The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-07-13
KAPPA IS MAKING
\. PLENTY P|L|kIA
Homestead Lands That For
Years Have Caused Trouble
Are Again In LimeIight

kapaa Is making more pilikia for
every one concerned, Just as Kapaa
has done from time beyond the MON.
ory OF the oldest inhabitant, and prob.
ably long before that. Kappa made
trouble for George r. Carter, when he
brandished the big stick from the Gov.
ernor 9 chair in the Capitol buiIdibg,
and kapaa made trouble for, Walter
Frear, when that gentleman was chief
executive Of Hawaii. Indeed Kappa
was one Of the chief things the then
secretary of the interior, Walter Il.
Fisher, wanted to know all about in
his famous investi cation during
Frear's administration. Kappa made
pilikia for Governor Pinkhnm only
last year, and now it is making plenty
pilikia for the homesteaders who drew
the lots, the acting land commissioner,
Walter Engel, and promises to stretch
the matter out quite handsomely with
efficient pilikia to last until B. @.
Rivenburgh returns from the mainland
and resumes the reins of office.
when the land drawing was an
nounced for the Kapaa homestead lots
and the date set for July 3, IL was
whispered about town that there would
be trouble, and sure enough there ives.
First there was q mix up more or less
mysterious over the notices of the
drawing and five hundred and twenty
nine of them went of by order Of Mr.,
Engel, acting commissioner, addressed
to Miss Bernice Hundley, sub.agent for
the land Office at Lihue. But some
how they got lost in the shuttle and
though the remaining notices of the
seven hundred and eighty odd were
sent and arrived without trouble, that
first batch has not yet turned up and
great has been the turmoil ia the
Garden Island over their absence.
Letters not nice IN their language
have been hurled at the heads Of the
officials in the land office, wanting to
tnow what the blazes--or words to
that general heated effeet-has become
of those notices and when. the double
blazes they might be expected.
Then came another mix up. Mayor
Lane and Mrs. Lane and not a few
other married couples, including Mr..
and Mrs. Loane, Of this city and No.
30, in the recent drawing, found that
though successful drawers of numbers
they were unlucky when IL came to
dealing with the snarls of the law sur.
rounding the. homesteads on these
smiling Isles. The acting land com
missioner, after consulting with the
acting attorney general, announced that
III your wife participates in a drawing
you can I. He quotes nasty decision
dated back before the war, in 1913,
that says in part: d." t..'
$50 far as the question Is concern.
ed, this department is of the opinion
that husband and wife cannot both
participate in a drawing for public
lands, and where they do so that
their applications and the lots or
chances they drew should be rejected.
Section $50, Revised Laws, after de.
fning the qualifications Of applicants
provides further: L.,
Further provided that no applica.
ton of married person whose wife
Or husband owns land other than one
acre of wet land In her or his own
right in the Territory of Hawaii, or
who is an applicant for land under
this chapter shall be received or con.
sidered unless the marriage status of
such person has been affected by a
decree of annulment, separation or di-
vorce. ....t,-s. .,,r...,
In consequence Mr. Engel has an.
nounced that the couples who fancied
that they had lot coming, in reality
have nothing. Mrs. Loane. fails to
see the matter in that light and ycSter.
day it was announced for her that her
attorney, Judge Lindsay, is going to
file suit to see what the courts think
of Engcls decision based upon the
opinion of the acting Acknowledgment.
The formal petition in the ease was
filed in the circuit court by Judge
Lindsay yesterday afternoon, and
brings up to date the history of Kappa
pilikia. ra S..s}Fs5 ..,ls