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Evening From San Francisco . Mlsvourlnn June IB For Snn Francisco: s Clilim , June IS From Vancouver: Manuka June 25 For Vancouver: ' Mnramu June 21 JlilETlJN You get the news when you read the Bulletin -wp The B n 1 1 c t i n' last circnla tion incrcaie record 600 NEW DAILY SUBSCRIBERS IK 80 DAY? is open to the verification of every interested party. 3:30 EDITION ESTABLISHED 1882. NO. 4015. 10 PAGES. HONOLULU, TERRITORY OF HAWAII. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 1010. 10 PAGES. nucz i omf. i,'. 'if !" rtirV m. .", USA a ' 9ml & ' jStf4T I "i BG AYLETT AND CATHCART IN CONFERENCE Stnn Ciirht Is Gov.'s Order SAN FRANCISCO, June 15. Gov ernor Oillett sprung a sensation on the sporting fraternity today by sending a letter to the Attorney General oi the State directing him , to take immediate steps to enjoin the Jeffries Johnson thampionship battle until the courts can determine whether it is a prize-fight or not. Under the law of the State, (prize fighting is a felony, and the Govern r is apparently not ready to take the responsibility of assuming that the mill between Jeffries and John ton is merely a boxing match. The Governor in his letter orders that in event of the Attorney-General being unable to stop the con test by injunction, he shall arrest and prosecute all persons connected with the affair. Tex Bickard, who is managing the fight, sajs that he ,will hold flic fight if he has to go to Utah or Ne vada. Bill Makes Queen Regent LONDON. June 15. Premier As quith introduced a bill today pro viding for accession to the throne in event of the death of King George before his son reaches his majority. The bill provides that Queen Mary shall become Regent should the King die during the minority of the Duke of Cornwall. KICK AT METERS (Special Correspondence.) Walluku, Muul, Juno 10. The or dinance passed by tho Mnul Count) Dourd of Supervisors at their May session compelling all water holders to pay for Installation of tho meter ByBtem In both Walluku uud Kubuluu und also chnrgtng them at tho rate of 7 1-2 cents per 1000 gallons per day with n rebnto of 2G7 gallons por square foot per month to water right holders who can prove (boforeT the courts?) such rights, aroused untold - Indignation among the otherwise peaceful and (IUvv-abldlng Citizens of these towns. Tho feeling ran bo high that at a cltlze.iB' meeting hold In the office of Judge A. N. Kepolkal last Thursday ' nftornoon, a committee of three, con sisting of Messrs. A. N. Kepolkal, J. M, Vivas and Jns. N. K Kooln, was appointed to draft resolutions for adoption nt a mass meeting which was planned to bo held in the Wallu ku Town Hall tho following even ing. On Wednesday evening as adver tised about ono hundred and fifty wntor right holders, water rato pay ers and tax payerB In general met at tho town hall to volco their protest (Continued on Poire 2) mm Up till noon today 552 automobllep had been registered nt ho police sta Hon nnd there nro ptlll moro to bo put on tho list, FIGHT HELD UP BY SIILL SEAMING Makes Statement To City And County Attorney CONFERENCE HELD THIS MORNING Supervisors ,Vlett and Alitn appear fl boforu CJty unci County Attorney Jclin Cuthcart this morning ami were closeted within tho utile: of tho muni el pal luteal advisors for several hours. )lett nmdo a complete, statement concerning tho utiempt made to se urp his vote on tho Bltiillthlc Pav ng proposition. lie Is said to hate nentloncd several names Involving people of considerable prominence Aliln, ls,o one of the members of the, hoard v. ho has held out In vot ng npiltist tho paving ordlnancu also nave much evidence. Into tho hatidt of. t lie city and county attorney which will enable, the ofllclals connected .Villi that office tu proceed