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The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-04-19
CONSTRUCTION OF HAWAlPS
BELT ROAD HAS BEEN STARTED

(Mail Special to The Advertiser.)
HILo, April 16.-work on the actual
construction of the first belt road con
tract began last Monday, when Con.
tractor Wilson started on his contract
for the reconstruction of the section be.
tween Wainaku and Honolii, the first
of the three which he has to finish un.
der his contract.
The work was started at both ends
Of the section. One gang of men is
employed on filing the hollow Just be-
yond the John Scott residence at Wal
naku. This is quite fill, and some of
the contractors who bid on the work,
predicted that there would be trouble
in finding enough dirt near at hand to
finish. Material is being taken from
the sides of the gulch, and more will
be taken from the Lalakea place on the
mauka side of the road on the Honolii
side of the gulch, where a cut will have
to be made, anyway, and it does not
seem likely that there will be any short
age of readily available material, at
least, not to amount to anything.
Another gang of men is working on
u
gulch. Another bunch of men are open.
ing a quarry at Honolii, on the mauka
side of the road just beyond the first
bridge on the Hilo side of the gulch,
Citizen Labor.
Contractor Wilson left for Maui last
Friday. He stated before leaving that
he had had no trouble whatever in find
ing citizen labor. AS matter Of fact
so far he could get more than he hat
any need for. He is employing abou
sixty men at present, but later on
when he has received his machinery, h
will probably be able to use con
siderably larger force. Wilson ha
sent to the mainland for a rock crushe
and steam roller. These are now oil
the way.
In the meantime the forces unde
Chief Engineer Bishop have beer
preparing plans and specifications TO
the section of road which will probabl,
be taken up as soon MS the next slic
of the belt road money becomes availa
Bile. That will probably be in August
and according, to the governor, Their
will probably be about 100000 Sc
aside for this island, provided it ha
plans and specifications ready for worl
costing so large an amount.
| Plans Complete.
The engineers will see to it that tn
condition is fulfilled; as a matter o
fact, they have plans and specification
ready now for several sections 1t i
probable that these will soon be sub
nitted to the belt road commissioner
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-04-19
ELOPEMENT OF HAWAII COUPLE PROVES
To Be A THOROUGHLY MODERN AFFAIR
(Mail Special to The Advertiser

