The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-03-02
cBREVITIES
From "wednesday Advertiser.)

From Wednesday Advertiser.)
w. X. Luther, board of health in
spector, was yesterday charged with
gross cheat. o.
Yesterdays arrests included: John
Ava, Nicholas Ramos, Pentalion Jauo,
l.. ,Mateo, David Hawaii, George viii.
libms; Chas. Bettencourt and Park Dol
Sung, investigation.
George Cyphen, an employe of the
Hawaii Meat Company, while working
at the slaughterhouse yesterday, nearly
severed his left thumb, and was treated
at the emergency hospital.
Ching Wong was arrested by Deputy
Marshal Otto Heine yesterday, at Waia.
lua, and charged with having opium in
possession. His place was raided by
Customs Inspector McNicoll last Sua,
day. g.. '.r.n,s
The supervisors win order Fire Chief
Thurston TO wash down the downtown
streets occasionally, not only for exer.
else, but also on account of complaints
constantly received by merchants and
storekeepers Of dust. =
At last nights meeting of the board
of supervisors, among resolutions which
raised first reading was one TO the eff
feet that $4,000 be appropriated from
the permanent improvement fund for
the account known as CONSTRUCTION of
a concrete road and concrete retaining
wall on the Pail Road =.
A report was read to the supervisors
last night showing that the receipts Of
the district court last month amounted
to $3.50. Arrests numbered AS, con.
victions 377, discharges l05 and de.
PENDANTS held to answer %. Eighty
one Of the defendants were Japanese,
20 Hawaiians and IS Chinese.
One of the best evidences of the fact
that Hawaii has a charm of its own as
tourist resort was the return on Tues.
day of Mr.. and Mrs. A. A. Moore, of
Marshalltown, Iowa, who are here to
spend their twelfth winter. Mr.. and
Mrs. Moore are again occupying the
apartment in the Young which has
been theirs for each successive winter.
The supreme court handed down an
opinion yesterday granting the plaintiff
motion for a new trial in the case
of Nellie T.. Hustace versus J. X. Davis
and James Bicknell, defendants, and
James Bicknell, auditor of the city and
county of Honolulu, garnishee. The
case was an action against the principal
and surety on builders bond, in
which there was verdict for the plain
tiff against the principal but in favor
of the surety. The plaintiff appealed
on exceptions.
..4 (From Thursday .Advertser)
c. w. and Hilake Cross have filed
petition in the circuit court to be-
allowed to adopt Lucky Crvss, a male
child Of the age of thirteen months.
Z Yonekura, general manager of Sac.
gust store; r. Mkt, proprietor Of the
Hinode Maearoni factory, g. Nakamura
of the Bishop Saving Bank and Doctor
C. Uyezu returned to Japan with their
families yesterday on the shinyo Maru.
They will stay in Japan for seyeral
months I'M
Edith Ferdipant has fled suit for
divorce from Theodore Ferdinant on
grounds of extreme cruelty. She
charges that her HUSBAND beat her,
threatened her with pistol, called her
vile names, and communicated to her a
.losthsome disease, the result of his own
infdelities. . .. ....s4..a .sH O., .1.
9. X. Aona, who recentlg resigned as
clerk of Judge Whitney Is court to en-
ter the employ of the law firm of Smith
& Warren, of which Judge Whitney will
become a member when he leaves the
bench, did his last work yesterday as
clerk of the court. Judge Whitney, it
is stated, will not quit the bench until
bis successor is appointed. The sue
eessor has been nominated but not con.
frmed. ..