with. a rlKlrl nvostlgntlon. There will he called a special sea tlon of tho territorial grand Jury for Friday at which tlmo the bribery charges will receive a hearing. Mystery continues to surround the charges of attempted bribery that nero made by Supervisor Aylett. While the Territorial Grand Jury was In session this morning Aylett was not called before tho Inquisitorial body ind no definite steps were taken to ward tho Investigation of tho matter by the Grand Jury, Deputy City and County Attorney "red Mllverton declared this morning Hint Aylett had promised to apiiear it tho City nnd County Attorney a or Ace this morning and throw pome light on tho charges, so n definite basis would bo provided for tho Investiga tion. This tho Supervisor did but his statement Is not public ns yet. Deputy City nnd County Attorney Fred Mllverton wns'shown 'c state inent appearing In this afternoon's Is uio of the Star wherein It Is stated 'hat present Indications point that the vliole Invcbtlgalon will be dropped. Mllverton characterized tho article In 'ts entirety as a "tissue of false "loods." v Tho attorney took serious excep tions to tho Insinuation also contained (Continued on Page 2) MAYHAVE i Harry Daldwln, member of the board of llcenuo commissioners of Maul, may lose his Kisltlo ns a member of that board on account of his acttvo connec tion with the prohibition movement on that Island. Tho law provides that no person connected with tho salo on manufac ture of Intoxicating liquors or who Is 'dentlflcd in any way with any torn, peranco organization may hold a posl tlon as a llccnso commissioner, ami is Daldwln 1b actively engaged in the TO RESIGN prohibition movement he has becomo ineligible to hold office, further on the commission. Acting Governor Mott-Smltli when asked what would bo dono In a caso of this kind said that It would havo to be brought to the attention of the mlef executive through regular chan nels In an official manner before he could tako any cognlzanoe of it. Asked what the regular proccdiiro to bo followed In B.ich a case would be ho replied that It was up to some ono Interested in the liquor business In Maul, a saloon keeper for examplo who wished a renewal of his llcenuo to complain that llaldwln was not ellglblo to further sit on the board and hoar inch petitions from his connection with the prohibition movement. In caso of procedure of this kind the commissioner would bo removed it onco by tho Governor ns that pqw. cr Is expressly given to him under tho law. , ' ' 1 BUSINESS MEN ARE AGAINST PROHIBITION LICENSE BEST- J! D.. McINERNY Control hf the Ilijunr business by it licensing system im oppoM'd to pro lilbltlnn N to the licit Interests of Hit--mill In the opinion of J. I. ttclneruy. Mr. Jlrlncrti) In nn advocate of high license nnd n vigorous control of the lliiiori business hut he does not believe th.it prohibition work us n correction fur nnj- of tne evils of Intemperance. , "I inn opposed to ii prohibition law for Ilnnall,' declare Mr. elncrnr. "It doe not accomplish the result expected. A high license perhaps ns litrh us 12,000 would redine Hie number of saloons nnd make tliote that remained prutltnhlc rnougu In provide everything tlrst class In fi ery respect. "Prohibition does not stop the sale of llimr uud 1L miVes Its sole under conditions that place It uulle hejond efficient rqntroL ."The liquor, limine should be TTgwlt;PdJ5fhd rrirnr'icd well, lint prohibition Is not tlie cure. "A prohibition Ian would turn many homes Into liquor dispens aries." Mr. Mclncrny referred to the sys tem that prevail nt Vancouver, II. (' vihere the license Is disposed of ut uurtlon as n system that hits many conuneiidnble features. CRUISERS HERE Should Be Heard From Through Wireless Soon Two United States protected cruis ers, the