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The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-05-21
Big Party OF Trail And
Mountain Club Coming

Between-oo-..-l~40 members of the
Honolulu Trail & Mountain Club have
made reservations for the excursion
which the club has planned to Maui
and the top of Haleakala, according
to information received this week
from Honolulu.
The party is to arrive by the Clau-
dine on Saturday morning of next
week, May 20, After breakfast the
crowd will start at once for Olinda by
Automobiles, and from there to the
top some will walk and others are to
ride horses. The plan is to spend
Saturday night, Sunday and Sunday
night on the mountain, descending
into the crater on Sunday. The trip
back is to be made on Monday, and
the party will leave for Honolulu by
the Mauna Kea from Lahaina on Mon
day night.
The promotion committee of the
chamber of commerce has had the
matter in hand of preparing the rest
house for the party and in other ways
making ready for their coming.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-05-21
Man Hurt By Cycle
Employer Not Liable
Accident Board So Holds In, Case OF
Filipino Badly Injured By Motor
cycle Ridden By Policeman -
County May Pay.

Is the county liable for damages
cSlsed by motorcycle policeman's
running into pedestrian on the pub
lie road?
m eeting of the industrial accident
board last Tuesday. The case in
question was that of a Filipino labor
er of the Hawaiian Commercial &
Sugar Co., who, while on his way
home from work was struck by Il
motorcycle driven by Officer Kama
Apo as he was crossing the public
highway at Camp 8. The board de-
cided that the employer was not to
be held responsible for the accident
since the employee had finished his
days work and was not even on the
employers premises when the acct
dent happened.
The injured man, whose name is
Alejo Urminita was crossing the
road just ahead of truck which was
headed towards Wailuku, when the
motorcycle coming in the same direc-
tion swung around the truck, the rid
er apparently not seeing the Filipino
until too late to avoid the collision,
Apo says he was running about 25
miles an hour. He swung in front of
the truck in order to avoid running
into on aut Aoohila DOMINO in the on.
DOsite direy ion and about to pass the
Ths NIstained very badly
broken the Puunene
hospita, physicians are not
certai' hey can save it. In any
event ,nds to be badly crippled
for The opinion has been ex.
press. by some that the county will
be held liable for damages under the
circumstances.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-05-21
Brave Boy ReScues
Girl From Drowning
Lily Newton Gets Beyond Her Depth
At Kahului Beach But Is Saved By
Joe Sentinella Aged 13

A hundred or more bathers at Ka-
hului beach last Sunday witnessed
near tragedy and sterling bit of
heroism in the rescue of a drowning
girl by 13-year old boy.
Lily Newton, the 16 year old daugh-
ter of r. Newton, of Kahului while
bathing, stepped off shelf in the
bottom into water beyond her depth,
and being unable to swim was in
imminent danger of being drowned.
She screamed for help but more of
those who heard her paid little at
tention thinking that she was merely
joking. But Joe Sentinella, a school
bo. Vlso of Kahului, grasped the seri-
Gus IS of the situation and without
hesitation plunged To the struggling
girls rescue.
That the danger was cry grave one
is evidenced by the f, ethat the boy
was dragged under the surface several
times before he succeeded in getting
the girl into water shallow enough for
her to help herself. He was handicap
ped by the fact that she is much
heavier than he as well as stronger.
Both were exhausted when they final
ly reached the shore the girl being
unable to speak for some time.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-05-21
Buys New Automobile;
Wrecks 1t On Way Home

Manuel Mendes, Jr., of Kaupakalua,
borrowed a few hundred dollars from
his father to purchase a fine second
hand Ford car which he had spotted
in Lahaina. He started home with
his purchase last Tuesday morning to
show the old gentleman what bar
gain he had picked up. But alas for
hopes! Before he reached Olowalu
the beautiful car was a dismal pile of
wreckage.
How it happened young Mendes can
not explain, but the car rammed into
the parapet of a concrete bridge near
the silicate quarry, smashed several
wheels, the crank case, and various
other things. Mendes, who was driv-
ing, escaped injury, as did a friend
who was riding with him.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-05-21
Foreclosure OF Island :
Electric Ready To Start

