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S. WEATHEB BTJEEATJ, January 3. Last 24 Hours Rainfall, .00.
Temperature, Max. 72; Min. 62. Weather, cloudy; fresh trades.
SUGAR. 96 Degree Test Centrifugals, 3.67c. per Ton, 573.40.
88 Analysis Beets, 10s. Per Ton, $82:20.
ESTABLISHED JtJLY 2, 1856.
VOL. XLIX., NO. 8238
HONOLULU, HAWAII TERRITORY, MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 1909.
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CITY GOVERNMENT
WILL GOME INTO
FORCE AT NOON
Preparations Complete
Have No Chance to Register Any
Kick Until Tomorrow.
Today, at noon, there will be no more
County of Oahu, while supplanting it
will be officially born the new City
and County of Honolulu. To mark the
.vent there will be a public reception
in the assembly room of the City and
i'ounty offices, Mayor Fern will ascend
the steps of the municipal throne and
deliver his inaugural address," the
City, and County band will play a
' Tequiem for the dead county and a new
Mayor's march in honor of the new
.municipality and its head official and
there will be a girding up of loins
for the opening scrap between His
Honor, and the Board of Supervisors
majority.
There is going to be some disappoint
ment about this last mentioned number
on the program, however, because it is
Intimated that there isn't going to be
any meeting of the new Board of Su
pervisors today. The Supervisors them
selves expect there will be, but the
Mayor has made other arrangements.
. He doesn't want one tiny cloud to arise
to mar the harmony of the great occa
sion and on that account he doesn't
intend to call his Supervisors to order
until tomorrow. The Municipal Act
states that the board shall meet on ths
first Tuesday after the first Monday
of the month and also on the thirij
Tuesday and that there shall be special
meetings or special specified subjects
called at the instance of the Mayor,
Mayor Fern sees no particular special
business that the Supervisors may have
to do today and in consequence will
all no special meeting.
The old board will meet at eleves
this morning. The members will wind
up their work, pass around a few
bouquets among themselves, answer to
the last calling of the roll and wait
WOULD HAVE TRANSPORTS
COME TWO AT A TIME
Army and Navy Journal: In his
annual report the Quartermaster Gen
eral of the Army says: "The owned
transport vessels now operated by this
department are sufficient for the needs
of the service under existing condi
tions, but some of them are approach
ing the age when it will no longer be
economical to keep them in that de
gree of seaworthiness which is an im
perative requisite to safeguarding the
lives of their multitude of passengers.
The loss at sea of a troop-laden
transport would be a calamity too ter
rible to contemplate with equanimi
ty." In view of this statement the
suggestion made by one of our correr
spondents, an officer of large experi
ence, is of immediate and pressing im
portance. Our correspondent says:
' Transports going to Manila from San I
FIRE ON THE RECLAMATION
STOPPED A BASEBALL GAME
Fire on the top of the dredger Recla
mation yesterday afternoon not only
called out the fire department but near
ly everybody in Palama. The blaze
was seen by those at the ball game
being played in Aala Park and fcr a
short time interest in the game lapsed
for the newer excitement.
The Reclamation had been place! in
the Railroad wharf slip preparatory to
"doing some dredging there last night,
when persons on the steamer Alaskan
and on the wharf were astonished at a
cloud of smoke which suddenly swirled
up from the roof of the dredger. A
ve was noticed to be creeping along
the roof and an alarm was sent in
from box 47. The dredger crew, how
ever, took hold of the situation at once
and in a short time had the fire under
control. A portion of the roof was
charred badly but the damage is nomi
nal. Sparks from the donkey-engine
stack setting fire to a small quantity
for Event Supervisors
until the clock strikes twelve and
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sounds their official demise. Then ex
Chairman Charley Hustace -will escort
the Mayor to the chair, make a short
address and retire into the ranks of
the private citizens. J
Mayor Fern will then speak for the
first time officially as Mayor, making a
short inaugural address, outlining the
policy he intends to carry out, express
ing a hope that there may be harmony
between himself and the other officers
of the City's administration and prom
ising to carry out the law as nearly
best as he is able. He will then an
nounce the names of the committees
chosen by him and wait for the light
ning. - '
Following the address there will be
a public reception in the board room,
which has been decorated with bunt
ing and other gala attire in honor of
the occasion. To this reception a gen
eral invitation . to the public is ex
tended. '''"' 1
On the street corner outside, Captain
Berger will lead his men in appropriate
music. For the occasion he has writ-
; ten a new march, dedicated to the
j Mayor. On his program is also the
"Inauguration Overture" and a "City
Life' Vllti, both "new in Ifonoluln.
