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The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-02-23
WEARY WORK GETTING
MAHUKA SITE JURY
(From Wednesdays Advertiser.)

(From Wednesdays Advertiser.)
In frantic effort to get jurors at.
torneys engaged in the famous Mahuka
site cases wranged all day yesterday
with more or less success. 1t was the
first day of the long deferred fight to
determine the price Uncle Sam must
pay for the ground on which the federal
building is to stand.
Trouble started almost as soon as
court opened at ten clock yesterday
morning. The first question that came
before the Judge was the number of
challenges allowed to each side. Cita.
ton after citation was hurled at his
honor, who in selfdefense at last con.
sented to take question under advise
ment. The questioning of the Jurors
then began.
Some idea of the Importance attached
to the case now ON trial could be gained
from the earnestness and number of the
interrogations put to each of the can
didates for jury duty.
Attorneys on both sides wanted to
know whether the prospective jurymen
wanted the federal building at the Ma
huka site, or whether they had another
site they preferred. The effect of the
increased cost asked for the property
over the amounts estimated at first,
also played most important part in
the examination. The examination was
practically finished before court ad
iourned.
The interests on trial now are those
of Castle and Cooke, and the John
Cummins estate, for which H. Cushman
Carter is trustee. The case will pro.
coed this morning.
On one side were United States Dis
trict Attorney r. w. Breckons and his
assistant, C. C. Biting, and ON the other
NJ. F. Prosser, R. B. Anderson and L. d.
Warren, representing Castle & Cooke,
Ltd, and O. H. Olson and Lorrin An
drews appearing on behalf of the Cum.
Minis estate. Cushman Carter, trustee
of the Cummins estate, was present
The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-02-23
MAY ASK CAMPBELL
TO FIX THE RATES
mail Special to The Advertiser)

Mail c,oo;o1 srrL Al...\
YUAN opeeiai 10 me AuVertlser)
HILO, February 19.--Hardly had it
been discovered that in nass;nr tho
Connoa. fronoh;ao -. -, w.,
Ai'"'nise "iienulhen' resoiu'
tion the county fathers had, metapheri-
cally speaking, laid wind.egg when
new electric light question was brought
forth which will he presented IN 1be
supervisors at their next meeting II
concerns the ligbting of tha ruhI;c
streets and buildings of Hilo
While the county attorney depart.
ment was busy looking into electric
lipbt and nower legialat;op and ,,renar,
The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-02-23
LEILEHUA RESERVATION WILL Be
ALL MILITARY BY NEXT OCTOBER

for by October IA, all the pineapple
companies will have removed their
buildings from reservation property
and it is expected that the Jones ranch
will also be eliminated. The pineapple
growers are to be permitted to take
off their growing crops, plough the
lands, plant it for grass, and then turn
over the areas to the war department.
This action on the part Of the pine
apple and ranch interests will leave the
reservation free for military purposes
only. With six thousand or more men
and nearly two thousand horses and
mules on the reservation the war de-
partment is of the opinion that all the
reservation should be used for military
and not for commercial purposes. The
pineapple interests regret the decision
of the war department as the Leilehua
lands are among the finest pineapple
sections in the islands.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-02-23

Just where the First Infantry will
be quartered on arrival from the main
land in May is problem which the
army headquarters staff has not yet
attempted to solve. Major Campbell,
adjutant general, states that they will
not be quartered in or near Honolulu,
but will be assigned to Schofeld Bar
racks, and may occupy only temporary
quarters.
Additional information was expected
by mail yesterday concerning the move
ments of the Eleventh Infantry, which
is said to be slated for station on
Oahu. 1t is known, by grapevine route
that the orders for the stationing of the
Eleventh Infantry have been filed
away, and this is supposed to be final.
There will be no lack of area for the
development of the Leilehua garrison
The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-02-23
ABE RUFF MUTE;
CHARGES STAND

SAN FRANCISCO, February ga
The indictments against Abe Ruef are
to stand. This was decided upon yes
terday afternoon when it was learned
that the former boss of San Francisco,
now serving a states prison term, has
refused to testify, in the trial of for
mer Mayor Sehmitz. This refusal is
understood to mean that the trial of
the convict mayor has been blocked for
the time at least. Ruef has been here
for some days now awaiting the trial,
at which he was to be the star witness.
He has been given every kindness, al
lowed to see his friends and relatives.
He has had several conferences with
the district attorney relative to the
testimony he was to have given. II is
not known what changed his mind.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-02-23
WORST AUTO ACCIDENT IN HISTORY OF THE BIC ISLAND
OCCURRED ON SUNDAY At WMOHNU-- CHAUFFEUR KILLED

