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if 7" "W V r f i It... ft I . THE. INDEPENDENT . issued' evekv. mohnino except bunday, hv. Tje. IqdepenHBiife 'Aopiafeion, Corner Alloti Kekvnumoa Rtieel nenr Custom, House Honolnla, H. I. ' DANIEL LOGAN, Editor. ltcsl.llng ou Alnken Street In Honolulu. Subscription Rates Per month, $ 76 Por 3 month in advance 2 00 Per 1 yoarln advance. .......8 00 "the paper U clollvercil by carriers in llio town and RtibnrlM. Advertisements published at roimonablo rate. Special terms for yearly ami half yearly contracts. D. H: LEWIS, Business Manager. PEARL HARBOR. V" The History of its Acqui- sition. . Its location, appear v ANCE AND OTHER CHARACTERISTI.CS k.An'vUuorthodovVievv by a (Continued.) ,TIIE LANDS AND THEIR TIIXE8. it is lib iintisuul thing to find a laVid sohomo, behind propositions ior ino uuiiuioinutt "j " "v. ernmont of any, given piooo of I nninnrtv for Public USD. jjk navy yards Have boon established; . fow outpost: ofiicos r'oreotod fow forts or ,arsonal. ...built without the colored .- man iu,tho woqdpile being unmasked; and suoh gontleman of color very generally stands forth as tho advocate of a land owner or syndicate. And so ' it is in Poarl Harbor, at tho proBont timo. There in a most patriotic doairo on tho part of divers citizens of , Araorjca, who bavo long sinco forsworn thoir natural allegiance for the bonofits of official salary in Hawaii, to oonfor upon their much beloved Uncle Samuel certain lands in and nbont tuolrtgom, in exchange for thoir aforoBaidUnoVs surplus gold coin. Of oourjo, nothing could bormoro disinlereated than j tho ofT.irts , of ..thoso patriotic .gsntlomtn to malco tho doalred oxohanc . Such is' always, tho case, .They itro burning with ardor to see the flag of their native land floating over tho placid wators of tho lagoon, and aro not only willing, but dotorrainod to' proinoto that moat worthy object for a genorourt oousidomti6n4 .But before discussing individual CaBQBand 'lundai'n briof glancojit tho'tit'oa is dosirablo, whoso hist tory is brief, and u'unplo'. Prior to 1843, tho foudal idea that all land is ownocl by tho all bo'oupants1 hold undor hjm and pratioally at his wilt, VoVaiJed in. it's flill vigor jii HlivyaillV But 'this ' yanoo of ofviiization among tho bouplod with. ,thb inRtorialj int'oWats: "of tho forftignbruv then cohata'ntly inoroasirig i'4' numbord in tho 'Jfllands, dpveloped tho, neoesaity of a inoro liberal of land tenuro Henoe in tjio yoar montonod, tho reignins Kin'ff. Kumehimohii iHfir by yirtueof thetoyat grace whloU. found oxprossion in tho act of the vory primitively endowed oxiating under the then recently granted by tho Kinft, m'ado tho GreaVMnholo or Land Division to which all titles rofor and which was tho goiioSisdf th,om'all; ' Tho nrcvailinc ida involved in Jim .Groat Mafiolb Vras to mako a. division' of tho wholo territory into ,throo substantially equal parts, of which tho should continuo to own ono, tho G.vvornmont ono and the pooplo the third. It wits fortii; unto for tho Hawaiian nice that Knmobnmoha was sufliciontly ignorant and unonlightenod not to hnvo learned what, tho domiuaut part in Hawaii today assort and act up and act upon in tlioir intorcourso with . tho community respecting tho do finilion of tlmt phrase, "tho pooplrt." wna sufficiently antiquo in his idois to eitpposo, tlint "tlie pooplo" meant uifd embraced the frwholo body Of his subjo&ta, with out regard to raoo, creed, color or prdvious party affiliation, to 'quote from tho modorn manifestos of American polit'cians. lint bucb bade numbor notions find no j)Iaco in tho Government of to-day ip Hawaii, whoso wlion looking' for a definition of the phrase quotod find it .impossible to see beyond tho