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WW From 8. F.i . Honolulan, Dec. 4. Fer S. jr.t :v:h" . Persia, Dec, 3. I From Yancoo ten Makurat pec. 4. Tor VnnrdBTf ri Zealahdia, Dec. S. iH 'I I I venin Bulletin, list 1882. No. 3107. Hawaiian Star, Vol, XX. No. 6448. 10 PAGER-HONOLULU, 'TERRITORY OP UAWAH, MONDAY, DEC. 1!H2. 16 PAGES. PRICE FIVE CENTO Of) A-,-.,:-, A like ji I II -': 0 : R- CpM Planter New AsiifeiRf IT At 'riltlPnnPPlfiQ '-liPtriQ-' CMflW- OPOOl11-" Ay-jr.-- -.. c l;IHL?fillILl yUilOHi.uu Ul UW ullUHl -.utuwiL.,, Of Association De clares That; Terri tory vShould Be Satisfied With Re sults Of The Last Season , ; . 4 . 4 ; 4 4 4 4 4. 4 4 4 4 4 4 "'v-',4 .: ; fv -V- '(--. --4 4 ; v BOARD OF TRUSTEES. 4 4- F.' A. tfchaeferF. M. Swanzy, 4 . a 4 K. I). Tenhcy, E. F.i Bishop. J. 4 4 P. Cooke, F. KJamp J." Pow- 4 4 sett. Av W. T. BoUomley, W, O. 4 4 Smith. OFFICERS. - - 4 .( . Joseph I. Cooke, President, 4J ic. Faxon Bishop, , Vtce-Prcsl- 4 4 dent. . - ""4 i4: AV, O. Smith, Secretary and 4 Hv-f Treasurer. -j - -f G. It. Robertson, Auditor. '. 4 : Lt J. Warren, -Assistant Sec-" 4 4 rctary. , -f -;V 4,: ..V - - . 4 ' 4-4 4' 4 4'4 4 4 4 4 4 44 4 4 4-4 . Optimistic was the tone tak- en by President Swanzy, of the Planters'. Association, at the 4hirty-second-annual meetinq I of that body this morning '. He - declared that the territory: has every reason to if eel satisfied ' - with the results of the season - jusi. pasi, dui , inaicatea mat, owing to shortage of rain, the crop for the coming yearwJI .j. not be so large as tht of the ; .twelvemonth now ending. - : - .Ccnliniiing the retiring pres- Jdent ofuthe association warri " cd his Kb cr c r s t h at t o v.i n g ; to many conditions," chief among them be'ng the increased beet - sugar: production, the prices which Hawaiian planters have been receiving for their prod v uct cannot be expected much longer v unless, consumption keeps pace with production. ;' . On the reassembling of the Plant ; r8 Association at 1:40 "this -after- . tiKn President Swanzy announced j-ibat the directors had elected the fol - r (flowing officers for .the ensuing yearj Jopeph P. Cooke, president; R Faxon Bishop, vice-president; w. O.. Smith. Fccretary and treasurer: G. If. Rob- . . ertson, auditor; Iv J. Warren, as- sietant secretary, j ..":A Mr. Swanzy then said it gave him great pleasure to ask Mr. Cooke to take the chair for the remainder of the proceedings. V V President Cooke came . forward amidst applause and spoke In sub ' :, ' stanco aq follows: -j , "l thank you, gentlemen, , for the honor you have conferred upon me. I ; shall do the beBt I can in the po sition, in circumstances which will -be difficult the coming year. . Your Ia3t two presidents kept sugar aboVe ; four cents throughout the past two reasons. " :. ; - ; ' "Strange to say, we are glad at v i least ' I ' for one am-j-that prices are : " furely to be lower this year. It will show that we are not a monopoly, ' and It will bring the Hawaiian sugar industry ' before some 'of ' the people v at Washington In, perhaps, a more " favorable light. 7 .: ; , L ? , "In view of Jhe lower prices ex - pected, I shall try to keep the ex penses of the association down as low , as possible. ?The drafts upon you InJ i o pas 1 nave oeen somewnat neavy. In doing this, however, I do not think we ought to stint the work of the ex perimental station in any way." Program of Proceedings : The new president then announced ; the order of proceedings for the 're thainder of the sessions, as fixed by - vthe board of 'trustees: - .' This afternoon Committee reports, . ' Tuesday morning Address by a member of the experiment station staff, followed by committee reports. ' Tuesday afternoon Address by a Njiember ot vthe -experimental station. Vtaff and committee reports con i t tinued. Vv: . " -1 Wednesday morning Committee re ports continued. - I (Continued on Page 7) DIVE GATES, LAWN FURNITURE H. E. HENDRICK, LTD. "The .territory has every reason to be