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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-23
SECOND SECTION
HOLDS REFUNDING
OF TOLLS UNWISE

WASHINGTON, February 12.-It
became known here tonight that
Secretary of War Stimson has
reached the conclusion that it will be
unnecessary and unwise as a matter
of policy for the United States to
refund the tolls to be paid by Ameri-
can vessels passing through the Pan
anna canal The Secretary adds to
this conclusion, howev T, his strong
conviction that the United States has
both the legal and moral right, de-
spite the Hay-Pauncefote treaty, to
remit to the American vessels the
amount of tolls paid either in whole
or in part
Both President Taft and Secretary
Stimson have repeatedly asserted the
right of the government to refund
the tolls paid by American ships, and
it has been the general impression
that the administration would strong
ly insist on the exercise of the right
The definite announcement of slim.
sons views materially alters the sit.
uation.
The Investigations made by Pro
fessor Emery r. Johnson, the trade
expert, who has been for years delv
ing into trade facts likely to govern
the commercial aspects of the canal
are responsible for Secretary Stim
sons conclusions. Professor John
son has reported that he finds that
the advantages of the canal to The
American coastwise shipping will be
so great there will be no necessity
for granting practically free passage
to such vessels. He finds that the
ships will be in a position to com
pete with the transcontinental rail
roads in the matter of rates, and tha
to give the ships owners the add
tional bounty of refund of the cana
tolls would not reduce the rates, bu
only put additional profits in thei
pockets.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-23
OUR SAN FRANCISCO letter
Abe RuefS HOme-C Oming---HOIdS Some
Cards in SChmitz Game---CrueI Hoax
on Labor

greeted by his parents. TO those who
were present it was a CHASTITY, pa
thetic scene, this return of the son
from Europe" where he had staid
long in search of health. During the
few hours Ruef was home friends
trooped to see him and shake his
hand
The allotted time for his visit hay
ing expired, Ruef bid his parents fare
well and hurried down town on bust
ness" which consisted of making a
bee line for the prison, where he will
remain until the Schmitz trial is fin
ished or his testimony is completed
A strange and cruel hoax has been
played on thousands of workmen
throughout the United States and
some places in Canada as a result of
advertising done to induce workm IN
to come to San Francisco. 1t has
not been discovered who is respon-
sible, but notices in newspapers, and
in some cities on the billboards stated
that men were wanted on the Coast
at once to begin work on the worlds
fair In spite of the fact that labor
unions report ten thousand of their
mer out of work in San Francisco at
present, workmen began pouring into
the city from all over the country,
some bringing their families, and the
terrible disappointment when the true
conditions were disclosed has bred a
dangerous discomfort.
The police, the city government
and the labor unions have taken
prompt action to Offset the advertis-
ing already done, but it is difficult u
remedy the damage already done to
those well-meaning laborers who have
spent their money to reach the Coast
Although the fair work will begin IN
earnest within a short time, only a
minute percentage of the men who
seek work can be accommodated
for many months to come.
1t has been charged that the Citi
zens' Alliance. the worst foe of the
! labor unions, is responsible for the
advertising, but this. also has been
denied. Certain it is, though, that
someone wanted to glut the labor
market of San Francisco, for this
done, union wages are apt to dror
with alacrity, union wage rules sell
dom proving effective when starvation
looms ahead.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-23
PRICES
STILL GOING UP

STOCKTON, Cal, February 10
That within thirty days potatoes will
be selling in carload lots for $3.50 per
hundred is the prediction of a number
of local dealers. Tuesday a tally OF
the tubers on hand in the Stockton
warehouses totaled 10000 sacks. IN
addition to this, George Shima and
his associates have a total of 100000
sacks. A brisk demand is being
shown by Eastern. dealers for the
Stockton output, and it is expected
that all of those who still have large
quantities on hand will reap a fortune
within the next few weeks.
Prices today range from $140 to
$1.S5 per sack. Large quantities are
being resacked in order to be ready
for shipment during the height of the
high-priced season, which, it is be-
lieved, will prevail next month.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-23
PANAMA
CANAL CHARGES

