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SECOND EDITION.
TWELVE PAGES
HONOLULU, HAWAII, MpNDAY, APRIL 24, 1911.
TWELVE PAGES
No. 5941
fi - VOL. XIX.
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(Associated Press Cable to tho Star.)
TOKIO, April 24 Tho' S. S. Asia struck Finger Rock In a fog Sunday
and Is a total loss. Tho steamer Cohang Sin saved all on board.
Steamer Is Sunk.
TOKIO, April 24 Tho Asia was feeling her way towards Shanghai at
tho time o tho accident. Her wireless signals of distress reached tho
America Maru, bound for Hongkong, and she responded and reached tho
sceno In tho afternoon but was unablo to penetrate tho fog. When the
fog lifted the America Maru found the passengers, crow and malls on board
the Coharig Sin, which proceeded to Shanghai, tho America taking tho
crew to Hongkong. Tho Asia is reported sunk.
Tho startling news was received
In shipping circles this morning that
tho well-known Pacific Mall liner
Asia had been wrecked off Finger
Island, near Shanghai, yosterday.
Tho crew and tho passengers wero
all saved.
Tho information was contained In
a telegram to the Merchants' Ex
change, which read: "Asia sunk off
Finger Island. Total loss. Passen
gers and crow saved."
It was .assumed that tho China was
near Shanghai when she was
wrecked, for she was due there to
day from Hongkong en route to San
Francisco, via' Nagasaki, Kobe, Yoko
hama and Honolulu, her date of arri
val here being May 12. Further Infor
mation concerning the disaster that
has overtaken tho popular little ship
. will no doubt come In later messages.
The Asia was a favorite interme
THE SENATOR ARRIVES AT
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neneafii'a larce nlciare of Hawaiian
laborers with banjos and mandolins,
"singing a Hawaiian love song In cele
bration of their release from ship
board" the San Francisco Chronicle of
April 18 has, the following:
One hundred and twenty-five boyish-
looking brown nien from the Hawaiian
Islands poured down the gangway of
the steamer Senator yesterday after
noon singing "Aloha Nul," the Hawaii
an "Juanlta," and with their disap
pearance like a scattering flock of
sheep into the streets of the city the
second, labor-gathering fiasco of tho
Alaska Packers' Association was
brought to an end.
This second failure to enlist men
from the Hawaiian islands to work in
the Alaskan salmon canneries for the
season just beginning has cost the
Alaska Packers' Association from $20,-
000 to $40,000, although local agents
of the company claim to know nothing
of the chartering of the -Senator to
bring laborers from Honolulu. '
The first fiasco was the jumping of
their contracts by 275 Filipinos, Porto
Rican3 and Hawaiians, recruited at
Honolulu by agents of the Alaska
Packers' Association, when they ar
rived here on the steamer Korea.
Not Allowed to Land.
Tho Senator arrived in the bay Sun-
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WASHINGTON, D. C, April 13.
George W. Woodruff, at present an at
torney for tho Pocahontas Coal Com
pany, of West Virginia, and formerly
one of the United otates Judges lor
tho District of Hawaii, Is an applicant
, .in nf Aaslstant Attorney.
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General for the Interior Department, a
position ho held during tho adminis
tration of Secretary Garflold, and prior
tn Ms nnnnintment to the Hawaiian
Judgeship. Tho new Secretary of the
Interior, Walter L. Fisher, Is reported
as having favored Mr. Woodruff s can
didacy until ho consulted with Attor
ney General Wlckersham concerning
the matter. The Attorney General, It
is understood, discouraged tho Secre
tary of tho Interior in his advocacy of
Mr. Woodruff's application. It Is stat
ed ho called the attention of tho Sec-
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diate steamer on this run, having
been running out of this port for
many years. Captain Gaukroger was
in charge of her, and associated with
him wero First Officer J. Hill, Chief
Engineer S. Aitken, Purser M. H.
Hunt, Acting Freight Clerk H. H.
Berg and Dr. Karl Osterhaus as
surgeon.
Tho Asia was an old boat, having
been built in 18S3 at Belfast Jy the
well-known firm of Harland, Wolff &
Co. She was formerly the White
Star liner Doric. Her net tonnage
was 2,936 and her gross 4,080. She
was 440.9 feet long.
There is no information available
concerning the passengers, but R. D.
