OTl 7 ;- it yon want to day's News, to-day rou can II ml it In THE ST All HAWAII The llinrnlinn Mar Is Hi paper thai l?oes Into tho hoot homes of Honolulu I I VOL. X. HONOLULU, H. I., THURSDAY, JULY 31 t9o2. No. 3234 3. ' C (J THE FIRE CLAIMS STAT? " KINA OH E GEAR WILL PRESIDE. AUGUST TERM OF CIRCUIT COURT. AT BIO CItOWD SAW HER DEPART THIS MOIJNING. JAPANESE ON FORT GEORGE CAUSE TROUBLE. C PRIMARIES AND WHERE WERE MAUSERS THE JULIA E. WHALEN SHOWED NONE ON HER MANIFEST. WANTED DC CANDIDATES WASHINGTON tl f- 0 She-Took Small Crowd of Passengers "Will Require About Nino Days To . Hake tho Trip. A big crowd saw the steamer Kinau, Captain Freeman, depart for San Fran cisco this morning. All that was need ed was the presence of tho Territorial band to have made the departure as imposing as the sailing of the regular liners. The vessel did not take a very large list of passengers, but those who did depart on' her, were remembered by their friends, for lels were In profusion. Dr. Monsarrat was a passenger. The crowd said he had gone to see some of tho hot games of baseball that are played ty the California League. "Billy" Fennell, who has been with the Wilder S. S. Company for a num ber of years, and who was until re cently at Mahukona, signed as purser. The vessel took a good sized crew rep resenting all departments on the steamer. It, B. Selke, who was for merly mate on the tug Fearless, and who had been acting as assistant har bormaster up to the time of signing with tho Kinau, went as first officer of the steamer. A. V. Inman was chief engineer. The vessel backed out from the Wil der slip Into the stream a few minutes after 8 o'clock this morning, and promptly got under way. She gave three farewell whistles as she went ahead and was saluted In turn by the tugs Eleu, Fearless and the quarantine launch Oahu. It is expected that the vessel will take aboutnlne to ten days in which to make thetrlp to San Fran cisco, where she will remain four months undergoing various repairs and renovations. The passengers departing on her were Dr. W. T. Monsarrat, Mrs. Steele and four children, Mrs. Clark and daughter, Mrs. Inman and child, and Mrs. Gardner. The following officers were shipped on the Kinau: W. Freeman, master; It. B. Selke, first officer; George Hald arn, second officer; A. V. Inman, chief engineer; James P. Lynch, first assist ant; H. F. Moclne, second assistant; Jj. Self, R. V. Jellings, J. Naevura, quartermasters; Louissalnt, chief stew art; W. P. Fennell, purser; and a crew of twenty-five men. THE CHARACTER OF WILCOX'S CAMPAIGN ON KAUAI. SMALL AUDIENCES; EMBARRASS ING QUESTIONS. Wilcox Says Some of the Maul and Hawaii Home Rulers Went Back On the Party. The kind of reception Wilcox receiv ed on Kauai Is indicated by a meeting .held at Hanalel July 24.The elders of the native church there refused Wilcox the use of the church building for his meeting on the ground that he did not represent the Hawaiian people. There were only ab"out forty people at the meeting including men women and children, although the Hanalel contains over 200 natives. Senator Kalauokalanl was the first speaker at this meeting. His address was very brief excusing himself be cause there were no lights explaining that they could not get the church, at which some one asked why they were not allowed the use of the church, but to this Kalauokalanl made no reply. After a few Introductory remarks he said: "Fellow citizens, you have heard that Prince Kuhlo and some few others of the Home Rulers have bolted from us. Why? Because they have been .'bought and are a unit with or have become- the tools -ofThruston arid Kin ney. I ,atn not very much in favor of county government because when we are under such, you Kauaians will have the right to pubs loan acts as you wish, and others the same." Senator Isaac Kahlllna said: "I have seen In the paper accusations against (Continued on page three.) The Oriental Life Insurance Company sells all modern forms of policy. En dowment, Limited Payment and Straight Life. i Our Best Service is at Your Disposal ..LID 023 Fort Street APOLOGIES AND PROMSES SECOND PRECINCT CLUB OF THE FOURTH PUTS ITS SLATE, UP JUDGE GEAR AS A CONGRESSION AL CANDIDATE. 