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The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-09-03
MARSHAL
ROBBEDBY 7RUSTY'
Prisoner Helps Himself To Opium
Stored In United States
'Edivence' Room
Continued from Page Two)


small rIrticles OF opl4m,-TNo, Hong
kong, say experts-much to the as
constituent Of Mr.. Jarrett.
"And that had been going on right
under my nose and | didn't know
thing about it," High Sheriff Jarrett
said yesterday.
Put to return to the main story.
Weisenberger was interrogated. He
parted; didn't know that hat had been
"IOaded.'
chums Break Down '''"'
His chums, the fellowiprisOners, were
called on the carpet and by gentle and
oth"r means the high sheriff got them
to talk
They admitted that for some time
past Weisenberger had made it prae-
tise to hand over to them small guam
titles of opium, which they had been
attempting to dispose of.
Seeing that his chumA had gone back
on him, Wcisembcrger came through
with the story. He told the high sheriff
dope. He had stolen it from the Unit
ed States marshal and the latter not
even then was wise to his Loss.
Jarrett did not like the looks of
things. To think how the prisoner and
his rhums had duped him was calling
in he extreme. The high sheriff had
prided himself that his was indeed a
model institution. He had tried hard
since he took charge of the place to
make it so.
The high sheriff lost no time in set
ing whatever wheels and machinery of
government were at his disposal and
command. He made an immediate APP
pOintment by telephone with the mar
shall and shortly afterwards the officials
were eloseted together. The sheriff told
hia story and the marshal listened, wide
mOuthed and astounded.
E idcnce Room Scare he'd
The evidence" r0om, wherein,
among other things, there is stored
from time to time opium taken from
persons arrested, was searched. 4 TIN
Of opium was found missing, The con
tainer was there, but the contents had
vanished. The explanation was easy.
WeisenberEer had, undoubtedly, gain
ed access to the room and helped hint
self from time to time tf-ts -
1t was then and there decided that
MI ger - pOIlOh 40 "
trusty" should terminate Immediate.
". It did. for WeisenbsrgeTr has been
in the lock up ever since it was dis,
covered that he had blOssomed into an
opium merchant, got the goods for
nothing and, to cap it all, struggled
them into prison from the Office of the
United States marshall $50. - we
Prison ONO ials Startled ..a -.
Jarrett next took the affair up with
the attorney general and the members
of the prison board. The attorney gen
eral is the recognized head of all ter
ritOrial prisons and under him in re-
sponsibility are the three prison com
missiOners. They did not like the looks
of things and lost no time III saying
no, although they made haste to assure
the high sheriff that in their opinion
he could not be held to blame for the
occurrence.
When caIIrd up on the telephone yes
terday George s. Curry, United States
commissioner, said that all this was
news to him and he expressed consider
able ast0nlshment over the smuggling
of opium into prison.
The marshal was not at home when
The Advertiser called him up. He was
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-09-03
GOTHAM EXCHANGE
ISBADLY CRUSHED

th.fo.iated Press by Federal wirslsss.l
NEW YORK, September Tx
change is patalyzed as the result Of
The drop in the English pound.
Pankers claim that a curtailments Of
the heavy European buying orders is
inevitable If the British buyers are re-
quired to pay five per cent premium.
They will place their orders else
there, say local fnanciers.
Pounds dropped to $3.50 today, but
alter rallied to $4.55.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-09-03
GREAT GERMAN DRIVE
IN WEST ANTICIPATED
Kaiser Reduced Forces In East
To Relieve ConstantinopIc

LONDON, September at is re!
ported from Petrograd that there are
only 2,OO0,OOO Austro G Germans on the
eastern front. II this be true it means
that the Kaiser lis Withdrawing large
numbers of troops for his anticinated
offensive on the western front, and in
Serbia in the interest of the relief OF
beleagured Constantinople. Heavy
bombardments on the western front
lend color to the report that an often
sive will be undertaken by the Ger
mans there.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-09-03
The Usual Becloudinq

A PPARENTLY Charley Achi is lighting alone
IA to create an understanding among the fIa-
waiiars of'the principle Of the short ballot" and
he is reaping the abuse of the Hawaiian Demo
cratic and Home Rule press for his pains. Mr..
Achi appreciates the fact that The question has be-
come one of politics now with the opposition
sedulously attempting to becloud the FACTS and
mislead Just as The Advertiser announced some
months ago would be the plan. Unfortunately
this becloudng of ssucS and miSstatement of facts
generally succeeds in Hawaii, and probably will
again. AS usual, too, those in a position to have
started the question off properly amongst the Ha
waiian voters have started too late
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-09-03