little, cliquo of tflions who, by tho graco of Minister Stevous, wore placed in tho political on January 17, 1804, and have sinoo intrenched thomsolvos in " tlieir position;" .while' 'the pooplo," as olsriwhero understood, and ob formerly undorotood in Hawaii, oontentod themselves to await tho answor of tho United States to the protest against tho SteY(ons aggrossion. . As usual in tho caao of a . . K, to tho people. ... Kamouamona cua not nogioct ms own interest in this DiVisiou. Ho tho King, and the solo Judge of' lands W would " to himself, as woll as to tliQ others in in tores t, and in that dual capaoity, it would. bo strange indeed if his intorosts had Tho King selected a loi of lands, by thoir muuos, scatter od over tho entire group of Islands, and tho Government's" portion waB similarly asa'gned. Thon thero Was croatcd a land Commission, for tho settlomont of thef claim of private individuals, whoworo awardod fbr simplotitlos to suoh lands as thoy qould prove they had. provwualy occupied by tho ltoyal assent or acquiosconco, aud oxompt from fedual aorvicos or rental paid to nny surbordinata ohiof . Many thousands of claims woro thus upon, .in a mannor satisfactory to tho and oharoctorizod by a liberality of construction and favor of tho bcp'up;ant ua opposed to'' tli'6 interbt b'f tho ohiof, quite at vnriapdo' will' .'thp spirit of feudalism. Tho awardoea of those claims woro afterward granted ltoyal Patents of their 'limd",' upoh tho paytriont'of almost nominal sumB by way of commutation to tlio Goybniraorit, but tlio thoorV ojf 'suoh 'c)iAniitatio'nf ' (iaj natquito' clear, B(Joing thq Govornmont had no valid claim to , the, landsd awArdedv. j , Tho small holdings thus awnded wero' diirtqd kuloabas, and tho f'AWl 'irnlHivn,!' 1i'nS' 'nmrirf GOU10 'liijto'UBo indi'fHsron'tljf to doscrJb'6 pot only oe.'B n'glit o a piooo jt land, but tho lanuitfi61f,. " OPoouWth'd vftstf'mujorUyi pf tho lands, in ildint'of "arba, thuk . .. - ' I 'Vull I'-.' I !! obbhlod hv.tho hch ohiefa, to Bomo of whom vust oxtonts wpro lyga, by Virtuo of their former I'eietoiao ,6f dpminlon ove? tho V, tonnnls thorcof. ' Tho unit oj land description is tho ahapuaa,a trapt invariabjy running, from, tho sea to tho crest of tho mountains, beyond" wliiah othor ahupuaas extend to tho opposito shore Thoro is history written in this name, which is combined of tho two ojomonts "ahu," a collection,. and 'puna," ' swino: it having boon customary in very nnaiont timos for (lib chief holding . an ithupuaa' (those largor divisions wero al hold by tho qhiofs,) to rdnder an annual tai or rental, to the King, of ono swjnb, for each uhupuan under his dominion. Tlio nroa of those ahupuaas differ widely, and while somo inoludo only a fow hnndrod. ohprs1 embrace many thousands pf ri.crog. Tlnis tlio nh'upuaa bf Ifonouliuli, lying botwepn tho Poarl Harbor Lochs' and tho'crost of tho moutains'; contain ovor COQOO ncros. Within tho dlffuront nhupuati nro ninny kuloanas, originally allotted to tho peasantry. Next smallor than tho ahupuaa, is' tho f'il.i" of which many. are contained jn tio former division, and . still Bmaller is tho "nino," which xnay bo moro than a, house, lot or a taro patch. Each land,, undor of th'.po divisions, has. its soparatq name, howeyor small . in area, showing a prodigious of tho. bump of locality in tho aboriginal Hawaiian. Tho lands', surrounding Pearl .Harbor- aro comprised within comparatively fow grants. Tho ahupuaas aro for tho moat part' of great oxteut, owing ohiofly to tho fact that tho most powerful and influential chiofg wore thoro located in tho. early days. Along tho north and west shores of tht) lagoon; howevor, aro a groat of small kuloanas, indicative of tho higly concentrated population of