Mead, of the Planters' Association,
thinks that there were about one
hundred Filipinos on board on their
way here to work on the plantations.
day morning and after tying up
at
quarantine, proceeded to an anchorage
in Mission bay. The laborers were
not allowed to land, and some thirty
of them were persuaded to go aboard
the Star of Italy, which was waiting at
anchor near by to take aboard all of
the Hawaiians. She was to have sail
ed for Bristol bay, Alaska, yesterday
afternoon.
The rest of the men refused to stir
from the Senator and would not con
sent to being transferred to the Star
of Italy. They demanded to be put
ashore, 'where they could sign con
tracts with agents of the packers,
Tho men were kept aboard Sunday
night and efforts were renewed yes
terday morning to persuade them to
go aboard the Star of Italy and finish
the trln to the Alaskan canneries. An
drew Nelson, a cannery boss In the
employ of the Alaska packers; tried to
reason with the men, but they remain'
ed obdurate.
Seeing that argument was useless,
the Senator was ordered to dock and
nut the men ashore. She moved up to
dock No. 9 at 4 o'clock in the after
noon and a few minutes later the
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retary to the very active opposition of
- j the Senate Committee on Judiciary to
- Mr. Woodruff's nomination as Federal
Judge for Hawaii, based, not upon any
personal or political grounds, but upon
the belief that he was not qualified as
a lawyer to successfully mi tne posi-
I m
lion, tie aiso, n la sum, cunuu mu in
tention of the Secretary to tho fact
that after protracted opposition Mr,
Woodruff's nomination was confirmed
but that ho hold the judgeship for but
two or three months only, seriously In
convenienclng tho Department of Jus
tlce by accepting the place and resign
lng in so short a time.
In view of tho representations made
by tho Attorney General It Is now stat
ed that Mr. Woodruff will not bo np
pointed Assistant Attorney General
for tho Interior Department.
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SUPPLIES
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LABOR
RECORD
APPOINTMENT
SENSATIONAL ROAST
IN PUBLIC OF TH
LAND
A hundred or more Representatives,
Senators, prospective land purchasers
and spectators on tho steps of tho
capltol at noon today wero partici
pants In or witnesses to an emphatic
denunciation of Land Commlsloner
Mars ton Campbell,
Tho occasion was the advertised
sale of some twenty and odd beach
lots at Kawalloa on the windward side
of this Island.
Josh Tucker, Campbell's right hand,
man in office work, read the notlco of
sale and then announced that "by or
der of the land commissioner the sale
was postponed until May 1."
Attorney Wade Warren Thayer
stepped forward and said: "I wish at
this time to enter an emphatic pro
test against the postponement of this
sale. It has been duly advertised for
today, after a delay of about nlno
months and then the land commis
sioner, without any excuse, announces
a postponement for the purpose,
probably, of allowing some of his
Gov. Frear today vetoed the John
A. Cummins relief bill, In a message
reading as follows:
"The object of this bill Is to pay to
John A. Cummins the amount of a fine
of $5,000 which he paid sixteen years
ago under a sentence based on a plea
of guilty.
"There Is much in this case to ap
peal to sentiment and "sympathy, and
for that reason it lsbottudiUlcult.and
unpleasant to consider the bill upon
its merits. It Is unfortunate that this
matter, recalling, as It does, the cir
cumstances out of which this case
arose, should bo reopened. Looking at
tho matter from the standpoint of
broad policy, the repayment of the
fine in question would tend to serve
as an embarrasing precedent in other
cases that might appeal to sentiment,
and especially in the other cases
which arose out of tho same circum
stances. Mr. Cummins was the only
one out of about one hundred and nlne-
ty who escaped imprisonment by pay-
lng a fine. A recognition of his claim
might well be regarded as a recogni
tion of the claims of the others, and
there would be as much logic in com
pensating the others for their several
Sunday Theaters Bil
Killed I
Senator Qulnn's bill to permit tho
opening of theaters on Sunday was
wiped off tho legislative slate this
morning when tho House by a record
ed vote of twonty-five to four sustain
ed a majority report of tho health and
police committeo against the bill.
Tho committee's majority consisted
of all its members except tho chalr-
man, Coney, who merely appended his
non-concurrence with the recommend
ation that tho bill bo tabled. Immedi
ately on presenting tho report the
chairman moved that 'it be laid on
the table. This motion was lost on
tho following vote, and then tho ma
jority report was adopted, which tab
led the bill:
Ayes Affonso, Coney, -Long, Wat
kins 44.