WASHINGTON, February 12.-The
relation of William Nelson Cromwell
to the proceedings through which the
United States paid $4O,OOO,OOO for the
French rights to the Panama canal
route were discussed before the
House Committee on Foreign Affairs
today by Henry ~ Hall of the New
York World who has been making
a study of incidents connected with
the selection of the Panama route
over the Nicaraguan route. Hall
charged that Cromwell had influenced
Congress in 1899 to reject the Nicara-
guam route after it had been practic-
ally selected.
Cromwell persuaded Senator Han
ma" said Hall, "to permit him TO
amend the Republican national plat
form in 1900 in the interest of the
Panama route. The words an 18TH
milan canal were substituted for the
words the Nicaraguan canal but
only after Cromwell had contributed
100000 to the Republican National
Committee, of which Senator Hanna
was chairman.
The 100000 Cromwell later charged
up to the new Panama Canal Com.
pany as a necessary expense
Cromwell, Hall declared prepared
a complete draft of the report he
wanted made to the Senate upon the
Panama route and submitted it to
Senator Hanna, of the committee that
passed on the legislation. Crom.
wells draft was corrected, adopted
and signed by the minority, said Hail
"and became famous under the name
of the Hanna minority report It
was the textbook on the Panama side
during the debates which followed in
the Senate
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-23
SMOKE
TO MAKE PAINT

READING, Pa, February 17-David
w. Rothensies, financier, promoter
and horseman, was arrested today at
the Elks Club just as he had seated
himself to partake of a sumptuous
spread. The warrant charges obtain
ing money under false pretense and
embezzlement. DR.. George p. Hill of
Summit Hill is the complainant.
The arrest is the outcome of the ac-
tivities of the Universal Smoke Sepa.
rating Company of New York. The de-
PENDANT is under $4,000 bail to appear
in the Syracuse courts next April Dr..
Hill declares that he has already paid
Rothensies $4,000 in cash, and that
Rothensies holds notes to the extent
of 100000 against him The arrest
he's caused talk of real "Get-Rich-
Quick Wallingford" enterprise.
There are thirteen directors in the
Smoke Consuming Company, some of
them prominent men, and it is ru-
mored that Rothensies and several of
his associates have made 100000 out
of the promotion of the company. 1t
is said that investors of Lansford,
Hazleton, Mauch Chunk and other
towns have bought 100000 worth of
stock.
The company has plant at SYRIA
cuse, where it demonstrated it's patent
device for reducing smoke. 1t took
train-loads of coal region people to
the plant, fessted them and showed
them the workings of the device. The
price of stock varied according to the
customers. Some bought at 81 a share
and others at 10 cents.
1t is said that other arrests will fol
low in few days. Rothensies while
in Reading as president of four com.
panies received a salary of S13,500 a
year. He is about 80 years of age.
The object of the Smoke Company
was to rent the smoke consuming de
vice, which it was claimed in a cir
cular would give the company % per
cent profit and in addition all of the
SCOT The SCOT was toObe turned inc
paint and sold at 80 cents gallon II
other words, it was proposed to make
paint out of soft coal smoke.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-23
CAPT. STINSON
ON SHORE DUTY

SAN FRANCISCO, February 10
The United States army transport
Thomas, Captain Stinson, navigating
officer, and Campbell E. Babcack, quar-
termaster captain, arrived from Man
liza via Monterey yesterday. Instead Of
steaming directly to this port the
Thomas went first to Monterey to dis
charge the Twelfth Infantry, which
will be stationed at the old mission
town in place of the Eighth Infantry,
which sailed for Manila.
Captain Babcock has been relieved
from his command and will 90 to Nc
Pherson, Georgia, where he will join
the Seventeenth Infantry. This is be
cause Babcock, as well as many other
officers, has not served two successive
years in the line before being assigned
to duty away from his regiment. 1t is
expected that Babcock will return to
this port as soon as he has put in
the amount OF time required by this
regulation Yesterday completed Bah
| cocks 18th round trip to the Philip
pines, during which time he has had
charge OF the transportation of nearly
! 10000 persons. He will be succeeded
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-23
BIRDS CARRY INFECTION.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Jan. 31.-Black-
birds, carrying infection from the
South, are responsible for the death
of great numbers of Kentucky horses
from disease akin to pellagra, is
the opinion of Assistant State Veter-
marian NJ. A. Purdy, who is analyz-
ing the brains of dead horses In an
effort to find traces Of the germs.
The disease is trypanosyomia, and
DR.. Purdy's theory is that the birds
infected with it are bitten by mosqui-
toes, which either bite the horses,
thus conveying the infection, or lay
their eggs in the damp fodder eaten
by the horses. Mouldy feed was at
first held responsible for the epidem-
lets, which have been prevalent since
last spring but that theory has been
discarded
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-23
PORTO RICO'S TRADE WITH UNITED
STATES AND FOREIGN COUNTRIES