satisfred with the results of the past season." ' ' "On the whole the labor condit;ons of our plantations have been reasonably good." ' ; :?. yy;s';H "The opinions formed by Secretary Fisher regarding i conditions as he viewed them have not yet received pub licity, but whatever 'they may be, the sentiment .is wide spread that the results of the investigations conducted by him with most admirable patience and discrimina tion, can be productive onlyof what will be for the ter ritory's general welfare." F. M, Swanzy. E. 0. HALL- SITE'FAGTIOML FIGHT CASE IN ra ; PARTS : '. U.,S. District Judge Dole, this morn ing granted the motion of counsel for O. E. Hall & Son and the Austin es tate for two, separate hearings of the Mahuka site case involving the E.: O. Hall : site, and ; the impannelling of jurors to decide the value of the Aus tin estate's interest will begin at; 10 o'clock1 tomoriow morning. 4 j v The Austin estate owes the proper ty and therefore has the lessees' In terest.' The court ruled that the fea tures presented In this Instance show ing' the relations of lessor 'and lessee are much different from those , In the former Mahuka 6ite cases,- where: the interests of the two or more -parties Involvld" were ' not at any great vari ance, i.$-h 5 He called for a brief to be' submitted by Counsel for E. O. Hall, setting forth the evidence which may be Introduced showing the ' value of the company's business and the damages likely to ac crue In the enforced removal, from the present location. This wlll .be sub mitted before the E. O. Hall hearing is. taken up. 1 .Mv-:-f ";t:'y U Attorney Frank ; Thompson and judge Wilder appeared this morning as counsel for E. O. Hall & Son; At torney Olson for the Austin . estate, and .Deputy U. S. District Attorney Bitting for the government. , i : In the ccAirse of his argument Attor ney Thompson, opposing the govern ment's .plea tor a hurried settlement on values within three weeks If pos sible prophesied that the corner stone of the new federal building, pro posed for the site In question; will not be laid In less than five or six years. For that . reason, he argued, the present1 haste of the government was unseemly and ' Illogical . trim firs Certain residents of the Waialua'on the job." The present difficulty, school ' district, on Molokai, are disj however, he thought Involved a ques satisfied' with Professor Abel Cath j Hon of morality,' and that it. was there-cart,- and in a. :. rather . Ingenuously fore up tr .le board to take definite worded communication to the Commis- action. W: IT. Smith, the newly ap sloners of Public Instruction, who 1 pointed con in issioner from Hilo, arose resumed their sessions at the senate) to-a -point of difference at this, de-chamber-thhf morning, set forth their.claring that the mere fact that a man protest in such strong language that took his second wife to live, with his the commissioners decided Cathcart, divorced spouse, did not necessarily 3hould be transferred. Superintendent ' indicate immorality. After some de W, T. Pope' to select the principal's' suitory discussion, Mr. Smith made the new berth and also his successor at :motion advising Cathcart's transferral,' Waialua. (which was adopted unanimously. - n.' i. (.. .it.,.. Haou Satisfied. tens of the district, set forth," among other, things, that Prof. Cathcart had Supervising Pnnclpml VV. W. Taylor obtained a divorce from his wife last ?f -H!tt " T' 9&n W he summer, and shortly afterward, mar- j nsfer of Miaa Plant back to her for rying another woman, took the second mer lotion and ..the installation of Lwife to live wjth the first The people tfte district, tne letter said, "are m..mi in n,i hv hi. anique procedure and pray, for relief. PreTlois Rows. At the request of Commissioner W.' D. Aiken, another communication bear- :ng on this subject, from the supervis- "ng principal of the district, was read, uid particular attention was called to nie sentence In ,which-the writer ex- pressed the belief that it