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The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-01-26
.Iuices Reported
As Good BY Most
All Plantations

With grinding well under way, few
mills having failed to start, prelimin,
AIRY reports on the quality of the juices
are coming in and all are favorable.
- AS good or better than last year,
is the gist of the comments on the
juices. The majority of the mills
grinding are reporting "better."
summed up, the reports show that
Kauai plantations are producing good
deal better juices this Year than last.
Maui plantations are about the same
with some mills grinding a little lower
than the Others, while Oahu and Ha-
waii report the juices as good as last
year ami in some cases better.
Schacfer & Co. report for their plan
tatlons, HonOkaa and Pacific Mill, ex.
orptiOnally better juices tits year. Alex.
nnd"r Baldwin report all mills grind
ing and the quality Of the Juice hold.
ing up we'll for this time of year.
>iinilnr report is given by Hackfeld e.
Go. all of whose mills have been grind.
mE for some time
BREWER Go. report the quality of
the juices from their mills as much
better than was expected at this time
OF the year and such US to give salts.
faction Bishop Co. report the juices
at Oiaa rs good.
Davies 4 Go. whose mills got away to
a l"'c start, most hcginning grinding
Tins month, report all juiccs rood and
well up to the mark
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-01-26
RAW SUGAR PRICE
BELOWFVE CENTS.
Iefiners Are Unnterested; Buy
inc On Hand To Mouth
Basis


Sugar quotations on the New York
market yesterday affecting the Hawaii
IN basis dropped below FIVE cents
sound, to 4.s0 cents, for the first time
N almost year. The last previous
quotation was 500 cents.
February generally sees decline,
but the month opened promising and
all latest reports by mail from New
York indicated an advancing market
that might boost the price to $50 cents
n pound. '.' ~"
After lowering around 5.36 cents,
$l07.2 ton, all the earlier part of
the month, the Hawaiian quotation be-
gan to slide January Is, when it again
touched the high point of the month,
$50 cents. The next day, the quota
ton dropped to 5.27 cents, and the next
day to 5.205 cents where it held for four
days. This week opened with new
lower price, 500 cents, and late yester-
day came the message of the quotation
at 4.S9 cents a pound or $97.S0 a ton.
The latest explanation of the decline
was message received by Alexander &
Baldwin from its New York house. The
message, however, preceded the advices
of the change to 4.S9, being a wireless
night letter dated Wednesday and re-
porting the market for that day. 1t ex-
plains much, though, of the weak tone
of the market. Tho message follows:
The market is trending downward
and refners are not interested. There
is greater pressure to sell than buy.
Golfers of Cubas for January de-
livery were at sos. Bids were solicit
ed at 500; February delivery at 4.95.
Porto Ricos for January delivery were
offered at SOC. 49, '.,.,n
t'There WIS sale today of Cubas
aA0at at SOC to the Federal.
" /" Rofners high domestic basis is at
6.75. }..... 90, !. .5t.,4,.
"The volume of refined business is
restricted as rcfners are buying on
hand to mouth basis. April option
closing at 3.S7." ~
Hawaiian raw sugars on the way to
market yesterday .totalled 1929 tons.
The Wilhelmina departed Wednesday
with 5000 tons, of which 1900 was for
San Francisco and five hundred was for
Eastern rofneries. OF the Lurlipe's
cargo which is being unloaded at San
Francisco, there were 1885 tons for
transshipmcnt East. - - d. ...s
OF the. Matsouia's sugar cargo, land
cd in San Francisco. on the sixteenth,
1897 tons went East in thirty-nine cars
and probably has not yet arrived. OF
the thirty-nine carloads of the Mat
sonia's cargo, twenty left San Fran
cisco January IT,. seventeen January
IL and two January 10.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-01-26
Holland Production Fiuures

Willett q Gray report the sugar pro,
duction in Holland for l9l5-l6 az. p42..
FOB tons. The consumption for the
ccomPaign year was 1889 tons raw
and 1898 tons refined. Total was
ld91I tons against 1859 tons the
previous campaign. The imports were;
germany, ZOO tons; the United States
ana Cuba, 5000 tons. The exports were
o. ,44o tons raw and IS, 4Gl tons refined,
or which total quantity Great Britain
imported 23,5O6 tons; Belgium, 1896
tons; Germany, II ,537 tons and balance
to other countries. The increase in con
spmStion caused somewhat of a scar
city of sugar in Holland during the last
months Of the campaign.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-01-26
Four More Grindinn

