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1 A SUOAR Onno: t.ll c lb. 182.20 por tou. Hoots. 13r. 3d. cwl., JSGOpcr Ion. WEATHER Ther. win.. 8. Bur., 8 a. m.. 110.10. Wind.. Ilm., 9 8. K. lUiu. Uh., s a. m.. .04. Telephone 2365 Star Business Office. The Largest Daily Paper in The Territory second edition. VOL. XX TWELVE PAGES. HONOLULU, HAWAII, II)MM), PRIL 17, 1012 TWELVE PAGES. NO. 6255. WAITIN MAKE LENGTH OF DRYDOG N't -'.'J. (Special Cable WASHINGTON, April 17. The House committee on naval affairs has iccommended a provision "1n the Naval bill for the enlargement of tho Pearl Harbor drydock which will make Its length one thousand feet. J. A. BRECKONS. Plans for the. Pearl Harbor drydock on which construction has been in progress give a length of a little over 800 feet and a breadth of about lf0 feet. The length of the ill-fated steamship Titanic was 882 feet C inches over all, and the breadth 92 feet G Inches over all. These figures would indicate no necessity for wid ening as well as lengthening tho dry dock. The side walls of the drydock are built in a series of -benches or steps on the Inside. To widen tho capacity the lowest bench could bo cut out and more weight be placed j on the next one to supply the stabil ity that would be lost by such exci sion. Walter F. Dillingham, president of th Hawaiian Dredging Company which Is doing the work for tho Coast TO PA! FOR Favoring in general the Ideas em bodied in tho "Manoa .plan" oi a di rect frontage assessment for streot improvement, the Oahu Central Im provement Committee, at its meeting yesterday afternoon, took up tho mat ter in all seriousness and will study the details of the idea in detail. To this end the communication, embody ing resolutions adopted by the .Manoa Improvement Club recently, was re ferred to the legislative committee or tho central body, to which were add ed, for this occasion, C. W. Ashford and J. A. Gilman. The legislative com mittee consists of Ed. Towso, chair man; W. W. Thayer, D. I,. Withing ton, J. W. Gllmoro and J. M. Levy. Various members at yesterday's meeting discussed the plan of having the, property most directly benefited bear a portion of the expense of street paving, sidewalks, ana other Improv ing, and no serious objections were raised to the Idea In general It was pointed out, however, that much care should be given to the details of any T AND TO GOME An Inquest was held at tho police station last night on the body of J. K. Mokumala who was drowned in shal low water at Moanalua last Saturday. A verdict waB returned to tho ef fect that deceased came to his death by drowning while attacked by con vulsions. The Inquest on Harvey Chase will bo held tomorrow night at tho police station at 7:30. IN HOSPITAL This morning about G: 10 a Japanese named Muni, working at Moilllll for tho Hustaco Construction & Draylng Co,, was struck by n cable wire and removed to Queen's Hospital for treat nient. Yesterday a Japaneso named llama inurn, whllo working on a roof'iit tho corner of Alapal and Quarry street, foil to the ground, landing on his back twenty feel below. Ho was taken to tho hospital. 1 ABUTTING INQUEST P TWO JAPANESE 1000 FEET to the Star.) concern holding the contract, In speak ing of the present suspension of con struction this morning, said: "Investigations are being carried on by the Navy department engineers with various materials and different combinations of material, to ascertain what mixture and what materials for such are available for making the most satisfactory concrete. "This is the first American dock to bo built of urnler-watc concrete, and the department wishes to make sure that tho principle on which the worl' is done is one which will give en tirely satisfactory results. To be cer tain of this, time tests are necessary and tho temporary suspension of op erations in concrete aro due to wait ing for the results of the experi ments." PAVING OF STREETS such measure, 'and the committee, which was appointed at the instance of C. W. Ashford, was instructed to report as soon as practicable with recommendations in the form of a bill which should be urged upon the Sup ei visors of the next legislature. It was ordered also that the matter be referred to each of the various dis trict improvement clubs and other component organizations of tho cen tral body, with request that they ex press their vieAvs in reference to tho subject.' Representative Towse, who heads the committee which will examine-the matter, stated that a bill of this na ture had been introduced into the last legislature, but had been kille because it gave the county supervi sors practically the whole power in the matter of deciding upon place of paving, method or construction, kind of materials, etc., while