Noes, Archer, Castlo, Cockett,
Cooke, Corroa, Halo, Holstoin, Huddy,
Kamanoulu, Kanekoa, Kawaakoa, Ka
wowohl, Kelllnol, Mahoo, Makekau,
Marcalllno, Moanaull, Rico, Rickard,
Sheldon, Tavares, Towso, Waiaholo,
Williamson, Yates 25.
Paiolo Water.
A report of the finance committeo
was adopted which carried on second ernor had signed Act 124 to glvo tho
reading tho bill to provido for acqulr- rights of eminent domain to lncorpor
lng Pololo water rights. nted Irrigation companies, Act 125
Railroad Trespass Bill. amending tho Infectious diseases law,
A conforenco report on tho rail-
road
trespass bill, favoring its pas-
COMMI
friends to go over and tako a look at
tho lands. It Is a dirty, rotten deal.
It Is a damned outrage, and I want
you to make a noto of this protest."
Another prospective purchaser
Spoke up and said: "Yes, Campbell
has gone away and left Tucker to do
the dirty work for him."
Tucker smiled In an embarrassed
manner, saying ho was obeying or
ders, whoreupon bystanders patted
him on tho back and said they knew
ho was not to blame.
Thayer represented four clients.
Judge Andrado, a member of the
land board, was among the crowd, but
whether as a spectator or a purchaser
did not appear.
Charles Frazler and a string of men
who months ago asked for the lands
at Kawalloa were In attendance.
Thayer remarked aloud that ho hop
ed here were legislators present who
could hear the protest against the
postponement of tho sale.
There were.
periods of Imprisonment as in compon-
sating him for the fine which he paid.
"Be that as it may, there seems to
be- an Insuperable legal objection to
this bill. The fine, when paid, became
public money. That particular money
was expended lone ago by the Repub
lic of Hawaii, but, whether It was or
not, and even if it had been paid to
the Territory. .of Hawaii, its payment
tua privtito individual,-orilheipaymeut
of a like sum out of other public mon
eys, would come within the constitu
tional inhibition against the use of
public moneys for private purposes. A
bill of this kind is not an exercise of
the pardoning power, for that is ypst-
ed solely In tho executive, and even
the executive could not exercise that
power In such a way as to remit a fine
already paid under a legal judgment.
This case is not one of those In which
a legislative body may authorize tho
repayment' of moneys paid under a
mistake of fact or oven moneys paid
under a mistake of law. In such
cases the question Is merely one of
policy. The money Is tho people's, for
the people; that Is, for public purposes
and cannot lawfully be diverted to pri
vate purposes."
saeg as It came from the Senate ex-
cept to change the penalty from $50
to $10, was adopted by 20 to 10, those
voting no being Affon'so, Archer, Ko
Hlnol, Long, Makekau, Marcalllno, Mo
anaull Waiaholo, Williamson and
Yates. Affonso wanted to defer tho
bill for discussion, It then being after
12 o'clock, as the Senate had put in
tho bill a provision that the Houso
nfte rmuch deliberation had rejected-
namoly, that of non-liablllty of rail
roads for the killing or Injuring of
any trespasser. His motion to defer
consideration was lost, and tho vote
on the report taken immediately with
the result stated.
Prohibition for Women,
After a good deal of debate action
was deferred on tho resolution Intro
duced by Fernandez to prohibit the
salo of liquor to women by wholesale
dealers. .
Inheritance Tax.
Senate bill to amend the Inheritance
tax law was tabled at tho lnstanco
of tho finance committee.
New Laws.
Notlco was received that the Gov-
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Very Big Vote
LABOR UNION
ACCUSE BURNS
OF CONSPIRACY
(Associated Press Cablo to tho Star.)
INDIANAPOLIS, April 21 Tho grand Jury is investigating tho labor
officials hero who declaro that a conspiracy Is under way to injure labor
unionism. The prisoners are en route to Los Angeles. Detective Burns is
securing evidence in various filacos.
y THE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS.
EL PASO, April 24 The negotiations for peace are proceeding.
FOR DIPLOMATIC POSTS.
.WASHINGTON, April 24 The President has nominated Henry S. Bon
tell for minister to Switzerland, Edwin V. Morgan for minister to Portugal
and Maurico Swanson for Minister to Norway.
THE BASEBALL RECORDS. .
SAN FRANCISCO, April 24. American: New York C, Washington 3;
Chicago 2; Cleveland 5; Boston 1; Philadelphia 5; Detroit 7; St. Louis 6'.
National: Brooklyn 0, Boston 5$; Philadelphia 4, New York 1; Cincinnati
7; Chicago 4; St. Louis C; Pittsburg 5, eleven Innings.
