Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-05-27

III Tree sugar becomes a reality, as
last resort We ask that We be grant
ed authority to make our own custom
laws, to establish commercial alliances
with other nations and to seek, whar-
ever they may be obtained, the adyan-
tages that the United States cannot
give US.
President Wilson views with marked
disapproval the crowds of lobbyists
who fairly oyerrun the leading hotels
and cluster about the approaches to
the senate chamber in their endeayor
to block the passage of the Democratic
tariff measure.
Expressing the belief that a portion
of the sO-called lobbyists are in Wash
ington on legitimate errands, he added
| that a great majority of them are
there engaged in a specific purpose,
based on misrepresentation of actual
facts and considerations.
The President made it clear that he
believed that scientific business meth
DDS and efficiency would overcome tar
if cuts and that, with the application
Of scientific methods. Louisiana would
not only be able to continue in the
sugar industry, but to do so profitably.
Smashing show window filled with
glittering diamonds, at the store Of
I.ebOlt & Co., jewelers., In Chicago to-
day, thief rapidly stuffed $4,000 worth
of the gems in his pockets and then,
making last grab, sped down the
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his hands, while an excited crowd gave
pursuit.
The thief. escaped, his trail OF dia-
monds proving his safety. Many in
the crowd stopped to pick up the
jewels.
The cost of operation and mainte-
nance of the government irrigation
projects, until fully paid for by home
steaders and transferred to settlers
associations, must be borne by home
steaders themselves by assessments,
according to decision today by the
supreme court The decision reyerses
that. returned BY lower courts.
Emperor Yoshihito is better, but the
Empress Sadanoh has fallen i'll from
a cold contracted during her long vigil
at her husbands bedside. Her illness
is not critical, but she is confined to
her apartments.
Lieut.. Leo Sahm of the u. S. s.
Maryland and Miss Edith Cowles,
daughter of Rear Admiral and Mrs.
Walter G. Cowles, will be married in
the ballroom of a Coronado Hotel to-
morrow evening by the Rev. Charles
E. Spalding, rector Of Christ Episcopal
Church.
A.petition asking review of its de-
oision sentencing Samuel Gompers,
John Mitchell and Frank Morrison, la
Dor leaders, to Jail for contempt of
court, was filed withsthe United States
court today by the district supreme
court.
The district supreme court of Wash
ington, originally sentenced Gompers
to twelve months Imprisonment,
Mitchell to nine months and Morrison
to six months. The court of appeals
reduced Gompers' sentence to thirty
days and Mitchell's and Morrison's to
a fine of $500 each.
Out of doors for the first time since
his recent severe illness, Pope Plus
today drove in the Vatican gardens.
He appeared to be in excellent health.
The discovery of plot against the
life of Juan Vicente Gomez, president
of Venezuela, has led to the arrest OF
so persons. According 20 the last in
formation from Caracas, the intention
was to kill the president yesterday at
the horse races at Pariso, a suburb or
Caracas
Rumors of a revolutionary move
ment in Venezuela are current.
The Greek fleet was fred upon to-
day by Bulgarian shore batteries while
passing Kavala, according to Times
dispatch from Athens. Severe fight
ing continued around Salonika today,
but the firing upon the Greek fleet has
greatly distracted attention from that
war center.
That municipal ownership of the
movies prevented the showing OF a
film entitled 1.-The Japanese-American
UTar, OF tho Alhamhra Theater Seat.