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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-09
EASTERN NEWS.

The anthracite coal miners in the
eastern districts have been guaran-
teed a raise of 10 per cent and the
prospects of strike are removed
Congressman Raker introduced be-
fore congress a bill for the appro-
priation of $249,3OO for the mainte-
nance of the San Francisco mint for
the coming year.
A Chinese war vessel, the first TO
be built for that country in the Unit
ed States, is about to be launched
at Camden, New Jersey
Senator Crane of Massachusetts,
has acknowledged the possession of a
letter from Colonel Roosevelt, writ
ten over a year ago, in which he said
he had determined to try for a third
term.
The bodies of George D. Widener
and John Jacob Astor have been iden-
tilted among those picked up by the
ships searching the scene Of the dis
aster for that purpose.
A farmer of Kankakee, Illinois, aft
err an evening of conversation on the
Titanic disaster, dreamed he was on
that liner and in an attempt to jump
into the waves, leaped from a second
story window and was severely bruis-
ed.
A Norwegian steamship, in drydock
AZ New York, reported witnessing the
einklng of a freight ship about 400
miles north of the grave Of the IT.
tanic.
Dare Devil John Rush, battalion
chief Of the New York fire depart
ment, sacrificed his life to save
group of little children who cot in
The path of his runaway wagon He
vas hurled to the pavement and lis
shull fractured.
Two American citizens, liberated
from Chihuahua prison, Mexico, afteI
SO days in the filthy penitentiary, have
told Of the abuse and insults neoped
upon them and other Americans.
A girl telephone operator sent a
warming to the residents of the Nil
Continued on page eieven.)
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-09
RETURN OF SHIP OF DEATH
FROM THE TITANIC'S TOMB

the cross examination OF lsmay, II
such it can be termed He added lit
tie that was new to the record, but
evinced an effort to assist the COM
mittee in every way possib e, waving
every privilege and assuring the chair
man that he would appear again II
desired.
Considerable Importance was at
tached by the chairman to the testi-
mony OF the first witness of the day,
Edward J. Dunn of Beechurst, L. l.,
who said he heard of telegram being
received by the White Star people
early on the morning after the disss-
ter, announcing that the Titanic had
sunk. Dunn said that this message
had been addressed to "Islefrank," the
code name of p. A. S. Franklin, but
that he was not at liberty to reveal
the name of his informant who, he
said, is the son of a Western Union
operator.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-09
YHE WORLDS NEWS CONDENSED
Especial mail report to The Star from San FranciscO)

Ambassador Bryce has arrived in
San Francisco and is the guest of the
exposition officials,
A beautiful Portland woman has
been arrested for maintaining a school
for thieves where she instructed
young girls how to steal goods from
stores.
Prominent members of Sacrament
to church have resigned and disrupted
the congregation because Bishop
Moreland refused to raise the church
from mission to a parish.
A man who attempted suicide at
Reno, Nevada, may be sentenced to
two years in the state penitentiary by
the law recently passed in Nevada
making attempted suicide a crime.
The Rothsehild oil interests have
leased land facing the harbor near
Los Angeles and will start war
against the Standard Oil Company in
the western states.
Mrs. Robert La Toilette is address,
ing the women of California in the
cause of her husbands candidacy for
president.
Rev. w. NJ. Nicholson Taft of San
Diego has donated $4,000 to the ma
tional prohibition campaign fund
The main building of the state nor
NAL school at Cheney, Wash, was de-
stroyed by fire. Two of the faculty
were seriously injured and the finan-
cial loss is about 100000
The army transport Buford sailed
from San Francisco for Mexico ten
hours ahead of its schedule and under
sealed orders. 1t carried staff OF
doctors and nurses to care for Amer.
lean refugees picked up at the Mexi'
can ports.
A prisoner in the jail at Albuquer'
que, N. NJ, sawed his way out of the
steel cage which confined him and es
capped into the mountains.
Charles Cunningham of Salt Lake
City was arrested in Seattle fol
smuggling $500 worth of opium from
! Vancouver.
Miss Bessie Parsons of Mill Valley
! Cal, has recently married Daniel KEY
+ Turner, great-grandson of the com
poser of THE Star Spangled Banner.
Fifty-four deaths are reported ant
more are expected as result of thu
tornado in Oklahoma and Texas.
Dr. Charles L. Tisdale, secretary o
the California state board of medica
examiners, is confronted with short
age of $1,000 in his accounts, as dis
covered by the recent auditing of tn
books. He failed to enter the fee
for fifty-two applications for ~physl
clans licenses.
A Union Pacific passenger train wa
blown from the track and overturned
by cyclone near Omaha, Neb. Twen
ty-nine were injured and one may die
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-09
WOODS MISSION