was Texlreme- y hard for this teacher or any other o give satisfaction to ihe people at Waialua. Commissioner W. R. Far- ington. recalled thatUrouble of a sim- lar nature was bruised when-he for-;c,Pal Kdgar wooa or mat institution, Berly served on the board, about ihad declined to reappoint her this 1905, and that the complaint. If he re-j year, offering to. give her another po membered correctly, was against the sition elsewhere, however. ?ame instructor, Mr. Cathcart. j This hearing was taken up very On that occasion the cbmmissioni ; sustained the teacher and kept him (Continued from Page 4) . x . a a aai . v aaaa aa aaaaiaaaaarBivaaaa' aat . w m aa h a BIO W THREATENS LOCAL BOURBOIVS v Passing a resolution .through the county committee last Saturday night, a faction among, the Democrats has stirred, up ; a storm, that ; Is gathering fast : today, The resolution, offered by Charles Barron - and declared to have- the backing tacit . backing at least of Lu L. " McCandless -i went through thi committee unanimously. It proposes that only Democrats shall be allowed to hold municipal jobs. - A. similar resoluticn was tabled by the committee a; week. ago. Last Sat urday . the resolution was offered after- some : of, the; committeemen; were, absent, "and it was stated ,thls, morn ing that Chairman . Bertram T Gr Riven-' bttrgh "himself? was - not present, Jack Kalakiela ' filling the chair. This morning se veral leading : Democrats declared ' that .? Barron's resolution is not; to be considered by any means the wllf of thft party. The resolution r as it passed is as follows: v - . ' , VBeL Itf resolved by the Democratic county committee of the City and County of Honolulu, that we instruct the mayor, the ; board: of supervisors. the treasurer, the county sheriff and all other officers having the- power to appoint subordinates, who were elect ed on the Democrat Id ticket, that In order to comply with the wishes of the people, who elected them to of fices, that the Democratic party shall manage the city ; and county govern ment, and to carry out their respect ive pledges at the Democratic conven tion, they shall place In every position only Democrats, ; and In . the manner provided by : the rules of the ; Demo cratic party." " , :v.'.;"' " :;: - (Continued on Page 4) Following this action a letter from JO"a uenos uU ur urLuer " j-""" l" people there, thus settling for the time the 'mbroglio that arose out of j the John Medeiros scandal. 1 Although the primary business of! the present session cf the commission j was intended to he the final adjust- 5 ment of tne schoo' budget, that was j deferred and most o tne morning ses-j sion was take UP witn tne considera- j tioi of PPeal of Ml8i EUa Davis, j an instructor in the Normal school Ias year from the decision of Super-1 intendent Pope, who, on the advice of School Inspector, pitson and Prin- tmgi Up Clasp Hands M Preserve the Independence of Little AMERlCANWAisHIPS, VIN BALKAN WATERS tJSpecIa! Sfur-Bulletui Cable u n n tt n tz nu u ntiisnxi n uX n: v. I a HOME, Italy, Pee. Is re- U ported IiercvtfeatMtalj and Ans- tt tt tri:. Uai c r nlwc lalo an agree-'' tt tt inent .wl'erely; Hey iIil act ;o- tt r getfcer !n uppriI?r-Hic lade- tt peade-.ce -eix-AIbani?. Tain t Is tt tt t;? ken here a frof lllTf tkat tt tt Italy Is not t4ntcnirlntiBg lak tt tt Jog awny frvm'.tlie triple :5AIU- p tt aice; and that ber relitbas iwiUi tt Oerniuny H!'