Aca-
demias de la Lengua y de la His
toria, Director de la Biblioteca
Nacional de Madrid y ell erudito
de mas profundos conocimientos
en- literature espanola antigua y
moderna.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1912-09-05

Don Justo Sierra, ex-Ministro
de instruction P1blica y Bellas
Artes de Mexico, historiador, poe
ia, orador y maestro.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1912-09-05
LOS EMINENTES COMPILADORE.S

La bibIoteca Sc ha editado bajo
la direction de;
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-03
VAR ON RAHROAD-OWNED STEAMSHIPS USING CANAL
MAY GO TO
MAINLAND

Collector Cottrill, Of the Internal
Revenue office, may leave for the main.
land within a short time from now.
He does not think that he can get
away in time to attend the Republican
convention on June IS, but it is possi-
BILE that a cable may instruct him to
dc so. At any rate, a trip to Wash
ington Is possibility, if not strong
probability.
Should Collector Cottrill leave for
the mainland, Deputy Ralph John.
stone will take charge of the Office
till Cottrlll returns.
Another change has been made in
the local internal revenue staff Store
keeper Lee Sing has been succeeded
by e. K. Kekuewa, who recently was
stationed at the Kona distillery.
With reference to the discovery of
the Illicit still in the Koolau range
Collector Cottrill said this mornin@
that the Japanese, who are alleged TO
have run the still, are now Federal
prisoners. The Collector paid com.
pliment to the detective force for the
good work they did in connection with
the raid
1t is whispered around town that
Cottrill will proceed to the mainland
very soon, and that he will remain
there till after the elections in No
vember next. Cottrill is a strong Taf
man, and is said to be able to swinq
q large number of votes.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-03
BANKERS
TO UNITE

Invitations have been sent out to
some ninety persons in the Territory,
eligible to become members of the
American Institute of Banking, a chap
ter of which is to be organized this
evening at the University Club. AS
the name implies, the organization is
made up of men connected with bank
ing institutions, officers, directors and
employees Of recognized commercial
banks being eligible to membership.
The organization, which comprises
seventy-fve chapters in the United
States, and one in Cuba, is largely
educational in its nature, 1t being. op.
tlonal with the members to take a
regular course of training in banking
methods. 1t also has its social fea
lures.
The meeting this evening will be in
a nature of an informal smoker. Aft
er organization is effected, addresses
are to be made by C. H. Cooke. Geo
R. Carter, r. H. Trent and L. Tenney
Peck. 4 -
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-03
Is Honolulu
To Help the
Pacific Mail

Will Honolulu resp6ASd to thS appeal
of the Pacific Mail Steamship Compe-
ny and throw what weight she has
against the bill now in Congress,
which if passed will prohibit steamers
owned or controlled by transconti,
mental railroad lines from using the
Panama Canal on the same basis as
independent companies?
An effort, it seems, is to be made
to force this question to an issue, and
accordingly a meeting will probably
be called of the members of the Mer-
chants Association for some day next
week for the purpose of passing upon
it. The matter will likely also be
presented formally at the regular
meeting of the Chamber of Commerce
which will be held next Wednesday.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-03
Lot Lane
Anticipated
Discovery

it will be an interesting point in view
of the announcement made by DR..
Wilcox as to the potash deposits in
the islands.
DR.. Wieox's Announcement.
Ordinary BLACK sand" or volcanic
cinder, which exists on all of the
islands in unlimited quantity, is de,
clared by DR.. e. v. Wilcox, director
of the Hawaii Experiment Station, to
contain from two to seven per cent
of potash, and to be worth from S.
to Sc per ton as fertilizer.
According to this authority, the
local station chemists have been ex,
perimenting with black sand for some
time, and have demonstrated that the
black sand contains potash in a form
which, while not Immediately avail
able for plant food, becomes soluble
slowly, and thus distributes its valu
able element over number of years
Besides the potash which the cindel
contains, DIR. Wilcox claims that the
cinder is valuable mechanically fol
opening up heavy or sour soils.
Large quantities of potash are i'm
ported from Germany annually as
fertilizer, and the experiment station
men believe that the black sand viii
replace a large amount of this, at q
greatly reduced cost
peculiar feature, noted by the
chemists in their work, was thai
while the sand contains from two II
sewn per cent of potash, the blacl
lava thus far analyzed contains only
about one-half of one per cent of pot
ash.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-03
Turnkey Levy Acquitted
Of Very Serious Charge