SAN FRANCISCO, April 25.-H. P.
Wood, who is chairman of the Ha-
waiian Panama-Pacific international
Exposition Commission, arrived from
Honolulu yesterday and is planning
for the ceremony to be held when the
Hawaiian site is selected and the
deed to the land is turned over to
him. The locating of the site will
be in charge of a special committee
composed of George M. Rolph, Cap
tain William Matson, William G. Ir-
win, Wallace NJ. Alexander and E. IL.
WEIGH of this city.
"The people of Hawaii are unanl-
nous in their desire that our Terri
tory should be properly represented
at the universal exposition" said
Commissioner Wood yesterday. by
that mean not simply Hawaii's inn
portant position as the crossroads Of
transpacific travel, but with reference
to her very close business and
friendly relations with San Francisco.
There is no city in the United States
to which they are SO closely tied by
bonds of friendship as San Fran
cisco.
'The amount that Governor Frear
will ask the Legislature to appropri-
ate will probably be largely depend
ent on what l will be able to report
to him on my return, as to what the
exposition authorities and the build
ing committee of the Hawaiian Com
mission resident in San Francisco
deem advisable or necessary"
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-09
LATEST NEWS BULLETIN.

LATEST NEWS BULLETIN.
News Originating on the Day the
Steamer Sailed)
Through a mistake in wireless mes
sages it is reported that the captain
of the rescue ship Macl1ay-B Bennett
buried 116 of the rescued bodies from
the Titanic at sea instead of bringing
them to Halifax, where relatives were
waiting.
The Senate has sanctioned the
building of a suspension bridge across
San Francisco Bay to Oakland at a
cost of s2O,OOO,OOO. The project is
being urged by Allen G. Rush, a Los
Angeles engineer.
1t is said that the subcommittee of
the committee on appropriations Of
the House is still determined to close
the San Francisco mint, and the mat
ter. will probably have to be fought
out on the floor of the House.
Miss Anne Morgan, who founded a
restaurant capable of feeding 1900
men in the Brooklyn navy yard, has
turned the management of the place
over to the men themselves.
The exposition commission from
San Francisco has been splendidly re-
ceived in London and will be given
an audience with the king.
The interstate and foreign COM
merce committee of the House have
agreed to an amendment to the canal
bill prohibiting railroad-owned ships
from the use of the canal
DR.. d. K. Parsons, who gave away
six millions to colleges in this coun-
try, died as he wished to die-a pau
per. 1t is said his relatives will have
to advance money to pay his funeral
expenses.
Ismay, head of the White Star
Line, in his testimony before the Sen
ate investigation committee, placed
the blame for the accident upon the
crew and the captain.
The estate of Clarence H. Walker
former head of the defunct California
Safe Deposit & Trust Company, has
mysteriously dwindled from $1,500,00C
to less than 100000, and no one
seems to know where the money
went
In a sweeping victory the citizens
of Berkeley defeated the recall yes
terday, which was used for the first
time against the school directors.
The government has recently Sc
cretly purchased great number OF
machine guns and enough rifles to
equip an army Of 100000 men, and
100000 has been appropriated to
equip transports. The Mexican stu
alton is said to be responsible fol
these moves
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-09
HOME
IN SAN FRANCISCO

s. F. Chronicle, April 2S--A joint
committee representing the Chamber
Of Commerce. the PanamaPacific
Company and the Convention League,
at a luncheon in the Commercial Club
Friday, conferred with H. p. Wood,
Hawaiian representative of the expo
s;tion company and secretary of the
Pan-Pacific Congress, on the matter
Of making San Francisco the perman-
ent headquarters and yearly meeting
place of the Pan-Pacific Congress. The
1918 convention of the congress has
already been secured by the Conyen-
ton League. Those present were II
p Wood and p. r. Isenberg of the
Honolulu Chamber of Commerce, John
Brisben Walker and NJ. J. Branden
stein of the exposition company. w.
B. Pringle, J. Charles Greene, f. E.
Wade and FELTON, Taylor of the Con-
vention League, and Joseph Sloss of
the local Chamber of Commerce.
After H. P. Wood had told the com
mittee of the objects of the Pan-Paci-
fic Congress, a resolution was passed
to the effect that the members report
to their organizations the Importance
of arranging for the permanent loca-
ton of the congress in San Francisco.
Wood agreed to remain here until the
arrival of Secretary of State Knox,
, when another conference on the sub
ject will be held
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-09
DILLINGHAM; IMMIGRATION BILL
AS REPORTED TO THE HOUSE