-Four Brewer & co. plantations on
Hawaii reported their mills started
grinding during the last two weeks.
With tho four mills started during the
same Period on Davies I Co. pianta.
lions on Hawaii, where the start was
ate this brings the totai to eight mills
nat lately got under way on the Bic
lshnd. Hilo Sugar Company started
some ten days ago at Onomea' Hakalnn
md Honomu mills began grinding last
week. The juice is reported as exceed.
ing expectations for this season of the
year and very satisfactory.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-01-26
FORESTRY BOARD RAISES G..
PAY OF SOME EMPL DYES

Men who have any connection with
iho cattle business are not qualified for
forest rangers and will not be appoint
ed MS such, according TO decision
reached by the bOard of agriculture
aud forestry at its monthly meeting
yesterday. The commission took the
ground that as eEof the duties of the
rangers isto keep cattle outsof the for
est reserves, ii would be~poor policy to
appoint cattlemen as rangers. The
commission also proposed a few names
for the Raise In Salary Club, the sala-
'ies OF scvRral Of the hoard 3 employees
being raised. Among the fortunate
ones were Joseph Richards, livestock
Edward Drew, dock inspoc-
tor and Manuel Freiias, stableman.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-01-26
DECLINE IN OIL J..
WEAKENS MARKET

Honolulu Oil, slumping downward
from 800 TO 40 in sudden selling
ampaiGn, was the center of interest in
he tracing on the local stock exchange
Yesterday. News Of u similar drop in
he price on the sag Francisco market,
reported to have stdrtcd Wednesday, is
attributed as the chief cause of the de-
cline in the price here, which has been
rising steadily for the last two weeks
On speculative buying, The nature of
he holdings, speculative, found ready
ield for the bearisL rumors that, APP
.arcutly without foundation, caused
ne slump. g.. - ....
The balance of the market, listed
and unlisted, was erratic and without
decided change. 49, ....... ...'. 3. ~
Tanjong Oiuk made the best advance
Of the day, selling for 1000 in small
io5s, iiye AMI half points over last
sale, McBryde gPire,l an .e/hth at
! 80, md stocks without change were
Olau at 1925, Pahang Rubber at 1000,
Pioneer Mill at 4l.00 and Oahu at 81 so.
Waielua lost quarter at 1880, Eva
the same at 1925, and Kahuku nj 1875.
Brew cry. quoted at 1850 bid Wednes-
day, sold for l7.C0 yesterday, a decline
Of one and three-quarters from last
sale. Shares sold were 1425, of which
800 were at the session. y.
Engcls gained back half of recent
losses, advancing to S.l2Ia from 1921.
mineral Products was firm at lis,
Montapa Bingham at 4S cents, and
Mountain King ut % cents, slight
adyupce. :.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-01-26

mp 10 tn" utmost the state 5 sugar pro
durti"n to the old high levels that once
existed. TO the planters this possibility
appears ms n new lease of life"
Porto Rico Is Happy
The outlook is described us favorable
for Porto Rico in comments as follows:
- As prosperous as was 1916 for the
Porto Rican sugar producers, brought
about in the main through the high
prices prevailing during the year"
said +, s. Armstrong, secretary and
treasurer of the Fajardo Sugar Com
pany, "the new year just ushered in,
covering the l9l6-l7 season, will be
even more prosperous if all indications
pointing in that direction are realized.
''The sugar production of Porto Rico
last year was over 4S3 900 ordinary
tons and conservative estimates place
the 1917 production at about 500, 900.
"Of course this estimate may be ex-
coded II little or it may possibly fall
short of this tonnage, the final pr0duc-
ton being entirely dependent on wealth
er Conditions and favorable factors
affecting grinding. 4"
Labor Situation Improved
John Farr, vice-president of the
Central Aguirre Sugar companies, gives
as his opinion that the year 1917 will be
a record one for the sugar industry of
Porto Rico. r- .'...
"Central Aguirre will produce ut
least ten per cent more sugar this year
than it ever has" Mr.. FAIR said,
"and | believe the same is true of the
majority of the other factories in Por-
TO Rico. The crop for the Island is
much larger than last year, and the
weather conditions are continuing high,
~ favorable. r.'..
"Labor conditions have greatly i'm
proved aud in fact all the factors on
which an increased production are
based are at the present time most fay.
Orable. -
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-01-26
CUTS CIVIL SERVICE