tho properly owners directly affected had practical ly nothing to say, but had to pay their share Just the same. LI TAI DIES Lum Tal, steward of the steamer W. G. Hall, was drowned at Ahitklni landing yesterday morning and his body brought to Honolulu by the steamer this morning. Deceased was catching opelu from a rock when he was upset by a wave and washed into deep water. Being pnablo to swim he was drowned. His body was recovered by a Kauai police1 officer about fifty yards from tho spot where ho sank. Lum Tal wa.s a well known China man and was a veteran In the service of tho I. I. N. S. Co. S A smash-up occurred yesterday be tween an automobile driven by F. Stevenson and a bicycle ridden by Manuel Tavares. Tho collision took plnco near King and Alakea streets. Stovenaou was going east and Tavaros west on King streot. Just past Alakea streot Stev enson, wlio was on tho wrong side of tho road at tho time, ran Into Ta vares, smashing his wheel. No arrest hra been made as yet. OWNERS DROWNING CARELESS DRIVER 1 ickness Tho steamthip Harpalion, which nr-. rived off port this morning, has been inspected by tho Marino Hospital sur geons, declared quarantined at the re quest of the Territorial Hoard of Health and will be docked at Quaran tine island this evening as soon r.B the schooner A. B. Johnson Is re leased from quarantine to make room for the big immigrant ship. Since the British tramp left Oporto on tho twenty-third of February, sev enteen of the Immigrants died, nine births have been registered and sixty two cases of sickness representing fivo maladies all quarantlnabie dis eases under the Territorial health law Technical Point m Against In an pinion of the Supreme Court, by Justlco Do Dolt,' the order of tho circuit judgo quashing summons to j certain respondents in the suit of Freu Sackwitz against Elizabeth Good win, Charles F. Sackwitz and Bishop Trust Company, Ltd., was affirmed and the case remanded to the judgo for further proceeding as may be deemed advisable not inconsistent I with this opinion. F. Sackwitz repre sented the complainant, who appealed from the order In question, and C. H, ' Olson respondents Elizabeth Goodwin and Charles F. Sackwitz. The law as declared is as follows: 1 "A suit In equity, the essential pur pose of which Is to establish a trust , with reference to, as well as to es tablish a title in, certain land, is E SCHEME All of the various Improvement clubs of the city have been asked by the central organization to express their views on tho proposed parking of Kaiakaua avenue. In the mem time the special committee, which was appointed some time ago to look ! Into the proposition, has been in Btructed to go further into the matter, and to report at the next meeting of the central body. Kalmuki has proved to be the (lis turner of harmony among tho Improve ers. At the meeting held yesterday afternoon a resolution from the K'ai niuki Improvement Club was pre sented vigorously objecting to tho plan to spend money in improving the appearance of tho street in ques tion, and instructing their delegates in tho central organization to vote against tho recommendations of tho special commltteo having tho matter In charge, and which had already turned In a favorable partial report. The Interesting phaso of the matter is that E. A. Berndt, tho chairman of this special committee, and a strong advocato of tho parking plan, Is an accredited delegate from the red hill district, and by tho instructions of his homo club Is compelled to oppose, with his voto at least, tho measuro he personally advocates. Ban Logan nnd Ed Towse, also from Kalmuki, nro members of tho Kaiakaua aventto parking committee with Berndt, and nro in tho same boat with him in that they personally favor tho meas ure which their constituents oppose. Harry T. Mills and II. Q. Davis voiced tho sentiments of tho Kalmuki club at yestorday's meeting, and thoy put plenty of ginger into tho objec tions, too, KAUAUA VE and Death In Good Condition havo broken out among tho passen- gcrs. According to tho health officials, tho Hcrpalion Is in better condition there was littlo seasickness through from every standpoint tnan any ship J out tho fifty-one-day journey, that has come to Honolulu under simi-J The Harpalion left Oporto on the lar circumstance.!. Her passengers twenty-third day of February and as a whole wero in a better condition touched at Gibraltar three days later, of health', sanitary arrangements were It has been expected that when the good, and the food was wholesome steamer left Gibraltar there would bo and pure. Relations between tho passengers were congeninl and there was no trou-ifact bio except In tho forecastle, where two of the crew attempted to Rtart a mutiny