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The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-02-06
1ALEMAUMAU LAVAS RISE AND FALL AS THE
TUG OF The MOON WAKES AND WAVES

The lava lake at Kilauea was down
three hundred and twenty-five feet on
Thursday, according to the observa
lions made by Prof. T. A. Jaggar Jr.,
who is taking official observations
Tally. This is fourteen feet higher
han the minimum of last month.
Professor Jaggar has been extremely
ousy of late at the Volcano, having
found time to change the location of
he little observatory at the frepit,
placing il. beyond the fire-danger line,
md to look after the collection of
funds sufficient for the building of a
permanent observatory on the cliff near
he Volcano House, in addition to
;eeping up the work of securing data
# the doings of the Volcano itself.
Weeks Record.
The report of volcanic activity and
ther matters of interest in and around
he Kilauea region for the week end
4 ng Thursday, is:
Technology Station, Febr. /, 1912.
"The lava of Halemaumau during
he last week of January sank to nearly
40 feet below the rim on the evening
the Goth, and thereafter it slowly
ose. The following levels arc below
he east house:
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-02-06
HILO WHARF TROUBLE
NEARING ITS FINISH

Chairman Campbell received n letter
from General Manager L. A. Thurston
of the Hilo Railroad Company yestcr-
day, announcing that he had requested
the directors to sign the agreement
with the Territory on behalf of the
railroad Mr.. Campbell expects to re-
ceive the signed document Monday or
Tuesday. He can attach his signature
Immediately on receipt of the agree
ment, or wait until Wednesday when
the board of harbor commissioners
holds its weekly meeting,
When the directors of the railroad
sign the agreement with the Territory
to build their railroad tracks to the
proposed Hilo wharf, Chairman Camp
bell of the board of harbor commission
ers will attach his signature to the
document on behalf of the Territory.
When the chairman g signature is
blotted the appropriation of 100000,
authorized by the last legislature TO
build the wharf will be available.
The superintendent of public works
is now engaged in compiling all avail
able data concerning the building of
the wharf, large amount of it having
been gathered by the Hlo Railroad
Company when it was proceeding, indie.
pendent of the Territory to build a
wharf of its own. The railroad select
ed the site in Kuhio Bay which has been
adopted by the harbor commission, and
the wharf win be practically along the
lines designed by the railroad g wharf
expert. The only difference is that the
territorial wharf will be 400 feet long
instead of 500 feet, as planned by the
railroad. Provision is to be made for
sugar warehouses but these will prob
ably not he built under the present
appropriation.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-02-06
CAN OFFICIALS TAKE
UP HOMESTEADS?

Queries as to whether government of
fcials can take up homesteads were yes
terday put before the Governor. in ref.
erence TO the application of Territorial
Chemist f. b. Blanchard and Market
Superintendent Starett for home
steads.
The Governor expressed an opinion
that he thought there could be nothing
wrong with such an APPLICATION provid.
ing the applicant followed the law as
regards Improvement and residence and
showed his good faith in the matter.
Much the same proposition has also
gone to the attorney general IS depart.
ment in the form of query from the
commissioner of public lands. This one
deals principally with the question as
TO whether man who takes up home
stead and leaves his family TO fulfil
the res'dehce requirements has com
nlied with the law. The point, the at.
tcrney general stated in his answer, is
one not yet settled by the courts.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-02-06

"This last rising again accords with
be lunar phase, tomorrow February End
|eing the time of full moon and today
february lst being the moon Is perigee,
Ie., its close approach to the earth.
''The interval between the eruptions
|f 'Old Faithful on the Goth, when
be laya was at its lowest, averaged 81
aconds, with maximum of SO seconds
nd minimum of only 3 seconds,
ther irregular intervals were 8, Is,
( and 3S seconds.
ga sketch. outline and cross-section
the pit and pool of lava is appended
7ereto, drawn without vertical ex-
ggeration. It shows the saucer-like
rofile of Halemaumau in true proper
ons, and the relatively small area of
quid lava compared to the area en-
osed by the high rim. This map was
AIDE January 25th, 1912. The posi-
ons of the rest-houses and the Tech
lopv Station are shown.
cover fifteen hundred dollars has
zen subscribed in Hilo to build an
1seryatory on the cliff near the Vol
mo House. Mr. Demosthenes Lyeur-
is, proprietor of the Volcano House,
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-02-06
SKETCH OUTLINE AND CROSS SECTION HALEAUDlAU
The Advertiser by Profess Jaggar
,*M***A **#N** As*Asa.,