. A. P. Taylor has made good publicity agent
on the Coast and acting secretary OF the promo
ton committee and his selection as permanent
secretary of the body is proper and logical step
Mr.. Taylor will have the opportunity now Of work
ing out to completion some of the good ideas he
has advanced in his temporary occupation Of the
secretaryship
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-09-03
Was One of Few Remaining
Props of Old FeudaI Sys-
tenn In Japan

(Associated Press by Federal wireless)
TOXIC, September |. Marquis Kao.
ru Inouye, one Of the Elder Statesmen,
died here today Of nephrits. He was
eighty years of age.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-09-03
M0NARCHlCAL IDEA
SPREADS IN CHINA

ASSOCIATED Press by Federal Wireless)
PEKlNG, September 2.-The mon
alchical sentiment in China is spread
ing rapidly. The Monarchists' Society
is sending out broadcast petitions ask
ing President Yuan:shikai to declare
himself emperor. The opposition for
the present has been stihed.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-09-03
SLUMPs HELP GOVERNMENT

WASHINGTON, September 2.-The
depression in the exchange market is
resulting in big profits to the govern
men5 in international money orders.
The profit is estimated at thirty seven
cents a pound sterling.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-09-03

AMSTERDAM, September Aus.
tria has issued a rule fOrhidding hPr
subjects in neutral countries to work
in munitiOn factories. The punish
ment is twenty years imprisonment
or death in some cases.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-09-03

We move that before the Washington admins
tration starts in to settle up affairs in Mexico it
settles up the trouble that has moved across the
line into Texas.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-09-03

There will even be those mean enough to sheer
at the news Of the failure of the Arabic attacker TO
report
Wonder if those who hear about the strikes and
explosions and fires in the various ammunition
plants Of the country ever think that, in view of
the international situation, the blows being struck
are not wholly aimed at the Allies but arc treason
able blows against Uncle Sam?
Gilpin observer., 1915-02-11
Widow Gets $1,000 for s,o.

Boulder, Colo.-Mrs. Julia Warner,
sevenvty-five, a widow, decrepit and in
such dire circumstances that she was
about to become county charge, re-
ceived check for $4,000 from w. A.
Wells, an attorney of New York city,
which will keep her in comfort the
rest of her days. The check, which
was signed by a. J. Turner, reveals the
story that twenty years ago Turner
had quarrel with his father hotel
keeper in a New York suburb. and the
boy wanted to go West His father
refused to give him funds and the
young man appealed to Mrs. Warner
for aid. She lent him $40. and he told
her il fortune favored him he would
pay back every cent, with compound
interest.
Gilpin observer., 1915-02-11
SPORT.

The Indianapolis American Associa-
tion team will do most of its spring
training at San Diego, Cal.
Injuries suffered in a basketball
game at Wichita Falls, Tex, caused
the death of Cortez Waggoner, high
school student.
Ad Wolgast, former lightweight
champion, and Cy Smith of Hoboken,
N. j., boxed a twelve-round no-decis-
ion match at Columbus, Ohio.
Jack Johnson will reach Juarez for
his fight with Jess Willard, according
to assurances given by the promoters
of the battle at Ell Paso, Tex.
Adoption of a schedule for 1915 by
the Western league has been post
poned) pending the outcome of the
negotiations concerning the Topeka
franchise.
Jack Callaghan, the young racing
driver, was injured in 1OO-mile motor
car race at Ascot park at Los Angeles.
William T. Chaffin, widely known as
horse breeder, died at his home at
Columbia. Tenn. He was the breeder
and owner of Hal Chaffin, Direct Hal
and Walter Direct.
Gilpin observer., 1915-02-11
WESTER RN.

