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ESTABLISHED JULY 2, 18St.
VOL. XLIX., NO. 8387.
HONOLULU, HAWAII TERRITORY, SATURDAY. JUNE 26, 1909.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
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R0PR1ATIDN BILL
BOOSTS SALARIES AND
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Expenditure of $336,613.50 for Coming
Months Planned Reception Fund
for His Honor.
Six
O. R. & L REFUNDS BOND t
ISSUE OF TWO MILLIONS
W. G. Irwin Secures Option on New Issue of
Five Per Cents at One Point
Above Par.
The Board of Supervisors intend to boost the salaries of the two assistants
in the City Attorney's office, the draft of the appropriation bill for the coming
period providing for raises for both F. W. Milverton and A. M. Brown, raising
the expense for the upkeep of that department in salaries, outside of what the
City Attorney himself draws, to $620 a month.
The Mayor fares well in the list, being down for $500 for a "Reception
Fund" and $2500 for an automobile and its upkeep.
V The bill, in all, provides for the expenditure of $314,713.50 for the six
months commencing on July 1, out of the general taxation fund, and for
$1:1,900 out of the road tax fund.
The measure was not presented at the meeting of the Board last night),
there being one or two items on which the members are not agreed. One ofl
these items is that of the Mayor's automobile, although it appears fairly cer
tain now that it will be bought whether the Mayor wants it or not. If he can
not use it at public expense, there are others who can. The bill omits, also, to
provide lor the official chauffeur's salary.
The appropriations as planned in the bill arc: '
Per month. Six months.
Salaries fixed by law $3,005.00 $18,030:00
Second District Magistrate of Honolulu, not prorated 150.00
District Court, material and supplies..... , . . . 50.00 300.00
Clerk, office employes 445.00 2,670.00s
Jiayor, material and supplies , 50.00 300.00
Supervisors, material and supplies 10.00 60.00
Auditor, office employes 205.00 1,230.00
Auditor, material and supplies 75.00 450.00
Attorney, deputies and office employes... 620.00 3,720.00
Attorney, material and supplies 50.00 300.00
Attorney, expenses, civil and criminal cases, not prorated 300.00
Treasurer, office employes :.. . 150.00 900.00
Treasurer, material and supplies ; .. 25.00 150.00
License Collectors, payroll -250.00 1,500.00
License Collectors, material and supplies, not prorated .... 600.00
Municipal offices, rent ... . 250.00 1,500.00
taintenance of pounds, payroll 30.00 180.00
Engineering and surveying work, payroll.......... 4S0.00 2,880.00
Engineering and surveying work, material and supplies 100.00 600.00
Maintenance f parks, payroll .. 240.00 1,440.00
(Continued nn Pare Two.)
One of the biggest bond deals ever
handled locally was authorized yester
day afternoon, when, at the meeting
of the Oahu Railway and Land Com
pany, the directors voted to refund
their bond issue, calling in the present
outstanding issue of six per cent, bonds
to the amount of two million dollars,
and authorizing a new bond issue of
two millions, at five per cent, interest
from July 1, 1909, to January 1, 1227,
the company reserving the right of re
demption after July 1, 1919. This
makes what is known in brokerage par
lance as a 10-17 Va bond, which is to be
sold at 101.
William G. Irwin, through his broker,
R. W. Shingle of the Waterhouse Trust
Company, has taken the option on the
bonds with the understanding, however,
with the railway company that all the
present holders have the right to ex
change the present bonds for the new
issue at five per cent., on the payment
of one per cent, premium.
The present sixes of the O. R. & L.
were issued by B. F. Dillingham on
January 1, 1S97, to refund a number of
seven per cent, notes.
This issue was
to run thirty years, but was afterwards
changed to twelve years, expiring on
January 1, 1909. At this time the Oahu
Railway and Land Company did not
exercise its right to redeem the bonds.
An endeavor, however, was made at
that time to refund the bonds, 'but,
while local financiers admitted that the
railway bonds were among the safest
on the market, the proposition was not
taken up.
At yesterday's meeting of the direc
tors of the railway jcompariy, however,
the new deal went through. Robert
V. Shingle, representing W. G. Irwin,
agreed to take an option on tne issue
of two million dollars' worth of bonds
at five per cent., at 101, and at the
same time give the present holders the
right to make an exchange. 'The 'prop
osition was accepted by the directors of
the railway company, and m this issue
of the Advertiser appears a notice call
ing a meeting of the stockholders to
ratify the transaction,
Judging by the sale of the present
six per cents at 102, one good-sized sale
having been made yesterday and a num
ber being recorded during the past
week, it is the belief of bankers and
brokers that the present railway bonds
will go to between 103 and 105 very
shortly.