The particulars of one of the worst
automobile accidents that has ever hap
pened on the Big Island, and one of
the victims, reached Honolulu yester-
day morning by the steamer Kila1ea.
In the accident, which occurred at
Walohinu on Sunday, n Portuguese
chauffeur named Monish was killed, his
back being broken. Henry sheldon,
purser of the Kilauea, had his leg brok-
en- and is otherwise badly injured. He
is now in the Queen IS Hospital here.
Another victim of the accident, who
escaped with minor injuries, is D. J.
Garden, engineer at Honuapo.
The accident is said to have been
due to the interference of passenger
who took hold of the wheel, Monish
attempted to take out the spark plug,
while being interfered with, with the
result that the car was overturned and
everyone in it was more or less in
jured. The car, as shown In the accom-
o*K****Mss ~ \: X X. ~ II X X *k*.k*Ao
The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-02-23
ALL WRONG
The Mistake is Made by Many Homo
lulu Citizens.

Don It mistake the cause of backache.
To be cured You must know the
cause.
1t is wrong to imagine relief is cure.
Backache is kidney ache.
You must cure the kidneys.
Read the following and learn how:
Mrs. Charles L. Berg, Sl5 N. Sixth
ST., Walla Walla, Wash, says. GA
member of my family was afflicted
with kidney complaint and spent hun
dreds of dollars in doctors treatment
without getting relief. This trouble
was brought on by exposure and the
contraction of a cold. He complained
of a steady pain in the back End as
time passed, this trouble became worse.
The kidneys were badly disordered and
the kidney secretions caused much dis
tress when being voided. He had
poor appetite, lost weight and often
had dizzy spells during which there
was blurring before the eyes. Final
ly the complaint became SO bad that
the patient was confined to his bed.
Doan's Backache Kidney Pills were
finally brought to our attention
and their use was begun. Before half
the coftents of the box was finished
improvement was noticeable and as the
use of this remedy was continued, the
symptoms of kidney complaint disap-
peared.'
Doan's Backache Kidney Pills are
sold by all druggists and storekeepers
at so cents per box (six boxes $500
or will be mailed on receipt of price
by the HOLSTER Drug Co., Honolulu,
wholesale agents for the Hawaiian Is
lands.
Remember the name, Doan's, ana
take no substitute,
The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-02-23
JARED SMITH LEAVES TO
STUDY TOBACCO MARKET

81 know what splendid tobacco can
be raised in Kona district, and know
that we can continue to grow the very
best grade,'' said Jared Smith yester-
day. 81 am leaving on the steamer
China Friday en- route for New York
to find out exactly what the tobac-
conists want. When l have learned
that 1 can probably convince them that
we have in Hawaii the class of tobac-
co they are after"
Mr.. Smith will be the second tobacco
grower to go to New York to study the
market conditions and wants of the
cigar manufacturers. Manager Daniel
of the Keokea Cigar Company of Kona,
is already in New York and has sue
ceeded in placing orders for thousands
of Hawaiian cigars to be made at the
company's new factory in Kona.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-02-23
KAMAAINA DEAD.

Mrs. Lydia Fuller Dat, widow of
Joseph NJ. Dat, btiied in San Francisco
on February 121aged ffty.eight years,
five months and two days. Mrs. Dat
survived her husband less than year,
Mr.. Dat having died in Honolulu May
IL, 1911.
The Oats are kamaainas, Mr.. Dat
having come here in 1855. Mrs. Dat
went to the Coast where she has rela-
tives, among them brother of her hus-
band. She is survived by Amy L. Dat
and Mrs. Peter d. Lowrie, two daugh-
tiers, and by sister, Mrs. j. II, Me-
Crosson, formerly of Honolulu, but a
resident for the past two years on the
Coast.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-02-23
Castle g. Cooke Co., Ltd
Life and Fire
Insurance
Agents

General Insurance Agents, representing
New England Mutual Life Insurance
Company of Boston.
Aetna Fire Insurance Co.
ATTENTION
We have just accepted the Agency
and
The Protector Underwriters of the
Phoenix of Hartford.
These are also among the Roll or
Honor in San Francisco.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-02-23
Annexed PALMYRA
WITH TERRITORY
Judge Cooper Unearths Message
of Pres. Mckinley Showing
Government Action.