One hundred and fifty master max
ers of the Pittsburg district decided
TO raise the price of bread.
Felix Miller and Charles NJ. Acrey
men on the prairie on horseback near
Carlsbad, N. NJ. and, following quar-
rel over school lands, opened fire at
each other, Acrey being killed.
j. J. O'Leary of New York, presi-
dent of the American Truth society,
denounced England, pleaded for Ger
many and ridiculed the United States
at mass meeting in Chicago, under
the auspices of the American Neutral
ity league.
For seven years Ida Weinstein lived
AS benjamin Rosenstein and posed as
.he husband of Pauline Rosenstein.
Benjamin" died at Chicago and the
physicians and undertaken who were
called in discovered the secret, Ben
janin was 26 years old.
Col George II. Smith, personal at.
lorney of Pho Pico, last of the Mexi-
can governors of California, and later
a Judge of the District Court of APP
peals when the Southern California
district was established, died at Los
Angeles. He was 81 years old.
That Colorado and Wyoming drop
the water litigation in which the two
states are involved is a proposal re-
sulting from the visit of Colorado of
ficials and legislators to Cheyenne. II
is being considered by Governor Carl
son of Colorado and Governor Ken
drick of Wyoming.
Gilpin observer., 1915-02-11
FOREIGN.

The price of maize at Hamburg has
risen to $3.50 bushel wholesale.
For the first time since the earth
quake drinking water is available In
Avezzano, Italy.
Three hundred bodies have been
taken from the ruins of houses at San
Ia Natolia. demolished in the recent
earthquake. In addition, sixty-seven
of the. $50 persons injured have died.
General Carranza. in a telegram
from Vera Cruz, denied that he had
issued any orders for the execution Of
four American officials of the South
ern Pacific railway of Mexico in So
nora.
Military orders have been issued
prohibiting speculation in food or
other necessaries of life under penalty
of court-martial. Since this regulation
went into effect artificially advanced
prices have fallen % per cent.
The Rech has published dispatch
from its special correspondent at
Odessa, who declare that according to
news reaching that city from Turkey.
famine of corn is imminent in the
Turkish empire and. Furthermore, the
government is urgently in need of
funds.
The Federal council has adopted a
regulation giving municipalities power
to require all residents to make known
the amount of flour in their possession
and to appropriate all amounts over
twenty-five Kilograms. Orders have
been issued that no pastry may be
baked.
The situation remains acute. If the
supply of food is diminished Belgium
will starve." ihis message was cabled
from London by former Congressman
Charles F.. Scott, of Kansas, who is
returning from an inspection of relief
work in Belgium and France, to for
mer Governor Walter r. Stubbs of
Kansas.
A Rome dispatch says Red Cross
workers in the earthquake ruins at
Palermo heard faint means and on
delving into the debris excavated a
man named Calrolo, who had been i'm
prisoned for twenty-five days. The
man, who is SO years old, had had
nothing but some water during this
time. He was uninjured and when
taken in an automobile to the nearest
town was able to alight from the ma
chine without assistance.
Gilpin observer., 1915-02-11
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS.
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT.
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF THE WEEK
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
ABOUT THE WAR.

The Overseas News agency an
nounced that a syndicate composed OF
German, Austrian and Hungarian
bankers had advanced $3O,OOO,oUO to
Bulgaria.
The London official press bureau
has made public an official dispatch
received from Cairo which states that
the Turkish army is In full retreat
eastward.
The Introduction of the largest mill
tary budget in the history of Great
Britain shared the stage in the House
of Commons with a discussion of the
activities of the official press bureau.
The British steamer Lusitania of the
Cunard line. which sailed from New
York Jan. 80, and arrived at Liverpool
Saturday afternoon, flew the American
flag from the time she passed Queens
town until she entered the Mersey.
Germany officially gave out the full
text of the memorandum of the i'm
1erial German government concerning
retaliation against the measure taken
b., England, in violation of internation-
al law. to stop neutral sea commerce
with Germany
In France and Flanders the war sit
uation is without change. Both sides
are alert for the slightest indication
of activity on the part of their oppon-
ents. The British and French are un-
ioubtedly taking advantage of every
days delay to throw in reinforce
ments.
Kaiser Wilhelm sacrificed almost
the entire First division of his army
i'll futile attempt to reach Warsaw,
according to dispatches from the bat
tie front in Poland. This organization
was sent in massed formation against
one of the strongest lines of Russian
entertainments and its losses in dead
we're $1,000 men. THE Division of
Death was the name the Germans
gave to brigades which were ordered
10 make this desperate attack, because
the men realized that few would be
left alive. The repulse is regarded as
the turning point in the latest advance
on Warsaw.
Gilpin observer., 1915-02-11
GEN ERAL.