Wade Warren Thayer, trustee
the bond holders IF the Island Elec-
trio Co, is expected to arrive from
Honolulu tomorrow morning to file
the foreclosure proceedings in the
local circuit court in accordance with
instructions of the bond holders some
time ago. 1t is understood that Mr..
Thayer has finally got the papers
ready in the matter.
Pending a decision on the fore
closure proceedings the court will be
asked to appoint a receiver to have
charge of the property, and TO keep
1t running as a public utility, and this
position will probably be given to ].
C. Blair, the present manager, by
stipulation of the two sides.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-05-21
County Laborers To Get
70 Per Cent Raise June |

Road laborers for the county of
of wages beginning June l, according
to a resolution adopted by the board
of supervisors at it's meeting last Fri
day. This means that most of the
day laborers of the county will re-
ceive SO. instead of $3.50 per day as
at present.
The matter was brought to the
boards attention by a petition from
the Lahaina district laborers for a
raise to $3.50 per day. There We're
also quite a number of informal COM
plants and appeals for more money
from other districts.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-05-21
MAUI ELECTRIC PLANS
AWAIT NEW PROPOSAL
Subscribers To New Concern To Have Chance To
Pass On Plan OF Hawaiian Electric Proposal
New Being Awaited From Honolulu COncerl---
CoM, Electric Plant Idea Has Support

The matter of NV electric COM
pany for central Maui l-'s been practi-
cally at standstill duriL the past
week, although it has been he sub
ject of general discussion among -esi-
dents of Wailuku and Kahului. A.
result of the meeting of the Wads
worth committee held last Friday af-
ternoon at the Baldwin National Bank
with j. F. Fenwick and H. w. Marvin,
representatives of the Hawaiian Elec-
trio Co., of Honolulu, it was decided
to hold the steps for organizing the
proposed Maui Electric Co., Ltd, in
allegiance until a definite proposition
can be made by the Honolulu con
cern. This is expected within few
days.
When this .sopusal is at ldn4 -;
the purpose to call a meeting of the
subscribers to the new company and
to place the matter before them for
decision.
At Fridays meeting the situation
was gone into in considerable detail
Mr. Fenwick stated that he was not
empowered to make any proposition
to the community on behalf of the
Hawaiian Electric but had come to
find out the sentiment of the Maui
people and that if this is favorable
to take back an invitation for his
company to enter the field.
The sentiment of the meeting was
that the partial organization of new
Maui company should remain intact
until the full terms of the Honolulu
proposition could be learned, and that
the sentiment of the people of Maui
generally, and particularly the sub
scribers for stock in the new company
should be the final determining factor
1t was stated by the subcommittee
which has the matter of organizing
the Maui Electric Co., in hand, that
although no solicitation has beer
made since the Saturday before, the
subscriptions had increased from
$4,000 to about $4,000.
Meeting Is AmicabIe
Last Fridays meeting was entirely
amicable The arguments in favor o
the Hawaiian Electric Company's com
ing into the field were first that the
communities of Wailuku and Kahulu
would be afforded prompt relief where
as new company under the best o
circumstances would require a yea
or perhaps two years to secure thu
new machinery needed owing to the
extreme difficulty at the present TIM
in getting orders for such machiner!
filed. The Honolulu company woulC
be able to do this through temporar!
installation of surplus machiner!
which it has available in Honolulu.
Other reasons advanced were tina
the Honolulu concern would enter tht
field with the Wailuku-Kahului serv
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-05-21
Sugar Reaches Unheard
OF Price OF 23.O7 Cents

