The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-02-20


ance of the time will be taken up in
excursions which will take the dele
gates around the island.
kamehameha Highway Now-Kame-
hameha Highway is now officially the
designation given by the board of SUI
pervisors to the Oahu belt road and
as Kamehameha Highway the road
around the island will be referred to
in future in all official documents. The
resolution recently passed by the
board to this effect was approved
yesterday.
Prohibitionlsts Merge Forces-The
A~nti-Saloon League and the Prohibi-
ton Law Enforcement League of Ha-
wall have merged and will hereafter
work under the name of the Anti
Saloon League. The combination was
effected at a meeting in Honolulu
held last Saturday.
Look Out For Bad Money-It is re-
ported that a considerable amount Of
bad paper money is in circulation in
the territory. Most of this is ordinary
81 bills which have been raised to
$40 by pen manipulation. These rails
ed bills are not difficult to detect by
persons familiar with paper money,
but are said to be fooling the more
ignorant.
Welfare on Hawaii Languishes-Un-
less Hilo as a whole takes more in
terest in the work of the Hawaii Is
land Welfare Bureau than has beer
the case in the past, the activity
stands in a fair way to be dropped
absolutely, according to ]. T. Moir,
president of the organization. Mrs.
w. c. Bergin, associated with the Pa
lama Settlement, Honolulu, will ad.
dress the bureau on Friday evening,
February 20, and it is hoped to inject
more life into the work on the Big
Island.
kohaIa Man Held For Larceny of
S60oO-William Kekaula Kapaona, of
Kohala, has been committed by the
Kohala district court for trial for lar
ceny in the first degree. He is accus-
ed of having stolen $4,000 from an old
Hawaiian named John H. Kamauno,
who died recently after claiming to
have been robbed of a considerable
sum of money, the proceeds of the
sale of a piece of land. Sheriff Pua,
who has been working on the case for
some months claims to have discover
ed that Kapaona banked $4,000 in a
Honolulu bank which he has not ac-
counted for satisfactorily. 1t is said
that the accused man claims that Ka-
mauno gave him the money for caring
Tor him before his death.
Hawaii Would Revive County Fair
Hilo residents are agitating |
eAN 1uNoNlOh VI IlplOIllS d COuull lar
this year, and of making it an annual
affair. Hilo originated the county fair
idea in the Islands some a ago but
has not held one for a number of years.
School Department Should Decide
Chairman Kauhane, of the Hawaii
board of supervisors, roundly scored
Superintendent Vaughan MacCaughey
and the department of public instruc-
ton for their indecision on matters
affecting the type of school buildings.
MacCaughey's refusal to advocate any
special type of construction for the
Hilo schools brought out this attack.
kauhane blamed the department for
the ~congested condition of the Hilo
schools. THE department complains
of the school accommodations, santa
ton, etc." he said, but refuses to
decide anything. They make me
tired"
Train Robber Gets $11, oo0-A mask
ed robber boarded a train enroute
from Waimea to the Manaa camp OF
the Kekaha plantation, Kauai, on
Wednesday of last week, and after
throwing the engineer, fireman and
paymaster from the locomotive. ran
the engine a mile or two further and
then decamped with the contents of
the stronghold which he broke open
with a crow-bar. The box contained
$1,000 in currency intended for pay
ing off the men on the plantation. A
former engineer, a Hawaiian named
Hale has been arrested on suspicion
of having committed the robbery.
Crazy Filipino Runs Amuck-An in
sane Filipino ran amuck at Camp 3,
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