. Evidence that the United States in
cluded Palmyra Island in the resolution
annexing the Territory of Hawaii, was
brought to light night before last by
Judge Cooper, after search that has
lasted for more than six months. In
speaking of the matter yesterday af-
ternoon Judge Cooper said:
81 was confident the message sent to
congress about the time the report of
the annexation commission was sub
mitted, contained statement including
Palmyra in this Territory. In view
of the question of sovereignty that has
arisen of late, | wanted to get my hands
ON that document and have been hunt
ing high and low among my papers for
it. l recalled, that while minister of
the interior under the republic l had
seen such paper and after long
search finally discovered it in bundle
of ancient documents of one kind or
another
The message was sent to congress by
President Mckinley December 6, 1898,
together with the report of the commits
sion, composed of s. M. Cullom, S. B.
Dole, II. r. Hit, w. Il. Frear and John
II. Morgan. In outlining just what the
territory it was proposed to annex to
the States consisted of, and what its
value amounted to, the President gave
the following as its component parts;
Hawaii, Maui, Oahu, Kauai, Molo-
kai, Lanai, Niihau, Kahoolawe, Molo.
KIM, Lehua, Nihoa $500 miles north
west of Honoluln); Laysan $500 miles
northwest); Gardeners Island 1920
miles northwest); Ocean Island (1sO0
miles northwest); Necker Island (400
miles northwest); Palmyra Island (clus-
ter of low islets, about ten miles in CIR
conference with lagoon in the cen.
ter; has few cocoanut trees, 100 miles
southwest of Honolulu) Kaula, south
west of Niihau, and finally French Fri
gate Shoal."
Ends Discussion.
The judge holds that this finally puts
an end to all talk of British rights to
the island he owns. In this connection
the abstract of title shows how Pal
myra first became a part of the Ter
ritory, and the basis upon which the
United States rested it's claim when
Hawaii passed under the control Of
Washington. The portion of the alb
stract which is on file in the local
archives reads:
SIN pursuance of the authority grant
ed to me by His Majesty Kamehameha
~, on the first day Of March A. d.
1862, l took possession of Palmyra Is
land in the name of His Majesty, and
according to my instructions L erected
pole, with the Hawaiian flag wrapped
around it and inferred at the foot of it
a bottle, well corked, containing a
paper signed by me, in the following
form, "This island is taken possession
of by order of His Majesty Kameha.
meha ~, for him and his successors on
the Hawaiian throne, by the undersign-
ed, in the Schooner Louisa, this 18th
day of April, A. d. 1862. (Signed)
Zenas Bent.o
Acting on the communication from
Bent, King Kamehameha issued royal
proclamation, dated April Is, 1862,
which, after the usual preamble, says
"This is to give notice that the said
island (Palmyra) so taken possession Of
is henceforth to be considered and re-
spected as part of the domain of King
of the Hawaiian Islands"
The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-02-23
COLDS MAY BE AVOIDED.

When your feet are wet and cold, and
your body chilled through and through
from exposure, take big dose Of Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy, battle your
feet in hot water before going to bed,
and you are almost certain to ward or
a severe cold. For sale by Benson,
Smith & Co.. Ltd, agents for Hawaii
The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-02-23
SENATOR CH|LuNGWORTH LEASES
MOLOKA| COAST MULLET PONDS

pond:raised mullet. The Molokai mullet
has always been famed for its quality.
Very little of the fish from those shores
reach Honolulu.
The Molokai ponds are extensive and
many are of ancient origin and have
been handed down through various
families. The majority of the ponds
are controlled by the Molokai ranch
and other corporations.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-02-23

Ten of the fish ponds along the Mo-
lokai coast near Kaunakakai and Ka-
malo have been leased by the Molokai
Ranch to c. F. Chillingworth represent
ing fishing nui. Mr.. Chillingworth
and associates will put on a fleet of
power sampans to operate between Mo
lokai and Honolulu and will supply the
local market with some of the finest
The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-02-23
PIL|KIA
WITH HIS LICENSE
May Be Suspended for Selling
Liquor to Minors-PoliCe
Court Notes.
(From Wednesdays Advertiser.)