Chattanooga and the Clove land, soon to go out of commission as it part of tho first division of tho Asiatic fleet, are expected to arrive at Honolulu on Friday afternoon or Suturday morning. Tho cruisers are homeward bound. They return to I'uclllc coast nuvy yards for a complete overhauling. Tho Chuttanoogn, a vessel of ten guns, Commander John D. McDon ald, has been ordered to the l'uget Bound navy yard. Commander Hugh Hodman Is bringing the Cleveland from the As! atlc station to tho homelnnd. This vessel will proceed to Mure Island, thero to go out of commission. It Is expected that the Clovoland and tho Chattanooga will remain here for a number of days. They will take on coal und supplies and It will be about a week before they cast off from the naval wharf andresume tho crulsa to the coast, taking different directions upon leaving tho Hawaiian Islands. near Admiral Itees hopes to hear from Tho cruisers through wireless at any time. The vessola,. havo been making an extended stay at China coast ports. Tills has caused the de lay In their arrival here. SUGAR SAN FHANCISC0. June 15. Suit. ar; 00 degrees est, 4.17c; previous Quotation. 4.9Sc. Beets: us anaiy sis. 14s. 4 l-2d.: parity. 5.00c. Pre- vious quotation, 14s. 4d, i Divorce was granted jesterday after noon to Momojo Ynmada frnm her bus. hand lllkosalniro on tho ground of falluru to provide. FANATICISM, SAYS BROWN "Prohibition Is fan.illclsm," de chirrs Cecil II nm n, president of Die First National Hank. "An attempt . nude, lo show that conditions are bad. They are mil. The liquor bus iness Is under good (ontiol. He cause n feu men m.i be Intemperate that Is no reason nh) I or any other mini should have his personal right; nnd privilege liivndid. It Is wrong and evciy sensible mini villi vole apilnst the proposition.' DOUGLAS ROBINSON IFOR CONGRESS? UTICA. N. Y.. Juno C There Is oon sldcrablo talk among Herkimer coun ty politicians ns to the ndvlBablllty of nominating Douglas Hoblnsqn lf New York, Inother-ln law of former Tresl- dent Koosevelt, for representative In Congress frnm the Oneida Horklmer district, Itoblnson hna n legal res! denco nt Warren, Herkimer county The boom for lilni Is undorstood to havo originated In this city, whero. It Is said, Hcpubllcans are seeking a candidate who will hold tho congres. slonal district In which Vlc-Presldent Sherman lives, the assumption being that Mllllngtnn, the present Ilepublb can Incumbent, Is not n sufflclentl strong vote-getter. DIVIDEND DAY FINDS TRADING SLOW Bwa struck 34 this morning and the only oth"r sula reported on tho Itx. chango ut the Uiarl m' ling was six shares of Illlo llallwiy nt M Tho market is still dull although Hue Is a dividend day, Hawaiian Sugar navlng Its sixty cent extra nnd tho others pa) lug on the lUtccutli of the month retaining their usual quota that totals nearly two hundred thousand dollars, lie t ween Hoards business led off with ,231 shares or Ulan nt 5. Over onu hundred shares of ICwa sold at 33.7S and a few sharoH of Oahu at 33 75. Thlityflvo Bharcu of Pioneer sold at 2IS. Complaint Is no l(uor nindo that money Is tight. Tho Inactivity is dip to the fact that tho public appoira to havo 'ost Its Interest, and the buyers nro walling for tho prices to go just a little lower. "BULLETIN ADS PAY- . & 7l AjiSbC-w GOVERNOR GILLETT McLEAN POTNTS TO PAST LESSON James L. McLeiin, vice president of Hie Inter-Island Steam iivlgnlloii (,'onipnuy, does not believe that the' support of n prohibitory law Is lu' the best Interests of ll.mi.II. Mr. Url.ran speaks fro xperlenre and, uses the sailors In the employ of the Inter-Inland ns jiu Illustration, sbon-j Inir the evils nf irnhlhlllnn nnd llii-! Improved conditions 'under u llcens-1, lug s)stem. "1 remember when then- win pro. hlliltlon directed against the