OCR Interpretation


The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, March 27, 1909, Image 3

Image and text provided by University of Hawaii at Manoa; Honolulu, HI

Persistent link: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82014689/1909-03-27/ed-1/seq-3/

What is OCR?


Thumbnail for 3

THE MAUI NEWS
-SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 1909
Cuts Down
Policy Force
Sheriff Fua of Hawaii Makes
Many Changes.
llilo, March 12. Sheriff Sam
Pua has discharged many police
officers and reduced the pay of
others in several districts and will
do so in all before he is through
with his new schedule. These cuts
were made necessary by the action
of the board of supervisors who
have decided to have more and
belter roads and fewer braes
buttons.
His police forco will be as fol
lows: North llilo.
E. K. aimmons, captain $ 40
J. W. Koloa, officer 35
Solomon Konia, officer 35
Total $110
. In this case the cut has been
made by the cutting out of Officer
Henry Ilaa.
Hamakua.
Joe de Coito, lieutenant $ 35
W. II. Kauwahipaula, officer. 35
Enoka Ako, officer 35
Mika, officer 35
, officer 35
Total 1175
The blank space stands for the
name of George Alika, an officer
who has been suspended by the
Sheriff pending the investigation
of a certain matter, the facts con
cerning which will be given out
later In this distiict the cut was
made by the discharge" of Kawai
papohaku, the captain, who, ac
cording to the statcirient of Super
visor Fernandez, made at the last
Boai'd meeting, was utterly incom
petent. There will consequently
be no captain of police in llama
kua. North Kohala.
C. K. Kunane. captain $ 45
E. K. Kaneliailua, lieutenant. 35
C. K. Kamahoahoa. officer. . 30
Joseph Kaipo, officer. ........ 30
Total $140
In this district the Sheriff trimm
ed his expenses by cutting out two
officers, namely, D. L. Kaaikuoha
and II. K. Molale.
North Kona,
Chas. Nahale, captain $ 45
M. Kilinape, lieutenant... 35
J. K. Aipua, officer. . 30
Geo. K. Kauhaihao, officer... 30
Total $110
In this case also two officers were
cut trom the torce to meet the re
duction in appropriation. They
were Antone C. Amorino and Chas.
Ke.
The Sheriff is waiting for advices
from the Deputy Sheriffs of South
Kohala, North Kona and Puna be
fore he decide on the changes
which he wi'l make in these die
tricts. The cuts to be made in the
North Hilo district he will not am
no'unce, he states, until March 15
the date on which the changes go
into effect according to the super-
visoral resolution.
Hilo, March 1G. Sheriff Pua
has completed the list of changes
in the force made necessary in or
der to meet the cut in appropria
tion made by the Supervisors. T.he
changes consist in the discharge of
Mounted Officer Mahi and of Clerk
Chaa. B. Lyman, whose place will
be taken by Haptain Martin, and
a cut in pay of every officer on the
town force. The South Hilo force
will hereafter bo as follows:
Evan da Silva, Captain... 70 00
J. Kaiama, Lieutenant. . . . 50 00
C. P. Kaina, " 15 00
J. M. Kepoo, " 45 00
Nerod de Cutnara, Lieut.
Mtd. and Port. Officer. . 5 00
P. V. Iokepa, Mounted
Officer 00 00
C. H. A- Aiona, Mounted
Officer 'GO 00
Aki Apana, Police Officer. . 40 00
W. 11. Kailimai, " 40 00
JohnKaili, ' " 35 00
House Reconstructs
Education Bill.
Honolulu, March 1!' Shall O.ihu
Ixiss the schools? This was the ques
tion fought over in the House this
morning and the answer, according
to close vote, was that this island
shall do no such thing, but rather
shall she listen to the arguments
and presentations of the other is
lands, inasmuch as there are also
children on the other islands.