! Anhtrii will ;re tt tt main uadlsturbcd. r t - 'tt n tt tt tt n tt tt tt u tt tt t: tt tt tt tt Associated Press CabR t? ;: :.WASHINQTD Dispatches received here: by the c Niavy vdepartment and Transmitted tlo, the Sta(e;de partment 4h:s : morning, : an nounce the. arrival in Smyrna and Beirut, respectively, of the cruisers Tennessee and Moit- tanarwhere;they wefe ordered to proceed to protect American lives ana propeny. , n is un derstood that under ho circum stances other than the nctual danger, to : Americans will the vessels actRe Admiral Knight; commartlJingS'Strct instructions ndt-ta become in volved in the 'complicated sit uation now existing in the Bal kans. :v WOULD STARVE FOEMEN PARlSfJ France, Dec. -"2L Tha XSreek minister .here. ; notified. i.tho- govern ment today that hit governmenfwili not tolerate the idea of supplying the garrisons of such cities as Adrian ople, Scutari and . Janini with food, pending the - settlement of; the nego tiations . between the Turks and the Allies. The Greek, government takes the stand that, if this should be al lowed Turkey could continue the war indefinitely, and the ground already won by the Allies would nave to be contended for once more. , READY TO FIGHT BEJRLIN, Germany, Dec 2. The Imperial ; Chancellor this morning no tified the Re'chestag that Germany is read td Tunsheath the sword" if jt becomes necessary-to- do so in order to defend Austria-Hungary against a ttacksfrom without. . He added that he believes that the nation as a whole is almost unanimously back of this attitude oh the part of tne government.-- - . This message is taken here as be ing aimed at the practically avowed intention of Russia ef attacking Aus-H tria should that nation infringe on any of the rights claimed by Servia, in the settlement of the war with Turkey. BULGARSy LOSS 70,000 ISpwJal Star-Bulletin CabJ BERLIN, Germany, Dec 2. Mili tary experts have estimated that the total loss sustained by the Bulgarian army , in the hostilities with Turkey today will total 70,000. Of this 60,000 have been wounded and 10,000 have been killed. The loss in property has also been tremendous. ? 3 S J S S . ' . FORMER SOLON ILL t ? (Special Star-Bulletin Wireless) - v LIHUE, Kauai, Nov. 30. J. , K. . 8 Gandall, formerly a member ' of "$ the Territorial House of Repre 4 sentatives, Is critically ill at his home here. G $ fc 3 s Carl J; Scheid has sold to the Alta Vista Orchard Tracts, Ltd.. -h corpor ation under the laws of the state of Washington, lots 6 and 7 of block A, at Kapahulu. Waikiki. containing 18, 750 square feet, for the consideration of $5500. There is a mortgage on the property to the Henry Waterhouse Trust Co., Ltd., on which $2250 is due, which the grantor undertakes to pay off with interest on or before . two years and six months from date of deed, this being November 30. FKANYCIH Cutting out one position each from almost every city department, and- slashing salaries among the employes that remain; the newly-elected super V isors are developing rapidly a "pro gram 'of economy? that 'Is sVeeping in its ' reduction of overhead expenses In the. city and county government,:. The auditors, clerk s. ailorney s, engineer's and treasurer's depart ments will all feel the axe of econ omy wielded by the six Democrats, and as Andrew Cox, the lone Repub lican on the board, Is also Invited to the supervisorial . caucuses, he must perforce acquiesce in whatever la done. Cox ' is said to he generally in sym pathy with the Democratic plans for reducing city salaries, although he Is understood to have advised . that the supervisors make the reductions and cut out various, clerkships only after Consultation with the heads- of the departments, sa vitally; concerned.. : ; From rumors coming from the Inner councils of the supervisors and talk In the city3 hall, it is apparent that a (Continued on Page-4) - f HE FCIflTS Oil! Judge A. S. Mahaulu', of the dls. trict court at Waialua. made a trip to Honolulu i yesterday afternoon ' to at tend the mas8meeting which was held at the Bijou theater last evening, and commented today on the fact that there were no Ha waiians appointed to serveVon the committee which " was named to cooperate with the police in the' endeavor to put a 'stop to the various-assaults upon young women and glrl8iwhlch have: taken place in Ho nolulu during the last few months. "I heartily agree with all that was' said -and done at the me.etlng," auld theJudge, this afternoon, "but when tne committee was appomie i nouceu that there we re no Hawailana named t, serve on It Now It appears to me that the rumor will go abroad that It has been the Ha waiians who were the (Continued on oage 3.1 BergerBusyi Train, up new band Instruments In the way the- should go,' 'and when they are old, they vMll not uepart from It! . . .