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VOL. XXX., NO. 6317.
HONOLULU, HAWAIIAN ISLANDS, TUESDAY. AUGUST. 22, 1S99. TWELVE PAGES.
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
A, L. C. ATKINSON.
-ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. OFFICE: COR
ner King and Bethel Streets, (up-et&lrt).
DR. C. B. HIGH.
OENTIST. PHILADELPHIA DENT
1 College 1892. Masonic Temple.
Telephone 318.
OR. A. C. WALL DR. 0. E. WALL.
DENTIST OFFICE HOURS: 8 A. M.
to 4 p. m. Love Building, Fort
Gtret.
M. E. GROSSMAN, D.D.S.
DENTIST 33 HOTEL STREET, Ho
nolulu. Office Hours: 9 a. m. to
4 p.m.
GEO. H. HUDDY, D.D.S.
DENTIST FORT STREET, OPPO
slia Catholic Mission. Hours:
From f a. m. to 4 p. m.
DR. A. GORDON HODGINS.
OFFICE AND RESIDENCE, GEDGE
Cottage, corner Richards and Hotel
streets. Office Hours: 9 to 11; 2
to 4, 7 to 8. Telephone 953.
DR. WALTER HOFFMANN.
flERETANL. STREET, OPPOSITE
Hawaiian Hotel. Office Hours: 8
to 10 a. m.; 1 to 3 p. in.; 7 to 8 p.
m. Sundays: 8 to 10 a. m. Tele
phone 610. P. O. Box 501.
DR. T. M1TAMUBA.
CONSULTING ROOMS, 427 NUUANU
Street; P. O. Box 842; telephone
132; residence 524 Nuuanu street.
Hours: 9 to 12 a, m. and 7 to 9 p.
m.; Sundays, 2 to 6 p. m.
DR. T0MIZ0 KATSUNUMA.
-VETERINARY SURGEON. SKIN
Disease of all kinds a specialty.
Office: Room 11, Spreckels Build
ing. Hours: 9 to 4. Telephone
474. Residence Telephone 1093.
DR. I. MORI.
126 BERETANIA ST., BETWEEN
Emma and Fort. Telephone 277;
P. O. Box 843. Office hours; 9 to
12 a. m. and 7 to 8 p. m.; Sundays,
9 to 12 a, m.
DR. A. N. SINCLAIR.
IZ KING ST., NEXT TO THE OPERA
House. Office hours: 9 to 10 a. m.;
1 to 3 p. m.; 7 to 8 p. m. Sundays:
12 m. to 2 p. m. Telephone 741.
C. L. GARVIN, M. D.
-OFFICE No. 537 KING STREET,
near Punchbowl. Hours: 9:00 to
12:00 a. m., 7:00 to 8:00 p. m.
Telephone No. 448.
T. B. CLAPHAM.
VETERINARY SURGEON AND DEN
tlt. Office: Hotel Stables. Calls,
day or night, promptly answered.
Specialties: Obstetrics and Lame
ices. CATHCART & PARKE.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW. HAVE
mored their law offices to the Judd
block. Rooms 308-309.
LORRIN ANDREWS.
ATTORNEY. AT LAW. OFFICE
with Thurston & Carter, Merchant
street, next to postoffice.
FRANCIS J. BERRY.
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT
Lair. Will practice In the U. S.
Federal and State Courts. Pro
gress Block, corner Beretania and
Fort Streets, rooms 5 and 6.
W C. Achl. Enoch Johnson.
ACHI & JOHNSON.
ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS
at Law. Office No. 10 West King
Street. Telephone 8S4.
- CHAS. P. PETERSON.
ATTORNEY AT LAW AND NOTARY
Public 15 Kaahumanu Street.
LYLE A. DICKEY.
ATTORNEY AT LAW AND NOTARY
Public King and Bethel Streets.
Telephone 806. P. O. Box 786.
J. M. KANEAKUA.
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT
Law. Office: In th Occidental
Hotel, corner of King and A'akea
Streets, Honolulu.
1 - . .
A. J. CAMPBELL.
STOCK AND BOND BROKER. OF
flce Queen street, opposite Union
Feed Co. iiB IfSaiTCT
T. McCANTS STEWART.
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT
Law, Progress Block, opposite
Catholic Church, Fort street, Ho
nolulu, H. I. Telephone 1122.