has been the leader in securing this
money, and he has been most courteous
and energetic in his effort to advance
the scientific work which is in progress
at Kilauea. The subscribers to the
Hilo fund include not only the larger
plantation managers and bankers, but
also the shopkeepers and the japanese
merchants.
During the week the little house
which Mr.. Ferret built on the brink of
the lava-pit has been taken down and
rebuilt on the opposite side of the cal
dron, near the old rest-house. It has
been strengthened, fenced, supplied
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-02-06

enough TO call out to Ralph Williams,
a boy who had been a member Of the
Outrigger Club but a month, to come
out with a surfboard. Williams obeyed
and padded out to the struggling trio
Just as Ford was himself becoming ex,
hausted with his efforts to support the
other two.
Mrs. Carlson was still struggling
wildly with her rescuers and it was
with difficulty that young Master Will
liams and Ford managed to get her on
the surf board. Then, while Williams
and Wright padded slowly back to
shore Ford began the search for Shat
fer s body. Even in the excitement of
the moment Wright did not forget his
companion and begged Ford to save
Shaffer
In the meantime Duke Kahanamoku
had been summoned from the bathhouse
where he had been changing his
clothes, and arrived at the beach in
time to aid Williams and Wright, al
most spent, struggling in towards shore.
He went into the water and helped
them ashore with their load He
picked up the unconscious woman and
carried her into the hotel where she
was at once taken upstairs to room
and cared for by the housekeeper.
Later in the evening she was brought
into town.
No Trace of shaffer.
Duke, after leaving the woman in
good hands, went back to where Ford
and number of other bathers were
busy trying to find the body of Shat
r Il HI
above water after the fatal last time
down. Other Hawaiian swimmers
Joined in the search, but do what they
could they could not discover trace
of the body.
AS soon as the accident was reported
on the Colorado, volunteers were asked
for to patrol the beach, and twenty
men were selected of the crowd that
came forward. They did not know
what they were going for, but volun-
teers were asked and every man of
them was ready for work of any kind.
Esling in Command.
Midshipman Esling took command of
the party, which arrived at the beach
before seven o clock, and started in
their gruesome work. Men were de-
tailed in twos to patrol duty, others
were told to wade out as far as they
could, and still others, the best swim
mers, went out farther and by diving
tried to locate Shaffer s body. For two
hours they kept up the diving work,
and then patroled the beach for five
hundred yards in each direction for
hours watching for the first glimpse of
the body to be given up by the waves.
Shaffer was born in Wilkesbarre. He
had served in the navy for three years
and seven months and was bugler on
board the cruiser. 1t is expected that
the body will be found today and
burial will take place in the naval plot
in Nuuanu cemetery.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-02-06
Colorado Seaman browns at
Waikiki in Effort to Save
Woman From Same Fate.
CoMRADE BARELY ESCAPES
Volunteers From Fleet Search All
Night for Body, but With
out Success.
trrom Sundays Advertiser,

In an effort to rescue q woman from
drowning before their eyes late yester-
day afternoon, one seaman of the Col
orado was drowned off the Moana Ho-
tel and another came so close to death
that for time it looked as though he,
too, was to die. The dead man is Fred
erick Shaffer, aged 26, bugler on the
cruiser, and his mate, who risked his
life to aid him, is f. Wright, another
bugler of the same ship. The woman
whose danger led Shaffer to his end is
Mrs. Carlson. Late last night she was
reported to be recovering from the
shock to her nerves and the sea water
she swallowed.
Although patrol party of twenty
men, under the command of Midship-
man Esling, sent out to patrol the beach
from the Seaside Hotel to the Inn,
stripped and swan and dove all over
the section of water between those two
points inside the reef the body of
Shaffer had not been recovered at the
time of going to press. The work of
4 tine patrol lasted for hours under the
light of the early moon, and will be
resumed again this morning.
Screams for Help.
Mrs. Carlson IS screams for help and
her frantic efforts to lift herself out of
the water when she found herself GO
ing down attracted the attention of a
large crowd at the beach shortly after
five clock. Shaffer and Wright were
nearest to the sinking woman and with
out hesitation they dashed into the sea.
4 She was then about one hundred yards
off the end of the concrete wall that
runs into the sea. number of other
bathers also made for the woman but
Shaffer and Wright reached her first.
Neither of the men were good swim
mers apparently, for hardly had they
got their hands upon her when they all
three sank. Wright, the stronger, man
aged to struggle to the surface, still
clinging to the woman, just as Alexan-
der Hume Ford in an outrigger canoe,
came surging up beside him. Ford
sprang out of his canoe into the water
and swimming an overland stroke,
reached Wright and his burden in time
to keep the bugler from sinking sec
ond time.
Boy to the Rescue.
When he left the shore at the first
8 alarm Ford had had presence of mind
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-02-06
JURY DISAGREEMENT
IN DYNAMIT|NG CASE