mail Special to The Advertiser.)
HILO, April 16.--A most romantic
elopment took place last week at Lau-
pahoehoe, when young Joaquin Ignacio,
brother of the principal of the POba-
kupuka school, braved parental wrath
by fleeing with his lady love, Miss
Meyers, a charming German Portuguese
girl, the daughter of Henry Meyer, a
landowner at Laupahoehoe.
The elopment was conducted in the
most up-to-date style, with an auto,
and Chauffeur Jeremiah Maluo as
Mercury. About ten o'clock in the
evening young Ignacio came to Maluo
and ordered out his machine. He
drove to place indicated by Ignaeio,
and here the young lady was waiting.
She jumped in, and Maluo drove to
Honomu. There the couple went TO the
residence of the Catholic priest. He
was visiting at the Catholic mission in
Hilo, so orders were given to continue
the trip TO Hilo. This town was
reached early in the morning, and a
Decline was made for the mission,
where the lovers were Joined.
In the meantime the girls parents
had discovered that the young lady had
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for their approval, when bids may be
called for, even before the money Is
actually available, as in this way tho
long time intervening between the hrst
advertisement and the first awarding Of
the contracts, win not be wasted, and
the work of construction can DO pro-
eeeded with as soon as the money is
received.
Thus tho plans and specifications for
the Improvement of about nine miles
of the Kahultu lava flow road have been
completed. IL has not been decided as
yet whether an asphaltic oil or merely
red dirt will be used for the top dress
ing, but the plans are so made that
either can be called for. Bishop has
'sent to the mainland for figures on the
cost of various oils, and on these
prices win depend whether he will
recommend dirt OF oil. If the latter
is not so very much more expensive
than the former, he will recommend
that that be used, as it viii make
far more lasting piece of work.
Question of Culverts.
The plans and specifications for the
section of road between Hakalau and
Maulua have been practically COM
pleted. All that Is needed to finish
them are studies, now being made on
the question of culverts: Tho plans
call for road fourteen feet in width
/ and about six miles in length.
The engineers are also nearing the
completion of their work on the plans
and specifications for the section of
road between the Kawalii gulch
through Ookala and including the
famous Bolabola road section, which
was advertised rs a contract by itself
recently, when the bids thereon were
rejected as being beyond tho funds
available.
While the old Bolabola contract call.
ed for only about mile Of road. the
: new contract win call for the. construc'
ton of about four and two-third miles.
MS it is figured chat as the overhead
charges which the contractor has to
meet will be about the same whether
he builds n one mile or five mile sec.
ton, the cost per mile will be lessened
the more miles are included in the con.
tract. The original Bolabols specifca-
tions are being modified somewhat
with view of bringing down the cost
as far as possible without loss of eff
cheney. Thus some of tho grades are
being treated in less radical manner
four per cent. being called for now,
where the original contract called for
three, and SO forth. The, greatest saw.
ing will however, be made on the
bridge construction, which forms an
important feature of this contract.
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days voyage has as yet come ashore.
During the trip there were one hundred
and ten cases of illness, from which
seventeen deaths resulted, But the law
of compensation worked well and there
were nine births en- voyage, so although
1884 people left Gibraltar in February
and seventeen of these did mt survive
the trip, there were 1476 newcomers on
board when the Harpalion arrived here.
Mutiny Aboard.
The mutiny of two of a troublesome
Chinese crew created some diversion
and nearly resulted in genuine tragedy.
From the time the steamer left Gibral-
tar the Chinese showed disposition to
hunt trouble and finally picked quar-
rel with the British engineers. Captain
w. E. Pope, who hurried to the rescue
of the engine room force, was attacked
by one Chinaman with an iron bar and
a timely shot from the revolver of
Chief officer Vine was all that saved
him from mutilation. The bullet from
the first mate s weapon penetrated the
oriental's cheek, where it is still safely
lodged, according to Doctor Trotter,
who looked over the injured yesterday.
The master then welded bar with
some effect himself and effectually
stemmed the tide of rebellion.
Room for All.
The Harpalion was equipped to carry
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-04-19
DIVORCE CASES ARE
FILLING COURT DOCKET
CRUELTY CHARGES BASIS FOR
MAJORITY OF COMPLAINTS
WIFE BEATING COMMON.
(From Thursdays Advertiser.)

(From Thursdays Advertiser.)
49, Divorce business is piling up very
fast in the circuit court, with cruelty
charges the feature of most of the
cases. A majority of them are jap
anese. An unusual one among the long
list of cases of wife-beating and deser-
tion made its appearance yesterday,
when Toku Narukawa filed complaint
charging his wife with husband
beating
Toku says that he married his better
half in Japan, and that she has con-
stantly treated him cruelty. On the
sixth of this month she beat him, he
says, INJECTING most painful wounds.
She followed it up with an assault
with a knife, wounding him on the arm.
Toku SAYS that he has always conducted
himself as a good and faithful husband
ought to do, but that Mrs. Toku GILL
treated and abused" him, Gin cruel
end inhuman and shameful manner. -
Seven other cases made their APP
pearance in the returns of summons
yesterday and Judge Whitney, who
handless the 'vorce business, will soon
have TO give most of his time to it.
One case was Chinese, Mrs. Alau King
You sumo Wono Koy You on grounds
of cruelty whirh Included the usual
charges Of featinp and kicking. She
saws in her complaint that there are
"two union children as result of
their marriage, and she wants them
awarded to her.
Kuniz'ki versus Kunizaki and Julia
Silva versus John F. Silva are two
other cases in which beating and kick
inc are altered. Mrs. Rise Laid
charges Samuel Ladd with failure to
provide, after twentYthree years of
married hfe. and Mrs. Emma Quni
charges her husband Joseph with vari-
Gus cruelties. and with statutory Of
tense.
Homestead Case.
The supreme court yesterday held an
all daV session in the Henderson home
stead case. test case involving forty
homestead claims in Hakalau, and deal
ing with many of the problems in
volved in the present political land
discussion. Deputy Attorney General
Arthur G.. Smith appoared for the Ter
ritory. and Attorney Harry Irwin of
Hilo for henderson. The matter was
brouoht TO the sunreme court on an an
neal bv the Territory from a decision
bv Judoe Parsons of Hilo in favor of
the homesteader
The decision in the case is expected
TO be of much in-portance in CONSUMING
the land laws. aside from the fact that
it affects the status of the forty Ha-
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-04-19

