Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-12-04

row morning in the assembly hall of
the Library of Hawaii. ..~ "a.
The members Of the. board of public
instruction win hold their seminar
nual meeting in the rooms of the
board, Judiciary building. on the
morning Of December Is.
Circuit Judge Whitney today grant
| ed papers of adoption to Tam Keaw
for Kim Fook, a child whom the wo-
man has been keeping since the faith
ers death several months ago.
A meeting of the Hawaii promotion
committee will be held in the rooms Of
the committee, Bishop street side
Young hotel building, at $3.50 O'Clock
tomorrow afternoon.
At meeting Of the territorial
board of health at $3.50 O'Clock this
afternoon the typhoid fever. situation
will be, discussed, and the poison
schedule" viii be reviewed and re-
vised. This schedule is list of
drugs which the board requires drug.
gists to label as poisonous. 5
The governors office has JUST re-
ceiyed official notice of the change OF
Chinese consiIs at this port, a com.
munication apprising the territorial
executive CT the change being receiy-
ed today from the new representa-.
time. Tszang Woohuan, who sue
ceeds Chen Ching Ho.
1t took d jury in Circuit Judge Rob
inson's court only 10 minutes to de-
tarmine the guilt Of Tuck Sing, an
Oriental accused of burglary IN the
first degree. The trial occupied about
two hours. time. The convicted man
was sentenced to not less than one
years servitude at Oahu prison.
An application, approved upon Ger.
tain provisions by Major e. j. Tim;
berlake, commanding officer at Fort
Ruger, has been filed with the terri
torial treasurer by soldiers of Fort
Ruger asking a club license to sell
liquor for the Fort Ruger Club The
officers of the club state that the
Headquarters will be located on Non
sarrat road near the former Ponds
dairy and remote from the highways
of general travel. Treasurer Conk.
ling has taken no action on the APP
plication az yet.
The first number of the Yale Law
Journal for 1913-14 arrived In Homo
lulu this morning This Is the month
~ publication issued by the students
of Yale University, to which writers,
jurists and attorneys of national and
international note contribute. It IS
particularly interesting to people here
this year, because Paul r. Bartlett,
former neWspaperman OF this city, is
chairman of the editorial board. This
same position on the board was Occu-
pied in the year 1928 by U. s. Dis
/ rict Judge G.. r. Clemens.
Struggling over a difference OF
S2700, claimed by W. E. Wall as COM
mission, attorneys for Wall and Her
man Focke yesterday completed their
lengthy argument before Circuit
Judge Whitney, concluding q trial of
about ten days duration. This is the
second full trial the case has had in
circuit court and IL 1t is taken up to
the supreme court, which is regarded
as quite certain no matter what
Judge Whitney's Judgment may be, 1t
win be the third appeal Of the suit.
Judge Whitney's decision may not be
given until some time in the new
year.. .. -. S
The reported, death of C. F. Drew, a
civil engineer who was to be wit
ness in the ]. w. Marshall case, will
not affect the case of Marshall, said
City and County Attorney Catheart
this morning. Drew was rooming
with Marshall at the time the latter
is charged with numbering Charles
Guertler. and 1t was to their cottage
that Marshall is said to have gone for
the weapon he used. According to a
message received from San Francisco,
his clothes were found washed into
shore near his capsized boat at InFer-
ness, 1t Is believed that when the
boat eapsized young Drew lost his life.
F. In the governors mail yesterday
was Included an invitation to attend
the conference Of the American Com
mittee for the Celebration of the One
Hundredth Anniversary of Peace
Among English Speaking Peoples
1914-15. The committee is deliberat-
ing today and tomorrow at Richmond,
Va. 1t is planning a general celebra-
ton among the people of America dur
ing 1S14-15, in commemoration parti-
cularly Of the peace treaty between
the United States and Great Britain,
signed nearly 100 years ago. Though
Governor Pinkham is at Washing ION,
D. c., very near Richmond, it is not
known here whether he will be in at
tendance at the committees confer