Levy was acquitted on the first bal
lot by the jury this afternoon.
The serious statutory charge
against former Turnkey Bob Levy,
under which he has just been on trial
in Judge Robinson's court, was a put
up job on the part of the prison
guards to get rid of him because of
his strictnes.s, according to the testi-
mony given this morning not only by
the defendant himself but also by his
former superior, Jailor julius Asch
Lorrin Andrews, attorney for the
defendant, this morning put on sew,
eral witnesses to prove the previous
good character of Levy. These in.
cluded Col c. ]. Mccarthy, F. B. Nc
Stocker, Jack Lucas and julius Asch.
All of these testified that they had
known Levy for years and that he
had always borne a good reputation.
In cross-examining Lucas, Deputy
City Attorney A. NJ. Brown found
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-03
FREAR GRATIFIED
At THE HOMESTEAD DECISION

we are all exceedingly pleased
with the decision of the Supreme
Court in the homestead cases" de-
clared Governor Frear this morning.
I'VE are pleased, not only because we
won out-that is minor matter
but because it establishes the policy
Of future homesteads, and enables
nomesteaders to know exactly what
they can do"
The Governor went on to say that
there was very little good land avail
able for homesteads, and that II
should not be wasted. That there are
plenty of people anxious to take the
land and cultivate it themselves, and
should get it and not those people
who would later on turn the land over
to aliens or to plantations, was the
Governors opinion.
In all, there are fifty-eight cases
that are affected by the decision of
the supreme court Two test cases
one on a cash freehold and one on a
right of purchase lease-were to de
eide the homestead proposition. Now
that a decision has been given, 1t Il
said that all the other cases will be
looked into individually and, where
the homesteader has acted in goo,
faifM ha NAV Aha given anntha
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-03
HEALTH LECTURE
THIS EVENING

This evening, at the Central Gram
mar school, there will be a lantern
show relating to the health exhibit,
and there will also be a talk given by
DR.. Sinclair on the subjects shown
on the screen.
The exhibition is attracting much
attention, and daily number of peo,
pie drop in to see the models and
pictures. That good lesson is being
taught regarding the evils of bad ven,
tilation, and of improper methods OF
drainage, is the opinion of those best
qualified to know.
The exhibition is we'll worth see
ing, and everyone interested in health
conditions should drop in this even
ing and have look around.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-03
HERNDT'S DOUBLE
ANNIVERSARY

E. A. Berndt, manager Of w. w,
Gimond & Company, is celebrating a
double anniversary today-that of his
birth, thirty-four years ago, and of
HE arrival in Honolulu, twenty-nine
years ago.
Mr.. Berndt's parents, both OF whom
are living in Honolulu, came to Ha-
wail as immigrants from Germany
when Emil was but five years of age,
and for nine or ten years lived on
Kauai. They moved to Honolulu at
the end Of that time in. order that
their children might be afforded bet
ter school facilities, and the present
manager of Dimond & Company was
put into st, Louis College Prepare,
tory school when he was fourteen. He
went through the college in good time
and has been hustling ever since.
He is at the present one of the live
wires" of the community, being ac-
lively associated in the affairs of the
Merchants Association, a member of
the Board of Harbor Commissioners,
an officer in the central improvement
club, and one Of the prime agitators
who are making Kaimuki the most
wideawake and progressive suburb in
the rifV
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-03

that he had caught a Tartar. Jack
had some amusing or sarcastic retort
to- every question asked him by
Brown, and the rapid-fire questions
and answers of the pros ecuting Off
Ger and the witness kept the jury con-
vulsed with laughter. The judge
nearly swallowed his fist trying to
preserve the severe Judicial counter.
ance
Jailor Asch, formerly the superior
of the defendant until the latter was
accused of having criminally assault
ed Maria Waiehua, the chief witness
for the prosecution, was enthusiastic
in his commentator of Levy and did
not hesitate to declare that in his
opinion the jail guards had put up a
job to get rid of Levy because the
latter was strict with them. He de-
clared unhesitatingly that Levy was a
first-class officer who was always on
the job and who had incurred the en-
nifty of the guards by making them
attend to business.
Asch said he was sick at the time
of the alleged offense, but when he
heard Of it he made UP his mind he
would go down and investigate and
report the matter to the sheriff, if
he died on the road"
He made the further statement that
on one occasion he entered the Of
fice of the sheriff Unexpectedly and
found three of the jail guards there
making complaints against Levy. He
told them promptly that any com
plants had to come to him first and
go through him to the sheriff. That
was the last he ever heard of the mat
ter.
Levy took the stand in his own de-
fense and made the fiat declaration
that there was a plot against him and
that he had been told by one of the
guards that they intended to get him.
For that reason, he said, he never
visited the women's quarters without
Continued on Page Five.) M
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-03
MAyDAY PARADE
AND FROLIC Of HUNDREDS
OF KINDERGARTEN CHILDREN