The contest was over Senate Bill
51, introduced by the Senate com
mittee on education and providing
for six commissioners of education
to be apjiointed by the governor,
one from Hawaii, one from Maui
and one from Kauai, three being left
by inference for Oahu, also provid
ing that they serve three years and
that two constitute a quorum in de
liberations, with the Superintendent
of Public Instruction.
Long talked long and loud for
Oahu's management of the educa
tional system, but Hire successfully
amendvd, .with Sheldon's stalwart
backing, so that the bill passed,
close as it was, with two t'ommis
sioners provided for the island of
Hawaii without the total number
being increased, for two instead of
three years tenure; and for three for
a 'quorum instead of two.
''Whoever heard of a third of any
body constituting a quorum?" ask
ed Rice.
The votes on the bill as amended
were as follows:
For the bill: Affonso, Carlcy,
Furtado, Hihio, Iluddy, Kaniho,
Kawaakoa, Kawewehi, Kcalawaa,
Makekau, Moanauli Nakaleka, Na
wahine, Rice Sheldon, Speaker llol-
stein.
Against the bill : Castro, Cohen,
Correa, Douthitt, Kaleiopu, Kama,
Kamabu, Kamanoulu, Kinney,
Kike, Long, Shingle, Waiwaiole.
Absent: Coney.
joolie to Wed
An Oakland Girl.
San Francisco, March 12. While
the strange infatuation of Miss Helen
Gladys Emery for Gungiro Aoki,
which was made known ujxm the
announcement of the engagement of
the young people, is being violently
opposed by Rev. John A. Emery,
archdeacon of the Eniseonal dioces
of California, Aoki's relatives are
also frowning upon the match and
threaten to take stern measures to
prevent the marriage.
J. Aoki, proprietor of a macaroni
factory at 519 Seventh street in Oak
land and a brother of the fiance of
tlftj archdeacon's daughter, said yes
terday that' his brother would be
sent to Japan or Europe to prevent
his marriage to Miss Emery. J.
Aoki, by virtue of I icing the eldest
brother, became the head of the
family upon the death of his father,
and claims that his younger brother
is Ixiund to obey him.
The elder brother yesterday after
noon gave a very unflattering pic
ture of Miss Emery's fiance. He
said that ever since his arrival in
this country, seven years ago, Gun
giro Aoki had been' a trouble maker
among women, Japanese and white.
The younger brother's pretensions
to great wealth and noble lineage
were scoffed at by the elder.
Sol. Anakalea ' 40 00
S.W. A. Kaleiho-a " 30 00
Simon K. Kahaua, Hack
Ins. and Humane Officer 50 00
O. Yotaro, Japanese Officer 45 00
II. Naope, Station Police
Officer 40 00
D. K. Hewahewa, Police
Officer 30 00
Total 745 00
H. MONGEN
CONTRACTOR and IJ U I L D E R
Plans and Estimites Furnished
Small Jobs and Itepair Work by
Day or Contract.
Wailiku, Mali, T. II.
Discusses
College Plans
Doubts Whether' Commensu
rate Returns Are Gotten.
Hilo, March 23. Considerable
doubt was expressed at the meeting
of the Board of Trade last week as
to whether the Territory can really
afford to spend the large amount of
money asked for by the College of
Hawaii, but it was finally decided
that the Governor was doing all he
could in the way of retrenchment,
and that it would lie safe to endorse
his recommendations.
The matter was brought up
through a letter received by the
Board from President Gilmore, the
text of which was as f illows:
."In pursuance of a resolution the
legislature of 1!)()" appointed a com
mittee to inquire into the practica
bility and feasibility of establishing
a Colhge for the promotion of
studies in Agriculture ami Mechanic
Arts in conformity with similar Col
leges established on the mainland
by virtuu of the Land Grant Act of
LSti2. ,This committee reported una
nimously in favor and in 1!)07 the
Legislature enacted the necessary
charter and aniironriatci ?:. (KKJ
for the erection of temporary build
ings and for the payment of neces
sary salaries and incidental expen
ses. The College was opened in
February, lltOS, and is now progress
ing with good prosjiccts-.