(MORNING CABLE REPORT.)
INDIANAPOLIS, April 23. After months of quiet work, Detective Wil
liam Burns arrested in this city yesterday John J. McNamara, secretary o
tho International Structural Iron Workers' Association, on a charge of be
ing accessory to the blowing up of the Times building in Los Angeles, Oc
tober 1 last.
Ninety-four sticks of dynamite of tho samo brand as that which was
used to blow up tho Times building and five hundred caps were found in
(Continued on
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SCHOOL
TEACHER
SCA10AL0U
' OF HILO'S PEDAGOGUES1 QUARREL
The inquiry into the Hllo High "I have never seen a hula dance,
School scandal ,was continued this and .probably would not know one If I
morning, when the Board of Edu-
cation listened to explanations,
charges and donials by both Principal
Richmond -and- Mrs: Compton, ' the
leading figures in this matter, The
attempts of Richmond to open up two
matters referred to by Mrs. Compton,.
but kept veiled, wero promptly com-
batted by Mr., Aiken and Judge Stan
ley. who thought they were best left
nlono for tho timn belnc.
Messrs. Pope, Gibson, Rice, Aiken,
Molr, Judge Stanley, and Mrs. Wilcox
were present, Miss Paris being
ab-
sent.
nn nf th fnw ,ivolonmntB of tho
morning was the denial by Richmond
of his rumored marriage to Miss San
dry.
No Hula-Hula Dancing.
Mrs. Compton referred to the al
leged hula-hula danco at Mrs. An
drews' house, stating that tho boys
had been playing in a school play,
"Tho Merchant of Venice," and had
assembled In front of Mrs. Andrews'
house to serenade her. She did not
Invito them thoro and It was only aft-
er asking Mrs. Wlddomoro, who was
In charge of tho house, for permission
that she Invited the boys to como on
to the porch and play. Tho boys play
ed and sang but did not dance. There
wero several other people in tho
house at the tlmo but the boys did not
enter the house.
TRE HOUSE RECONSIDERS AND
PASSES TRE PAUOA PURCHASE
Tho Houso this afternoon took up
tho Pauoa water bill, which was
tabled this morning, and it passed the
third reading.
Tho reapportionment bill has boon
deferred.
Houso bill for tho extension of Bish
op streot was laid on tlio tablo with
short coromony' In tho Houso this
morning.
Rico thought It purely a county mat
ter. Let tho counties stand on their
own footing. If any of them wish to
extend a road lot it condoran tho re
quired property.
Sheldon snld thoro was a strong pe
tition against tho closing of Union
streot, and that was one of tho things
tho bill proposed. Sorao property-
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ADDS
ATMOSPHERE
saw one, but as there was no dancing
at all, I know there
dancing." t
was no hula-
Teachers' Differences.
Mrs. Compton, In answer :to" Judge
Stanley, said she was in doubt as to
tho social relationship between her
self and Miss Sandry. They had been
B,ven to understand that- when one
uuimriiueui uiowuuu unouier it was 10
0
reported. She had protested
a&a,nst the tlmo takon Mlss San'
dry In her typewriting class, taking a
girl named Rita Carnelro into Mr.
Richmond's office. The girl stated she
was Domnu m Iler luerao wrK 00"
cause she had to spend five hours a
day on typewriting.
"Rita Carneiro lies!" is what Rich
mond said, as Mrs. Compton told tho
story.
Tho girl broke down and Mrs.
Compton told Richmond that tho mat-
ter would not end there as she would
check the girl's work. Richmond did
not object and she kept a check on
th0 work, finding that for three days
tjle gri S1,ent five hours on typowrit-
ine and twice in tho samo week sho
spent three hours on that work.
The Ethics of an Engaged Woman.
Her reason for mentioning that Miss
(Continued on page sovten.)
owners having Interests in Union
street land had not received any offer
undor tho arrangement. Ho moved
that the bill be tabled, which on a
show of hands carried by a closo vote.
Municipal Eminent Domain.
House bill to amend tho law of 1007
giving tho powers of eminent domain
to tho counties so ns to Include the
City and County of Honolulu, passed
third roadlng unanimously.
Pauoa Water Rejected.
Thoro was t contest over Houso bill
to direct tho Superintendent Of Public
Works to acqulro tho Booth wator
rights in Pauoa for not to exceed $100,
000, ending In its dofoat.
Castlo said it was objectionable In
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