The first regular meeting of the new
Board of Supervisors will be held to
morrow. The fact that it will not be
held today is going to be a disappoint
ment. The Republican members of the
board are not geingto get a chance to
make their point that the new appoint
ed1 officeholders have to be confirmed
and the appointments of the men en
dorsed by the Republican' Executive
Committee cannot be consummated be
fore the Fern forces move upon the
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Francisco should go in pairs, or better
have them go over the path followed
by the liners. This would remove the
present danger to some extent of loss
of all hands, in case of accident, such
as running on uncharted reefs, uncon
trollable leak from a strain, in a ty
phooniswamping, disabling of machin
ery, etc., etc. There would be some
show for human beings in case one of
these unfortunate things should occur;
and our transports are getting a little
worn and old now. If anything hap
pens to one transport, and she has a
consort, relief could be rendered
promptly and the boats and life rafts
of both transports could be put to use
in transferring .human souls, as a con
sort is supposed to be nearby. If the
transports go on the path of the lin
ers there is a good chance of getting
help, within a reasonable time and be
fore all are lost. History shows how
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of excelsior lying on the roof was the
cause of the blaze. '
The Reclamation is engaged in dredg
ing out the entire Rrailroad wharf slip.
Harbor muck and scourings brought to
the harbor by the Nuuanu stream have
caused the slip to fill up and the deep
ly laden vessels constantly making use
of it have been too close to the bottom.
The Reclamation will be one of the
dredgers used by the Hawaiian Dredg
ing Company in dredging the channel
and harbor at Pearl Harbor.
For the first time, for a day alarm,
since the new fire alarm box-number
cards were issued recently the fire
whistle sounded twice . when the fire
was out. Under the old system one
whistle announced the finish to a blaze
and the two whistles which annourced
that yesterday's fire was under con
trol excited attention, a number of peo
ple calling up the Advertiser office to
find out what it was all about.
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JOSEPH J. FERN, WHO WILL BE HONOLULU'S FIRST MAYOR
AFTER NOON TODAY.
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FIRST STOCK
Tramp Steamer Brings First
Pure Bred Additions for
Local Herds.
A large shipment of livestock was
brought to Honolulu from New Zealand
yesterday by the British steamship Den
of Ruth ven, marking the , initial ex
periment in this sort of cargo, which
may be followed by others. As far
as Captain Singleton knows this is the
first time a shipment of livestock has
been made from the Colonies to Hawaii.
In this shipment therewere seven
teen Shorthorn and Hereford bulls and
cows of the purest stock, consigned to
Davies & Co. and Haekfeld & Co. In
addition there were seventy - Merino '
rams and thirty-five ewes. The live
stock was in chargeof a cattleman
named Halstead. The stoek was select
ed by a man named Munroe, who' is
a special agent of the Board of Agri
culture and Forestry.
The Den of Ruthven is traveling
light on the present trip to Victoria,
carrying only fifty tons of white Omaru
stone, to be used for decorative pur
poses in public buildings of Vancouver
and Victoria. For ballast the Den of
Ruthven is carrying several thousand
tons of water. The steamer will dis
charge her livestock cargo this morn
ing and will proceed to Victoria about
noon.