HONOLULU, May 20-O6icial re-
ports received today are that the
price of raw sugar in the New York
markets has advanced to 23.07 cents
per pound. Still further increase is
predicted. The local stock market is
booming, particularly on the specula-
tive a stocks such as McBryde and
Olaa. The former reached 22A but
dropped back to 21h. Olaa went up
to 19K.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-05-21

ice only as a small part of its plans,
and would be prepared to push ex-
tension of the service all over central
Maui at the expenditure of a large
amount of capital from which no re
turns could be expected for long
me-something that small local
co. ,uany could not afford to under
take. Mr.. Fenwick said that his COM
pany N&uld work with the idea that
it could \ter offer attractive induce
ments to Ne plantations of centrai
Maui to furn h all the electric cur
rent needed y them for light and
power.
Earnings Modera,
Those in favor Honolulu pro-
position pointed ou, fact that the
day of large profit, rom publi'
utility concerns is past a d that the
rate of dividends that cou J be eX-
pected must necessarily be h'y. Also
that it would probably be several
years before any profits at al could
be available for dividends. II \ first
class service could be assured W out
the responsibility of capitalism a
local company, the only real den Vnd
of the community would be fully ct.
Mr.. FeAwick offered to be gui (ed
entirely by the community's wisl IS.
He suggested that F. E. Blake,
company's manager, now on the Co,
might negotiate with r. E, Bond fol-
the purchase of the Island Electric
Company business, but stated that if
Maui preferred to handle it alone his
people would willingly turn over the
| franchise.
Outside Help Opposed
1t is quite certain that there is a
very considerable feeling in the COM
jmunity that the electric business on
Maui, whatever it may be, should be
controlled on Maui by Maui people.
Much of this kind of talk is heard on
supporting the plan suggested by the
board of supervisors last week, that
the county take over the responsible
| ity of supplying the service desired
AS stated in the last issue of the
Maui News, a committee was named
by the supervisors consisting of the
chairman, county engineer and county
attorney, to go into the details of this
plan and to report at the next meet
ing.
Subscribers Meeting Soon
1t is expected that something def
mite will be heard from the Hawaiian
Electric company within a few days
and that a meeting will be called early
next week at which the matter will
probably be put up to the subscribers
of the $4,000 of stock in the propos
ed Maui Electric Company. In the
meantime, as previously stated, the
matter is being held in allegiance.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-05-21

Major e. X. Massee, U. S. A, has
written to Commander j. A. Glib, of
the local post of the American Legion,
that he will be pleased to accept the
invitation to make the address on
Memorial Day, Sunday, May 80, in
Kahului under the auspices. of the
post. Maj, Massee will arrive here
Saturday morning, May 20, and depart
for home the following Monday night,
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-05-21
Dead Man Is Claimed
By TwOLOne Widows
But One OF Them Stands To Get A
Pension For 6 Years-ACcident
Board Has Human Interest" Gases
Japanese Widow Decides to Stay

Two women each claiming to be
the lawful widow of the late Mura
Shigeta, of Kailua, making claim to
the $29.55 monthly which the East
Maui Irrigation Co, has been ordered by
the industrial accident board to pay
as compensation on account of the
death of the perhaps common hus-
band. Shigeta was killed by cave
in of earth few weeks ago. He was
the accident happened.
At it's meeting last month the acci-
dent board awarded to Yuki Shigeta
the dependent widows 40 percentum
of Shigeta's average wage, the pay
ments to continue for 312 weeks un-
Less she sooner remarry, die, or leave
the United States. But at this months
meeting, held last Tuesday, letters
from Peters & Smith, attorneys of
Honolulu, accompanied by documents
from the Japanese consulate, tend to
show that the dead mans lawful
widow was living in Honolulu and not
on Maui, and that her name is Mura
and not Yoki.
The board has asked the Honolulu
would be widow to substantiate fur
ther proof of her claims, and the mat
ter will be heard at the next meeting.
Under the law, unless a widow was
living with her husband at the time
Of his accident, or was in whole or
in part dependent upon him for sup
port, she may not claim compensa-
tioI.
Widow Will Not Go To Japan
1Because she learned on Tuesday
that she could not cash in on account
Il the claim against the Haiku Fruit
Il Packing Co., for the death of her
husband and proceed with the lump
Sum to her former home in Japan,
fMrs. Kimiyo Takahashi, of Haiku, de-
cided that she did not wish to go to
Japan. She did want to leave Haiku,
however, and smiled delightedly when
informed by the accident board that
she was free to go where she pleased
within the United States without
forfeiting her compensation. The
woman, on her own account and that
of an infant daughter, is receiving
$34 per month on account of her hus-
bands death. Takahashi. was car.
xxrI1o ,oI e, sx.Eo
comparatively slight injury to his
leg some months ago. The widow
being an alien, cannot claim her
share of the compensation in case she
leaves the United States. While the
child, because of it's American birth
- be entitled to its art wherever
1t lived It-.-"ided IT, pc SHOWN
that it reman. ~, the
Board declined mp
sum settlement { 5iaim
for the reason tina have nc
assurance that tn would get
the benefit Of the money. 1t is the
general policy of the board to refuse
to authorize lump-sum settlements
where children are involved.
The Board approved awards as fol
lows To Ms. Maria Batailha Pimen
tai and Pedro Pimental, parents oi
Antoine Batailha, deceased, from the
Maui Agricultural Co., 40 percent oi
deceased's wages, or $26O5 per month
To Pedro Lontace, employee of the
American Can Co., on account Of the
loss of parts of fingers, $330.77
To Nakagawa Hedaikichi, employed
of the Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar
Co., for the loss of parts of fingers
in a planning machine, $941.78.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-05-21