At the present time there is a strong
demand for Rapid Transit 6s at 110.
1001 IS NOT A PART
OF HAWAII, BUT STRANGER
FROM STELLAR DEPTHS
Professor See Has Proved It British Warships
for Portola One of Heinze Brothers
Is Found Guilty.
(Associated Press Cablegrams.)
SAN FRANCISCO, June 26. Announcement was made last night "by Prof.
T. J. J. See; astronomer in charge of the naval observatory at Mare Island,
that he has mathematically proved a discovery that the moon is a planet cap
tured by the earth from space and not a detached portion of our: globe. Hef
reject? entirely the long-accepted theories of Laplace and Sir George Darwin,
ascribing earthly origin to the moon, and asserts that his discovery is supported
by rigorous mathematical proof based on, the methods of Hill, Pojncare and
Darwin. ,
Prof. See's announcement was made in a paper presented to the meeting of
the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Coast, and is a further development of
Ins discovery promulgated last January, that all planets and satellites are cap-
tured bodies, which have since had their orbits reduced in size and rounded up
under the secular action of the nebular resisting medium once pervading the
solar system. , ''
SANDERS GETS CRY OF FIRE
HIS TUR
DOWN
FIRST WITNESS
III P TRIAL
Jury Is Secured at the Night
Session Before Judge
Robinson.
The actual trial of the thirteen Japa
nese charged with rioting at Waipahu
on June 8, began in Judge Robinson's
department of the Circuit Court at 7:30
o'clock last night.
The jury was secured and completed
within an hour after the convening of
the court session, the members of the
jury being as follows:
George II. Harbottle, John H. Jones,
J. S. Azevedo, "William L. Austin, Fred
Goudie, Fred Meyers, Daniel H. Daller,
"William F. Buckle, George E. Bruns,
John A. Legros, Albert Ludloff and
Moreno JIulu. .
The first witness placed on the stand
by the prosecution was Eugene M.
Scoville, an employe of the Oahu Sugar
Company, who was acting as a special
police officer on the day of the riot.
Attorney Lightfoot began a series of
rapid fire objections to the questions
that were put to the witness by Mr.
Kinney of the prosecution. He objected
to the asking of questions that tended
to show the circumstances and condi
tions existing among .the Japanese
laborers on the premises of the' Oahu
Sugar Company immediately preceding
the disorder. He objected to the pros
ecution proving that Mr. Scoville was
a rpgularly commissioned police officer
without pay. The first exhibit of the
prosecution was finally introduced in
connection with establishing Scoville 's
authority a commission duly signed by
Sheriff Jarrett.
Scoville related the pursuit of a Japa
nese who wished to return to work hy
a crowd of hundreds of his fellow coun
trymen. In company with Police Of
ficer Wills. Scoville stated that he went
to the assistance of the laborer who was
beiug beaten by one of the defendants.
The man who committed the assault
(Continued on Page Three.)
COMMENCEMENT
Seven Girls and Twelve Boys
Receive Graduating
Diplomas.
The large hall at McKinley High
School had its first impressions of com
mencement exercise last night and the
walls, if they have ears and eyes as
walls are supposed to have, must carry
down to posterity a record of sweet
young girls in dainty gowns, keen, sun
burned youths in unaccustomed Tuxedo
jackets and the gallant sight of the
hall crowded with mothers, fathers,
aunts, sisters and cousins.
The opening of the exercises was
scheduled for half past seven, but long
before that time autos, hacks and
(Continued on Page Five.'
Mayor Nominates Men
Supervisors Never
Heard Of.
MAYOR'S APPOINTMENTS CON
FIRMED. City Physician Dr. Bruce McV. Mac
kail. Meat Inspector Dr. W. T. Monsarrat.
Sanitary. Inspectors J. Vivichaves
and Jos. R. Durao j
Sanitary Inspector and Morgue At
tendant Louis K. Ka ne.
NOT CONFIRMED.
Milk Inspector M. N. Sanders, de
feated; Jos. A. Silva, action deferred.
Fish Inspector A. K. Williams, de
feated; Jos. Kauai, defeated. .