question both in this country and in
Europe. An amendment was offered
by those opposed to the illiteracy
test, providing for commission for
that purpose and it was adopted.
"The commission, after nearly four
years of investigation and study of
the question both in this country and
in Europe, made its report to Con
gress more than year ago. There
were nine members of that commits
sion, and they were unanimous in the
following statement:
"The commission as a whole
recommends restriction as de
manded by economic, moral, and
social considerations, furnishes in
it's report reasons for such res
trictions, and points out methods
by which Congress can attain
the desired result if it's judgment
comedies with that of the com
mission.
Eight out of the nine, after citing
various methods of restriction, con
Cured in the following report:
"a majority of the commission
favor the reading and writing
test as the most feasible single
method of restricting undesirable
immigration.
lingham commissions report, among
many times more which the commit
tee quotes
CAS- result of the investigation the
commission is unanimously of the OPP
inion that in framing legislation en-
phasis should be laid upon the fol
lowing principles:
while the American people, as in
the past, welcome the oppressed of
ether lands, care should be taken that
immigration be such both in quality
and quantity as not to make too diff
cult the process of assimilation.
Since the existing law and furth.
err special legislation recommended in
this report deal with the physically
and morally unfit, further general leg
islation concerning the admission OF
aliens should be based primarily up
on economic or business considera
tons touching the prosperity and eco
nomic well-being of our people.
The measure of the rati nal
healthy development of a country is
not the extent of it's investment of
capital, it's output of products. or its
exports and imports, unless there is
corresponding economic opportunity
afforded to the citizen dependent upon
employment for his material, mental
and moral development o.
THE development OF business may
be brought about by means which
lower the standard of living of the
wage earners. A slow expansion OF
industry which would permit the adapt
alton and assimilation Of the incom
Continued ON page ten.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-09

NEW YORK, April 1S,-Senor Man
uel L. Lujan, plenipotentiary and spe-
cial Commissioners to the United
States of America from General Pas
quail Orozco, chief of the Mexican ma
tiOnal revolutionary army, declares
that nothing is the matter with Mexi
co except Madero. He says that Mex
leo detires peace, but can not have
it while the present executive rules.
Madero, he says, was not called by
the people, but was accepted because
no one else came forward. He charges
Madero with selfishness and lacking
in the fundamental qualities of lead
ership.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-09

LONDON, April 1S.-William 7.
Stead, who was among the victims OF
the Titanic dsalte ter, was the editor
of the English Review of Reviews He
was known as an advocate of interna-
tional peace and as an investigator
OF psychical phenomena. He was
born in Embleton, England. on July
5, lS49. His father was the Rev. w.
7. Stead, Congregational minister.
He wrote many works and made many
visits to America. One of his most
remarkable articles, which created a
furore in the United States, was en-
titled IF Christ Came to Chicago,
! published in 1893.
Iditarod pioneer., 1912-06-22
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Iditarod pioneer., 1912-06-22
American League
HOPEFUL NOTE FROM RUBY CAMP

J. II. Richards received a letter
from Ruby the first Of the week
which says that conditions i'll the
Yukon camp are improving. The
writer of the letter, Mr.. Jourdan,
SAYS the Northern Commercial
Company has commenced the con
struction of a store and warehouse
OH the opposite side of Ruby creek,
and premises are also being erected
i'll the same locality for the Ruby
Telephone Company. The latter
concern is erecting poles all over
the town and on the creeks, and it
will not be very long before the
system becomes available for public
use. The creeks are showing up
better from week to week.
The influx Of people to Ruby
had been practically nil mp to the
time the letter was written, but
Rubyites are confident a large
number of miners will migrate
there this fall.
Iditarod pioneer., 1912-06-22
PREPARING FOR / GREAT FOURTH

preparations Flat City for the Fourth
July celebrations, and the committees to make the
day breaker for Alaska large amount of money has
guaranteed expenses, and more coming daily.
sports program of great leng-there being less
than 10 field and in each valuable prizes will be
awarded successful contestants There will be baseball
game Discovery and of between
locally manufactured aer0pane, and other attractions
great expense the services Of the famous Silver Corne
band secured and will play all day and the
part the night The festival will conclude with shrtwas
ball. given under the auspices Of Camp Flat No. rs, a. B.
detailed program Of events will be published in the next
O the IdarOd Pioneer
Iditarod pioneer., 1912-06-22
JURIES CONVENE
EARLY IN JULY