Trade between Porto Rico and con-
tinental United States in the calendar
year just ended amounted to 70 mil
lion dollars, or is times as much as in
1897, the year preceding the annexa-
tion of that island by the United
States. The precise figures of the
trade with Porto Rico are, according
to the December Summary of Com
MERGE and Finance, recently issued by
the Bureau of Statistics, Department
of Commerce and Labor. as follows:
Merchandise sent to Porto Rico, $780,
793, $40; received from Porto Rico,
$S5,446,1S6; a total of $72,239,S32 In
1897, the last year in which Porto
Rico was foreign territory, the figures
were: Exports thereto, S2,O23, ISL; i'm
ports therefrom, S1,943,251; a total of
$3,967OO2. Thus shipments of mer-
chandise to the island gained in the
period from 1897 to 1911, 1874, 769, S95,
or about 1920 per cent while receipts
of merchandise therefrom increased
$33, 502,935, or 1925 per cent.
The trade with Porto Rico since its
annexation has grown more rapidly
than with any other commercial com,
munity of Importance. and now eX'
ceeds the value of our trade with
Spain, or China, or India; is nearly
equal to that with Argentina, and is
more than that with all British
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-23
Fine EoR TIPPING WALTERS.

FRANKFORT, Key, Jan S1.-Ken-
tucky's proposed anti-tipping law pass
ed the lower house of the Legislature
by a vote of fifty-nine to seven, with
an emergency clause attached, which
reads:
Whereas, Members of the Legisla-
ture are now paying out sums OF
money in the way of tips, an emer-
gency is therefore declared to exist,
and this bill shall become a law as
soon as signed by the Governor"
The bin provides a fine for tipping
walters and porters.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-23
DR. SUMS VOLUNTARY RETIREMENT
DECLARED A GREAT SACRIFICE

NANKING, China, February b.
The National Assembly this afternoon
elected Yuan Shih Kai
president of the republic and then de.
clared that the provisional capital
shall be Marking
After Yuan Shin Kais Inauguration
a majority of the members are will
ing for the temporary removal of the
capital to Pekin for convenience.
DR.. Sun Vat Sens resignation of the
presidency of the Chinese republic
was accepted by the National Assem-
bly, here on condition that both he
and the present cabinet hold office
until the new president and cabinet
take over their duties.
Sun Says Farewell"
In the letter to the assembly, in
which he offered to lay down the Of
fee of the chief executive, DR.. Sun
said:
Yuan Shin Kai has declared that
he adheres Internationally to the ma.
tional cause. He would surely prove
a loyal servant of the state. Besides
this, Yuan Shin Kai is a man of con,
structive ability, upon whom our unit.
ed nation looks with the hope that
he will bring about the consolidation
of its interests. The happiness of our
country depends upon your choice.
Farewell"
The National Assembly passed a
resolution paying a great tribute to
Dr. Sun, as follows:
Such an example of purity of pur-
pose and self-sacrifce is unparalleled
in history. 1t was solely due to his
magnanimity and modesty that North.
ern China was won over"
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-23
CALLS JUDGE LlER;
GETS THRASHING II

MIDLAND, (Tex), February 49,
Judge ]. H. Knowles adjourned court
for ten minutes here today while he
thrashed a man who had called him
a lair. Judge Knowles was presiding
in a dispute over a land deal. Knowles
had just remarked the case was un-
important, and should be passed. Com
missioner Julius Driver shook his fist
and exclaimed:
You're liar, Judge!"
Just a second, gentlemen" said the
Judge. This court is adjourned until
I lick this man."
And Judge Knowles did lick him,
after which he stepped blithely back
to his desk and said:
Court Is again in session, gentle
men. Let us have order, fine myself
$40 for fighting"
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-23
LIBERTY BELL
STAYS At HOME