'Cabby" Brown May Run Repub licans, Democrats and Kuokoa Ad vised to Support One Candidate. Next Saturday night Is the Repub- llcan primary night, and s nco the nominations were made nearly n week an excellent show' of being made a law! ago, the rival candidates have done a This Is tho present standing of tho 13 good deal of quiet working. There is sue." an Interesting situation In the second , Fire Commissioner J. G. Pratt re precinct of tho fourth, district, where turned from Washington on the Ven the vote will be very large, and in tho tura, after over two months assiduous seventh of the fifth, where rival fac- work on the fire claims relief measure tions are struggling for supremacy, as a representative of the Chamber of there will be another warm contest. I Commerce and the Merchants' Asso The precinct club of the second pre- 'elation Is still hopeful of the ultlmate clnct of the fourth district, has agreed 1 'V successful Issue of the memorial upon Its "slate," and In caucusses that I "II will be impossible for me to go have been held, it has been agreed by lnt more than the general story. with a large element of the voters of the you untH 1 have made my report to the precinct to unite upon the men named combined associations," said Mr. Prr.tt oh this slate. At the nomination meet- I tllls morning. "From the time I arriv ing tho executive committee reported 1 ed on April 22 until Congress took their Its recommendations In the form of a recess- every minute was occupied I "slate," but a number of other nomln- can n8Eure you. I have gone after ele atlons were offered, showing a good ven o'clock at night to get a few words deal of opposition to the slate. For wltn a 8enatr u'bo had nn appointment the district committee the nominations ?llth Senatr Hale to talk with him on were especially numerous. There are Pls way t0 see the President the follow- 3fi names nn? nnri m mom tr. v ni, The club slate was a result of caucus- ses In which the factions made mutual concessions and put up a ticket repre- senting both sides The Territorial convention ticket of the club bears the following names: R. W. Aylett, Jonah Kumalae, J. H. T Fusing AldjeWCampbBe.lWil8Ki Kamanoulu j' W Jones ' a"U ..J0"ei-. being warmly suppor ed or the Te - t Hawaii's Interests being push rltonrlal"coTveyt.onP?srtAt torney Vt. o" l th d6tr1' Rawlins, who has the support of many ..You all kn'ow down here from the of the younger element. Rawlins Is a 'preS8 what has been openly accompllah SfJ0.11?8 a"orney. and, " is pre- ;ed. I secured tho hearty consent and lmed a,h? wiU ca!Ty a MSe yote- co-operation of the California delega The district convention club ticket ! tlon through the hearty approval of contains the names of R. W. Aylett, J. I their commercial bodies with Hawaii's Waterhouse, Jonah Kumalae, J. K. 1 request. Of course that was a business Kamanoulu. Charles Zeigler, Charles ' arrangement. What benefited Hawaii Crozier, J. Lucas, William Jocher, J. A. benefited California but the help was Gllman, J. P. Cooke, F. J. Church, C. ' substantial. When I arrived- in -Wast.- B. Wilson, G. B. McClellan. G. E. Smithie3, Moses Keliiaa, M. K. Naha- lau, Frank Manoha, J. D. Marques, J. H. Craig. THE WEATHER. Weather Bureau, Punahou, lp. m. Wind light northeast; weather clear but with tendency to showers. Morning minimum temperature, 71; midday maximum temperature, St; ba rometer, 0 a. m.. 29 98 steady (corrected for gravity); rainfall, 24 hours ending 9 a. m., .25; dew point, 9 a. m. 69; humi dity, 9 a. m., 75 per cent. CURTIS J. LYONS, Observer. CHINA ACCEPTS. PEKING, July 19. The Chinese offi cials have formally notified the minis ters of the powers of their acceptance of the conditions of the restoration of Tlen-Tsln to China. EX-SECRETARY ILL. WASHINGTON, July 19. Hilary A. Herbert. Secretary of the Navy under President Cleveland's last ndmlnlstra- tlon. Is lying very 111 in a hospital in this city. He Is suffering from typhoid fever. O. R. & L. CO. EXCURSIONS. During the Merchants' Fair week ex- cnpalnn Hnlrota will lip nn rd!a nt nil of the O. R. & L. Co. stations. 