In proclafnatio, designating Feb.
IL as Lincoln Day." Governor Walsh
of Massachusetts urged that the day
be one of prayer for peace.
Convicted of drunkenness and dis
turbing the peace. two women were
sentenced by Judge Brady of Kansas
City to wash dishes for ten days at
the free soup kitchens.
One saloon opened for business in
Naco Sonora, within the toss Of bot
tie from the site of the principal bar
room at Naco, Ariz., which was closed
when Arizona went dry New Year day.
At least two indictments for murder
are expected by Coroner James p.
Dunn in connection with the alleged
killing of eight aged inmates of the
German Odd Fellows Home at Yon-
kers, N. Y, the coroner declared.
After hearing the testimony OF three
witnesses who discussed the influence
of the Rockefeller foundation, the Fed
eral Commission on Industrial Rela-
tions adjourned it's hearings in New
York.
resolution calling on the leaders
of the parties now engaged in the war
In Mexico to terminate the strife and
unite for the good of the country was
passed by the Mexico peace confer
ence held at San Antonio, Tex
Col. Charles Alexander, Rhode Is
land millionaire. indicted on a charge
OF white slavery at Chicago, was given
another two weeks m which to plead.
Alexander's Indictment followed
charges made by Jessie Cope OF Cali
fornia, The woman has since been in
dicted on n charge of attempting to
bribe federal official.
Mortally wounded by pistol shot.
Kihara, japanese section foreman,
used the last of his strength to set
a torpedo on the tracks q? the Sal.
Lake route near Milford, Utah, to save
the eastbound Pacific Limited train
from possible wreck.
Charles Gordon Emery, second,
under his grandfathers will, filed at
Watertown, n. Y, will inherit $50, 900
at the age of 80 II he abstains from
tobacco and intoxicants in the mean
time. He is 10 now, and Is said to be
of good ha >its. He is the son OF Fyauk
Emery. the principal legatee.
Gilpin observer., 1915-02-11
Senate Passes prohibition Penalty

Denver.-The prohibition penalty.
Senate Bill No. 80. by Senator Peter
sen, was passed in the Senate on third
reading. and is now ready for consid-
Grafton in the House. 1t went through
with virtually no opposition, the fight
having been made and settled In com
mittee of the whole. II Is considered
certainty the bill will be enacted in
the House practically as passed by
the Senate. 1t was drawn by the Anti.
Saloon League, the W.C.T.U. and the
Wholesale druggists, and approved by
Governor Carlson.
Gilpin observer., 1915-02-11
WASHINGTON.

Germany's proclamation OF war
zone in the waters surrounding Great
Britain and Ireland. contrary to first
reports, does not include the seas di-
rectly adjacent to any neutral coun-
tries in Europe.
Informal discussion by President
Wilson with his German advisers of
the dangers to which neutral ships
may be subjected in the newly pre-
scribed war zones around Great Brit
ain and Ireland, and ne use by the
liner Lusitania of the American flag,
foreshadowed a diplomatic correspond.
pnce between the United States and
both Great Britain and Germany. re-
spectlvely, on these questions.
The Belgian legation issued state
ment denouncing a tax imposed by
Germany upon Belgian refugees who
do not return to the country by March
/. as confiscation in violation of The
Hague convention.
by the provisions of the naval ap-
preparation bill. which passed the
House and the use of the money real
lied from the sale of the old battle.
ships Idaho and Mississippi to Greece,
the United States will have s7.705, 900
more available for new warships this
year than was authorized for the build
ing program In 1914.
Gilpin observer., 1915-02-11
UNITED STATES RANKS HIGH
Percentage Of IlIiteraey Compares
Well With Those Of Other coun. I,
tries Of the World. &

