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2 U.S. WEATHER BU- REAtf. Jan. IS Last 24hours,rainf2l!,.CO. Tcmpcraturc,max.77; min. 67. , Weather, partly cloudy, fresh g trades. 1 SUGAR-96 Test 2 Centrifugals. 3.S?c.; kM$ Per Ton, $77.80. S3 i J juidiym oms, vs. g 2 93-4d.;PerTon4SI.- & I 20. g ii 4i i i ,-?-?f, " i . in www lyitiwiii fi m urv ttm i wj jan vi win fi tzul-. ,zs-' T'rwmrrs-uus. t i ii u ti m in tts it tt i it VOL. VI., NO. 264. HONOLULU, HAWAII TERRITORY, SUNDAY, JANUARY 19, 1908.-FOURTEEN PAGES. na. . 0. . h., M 8 1 LUSITANAS THEIR H 1 f - The Portuguese Society Celebrate in New Quarters. The magnificent new clubhouse and ociety hall of the Lusitana Society, icm the corner of Alapai and Luna lilo streets, was formally opened last night, on the twenty-seventh anniver sary of "tbe founding of the society in Hawaii. The affair was a brilliant one and attended by at least two thousand persons, the members of the bigr eociety, their relatives and friends. Tor the occasion hundreds of red, white and blue lncandescents gleamed fthroughout the grounds, strings of them being attached tothe high flag pole, from the summit of which float ed the banner of Portugal and the flag of the society. Within, the building was gayly decorated with- the Portu guese colors, twined with the Stars aind Stripes, while flowers, potted plants and green wreaths were placed throughout the big reception hall. The opening program , consisted in ad dresses of congratulation from the so ciety officers, Governor Frear and -others, a series of stereoptlcon pic tures and an explanatory address by E. Towse, a dance and the serving, of ref reshmenfts. The Hawaiian band rplayed during the evening. On the platform,""- for the opening part of the program, were August Vierra, the chairman of the commit tee under which the new hall had leen fitted up; "21. A. Silva, the re tiring president of the society; Gov (Contlnued on Page Vtve.) IE STUBS HEHJ U5BUD Two Interfering Friends Slash ed by Infuriated Woman Ail in Hospital. WM. AUSTIN WHITING PASSES TO THE BEYOND A stabbing affair, In which a woman cut up three men so badly that all had to be taken to the hospital, took place last night about ten o'clock on Punchbowl. A native named Kahau nale is the worst Cut up and It was his wife Annie that wielded the butcher's cleaver that did the cutting. The other wounded men are William Co elho and Kaulio, friends of the hus band who interfered to save him from being murdered. Kahaunale went home last evening for supper, being sent out again by Annie, his wife, to get a gallon of wine to celebrate payday with. Returning with the wine and his two friends, he found his better half gone. He and his friends then prepared supper for themselves and drank the wine, finally setting out to look up the missing mis tress of the house, locating her at a neighbor's. The three returned home, after which a quarrel started, the husband beginning to inflict some husbandly punishment on Annie for her neglect in hospitality. The woman fought back, finally seizing the big butcher knife and slashing her husband across 1 thpfr friend. The Tiodv will 'be taken to the Masonic Temple at 2 o'clock. S - :r ,1 1 I 1 - t .4l i I d 7 I ' . I ,. THE LATE JUDGE WM, AUSTIN WHITING. DOCTOR OUTRANKS THE OFFICERS 01 THE HOSPITAL SHIP RELIEF LIE Judge William Austin Whiting- died William Austin Whiting was born in yesterday afternoon at 5:25 o'clock, of ' Charlestown, Mass., where most of his dropsy caused by cirrhosis of the liver. He had been seriously 111 for some weeks and in ill health for many months. His death has been expected at almost any time for some days. ancestors on both sides had lived for several generations. He graduated from Harvard College as six genera tions of his name had done before him, After graduating at the college he took the Harvard law rmrsA. nnrt Vico-an The funeral will be held at 3 o'clock the practise of his profession in Char- this afternoon from the Masonic Tern-1 lestown and Boston, bot living in Char- plo. The body -will be at H. H. Wll- lestown. His ancestors on both sides I ho. il Kfian 1 n lit, rvrv-t In An t tv V -v 1 rn o'clock this morning, where! friends the hack of the npolr Infliftinp- nn ! ma- ia.K.e a last iuok. ai