LOS ANGELES, February AFTER
debating over the evidence for many
hours, the jury in the Connors dynamit-
ing case reported n disagreement last
evening and was discharged. A canvass
of the jurors showed that on the last
ballot taken ten stood for acquittal and
two for conviction.
Connors was one of the men accused
of attempting to destroy the han of
records in this city.
One of the most startling bits of
evidence brought against the accused
man by Assistant District Attorney
Norton was the indehtation of teeth
upon dynamite caps said to have been
used in the attempted work of destruc-
ton. These marks were, so the as
sistant district attorney attempted to
prove, made by Connors, it being the
habit of men familiar with the use of
dynamite, in putting the Illuminating
cap over the explosion end of the fuse,
to dent it down between their teeth so
that 1T might not fall off.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-02-06

with larger concrete platform for
seismometric experiments, and is in
less danger from fire.
"There Were two small earthquake
shocks at p. m. and p. m. on We'd
nesday, January 81, felt at Halemau-
mau. There have been heavy ava
lanehes of debris into the crater, some.
times sending up suffocating clouds of
dust, and the fumes of sulphurous
acid, carrying solid granular ehlorides
of salty taste, have been very strong,
carried by prevalent south winds.
Very respectfully,
t. A. JAGGAR, Jr, Director.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-02-06
LORD YOUNG COMPANY
Gets BIG CONTRACT
cFrom Sunday S Advertiser.)

Lord Y Dung Construction Company
yesterday was awarded the contract to
build ten and half miles of belt road
from Kipapa gulch to the top of Waia.
lua hill for $9s,5OO. The bid of the
LordYoung was the lowest of folr.
The others were; A. A. Wilson, $685..
297; j. II. Wilson and Link McCand.
less, $l19,35S; Honolulu Draying and
Construction Company, 5l3l,216.
The bids were opened at noon and
were considered by the belt road com
mission at meeting held at two
o. CLOCK. Half an hour later the com
mission voted in favor of awarding
the contract to the Lord Young com
pany. The ten and half miles stretch
Dis to be bitumen bound" like Merchant
from Nuuanu TO Fort. "only it will
be better, said Superintendent of Pub.
lie Works Marston Campbell. Lord
Young company agree TO finish the
LeIiehua road by April 10, 1913.
Mcdonald to Build School.
A. p. Mcdonald was awarded the
contract to build the new Kaimuki
school. Mcdonald agreed to complete the
job by September 10, 1912. His bid was
$53,776 The bids were close, much
closer than even the commission anti.
cipated, but they felt that the lowest
bid under all circumstances should go
to Mcdonald. The appropriation of the
Legislature for the Kaimuki school is
100000. The school is to be known as
the "Liliuokalani. No bids were re
ceived for the Pohukaina school. The
contractors did not feel they could of.
fer a bid within the appropriation.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-02-06
La Toilette Near Breakdown.

WASHINGTON, February 4.-Sen-
ator La Toilette is on the verge of
physical breakdown as a result of the
nervous strain attending the first few
weeks of his campaign for the Repub-
lican nomination for President.
He has cancelled all his engagements
for the next fortnight, and corps Of
physicians have him in charge.
They have ordered complete rest,
but promise to get him back into the
presidential race within few weeks.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-02-06
HERRlCK MAY BECOME
AMBASSADOR TO FRANCE

WASHINGTON, February At is
reported here that Myron IT. Herrick,
former governor of Ohio, will probably
be appointed ambassador to France to
succeed Francis Bacon, whose resigna-
ton from that post was accepted re-
Gently.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-02-06
7. R. IS TURNED
DOWN IN COOK
COUNTY
Republicans in Chicago Conven-
ton Defeat Effort for
Endorsement.
TAFT GETS COMMENTATOR
Carnegie Won't Address Roose-
veIt's Clan Gathering at
Oklahoma City.
TAFT GETS COMMUNICATION

