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--W'- T V ,- ,:aBprffftH rw&xw7i fs-fiUmzj F -35-S,'SiHt, AUAJ ' fJ"T ' Tn "m S5 - ;s . u Ll- - . Uv j THE PROGRESSIVE AMERICAN PAPER m J. 7 . Bur i. P , ' . c I,"' f r "JTIl-B PEOPlip;S PAPER. ks- -VJNJ- i i mPaMiamMnieifBiPatci HONOLULU, TERRITORY OF HAVAfl, MONDAY. PEBKUAY 2o. 1901. Von. X. No. 1773. Price 5 Oknts. i .: . . . . - -...' v---- - . ..?xij2l?-. , -wy"': !,"' szf7r ;H VTCNTVtt Lfl .H W ,m v m. v n " " ' T" v? M " fl 5 i. wwftinwmniwwft ii 1 ; I i f" I ' ! ' I u v 7 MM Willi ' IIUH Brings Over Seven Hund red Porto Ricans for Islands. A SORRIER. LOT NEVER STEPPED FOOT HERE Number of Deaths on Voyage-Old Boat Has Some Rough Weather Experiences on Down Trip Tho steamer Zchlandla arrived from Port Los Angeles this mornlng'after a trip of eight nrfd a halt day a. She hrlngs 7G5 jPortd" ltlcnnV. Svho will ho Kent to tho plantations orftthi the other Islands. ' ' l- Leaving Tort Los Angeles on the 10th, the'Zealandla experienced some pictty rough weather. During tho voy uge, .sho-loat four-of her passengers, threo of whom were burled at Boa. The last death occurred aftqr the vessel hail dropped anchorbff pAft here. The immigrants arenas sorry a look ing lot as wcro al'tno'o'ther Porto Rl eans brought rD, "They aro badly clothed, loot ortarved, sick and most tinhealthful. There are many children among the Immigrants and many of the mothers aboard are mere children, several of them being not more than fifteen years of age. They all appear contented, however, and aro glad they are to live In a conn try which In ell ma to Is so like that of their own.' Somo of them have labored In the fields before but most of them have not. The Zealandla Is at the quarantine v. barf and her passengers will be kept there on the steamer until they are "takclf nwayOy-rov Island steamers. Somo will go on the Klnau and Clau dlne tomorrow nnd others will be taken to Kaual this afternoon or tomorrow. They Jiavo not a great deal of bag gago to hamper them In their move ments and. If they were unable to pro vide for themselves In their own coun try any better than their appearance would suggest. It would certainly ap pear to be a godsend to them to have been brought here. Paymaster of Nnvy, Among the through passengers In the transport Sheridan Is Mayor J, S. Wll klns, who has been located in the Unit ed States Navy paymaster's offlco In Ban Francisco and Is now' on his way to the Philippines to report for duty. Ho also has charge of .funds for the Army on the Sheridan. Major Wtlklns Is a brother of It Wllklns,, the editor of tho Washington Post, and Is now on bis second voyago to Manila, having been located there during last year, ' Art League Reception. At 8 o'clock this evening the Kilo liana Art Leaguo will glvo a reception to B. A. P. Newcomb. whose splendid architectural work will bo on exhlbl Jlon. t i Geo. M. Rolph Back. Gporgo M. Rolph, secretary for tho Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co., who came hero from San Francisco a short tlmo ago for the purposo of In vestigating the various systems of wa ter supply on the plantations of tho Isl ands, returned from Maul In tho Klnau Saturday afternoon. He sho'uld have' been hack at least a week ago hut tho To Insure Fairness to the large number of applic ants, the first choice of lots In J this splendid sutnirb will be sold At Auction Saturday, March 23, a low t'pset price Is placed on the lots; this, with their loca tion, Improvements and condi tions, make them the best home Investment In Honolulu, Apply to the KhIch AgcntH McClellan, Pond & Co., ' and W. R. Castle, Jr. "College Hills"1 .jMCW-N'. .1 . , bad 'weather prevented his doing his work In as short a time as he had cal culated on. Mr. Holnh will probably go to the Island of ual In the WO. Hall on Tuesday afternoon. . FOR MATERNITY HOME A meeting of tho ladles who have kindly consented to take tables for tho coming luau and fair will be held Wed nesday, February 27 at 10 at m. at the Kaplolanl Maternity Home. The co operation Is asked of ladles willing to acstst In nny way towards tho ohjert now being worked for, vis., a woman's BUrglcal ward, properly equipped. Such ad Institution Is greatly heeded. An open meeting to all Interested Is call ed for Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock at Kaplolanl Maternity Home. Connul General Here. Oscar F. Williams, United States Consul General at SIngaporo with hl son nnd daughter aro passengers In tho Sheridan, . ' In the Circuit Court "this morning, tho Grand Jury fllcd Into court and on the report of tho foreman that no'iiusT ness was before them. Judge Humph' rcys adjourned thoJury until tomor row, stating that If necessity then ap peared, It