Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-08-21
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Harmony Chapter, No. 4. o. E. s..
viii have a regular meeting tonight
at 7:3 o'clock.
There win be special meeting of
Damien Council. No. $50, Young
Mems Institute, In C. B. U. hall. Fort
street, tomorrow evening at $50 a. m.
The case of Mary Foster against
Charles T. Wilder, a matter of tax
appeal, was settled in Circuit Judge
Stuart's court today by an agreed de-
cree.
A report on the street today is to
the effect that Japanese hui is ne
gotiatfng for upper Spencer street
property with view of building dwell
ing houses.
Tenders will be opened at noon in.
the Office of the superintendent of pub
lie works next Tuesday for the con-
struction of the new territorial mar.
ket building.
A declaration Of intention to become
an American citizen has been filed in
federal court by Emilio Martinez, a
laborer and4a native Of the island of
Luzon, Philippines.
The case OF Capt A. F. Cassels, 1stl
Field Artillery, against Charles T. VIII
der, tax assessor for Oahu, suit for
Injunction, has been submitted to the
supreme court on questions of law.
The case was to determine whether
the assessor may collect taxes on auto
mobiles which are on government res
ervations on the first of the year.
Since August 1, % actions for di
yorce have been filed in the Office OF
the clerk Of the circuit court. The fol-
lowing suits were filed yesterday:
Thomas II. Mackenzie against Mrs.
Eva Mackenzie, Sam Kauhini against
Mrs. Kalauluolani, Mrs. Kaaihookano
Ng zee Tsick against Ng zee Tsick,
and Shimayo Hashimoto against Maso
Hashimoto.
The first appointment under the re.
Gently enacted law for the appoint.
ment of commissioners Of deeds in 9TH
er states and In foreign countries was
made yesterday when Thomas William
Hebron, q brotherin-law Of w. o.
Smith of Honolulu, was named COM
missioner for California. His offices
are in the Lick building, Montgomery |
street, San Francisco.
Stfpulations have been filed in cir.
cult court giving the defendants in the |
following cases until September 8 to
answer the complaints brought against |
them: Emma Forsyth Rumsey against |
the New York Life Insurance Com |
pany and Benson, Smith & Co., an ac-
ton to reform an instrument and de- |
clare trust, and the Territory OF Ha- |
wall against the Bishop Estate trustee, /
eminent domain.
The first dnen air mass meeting to
arouse interest In the coming city
charter convention will be held to.
night under the direction Of P. Hookii |
at Aafa park. Mr.. Hookii is a Home
Rule delegate to the convention and |
1t is reported that he will speak on
behalf Of a proposal to return to the |
old territorial system of government
for Honolulu and to abolish the pres
ent county system.
. After two whole weeks of delicious
liberty, Hawaiian boy, IA years old,
will be returned to the boys industrial |
school. According to j. Christian An
derson, probation offieeH the young
ster escaped from the school and was
able to stay away much longer than
the average youth who makes get
away Anderson rounded up the boy |
today and will take him back to the
school. u,
Friends of Sen. James L. Coke have
received letters from him in which
he iaughingly refers to the story in a |
Redding, CAL paper, republished in
the Star-B Bulletin, referring to him as
the owner of the largest pineapple /
plantations in the Hawaiian islands.
Coke says he met a reporter at Red
ding but the subject of pineapples
wasn't even mentioned. He adds that
even if he had pretended he owned a
pineapple plantation he would be en-
titled to credit for modesty in view
of the fact that most of our Honolulu |
friends upon landing on the coast iu-
sist upon being written up as, owners
of at least one sugar plantation.