T., D. BEASLEY.
DRAUGHTSMAN. PLANTATION
and Topographical Maps a Special
ty. Room 306, Judd Building, Tel
ephone 633.
ALBERT F. JUDD, JB.
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
OFFICE: OVER BISHOP & CO.'S
Bank, corner Merchant and Kaahu
manu streets.
FREDERICK W. JOB.
SUITE 815, MARQUETTE BUILDING,
Chicago, 111.; Hawaiian Consul
General for the States of Illinois,
Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and Wis
consin. ATTORNEY AT LAW.
F. D. GREAHY, A.B. Mil
TUTOR. WILL TAKE A FEW PU
pils for private instruction. Of
fice cor. King and Bethel Sts. Tel.
02 and 806; P. O. Box 759.
MISS F. WASHBURN.
PUBLIC STENOGRAPHER AND
Typewriter. Office: Room 202, Judd
Building. Telephone 1086.
WILLIAM SAVIDGE.
STOCK AND BOND BROKER.
Mclnerny Block, Fort Street.
C. J. FALK.
STOCK AND BOND BROKER. MEM
ber Honolulu Stock Exchange.
Room 301 Judd Building.
WM. T. PATY.
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER.
HAVING PURCHASED THE Busi
ness of Mr. J. C. Chamberlain, is
now prepared to do any and all
kinds of work. Store and office
fitting; brick, wood or stone build
ing. Shop, Palace Walk; resi
dence, Wilder avenue, near Ke
walo. DR. A. C. POSEY.
SPECIALIST FOR EYE. EAR,
THROAT AND NOSE DISEASES
AND CATARRH. Masonic Temple.
Hours: 8 to 12 a. m; 1 to 4 and 7
to 8 p. m.
0. G. TRAPHAGEN.
ARCHITECT 223 MERCHANT ST.,
Between Fort and Alakea. Tele-
phone 734. Honolulu, H
P. SILVA.
aGENT TO TAKE ACKNOWLEDG
ments to Instruments, District of
Kona, Oahu. At W. C. Achl's of
fice. King Street, near Nuuanu.
JAMES T. TAYLOR, H. Am. SOC. G. I
CONSULTING HYDRAULIC ENGI-
neer. 306 Judd Block, Honolulu,
H. I.
AHHIS MONTAGUE TURNER.
Remaining In Honolulu for a few
months will take a limited number of
pupils for
VOCAL INSTRUCTION.
Terms by the lesson or month. Com
mencing on and after the 10th of July.
"MIGNON,"
720 Beretania Street, Honolulu.
COOK'S MUSIC SCHOOL.
Love's Building:: Fort St.
FALL TERM BEGINS SEPT. 4th.
Pupils who have not arranged for hours
should apply at once.
HONOLULU SANITARIUM.
10S2 KING STREET.
Telephone 639.
Dr. Luella S. Cleveland, medical sup
erintendent. Hours: 9 a, m. to 5 p. m.
Methods of Battle Creek, Michigan,
Sanitarium. Baths of every descrip
tion. Trained nurses in bath rooms as
well as In sick room. Massage and
manual movements. Electricity in
every form. Classified dietary, etc
Ample facilities for thorough examin
ation. Dr. C. L. Garvin, consulting
physician and surgeon.
S. E. LUCAS, Parisian Optician.
LOVE BUILDING, FORT STREET;
Upstairs; P. O. Box 351. I carry
a full line of ALL KINDS OF
GLASSES from the CHEAPEST
to the BEST. Free Examination
of the Eyes.
WATER IS SCARCE
Too Mach IrriptiDE of Lawns and
Gardens.
PUMPS RUNNING NIGHT AND DAY
More Water Being: Drawn from
Nuuanu Reservoirs Than Is
Flowing In.
"I don't want to be considered as an
alarmist," said Captain J. W. Pratt
yesterday, "but if anything should hap
pen to the Beretania street pumps just
about this time there would be a wa
ter famine in Honolulu."