would be further adjourned. The Judge also said that It had come to the Court that some cases had been nolle prosequi ,by the attomeyr(for tho Territory In the flrand Jury. This nctlon was criticised by tho Judgo. He said under np event must a noUe prose qui bo entered in mo secrecy or tne Grand Jury chamber. No bill of course must be found without evidence, but It Is the duty of the Grand Jury to at least examine the witnesses who testi fied In the caBCfl before the committing maglstra Not to do so would be giving power to the Attorney Oeneral never contemplated. The Court went on to say that It Is the duty of the At torney General to present testimony In all cases and that in caae he failed to do so, tho Court would produce the records of the District Magistrate for fho". GrandtJuryr""Ca8es"Tnust not be chloroformed In the Grand Jury, Deputy Attorney General Cathcart addressed the Court brlfly upon the matter, whereupon Judge Humphreys continued: "The observations of this Court are made on direct Information. When tho Grand Jury reports no hill found. It presupposes an Investigation and bars future prosecution. As to ab senco of witnesses, a subpoena should Issue and tho return of this subpoena will make of record tho fact whether tho witness Is In the country or not. It Is nn nltl trick for the defenso In criminal matters to Imposo upon tho Grand Jury and thy, 'prosecution by making them belleveiwltncsses aro ab sent from tho country" Tho argument on tho plea In abate ment entered by Frederick W .Hankey In behalf of EdWln'S'. dill Indicted for nssault with a weapon "iras argued on demurrer by Lorrln Andrews.'Andrnws having been admitted as assistant counsel for tho Territory on motion of Deputy Attorney General Cathcart. As to tho disqualification of tho High Sheriff to draw a Grand Jury, Andrews claimed, under tho common law, tho sheriff's duties to be, to make tho charge to make tho arrest, to securo testimony, to summons tho Grand Jury and after conviction to oxecuto Judg ment. Tho Court asked: "Do you know of any Court where tho prosecuting attor ney has greater rtghtB than the coun sel for the defendant." "No," said the attorney, "There why shouldn't an nttorney for tho defense have a right to summon Jurors as the prosectulng nttorney," To this question, Andrews replied by saying that the High Sheriff, hero Is a pollco officer and that tho Organic Act piovldes that Grand Juries shall bo summoned as a petit Jury under tho laws of Hawaii.. Andrews closed his argument at 11:30, whentho caso was put over until 2 p. m., when Hankey will arguo for tho defenso. J. Alfred Magoou haB brought suit against T. n. Murray for the recovery of certain money alleged to bo duo on a nromtBsory noto. Plaintiff claims that on tho 1th day of December, 1899, defendant borrowed $439.07 which ho promised to pay In six months' time. Tho defendant paid $23.75 on the same day but, since that time, has neglected- to pay anything else. Tho plaintiff claims that there Is due him the sum of $113.32, togcthor with $14.32 Inter est, i Advance 8nlc for Saplio. Thn advnnco sain for the Florence Hnberts" first night opened with a rush tWs morning, niocks of scats were pur chased to qulto an extent, showing that many theater parties are on tho tapis. . TUB WATEHMAN IDEAL FOUN TAIN PEN. All sizes, all Bhapes. H F, W1CHMJN. ' tu.... uoarihi i iamrKriUKLuk laait ,K?2&'. 01 (JASLiOMES V I wilcox : I : VICTORV f Washington, Feb, IB. Delegate Wilcox of Hawaii today scored a distinct triumph In securing a unanimous vote of House Committee on Elections No. 1, confirming hit right to a scat In the House of Representatives and holding that tho charges (lied against htm were not sufficient to warrant his removal. Chairman Taylor was author ized to make the report to that effect, which will ho submitted In about a week. After the meeilng Taylor explained tho general considerations, -which Influenced the declston'bf the committee. The ease was not con sidered so much In Its technical aspects, but rather on broad grounds, all the circumstances, conditions and surroundings applicable to Hawaii as one of our new Insular possession being taken Into con sideration. As a delegate- from a new Territory It was not felt that Wilcox should be met With the same strict construction required In sustain ing the right of a Representative In Congress to his seat, as the dele gate has only limited powers and Is little more than nn agent. As to the charges of treason, the, letters placed In evidence were written prlor'to thp Organic Act (tnaklng Hawaii a Territory and there was no disposition to go Into theso prior Issues. Whatever may have been the technical Irregularity of the election, thero was the saving fact that