"The College is this year asking
for an appropriation for the further
ance of its work aggregating 8211,
500 apportioned as follows:
"For a permanent building on
the College site in Manoa Valley;
the building to afford 50,000 square
feet of lloor space --and comprising
1)00,000 cubic feet, which is the need
for a normal growth during the next
ten years, and to In;' constructed of
the liest materials, preferably rein
forced concrete or 'quarry stone and
fireproof throughout.
"The details as to materials and
construction of this building have
not been worked out, but if 'built
and completed as indicated above,
it will cost about 8200,000.
"For a temporary building to
house equipment and apparatus for
instruction in engineering, to be
built of wood 1,500,
"For the equipment of the per
manent building by purchase and
construction of the necessary cases
and shelving for the storage and
protection of aparatus and materials
of the laboratory desks and benches-
of class room chairs and desks and
of the necessary fixtures and shades
815,000.
"For incidental expenditures and
purchases covering the grading,
planting and cultivating of the
grounds, sewerage and 'water con
nections and incidental labor ex
penses for the two years 11)00-11
10,000.
"For the necessary salaries for
administration and the teaching of
those subjects not covered by the
Federal appropriation, for the two
years 1!)0!)-11 - 818,000.
"Total- $24 1,500.
"In asking for an appropriation
covering the above needs, it should
be noticed that the building with its
equipment will, with nominal bien
nial appropriations for incidentals
and salaries satisfy the needs of the
College for ten years, under con
ditions uf normal growth.
"Meantime the Federal appro
priations for the next ten years, on
the present basis, will aggregate
8185,000. This does not seem to
be an unfair proportion of the ex
penses of the College for the Terri
tory to bear.
"I hold that the College is an
economic factor in the Territory and
its interests are the interests of the
people. I am writing you therefore
in order that you may be acquaint
ed with the work and needs of the
College and also if it seems to you
desirable that you may take any
action for the promotion of the in
terests of the College that you may
see lit.
In the interests of the College I
wish to express mv aimreciation' of
the kindly interest and hospitality
extended by your Board on the
occasion of my recent visit.''
An interesting discussion followed
the reading of Gilinorc's letter,
Richards voicing the sentiment that
the benefits to lie derived from Ihe
College were hardly commensurate
with the large amounts which would
have to be appropriated by the Ter
ritory in order to secure the Federal
funds for the running of the insti
tution.
"I think that the Government is
getting into these things pretty
deeply," said Richards. "The few
people in these islands who have
children to send to school, and who
are paying the school tax, are not
getting the benefit they should there
from. The money is in the main
going to educate the children of an
other race of people. A halt will
have to be called at some time, and
I think it is a good time to begin
now." ,
"I am certainly interested in
everything that has to do with edu
cation," said McKay. "I thought
the College was a good thing, but I
must admit that I have wondered if
the Territory was able to afford it."
Chairman Scott suggested that it
might be well to make a motion to
endorse the recommendations made
in this respect by the Governor, and
McKay so moved.
Moir asked what the amounts ap
propriated by the Federal Govern
ment . amounted to. Holmes an
swered that ' first an appropriation
of 825, (XX) had Wen made available,
but this had not been spent during
the first year, and had been continu
ed over. Under the law the Federal
appropriation was increased by .,
(KX) each year, and this was con
tinued until the sum of 5O,OO0 a
year was reached, when the appro
priation continued at this annual
figure, indefinitely. The Federal
money could, however, not be used
for buildings or apparatus, and it
was to pay for these that the Terri
torial appropriation was needed.
"President Gilmore said when he
was here that there were only ten
pupils in the College at that time,"
said Richards. "And that in order
to get more they had to take pupils
from other schools, although they
were really not far enough advanc
ed, and here they want to spend
half a million on it. If we had
pupils enough for that school I
would say alright, but we had lict
ter use that money to send the few
pupils we have to the mainland to
school, as has been done he'-e be
fore, and we 'would save money on
it. Punahou largely answers the
purpose of this college, and is as
good a school of its kind as can be
found any.vhere on the. mainland."