-::: So says Capt Henry Berger, who returned, decorated and rejuvenated, from his trip to the Vaterland. ; He Is carrying out the idea with the Ha waiian band. ? ' The -band has thirty new instru ments and Capt. Berger confided 'Lis morning why the brightly shining horns and other noise-producers have not been allowed to make their debut "Ach! Der horns are fell the same as new-born babes,' said the veteran kapellmeister. "They must be given the right kind of development to start vit. We must break theu ii on good music. For a week already I have had my men playing on them, to produce the right tones, yes. Pretty soon they are started right, then we play. Maybe next week." To start the new-bora babes of the band aright. Capt Berger is giving a course in high-brow music Beethoven, Schuman, an Wagner, occasional dash of Sousa to lend the swing and spirit, Strauss and other eminent composers, are, being fed into the band instruments. He has sternly forbidden suon .low-brow stuff as 'Everybody's Doin It" and. he would as soon think of feeding a month-old babe green mangoes and plug tobacco as,of allowing the new instrument to get a taste of "Alexander's Ragtime Band." The "Oceana Roll" and other prenomena of the rag-picker's art are kept sternly out of sight and the musical junk pile is absolutely for bidden as a play ground for the youngsters. One of the new instruments, a slide trombone had a very narrow escape over Sunday. . A member of the band who had apparently been attending the theater on Saturday night;' tried Teaching His Horns To Toot Situation In Balkans Engrosses Attention Of Legislators-Leaders Believe United - States May Be Called Upon To Inter vene In Case Of Outbreak Between Tlie Great Powers Over Partition Of Terri tory Relinquished By Turkey-Appro- , priations Probably Only Measures Un- . dertaken At Short Term iJ---:x:v. .;.-'-: ::..Kv:v;;;'-;-iIAssocratea rm atlJ -- " . . - . WASHINGTON, D. d. Dec 2. Congress m embled here today tor the shojft session; There was little or no excitement; ind the chief taplc of conversation among the solons appeared to be the Balkan war, and the. possibility that the United States may be drawn Into th European mbrogJio. This la regarded, however, aa so slight, as to be unworthy of ahy serious consideration. ; , : ; - . The Democrats appear to have dropped all talk of a cutting of the tariff during the current session, as they all seem to feel the time at their disposal is too short to permit of any reatfy effective work In that direction., : It is thought that the cn'y serious work of-the present session ', will be on the necessary appropriation bills, unless Ifideed President Taft Insists upon certain of the reforms ha has been flghtihgTor, going throujh. before ha quita his office. -'':;:.-r:V".vv.. V.;: : I Supreme ouriDissol v;;:;;a;'.;;.-. ,;. . ..'.::;. -:-y ". -: . .-- . WASHINGTON, D.' C, Dec. 2. -The United States Supreme Court to day dissolved the merger of the Union Pacific and the Southern Patifio roads. The decision handed dowH.holJs that thaVlaw provides a;alnt one railroad owning atock of a competitor, and that, aa the two rosdi, part- . laa'to the suit, are naturally competitors, save through the ownersop of stock control, by the Southern Pacific, thatHhe laws has been violated and order the combination dissolved. . . ' Union Secretary INDIANAPOLIS, -Indiana, , Dscember 2. Hocking, secretary cf ) International Structural Iron Workers; and Bridjs Dullders' Uni:n, anJ one of the prominent figures In the dynamita disclosures, has res';"i his post with the union, following the revelations made by 'CrV: '-.."-- Manl5?l;wUh which Hocklnarf name wa Jntlm?t-ty.