"The condition of affairs is just
this," continued the man who is in
charge of the Water Works Bureau
during the absence of Superintendent
Andrew Brown, "the city is being sup
plied with water, almost entirely from
the Beretania street station. The
pumps there are supposed to have a
capacity of 2,400,000 gallons per day of
twenty-four hours, but we are now
pumping every day in the week three
and a half million gallons, or nearly
one-half more water than the normal
capacity of the pumps. Of course, the
fact that the water comes from flowing
wells assists the pumps, as the water
is really only pushed along instead of
being lifted bodily. We have to keep
three shifts of engineers now, each
working eight hours at a stretch, and
the pumps never stop.
V'The Makiki pumps run all day
steadily, but close down at night as
soon as the reservoir fills up.
"Up the valley the reservoirs are in
a bad way. There are just 1,400,000
gallons per day running over the weir,
equal to 106 miners' inches an hour,
but, unfortunately, we are drawing out
every day more than is running in, and
the reservoirs keep getting lower. If
we do not have rain very shortly we
shall have to turn the water from the
weir directly into the mairis, which
means shutting off the electric lights
in the streets. There is a big loss of
water at the reservoirs from evapora
tion alone, which would be partially
stopped by this means.
"If people would only stop and think
a little while, I am satisfied they would
be more careful in using water. In ad
dition to the big increase of population
in the city, there have been a large
number of houses built the last few
months. Now we can prove by data
in the office that new residences use
three or four times as much water the
first year that they do afterwards. The
reason is a simple one;, the owners
plant trees, shrubbery and grass and
use all the water they can to get things
started.
"Another thing that may surprise
some of your readers is that the people
of Honolulu use more water per capita
than in any city of the United States.
We can prove this assertion by statis
tics any time you want them.
"Then again, the transports require
a lot of water. No charge is made for
the water they require, consequently
before leaving they fill up everything
on board that will hold water, and
some of them can carry an awful lot.
"All we ask of the people," said Cap
tain Pratt, in conclusion, "is that they
will not waste any water until it rains.
After the summer 'fains commence we
shall not care how much water is used,
but in the meantime it is as well that
everybody should understand that our
water supply depends entirely on the
Beretania street pumps keeping up
with the present strain."
Since the above was in type a. tele
phone message from the Government
Electric Light Station at 11 o'clock last
night stated that three-quarters of an
inch of rain had fallen there since
morning.
Council of State.
President Dole has called a meeting
of the Council of State for 11 o'clock
on Wednesday. He said last night that
the business to be considered was the !
granting of certain pardons.
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GOING AWAY.
L. B. Kerr, the Queen-street mer
chant, will go away on August 18th
and from now until that date an
nounces a departure sale at his big dry
goods store, at prices that will make
competition impossible.
Only the highest grade of RED RUB
BER is used in the Stamps made by
the HAWAIIAN GAZETTE CO.
SOMO
L FACTS
H. P. Baldwin Gives Some Interesting
Information Concerning This
New Plantation.
Senator H. P. Baldwin was seen by a
representative of this paper yesterday
with especial reference to the condition
of affairs on Kihei plantation. For sev
eral weeks past all sorts of rumors
have been circulated to its detriment,
and Mr. Baldwin, as an officer of the
t company and one of its heaviest stock
holders, was asked to make an authori-
t
tative statement for the public benefit.
"It is not usual," said Mr. Baldwin,
"to make public statements about
plantation matters. There is nothing
the matter with Kihei that I know of,
land I visited every portion of the plan
tation last week to show a friend of
mine, also a plantation manager, over
the property. However, there is noth-
ing to hide or be kept secret concern
ing its affairs, and the itruth can hurt
no one. What do you want to know?"
"First, as to the water supply, Mr.
Baldwin?"
"We have abundance of water more
than we can possibly use for present
requirements. In the first place, we
have developed the natural water
sources by sinking shafts and tunnel
ing. This has been done at a spot
about half a mile from the sea shore
on what is called the lower lands of the
plantation. Here we have sunk four
'separate shafts, or wells, in the solid
rock, from all of which we have abun
dance of water. These wells are all
j within a distance of S00 feet and will
eventually be connected itogether, so
that the surplus water can be pumped
to a higher level.
j "From one of these circular, shafts,
or holes, the No. 3, which is about
.twelve feet across and about fifteen feet
.'deep, from which a tunnel has been
run about twenty feet long, there is
now flowing from the tunnel about
three and a half million gallons in
twenty-four hours. It has been meas
ured exactly by Mr. Pogue, but those
are the figures in round numbers. For
every foot of further development
made we find that the flow of water
still increases. This No. 3 hole, or
well, is only one of four similar ones.