In the United States the percentage
Of illiteracy is TT for the total popula-
tion lover ten years of age) and for
the native white population. In Den
mark, Germany. the Netherlands. Swe-
den. Switzerland and the United King
dom the percentage Of illiteracy Is
lower than that for the native white
population of the United States. Doubt.
less the list should also include Nor
way. although no figures are available
for that country; but in the other Eu-
ropean countries the percentage OF
illiteracy is higher than 1t is in the
United States. and usually very much
higher. In Bulgaria 1t Is 65 per cent:
In Greece 20. in Hungary 33. In Italy
81. IN Portugal 50. In Roumania 81.
in Russia 50. In Servia 10, and in Spain
IS. There is less illiteracy in Aus
tralia than in the United States. but in
all other non-European countries the
percentage of illiteracy is in general
very high.
Gilpin observer., 1915-02-11
LACK OF MONEY
CLOSES STORES
MEXICO CITY BUSINESS PARA.
LIVED FOR WANT OF "oF-
FIClAL" MONEY.
POOR NEED ASSISTANCE
cARRANZA DECREE NULLiFIED
CURRENCY ISSUED BY zAPArA
AND VILLA.
Western Newspaper Union New. Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
Washington.-Bu Business is paralyzed
In Mexico City because Of the DEGREES
of Carranza which have "nullified" the
currency issued by the recent Zapata
and Villa administration
Banks and the principal stores are
closed. If assistance is not at once
given to the poor, most serious conse-
quences may be expected.
Advices to the State Department are
that Carranza is shipping supplies out
of the city and that articles" of prime
necessity are daily getting scarcer."
Reports to the State Department
show that the Zapatistas are growing
stronger daily around Mexico City, and
tnat they are expecting to be joined
very soon by large forces of General
villa, which have left lraquato and are
marching on the capital 1t is expect.
ed the moment this junction is effected
Mexico City will again be in the hands
of Generals Villa and Zapata.
A dispatch from Vera Cruz says that
General Villareal, who has been ac.
eused of cooperating with Villa, is still
in Jail at Mexico City.
The American embassy at Mexico
City will not go to Vera Cruz on the
invitation of General Carranza, who
has asked all foreign diplomats to &c
to that point.
General Villas announcement of his
assumption of the executive power.
In Mexico was confirmed in official re.
ports to the State Department from
George c. Carothers, American agent
with Villa, and by Enrique C. Llorente,
representative here of General Villa.
Advices concerning military activity
In Mexico received by the State De,
partment told of the recent defeat of
Carranza forces at Monterey.
Gilpin observer., 1915-02-11
$4,000 BAIL is FIXED
FOR TWO LABOR LEADERS AND
$1,000 FOR OTHERS.
Second Report of Grand Jury Sitting
At Walsenburs Returns More
Murder Indictments.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
Walsenburg, Colo.-The second and
final report of the special Huerfano
county grand jury. called to investi-
gate violence growing out of the
strike in the southern coal fields. was
returned. The return was made by
Judge Watson McHendrie at the first
regular meeting of the February term
of the District Court.
1t is said that a large number of in
dictments have been found ranging
from simple assault to murder. The
report was not made public.
The first report of the special grand
jury was returned Jan. 20. AS a re-
suit, thirteen men. including Eli Gross.
vice president. and Charles Hickey.
secretary of the Colorado Federation
OF Labor, were taken into custody on
indictments charging the murder OF
Mai. P. p. Lester. 1t was said that $50
strikers and sympathizers were in
dicted in this first report.
Application for the release of the
fifteen prisoners was made at opening
of the February term of the District
Court by attorneys for the prisoners.
Deputy Attorney General Frank C.
West declared he had no objections to
the men being admitted to bail.
Judge McHendrie accordingly fixed
the following bail for the fifteen men
held under indictments and issued
scale for the issuance of bail on all
men arrested under the indictments in
the sheriff's hands.
Eli Gross, William Hickey and
Charles Haines. bail fived at $4,000.
John Burke, Philemeno Marquis, J.
c. Curtis, Jeff Graham, Tom Wilson,
Enoch Muir, c. NJ. Hulsey, Leonard
Collins, Villa Wootton, Arthur Woot-
ton, Tom Westbrook and George Con-
der, $1,000 each.
Gilpin observer., 1915-02-11
state Report Clears Hugo Mystery.

Denver. - Asphyxiation from coal
gas. which accumulated In the room
because the damper of the coal stove
had been left closed during the night,
was the cause of the deaths of Frank
LaLone, his wife and four children, ac-
cording to report by John Lynch,
state pure food commissioner. and his
inspector, Fred Long. The case OF the
six persons who were found dead in
their beds about two weeks ago near
Hugo, is one OF the most unusual ever
dealt with by the department