a perfect machinery of election was established, n ballotvbox was regularly provided, practically every one participated In the voting nnd Ihcr will of 'tlu peopln was expressed. "And on broad political grounds," Bald Mr.Tnylor. "we felt that the people of'tlicse Insular'possesslons should understand that they wero not to 1m met by-mere-technlcal objections which would deprive them of representation." . Oahu Railway . . . , -Stock Doubled The annual' meeting, of (he stock holders ot tlie.Oalni Hallway ft Land Co. was held this forenoon In the Cham ber of Commerce rooms. The reports of the president and other officials showed tho business of the past year to have been gratifying In the extreme. The usual dividends of one per cent a month have been declared and n sur plus reported 50 per cent greater than the surplus ot a year ago. Dy vote ot the stockholders It was determined to lncreaso the capltallza-1 tlon from $2,000,000 to $4,000,000. tho new stock tl be dstrlbuted among present stockholders pro rata. Tho annual meeting of lhc stockhold ers In the Kohala Sugar Company was held today at the office of Castle & Cooke. LITTLE WORK IS DONE When tho Senate met this morning, all with the execution of Senator Ilald win wee present. Mr. Iluldwln ap peared n llttlo later on. On motion of Mr. Knnuha, the secre tary was Instructed to notify Gover nor Dolo of tho receipt of his message by tho Senate and tho action of thn't body on II ' Mr, Cecil Drown reported for thr commlttco on rules, stating that, with tho exception of. one or two matters nil three members, had concurred. Tho majority or the committee uesireu committees on claims and liquors. This would mnKO louncen bulhuiuk cuiiuuu tees which Wonld be altogether tW oumbersome. Twelve 'committees were all that could be handled. Special com mittees could ho appointed on claims and liquor when the time for the con sideration of such matters should come. Mr. Drown further stated that tho du ties of tho stenographer .had not been dellncd but that ho did not consider It neressary to do this as his duties wern well understood. Just here, there aroso a discussion on the disposition of the report ot the commlttco on rules. Mr. Kalauokalanl moved that consideration bo postponed until after lunch. This carrlod. Mr. Cecil Drown then moved thnt the Senato tako a recess until 1 o'clock. Seconded by Mr. Carter. Mr. White moved to nmend to 1:30 nnd rnrrled. Senato took a recess nt 10:30 o'clock. The House met at (ho regular lim,ir this forenoon with several of tho mem bers absent. The first business was the rending of tho Governor's mnssago by tho secretary. Mr. Mossman moved that thn reading nf the messago In Hawaiian he post poned until printed copies of tho same could bn supplied to each member of thn House. This carried. On motion of Mr. Mossman. the Houso took a recess until 1:30 o'clock, Retired BiinlncHB Man. Among tho many prominent peopln who arrived In thn Ventura nnd who are' quartered at the Hawaiian hotel, Is A. W. "Wilson, a retired business man of San Francisco. Ho Is accompanied by his wife who Is chaperoning Mis Adela Mills, dnughter nf WUtlnm H. Mills, land agent for tho Southern Pa-' clflc Company. Tho entire party will remnln hero un til tho first of April, and will make a tour to all places of Interest In tho Isl ands. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson have only recently returned from a two years' trip through Europe, ir wiiuin Is n stockholder In tho Honolulu Plantation Company, and nsked, what he thought nf Honolulu, ho stated that ho thought the jBlands nro nil right for n rich man but from what ho had ablo to observe, tho eggs nil appeared to ho In ono bas ket. ,.aiiwj ';&lku..-'isiu Cooper Philosophical ,OverEjectment Secretary H. E. Cooper said to a Oullctln reporter this morning that. In the matter of his ejectment from the lower House of the legislature, he would make no move other than to for ward a report of the proceedings to Secretary Hitchcock at Washington. 'There is no other courso to pursue," said he, "except to give nn exact ac count of what has happened to tho au thorities at Washington. I feel no personal HI will toward tho members of the House but believe they made a mistake In objecting to my presence In the House in my official capacity. "At no tlmo did I insbt upon or claim the right to a place on the floor, I merely wanted a convenient station where I could carry out my instruc tlons. The place where my desk was located, was selected by tho Governor, who said that. If tho point was not satisfactory to all, It could be shifted to suit. "I am now excluded from tho room entirely and must await, of course. th view of the matter taken at Washing ton." . R0BBER8 8ECURB