Holmes said that the College did
not take pupils from the other
schools before these were through
with them, and had nothing more
to give them. He also believed
that Richards was mistaken in his
belief that then- were only ten
pupils at the College. He thought
that Gilmore had said there were
seventy-one.
I think Mr. Richards takes a
rather iHSsimistie view of the case,"
said Scott. "We heard the same
talk aliout the Hilo High School
when that was 'originally planned,
namely that then; would not lie
enough pupils, and the High School
is today making a good showing. I
think it will 1m- well to endorse the
Governor's recommendations, and
that will draw large federal appro
priations."
"We do not want our boys to lie
sent to the mainland for school,"
said Holmes.
'The Governor is undoubtedly in
a position to show the condition of
the finances of the Territory," said
Moir. "And he has 'made his est i
mates accordingly, but we have to
figure on the taxes we will pay, and
will have to go sow. 1 am however,
in favor of having the government
do as much as it is able to do in
this matter."
McKay s motion to endorse the
iiovernors recommendations was
thai put, and carried, only Rich
ards voting against it.
I l eft Her Home
For Rev. Ezera.
Honolulu, March !'. The Sup
reme Court this morning nave a de
cision in a new kind of divorce ease,
growing out of the religious activi
ties of the Rev. Ezera, who has ob
tained considerable notoriety before
on account of his peculiar propagan
da. The decision is in the case of
Moses Kauhimahu vs. Annie Kau
himahu, and the court holds that
it wasn't-extreme cruelty for the
wife to leave her home for Ezera.
The decision, written by Chief
Justice llartwell and concurred in
by Associates Wilder and Ballon, is
is follows:
"The plaintiff obtained a decree
of divorce from his wife on the
ground of extreme cruelty which
consisted W her joining a sect or
ganized by one Ezera who claims to
have communications with the
spirits of deceased persons and to be
iblc to obtain their cures or bless
ings upon memtiers of the sect. Pre
tending to be inspired by the spirits
he instructed women members of
the sect to live apart from their
husbands and cohabit with him.
The defendant oUyed these in-
t ructions on several occasions, and
was once arrested for participation
in a public exhibition of fanaticism,
but each time her offense was con
doned and marital relations resum
ed. Findii'iK. however, that she
was disobeying his instructions to
have no further communications
with niemlicrs of the sect plaintiff
brought a libel for divorce alleging
that his home was broken up and
ruined and that he thereby suffered-
extreme mental agony which prey
ed upon him so as to impair bis
sleep, appetite, ability to work and
his health.
"In Bartlett v. Bartlett, 13 Haw.
707, 70S, the court says: 'Mental
suffering is not generally deemed
suflicieient unless it is such as to
impair the heath in other words, if
mental suffering is sufficient, its
test is generally that it impairs the
health.' The wife's conduct in
this case certainly ought to make
the husband's home life unbearable
but it will not do to grant divorces
on the ground that the married pair
arc unendurable to each other.
Causing mental agony is not, under
our statute, extreme cruelty. As
stated by the court in the Bartlett
ease, 'From the very nature of the
ease no definition of extreme cruel
ty can be framed which can be
satisfactorily or easily applied to all
cases.'
"The plaintiff testified that his
wife's conduct worried him so that
he did not sleep well ami kept him
from study and work, but that it
did not affect his health. Whether
the evidence would sustain a find
ing of adultery or not we cannot
hold that it shows a case of extrlane
cruelty. Coleman vs. Coleman, 5
Haw. 2(10.
"Decree reserved, libel dismiss
ed.
J. Lightfoot for plaintiff.
J. M. Vivas and A. G. M. Correa
for defendant.
Supervisor Desha
Starts Ananias Club.
Hilo. March Hi The Hilo Ana
nias Club has been started, the
wide-awake politicians of this city
following the modern Roosevtltian
example with u great showing of
success.
"I see thai it is stated that the
assertion that Brown threatened to
bolt is false' in connection with
the appointment of Lowe as assis
tant clerk of the Senate," said
Supervisor Desha last Saturday.
