Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-06-19
LOCAL and GENERAL


Judge Whitney this morning grant
ed a divorce to Higa Majasaka. on her
plea OF desertion and non-support ny
Ikero Mujasaka,
The weekly meeting OF the terrific
rial board OF health will be held at
5: so o'clock this afternoon. at which
the semiannual tenders for depart
mental supplies viii be considered
Chief Sanitary Inspector G. Shars
lock. accompanied by two inspectors.
is al waiahole today attending to y
sanitary cleanup Of the labor camps at
that place.
Maria Coneeica Rodrigues has filed
a petition in the circuit court asking
that her husband. Isaac S. Rodrigues.
be appointed guardian OF Manuel Ma
chado. an insane person.
Miss Gladys Mason. young lady Of
New York, who proposes 70 walk from
that city to the Pacific Coast, receiy-
ed over five hundred offers from men
IN answer. TO her advertisement asking
TOR a man so accompany her across
The continent.
The final accounts Of Ella Louise
Rowland, execntrix of the estate ot
Ezra Augustus Rowland. were ap-
proved and the executrix DISCHARGED
from her duties by Circuit Judge
Whitney today. The accounts show
receipts amounting to $3.916.9f and
disbursements, $164.50.
The session laws OF 1918 are due
from the Printer. in bound form ready
for sale and distribution in fifteen
days. Secretary Mott-Smith stated
today that the final proof had been
read and that the volumes should be
out within that length OF time. The
books will contain SIG pages of the
laws alone, with an index Of seventy
six pages, prepared by Assistant At
torney General A. G. Smith. Mott
Smith says the books will sell al
about 81 to $3.50 each.
Mayor Joseph Fern has appointed
Miss A. Maynard, formerly the local
truant officer, to succeed Miss Rose
Dawson, who recently died. as hui
name officer. Friends of the young
woman are very much pleased with
the appointment, and they say she
will make as capable humane Off
Ger as she did q truant officer.
Delegate Kalanianaole introduced IN
congress on June a bill Oh. r. 5S5l)
for the franchise asked for electric
light and power at Lihue and in the
Koloa district of Kauai. The bill
passed the last Legislature and then,
as required by the organic act, went
to congress for approval. It was re,
ferred to the committee on territories,
A writ of execution was served yes
terday on Customs Collector e. r.
Staokable, demanding $101.50 for costs
in the case against Manuel Ferreira
who was sentenced to six months i'm
prisonment the other day for opium
smuggling. When Ferrefra was ar
rested the sum OF $1S5 was taken from
HIM by Stackable, and remained in
the latter's possession until payment
on the execution was made yesterday
j. Hopp & Company have been
awarded the contract to supply the
canopy for the supreme court, the
price being $685.. The Coyne Furni-
tlre Company has received the con
tract to supply the carpets for the
various offices in the Judiciary build.
ing, for 1889. The public works de
psrtment will readyertise for bids on
rugs for that building, defining more
clearly the kind of material desired.
The question of the division Of the
moneys in the territorial treasury, re
eeived from the special income tax
will not be decided until f. II. Wode
house, president of the board of i'm
migration, returns from Hawaii. The
conservation committee, which me-
with the governor yesterday after
noon, decided to defer definite actor
until a conference can be held with
Wodehouse to find whether he agrees
with the committees Interpretation
of the amended special income tar
law.
The students of the Valley School
Kuakini street, participated in a very
pretty presentation Of ]. NJ. Barrie's
Peter Pan" on the campus of that in.
ing, as a part of the program of exer.
cises which marks the close OF the
1912-1913 school year. The students
have been working hard. under thu
direction of their teachers, in prepai
ration for the playlet, and their eff
forts were rewarded by a large at
tendance of parents and friends.
. A slip in the rush OF the superyls
ors to put through the budget carry
ing appropriations for the expenses o
the city and county government fol
the ensuing six months has left tbs
board of associated charities withou'
its 800 allowance, monthly sun
which the city fathers had agreed t.
give the body. The mistake was no
discovered until after the budget hat
passed it's first reading, and conse
Quently it is planned to pass a specia
appropriation measure giving the
charity organization is 500 a month
Sanitary maps for the labor camps
at Waiahole are in preparation by thu
sanitary department Of the board o
health, and superintendent III. K
Bishop, in charge of the Waiahole tun
mel project, has assured the officials