(From Wednesday s Advertiser.)
If precedents are to be followed by
the board of liquor commissioners for
this island, Isaac Cockett, proprietor of
the Cockett Saloon, is facing several
weeks of trouble. Salvador Teixeira,
a boy of seventeen, was proved guilty
in the police court yesterday morning
of having purchased liquor in Cockett Is
joint and was given suspended SEN
tence of thirteen months.
Liquor Inspector Fennell swore out a
warrant for Ed Lange, barkeeper at
the Cockett, yesterday afternoon charg-
minor and the case will probably come
up this morning in the police court.
Following that Cockett himself, accord
n to report, will be brought up on the
carpet before the commissioners and
requested to give his reasons why his
license should not be suspended for
some time. The board established a
precedent with Sunrise saloon not long
ago, when the barkeeper was fined fifty
dollars and the place shut up for two
weeks for the same reason.
Japanese in Trouble.
One of the names that appeared on
the police court calendar yesterday
morning was that of Akahoshi, Japa-
nese druggist. He was charged with
practising medicine without a license
and was released on $3.50 bond at the
request of Lorrin Andrews, his attor-
rey. His case was continued.
If all the charges that are brewing
against him are eventually brought,
Akahoshi will be a much charged man.
His case first came before the police in
an anonymous postal, copy of which
was also received by United States
District Attorney Breckons. This
called attention to an article in the
Nippu Jill, Japanese vernacular
paper The article was looked up and
was found to charge Akahoshi with
performing a criminal operation. The
sheriff turned the matter over to Chief
McDuffie who gathered as many facts
as he could and secured possession of
the medicines which, it is alleged by
the woman, was received by her from
the man. These are now in the posses
SION OF 1Hciiipb
who is Analysing them.
Blanchard is quoted as saying that
he was about to start proceedings
against the man for doing business
without pharmacists license, and this
charge may yet be brought The more
serious charge of producing abortion
may follow the analyses of the medi-
cines which the man dispensed.
Police Notes.
Sixty days was awarded to Mele
Rodrigues, Filipino, charged with
selling suit for G. M. Walker to Fran.
cisco Guerre and keeping the money all
to himself.
Lee Gilbert, the honey man who was
arrested the night before for speeding
failed to put in an appearance and his
bail of $40 was forfeited.
The DRINKS for the day were Harry
Davey and Sam Kalale, both of whom
were fined three dollars and costs.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-02-23
AVIATOR HITS ICE.

ERIE, New York, February 2l.-An
almost successful trip from this city
to Point Dover, Ontario, and back by
Aviator Earl Sandy ended yesterday
with bad fall. The aeroplane hit the
ice of the frozen river and Sandy was
severely injured but will recover.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-02-23
LUMBER FREIGHT RATES.

WASHINGTON, February co. The
Interstate Commerce Commission has
prescribed an eighty-cent rate per hun
bred on hardwood lumber to the Pa.
cific Coast
The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-02-23
REBELS BEATEN.

MEXICO CITY, February 90 The
Zapatistis were defeated in a hard bat
tie at Santa Maria. 1t is reported that
twenty.seven prisoners and guards were
killed at Puebla in an attempted escape.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-02-23

Capt. Campbell E. Babcock, Seven
teenth Infantry, has been relieved as
quartermaster of the transport Thomas
and will be succeeded by Capt. Alexan.
der McNab, who has been stationed at
Fort st. Philip, Louisiana.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-02-23
PILEs CURED IL 8 DO u DAYS.

PAZO OINTMENT is guaranteed
TO cure any case of Itching. Blind.
Bleeding or Protruding Piles in te
"a days or money refunded Made by
PARIS MEDICINE CO.. Saint Louis
U. of A.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-02-23

Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Forbes of Wal
naku, Hawaii, last Friday welcomed a
baby girl to their home,
The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-02-23
WALL STREET DULL.

NEW YORK, February 2O.-Stock
trading today reached til" lowest ebb
of the year.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-02-23