PHILADELPHIA, February 15.-Al-
though PhiladeIphias city council has
not yet received the official request
that the Liberty Bell be permitted to
go West, it is virtually a foregone
conclusion that when it is received the
request will be denied
This conclusion was reached some
time ago, not because of a desire upon
the part of the City Fathers to be
selfish in the matter, but to grant the
favor would necessitate the revoca-
ton of city ordinance passed as a
result of a countrywide agitation that
began after the Charleston EXPOSE
ton and which was maintained after
the Portland Exposition
To do so would necessitate revoca-
ton of the ordinance, and the Phila-
delphia solons are reluctant to enact
such legislation. At the time of the
Charleston Exposition the whole coun-
try was alarmed when reports left
that city telling of how the sacred
relic was loaded on to a light wagon
and hauled through the streets OF
Charleston to its destination, threat
ening every time the wagon struck a
rut in the road to be toppled by the
wayside.
Then it was ruled that the bel
should never again leave the purlieuf
of Independence Square, and it is
more than likely that the ordinance
will be adhered to.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-23
LlPToNs PARTNER DIES POOR.

TRINIDAD, Col, Jan. 31.-James
Boyd, who said he was at one time d
wealthy tea merchant of Glasgow,
Scotland, and business partner OF
Thomas Upton, was buried here to-
day by a charitable association. Boyd
on his deathbed attributed his fail
ure to differences with his wife.
To forget his troubles he first went
to Africa, where he became still rich
er. Failing to become reconciled with
his wife, he gave her his fortune He
then came to Colorado and worked for
years in the coal mines. He had
been in destitute circumstances for
some time.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-23
Cruisers Fire salutes.

CHEFOO, China, February Is
Three Chinese cruisers lying in the
harbor today celebrated the establish
ment Of the republic by a salute of
twenty-one guns.
The United States protected cruiser
Cincinnati has returned here from
Teng Chow Flu with six missionaries
aboard. The other missionaries re-
fused to leave on the Cincinnati, which
supplied them with arms and ammuni.
ton.
ROME, February 1.-THE Chinese
Legation here today for the first time
hoisted the republican flag. The min
lister also officially announced the proc
lamation of the republic Many call
ers went to the legation to offer their
congratulations
Millions Face Starvation.
NEW YORK, February 15.-March
10 is to be observed as famine day"
throughout the United States. Minis
ters of every denomination will devote
a part of the time allotted for their
sermon to bringing before their con-
gregations the alarming situation in
China, where 100000 people are
threatened with starvation. A state
ment issued by the China Famine Re-
lief Committee, urging the observance
of the day, says:
There has never been anything to
compare with the conditions now ex-
listing along the Yang-tse valley. Thou
sands of once thrifty farmers, with
their wives and children, are without
hope of relief. The human mind can
not conceive of the magnitude and
destructive force of the famine now
depopulating the interior of China"
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-23
PACIFIC DAY FEAST

"Pinafore" will begin at $3.50 10
night so as not to interfere with the
Pacific Day banquet of the Hands
Around the Pacific Club at the Jap
anese primary schoolhouse on Nuu-
anu street above Vineyard.
In November a banquet was held
at which 200 members of the Hands
Around passed resolutions and ap-
pointed a committee to take up with
the governments of the Pacific plan
to unite for joint advertising work in
America. The reports of this commit
tee will be presented IN bound spe-
cial Hands Around edition of the Mid
Pacific Magazine, profusely illustrat-
ed At the dinner tonight a resolu-
ton is in order requesting the various
Pacific states and countries to appro-
pirate definite fixed sums toward this
work and to appoint their delegates
with power to act and perfect the per
manent organization.
Already the Australian states have
combined and are erecting an exhibit
ton building in London. With New
Zealand, Australia is contemplating
a tourist bureau and permanent eXhi-
btion building in New York, in which
Hawaii is to have place, as she IS
to be presented in the London build
ing. Hawaii as an American terri
tory has been officially asked by sew
eral of the Pacific countries to take
the lead in getting all the Pacific peo-
pie together in joint movement for
making Pacific lands better known on
the American continent. In Washing
ton the Pan-American Union, sup
ported by twenty-one American repub-
lies, has it's own magnificent build
ing, and a similar building in New
York, the metropolis of America, TO
be supported by the Pacific govern
ments, is contemplated. This move
ment had its inception in Hawaii
four years ago. Governor Frear, then
being one of the fathers of the plan,
will preside tonight.
The Hands Around dinner will begin
at six sharp, but the Hawaiian band
and the Filipino quartet will arrive in
the big school yard and dispense
music at the base of the Togo monu'
ment for an hour while the guests
who are invited to come early, will
get acquainted. The school hall Is
the largest clear dining place in the
city and some three hundred people
from all around the big ocean will sit
down at tables decorated for every
state and country touching the Pa
cihc. The next annual banquet Of
the Hands Around will be held Ha
waiian style, and it is hoped will be
in celebration of the laying Of the
cornerstone in New York city of the
Joint Pan-Pacifc exhibition building
and tourist bureau in the American
metropolis.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-23