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PING SPECIAL COMMISSIONER PRATT REVIEWS THE SITUATION Lack of Statistics and Proofs Delayed Matters Cannon Not Hostile Bill Is Now on Calendar. "The Fire Claims measure Is em phatically not a dbiid Ibsiip. it In jton tho culendar for consideration after 1 tho recess as an original mnnsnrn nn.i despite the thousands of bills on the 1 cndar that" have never yet b en tnkorf- at.,.i ,.,i,. lng morning. Every minute Is IniDort- ant especially when you arrive at a J" B w,'e" everyone nas tneir nanus overflowing with their own 'business. It is asking a material favor la Lna'?r,er congressman to jilay for ?L ,henna; wfnard8 th.at he en' "I'0 nn, "ay n 'V0 " 1?e h" n conentT to I I,00!i after and tliey aro VCI-y Jeilloua o I their own Interests naturally and would ington I had already Wired the gov ern'or, the delegate and others that I was coming and for what purpose. Mr, Boyd met me at the depot and we all the governor, Mr. Boyd, Mr. Thurston, Mr. Hayvood conferred together while I got In touch with Senators Clark and Mitchell, Representative Mondell and others of my personal friends. "There were many handicaps. Mr. Wilcox was sick and unable to be on the floor when his measures came up. This was unfortunate although we made of our very weakness, strength In appealing for old, as we had none to help us, our congressman being 111. "Then there was my lack of statis tics. I did not know the exact amount of the fire claims. I did not have a whole lot of prima facie evidence, vouchers photographs and correspon dence which were vital. I was asked by one of the members of the commit tee on the Pacific Islands and Porto Rico Mr. Mallory a very clever lawyer, the pertineht question, "Do we havo to take your word for all this Mr Pratt?' It was a lengthy Job to uneartli (the correspondence be'tween Governor Dole and the State Department which showed that the federal officials here were cognizant and practically directing affairs and that President McKinley approved, practically, of the payment of claims. I had n'o actual dates and "e mass of (lied correspondence nt Washington Is no light matter to go through even with the cordial assist ance of the department. When the de legate's bill asking for remission of the custom's dues came up the organ of the administration, tho Washington Post, ridiculed the Idea In Its Columns. Mr. Thurston Immediately replied and ul timately we showed that Hawaii while annexed at the time of the outbreak and its suppression, really had no machinery of its own, that every local official was practically a quasi-federal official, and that during this inter-reg-num period, we had funds coming in that would have paid our Indebtedness. This done there was the task to get committee members Interested. I might say right here that we brought up the matter directly In committee to save time and really the procedure gave it a strength that It will not iossess as an original measure. Had we first in troduced It as such it would have only harked back to the committee af ter the second reading. Then there are prejudices. Some objected to the ap propriation If any large percentage was going to Chinese or aliens. Others Insisted ton the ten per cent lawyers' tfee clause. The committee Introduced that, claiming that If the fees were contingent It would be the attorneys' Interests to make the claims as large as possible. "Time was so limited that my bulky exhibits, my arguments compiled after long work, had to be boiled down bo fore they Would handle them. Joe Can non wanted me to reduce the wholo affair to about five hundred words. I got It down to five pages after an all night session. Mr. Cannon Is not hos tile to the measure. He took his stand ton his position ns tho "watchdog of the treasury," ns chairman and because he had not had time to thoroughly ac quaint himself with the merits or de merits of the case. "The fight between the two bodies over the Senate amendments to the Army and Navy bill was also unfor tunate, coming nt It did right before the introduction of tour request. The House was disinclined to ask for the amend ments on its own bill Including the big appropriations for tho various exposi tions and Hawaii under the . circum stances. "Most crushing blow of all, after we had been referred back and forth to this (Continued on page five) COL. FITCH'S GREAT TACTICAL COUP. If the. Whalen Could not Land on One Side, try the Other But There Is only One Landing. It Is not thought by sea-faring men that Cnpialn Rosehlll and his Mauser armed peaceful expedition has vnf hr,,i any occasion In persuance of his secrei Instructions, to use his Mauser rifles in enforcing peace on the Japanese on Marcus