These will be connected with .the main
pumping plant and when this is done
we shall have a water supply ot twelve
million gallons per 'day from this
source alone."
"About the pumps, Mr. Baldwin, has
there been any trouble on that ac
count?" "Well, yes, some," was the answer.
You see we put in some Garrett
pumps to start with on the recommen
dation of Engineer Schussler. These,
however, did not work as well as we
expected and we are now putting in
two big Worthington pumps. Each of
these will have a capacity for handling
six million gallons in the twenty-four
hours. The first of these, will be in
operation about the first week in Sep
tember, or say, the middle, at the very
latest, and the second about six weeks
inter. With these two pumps installed
the plantation will be able to handle j
twelve million gallons of water per day ,
of twenty-four hours, or more than we
can use to advantage this season."
"Now about the upper wells, Mr.
Baldwin?"
"These are the wells being sunk by
McCandless Brothers. They are arte
sian wells proper. They are being sunk
about two miles from the shore and
about a mile and a half further up
from the pumping station I have just
told you about. The land where these
wells are being: sunk is just 200 feet
above sea level, but the wells are be
ing sunk to a depth or about 2o0 feet,
reallv deeper than is necessary. I he
McCandless people are now boring the
fourth of these wells, which yield from
four to five hundred thousand gallons
per day of twenty-four hours each. As
soon as the fourth well is completed
we propose to connect the four togeth
er and inaugurate a system of deep
well pumps similar to that in use in
the oil wells of Pennsylvania. Under
this system one engine will furnish the
power for the four pumps. This will
be done in three of four weeks from
now. The first cost of this pumping
outfit is far cheaper than any other
pumping machinery now in use in the
Islands for the duties required of it,
and if they work as well as we have
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reason to believe they will they will
prove to be in addition more economi
cal in running that any system now
in use here. These four wells will give
us two million gallons of water at this
point, and when we need more we have
only to bore more wells where they are
needed."
"There are various rumors afloat as
to the quality of this water, Mr. Bald
win. Can you give out any definite in
formation as to that?"
"Why not? Here are Dr. Walter
Maxwell's certificates of his analyses of
the water from these wells which we
have submitted to him for examination.
Here are three samples from the water
on the lower level where .the big
pumping station is. From the No. 1
shaft there are 51 grains of salt to
each gallon of water, United States
measurement. From the No. 3 shaft
the analysis shows 44.28 grains to the
gallon and from -the No. 4 shaft there
are just 47.54 grains per gallon. The
reason there is no sample from the
No. 2 hole is because work has been
discontinued at that place owing to ob
stacles encountered.
"Now, as to the water on the upper
lands, the artesian water proper. Here
are Dr. Maxwell's analyses from three
samples taken on July 8th last. The
first sample was taken while the water
was still and before the pump . was
started. It gives 5G.9 grains to the
United States gallon. The second sam
ple was taken after the pump had been
connected and while the water was
running from it; the analysis shows
52 grains of salt to the gallon. The
third sample, showing 53.3 grains to
the gallon, was taken after the pumps
had been stopped and the water stand
ing in the well for some time. The
amount of salt per gallon should de
crease with continuous pumping if we
have the same experience as other
plantations have had before."
"How does the percentage of salt at
the Kihei wells compare with those on
other plantations?" was next asked.
"Well, it is larger than that of Ewa
but much less than many old-established
and well-paying plantations on
Maui. Take Paia, for example. Every
body knows there has never been any
trouble at Paia with the salt in its wa
ter, and yet the average there for years
has been 66 grains to the gallon. Yes,
it has managed to pay dividends and
raise as high as twelve tons of sugar to
the acre in spite of 66 grains of salt per
gallon of water. I have in mind an
other old-established plantation which
is paying big dividends on an average
of 88 grains of salt per gallon of wa
ter used."
"What percentage of salt in the wa
ter can be used without detriment to
growing cane?" was next asked of Mr.
Baldwin.
"Well, Dr. Maxwell is the authority
to consult on such matters. I under
stand, however, that he has given it
as his opinion that anything less than
100 grains of salt per gallon of water;
will not hurt sugar cane, but anything j
over that is liable to be injurious. I
believe he fixes the dividing line at 100
grains per gallon."