nie xctuc wi.jscfiiua.iii. ot uov. x nomas juuuiey ana erauon, ana-some of them attained a llaTger emience. He was a lineal de ugly wound. Other slashes followed, the man being cut on -the arms and in the breast. . Fearing that the now Infuriated wo man would commit murder if left alone, Coelho and Kaulio interfered, and the knife was turned upon them. Coelho was slashed across the upper part of the right arm and Kaulio hand, one of his fing"ers severed by the force of the blow. " The police were called in after the fighting had stopped, and the patrol wagon was summoned to carry the (Continued on page 5.) across the being nearly The services at the Temple will be Masonic. ' ' The funeral will be under the aus pices of Pacific Lodge, No. 822, A. F. & A. M., J. J. Belser, Right Worship ful Master. The body will be taken from the temple after the services, to the crematory In Nuuanu cemetery where it will be Incinerated. The pall bearers will be H. E. Coop er, John Kldweii, x. n. mne ana tx. O. 'hite, all past masters of Pacific Lodge, and Chief Justice Hartwell, P. C. Jones, Cecil Brown and Col." C. P. Iaukea. of Gov. Simon Bradstreet, and of Rev, John Cotton, the first preacher of the First Church in Boston, all of whom were active in the third decade of the seventeenth century. Another of his anceitor8 was the president of Har vard College, and his grandfather Aus tin was a prominent lawyer in Massa chusetts, and an author of some note in his day, having written "Peter Rugg: The Missing Man," a book that attracted much attention in Its time. H8 -s to Honolulu In 18S0,where he had friends who were Influential in affairs here, and gave the young law yer a social and a business standing at once, that was of much value to him. An uncle, James W. Austin, was I at one time a Justice of the Supreme : Court of Hawaii, and It was doubtless I (Continued on page 8.) Brownson's Resignation Fails to Alter President's Mind Ruef Goes, to Trial Immediately. the (Associated Press Cablegrams.) WASHINGTON, January 19. It has been officially decided that Francis Lecain will be assigned as sailing master of the naval hospital ship Relief to be commanded by Surgeon Charles Stokes. This is a victory for President Eoosevelt acainst the mimmrtir f Admiral Brownson, who resigned from the navy as a result of nr.lnr Surgeon Stokes should command the hospital ship over the ha1a of the line officers. It had been intended that the HeUet should accompany Admiral'" Evans' fleet on its voyage to the Pacific, but the vessel was hel.l up on account of the row which arose over the President 's order. The vewel will now prob ably receive her orders to sail for the Pacific RUEF WILL BE GIVEN NO IMMUNITY FROM TRIAL SAN FRANCISCO, January 19 The prosecution has broken off all negotiations f with Ruef concerning the granting of immunity to him in exchange for evidence to be given against Schmitz and others and he will be put on trial immediately on a charge of bribery. . . " ' y; v . BANKER POET DIES OF HEART FAILURE PASSING SHOW QF POLITICS ON HONOLULU'S RIALTO! TWO YOUTHS GO -TO THE ROGKPILE A call has been Issued by National Committeeman Alex Hobertson to the 1 members of the Republican Central Committee to be present in quorum strength at the regular January meet ing of the committee, to be held to wards the end of .the month " in the Republican headquarters on Merchant street.. At this meeting. the dates will "be set for the Territorial convention, and the orders will be issued that will put the county and precinct organizers at work and start off the political .ma chinery for the campaign of 1908. The workers have not been waiting for any call to get busy, however, Iiaving been hard at work launching little private booms and steering lit tle schemes through the wards for months. Many a finger has been held tap to see what way the wind was blowing many a true word has been am not a candidate for treasurer and never will be." Harvey is being talked about as the Democratic candidate for the big mu nicipal office: that Is, the Democratic candidate, supported by the Home I Rulers and the Achl wing of the Re- BRIDEGROOM BEATEN WIFE TORN III Manuel Lewis, who lives on Baker's lane on Punchbowl, started off his married career last