The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-12-05

costs so cents. This week the bakers
caught the bug and boosted the price
of bread from 10 to II cents for small
loaves and from Is to Is cents for
large ones.
Planters Meet Next Week-The an
nual meeting of the Hawaiian Sugar
Planters Association will be held in
Honolulu commencing next Monday.
The most important business to be
transacted will probably be the matter
of wages and bonus to be paid the
plantation laborers during the coming
ear.
Warehouse To Head Planters
John Waterhouse, manager of Alexan-
der & Baldwin, is slated to be the
next president of the Sugar Planters
Association. He is now vice-president
and will succeed E. H. Wodehouse, the
present head of the organization. The
annual meeting will be held next
week.
Baby Lion Born-Queen, the big
female lion at the Kapiolani park zoo,
gave birth to a cub last Sunday. Every
effort is being made to save the little
animal, which seems to be doing nice
ly.
Cattle Starving In kohaIa-Lack of
feed on account of the prolonged
drought is causing the death of many
cattle in the Kohala district of Ha-
wall, according to reports.
New Hotel For Hilo-The Lycurgus
brothers are planning to build a new
concrete hotel in Hilo to cost $500 1000.
1t will be a 3-story building, and will
be one of the finest in the territory.
Hunting Buried Treasure-Many per
sons are said to be digging up the
country side in Kohala, according TO
the Hilo Post-Herald, in effort to
locate $1,000 which is supposed to have
been hidden by K. Kamaunu, an old
Hawaiian, who died recently. The
man was supposed to have much
money, and had told of being robbed
shortly before he died.
Japanese Hangs Self-Yoshino To-
rakichi, a Japanese laborer of Waia-
kea, Hawaii, last Thursday %strangled
himself to death by tying his ODE about
his neck, fastening one end to the wall
of his room, and then drawing his
feet from the floor. He had been i'll
for a long time.
Crater CLOVIS From Depths-Al-
though the fire pit in Kilauea volcano
is now 500 feet below the general level
of the crater, the fires still glow in
the bottom, according to reports from
visitors. The collapse of the volcano
has made many changes in the topo-
graphy of the crater, and it is said
that it is not safe to approach very
lear the crumbling sides.
Lived 8 Years With Broken Back
Alfred Silva, of Kaiwiki, Hawaii, died
in the Hilo hospital Wednesday even
ing of last week from injuries receiv-
ed over 8 years ago when a platform
on which he was standing collapsed,
and he fell about 100 feet. The acct
dent occurred during the ceremonies
attending the opening of a new sugar
mill at the Kaiwiki homesteads.
Gambled Savings, Suicides-R. Ia
nabe, an employee of the Lihue Plan
tation Company, Kauai, hanged him
self last week after he had lost all
of his savings in gambling. He left
a wife and several children who
escaped from the house when he
threatened to kill them before he
ended his own life.
Postal Official Arrested - On a
charge of embezzling public funds j.
X. Nushida, assistant postmaster at
Manuawai, Oahu, was arrested this
week and will be brought before the
federal court for trial. Nushida is
accused of embezzling $574.68 from
the p%ostOfice.