The lighthouse division has sent
out notices to mariners to effect that
the rear range light at Kaunakakai
has been extinguished. 1t will be re-
lighted as soon as practicable.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-05-21

A Saskatchewan man is the inven-
tor of a sled with an attachment that
makes tracks in snow like those of
wild animals to induce animals of the
same kind to follow them to traps.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-05-21

Alfred Furtado, district overseer of
Kula, reported to the supervisors last
week that the complaint made by Joe
Perreira against the work of Manuel
Moniz, cantonier, was in his opinion
due to personal difference between
the two men. MOniz's work is salts
factory, Furtado stated.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-05-21

The supervisors have authorized the
installation of two street lights at Ho-
nolua on the road near the old can,
merry.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-05-21

Robert Won Tempsky and SO others
have filed a petition with the super
visors asking that a road be built in
upper Kula from the Geo. Copp resi-
dence to that of Kaukapai. The mat
ter was referred to the county engi-
neer.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-05-21
To Celebrate Memorial Day

The executive committee report"
that Maj. E. X. Massee, U. S. A juo,
advocate of the Hawaiian Department.
of the army, was available as a speak
er for memorial day, Sunday, May 90,t
if the Post wished such invitation eXf
tended. By unanimous vote the ext
ecutive committee was Instructed II
make arrangements to have Nj
Massee come as speaker, and to mi
such other arrangements as it dee
ed necessary for the exercises.
These will be held in the terri
fair building at the Kahului
grounds at 2 o'clock on Sunday
noon, May 80. A suitable pros
to be arranged for the occas
music and other talks, and the
eral public will be invited to atteL
A committee was also intrusted
with the duty of seeing that the
graves of all eX-service men in Maui,
are suitably decorated A roll of a4
! deceased comrades in arms froJ
Maui has been compiled and will
read during the memorial day
| ercises.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-05-21
No Cash Bonus SAYS
MauiPOst Nos, AL.
LegiOnaries Demand Help For Those
Who Need It Maj. MasSee To Be
Memorial Day Speaker No Action
On Hawaiian HCmeSteading

The Maui post of the American
Legion is all but unanimously oppos-
ed to the plan to give cash bonuses
to ex-service men, and so went on
rccerd at meeting held last Tues
day evening. |, also voted that it was
not interested as a body in John
Wise's Hawaiian rehabilitation scheme
or other phase of the Hawaiian home
stetd laws.
But the Maui eX-service men are
concerned for the welfare of eX-serv.
ice men in general and in the resolu-
ton opposing the cash bonus scheme
they also included a strong indorse-
ment of plans for the rehabilitation of
mcapacitated soldiers and for the most
liberal form of assistance in way of
Cans for establishing homes, farms,
and for vocational training. In the
discussion helore the resolution was
lGopted number of speakers ap
parently expressed the feelings Of
practically all present in declaring
hat the men who served in the army
in the Big Scrap didn't want their
services placed on a mercenary basis.
Al the same time they believed that
the nation would be helping itself in
a most practical way, as well as the
eX-service men, by assisting them to
become homecoming, skilled citizens.
No Call To Butt In
Just because the Hilo post of the
Legion saw fit to go off half-cocked on
the territorial homesteading PROPOSE
ton, and go over the head of the Ha-
waiian department of which it is
part, direct to . the national head
quarters, was no reason, the Maui
men felt for the rest of the depart.
ment to get excited over the matter.
Some of them at least apparently
felt that the withdrawal of the gov
ernment's cane lands from homestead
ing might be a good thing in the long
run, while the Hawaiian rehabilita-
ton part of the House bill was not
taken seriously. In any event the
Post was decidedly of the opinion that
the matter was not one in which the
members should concern themselves
as an organization.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-05-21