night by being John Freitas will break rock for the county for the next four months and think over the calline down that Judsre Andrade handed out to him in the po- oeaten up by his two brothers-in-law, ;as who is tne Nascimento boys, losing his wife, occasioning his mother-in-law a shock that drove her into hysterics and fin lice court yesterday. Freitas, who a young man, was up on three charges, malicious Injury, drunkenness puoiicans it is stated that a combi- and larceny. The three cases were nation of these forces has been much one continuous offense. He had stolen discussed and practically arrived at, according to the hui of presumed leaders. Harvey is to get their sup port for mayor, Achl for county at' torney, and "W ise for sheriff, while the other candidates will be such as the loyal Home Rulers can support, This combination is counting on the votes erf the Hui Kaukeouli and the latest organized waterfront hui, the one thing that stands in the way be ing the ambition of Dwight, who thinks that he would be a good man at the head of such a ticket himself. All these are bitterly opposed to some poultry and sold it to a China man, getting drunk on the proceeds and falling through a showcase in a Japanese store". With him on his circuit went Enos Fragas, who will also go with him to jail for ninety Ha vs. . , Andrade roasted the two youths un mercifully, Informing them that he considered them 'all-round bad eggs and in line for penitentiary life if a change in their manner of living was not made. The nineteen fan-tan players cap tured on the other "side of the island ally being returned to his spouse in battered up condition through the as- I sistance of Detective Joe Leal. Thus (initiated he began his life as a mar 1 riot man. j The ffridegroom is eighteen years old and his bride confesses to fifteen sum- i mets. The pair were made one at the i Roman Catholic cathedral last even- j ing, going to the Orpheum by way of la wedding trip. So far everything was Io ely and with his bride's little hand in' his and his head in the clouds he ; ted his wife out of the theater and 1 towards their home after the curtain J had fallen on the happy finale of the ! piay. So engrossed was he in the hap piness thicjj around him that he failed spoken in jest and the effect scruti-j John C. Lane and will work against on Thursday were up for trial yester- f tc, reCognize his brothers-in-law, who ' nized, and many little private pledges j Wm fr any position, even reelection and understandings changed. Among: those upon whom the jaoi- j arising against crobe has fastened is Jim Quinn. t threatening to Quinn has had experience and has been twice vaccinated, but in neither case didj it take. He is now out after the supervisorship that was supposed to be his two elections ago and which tte is credited with having thrown away. - If he lands his nomination he should be -well up in the bunch among mobile to carry voters to the polls in. He has learned that there is many a slip of the tongue between the cup and the lip, as well as other things politically useful, and is already hard' at work in an unannounced sort cf way. It is a foregone cenclusion that at least four of the present supervisors will be on one or" other of the tickets this falU The three possible excep tions are Hustace, Keaioha and Har vey. Hustace may run, but not un--less he is nominated as mayor. He doesn't want the treasurership on any terms. , "Cut me out of that." he says; "I have been ex-t to the Senate. Lane's friends know j this and are hustling to stem the tide the young leader and go high enough to cover even his elevated head. The fact that Lane has moved out of the Fifth District and qualified for resi dence In the Fourth has not helped him any with the Hawaiian voters, who argue that his switch is to curry favjr with the Civic Federationists of his new home district-" There are many young Hawaiians who think littfe of the Harvey-Achi-"Wise combination, especially the last two named. The younger Hawaiian1?, the members ,of the St. Louis and Ka mehameha alumni, have little use-for Achl, and denounce Wise asa job chaser. They figure that he has a soft snap now and ought to be con- day, getting off easily with a fine of n,et him and he was not