BOOTY itThe homo of Mr. nnd Mrs. Adams at the corner of Hotel arid Mkellkc street Waa entered by robbtt-s last 'nlghf who succeeded In getting nway with $40, In rash nnd about the same value In Jew elry. Tho robbery occurred whllo tho occupants of the house were nt the I'e nlel Mission conducting the. Sunday evening services. Entrance was ef fected by rutting a hole In the screen door In the rear. -n On arriving home' andi discovering the burglary, Mrs. Adamsat once re ported the matter to the police. Later In tho night, Mr, Adams was awaken' hy three men who wero prowling sua plclnusly nhout the yard. As soon as he got up, they became frightened and ran away. (H DM ED K A letter was read In tho Governor's Council this morning from the veteri nary surgeon nt Kchel 'saying that glanders had broken out among horses nt that place. Secretary Cooper read portions of nn appropriation bill, now In Congrcst providing for a Naval Station hero and certain defenses at I 'earl Harbor. Superintendent McCnndless brought up tho matter of tho extension of the Rapid Transit, Walklkl, along nn ex tension of Queen street. No nctlon was taken. , The matter of granting right of way to C. S. Desky for a connecting linn between tho I'aclllc Heights station and Nuuanu street, was referred to the At torney General for nn opinion. A number of applications for light wine and here licenses wero considered. ANOTHER ROUNIVTIin-WORLD Edward Kaufmunn of St. I-ouls, rep resenting the Wm. J. l,eiup Brewing Co., who has been enjoying Honolulu hospitality for the paBt week, will leave In tho iMaru for tho Orient i Kntifmnnn is making a round the world missionary trrp In tho Intorcut of his favorllo brand. Ho Is staying In Honolulu longer than his schedule calls for, but this Is true of ull globn trot ters who blow Into this poit. Ho will tarry his banner Into Chlnn: tho Phil ippines, tho Colonics nnd South Africa. IS III inn Judge Estee Rendered His Decision This Morning. PUNISHMENT ON REEF NOT CRUEL OR HARSH Federal Court Very Reluctant to Interfere With Local Administration of Justice on Any Grounds. A In the Federal Court this morning, Judge Estee denied tho application ol C. C. Hitting for a writ ot habeas cor pus and remanded the applicant tu the custody of tho sheriff. The salient part ot his decision Is as follows: It was admitted by tho attorney for the petitioner thnt 'he did not complain of tho petitioner's treatment but he complained of the petitioner being where he Is. The High Sheriff tes'l fled further thnt 'tho petitioner was given three meals a day, sleeps In the guard room on n cot with a mattress, pillow, blankets, sheets and mosquito nets nnd Is allowed the frevdoro of the upper portion nf the warden quar ters.' Tli cslngle contested fart being 'Is tho petitioner's Imprisonment lb that prison 'cruel and unusual.' J "It Is doubtless true that tho eighth nmc.'.dmcut to the Constitution of the Unltted States Is Intended to protect the citizens against excessive ball, ex cessive fine nnd cruel punishment; the unusual punishment referred to In the Constitution must mean such punlsh ment ns Is unusual because of Its cruel ty or unusual, because ot the length ot the term of such Imprisonment. It should be borne In mind that the rondl tlons In tho Territory of Hawaii are different from those prevailing In the States. It Is not yet nine months since Congress passed the act for tho govern ment of this Territory nnd there has hardly been tlmo to prvtdo all of the most modern prison appliances nnd for this reason alone It would bo nioit extraordinary for a t'nlted States Court In this distant land to seek to Impede tho administration of public Justice by hurrying to find a constitu tional clause for making a general Jail delivery of all convicted of misde meanors or to look for technical grounds for overruling tho Judgmenfs tit tho Territorial courts In hearing on hnbhs corpus. Indeed It must be clenrly appear to tho court that the liberty of the citizen Is Imperilled be rb:o 11' will so act. And again, there arc threo Justices of tho Territorial Su premc Court now In Honolulu to non of whom has been made an application for relief. The petitioner Is therefore not without his remedy If his court Is In error." In tho bankruptcy matter, of J, A. Dutterflcld, Judge Estco mado an or der exempting certain property nnd also the salo of two houses and lots In I'unahou. J. F. C. Hagens, a German, was made a citizen of the United States today hy Judgo Estee, Next Monday Is the dato set for fix ing the time for a hearing In tho libel of Robert 11- Hind vs. tho brlgantlne Cnnsuclo. Morltz A. Dose has filed a ull against Chang Kim and Chang Chow for $050 rental on tho Tong Hlng So clety premises. Hatch & Weaver for the defendant In J. S. Antono vs. W. Jl. Castle, have filed exceptions to the master's report In Its excess over amount admitted tn bo duo In defendant's answer. Liquor Merchant Here. E, Kaufman, the agent for tho Lemp Ilrewlng Co. of St. Louis, wns given big "blow out" nt the home of Scclcy I. Khaw nt his homo In Walklkl yester day. A largo number of tho friends of Mr, Kaufmanu were present. Tho day wns very much enjoyed by all. Surprise Total Loss on KoloaReef, Kauai Tho gasollno schooner Surprise wns washed ashore nt Koloa on Friday. The news was brought yesterday by the James Makee. Tim Surprlso had been discharging nt Union and nhout 8 I o'clock In tlfe evening finished nnd had started ror wnimea as it wns inreaien Ing weather and Captain Nystrom thought It boat to get outside. After Btartlug the full force of the terrlffo westerly wind struck tho vessel and her engines could not innko headwny ngnlust It. Slle was washed up onto tho beach whero sho pounded heavily and la Ing hroadsldo to tho waves they Hi M EXTRA 8E8SI0N URB ,-" Washington. ?eb. 10. Tho I'resld'enl fold Ssnata'a'who call- cd upon hlJi today thaCongrcss woub' 'called In elCrn session as tic as the Ctf aJcconstltu- ycelv&' V were .. tlng over hr The steamer J , Sllliai: tried to get a line to the strand ed vexel but no ono could go near her. iter captain nuu crew vifiipeu wmi their lives. Tho Surprlso had a good ,v , deal of freight aboard when she went ashore. Before tJjyMakrc left Kaual " parts of 'the Surprise's keel and her ' rudder washed ashore. This belngjtho . caso It Is thought that she will be a to tal loss. The loss of the schooner will greatly hamper the Hawaiian Navigation Com pany as the need of another schooner for tho purpose of handling their In- u creasing business was badly felt. The Surprise was fully Insured, At n meeting of the directors of the Hawaiian Navigation Company held this morning It wns decided that a gas oline schooner would bn chartered In San Francisco and sent here with all possible dispatch so that thn running of the Surprise will bo taken up within about four weeks. Uy thn next steamer orders will bo sent forward to tho builders to rush work on tho two new '' ' schooners now building and they will bo hurried here for nso In tho Island trade. Tho new vessels will be ft great deal larger than either the Ecllpso or Surprlso and have much more power. A representative of the company goes to Kaual this afternoon to see tho Sur prise and decide what will be done with her. ' lil lUMIIf l.ashlngton, Feb. 15. Senator Per kins today offered an amendment to the sundry civil hill appropriating $300,000 for laying a cable from California to Hawaii, Though, the Senato -has al ready passed a cable bill which Is hung up In tho House, It Is hoped that there may be a possibility of pushing tho plan for beginning the rablo by at taching It to the sundry civil bill. Senator Hard and Representative Kuhn had an additional conference yes terday with Senator Fornker on the question of nntl-Chlneso legislation. Knhn explained tho great desire of the Pacific coast to seo tho Chlncso exclu sion act extended, and expressed the hope that. the sub-committee of the Foreign Delations Committee, of which Foraker Is chairman, would act favor ably In the mnttcr. Foraker asked Knhn If tho bill wns In shape to suit him. nnd Knhn replied that It was. "Then you can depend upon mo to help you In every possible way," re plied Foraker. "I will offer your hl)l, n.ah nmendment to the Jenkins bH. If you like, and will fight your battle so far as I am able. It may bo, that r.innot eel the oxcluslon act passed dur.lng this session, but. If not, I shall n take It up at tho beginning of the next- session. Prepnro your amendment as you, want It and let roc have It." i i Vlult Honolulu Plnntntlon. About a dozen of the stockholders of tho Honolulu Plantation Co. made a second trip yesterday to the plantation ntnd Inspected the pumping system. R. S. .Moore, the vice president of the DIsdon Iron Works of San Francisco. who hnvo the contract for thn erection of the mill and pumping plant rume down In the Ventura for tho purposo of personally superintending the starting Lot the mill, which Is calculated to turn out from 125 to 150 tons of Bugar per day of 23 hours. DEDUCTION SALE OF STRAW HATS AT IWAKAMIS, liunsu STREET. HI BBIB !! I ZZ QUEEN ELIZABETH SLIPPERS AND -Other Handsome Designs. Do not overlook your footwear to match your costume. " They are Beau ties," and a good large assortment to make your selection from. Do not let the effects of your costume be spolleJ by a pair of slippers that do not match, b'jt purchase a pair that will do honor to your costume. RlsHOE COMPAHv U ' 4 j 1, i i