NEXT WEEK S M AILS
From Coast-Lurline, May %;
Sonoma, May "a; kiyoto Maru,
May "a; Matsonia, May 25.
For Coast--Korea Maru, May "a;
Wihelmina, May 25; LurIine,
May 29.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-05-21

run things themselves than to have
some one else run them right.
Evening journal., 1920-05-12
UNDERWOOD WINS,
MAJORITY CUT

BIRMINGHAM. Ala. May i2.l United
Press ss)-Senator oscar W. Underwood.
minority leader OF the senate. has
been renominaied by a 1900 majority
over his closest opponent. l.. b. Mus
grove. endorsed and supported by pro-
hibiiiOn forces OF the state, according
TO compilation OF reports made here
al Q clock this morning
This Is TIE nar0Wesl margin Under
wood has ever had. but his friends
are ubilant since the Musgroye forces
had carried the campaign into every
corner Of state while Underwood
spent only a few days in his cam
paign.
IN the short term race FOR a suces-
sor 10 the late senator Bankhead. all
candidates claimed election except
Rushi0n. Representative J. ThOmas
Helm and Captain Frank White were
running evenly with Former Cover
nor O'Neal. who indorsed beer and
liCh. wines.
Evening journal., 1920-05-12
Mother FINDS
CHILDREN IN
BURNING BED
4-Year Old Girl Dies as Re
suit of Burns; Baby
Escapes
ALONE In ROOM
WHEN FIRE STARTED

lncurring severe burns while play
ing with her little brother In their
CRIB this morning, Mary Madeline
Brown, four years old, Of ca Pine
street, died at The Delaware Hospital
without regaining consciousness.
According 10 Mrs. George Leslie
Brown. the mother, she left Mary and
her tw0-year-old brother Raymond.
playing In their crib on the third
story front room, while she was In
The act Of sending her other four chill
dren 10 school. She was attracted by
the ring OF the door bell. and when an
swering, She was Informed by Thomas
olsworth q. Mary's Church,
mat smoke Was f,-utng from the third
story window Of her home.
Entering the room she saw The
feather bed IN flames and found her
daughter unconscious Raymond. who
was weeping, distressingly, implorad
his mother that he be- removed
Taking the boy, who was unhuri. Mrs
Brown rushed into the street and
announced the misfortune 10 the
nelghboring butcher and bpyassers.
In The meantime the police ambul-
ance was summoned, and the little
victim. wrapped IN blankets. was
taken 10 the hospital where she dice
an hour later. The Reliance fire com.
pany appeared upon the scene anc
with the aid OF neighbors exiinguish-
ed the fre.
In the meantime Mr.. Brown. father
OF the children, had been summoned
from his work at The American Cal
and Foundry Company plant. anl
hearing that his child was dead. In.
formed his wife OF the sad news Mrs
Browns became hysterical.
Mr.. Brown was uncertain as Go ihl
cause OF the IRE. but presumed thai
the children were playing with match
es and had ignited an oil lamp nearby
An oil can. which was found In
corner Of the room. may have draw
the attention OF The children. Ate
having lighted the lamp. the childre
evidently iriod t0 nll.it. causinF "a
IRE. II is also supposed that Mar,
while her night dress was In flame.
and fearing The danger OF her liitl
brpiher, returned 10 the bed In 0rdo
20 save him, and in that way set or
20 the bed.