BY the last mail Commissioner f. NJ.
Stanton received official notification Of
the calling of grand and petit jurors
for the term Of court to be held at
Iditarod in July next
The names Of the jurors are the same
as those published in the Iditarod
Pioneer of June l, with the exceptions
that ". f. Lasker should read NV. f.
TasGer," and Chas. Chronister should
read james Chronister."
The grand jury must report on the
morning of July 8, at IL o'clock, and
the petit jury is called for Monday,
July 10, at 10 a. IN.
The following have been drawn:
Iditarod pioneer., 1912-06-22
Notice Of HfarshaI's Sale

United States of America, 90.
Fourth District Of Alaska, !
Public notice is hereby given, that by
virtue of a writ of Fieri Facjas Tor exc
cution), dated May 29th, \. D., 1912,
issued out of the District Court of the
United States for the Fourth DISTRICT of
Alaska, on a judgment rendered in
said court. on the 18th day of April,
A. D. 1912, in favor of w. S. Clark,
doing business as Clark Lumber Com
pany, and against F. A. Perkins, [ have,
on this 18th day of June, A. D. 1912,
levied upon the following described
property, situated in the town of Flat,
Territory of Alaska, to wit: That GER
tain two-story log and frame building
situated on Gold street in the town Of
Flat and known and described as the
Palace hotel, together with all furni-
ture and fixtures therein; also the lease
hold upon which said hotel is situated,
and that [ will, accordingly, offer said
property for sale, at public vendue to
the highest and best bidder, for cash,
on the 9th day of July, AID. 1912, at
II o'clock u. M, at the front door OF
said Palace hotel at Flat City, Alaska.
Dated, Idilarod, Alaska, June II,
A. d. 1912. II. K. LOVE,
U. S. Marshal Fourth District of Alaska
BY H. P. Sheppard, Deputy.
Chas. f. Taylor, Plaintiffs Attorney.
Iditarod pioneer., 1912-06-22

Manzanillo reports that plague of
mice has visited the fields in that section
ofColima and almost destroyed the corn
and rice crops. The rodents have gnawed
away at a rate that alarmed the farmers
and they have appealed to the authori
ties for some means TO exterminate
them. Whole fields of corn have been
moved down and the farmers are at
loss how tc check the advance of the
mice to prevent further loss.-Mexican
Herald.
Iditarod pioneer., 1912-06-22
ALL ALASKA CLAIMS
IMPROPERLY STAKED

Secretary of the Interior Fisher
made the astounding statement re-
cently that not single existing
claim for mineral lands in the ter
ritory of Alaska could be allowed
by tile Interior department, The
Secretary explained that none Of
the claimants of coal and other
lands has complied with the law,
as nearly as the department has
been able TO ascertain, and, while
Iditarod pioneer., 1912-06-22
AQUATIC STUNT DONE BY ERNEST

Ernest Bickncr, who is employed
at the Merchants CAFE. performed
an aquatic stunt last Monday which
fairly took his breath He was
showing his p1owesa as an oarsman
to a select few, but reCkoned with
out his crazy craft. Turning to
catch the admiring glances OF his
audience, he capsized the boat and
fell headloug into the stream. His
involuntary immersion was 50
much to his liking that he is now
taking his morning dip like regu
lar oldtimer. And he is not the
only one in the camp who diSports
himself thus daily, as any early
bird knows.
Dan Hartnett, too, experienced
a cold douche the other day. Dan
was standing on the waterfront,
with his back to the river, survey
ing affectionately patent device
of his for carrying garbage. "Ain't
she beauty" said Dan, foudly
"Ain't she just the thing for my
business?' he continued, backing,
meanwhile, that he might the bet
ter survey the child Of his brain
(rhe product, he AYERS, of ten years
of sleepless nights). "Ain't she
just p" Splash! Curtain
Iditarod pioneer., 1912-06-22
FRISCO LADY TO DO HER PART

San Francisco, Cal, June 18.-
Mrs. Part, all official Of the Panama
Pacific Exposition of 1915, leaves
Immediately for Alaska, where she
will be engaged i'll securing ex-
hibits for the great celebration.
Iditarod pioneer., 1912-06-22

Fred Bernier, of the Caribou restaur-
ant, has inherited small legacy from
an uncle in Quebec, and will leave
Iditarod pioneer., 1912-06-22