eloped, and they immediately reported
the matter TO the deputy sheriff of
North Hilo. They asked him to stop
the marriage, claiming that the girl
was a minor. The North Hilo police
found that the couple had gone to Hilo,
and notified Deputy Sheriff Fetter. He
found, however, that the bride was Just
past eighteen years of age, wherefore
she could marry legally, without the
consent of her parents. The fact that
the marriage license was dated March
% shows that the young people had
been watching their opportunity for
some time. The parental blessing is
now all that is needed to make the af-
fair happy one.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-04-19

British ship Harpalion yesterday
/ morning and watched the morning
mist rise from one of the newest cor
ners of the new world with mingled
!. awe and ,exultation.
To these Spanish and Portuguese vii.
layers, hundreds of whom have never
before wandered beyond the confines of
their native hamlets, this voyage half
, way around the globe is more wonder
full than birth or death, and this
venturing into the broad open world is
a heroic exploit and an acid test of
courage and virility. Yet they were
!" joyful yesterday morning, according to
the customs men and the doctors of
the marine hospital corps and were
more than eager to enter upon the new
life which they have dreamed of since
they broke the old ties.
Births and Deaths.
The Harpalion arrived off port at
eight clock yesterday morning and
was in the hands of the marine hos
pital corps and the customs officials un-
til four O'Clock yesterday afternoon,
when she was locked at the quarantine
wharf and her Zig human cargo turned
over to the territorial board of health.
Little of the inevitable romance,
pathos and tragedy of the ffty-one
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-04-19
INVENTOR HAS DEADLY MACHINE FOR
PESTS, FROM RATS TO MOSQUITOES

c. G. Tuch has just received patent
for a rat and insect exterminator,
which he claims is able to put out of
business anything that runs, flies or
crawls, electrocuting them with neat
ness, quickness and despatch. Amy
thing from a daylight mosquito to a
Norway rat that monkeys around the
Tuch machine is goner, according to
Mr.. Tuch, who has had working model
of his eXterminator "set' and going
for some time, bagging fruit flies, cock
reaches, centipedes, mosquitoes and
mice, So far the rats have shown sense
enough to keep away, but surprise
party awaits the first inquiring rodent
that ventures around.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-04-19

tors discovered on board yesterday
morning will probably occasion little
delay in the handling of the newcom-
ers. Forty.nine of the patients had
measles, three were afflicted with the
humps, one with scarlet fever and one
with diphtheria. The disposition of
these cases is now in the hands of the
territorial board of health.
Near Riot. =.
{ Armed with night sticks squad of
police under Captain Baker beat a
hasty hotfoot to the waterfront and
Fort street wharf last evening, to
dispel mob of near rioters who were
making the night hideous with calls
and talk to friends across the harbor
on the immigrant ship Harpalion. Ac-
cording to the telephone message re-
ceived at the station there was large
mob present and it needed to be dis.
persed wikiwiki.
The valiant ones made fast time to
the scene of the supposed trouble only
to find everything deserted and scarcely
ripple on the waters of the harbor.
A few voices could be heard from the
ship, but otherwise all was quiet.
1t turned out afterward that all the
rioters were composed of one or two
families numbering less than dozen
and among whom more than half were
children.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-04-19

The exterminator consists of box
with nice round hole in the side and
doorstep covered with wire. Attach
ed is an electric light connection, ready
to screw into any bulb socket. One
nator and the other to another and
all that is necessary is for something
alive to join up the circuit and get
his. The current necessary to kill
comes from the electric light wire,
intensified by resistance coil. An
ordinary rat viii stop carrying fleas
after getting 100 volts, other pests in
proportion.
One beauty of my exterminator is
that it only uses electricity when it is
working explains the inventor.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-04-19
CHARGED WITH GRAVE OFFENSE
AGAINST THREE LITTLE HAWAIIAN GIRLS

The tale is one of the many such
told in Honolulu to the Juvenile Judge,
to mission workers, to tho truant officer
and to the probation officer, told so
frequently that the horror of it is in a
degree lost, although such story as
was related by these little girls yes
terday would, in majority of Amer
lean communities, arouse such storm
of Indignation that lynching would
be probable.
Following the hearing in the Juvenile
court, warrant against Chan Hang
Wo was issued and his arrest was
made.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-04-19
LAME BACK.