Hundreds of children-aye, per-
haps thousand, for they didn't stand
still long enough to be counted
transformed Thomas Square this morn
ing into a green and sunny world all
their own, where living flowers
danced in a riot of color ,and Brown
les and Fairies gamboled on the
sward as if they were the commonest
of mortals, and had not appeared sim
ply to make the May Day fete of the
Honolulu kindergartens a never to
be forgotten spectacle.
OF course the white clad bandsmen
and the mothers and big sisters rep
resented the country of the grown
ups, but the latter had nothing to say
as to the proceedings, and the former
kept strictly to themselves in the
stand allotted them, contented with
furnishing the dream music necessary
in all properly conducted fairy lands.
The children began coming long be-
fore $3.50 o'clock, when the festivities
were to begin. They came not by
ones or twos. but by scores and hun.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-03
THIS HORSE HAS
BOLTING HABIT

Yesterday afternoon delivery wag-
On belonging to Gonsalves & Co., was
standing near King and Alapai streets
The lines got tangled under the
lorse's tail and the noble animal took
fright and bolted with the driver,
Terada.
The mad career of the horse was
soon ended by fence into which the
runaway dashed, smashing the wagon
Neither horse nor driver was hurt
Some time ago the same horse and
driver ran into a mail wagon in Achi
Lane, causing the horse in the latter
zig to run away and resulting in the
smashing of the mail wagon.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-03
A Fight For Life.

The Pacific Mail is in a serious po.
sition. Every little will now help or
hurt, in the opinion of General Mana
ger r. P. Schwerin, who accordingly
wrote by the last mail through his
agents, Hackfeld & Company, hold
ing out the inducement, for Honolulu
to rally to his standard, of four new
ships for the Pacific to be built by his
company, upon the defeat of the
measure. The bill if passed will de-
bar the Pacific Mail, as an auxiliary
company of the Southern Pacific. from
uling the canal.
How Does Honolulu Stand
Just how Honolulu will take the
matter is hard to say, and it is not
improbS bic that she will decline to
Continued ON rage Eight.)
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-03
ICECREAM AGAIN
BEING TESTED

Food Commissioner Blanchard is
starting after the icecream vendors
again. He is busy at present testing
the delicacy in order to see how the
samples stand as regards butter fat.
Some time ago there was lot OF
publicity regarding the icecream that
was said to be lacking in butter con-
tents. The matter is now being TAX
en- up again, and some developments
may be expected within day or so.
The work of averaging up the sam
plies of milk that have been taken
from the city dairies during the last
three months is progressing and will
soon be completed. The milk is show
ing up well and the standard Is said
to be very high.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-03

That the idea of obtaining fertil-
lzers from the volcanic soils of the
islands is by no means new one is
evidenced by the fact that Lot K. G.
Lane, in the days of the Republic of
Hawaii and when S. M. Damon was
minister Of finance took out a patent
for using these soils as fertilizer,
His case was taken up by T. McCants
Stewart, the negro attorney who was
then practicing here.
The Hawaiians have known all
along that the volcanic soil contained
some agent that made plants grow
better, but at the same time, with
their knowledge at the time, they did
not know what integral part of the
soil it was.
That it was potash to a large ex-
tent, however, is clearly to be seen,
even without an analysis being made
Of the soil. One of the plants that
brought the matter particularly to
Lanes notice was that cabbage grew
to an enormous size when planted in
some of the volcanic soil in the neigh
borhood of the volcano.
This clearly points to potash being
the agent, as cabbages are plants that
send down tap root into the subsoil
and bring up potash. Similar crops,
such as rape, are used to fertilize a
soil with potash by the simple expe-
dient of growing them and then plow-
ing them under.
Whether the patent obtained Dy
Lane will hold good or not now is a
matter for legal determination, but
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-03
Assessment Raise Blocks
Hotel Street Widening

That Hotel street widening at Fort
street, which has been agitated and
prayed for, 10, these many years, may
De indefinitely postponed just as it
seemed to approach realization, and
that through the raising Of tax assess
rcents on the property involved, is the
prospect that loomed up at a meeting
of the board OF supervisors this aft
ernoon.
The blow descended in the form of
a letter from the James Campbell es-
tate people. This advised the board
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-03
WIFE BEATER
GETS SOAKED