"About the new mill?"
"That has already been ordered from
the Honolulu Iron Works, and. the con
tract calls for it to be in running order
on January 1, 1901. The mill building
is to be large enough to cover a mill
of the capacity of 150 tons per day, but
for the first year we have only asked
the contractors for 125 tons daily ca
pacity. The additions can be made aft
er the first season's run."
"One more question, Mr. Baldwin.
What progress has "been made in plant
ing?" "We have actually put in about 250
acres this season and we expect to
plant enough to make fully a thousand
acres, very likely more than that. We
have abundance of seed cane for all our
requirements, and we intend to get in
as many acres as we can for the crop
of 1901."
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iteSOUUTEEf PURE
Makes the food mere delicious and wholesome
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H HABEAS CORPUS
Chinese RemanM Ml to Custody
of J. I Brown.
JUSTICE FREAR'S FINAL DECISION
The Court Rules That the Petition--ers
Ware Never Legally Landed
In These Islands.
Following is the full text of the Im
portant decision of Justice Frear in the
Chinese habeas corpus eases, In which
the petitioners are remanded to the
custody of J. K. Brown, the special
agent in Hawaii of the United States
treasury department:
The petitioners applied for a writ of
habeas corpus which was Issued as
prayed for directed to II. R. Hitchcock,
J. K. Brown and Richard Ivers.
Mr. Hitchcock returned that he was
deputy marshal of the Republic of Ha
waii and held the petitioners pursuant
to the orders of J. K. Brown, United
States Chinese Inspector, and not oth
erwise". Throughout the case It was
recognized that Mr. Hitchcock , had
merely the actual custody for Mr.
Brown, who claimed the legal custody.
Mr. Brown returned that lie was
United States Chinese Inspector and
that as such and not otherwise ho held
the petitioners; that they were Chineso
subjects who arrived at the port of Ho
nolulu from China, July 23, 1899; that
he had inspected them in his said offi
cial capacity and ascertained that they
had not complied wTith the provisions
of the treaty between the United States
and China or the United States statutes
or United States Treasury Department
regulations relating to Chinese immi
gration. Mr. Ivers was not served with the
writ and so made no return, but it was
orally stated by the Attorney General,
who appeared for Messrs. Brown and
Hitchcock, that these, last named gen
tlemen alone held the petitioners and
that Mr. Ivers liad nothing to do with
them, whereupon counsel for the peti
tioners deemed it unnecessary to ask
for a further order of service upon Mr.
Ivers.
The petitioners replied to Mr.
Brown's return, denying that he, as
United States Chinese Inspector or
otherwise, had authority, under the
laws of the United States or the regu
lations of the United States Treasury
Department or otherwise, to retain the
petitioners; or either of them, in cus
tody, and alleging that he, the said
Brown, in his official capacity as Chi
nese Inspector, had permitted the peti
tioners to land and that he and the
said Hitchcock had afterwards seized
the petitioners without authority of
law and now held them for the pur
poses of deportation.
The first question raised was wheth
er the inspector had lost control of the
petitioners. For the purposes of this
question it was conceded by counsel for
the petitioners that Mr. Brown had
the requisite authority to decide whe
ther the petitioners had a right to land
in the first instance; that he so decid
ed adversely to the petitioners; that
such decision, whether its validity
could be inquired into by the court or
not, was correct; and that he could
lawfully bring the petitioners on shore
and there keep them in custody for
the purpose of inspecting them and
while awaiting an opportunity to send
them back to China. On the other
hand, it was conceded by the Attorney
General that if the petitioners had
been allowed to land (in the legal
sense, as distinguished from the mere
coming on shore temporarily in com
pliance with the exclusion laws) the
inspector could not retake them for the
purpose of deportation; in other words,
that the authority of the Inspector ex-
tended, at most, only to the exclusion
of Chinese and not to the arrest and
deportation of Chinese already in the
country, even though unlawfully here.
The question then was o:te of fact as
to whether the inspector had allowed
the petitioners to go at large so far as
he was concerned; that is, to land or
enter the country in the legal sense.
In support of the view that he had
done this, considerable testimony was
introduced to the effect, in substance,
that he had permitted the Hawaiian
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