Ha- ,vvntli.i.s we suffered severely through members of the crows falling to up- pear on sailing days, being off In some blind pig, where thsy hud made ii ... i i mi . .. .. tie most of. the opportunity Many. limes the boats put to sea with mem. hers of the trevr In bad condition, mis Handicap is not met with now. j me sailor knows that hat he can get the result Is that y , what, he wants nnd the he drlnLM nifiiferiitelr. . . . ..' """',. , . ..., ,, ,r ,..r..... law isjcn, gUtu of , ttm9num.nt wou(1 .in excellent our und the License )8 cnl)Ied frnm Wushlngton. hut no loniiinssioners can carry out any. plan of Improvement they deride np on. , i M."y experience has hern that n prohibition law Is a mistake nnd Unit the solution Is high license und ef. Ilclent control." ELIGIBLE FOR . PLEBISCITE 13,274 Could Cast Ballots1 At Next Month's I t x Election The t'uiuuer of voters who will cast ballots In tho July election. """V"'' "''V "l"'' '::':! her of voters between tho elections of minted Land Board Is being held lu 1908 and 1908, the number In tho form-("") Tlirono Iloom of the I'alaco this er year being 13,578 und in tho lattor afternoon, tho members of tho board but 13,274, This falling off Is account- gutting down to business soon after ed for by tho great decrease In the two o'clock. v number of Hawullans, thero being 678, There was a full attendance of the six loss voters of that raco In 1908 (ban mc,niHTs of the board and qoinmls- To offset this drop In (he number flo1nor ol. ,'"!'1llc "'"'"' Caip of Hawaiian voters, however, there be" n",,1 Attorney General Lindsay was an Increase In tho number lu each, wt'r u0' Present lo assist tho board or the othor nationalities the greates In explaining details of tho lands and being In the number of Portuguese. Jhe law. which was 291 In the two years, Thero are a number of Important Again this year It Is expected that questions to como before tho board at theio will be a considerable Increase ttitx tlrst meeting, tho Kapaa lands bo In tho I'oitugucBO voters and tho Jnp- , ,,, flrll, ,)no conll,gere,, nd wllc)l Kr 1 ',.,.. rW, " Is being discussed. I. A. Thurston rnmlnir of v.itlnc oko. Thii Increases by races between the elections or 1900 nnd 1908 woro: Amo rlcan 37, Hrlllsh 3 German 21, I'or- ttigucso 291 Chlncso 51 and Japan- eso 6, Total numbers for cctors n each of the elections since 1902. follow: 1S02, 12C12: 1904, 13.252i ) 000, 13J78' 1908 13 274 ' Studied by nal'loniilliles the reg'lstrn- tlon of vt.crs In tho first election nnd tho last ono show Interesting ebunges, 1 hse flghres show that tho number of electors In tho tWn years nientloned v.eri In 1902: j Hawaiian. 8.080; American .1 932: 3r,c;;irLeS.9V43?'i!S JrSSS: torlng 405, In 1908:' Hawaiian, 8,948; American, 1711: HrltiHh, 600;- Herman, 322: Portuguese, 1 230; Chinese. 272; Japanese, 0; Scattering. 195. a woman reported last night to Thuso figures show that, thore havo C,f mcIJuIIU. that she had been rob bevn Increases In all the natlona Ilea b , f JoweH t MM TV:0 except ""American which havo fallen BU.pCCted and they ayo bo on considerably, ng . y ha ho According to a Missouri court you o get sufficient ovldenco against them are guilty of contributory negligenco if you go nenr a iiiviie. aihiuw ucur- glau. KATE AMENDMENT THHllfiHTTn BE OUT Return ur Kennedy Is surprise 10 Many TRAFFIC REGULATION rVBrPTCn LAULtl tATMItll The business commui.lty general- cation of tho reKulnt'..u of the In terstate Commerce Coinnilwlon to the interlsland traffic of the Territory nHVe about reached the conclusion '"al l" "monument mat was intro ,luce'ln "' u1' bas lieen dropped ","d 'h',e ,', ,0 fUr, 'h'r ,,l"""er ?' the rates being tippled o Hawaii. .,, ,m ',' ,. , ,, ,. return of .r,.Hdent Keunedy from Washington before the ques- Hon w disposed