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COLONIES
NEW SAN FRANCISCO TO
NEW ZEALAND SERVICE
Honolulu May Be Included if Passenger and
Freight Guarantees Be Made Would
Bring Mariposa to This Port.
BY ALEXANDER HUME FORD.
A through service between San Fran
cisco and Xew Zealand via Tahiti haa
just been established. 1 know that it is
the desire of the Oceanic Steamship
Company to run its boat to Tahiti via
Honolulu if this can be done without
absolute loss to a company that has
served Hawaii laithfully in the past
and has not always made both ends
meet by doing so.
If Hawaii can guarantee ten thou
sand dollars a year in freight and pas
sengers it seems certain that Honolulu
can become a port of call on the San
Francisco-Tahiti-Xew Zealand service.
The far southern route to Australia
is becoming more popular every day,
and it takes from Hawaii that which
should belong to Hawaii The run to
Tahiti via Honolulu would consume two
more days, but would bring Hawaii in
touch with Xew Zealand by a new and
attractive route.
Connect at Tahiti.
The Union Steamship Company of
Xew Zealand maintains a four-weeklv
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NOT AS COLI '
AS COULD BE
Chilly Spell Fails to Shake
Mercury Down to the .
, Record Mark.
"Br-r-r-r! The coldest weather I
ever knew in Honolulu! "
So, many have said during the past
f ewdys, especially after the sun has
gone down to polish his Bishop Tings
and the cold, gray shadows try to locate
the places In your overcoat where the
moth corrupted. But it hasn't been so
very cold. It hasn't been so cold by
several degrees as it has been before
in Honolulu. If you have shivered very
much lately it has. been through a mis
take. The assistant weather man in
the Alexander Young Hotel says so and
has the statistics to prove it, showing
that what was the matter lately was
that the air was only thicker than
usual to the amount of a few decimal
points.
The lowest temperature recorded on
the Young Hotel roof during the past
few nights has been 61 degrees, while
a search through the records of the
United States Weather Bureau discloses
the fact that the lowest minimum tem
perature recorded in the last fifteen
years was in February, 1902, when the
thermometer fell to 52. In March of
1891 and February of 1903, the thermo
meter fell to 53, and in February and
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service to Tahiti from Auckland. To
meet the thirty-five day service from
San Francisco of the Oceanic boat, it
put on an extra steamer from Welling
ton that makes exact connection with
the San Francisco boat. That is the
way they do things in Xew Zealand,
and th3 exports of Xew Zealand, with
ail her great territory and population
exceeding ours seven times, does not
double in value the exports of Hawaii.
If there is a link of connection need
ed in the Pacific, it would seem to be -'
the establishment of a Hawaiian-Tahi-tian
service; and this may now be se
cured by a little energy on the part of
Hawaii. The seasons in Tahiti are op
posite to the seasons in Hawaii, so that
with a connecting line in operation no
fruit need be out of season in either
group of islands. Moreover, the estab
lishment of a connecting route would
be but an opening wedge. A good trade
has been built up between San Fran
cisco and Tahiti; the thirty-five day
steamer will soon give way to the four
weekly steamer. Let Hawaii do her
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Looters Resist Guards and Kill Sailors Landed
to Help A Hospital Ship and
Equipment Sent.
(Associated Press Cablegrams.)
ROME, January 4. At both Messina and Reggio there were
frequent encounters yesterday between the guards, stationed to pro
tect property abandoned by its owners, and thieves. There are
looters everywhere throughout the ruined districts. Six sailors from
a Russian vessel, who had been sent ashore to protect property and
render assistance, were killed by a gang of looters. In another en
gagement between the looters and the police, two of the latter were
killed. ,
Many arrests are being made wherever possible, and the total
number of looters now in custody of sixteen hundred.
THOUSANDS OF WOUNDED MOVED.
Altogether thirteen thousand three hundred and ' fifty-nine
wounded persons have been brought to the improvised hospitals
here aboard warships.
.The strict censorship being maintained by the government on
messages from the ruined districts is hampering the newspaper cor
respondents greatly in sending out their reports of the great disaster..