but wero quickly suppressed and put in irons. Goes mm n a I Fred sackwitz; purely a proceeding in personam, and . jurisdiction of the persons of the de- fondants, non-residents, cannot be ac ' quired by substituted service." I ... ... o,....,un u.u ease at ..ar is thus stated: . , "This is a bill' in equity, the essen- nai purpose or wnieli is. to establish v uusi wan reiercnce to, as wen aa to establish a title in, certain real property in Honolulu. The facts cs- sentinl to a consideration of the ques- t!o;- presented aro these: That Ma-( tllcla Bright Sackwitz, the wifo of the complainant, died vested with the legal title to tho property in con troversy, leaving n certain instrument in writing purporting to be her la3t will and testament, whereby she do (Continued on Pago Five.) PARKI PLACED UNDER FIRE However, the report of the commit- tee was received and ordered filed,' and the committee instructed to con tinue Its work by going into tho mat ter of cost, and whore the money is to come from. A huge number of members spoke; on the matter, and generally scored the Knlmukitos for narrowness In condemning tho spending of a littlo money, unless thoy were especially benefited. Mrs. Lowii and Mrs. Sherman, of the committee, stated thnt the en trance archway at tho opening of tho (Continued on page Four) Sato runs a billiard parlor close by River streot. Iist night ho had some troublo with the policeman on tho boat. Snto should have closed his placo at half after eleven; Instead he kept It open till 11:57. Tho policeman saw his duty nnd he did it mighty quick: ho asked the Jap politely if his clock had ceased to tick. Tho Jap, espying trouble, told tho cop to make no holler, and in or der to prevent mistakes lio slipped that cop a dollar. Now tho cop ho was a virtuous man and tho bribe rofused to take let's credit It to Tlrtuo and not tho tiny stako. "Thero's nothing doing here old Jap," ho said, "bo keep your tin," then ho rang for tho partol-bus and he ran poor Sato in. NG VIRTUOUS SCORNS DOLLAR Smooth seas and flno weather ex cept whllo passing through the Straits of Magellan were experienced r.nd twenty-two hundred and twenty-tlirco Immigrants on board, but owing to the that flve hundred were rejected at Gibraltar and that several others were prevented from reaching the steamer on account of the heavy I (Continued on Page Bight.) Kuhio Will Not Resign ooooooooooooooooo q , answer tQ a cabl m from Q O R. W. Shingle, telling him the de- O q tails of the Republican conven- O O tion and exprcsoing the hope that O 0 he would not resgni Kuhlo re. Q q plied today as follows: q Washington, April 17, 1912. O o Shingle, Honolulu: O O I do not intend to resign. O KUHIO. O O o OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO $10,000 Asked For a Life Mrs. Mary Keala Afat has filed suit against McCabe, Hamilton & Kenny for $10,000 damages on account of tho death of her husband, who was killed in an accident aboard the steamship Navajo December 19 last. She claims that Ills death was duo to tho negll- gence of tho man who was handling a winch which dropped a piece of iron upon his head. The Honomu Sugar Company has appealed to the supremo court from the verdict of the circuit court Jury which allowed John Carlos Madeiros damages in the sum of ?7000 for in juries sustained by hln: while in the M'rvice of tile company. STRENUOUS FIGHT An extraordinarily vigorous light Is being made in tho federal court for the freedom of Salvador Lopez, .charged with a crime tho punish ment of which is denth. Leon Straus uncnlliu .iw T i-. thtmie-J Is prosecuting, jvacn oi vne attorneys is recognzed as a brilliant criminal lawyer, and the light between tho two, with tho defendant as tho pawn,' is well worth listening to, notwith standing tho unsavory nature of tho crime with which Lopez Is charged. 1 Straus put the defendant on tho stand In his own defense, aud Lopez accounted for all of his time during tho day upon whic htho crimo Is nl- leged to havo been committed. This evldenco was supported nnd corrobor- afed by other witnesses. Tho offorts of the prosecution nro directed at tho ureaicing down or turn testimony and tho. Impeaching of tho witnesses. I Tho trial haB lasted ever slnco last Monday morning, but will probably corao to au end some tlmo tomorrow F LIBERTY THE SENATE TO PROBE THE (Associated Press WASHINGTON, April 17. The tho loss of the Titanic end all the survivors will be summoned to Washing Ion. NEW YORK, April 17. .Mrs. Catharine Bonnell has wIrolf.sil n Youngstown undo that all the women steerago probably 310 wero lost. Sh'o cabin passengers of the Titnnlc whom tieveu mat 400 from tho steerage and 140 of the crew aro aboard the Car pathla. This vessel is expected late Thursday