BUENOS AIRES, January 24-The
new radical government has begun IL
Wholesale Gurtailmcnt Of the civil ser
vice In the Argentine, and il is declared
that without prejudice to the interests
Of the country the service Of go many
persons have been dispensed with and
bureaus eliminated that the economy
will amount 10 some $6,000,000 year
Unemployment is so general AZ pre-
sent IN the Argentine, that emigration
TO Brazil has become active Tho gov
crnmcnt C0nsiders the situation so
alarming that il Is now compiling q
general census Of the unemployed.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-01-26
Rain Does DAMAGE

The effects of the cloudburst Sunday
in the Hilo district on Hawaii were
felt on some Of the plantations. A
number of fumes we're washed out on
Onomea and Honomu, and some little
damage was done 10 the cane, but moth.
ing serious, according to reports to
Brew or q Go. The rainthad no harm.
full eject at Hakalau nor on the Hilo
side of Onomea. Pepeekco suffered
Enmp Off,. ... -. =.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-01-26
Sugar Tariff Raise
Is Needed To Meet
Government Deficit

Reporting that the contemplated plar
to increase the tariff on sugar will prob
ably take the form of half cent 0
pound higher duty, the Washington cor
respondent of Facts About Sugar gave
the following account of the govern
ment financial situation under date OF
January 4. ...
The imperative necessity of devising
methods for greatly increasing the fcdc
raj revenues during the coming isca
year is causing officials of the treasury
department and Democratic members OF
the ways and means committee of the
house of representatives to give con
sIdsratioh to the possible sources from
which additional income can be dc,
rived.
The drift of sentiment is strongly
in favor of a bond issue to cover a
large part of the tremendous deficit
that 'confronts the Government. Accord
ing to the estimates of congressional
leaders this will amount to something
in the neighborhood of $500, 900, 900.
If bond issue is decided upon, every
item Of expenditure that can be set
against it with any approach to consis.
teney will be charged up to this nc.
count. Among these items will be in,
eluded the cost of the enlarged naval
program, the purchase price Of the Da.
nish West Indies, aud other appropria.
tiOns aggregating 5000 100000. :.
This will still leave n gap of $780,
900, 900 between estimated income and
expenditure to be closed sby tariff du-
ties or direct taxes. Congress only
recently doubled the income tax rate,
and 1t Is felt that any further increase
in this direction is out of the question
Congress likewise repealed the special
"war taxes" because of the widespread
dissatisfaction with them, and the un-
popularity of these stamp. and excise
taxes, except on liquors and tobacco,
makes members generally unwilling to
consider them. " ~.
AS practically the only remaining re-.
course, consideration has turned this
week to an advance in the tariff on
sugar and to the possible imposition of
moderate duties on coffee wool and
rubber, as well as some other articles.
Suggestion emanating from majority
leaders in Congress have turned dis
cussiou into this channel within the
past few days. While the proposals
have not taken definite form, il is
tentatively suggested that the duty on
sugar be increased from the present
rate of one cent pound to n
cent and half. II is pointed out that
this will provide Approximately $685.
600 600 n wear of additional reycnuo
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-01-26
Jamaican Mills Grlndlnu

All of the sugar factories in the isl
and of Jamaica have started the grind
ing season. If the weather continues
favorable il is expected that the 1arg-
est crop in the history of the island
will be secured. Jamaicans are report,
cd TO be investing heavily in American
made mill machinery.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-01-26
Davies Mills Grindinu

-Four Davies & Co. plantations started
grinding this month before the iif-
tecnth. They were; Ha'awa, January
o; Kukpiau, January III Kaiwiki, Jan
nary II, and Waiakea, January 10;
Niulii Il not yet under way, but IS OK
peeted 10 begin any time soon. Juices
are all reported good.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-01-26
Machinery Shipments Delayed