CHICAGO, February Cook County
Republicans in convention here yester-
day defeated an effort to endorse Thee
dore Roosevelt as Republican nominee
for President.
The Roosevelt movement was vigor-
GUS but brief.
President Taft was commended in
resolutions drafted by the strong ad-
ministrotion faction and adopted by the
convention.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-02-06
oHAMBERLAIN's COUGH REMEDY
IN AFRICA.

Mr.. Pet A. Uys, of Lelievlei, Orange
RIVER Colony, testifes to the good quail
tiles of Chamberlain s Cough Remedy.
He says; owe have used it several
times for our children and ourselves
and expect to continue with it as we
found it excellent, We can recommend
it to anybody in the world. +" There is
nothing better for children. For sale
BY Benson. Smith s Co., Ltd, agents
for Hawaii.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-02-06
TAFT INVITES NATIONS
TO 1915 EXPOSITION

WASHINGTON, February 4.-Pres-
ident Taft yesterday signed procla-
nation inviting all nations to partici-
pate in the 1915 Panama Pacific Inter
national Exposition.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-02-06
KILLS TUBERCULAR
FAMILY AND HIMSELF

APPLETON, Wisconsin, February 8
-- William Maitland today killed his
father mother, sister and brother
and committed suicide, because all we're
afflicted with tuberculosis His mind
is believed to have been unsettled.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-02-06
Carnegie Is for Taft,

NEW YORK, February 4.-Andrew
Carnegie has declined an invitation to
address the approaching Roosevelt
State convention in Oklahoma City, de-
claring that he is stanch supporter
of President Taft
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-02-06
BRITISH SHIP ON FIRE
OFF COAST OF VIRGINIA

NORFOLK, Virginia, February g.
The British ship cOnsola, from Gal.
weston TO Hamburg, sent out wireless
messages that it is aGre off the Yir-
ginia coast.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-02-06
MEXICANS MUST NOT
SHOOT ACROSS BORDER

WASHINGTON, February 3.-The
Mexicans warning on the border have
been warned to stop shooting across
into American soil.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-02-06
CHAUFFEUR JoHNsoN's
RECORD.


The following is the record of
the man, holding a license to
drive an automobile, responsible
for last night s accident:
June 3 and 4, 19l0.-First
warned on different occasions
for following violations of city
ordinance: No chauffeur S IL
cense, wrong side of road, speed
ing, no lamps lit, no numbers
ON lamps. Later arrested and
pleaded guilty to all except speed
ing charge, Speeding charge
nol-prOssed by city attorney 5
department.
June 17.-Arrested for speed
ing. Mol. pros. entered by City
Attorney Cathcart.
January % and 81, 1911.-
Warned on both dates for driv-
ing without lights.
March 9.-Arrested for driv-
ing without lights. Fined So
and costs.
March 15.-Warned for blow
ing whistle on streets at night.
May 5.-Arrested for driving
without lights and hitting a
hack Fined S. and costs.
subsequently warned repeat
eddy against driving without a
license,
Several months ago arrested
for needless driving at fishmar-
ket and hitting City Physician
Wayson IS machine.
Arrested for the embezzle-
ment of tires from automobile
of Cyrus Green.
Has been incidental figure in
several other embezzlement and
other cases.
a ~
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-02-06
Folk ON STUMP.

JOPLIN, February 2. = Governor
Folk launches his candidacy for the
presidency tonight.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-02-06
McManigal Is Returned.