-.c - -Tout. of the defendants, in the" cases: now, awaiting trial tx leased by. the government owing to With the dynamiting outrages. Pug Knows Where Girl Hides riCvv?;-;';-r. ..... -fC v;.-' CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, Dec. 2Jack Johnson, th: champion pujlflst of the! world admitted here today that rft knows where Lucille Cameron la hiding! and that he la willing to marry her If It "can be arranged.". The girl's mother has again refused to take any steps toward the recovery of her daughter. . Japan's War Minister Resigns - : f - ' : r : ' . Special SUr-BulltIn Cablel ' . t ' JOKIO, Japan,1 December 2-Barort Ucheda, Minister of War, has tendered-his resignation to the Mikado. He takes this step, he declares,, be cause the cabinet has refused to add two divisions to the army, for ser vice In Korea. His resignation is taken here to mean that the peace par ty, so-called,, in the cabine,; has won a momentary triumph. ; Comm ;! -' i S'':'M'y Spcciar Star-Bulletin .CabteJ y) ' ' f ' !:J - X : : NEW ORLEANS, Dee.. 2. -This city, changed its form of government this morning and ls now under tne commission form, made famous. by Galveston several years ago, and since adopted by several of tne mora progressive cities throughout the ',. Several thousand : acres of virgin soil, offering ideal conditions in ev ery way for the white American home steader, are to be thrown open for set tlement by the territory In the near future on, the Island of Hawaii, and Commissioner Joshua Tucker prob ably will leave Wednesday for the Big island to igo over the tract, determin ing what portion' of It will he avail able as practicable f armiog land, and to ascertain tentatively what size the homestead! ig lots shall have. This is the Pupukea tract at Wai mea. which has been leased for years to the Parker ranch and which reverts to the tewitorv about the middle oi next year. It has an elevation of 3000 feWabdve sea level. Is slightly roll ing, and is open, deep soil, without Jungle, timber or stones, and for years has been -used only as grazing lands for the: herds of cattle and horses of the Parker estate that have roamed over , its vast expanse. to givethe baby trombone a diet of the, "Buckwheat Cakes" song purvey ed by Dave Now Hn at the Liberty last week, Berger arrived . on the scene Just in time to -rescue the brassy in fant and Rafter vigorously applying a stomach "pump he administered : an antodote in the shape of a time-tried composition selected by the Morning Music Club o a3 sufficient classical. At last reports the trombone had re covered.' f - . " ' , - Quits His lack of evidence to -C7nr.:ct th country. Its climate Is mild, yet not that of a tropical or semi-tropical land, and too, chill for the successful growth.' of cane, pineapples or the usual Hawal-4; lan cereals or fruits. It appears . es-, peclally adapted however to the growth of com, wheat or other small grain such. as is grown in the middle . western states of the mainland, and will not require irrigation or the em pioyment of a lot of cheap labor. - . - - It is on the road between Honokaa . and itjhe Parker ranch headquarters at Kamyela, and - Secretary of the Inte rior "hsher passed over it on his tpur , of the Big Island last September. . : Just how. much of It may be open- d for. successful farmi?7 la unknown at present, but at least several thou sand acres- will be avail ib i. Such la . the opinion of Governor; Prear. The remainder of the tract may, be used for grazing, ; because if extends Into 4 the mountains and Is tuo rogh f jt Ulllng. , - .. :;.;. ".; Another feature that wi'l rntke ft particularly desirable l3 .;cat the Ha- wail . belt road will pass throu?.H It. and the contract for, utj section of . this macadam, highway thiongh the. Puukapu section already hai been let .., to the builders. " :ja:::': :''''":: a 5 ' AIL that portion desir&uli for Lome-" V steading will be cut up r.e .-given. ouV ta the homesteaders early in the com ing year, - so that. - the new farmers ' may move onto it just as soon as the" Parker ranch's lease expires. ; . .