that locality in timos past,--a foaturq which is still a marked characteristic of tho vicinity, as comparod .with othor districts; ,r ' ; s ' f : "The groat land of Honouliuli, (vhioh inoludes that of Fuuloa, lying to tho westward of tha Harbor awarded to a high Chiofo33 nnmod wifo of the.powerful and popular Koaliiahonui, who diod in the oarly fifties., It has oomti dowh by fow conveyances to tho ownership of Mr Jamea Oampboll, probably tho' moat wealthy rosidont of Hawaii today; and within its bordors is located, tho famoua and rocontly ostablishod Ewa Plantation, whoro tho world's record in sugar oulttiro was laatyear brpkon, liy thoir harvesting within n fraction of ten tons por aero, from an nroa of 125 aorea. From this ownership ip,oxcqptod tho Pquloa' lands, roferrcd to', ' which aro1 tho Propprty'of,Mr Jamea I. Dowsett, ono o tho first children born of whito parents 911 tho Islands, now an oxtonsivo and supcesaful rancher. Theao landa nro dovotod to ranching, whilq noar tho to thoHarbor, salt worka of considerable capaoity .nro profitably Qondnotod by Mr, Dowsett, Ndxt adjoining Hqnouliuh is ' tho ahupuaa of Honoab, comparatively small in area, and then comos tho oxtonsivo'and valuablo Waipio, itv whoso bordors is orabrocod tho poninsula first heroin roforrod to, which runs to tho vory dntranooj of tho lagoon, and separates West Loch from tho ofhor portions of ' ' thoHarbor. Waipip was tho proporty of a vory inilnontinl Hawaii, (tho' not a chief,) pomod John Ii, who braced tho faith, and aqnio of ,tl)Q, thrifty praoticos of tli'o loaVnod to road and writo, rapd was ;tnado u Justioo of tho Bpuromo. Court, a position 'to' jWhich it has nover beou doemod nooossar, in Hawaii, tp appoint radii 16arned in tlio law. Mr Ii died, and loft a daughtor. Sho was solo hoir to the Ji otatp .:.... .....' .: . : X. . .MMi;4MW ,'!!, ' ' H"ti. ' '":': - i ' . -Th el In cieneri den t i" ' Tft ;' 1 Jjjn (, ': , ... ;.' ,, , , - , ' "' , , ., ' '' immmm i'.- "' a ,"-'',', ' ' '," "! ' -:"" .' ' i .,,.;..,".' - "?"" '''J-- No. lO, -) , ''."., Honolulu, H. I., , Saturday,. May 11, 1895. 5 crts. . ' J "4 - 1 . . .- , j3ho married Mr. 0. A. Brown, who with tho pat riotic instinct'of a truo American, plaqos thos'o acrca at tho disposal of his homo Govornmont, with an alacrity that almost vqrgcp upon anxioty to ' dqvolvo thoir owner- t f I TT.I. fl 1 Bliip, upon , his Undo Sainuol. Th6ro comes to him with peculiar forco nnd meaning, as ho stands at timos upon thoolifla of Wijipiok thq Hontimont of Scott's stirring linca: "Ilrcstbci there a man .with tout so dead As never to himself hath said, This Is ray owif, my Nat'e (wlfu's) laud." Tho major section ct tho land sohomo underlying tho Pearl Harbor .Naval relation craze is richt hero at Wninio. ftnd at Fpjd'a Island", now owned by this Bamo patriotic Mr. lirbwn. Tins coritleman weiit all tno way to Colorado .Boiiio ycara asi '" order to by up' .the titio to Ford's Island, frbm a son of tho briginnl Dr. Ford for whom it is so namod. Ho sficurod the deod he wont for, but was soon tiompellcd, (or persuaded) to convoy tho Island to' hid' wifo, n niorlage upon whoso o'tlior hands furniahqd tho funds for thd purchase. That ho had tho contingency 6f qelling tljo Island U tho U.