Freight congestion in bottoms to the
Orient is hnmpering the shipment of
machinery by the Honolulu Iron Works
20 customers in japan and Formosa
-Four Seafby shredder installations are
being made by the local firm in For
mosa, and all were ready to ship
Wednesday on the Venezuela. Space
was found for only half the consign-
ment
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-01-26
Federal Bureau Gives Figures
On Hd,Oaiia,, Sugar Production

Statistics compiled by the
of agriculture the production
statistics by tabular rs ,
u . 5
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-01-26
Pepeekeo 10 Start

Brewer & Co. reports that Pepeekeo
will start grinding Monday.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-01-26

The Of
ducton at 59263
22l9
The yield 10
2l yield
O pounds
r. w"
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-01-26

cided that rations Of sugar for the
French people shall be one pound and a
half for each person month after Feb
ruary |. Nowly increased duties are
imposed of 3.95 cents per pound on all
raw aud refined imported for direct
consumption, and like amount (prob
ably in addition) on raws destined, for
refining. - VIA.
Statistics show very poor beginning
70 the beet campaign 10 Russia, pro.
dpciiqn boirR very small because Of the
small number Of available faetodes To
work and shortage Of beet deliyeAies,
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1917-08-23
Attorney General Gives Opinion.

The authority OF peace officers and
county road patrolmen TO enforce the
several provisions of the new road law
mas Just been set forth in an opinion
by the attorney general in reply to
query from Chairman A. ID. viii.
liams, of the state road commission.
AS a general proposition" Attor.
ney General England says, "sheriffs,
deputy sheriffs, constables, justices of
the peace. and like officers are con.
servators OF the peace. and as such
have all the common law authority of
peace officers to make arrests for
crimes or misdemeanors committed
In their presence.
The specific question asked of the
attorney general related to the right
OF these officers to arrest, without a
warrant, persons driving motor We
hicles lthout license or without
lights, or doing anything else which
would be violation of the road law.
That they have this right in regard to
offenses committed in their presence
Is declared in the opinion
THE authority of the road patrol
man, the opinion continues, "is not
so clear as that of sheriff and like
elected officers who are made con.
servators of the peace by statute
However, the provision of the road
law which says such patrolmen shall
have general police supervision over
all roads within his magisterial dis.
trict' would seem to indicate that il
was the intention OF the legislature
to make him kind of policeman, and
L am inclined to the opinion that he
would have the right as a police off.
Ger to arrest persons violating any
provisions Of the road laws for which
penalty is provided in the nature OF
punishment, or where it is a mis-.
demeanor, without warrant, and take
the offender before a justice OF the
peace for trial"
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1917-08-23
CANADIANS Win AT LOOS
HAIe CAPTURES HILL 20 WHICH
DOMINATES LENS.
advance on Two-Mile Front North OF
Lens to Depth of
One Mile.


London.-Lens again is the center OF
the nghting on the western front. The
Canadians have taken Hill 20 domin.
ating the city from the north and are
within the city itself, engaging the
Germans in desperate fighting at close
quarters, after an extreme advancing
on a two-mile front to an extreme
depth Of one mile.
For several weeks the Canadians
have slowly been closing I'M their lines
on the west, northwest and southwest
In preparation for a supreme effort TO
place this center OF the coal fields of
the Pas de Calais in their possession.
Hill 40, Just east of Loos and north of
Lens was the great stumbling block.
Then the Canadians stormed the hill.
The splendid effort was successful and
within few hours the important posi-
tion was cleared of Germans. The Ca
nadians swept ON toward Lens from
the northeast, capturing several sub
urbs and entering the western part of
the city. The Germans tried desper-
ately to check the Canadian advance,
but five counter-attacks were in vain.
While suffering only slight casualties
themselves, the Canadians inflicted
heavy losses on the Germans and cap
tured close to 800 prisoners.
The British official report on this
fighting follows:
Canadian troops stormed German
positions south and east of Loos on a
front OF two miles The formidable de-
lenses on Hill 20, which resisted our
attacks in the battle of Loos in SEN
tember, 1915, and had since been i'm
proved and strengthened by every
method and device known to our enc
mics, were carried by assault.
After storming the enemy's first line
rench system on the whole OF the front
attacked, our troops advanced as far
as the western defenses of Cite st. Au-
gust, penetrating the German positions
to depth of about a mile. Besides the
elaborate series OF trench lines and
strong points forming the defenses OF
Hill 20, the villages Of Cite st. Eliza
beth, Cite st. Emile and Cite st. Ian.
rent, as well as the base wood and the
"N"N~AA AoAA VI the I1uBO wood are
now in our possession. All our obiec-
t'ves were captured. Our casualties
were slight.
During the day FIVE hostile counter
attacks were repulsed by our infantry
or broken up by our artillery. One Of
these was carried out by troops OF the
division OF PrussIan guards. The
enemy's losses both from our attack
and his unsuccessful counter-attacks
were heavy.
In Flanders the intense artillery
hghting goes on with undiminished
vigor. The infantry has been more
active. but except for the French. IS
engaged only in raids. On the Dix.
nude road. the French pushed for.
ward and succeeded In realizing con.
siderable progres. Artillery duels
have occurred on the French front
from St Quentin to the Swiss Dor.
der.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1917-08-23
FEDERAL ARMY REORGANIzED
AMERICAN FORCES WELDED ON
LINES URGED BY PERSHlNG.
Regiments Enlarged, While Depart
ment Commanders' Powers
Are Shorn.