Mayor Fern 's appointee for the milk
inspectorship, M. X. Sanders, was not
confirmed by the Board of Supervisors
last evening, the vote standing five to
two. The Mayor thereupon appointed
Jos. Silva, but action was deferred
thereon to give the Supervisors an op
portunity to size up the candidate.
Presumably some effort will be made to
ascertain why Mr. Myhre, the
incumbent, cannot be appointed. Mr.
McClellan seconded the appointment of
(Continued on Page Five.")
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SES A
PANIC
School Children Rush
for Doors Little
Heroines.
A minor accident to a moving pic
ture machine caused a panic at the
school commencement concert in the
Kalihi-waena hall last night, hundreds
of terrified children fighting in the dark
for a chance to get out of the build
ing, jamming the doors in their excite
ment and trampling upon each other.
There were no serious injuries to any of
the children, something almost mirac
ulous. The panic was marked by the rare
presence of mind and daring in the face
of, extreme danger of two little girls,
Genevieve Taggart and Adeline Shel
don. There were nearly four hundred
jchildren in the hall, which had been
darkened for the moving-pietures, when
a sudden pop, followed by a flash, caus
ed someone in the rear of the room to
shout ''Fire! Fire! "
Immediately there was a wild scram
ble for the only exit in the rear of the
room. The audience was composed in
(Continued on Page Two.)
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The honor of having supplied the moon to the solar system has been given ,
by some astromomers to the, particular portion of the earth's crust of whichf
Hawaii is a remaining part, an honor of which Prof. See deprives u. A synopsis
of his paper, forwarded, by the Associated Press, states that the -moon was
originally a planet like "Mercury, but not quite so large, and moved about t he
sun at nearly the same distance as the earth. Then it came between the sun
and the earth in such a way as to enter the neck of the space resembling a
bottle neck projecting from the sun'S sphere of control and enclosing the earth.
This neck was quite small. and narrow, but the bulb of space enclosing the eart&
and constituting its sphere of attraction was of considerable size. When the
moon had once left the sun's control and gone" into the bulb about the earth,
it met with some resistance, and the. neck became closed, so that the moon was :
"bottled up" under the earth's control and could not escape. Hence it ha
remained with the earth ever since, and will always abide with us.
BRITISH SEND THREE
WARSHIPS FOR PORTOLA
LONDON, June 26. The British government has decided to order the Bed
ford, Algerine and Shearwater to San Francisco to $ake part in the Portola)
Festival to be held in that city in October next. ? i
HEINZE GUILTY OF CORRUPTION
NEW YORK, June 26. Arthur P. Heinze has been nd guilty of cor
ruptly impeding justice in connection with the disappearance of the books 00
the United Copper Company, the production of which in court had been made
impossible through their being spirited away.
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HEAT CLAIMS MANY VICTIMS
NEW YORK, June 26. Seven deaths and a score of prostrations from the
heat have been reported yesterday. There have also been two deaths from th0
heat in Philadelphia,
CHOLERA RIFE IN ST. PETERSBURG
ST. PETERSBURG, June 26. Ninety-nine new cases of cholera are re-
ported. Yesterday there were thirty-four deaths from the disease.
AFTERNOON CABLE REPORT
U. S. S. ST. LOUIS, DUE TO ARRIVE THIS MORNING.
DIVORCED WITH GOOD ALIMONY.
NEW YORK, June 25 Katherine Gould, the wife of Howard Gould, was
today granted a jparation from her husband by the court. She is granted an
annual alimony of $36,000. The conduct of the wife was upheld by the judge
in his decision.
BROKER BELIEVED TO BE MURDERER.
BALTIMORE, June 25. The man who murdered Miss Edith Wodill of
Los Angeles is now believed to be Robert Eastman, a broker of New York
city. He has either been shot by a posse or has committed suicide.
CHINESE MURDERER ESCAPED.
NEW YORK, June 25. It is believed that Leong Ling, who is accused of
the murder of Elsie Sigel, has snipped on board a steamer.
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WILL OUTLIVE ADVERSE VOTE.
BERLIN, June 25 The Reichstag will not be dissolved, although the
government was defeated in the vote on the inheritance tax.
CZAR OFF TO STOCKHOLM.
ST. PETERSBURG, June 25. The Czar started for Stockholm today.
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NAVAISHA, Africa, June 25 Colonel Roosevelt has shot three buffaloes.
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