'"Xow I wish to say that I myself,
us well as Representative Kamano
ulu, was present when Brown mad
thut threat, these heing his very
words: If my brother-in-law
(Lowe) does not get that appoint
ment, I have made up my mind to
leave the Republican party. II
said lh same thins before Speaker
tlolsltln. 1 Would like to meet
Senator Brown face to face so that
we could see which of us two is the)
liar."
Cdstle Inspects
Poaha Property.
Hilo. March 1(5. J. B Castle,
who is the controlling factor of the
llawnii Development Company,
arrived from Honolulu in the
Manna Ke:i last week, and went
immediately to Pahoa. Mr. Castle's
attention was culled to the follow
int.' statement which was made by
A. X Campbell, treasurer of the
Henry Waterhouse Trust Co.,
agents of the HaSvaii Mahogany
ami Lumber Company.
"The appearance of thesituation
now is that Ihe Hawaiian Develop
ment Company will buy the leases
and other holdings of the Hawaii
Mahogany Lumber Company in
order to protect its own investment
as far as possible. I know of no
other bidder or no other concern
that world or could be expected to
tackle it This would naturally
mean the end of the Santa Fe tie
contract.
"The forelosure proceedings
speak for themselves," said Castle.
''This is necessarily a painful sub
ject, and there is nothing to be
gained by answering the prying
interest laker, in the matter by
those who are not directly interest- .
ed. The stockholders have turned
everything over to the Hawaii' De
velopment Company, and as far as
the Santa Fe tie contract is con
cerned, it remains optional with
the party purchasing the Hawaii
Mahogany and Lumber Company
assets whether they will take up
its contracts or not. With regaid
to my going to Puna, there is
nothing at all significant or un
usual in that. I have been there
three times this year, and I expect
to go there again. I expect to be
there about a week. The whole
matter is now in stafu quo."
Graziers Buy Out
Metropolitan Meat Co.
The business of the Metropolitan
Meat Company will Ik- sold to A.
W- Carter and his associates, known
as the Graziers' Association for the
sum of 75,X)0. This was decided
at a meeting of the stockholders in
the office of B. F. Dilliiichatn. The
new" owners of the concern will limit
their business to the wholesale end
Hid will not take over the book ac
counts, leather and hides which arc
on hand, delivery wagons or any
equipment which would be used for
retail' purposes, their purchase is of
the meat market, slaughter house,
leaseholds and good will.
The directors of the Metropolitan
Meat Company were instructed to
close up the accounts of the concern
and realize all x-sihlc. It is un
derstood from the' rciort, that the
stockholders will receive in the
neighborhood of seventy cents on
the dollar when the affairs of the
company are closed. 3
The meeting was a long one and
l number of the stockholders took
part in the discussion. It was not
completed till noon. Among those
present were: C. A. Brown', F. E.
Thompson, J. M. Dow-sett, Faxon
Bishop, K. D. Icuny, J. B. Castle,
H. M. Von Holt, A. W. T. Bottom-
ley, J. R. Gait, Cecil Brown L. L.
MeCandless, D. P. R. Isenlicrg and
J. L. Mclean.
Hawaiian Iron Fence and
Monument Works, Ltd
Honolulu T. H.
IRON FENCE CHEAPER THAN WOOD
A
We Sell Iron Fence
Wlioso Fence to-em-d the TT'fihcst i
Awanl. "tJolU JIMlttl." World's
rmr, tu i.oui.1, 11104.
I he most economical fence you can
ttiv. l'rice lens lliun a rcieuible wood
fence. Why net rv'lu'u your old one (
now, wtthu neat, uttruclivi' 1Hi HJiCE,
"LAST A IJFF.TIMIi,
Over lnoritwlKUaof Inm Kency, Iroa Kluwtr i
Yue, Stti. mo., thuwn in ouruataloKUv.
LOW rrlra will Surprint) sou.
CALL AND btE 13,

xml | txt