Stranberg Bros. & johnson are using
big scraperS on their Flat creek lay
this season, instead of hosting as they
did last year. The present method means
a great economy in labor.
Iditarod pioneer., 1912-06-22

fraud is not charged i'll all Of the
cases, many Of the locations have
been made dishonesty, and none
Of them is valid.
Iditarod pioneer., 1912-06-22
STANDING OF CLUBS

The following was the standing Of
the clubs in the different baseball
leagues June u:
Iditarod pioneer., 1912-06-22
Gilmore Opens Vigorous Campaign

Cordova June Heron the Republican terri
toa committee arrived here yesterday his to Fairbanks
Skagway. William A. Gilmore, candidate of the
regular Republicans Seward discussed with him
the campaign Tuesday, expects
He will address meetings in bis
behalf at all stopping paces.C ordova Alaskan.
Iditarod pioneer., 1912-06-22

Highest market price paid for shaded
ivory for jewelry manufacturing pur-
poses. Robert Simpson.
Iditarod pioneer., 1912-06-22

Earl Byers brought in a large con-
Segment of mail Monday.
Iditarod pioneer., 1912-06-22
DELEGA TESHIP CAMPAIGN
WARMING Up ON COAST

According the Coast things getting pretty
political circles there of lively
campaign between August The following dispatches
received by the Idarod Pioneer in the form of paid
They contradictory have been duly credited o
Iditarod pioneer., 1912-06-22

Ouited States OF America, District
Court Territory of Alaska, Fourth
Division.
Edward NJ Spaulding, Plaintiff, vs..
Harriet f. Spaulding, Defendant
No. 55l, Alias Summons.
The President of the United States Of
America, greeting, to the above
named Defendants:
Summons having been duly issued out
Of the above court, in the above entitled
action, and placed in the hands of the
United States marshal for service. and
the said marshal having made due re
turn, setting forth his Inability to serve
the sid summons in said district. aud
that the said defendant could not be
found therein: and the plaintiff having
fled and presented to the court an aft
davil showing that the said defendant
did not reside in said district and could
not lie found therein, and that good
cause of action existed in favor of the
plailtiff and against the defendants:
I'D the court having considered the
sam, did on the 9Th day of June, 1912,
make an order directing the pubica-
tion Of the said summons for d period Of
six eekS in the IditarOd Pioneer, 4
neN paper Of general circulation within
Sitlt district.
y ~, therefore, you are hereby re-
quirrd to appear in the said District
cou in and for the Territory of Alaska,
FoU h division, within 30 days after
the completion of the said publication,
to y t: within 30 days after the 9th day
of JHly, 1912, exclusive of said day, and
ans Aer the complaint of the above
named plaintiff, a copy of which is on
file n the Office of the clerk Of the
ab0ve-entitled court, and unless you so
app IT and answer, the plaintiff will
ap for the relief demanded in said
cou ,}alint.
Witness the Honorable Peter D.
Ovvrield, Judge of said court, this 18th
day IT June in the year of our Lord
1911, and OF our Independence 1856.
49, G. G. PAGE, Clerk,
! S"al By E. NJ. Stanton,
Deputy Clerk,
Iditarod pioneer., 1912-06-22
Federal Officials Support Gilmore

Valdez June 18-Wllam A. Gilmore had been extensively
advertised here before his the westward 1t said
would lecture his during the earthquakes
the Alaskan peninsula meeting largely attended.
He the platform federal officials repre-
Of the Guggenheim
the entire Of the employees During his
speech he launched TRADE against Delegate Wckersham which
had the opposite from that intended made the
delegate He apoogized double crossing Wckershan His
henchman Chairman Hero preceded him with the
f. aIdvyn
Iditarod pioneer., 1912-06-22

Select Outside Lum Der. corrugated
IRON and roofing paper at Ross & Mes
tors.
Iditarod pioneer., 1912-06-22
FOR SALE
Or RENT

Smiths Roadhouse, located at
the Forks Of the Takotna river
on the Seward-Iditarod trail. The
best location between Iditarod
and Seward. Business good both
summer and winter. Address
E. ?. Smith, Forks Of Takotna,
A laska.
Iditarod pioneer., 1912-06-22
Lectures on the Earthquake

Yesterday BY special request Of the citizens he delivered lee
the earthquake and erupons katnai
received by his audience Tonight he speaks Chtina
at Kenneco monster political meeting will be held
Codova upon the candidates Saturday nghCorova
Alaskan.