Misunderstanding orders just is-
sued finally dispose not only OF the
complete reorganization and co-ordi-
nation of the National Guard and
regular and national armies into a
harmonious war machine, but an
nounce the personnel of all camp and
brigade commanders and chiefs of
staff for the National Guard camps
and the national army cantonments
A complete shuffling and reassign-
ment Of many OF the elder general
officers and virtually all of the Major
Generals and acknowledgements re-
Gently created is accomplished to pro-
vide division commanders for Nation
al Guard camps and the sixteen can
tonments of the national army.
Among those transferred is Major
Gen. Leonard Wood, who Is sent to
command the Eighty-ninth Division OF
the national army at Camp Funston,
Fort Riley, Kan.
Major-Gen Clarence Edwards, re-
Gently withdrawn from the Canal
Zone and placed in command OF the
new Northeastern Department, is
shifted to the command Of the Twen-
ty-sixth Division, National Guard, to
be in camp at Camp Greene, North
Carolina
Major-Gen. Franklin Bell. the new
commander of the Department OF the
East, will be in command of Camp
Upton at Yaphank, l.. L., where the
New Workers in the national army
will be trained.
Major4Gen. Liggett, commanding the
Department OF the West. will COM
mand tho division at Camp Fremont,
Califorr
Major-Gen. Barry. Central Depart
ment. will be In command at Camp
Grant. Illinois.
Major-Gen. Kuhn. chief OF the War
College division, General Stan. will
command the Seventy-ninth Division.
at Camp Meade. Maryland. Gen.
Kuhn has been prominently mention
ed as In line for Chief OF Staff in the
near future.
Major-Gen. John F. ORyan, Of New
York. will command the Twenty
seventh Division National Guard at
Camp Wadsworth, S. G.
The reorganization OF the army con-
forms with European standards as
recommended by Major-Gen. Pershing,
The administrative unit of the in
fantry arm hereafter will be a COM
pany with $50 enlisted men and six
commissioned officers. in place Of
something over 100 men and three
officers The company will be divided
into four platoons, each in command
OF a Lieutenant There will be two
Captains as first and second in com
mand, one First Lieutenant and three
Second Lieutenants.
The object OF assigning two Cap
tains to each company is to provide
against disorganization OF the unit
through the loss Of its commander.
The second Captain under the Euro
pean system. does not 20 into battle
line with the company II his enior is
present.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1917-08-23
PITH OF THE
WAR NEWS

The Allied armies advanced on a nine
mile front east and north Of Ypres,
al objectiVes being gained. The
British captured the village Of
Langemaroh, but we're forced back
on General Haig's right flank.
italian airmen bombarded Austrian
steel works and railway centre. in
flictine considerable damage
The British consolidated their gain
In the great battle raging In BEL
aium and held all their newly
won positions In the face Of des-
perate counter attacks by the Prus-
SLAMS.
Lieutenant General KornnoH. com
nandiuq the Russian armies. pre-
dleted another winter campaign with
vast Teutonic operations against the
Rumanian front.
Paris opinion Of the pope's peace pro-
posais termed them short-si a1ted
and unstable as q guarantee Of a
permanent peace, while economical
ly unfair 90 the Allies.