-S. Govornraen in 'mind sufBciontly appears from ''the' fact of his having givon 'hjs vendor a sopanito agrom6nt to pay .him a further suiri of Fbnr toon Thousand Dollars, in pasoho, Brown, should .sell tho Island! to tho United S.tates, ortany othor Govornmont, As )io id now, sdpposqd to hayq beon in "Washington , engaged in tho endoavor to soil to Uncle Sam, and as Ford thinks ho will come out nt tho small end of any doal which Brown may -conduct, and as tho ngroemont for moro inouoy to bo paid Ford up yon tho condition aboyo mentioned was so drawn as to mako it under Hawaiian law, (as a mpans of notifying all.tho woild of Ford's oquitiea, ) Ford is now stated to bo about to begin suit to dqclarb his position -and interest in tho Island. Tho fact taht Mr Brown has most porsistontly doyotod biinsolf to tho entertainment of Admirals Jrwin, "Walkor and Bortrdsice during years" and that his swell dinners to tho officers' mentioned nro famous lends color to tho' belibf that thero may bo somo uhdoratandjng betwqen him and thorn iii tho promisos. ' ' The vicinity of tho Harbor is not doatituto of'other little land projopts whoso adveeatbs look through' a vista having. tho U. S. Toasury at tho othor ond of it.' I Thoro la a variegrttod boom right on tho Pparl City Peninsula, so called for tho reason that 110 "city'' ia apparont in tho locality. That imaginary city wn3 laid out by thoOahu Railway & a corporation running n littfo railroad from Honolulu to Ewa Plantation, n distanco of about 15 raileS, most of whioh Blurts' the lagoon. Tho original "city was platted on tho uplands, funning from tho shore of tho Harbor' to tho mountains, sovoral hitlos away. It was' interBoctod with"' avonuos boaring narapa that sootho, and stroots boaring nuraos that jingle, and a pro.wd, dffsiickora woro ono day corralled in an' auction room) hypnotizod by tho nuctionoorV nii'dtlio wore sold bfl'in:a trico at figures that would create a boom in Ponyqr. Tllia wob Apvdral years. ogd. Tho lota aro still thoro, and" aa vacant aa byor, 01 tlio most part. Th'o projqotor of that sohomo, in showing his imaginary "pijty" to an oht visitor oilo day, roraark'od that' tho ono npodful to mako Poarl City groat and WospoUouS, was a'P)ontiitd,of Alitor', with good sooioty; to which tnq visitor' replied that Hados neododevon less, as itihna tho good society. Having worked tho uplands for all thoy woro worth, tho nrdout projoctcr moyod his papor ''city ' down upph the Peal City Ponin- I Biiln, an"3 laid out more lots, and .'li -...1 -....... it.M would narks, aud avenuoB gVndo a railroad conter iit Qhio. .After much oflbrt ho succooded in giving somo ofthoao nwoytocortain speculators, and swappod, a fow mofo ,foro, diflbront kinds- of old junk. The ono investor, has built sovoral cosy cottages, for which, thoro aro no tenants, nnd n school house,, for whioh thoro aro noithcr teachor nor pupils, anda ohuroh for whiohthoro are no Orshipors; while somo other pwnprs, to a total ofloss than a dozonhavol built littlo damping-out cottages which thej' Boraolimos occupy, and so tlio Peninsula soclion of poarl Oily '. stands. Of course each lot owner as an axo to grind, and wants ' to grind it at tho United States Treasury'. Each' thinks ho Boons', a fortune in his fow square foot of Boil, in case of tho establishment thoro of tho much desirod naval station. Though fow in numbors, thoy are fittted with full lung powor, and mako a good doal of noiso when prating of tha ndvantuges, (to Undo, Sam, of oourso,) of such an establishment. ,' But such philanthropic schemes aro all aliko, in their main features' and symptoms, and' tho Amoricqn public,, having soon bo many need littlo details of description as. to this one. " ', . From Poarl City eastward, and around to tho ontranco to tho Harbor, tho laud is variously owned. Tho Railway Company, tho Crown Land Commissioners, tho great Bishop Estate, arid tho oSlato of tho lato Quoon Emma, (dovoled to' tho support of tho Queen's Hospital in Honolulu,) hold tho larger tracts; nnd, strango to rolato,, thoro is no symptom of a land boonij orpf a sohemo to unload upon Unclo Sam visibla in those localities. (To be concluded.) ALLEN & ROBINSON. 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