One of the most common ailments
that hard working people are afflicted
with is lame back Apply Chamber.
lain 3 Pain Balm twice a day and mas.
sage the parts thoroughly at each ap.
plieation, and Won will get quick relief
For sale by Benson. Smith & Co, Ltd,
agents for Hawaii.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-04-19
TAFT ASKS Am.

WASHINGTON. April 1s.-Prompted
by the reports of extreme destitution
and suffering in the flood districts of
the South and Middle West, President
Taft has appealed to the Red Cross
Society to help in the alienation of the
present conditions and the assistance
Of the flood victims.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-04-19
ALL FOR UNDERWOOD.

MONTGOMERY, Alabama, April 49,
Alabama's forty delegates to the Dem
ocratie National Convention, which win
be held in Baltimore, are pledged to
support Oscar Underwood, of Mont
gomery, for the Democratic nomination
for the presidency, as long as he is a
candidate.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-04-19
EEHTE

(From Thursdays Advertiser)
Before Judge Whitney yesterday, in
the juvenile court, three little, brown
eyed Hawaiian girls, two eleven years
old, one year younger, related in
childish words tale of ravishment,
naming as the one who had bribed
away from them their virtue Chan
Hang Wo, the proprietor of dirty
little restaurant in the dirty tenement
at the corner of King and Alapai
streets. The price of the shame they
are too young to recognize was free
lunches, bit of ribbon, candy and
some few nickels.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-04-19

The British admiralty is planning the
establishment of great naval coaling
station at Rosyth in Fifeshire. II will
be big enough to enable an entire feet
TO coal simultaneously.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-04-19
.HARPALION HERE
with IMMIGRANTS
SHIP ARRIVES IN GOOD SHAPE
WITH COMPARATIVELY
LITTLE SICKNESS.

(From Thursdays Advertiser.)
Fourteen hundred and seventy-six
men, women and children CARRIED in the
garments of the old world, imbued with
old world traditions, ideals and
standards, crowded the decks of the
$500, k,kk ]. ~: !, y i .k&
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-04-19
LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS
REFUSED IN DEMANDS

NEW YORK, April 1s.-The railway
operators have refused the demands of
the locomotive engineers
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-04-19
immigrants HELD
PENDING A BOND
LEGAL TANGLE OVER DISPOSE
TON OF HARPALIoN's LIVING
FREIGHT-sIoK LANDED.

Owing to the failure on the part of
the owners and agents of the immigrant
ship Harpalion to provide a bond, in
surfing the payment of the expenses in.
cidental to the landing of the people
on board, the fifteen hundred Spaniards
were yesterday between the law and the
deep sea.
The federal authorities, mindful of
the big bill which the Willesden left
unpaid were not willing to take chances
with the Harpalion; the local agents,
II. III. Davies & Co., had no authority
from the British owners of the steamer
to furnish the bond which the immigra-
ton laws require, and the territorial
board of immigration was just as pos
tive that it would have nothing to do
with the immigrants until they were
landed. Meanwhile an army of Spanish
and Portuguese with about seventy
cases of more or less contagious dis
eases among them, was cooped up in the
steamer in which they had pitched and
tossed across the Atlantic and Pacific
and failed to comprehend the technical
barriers that had been raised against
them.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-04-19

nearly thousand more passengers which binds these
than she brought this other
result did
comfort sanitation hem.r s
afforded of the previous The Get
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-04-19

