The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-05-12

and maintain the aforesaid buildings
for the use of the United States post
Office, United States custom house, and
other governmental offices at Homo
lulu.y .. .-.......o &.sa'. .g-... re.
Elsewhere the petition recites:
90 That il is the intention of your petit
TONER in good faith TO erect and main
tain the building for which, as herein
alleged, the said tracts and parcels of
land, with their snid appurtenances, are
herein sought to be acquired and con.
demned. That all preliminary steps re
quired by law have been taken and
exist, to entitle your petitioner to i'm
stitute these proceedings
The prayer of the petition demands
that II may be adiudged that the pub
lie use "herein above alleged requires
the acquisition by condemnation 60
your petitioner of the aforesaid tracts
and parcels of land, together with their
Maid aPPurtenances, in fee simple alb
solute, for the public uses and pur
poses hereinabove specified, upon pay
ment of such amount as may be award
cd claimants into the registry of this
court for di disbursement thereafter 20
the parties found by the court entitled
thereto, and that this court determine
oil claims, and all adverse and con
hfctiug claims to the said tracts and
parcels of land and their appurte-
naHees, sought TO be condemned here
IN and the compensation or damage, if
any TO be awarded for the taking of
the same; and that your petitioner
have all its proper and necessary costs
and disbursements herein; and that
your petitioner have such iother and
further relief as may be proper. -
Fhe petition Is signed by s. B. Kemp,
assistant district attorney, for the
United States. In the oath which fol.
lows Judge Kemp says thar he has
been duly and regularly authorized to
bring this action by the Attorney
General of the United States.
The condemnation suit is brought in
the name of the United States, plain.
tiff, against the William @. Irwin Els,
tate Company, ct al, defendants.
The parties defendant are William u.
Irwin Estate Company, California
eorportiOn; Claus A., and Rudolph
Spreckels, trustees of the estate Of
Claus Spreckels, deceased; Claus A.,
Rudolph, John d., Ad0lph B. Sbreck
els, Emma @. Ferris and her husband
) ohm Ferris; William 7. Rawlins and
his wife Jane s. Rawlins; Mrs Vie
toria Ward, widow; the Territory of
vail; the City and County of Hon.
olulu; the unknown heirs at law of
Mary Godstone, Kanakaiki, w. J. Ku,
Alapai w, Kekuaihe (k(, Kaaialau,
Koma, Ramahana, Kukuilau, Nua,
l.ono, Kapeka Keawemahi, Kamahana
(w), Keohokii (k), Kaepa (k), Kaai.
lau (k),, Joseph Keohokii Jr., Kauoho
wv, kakalia (k), Kahaiao, Lapaki,
Pele, Naopae, Loke IVY, P. Nahaolelua,
Fanny Young Kekelaokalani, Kalo,
deceased; The Queens Hospital, Ha.
waiian corporation; Kalaina Opio; the
unknown heirs at law of Kaihe, Ioune
II, Loki wv, Luiki (k), J. w. Keola,
II. May, Pupule, Makaioulu, Wahi.
neaea, Albert Kunuikakea, Kalama
wv, w. Kalama, Kaauwaiaina wv,
Elena, keOna Ana, John Young, James
Young, Fanny Naea, Grace Rookie,
Jane kae, George Davis, Sarah Davis,
Belly Davis and Mary Kuamoo. de-
and John Doe, Richard Row,
Mary Black and Jane Blue, known
owners and claimants.
Opera House To Go
The petition makes Idain that the |
Four last mentioned "unknown owners
and CLAIMANTS are fictitious names,
and are meant to represent owners |
md claimants of interest in said pro. |
1erty, true names of whom are un- |
SnOwn to this plaintiff and petitioner"
The Royal Hawaiian Opera House |
building and other structures now eX- |
sting within the confines of the Irwin
Site will, when the United States has
occurred full and absolute title to the
premises through the condemnation suit
instituted yesterday, be sold at public !
luctlon and the purchasers given a spe-
'ihed time within which to remove
hem.
1t is not expected that this suit
Will take as long a time and be as
trenuOusly contested as were the suits
or the condemnation of the Mahuka
site, which includes the block bounded
" King, Fort, Merchant and Bishop
trects. The government threw up the
dahuka Site some time ago, when it
lnally decided to acquire the Irwin /
ste, which forms part of " hut is called
he Civic Center of Honolulu. for the
proposed milliOn-dollar federal build
ng.
Since the Treasury department of the
nited States decided on the Irwin Site
or the federal building, District At.
orney Vaughan, assisted by his then
Ieputy c. G. Biting, and the present
assistant, Judge Samuel b. Kemp. have
ePn at work on the abstract Of title
nd the petition for ondrmnution.
Both the petition and abstract of title
we're sent to Washington for the APP
roval of the treasury department. This
pProVal having been given, the petit
ion was filed in the federal court yes.
erday.
Service of the summons on the W. G.
irwin Estate Company, the Claus
'Preckcls Estate and the individual
lombers of the Spreckels family will,
Rely, be made in Honolulu on former
Governor Walter F. Frear, whom it
' understood, is acting under full
over of attorney to treat and deal
nth the United States government in
he matter of the condemnation of their
lterests in the Irwin Site.
Answers to the petition are fully rX-
ected TO be filed within the twenty
avs allowed by law. At any rate. the
nit is, y is understood, friendly one.
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