Island or on tho Japanese crui ser Kasaglo which sailed from Yoko hama for Marcus Island, JuW 24 or 25. lit Is not thought by those who know uiewesiern seas that he has arrived tneie yet. Captain Rosehlll himself ex pected It would take a month to reach his destination. The Ventura from the coast yester day brought news that the Japanese (tMivernmeni claimed Marcus Island by right of discovery la 1879 and by annex, aiion In it, and that the cruiser Ka- sagie was to be sent to head oft Captain Robehill's expedition and maintain Jap anese possession and soverplirntv. Tho (dispatches state further that the State iJepartment at Washington had sent word to Captain Rosehlll not to resist the Japanese. Col. Thomas Fitch tine of the pro moters of the Marcus Island expedition is uuoiea-as saying that Captain Rose hlll left here with secret IiiBtructioni and armed with Mauser rifles and am- munition. 'these secret Instructlonr were in short to effect a peaceful land Jlngif possible, and falling In that ti sail away out of sight, returning to the other side of the Island under cover of night, anchor his vessel, leaving it In icnarge or tnree men, anuwlth the othei seven, armed with Mausers and the American flag, land, establish a camp hoist the American ffag and keep It there until it should be torn down by superior force. Captain Rosehlll when leaving said If he could not make a peaceful land ing he was going to return here and appeal to the State Department. There ore two or three things In Col. Fitch's secret instructions that are en tirely new. One of them is the Mauser rifles. Collector Stackable !s authority tor stating that the Julia E. Whalen's manifest showed no Mauser rifles. If they were aboard and not manifested there may be some trouble with the na vigation laws. Captain Rosehlll said a landing could be effected only on one. side of the island, so he may have some difficulty In effecting Col. Fitch's great tactical coup. The contents of the letter given by ihe Japanese Consul, Mlkl Salto, to the proiectois of the Marcus Island prop osition and which was carried by Cap tain Rosehlll to be presented by him to any Japanese In possession, have never been made public. It Is said by the promoters that the letter was one of assurance to any Japanese on Aiar cus Island tha' the expedition was first and last, a peaceful one, further ad vising them not to resist any attempts of landing on tha part of the Rosehlll expedition. Consul Mlkl Salto stated this morn ing that he was too busied at the mo ment with other Important matters to be able then to grant an Interview up on the eubject. It Is not generally thought that Mr. Salto was Informed oy the promoters at the time the let ter was applied tor that the men of the peaceful expedition were armed with .iauser rifles and ammunition, nor that tho Instructions to the matter of the Julhi K. Whalen were to erect the American Hag and keep the same fly ing until torn down by a superior force. It Is not thought likely by those Interested enough In the matter to talk about It, that the consul would have written a letter intended to give his countrymen confidence In the peaceful character of the Julia E. Whalen ex pedition, If he had been Informed that It was an armed expedition as well as a peaceful one. A little later In the day Mr. Salto stated that he could not exactly re member the tsrm3 of the letter that he had given to the promoters of tha ex pedition, but that he did not write In such terms as he had been quoted ns having done. He added that Mr. Fitch had called upon him asking him to give him a letter to such Japanese as might be upon the Island, saying that the island belonged to tho Americans and that they should therefore allow them to take possession as their right. "This I could not and did not do," said Mr. Salto, "as I had no knowledge of the exac status of the Island, also It would have been out of my province to have told the Japanese there now to act with regard to the landing. I can not remember the exact terms of my letter but It was nothing like that." The Washington Stur throws down the fee simple title proposition pretty hard, and does not have much comfort to give guano titles and American sov ereignty. It says: "An Inspection of the government records of what are known as auano Island' entries discloses the fact that