aware of three dollars apiece and costs. Three i the piiikla that the gods had sent to local gamblers had to pay seven apiece ie 'tn up things until a hard fist landed and costs, while the ten-dollar hails ', on his eye. of five others were forfeited. NEW YORK, January ig. Edmund Clarence Stedman, the banker-poet, died here yesterday from heart failure. E. C. Stedman has been a celebrated writer of poetry and prose sinee 1853, when he graduated from Yale to take the editorship of the Norwich, Conn., Tribune. As a journalist he served as war correspondent for the New York World during the Civil War. He had served in the department of the attorney uenerai ax Washington and was at one time a prominent figure the New York Stock Exchange. on CALIFORNIA'S CANDIDATE AT PRIMARIES SAN FRANCISCO, January. 19. The Republican State Com mittee has been called to meet in Sacramento on May 14, It has been decided that the candidate for the presidency to be supported by the state delegation at the National Convention will be chosen at the primaries. . . ICE BROKE; SIX BOYS DROWNED. NEW YORK, January 19. Six boys were drowned yesterday while out skating on the ice near the New Jersey shore. The ice broke, precipitating the skaters into the river. . STRAITS DO NOT ALARM EVANS. THE AFONG SUIT, The answer of Mrs. Julia H. Afong filed in the Circuit Court on Friday, reported in the Advertiser yesterday, seems to have S eated some misunder standing because it is entitled "an an- Just what happened during the next few minutes the bridegroom has only a hazy recollection of, but when he came to; his girl-wife was gone and he was battered and bruised. He hot footed to the police station and told his story, Detective Leal being sent out with him to locate the - missing bride and guard him. A visit was paid to the girl's parents' home on Luso street, and here it was found that tak ing advantage of a hysterical attack RIO DE JANEIRO, January 19. Admiral Evans states that he anticipates no difficulty in making the passage of the Straits of Ma gellan. The fleet will make the passage in single column. . ROBBERS GAGGED THE CASHIER. tented with it. In the meantime, the boom of Jack Lucas for the first mayor is growing nicely, "being nursed along and sedu lously tendled. it is stated that a good many prominent business men have noted it ' and expressed hopes that it will survive the spring storms and the early summer epidemics. swer in the suit of Mrs. Carrie B Riggs vs. Julia H. Afong." That was j en the mother, caused by the return of the title of the original suit brought ! the daughter under the accompanying ,, . . . . - , j circumstances, the wife had skipped to have the trust deed in the Afong I . , , ,, . C 0 out and disappeared. The husband estate construed. A compromise was and detective then visited the groom's effected some months ago which was home. and here the abducted bride was oerfectlv acceptable to Mrs Tiae-m an sitting, tearfully awaiting the return was accepted by her, and with that of her husband. After reuniting the couple. Leal gave them hi3 blessing compromise Mrs. Riggs' interest and and withdrew, connection with the suit ended. Mrs. I Burns, however, has now had herself made a party complainant, and the present proceeding is in effect her suit, though it retains. the old title. Mrs. Bums is now the real complain ant, and Mrs. Riggs has now no in terest or connection with the suit, ex cept that her name remains in the title of the cause. PILOTAGE AT VLADIVOSTOK. It is telegraphically reported from Vladivostok that vessels leaving and entering the port have hitherto been officially ordered to employ pilots, but on and after January 1, Russian calendar,- t,he employment of pilots is to be left to the option of the captains i of vessels. TEXOLA, Oklahoma, January 19. The First National Bank j here was robbed yesterday of four thousand dollars. The robbers held up the cashier and gagged him to prevent any alarm being given. ROOSEVELT WILL SEND SPECIAL MESSAGE RE PEARL HARBOR "Washington, January 18, 1908. "Chamber of Commerce, Honolulu. "The President just informed me that he would send to Con gress today message recommending improvement Pearl Harbor dredging, fortifications and drydock. j ; "H. P. WOOD." ...