The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-01-05
BREVTTfESI
(From "wednesday Advertiser

yesterday as second clerk in Judge
Coke's division Of the local circuit
court. ss
Joseph Leal, boys probation officer
has in his charge at the detention home
two orphaned spanish boys who are
looking for homes. nt ..
The enrolment atlthe opening Of the
government schools yesterday is be,
heved TO- have reached 32,500, accord.
ing TO estimates given out in the Office
of the board Of education. 1885,. p.
The collections of the Honolulu wa.
ter department during the year just
ended exceeded those for the year pre-.
vious by $17,94g.29. For 1916 the total
was $2O7, O2S.97~Bnd for 1915, $780,.
| O79.6S.
Rev. Father Vietorinus Claesen Of
the Catholic Cathedral performing the
service, Manuel Silva and Miss Anna
Luque were married last Sunday, the
witnesses being Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
H. Curtis. ~. ~ .
Funeral service for the late Mrs.
Cecilia Nelson Arnold were held at
three o'clock yesterday afternoon in
williams undertaking parlors. The
ashes Of the deceased were inferred in
Nuuanu cemetery.
The territorial schools began the sec.
ond term Of the school year yesterday,
with an enrolment greater than ever be-
fore. st. Louis College, Oahu College
and the Catholic Sisters schools Of
Fort Street and Kaimuki will open
next Monday morning.
The trial jurors have been summoned
to meet in the federal court at ten
clock this morning, there being three
Chinese opium cases on the calendar
for trial. It is likely, however, that a
special Venire will be ordered, in which
case the trials will be continued to to-
morrow. H..
To provide for the absence of the
chairman from the Territory, the public
utilities commission yesterday adopted
a resolution directing public utility
corporations to address all communities.
tions in the name of the commission
instead of to the chairman of the com
mission. The resolution was offered by
Commissioner Garden, '...
From December 8, when he took Of,
fee, until December 81, last, Judge
Cook granted twenty.one divorces and
denied two, making a total of twenty.
three cases he heard. The grounds for
divorce we're: statutory offense of hus-
band, one; cruelty of husband, six; de-
sertion Of husband, FOUR desertion Of
wife, seven, and nonsupport, five. =.
(From Thursday Advertiser)
Owing to the suicide of H. Miyake
his petition for a writ of habeas corpus
has been dismissed in the federal court.
Miyake was to have been deported to
Japan. .'~O
Young Kong Lum fled application in
the federal court clerk IS Office yester-
day for a passport. He expects to
leave in the China Mail s. s. China
on March Is on a pleasure trip to
China.
During the past year Judge Whitney
granted 100 divorces and refused six.
Those granted divorces were forty.five
citizens and sixty-four aliens. Those
refused were four citizens and two
aliens.
The Punahou department of music
announces the second faculty musicale
of the year 19l6-17 to be held in
Charles r. Bishop Hall the evening of
February third. The program will con
sist of selections for two pianos and
piano and violin. -,
In order to relieve congestion over
its wires during fire the Mutual Tele-
phone Company has asked the super
visors to install silent system for fire
alarms. 1t also suggests that the
whistle announcing the. arrival of
steamers be discontinued.
Changing his former plea of not
guilty to one of guilty, Judge Clemens
yesterday senteAced Chu Gun, charged
with having opium in possession, to
spend an hours time with Marshal
Smiddy and to pay thirty.seven dollars
and ninety-fve cents as costs of court.
A declaration of his intention to be-
come a naturalized citizen of the Unit
ed States was filed yesterday in the
office of George X. Clark, clerk of the
federal court, by Gustav Tegge, fire.
man, residing at l20 Kukui Street.
Tegge was born on June 8, 1890, in
Dambek, Germany.
n W SdlOOns III hawaii
will be introduced in the coming legis.
lature by Senator Charles F. Chilling.
worth, according to an announcement
made by him yesterday, Chillingworth
says he is not in favor, however, of
stopping the sale of liquor by hotels
and cafes, providing it is sold with
actual meals. ....
Articles of association were fled
with the register of public accounts
today by members of the Tanjong
olok Rubber Company. The capital
stock is 100000. The incorporators
are Il. H. Wodehouse, C. r. Hemenway,
Fred Waterhouse, +. G. Anterior, F.
B. Damon, H, T. Hayselden, Robbins
Anderson and G. +. Rankin. '~
Mrs. Magdalena de Jesus, widow,
eighty-six years old and a. resident of
this island for forty years, died yester,
day at her late home in Kalihi-uka
Funeral services will be held at ten
o clock this morning in the Townsend
undertaking parlors, the interment to
be in the Kalihi-uka Catholic cemetery
The deceased was native of the Isl
and of Madeira, Portugal. She is sur
yived by son and daughter Ct,