In 1889 Capt. Rosehlll, an American, lodged notice of the discovery by him of Marcus Island, In the western Pa cific, and claimed the right to exploit It for guano. The State Department Is not required -by the luw governing Gu ano Island entries to pass upon the sufficiency of any such claim as that made by Capt. Rosehlll. Tho depart ment simply receives such notice for tho purpose of record. Another sec tion of the law requires the claimant to aguano island to make out a bond, the -purposo of which s to see thai lit does not charge an exorbitant price foi the guano; that the island claimed by him rtoe.1 not belong to tny other coun try and that he will vacate It when lit has taken away the guano. There Is (Continue on page five.) Demanded To Be Paid Oft In Honolulu But They Had Shipped for a Coast Port. It Is expected that the American ship Fort George which Is now lying at an ohor off the harbor, will sull this af ternoon for San. Francisco. The vessel would have gotten away yesterday or the day befoie, had it not been for n kick which some of her original crew made about securing their discharge at this port. The vessel started originally from Port Townsend for Port Pirie and Australian ports, the final port of des tination being cither some California or Washington place. The crew which uumbeied about 21 men. signed tho articles which required them to remain with the vessel during the entire trip. Some of tho crew were paid oft in Aus tralia but the majority remained with her. She was out 103 days from Port l'Irie to Honolulu, so by the time this port was xeached the original crew iiad probably tired of the shin. In any event, headed by a Japanese boatswain inose or the original crew aboaiM de manded that they bo paid off at this port. They insisted that they had ship ped under Amerieun laws, they had the right to demand their dlschurge at the first American port reached, which was Honolulu. Their shipping articles were read by the local shipping commissioner und it was discovered that the claim was not sustained by the conditions of the arti cles. Thl fact was made known to the crew hv John Pl"a th noting shinning commissioner, this afternoon, so It (a expected that the vessel will get un der way for San Francisco without fur ther delay. Quite a number of Japanese seamen have been coming to Honolulu on sail ing ships and Invariably the crowds have demanded their discharges. This occutcu wan snips the Hawaiian islea and tho Bangalore, both of which ar rived In port recently. BIG CROWD AT PACIFIC MAIL WHARF TODAY. Friends of Mr. and Mrs. W. Porter Boyd Crowd the Vesoel To Say Aloha. The departure of the Nippon Maru for the Orient today was of more than usual Interest, for. In addition to the Chinese Consul Wong Wei Pin being a passenger, W. Porter Boyd, the local shipping commissioner was a pa3sen fer for Shanghai, accompanied by his wife. Several prominent Japanese people also took passage for, Yokoha ma. M. "Mark" Hannn, who' has been a prominent member of the Healanl Yacht & Boat Club, and was also In the registry department of the local post office, went to Yokohama wher. he will engage In business. I. Eisen berg, a commercial traveller, who stopped over here from a recent ves sel, resumed his voyage to the Orient. The steamer was thronged with thrc different sets of people who had gone to bid friends farewell. Both decks were crowded, and tho shore gong had to be sounded several times before everybody could be gotten ashore. The friends and family of Mr. and Mr. and Mrs. Boyd were on the vessel In the greatest number, and Mrs. Boyd was covered with lels of ajl descrip tion. Mi. Boyd was generously treat ed, being the recipient of many lels. Consul Yang Wei Pin was also at tended by friends, as were the depart ing Japanese passengers, Consul Mlkl Salto and members of the Japanese consulate being present. The Nippon Maru arrived last even ing about 8 o'clock from San Francis co. She has over 3,000 tons of freight for the Orient, but carries few passen gers. While being docked she shoved her nosi into Naval Wharf No. 1, but the damage did not amount to very much. The Nippon Maru brought 200 sacks of mall representing five days later mail and news. Captain William Woodu3 Greene, her regular master, was In command, as he recoevred from his attack of heat exhaustion which