LOS ANGELES, FEBRUARY 4.-Ortie
Mechanical was returned here today
from Indianapolis where he has been
tcstifying before grand jury charged
with the investigation of uses to which
the American Federation of Labor put
the Mcnamara defense fund of $685.,
nm
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-02-06

Whose councillors yesterday abandoned
hope of saving the throne and made
him resign.
. **%*h*ss sk** X *A* * " N**%***s
Especial Gable to The Advertiser and
the Hawaii Shinpo.)
TOXIC, Japan February s.
Official advices received here
this afternoon announce that the
Emperor of China had rendered
his resignation this morning and
would immediately leave Picking.
The city, said the dispatch, was
in a state of wild turmoil.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-02-06

Reckless driving and speeding on the
part of Chauffeur j. E. Johnson, EN-"
pire Auto stand, resulted in a nasty
automobile accident shortly before
seven 'clock last night on King street
near Victoria, as result of which
there are four people in the hospital,
one of whom may die. This possible
victim of booze and recklessness is
little siX-year-old johnny Souza, who
was with his father, Manuel Souza, on
the seat of an express wagon, belonging
to Lovejoy & Co., liquor dealers, into
which the heavy johnson car crashed.
With Johnson in the machine were
five sailors, firemen from the cruiser
South Dakota, all of whom were in
jured, one severely.
johnson was arrested by Detective
Bergau at the scene of the accident,
shortly after the victims of his care
lessness had been taken in autos to the
hospital and just as he was in the mid
die of maudlin explanation, the main
point of which was that another auto
mobile, "without lights and coming like
hell - ran into him, then smashed into
the express wagon and finally dashed
away. Why don t you go and find
that red machine3" he yelled, as Ber-
gau led him to the patrol wagon, ex-
planning as he went that it would be
better for johnson to keep his mouth
shut about another machine, because
there hadn't been any and that the
unnecessary lying would only be to
his later disadvantage.
On Wrong Side.
The Johnson party had been at Wal
kiki, tanking up. Coming in, Johnson
ran past several other machines and
when he hit the stretch into town on
King street, was going at rate de-
/ scribed by spectators as every fast. -
He was on the wrong side of the road.
When just opposite Mrs. Gray's board
ing house the speeding machine struck
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-02-06

the express wagon, going Waikiki way,
hurting the wagon clear across the road
on to the sidewalk. Souza, the driver,
and hls little son were pitched clear
over the auto and struck the macadam
with great force.
The machine, in some manner, dished
front wheel, dragged for twenty feet
and then upset, throwing five of the
occupants clear and pinning the fifth
beneath it. The force of the collision
appeared to spend itself ON the ma.
chine, which is badly wrecked. The
express wagon is smashed some and the
horse is hardly hurt at all
Crash Brought Rescuers.
The crash of the accident was heard
IN all the surrounding houses. and the
boarders from Mrs Gray's and Vida
Villa poured out into the street, while
crowd of Others gathered within a
few minutes. Passing autos were
stopped and the injured and uncon.
scious ones were picked up and rushed
to the hospital.
mot More than Four
Four of the five sailors had beer
drinking heavily, their breath rivaling
the aroma of the smashed bottles from
the Lovejoy wagon, the glass of which
was scattered for fifty feet along the
road. When asked if the chauffeur was
drunk too, the least injured sailor en-.
tered prompt disclaimer.
Nav! He wasn't (hic) drunk.
don It think he had more n four drinks
at the most!'
Clearly Johnson's Fault.
The accident was clearly the fault
of the chauffeur, the marks on the road
showing that he had smashed into the
wagon on the makai side of the street
which was the wrong side for him and
the right side for the horse vehicle.
The accident was witnessed by two
men, +. L. Marshall and j. A. Barton
of Benson, Smith & Co.
"The man in the rig was in the
right said Mr.. Marshall. Hand the
automobile was in fault. The story OF
the driver of the auto that another
machine struck his is lie."
Mr.. Barton confirms this, while some
young ladies, who live few doors
Waikiki of the scene of the accident
state that the machine was being driven
at an uHusuhl Speeu, 80 ldsI IN ldcl
that their attention was drawn to it
to the extent of their watching it until
the smash came.
An Aftermath.
The smashed machine was allowed to
stand where it had come to its sudden
stop, being only tipped back on its
wheels in order to clear the street ear
track. This brought the hood within
a few inches of passing ears, so close
that when crowded car came along
with passengers standing on the run
ming board, the hood brushed severa'
of them off. One man had nasty fall
but was not badly hurt
johnson Being Held.
johnson spent last night in the
police cells, being held on investiga
ton. 1t is probable that a warrant
will be sworn out against him this
morning, although this formality may
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An Aftermath.
johnson Being Held.

johnson spent last night in the
police cells, being held on investiga-
ton. 1t is probable that warrant
will be sworn out against him this
morning, although this formality may
be delayed until it is learned whether
or not death will come to the little
boy victim of his four drinks and his
general recklessness.