The row over peremptory challenges
found the respondents joining against
the government attorneys. Olson argued
that, under the law, each of the respond
ents was entitled to three peremptory
challenges to the governments one,
whereas Breckons held that, for trial
purposes, the two defendants were but
one and should have but three challenges
to the government one. Each side
cited authorities, and after considerable
argument the question was left un-
decided for the time being, it being
ruled that the authorities should be
presented to the Judge later and that
the work of obtaining jury should go
ahead on the basis of challenges for
cause only.
Case Afirmed.
The case of Lum Yam, convicted of
higamy, and sentenced to two years i'm
prisonment, has been affirmed by the
circuit court of appeals in San Fran
cisco. w. r. Rawlins received advices
TO that effect yesterday.
Johnson's Bond.
G. z. Wynn johnson, arrested here
last week by Marshal Hendry, charged
with having violated the Sherman anti
trust law was released yesterday under
three thousand dollar bond. This was
supplied by Cecil Brown and Mark Rob
inson, of the First National Bank.
Attorney Leon Straus, defending
John Robinson and Antoine Matias, ac-
cused of assault and battery, and A. NJ.
Brown, deputy city attorney, clashed
in Judge Robinson's court yesterday.
Robinson and Matias were acquitted
in the district court of the charge of
assault ana battery on some soldiers.
The grand jury returned true bills
against the two men.
Straus yesterday announced that he
would file a plea in bar, based on the
ground that, the men having been ac-
quilted in the district court, they could
not be tried a second time on the same
charge, in the circuit court.
The matter went over until today to
give Straus time to file his plea.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-02-23
Castle g. Cooke Co., Ltd
Honolulu T. H.
Commission Merchants
Sugar Factors

Eva Plantation Co.
Waialua Agricultural Co., Ltd.
Apokaa Sugar Co., Ltd.
Fulton Iron Works of st. Louis.
Blake Steam Pumps.
Western s Centrifugals.
Babcock &. Wilcox Boilers.
Green Is Fuel Economizer.
Marsh Steam Pumps.
Matson Navigation Co.
Planters Line Shipping Co.
Kohala Sugar Co.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-02-23

panying photographs of the accident,
is wreck.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-01-22
DISUSED CHURCHES.

should the disused Manchester
church offered for sale. and describ-
ed as easy to Convert" be trans
formed into a theater or "picture
palace" it will but share the fate of
many another place or worship from
which the congregation has departed.
In South London alone several his
toric churches have been converted
into places of amusement within the
past few years. The old Surrey
Chapel, Backfriars road, where the
famous Rowland Hill once minister
ed, Is now known as "The Ring" and
is used for boxing entertainments
sutherland Chapel. too, in the Wal
worth road-built for DIR. Andrews.
totor for time to John Ruskin, and
father of Mrs. Coventry Patmore-is
now a cilnematograph theater, and
another Congregational church with
a long and interesting history, Han
over Chapel, Rye lane, was recently
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-01-22
PYRRHUS.

Two thousand one hundred and
eighty-four years ago, about this
time, King Pyrrhus, the mighty ge-
MUS who had brought Rome peril
ously near the brink Of ruin, died al
the hands of woman in the course
Of the sacking OF, the Peloponnesian
city Of Argos,
This remarkable man became King
Of Epirus while still in his teens and
such was his ability that by the time
he was thirty-two lie was master of
the greater part of Cacedonia Had
he remained in Greece he would
probably have radically changed the
whole course of history by preventing
that peoples subjugation by the Ro-
mans.
But In Greece he was not to re-
main. About 2S0 the Greek city of
Tarentum in southern Italy, sought
his aid against the encroachments
of Rome, and accepting the call, he
was brought into a clash with the
legions Of the republic.
At Heraclea Ut was the first time
in history that Greeks and Romans
met in battle), Pyrrhus won a great
victory. At Asculum. in Apulla, Pyrr-
hus put another big triumph to his
credit, and then. for some unaccount-
able reason, instead OF following up
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-01-22
READY FOR THE SHOW.

The law of suggestion is a wonder
full thing and no one knows this
better than Frank Ritchey, who
works for the Emmotts. Frank had
been out to see the Roundup pictures
at the Crescent. Saturday night, and
yesterday, while at the slaughter
house, he conceived the idea that, he,
too, could ride a cow with any cham
pion vacquero that ever conquered
cayuse or bovine. Selecting COW
that looked as though she had a fairly
good saddle, Frank proceeded to
mount her. He stuck" for a while,
but when his companions told him to
twist the animals tail, If he wanted
some real good bucking, Frank
reached around and caught the switch.
Pulling the cows tail over his shoul-
der, he hallowed, "Let 'er buck" and
she bucked. Cow and man down the
lane like Hotfoot Mollie, or Long Tom
at the Pendleton roundup. The COW
made many plunges, but Frank was
there with bells until she ran against
fence, when the rider was rubbed
off and made a dent in Mother Earth
about the size Of stump hole.
When Frank landed, the bovine stop
ped suddenly and smote him in the
face with the left hind foot, neatly
breaking his nose. DR.. Smith set the
fracture, and the next COW Frank
rides he will don spurs. He Is now