of Ih taken to mean that he had rather deDnlto a. & .KP', ZtWTt suranee that ,.tho amendment vv.n.lVJ,;- W. 3. Cincinnati 3 (rame notjietarrlethrough. - f '& "x nJ tanlnon ascouat It' has been ijcpectod that thepre-. WOril tins been received as vet. Vice. President Mel eun of the Inter-Island states that he has cxpocted to hear, but the cubic Is still silent. JUSTICE MOODY T0RETIRE (Special Bulletin Cable.) WASHINGTON. D. C, June 15. Senator Lodge of Massachusetts has intrrduccd a bill in the Senate per- mitlTfr the retirement of Justice iMc.Jy, lonp; continued illness beinir I the cause of the desired retirement. OF LAND BOARD The first meeting of tho newly np uppenrod before the board for Makeo Bugnr UUinpuny which has arranged an exchungu of land In tho Kapaa hectlon with the government and the papers for which wro all tiled sev (ral weeks ago. . ,, 0)(cl,nng0 ,10 81isnr com. . . .. ,ch t ... m"J '1tU J""" "r "10 f'c"" "'' lands lu Kapaa on a 15 jear lease '! lto may Lo terminated at any tlnm by the .government In cam the lauds are desired for homestead pur- xnc, ' Ti,0 memberB of tho board are mnk ,K themselves fnmlllur with tho con (, , of ,euBe , oxchalU!0 of qr qta .o Thurs on "'" Campbell nnd It Is expected bat the board will bo ublo to finish this work so that the leases may be H(,( t auction on Juno 30. IO wnrrain an urresi -por Rsnt" cards on sale at the Oulletln office. F Y nnQltl nn iLAJJUOIIIUII Resolve Did It (Special Bulletin Cable.) WASHINGTON. D. C. June 15. Representative Bennett of New York recently wired the promoters of the San Fianclsco exposition to (he ef fect that if the bijr Jeffries-Johnson fight v.as allowed to be pulled off in ' that city it would surely defeat thtf Panama exposition resolution in in." tetest of San Francisco. i i DAILY SCORES OF BIG LEAGUES ( Sneeial H it 1 1 r. f t - rM. SAN FKANCI-C0. June 15. Big league baseball games tcday show the following scores: National Boston 2, St. louis 0; New York 5, Pittsburg 1; Brooklyn j. umcago iiourteen tnnini-" ! ' nkf . J ttl , --v7Trl American ai. i,ouis o. washlnM ton 4: Cleveland 0, New York3; unnn a, ijoston a; cmcago 4, Phil-1 adelphia 3 (fourteen inninci). Standing of American League, June 14 Club. w. L. pcti Philadelphia ....... 29 12 .707 New York ....!,.. 27 15 .012 Detroit .. 29 17 .630' lloston :,. 22 20 .523 Cleveland .- 17 21 .447 Washington 20 25 .441. Chicago , 13 24 St. I-ouls g 3 Standing of NatlonaULeague, June 14 J Club. W. L. Petri New York 20 18 Chicago 27 10 Cincinnati 27 19 Pittsburg .. ...... 22 20 llrookljn s.. 21 22 St. Louts . 17 25 lloston 19 ii Philadelphia ...... 18 28 FLOODS TAKE MANY LIVES! BERNE, Switzerland June 15. ' ' Disastrous floods have been sweeping me iivcii oi wwiizcnuuu, mq ocr- vtas ana neigium. uany lives nave t. been lost and much property de stroyed, i i i .-... . . -,,,. , .XJ rUliiilU J.JiJNjJ AND WATERS, !WASHINOT0N. D. C. June 15.- The Senate today passed a bill pro-1 vidintr for the withdrawn! of snectf , fled areas of publio lands, the bill 4. aim (nelmtln- tflfl OflO nflfl tnr trrt. " ' nation purposes. STILL WRANGLE OVER HAWAII Appropriations for Hawaii, either! of a special nature or to be liimpviV lu with appropriations for othor Ter ritories uud dealt out nt the option? of a slnglo offlclal, was the bono contention with the Hnuso of Kepre-J seniniives am ranen tor niucn ue-i bate, rolliwng Is the nrgumeut: The conditions In Hawaii are similar to those that exist In thaJ continental territory of the United! States. Wo have been reaBOiuu fair tu Hawaii and we ought lo liberal toward them In tho future Hawaii has no better friend than am on the floor of the House, btftjj In my opinion, Congress ought consider Hawaiian needs nnd provide for them specifically lu the npproprl- (Continued on Fa Re 10.)' t