The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-05-14
On The Other Islands


School Bills Observation-Disclosures (
principals and a committee of the
Honolulu chamber of commerce have
discussed proposed legislation for the
benefit of the department of eduCa-
ton. The committee did not favor
charging tuition to aliens. The prin-
cipals said that they heartily favored
the unrestricted free public school
system, but do not approve of the
private language schools.
Balloon Companies on Ground-In
command of the two balloon com
panies which arrived on the Logan
last week for duty in the Hawaiian
department, are Capt. i. w. Felt and
Capt. r. Koenig. There are 1853 and
164 men in the companies, respective
ly. One will be at Fort Shafter and
the other at Fort Ruger.
May Revise Pension-School pen
sion laws may be revised TO give
pensions to all teachers, who have
served 20 years in the Territory and
who may retire because of physical or
mental inability. This recommended
ton will be made to the school COM
m]issioners by the supervising princi-
pals now in session in Honolulu.
Mullet Will Not Propagate-Because
the fish will not mature its eggs, eff
forts of the territorial fish and game
commission to propagate mullet have
resulted in absolute failure, according
to the report made to the commits
sion by its expert, Prof. II. l. Kelly,
who has been in the Islands several
months and has carried on exhaustive
experiments on the Big Islands. The
commission, however, will continue it's
efforts to discover why the eggs Of
the mullet do not mature, whether il
is on account of some disease or Of
conditions which may be peculiar this
year and which may not occur in the
future.
Alibi Corroborated-William Ester,
negro, who served 10 years in Oahu
prison for the killing of Togo Jack
son, in Honolulu, in 1900, and who was
accused of the murder of William
Reinhear in Cincinnati, on August 3,
1908, will be liberated on the latter
charge when a certified copy of his
prison record here, prepared by At
torney General Harry Irwin, has been
received back east. Ester told the
mainland authorities he was in pris-
on in Honolulu when the murder was
committed in Cincinnati, and they
wrote to verify the facts.
Prof. Joseph F. Rock of the College
of Hawaii has resigned his chair Of
botanist and will leave the Island al
the close of the present school term,
The resignation has been accepted by
the board Of governors Of the institu-
ton. Professor Rock has no present
plans for the future, he said yester-
day.
Many Japanese Depart-Figures,
tabulated at the federal immigration
Office for the first four months of
1920, ending April 80 show that 400
japanese departed from Honolulu for
Japan. In the corresponding period
in 1919 the Japanese departures num-
bered 1922. The total number of de
partures for Orient ports from Homo
lulu during January, February, March
and April was 2117. During this first
quarter of 1920 $50 aliens arrived
Honolulu, but few were JapaL-
They We're principally Filipinos.
Hawaii To Send 8 Swimmers-Ha-
wall is certain to send at least 4 swim
0ners to Antwerp for the Olympic
-ames. That is the opinion of Homo
lulu winning circles. Some think
that the Islands will even have the
opportunity of sending four. Duke
Kahanamoku is regarded as a GER
tainty for the 100 meter event; War
rem Koaloha is regarded as another
ertainty. Certainty of the third man
divided between Ludy LANCER and
w. Harris, Jr.
KiIauea Pit Filling U~p-AccOrding
0 recent reports from Hawaii the
alter Of Kilauea is filling up rapidly
h lava and the central crag mass
low but 20 feet below the rim of
pit. The lava column subsidized
raj hundred feet a few months
,gineer Moragne ~Resigns-J, H.
Oragne, for the past II years or
more county engineer for the county
of Kauai, has resigned to take a
place as chief engineer on Kauai for
the American Factors interests. He
will have charge of some extensive
water developments. His place as
county engineer will probably be TAX
en- by Robert Middleton, who has been
ssistant engineer under Mr.. Moragne
e some years.
<amehamehs Boy KiIled.-Frank
Jpencer, cowboy at the Parker ranch
on Hawaii, received a wireless n
nounciug the death Of his son, Fran
els, in an automobile accident in
Kansas last week. Young Francis
was ]timekeeper at Paauhau plantation
for some time before going to Kansas
last year to take up the study Of
automobiles. His parents had receiv-
ed favorable mgntiOn of his progress
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