Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-01-09

Plant Christmas trees now, Is the
advice OF the territorial marketing
division. Small evergreens planted
in pots viii be ready for market i'll
1915 or 1916. it is said.
Lei Aloha Chapter, Order Eastern
Star, meets this evening in Masonic
Temple for installation of officers.
Visiting members of the order III the
city are fraternally invited TO attend.
Four penalties OF three years i'm
prisonment each were imposed upon
Tsukuda, alias Nakamura, indicted for
burglary, by Judge Ashford today. The
sentences are concurrent, however, so
that the service of one means the
service of all four.
The Trail and Mountain auto-bus
will leave the Promotion Committee
rooms at $50 tomorrow morning for
Kaneohe bay. Those who wish may
join the excursion, Ae return fare in
Guiding lunch, being 81 80. There will
be boating, hiking and swimming.
AS a precursor to year of heavy
court business Circuit Judge Thomas
B. Stuart this morning fixed dates for
the trial of 81 civil and equity cases.
There are already pending in the third
division Of the first circuit court
total Of 26S civil and So equity suits.
Withdrawing his former plea of
guilty Yakabayashi Sekitaro a Japa-
nese, this morning entered a plea of
innocence to the Indictment for assault
and battery with a deadly weapon,
recently returned by the territorial
grand jury. His case is set for trial
next Thursday.
The final accounts of Claude Buff
felt, administrator of the estate of
Marie Orr Buffet, were approved by
Circuit Judge Whitney today and the
administrator discharged, his bond be-
ing cancelled. At the same time he
was appointed guardian of Helen VAR
Buffet to serve under $1,000 bond.
Judge Whitney today appointed ].
M. Dowsett administrator of the es-
tate of H. H. Renjes, succeeding Eliz-
abeth Renjes, who now Is residing in
Germany and consequently has resign
ed from active responsibility in
handling the estates affairs. The estate
is estimated at approximately $4,000.
An additional deputyship having
been created in the local internal rev.
enue Office, owing to the increased
work in that department, Luther A. K.
Evans, who returned recently after
an absence of Ia mouths on the main
land, has been appointed as deputy
collector. Mr.. Evans was formerly in
the local revenue Office. :. >.......
Circuit Judge Whitney, Deputy At
torney-general Leslie P. Scott and the
attaches of Judge Whitneys court will
hold court at Hilo for a week or more
early next month, taking evidence in
the land case wherein Charles A.
Brown seeks to register and confirm
title to an acreage in the Crescent
City having total assessed value of
$4,000. ."... -:...Y...
Members ef the Young Peoples
league are requested to be present at
the X. of p hall this Sunday at IL
o'clock a. m. for their annual business
meeting and the installation of new
officers. All the associate members
and their friends are cordially invited.
There will be no religious service ex-
cept the Bible class at 10 o'clock
a. m.
Mystic lodge No. and William Nc
kinley lodge No. 8, Knights of Py-
thias, will install officers in the lodge
hall, corner of Fort and Beretania
streets, at 1880 o'clock this evening.
The ceremonies will be public and will
be followed by dance, for which a
large number of invitations have been
sent out. During the exercises the new
charters Of the local lodges will be
unveiled. Ed ToWse and G.. NJ. V.
Forster will deliver the addresses.
Liber Nakai and Manuel L. Orne;-
las, indicted by the grand jury this
week for manslaughter as a result of
two automobile accidents in which
two persons were killed, were granted
reservation of their pleas by Judge
Ashford this morning. Nakai will
plead next Saturday morning at
o'clock and Ornellas next Wednesday
at the same hour. They have been
released under $1,000 bond each.
Pleading guilty to assault and bat
terry with a deadly weapon Juan Ignz
clio this morning received a sentence
OF three years Imprisonment by Cir
cult Judge Ashford Ignacio was in
dieted by the grand jury.
A petition for naturalization as an
American citizen has been filed in the
federal court by Harold Joseph Aver
Ill, native of Huntley, England
Theodore A. Simpson of Leilehua
has filed a petition for adjudication in
bankruptcy in the federal court The
petition shows his assets to be $l14.50
and his liabilities $95763.