wall. On the other hand it is contended
that Henderson and associates complied
with the terms of the land laws of Ha-
wall and are therefore entitled to
patents, regardless of what the main
land laws say.
Magoon Hits Back.
In a motion filed yesterday in the
circuit court the Honolulu Amusement
Company asks a thousand dollars dam
ages from the Liberty theater, on ac-
count of the injunction secured against
Blonde Robinson, prohibiting him from
performing at the Liberty. The claim
was filed by Magoon and Aluli, and was
in the form of motion to tax costs
In addition to costs, however, they ask
that Young Chun, manager of the
Liberty, be required to pay thousand
dollars, for damages caused by the tenn
porary Injunction. Counsel fees and
other expenses are set forth as due
from the Liberty for the trouble
caused.
Horner versus Homer.
The case of Horner versus Homer is
nearing conclusion, and may be fin
ished today. Robert Horner spent most
of yesterday ON the stand listening to
the arguments of attorneys about ques-
tions put to him. There was strenu-
GUS fight over an effort to introduce
testimony about differences between
the brothers many years ago, but the
court held repeatedly that only deal
ings having direct bearing on the
issues raised in the bill of complaint
and answer could 90 in evidence.
DEFENDANTS counsel did not note ex-
captions to the rulings shutting out this
evidence.
Question of Service.
A technical point in connection with
service of summons was decided by the
supreme court yesterday in the case of
Fred Sackwitz against Elizabeth Good
win, Charles F. Sackwitz and the
Bishop Trust Company. The circuit
court had held that the service of sum
mons ON Sackwitz, in his absence, by
leaving it at his place of business, was
invalid, and the higher court sustained
this ruling. The syllabus sets forth
the technical ruling as follows: ga
silt in equity, the essential purpose of
which is to establish trust with
reference to, as well as to establish
a title in, certain land, is purely
pro seeding in personam, and jurisdic-
tioh of the persons of the defendants,
nonresidents, cannot be acquired by
substituted service"
Tie suit is an action to establish title
to real estate in Honolulu, and is re.
manded to the circuit court for further
proceedings.
Court Notes.
The final accounts of the Hawaiian
Trust Company, as executors of the
estate of late DIR. Walter G. Brincker-
hoff, have been approved, and the ex-
eeutor discharged.
The Salvador Lopez case continued
on trial all day yesterday in the fed
eral court, Biting for the prosecution
and Straus for the defense making a
very strenuous fight. The case is likely
to be concluded today. Lopez is charged
with capital offense. I
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-04-19
Status of the Case.

The status of the case was considered
by Inspector r. l.. Halsey, it was
brought up before Captain Pope of the
Harpalion, and presented clearly and
forcibly to the agents. Finally the cap
tain, recognizing the menace of the
sick to the other passengers and their
need for treatment, offered TO put up
partial bond on his own authority.
The agents cabled to London to the
owners of the steamer for authority to
furnish the bond which will make it
possible to land the whole consignment.
Inspector Halsey then ordered the
sick removed from the vessel and late
yesterday afternoon they were taken
off and were lodged in the hospital on
quarantine island.
In their present condition. said
Inspector Halsey last night, cit is inn
possible to tell how dangerous many
Of these cases are. They were a men
ace on the ship, and until it is assured
that they can all pass the mental and
physical requirements, they could not be
landed in the Territory. The difficulty
Is occasioned by the failure of the ship
and the ships agents to be prepared
to fulfill the requirements of the immi-
grafton laws when the vessel arrived
here. I have no doubt that when word
is received from London the whole
thing will be cleared up within few
days, and the people will be brought
ashore"
The usual examination of the immi-
grants win be held tomorrow and the
voyagers will be passed or rejected on
their physical and mental fitness to land
on American soil.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-08-15
LAVE BAIL BOND
Of $500 EACH

John Kinister and Louis Witt were
arraigned before Justice Burton l..
Brown Monday afternoon charged will
procuring liquor for a minor. The
charges We're withdrawn and new war
rants issued charging them with a
serious offense The new warrants
were sworn to by George L. Williams
on information an belief. The war
rants read that the defendants, Louis
Witt and John Kinister did fraud
ulently, deceitfully and by false pre-
tense and representation entfce, alb
duct, induce and decoy, hire and en-
gage, Agnes Jarvey, female, then
and there over sixteen years of age,
to-wit, sixteen years and nine months
old. Theo. w. Brazeau appeared
for the defendants. The case was
adjourned to Tuesday, Aug. 20.
Bail was fixed at $500 each and bail
bonds We're given for that amount.
Agnes JarYey is one of fifteen chill
dren the oldest of which is 80 and
the youngest 2 years old. She was
16 years old on Jan. 8, 1912. Her
fathers name is Joe Jarvey, Sr.,
and the family live at Stiles, Ocon-
to county.