Oceania including Australia or with
the entire continent of Africa Dur
ing the period since 1897. in which
shipments from the United States to
Porto Rico increased 1920 per cent,
exports to Canada, with which our
trade has grown unusually rapidly in
recent years, increased 300 per cent,
those to Cuba $40 per cent, to Argen-
tina 745 per cent, China 100 per cent,
Japan IT'S per cent, Germany III per
cent, and to the United Kingdom IL
per cent.
The comparative amount of certain
staples shipped from Porto Rico, from
Hawaii, and from foreign countries
into the United States last year are:
Sugar from Porto Rico, % million dol
lars value; from Hawaii. 43h mil
lion: from foreign countries, 100 mil
lion dollars; cigars and cigarettes,
from Porto Rico. 53 million, and from
foreign countries, 81 million dollars;
and fruits and nuts, from Porto Rico,
% million, from Hawaii. 2F2 mllllon'
and from foreign countries, "A million.
OF the total merchandise entering
Porto Rico in 1911. SO per cent was
from the United States, as against 81
per cent in 1897, the year preceding
annexation; and of the shipments
from the island in 1911, Sc per cent
were TO the United States, compared
with Is per cent in 1897.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-23
70 REAPPolNT HAMS.

WASHINGTON, February 1.-Sena-
tor Rayner of Maryland today intro
duced bill authorizing the reappoint-
ment of Peter C. Hams, Jr, to the
army and restoring his old rank of
captain of artillery Hams resigned
from the army while he was prls-
unOr for the murder Of William e.
Anuis
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-23
GROUP.

II your children are subject to at
tacks OF Group, watch for the first
symptom, hoarseness. Give Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy as soon as the
child becomes hoarse and the attack
may be warded of. For sale by all
dealers. Benson, Smith & Co. agents
for Hawaii.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-23

Coronation King George, opera
House, Monday. Book now. Promo
ton Committee Rooms. 81, SOC, Csc.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-23

by Captain Alexander J. McNab, re-
Gently on duty in the South.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-23

Fine Job Printins, star once.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-23

Fine Job Printing, srrar Omos
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-09-12
SOME HOMEMADE PRESENTS
Pretty GIFTS That Are Far Superior to
Those That May Be Purchased
Anywhere.

Cretonne lamp shades with net laid
over them.
Cake covers made of filet lace on a
wire frame.
Some one of the numerous delecta-
BILE little towels.
A collar and cuff set of fine linen
we'll made and embroidered.
A pair of new gathered ribbon gar
ters with a posy of satin roses.
A set of cretonne or linen cases and
cloth to match for her travelling cases.
Lingerie pillows of handkerchief
linen, Cluny lace and a touch of en-
broidery.
A table cover in Monks cloth with
cross-stitch design all around the
square.
Tea cloths and tea napkins with en-
broidered monograms and any individ-
ual touch.
A set of sachets of different size, not
clumsy or overworked, but dainty and
well filled.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-09-12
For tho Ponaee costume.

The "natural-colored" girl is again
With us, meaning the girl who goes in
for costume wholly in the shade of
Manufactured linen or pongee. With
her tailored suit or frock Of either
heavy linen or wash, she wears leath-
er pumps and Isle hosiery of match
ing hue, a linen petticoat bordered
and banded with coarse unbleached
linen lace, a suede belt with self-col-
ored buckle and an outing hat of raf-
fla or Panama draped with a natural
colored Shantung scarf. Finally, in
one hand she carries sunshade OF
Shantung and natural wood, and In
the other a handbag Of raffia. For
country wear this sort of costume is
exceedingly knowing-looking and 1t is
a decided relief in neighborhood
where all-white or white and color get
ups prevail.