In the police court this morning,
J /. Terry, charged with profanity
was fined SO and costs.
Kllmo, who beat his wife so badly
that she is still in the hospital, was
sent to jail for two months by Judge
Monsarrat.
Annie Maunaloa, charged with as
sault and battery on another native
woman, was fined So and costs
H. Buck. dunk. had to pay SO and
= ~ On
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-03

chance.
The Attorney General was also
seen with reference to the homestead
decision. He stated that he was very
pleased with the decision and that he,
personally, could not see how any
other decision could be come to. "The
decision is one Of the most important
that has ever been given in the Ter
ritory," said the attorney general.
"snd | think it will do a lot Of good"
Taking it altogether, the Capitol
building was a cheerful sort of place
this morning.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-03

that the taxes had been raised on it's
property, so that the former offer had
TO be substituted by a new one. For
the first II feet along Hotel street the
land, containing 1884 square feet, had
been assessed at 5000 the square
foot, and the balance Of the frontage
at $6.7O the square foot Therefore
the estate now asked s14, $50, or an in
crease of $65lO over the former fig-
ures.
The letter was referred to the ways
Continued on Page EightJ
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-03

dreds, pouring in from all points of
the compass, so that one onlooker
was led to remark that he didn't
know there were so many children in
the world.
Hundreds in Costume.
The May Day fete this year was far
more elaborate than any given by the
children heretofore, Practically all
the kindergarten children were in
costumes which represented the
work of many hours and spoke vol
umes for the energy shown by those
in charge. While different from the
Punahou Pageant, it was no less elab-
crate and the fact that something
like a thousand tots took part made
it a gorgeous spectacle which kept
two or three hundred cameras click
ing so regularly as to make noise like
a battery of rapid fire guns in action.
Included among the children VINO
danced and played, but who were not
in costume, We're the pupils of the
primary grades from the various
schools and the scene presented of
hundreds of little ones representing
many races, skipping hand in hand
Continued on Page F,ve.D
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-03
LORD 8 YOUNG
LOSE ANOTHER

After pondering over the Supreme
Court decision on the first belt road
contract, the Oahu loan fund commits
sion has decided that the second con-
tract, that for the Wahiawa section,
awarded like the first to the Lord
! Young Engineering CO., was also In
,.,tia "a 49, a.. eoo ro0
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-03
LETTING METHODIST BAN.

MINNEAPOLIS 3-The o Inernationa
lifted
dancing and
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-03
cHIcAoo's NEWSPAPER STRIKE

CHICAGO 3The newspaper
in small editions Police
poets of big fight
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-03
STEAMSHIP CANAL WAR.

WASHINGTON May st develoled
pendent steamship lines bitterly
represented the Inter
Oceanic canals committee
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-03
AGAINST FEDERAL BRIGADE,

WASHINGTON, has introduced measure
participating presidential
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-03
ANOTHER LEvEE BREAKS,

NEW ORLEANS La May 3The levee
ken is believed that eight
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-03
COAL STRIKE MAY BE sErrLEp

NEW YORK May "a coal
will be set
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-03
j 5. MARSHAL
ON MEXICAN
SITUATION
OuuN,-
tAssoeIated press tables to the starl

GALVESTON Texas May S-Unted Brewster,
the Mexican
Mexico Ihe Mexican Congress
Eea uecuy the rebels
reported here that the British cruiser Agn
o.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-03

Morning Cable Report on page Ten)
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-03
AeAINsr WoRKMEN,s COMPENSATION RlI

T..
opposed wurkmens compen-
n debate today
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-03
WEATHER

Their. min. 40.
Bar, 8 a. m, 5000.
Wind, 12m., 16 NE.
Rain, 24h.. 8 a. m, 90.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-03
SUGAR

Cane: 4.O5 per lb., $500
per ton.
Beets: 13s. 6hd. cwt,
S97.6O per ton.
The Nome daily nugget., 1912-05-01

Monday evening and again yester- day forenoon at II o'clock the com mittee appointed by the stockholders of the Nome quartz mill, met with the mine owners. or the people having the five quartz claims out on the Snow gulch divide.
 The outcome of the two meetings being an agreement between the mil and claim owners to formulate plan as outlined by MT. q. J. LOmen at the mill stockholdere meeting last Thurs day evening
 As near as we can get to the agree ment reached yesterday forenoon by the two committees pertaining to a plan of reorganization the following we believe covers it:
 A company with capital stock of $l, ,0o0. 900. to be organized. the mill, or stockholders Of the Nome quartz GUS tom mill to put in the same for 100000 shares in the new company. the claim owners their property for 100000.
The Nome daily nugget., 1912-05-01
AGREE TO ORGANIZE
 NEW QUARTZ COMPANY

Then to purchase the six stamps in Nome for s5.OOO. s2.5O0 in stock anu S$2. 500 in cash year from next fall That there will he ten stamps install ed to the new mill. the same to P moved out upon the property as soon as arrangements can be made afto : the opening of navigation.
 Two of the ten stamps to have d separate bin to treat custom ore that is brought to the mine for treatment, ana the same to be treated at cost in or der to help dvelop the country.
 This is abou; the proposition to b. submitted by the committee at tho meeting no doubt to he called on Sat urday evening next. IL sounds rsas.- ble for sufficient stock in the new concern could be sold to move the mill out near the property upon ground Q which a patent has been secured from the government and be ready to com mence to pound out ore soon after the opening of navigation.