or early Friday. fliu.MRt.AU April 17. Tho steamship Parisian wirelesses the Allnn lino officials that all tho survivors of pathla. Privato messages Indicate that HALIFAX, April 17. The Camperdown station of tho wlrelesR ronnrtn that It has a wireless that 700 survivors are on board tho Carpathia. Tho total perished is still believed to bo 1312. BETTER MARITIME LAWS. WASHINGTON, April 17. Secretary Naccl will immediately loin President Taft in formulating a plan ivuiencnn .snipping against avoidable vestlgato the Titanic horror passed TAFT WINS CONNECTICUT. NEW HAVEN, April 17. Twelve delegates were Instructed for Taft at tho stato convention and two were unlnstructeil. REFINED ADVANCES. NEW YORK, April 17. All grades of refined sugar have gono iid flvo points. Morning Cable Report on Page Two. Prodigious Oil y A gusher of large proportions is become closed and that the other bad Indicated for tho Honolulu Oil Com- put out 1HC barrels of the fluid dur pany's well No. 4, of section 14, of ing the previous twenty-four hours, the Buena Vista hills district, by the "The oil is a light, high grado TO meager reports received yesterday by fining oil." said Mr. Tennoy in speak E. D. Tonney, of the company. i ing of the well this morning. "It cer- The well tapped the sand on April talnly looks as though we had struck C. and during the first twenty-four , something pretty good, when H4fi br. hours had flowed through two -IiipIi holes, in a drilling bit, 3100 barrels of oil into the tank. The well was apparently obstructed by the drilling tools up to tho time of the last re port, dated the 10th, which reported that one of the small openings had H LI M ESTEADS TO BE OPENED ALL OVER THE TERRITORY It is expected that the advertising oi tlie numerous homestead lots that are to be thrown open for selection on nearly all tho Islands of the terri tory, will draw a large crowd of appli cants. Applications for the lots are to be lilel with tho land commissioner on June 17. Tho following morning the applications will bo taken out and numbered. Tho actual selection of lots will bo held Juno 20, in the Capi- tol, for the Sixth Land Division. Tho Fourth Land Division will be sclect tid on June 27. at tho public land of- flee, Hilo. The Third Land Division RECORD 'T am retiring Into private life," said Mnrston Campbell this morning, "as tho offor I havo received Is too good a ono to reruso. ip the Inter ests of mv fninllv nnd mvsnlf. I fnlt ,,ounu- to .., thn off0, whnh ,R , tho naturo ot docI.,G(1 romo,iOI, , roUro nt tho ond of Mny nm, w, bo q sUa. uip thereafter " n 1B bcrnrlta inat Mt. t.ipuoll ho.s nccopted a flno position with tho Ho- nolulu Iron Works. Mr. Campbell WOuld nelthor confirm nor deny this roport this morning. Rumors of nil sorts are colnc tho rounds as to tho man who will sue- ceed Campbell, iui superintendent of public works. Tho names of J. T. Tay. MARSTON CAMPBELL'S DISASTE Cables to the Star.) Senate haa becun nr. inivRHtion f were saved. Out of 710 In tho names 328 of the first and sornnil the Carpathia received. It is be- the Titanic aro aboard the Car- Hays is safe. of stringent legislation to guard risks. The Sonate resolution to In. unanimously. Strike Honolulu Oil Co. rels can be put out of one -inch opening in a day. The well will no doubt do very many times better than at present when it is cleaned out. It Is said to be making a large amount of gas, besides the oil. will be acted on at tho District Court House at Waiohinu, on July 1. Governor Frear, when seen this morning, gave out the following state ment regarding the matter: "The land drawing, the advertise ment of which Is beginning today, will be tho third large land drawing since )!. .... ,.,.!.. . . I iuv ..1MI.-IIUI11U1IIB oi wiu urgamc ct. 1 nero have been also sevoral smaller drawings. Tho drawing now advertis ed will covor 29S lots of varying areas In seven different localities, of which four aro on tho Island of Oahu, namo I, at Waianae, Lualualol, AIou and (Continued on Pago Eight) L OF PUBLIC OFFICE lor, J. Harvey, C. S. Holloway, A. C. Wheeler and P. Bishop, havo all been montioned. Tffo last namod is tho Imported engineer who Is In chargo of the Hawaii belt road work. Wheeler Is tho present assistant .superintend- ont of public works. Taylor is a well known local engineer who has been connected with some largo enter prises. Hnrvcy Is the Maul onglueor, and Holloway was at ono tlmo super 0 intendent of public works. Tho Govornor had nothing to glvo out this morning nbout n successor to Campbell, and said that nothing haa been decided upon so far. Marston Catnpboll has a long and (Continued on Pago Eight.) ... .qfc.f-tMmft'Mi&toUiKsMi&JLiiAiijH-; num. .C. -d.. fr',.. i riiiiiinirliiiiiilii. Mm