was felt first in Honolulu . Quite an odd coincidence occurred with the arrival of the Nippon Maru. It was on her that May Yohe and Cap tain Bradlce Strong eloped from, San Francisco to the Orient about a year ugo, both of them passing through Ho nolulu at the time, and now at the end of that time, tho Nippon brings tho news of tho captain's desertion of the woman and the Disappearance of her Jewelry. Baking Powder Made from pure crearri of tartar. Safeguards the food against alum Alum bakin? powders are thi greatest I rocuaccis to ueaan ot me present any. OVt BAKINO POWOCfl CO.. NEW YORK. SAW DEPART Grand and Trial Jurors to bo Summon edDepositions In Behalf of Kentucky Bill. The first "circuit court bailiffs are out again after Grand and petit Jurors, ns a new term of the court begins next Monday. Judge .Gear will be the pre siding Judge, Humphreys having taken his turn as presiding judge duiing tho present speciul term. Next term will be Humphreys' last on the bench, as his resignation takes effect on September 1, notice to that effect having been re ceived from the Department of Jus tice. The calendar next term will be bigger than ever, it is now being printed, and contains In addition to the other long list of cases, the'78 fishery rights cases. These will probably not bo heard as two test cases have been decided and appeals havo been taken to the Su preme court. Without these, however, the list of civil causes Is a very loni? one. Among the criminal trials is that of. Kentucky Bill, charged with murder. His attorneys, i.. C. Peters and C. F. Reynolds, todny asked the court for an order to take depositions in California. Inquiries have been made in the former homes of Kentucky Bill and his fellow townsmen lve him a very good charac ter. As these depositions cannot be here In time for the beginning of tho term, further continuance will be ask ed for. FOURTH ELECTION DISTRICT NEWLY SUB-DIVIDED. Too Late to Change the Present Re publican Precinct Organization and It Will Be Maintained. Governor Dole today issued a procla mation changing the precinct subdivi sions of the Fourth Election district, and dividing the district into eight pre cincts insteud of seven, ns formerly. The old .lines of division were Incon venient to voters, in thut many of them had a very long way to go to polling places. In the new urrangement all that part of the election district outside of the District of Honolulu is made one precinct, with a polling place at the Wnlamanalo school house. There are seven other precincts, with polling places In various parts of Honolulu. The change goes Into effect nt once. and it calls for some changes In pre cinct club rolls, but they cannot be made this year. The district is now di vided Into seven precincts, each of which have formed clubs, elected officers, and made nominations for the prima ries next Saturday evening. These or ganizations will be continued, as it is too late to begin all over again for this campaign. The primaries will be held on baturdny evening according to the present precinct organization. On election day, however, the present system cannot be maintained, as voters must go to the polling places of tho le gal precincts within which they reside. It will be ui to every voter therefore to find out whether the precinct club with which he has enrolled Is really In his own legal precinct. After election, ths party organlutlon will be made to con form to the precinct divisions Just es tablished, so that, there will be elglit clubs in the fourth district; as there are elglit precincts, by the time the next primaries are held. The boundaries of the new precincts are published In full, ns a Proclamation In this issue of The Star. BEDSPREADS. Big values in bedspreads nt L. B. Kerr & Co., Ltd. The largest assort ment In the city with prices ranging, from 65 cents to ?G. FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. Don't forget Camarlnos of the Cali fornia Fruit Market when you want fruit and vegetables. He always has on hand a fresh supply of both Califor nia and Island fruits. Telephone Main 378. Every lady will want a pair (If these slippers. They are Queenly In shape and quality. Made of Ideal Kid with slide buckle and ribbon bow. Set on the graceful Louis heel. J5.00 BUYS A PAIR. COMPANY. LIMITED 1057 FORT ST. PRECINCTS CHANGED 9 1 4 i