MORE VIOLENT EARTHQUAKES.
The Island of Stromboli was shaken again yesterday by earth
quakes, the shocks being most violent. The volcano of Stromboli is
in active eruption.
KING AND QUEEN BACK. v V ,
The King and Queen returned to Rome yestay from Sicily,
where they have been assisting in the work of rescuing the victims
of the earthquake and tidal waves. The presence of the King in
Rome was demanded in order that a special session of Parliament
mignt oe caiiea.
GRISCOM WILL DISTRIBUTE RELIEF.
Ambassador Grisco'm has been appointed by a committee of
Americans to utilize and distribute the relief funds sent to him from
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AMERICAN HOSPITAL SHIP.
WASHINGTON, January 4. The American Red Cross Asso
ciation yesterday cabled one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to
Ambassador Griscom with, a request that he use the amount of the
outfitting of a hospital ship, to be sent to Sicily.
KAISER SENDING HOSPITAL EQUIPMENT.
COPENHAGEN, January 4. Emperor William, of Germany,
who is visiting here, has issued orders for eight transportable hos
pitals of eighty beds each, as used in the German army, to be sent
at once to Messina.
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DEPOSED OFFICIAL SEEKS PROTECTION
PEKING, January 4. Yuan Shikai, who was yesterday re
moved from office as Comptroller of Customs and Councillor, the
result, as stated, of aanchu plot, has fled to Tien-Tsin, arriving
yesterday. He has asked for the protection of the British from his
enemies of the Chinese Court.
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BATTLESHIPS HURRYING TO SICILY
SUEZ, January 4 The American battleship fleet arrived here
yest rday, two days ahead of the schedule. The vessels 'will be
hurried on to Sicily to assist in the work of rescue.
MURDEROUS ASSAULT SAID
TO BE "HIGHER-UPS" REVENGE
A murderous assault was made late
yesterday afternoon upon Mrs. Isoi, of
Iwilei fame, by one Morimoto, the
story in the Advertiser on Saturday
that it was through inadvertent state
ment made by the woman that the
present investigation of the Twelve
Dollar Club was started, being the
cause for the assault.
Mrs. Isoi sought United States Dis
trict Attorney Breckons as soon as she
was able to recover sufficiently from
the beating she had received, and told
the story of the assault. The District
Attorney at once got into communica
tion with United States Marshal Hen
dry, and that official went to the po
lice station, where he - obtained the
services of two special officers. With
these he went in search of Mrs. Isoi's
assailant, and by 8:20 he was placed
in a cell at the police station as a pris
oner accredited to Marshal Hendry.
He is held for investigation. Chief of
Detectives Kalakiela, although his men
made the arrest, states that he knows
nothing of the case and appears not to
care if he never does.
When Mrs. Isoi presented herself be
fore District Attorney Breckons she
was a much disheveled woman, with
blood on her face and clothing and
exhibiting many evidences of violent
handling. There were some cuts on her
head, and these are said to have been
made with a bottle.
The affair took place at the Isoi
house. It is said that Morimoto pick
ed a quarrel with Mrs. Isoi, accusing
her of giving away the secrets of the
Twelve-Dollar Club, following this with
the assault in which she was injured
so badlv that it was some time before
she was able to call for assistance.
The disclosures in the Isoi matter
have reached an aeute stage, and the
possibility of several persons being im
plicated through evidence developing
is said to be the rean for the Mori
moto assault, a theory being that the
attempt to do the woman up was in
stigated bv "higher-ups."
United "States District Attorney
Breckons will probe the matter fully
todav. and the newest development
may bring to light a number of cirr
cumstances connected with the Iwilei
matter whieh will not only border upon
the sensational, but be a source of
serious embarrassment to many people,
not Japanese, who have been more or
less connected with the Isois and their
galaxy of women. Some of the dis
closures expose police protection said
to have been afforded Isoi's stockade
during the time the Atlantic fleet was
in port. . ... .