The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-03-06
BREVITIES
lFrom saturday Adyer.lser.l

Steamship Company, was continued In
the federal court yesterday until next
Tuesday, when argument will be heard
Tony Bettencourt was arrested last
night and held for investigation. He
is accused of having bitten the fingers
OF Dora Correa, a seventeen'year-o old
Portuguese girl, so severely that she
had to be treated at the emergency
hospital.
Charles R. Forbes, chairman Of the
board Of harbor commissioners, is
working on plans and figures relative
to an anchorage system for Pier s. He
says he will present the plans at a
special meeting Of the board next Tues.
day night. 2 ~ ~ w..
The Honolulu Automobile Club at a
meeting yesterday endorsed the plan
of taxation calling for three and a half
mills on the dollar for Improvement
of roads in the city and county. Speak
ers endorsing tho plan were Supervis-
or Arnold, Judge Ashford ard W. R.
Harrington. s5ls, -....,
The newly appointed Japanese eleve.
consul, X. Mural, will arrive here to.
morrow on the T. X. X. steamer Korea
Maru. Mural is graduate from the
Toxic Higher Commercial School. K
Fujii, who has been ordered to the
consulate at San Francisco, will leave
here soon after his successor'S arrival.
The territorial grand jury yesterday
afternoon returned indictments in The
cases of Holo and Hu, two youths from
the reform school, charged with burg
larry; and Oscar M. HUMPHREYS, an ex-
soldier, charged with dynamiting a
dwelling-house on Liliha Street, a
couple Of weeks ago.
An affirmation of the supreme court
of Hawaii's decision Ju.y - in the
case of Walter w. Scott, etc, ct al,
plaintiffs, versus Mary N. Lucas, de.
PENDANT, which gave judgement to the
plaintiff, has been received here from
the United States circuit court of ap.
peals, Ninth District, San Francisco.
Picanco & Comes, the contractors on
the Hillebrand Glen water project, will
not be allowed to work their men more
than eight hours day, as they re-
quested of the Oahu Loan Fund com.
mission. They contended that scarcity
of labor constituted an emergency. At
torney General Stainback rendered an
opinion to the contrary.
Theo. H. Davies 4 Co. have put in
claim on the city for $7S, the cost
of replacing a plate-glass in their es-
tablishment on Kaahumanu Street
which was shattered by a shot fred
by Police Officer Manuel Gonsalves on
January 5. Gonsalves shot at boy
who had escaped from the reform
school and who had refused to stop
when called on. So e.,
David Kanewa, aged forty, died at
Queens Hospital yesterday, from
pneumonia. The autopsy revealed the
fact that his heart, liver, appendix and
other organs were misplaced by nature,
being on the opposite side of the body
to what is generally, the case. The
case excited considerable interest
among local doctors, and many ply
sicians visited the morgue yesterday.
The Lord Young Engineering Com.
pany was the only bidder for the con.
struction of five reserve storehouses,
steam and electric railroad connec.
tions, street paving, surface drainage,
water supply and sewerage disposal at
Fort Shafter, sealed proposals for
which were opened yesterday at the
Office of the construction quartermas.
ter, U. s. A. Its bid was $203,559. Be.
fore it is awarded the bid will have
to be sent to Washington for approval.
Lau Hoon, who was tried and con
victed in the circuit court of Kauai on
a charge of bribing police officer not
to arrest che ia gamblers, is entitled
to new trial, according to an opinion
handed down by the supreme court
yesterday. The order of the lower
court sentencing the defendant to pay
a fine of $500 and costs is reversed and
the case remanded. The supreme court
bases its opinion on the ground that
the evidence failed to show that a
game of che ia was going on,
(From Sunday Adyertiser.)
Edward Francis McGrew, residing at
1928 Kinau Street, was bitten by dog
yesterday afternoon, and was treated
at the emergency hospital.
Bert Mel can, formerly assistant man
ager of the Shattuck Hotel, Los Ange-
les, is assisting in the Office of the Mo-
ana Hotel.
While attempting to get on a street
car near Pier 7 last night, F. Kokichi,
a Korean, missed his footing and fell
to the ground, injuring his right hand.
He was treated at the emergency hos.
pital. e. ....''.
Lee Ma Chong, charged with assault
and battery; s. X. Kimona, Ng Gee,
All Young and Chun Hoon, charged
with having che-fa tickets in posses
sion, and All Chong, were arrested yes.
terday, the latter, held pending inyesti.
cation. ..... -
z William Kahanamoku was taken to
Queens Hospital yesterday morning
suffering from having inhaled the
fumes of d heavy black paint with
which he had been painting the inside
of an iron tank in the workshops of
Cation, Neill & Co. He was reported
doing well last night. &..........
Early yesterday morning Motorcycle
Officers J. G. Branco and s. X. Fer
Teira took several shots at a man who
had made an attempt to enter the
store of Sam Lee on Vineyard Street,
opposite Queens Hospital The rear
window of the store was found to have
been broken.
M. J. Serpa and A. Jackson were
both somewhat severely cut on the left
arm yesterday morning, when a sheet
of plate glass which they were install
ing in a store on Nuuanu Street near