T WEATHER FORECAST FOR TODAY- .-I SU0AR-9- 60 Centrifugals. Moderate trades and fair weather with 3.695 f t valley showers. cents. ESTABLISHED JULY S, 1856. HDL. XXXVIII. NO. 6655 HONOLULU, HAWAII TERRITORY, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1903. PRICE FIVE CENT SPENCER THE FOUNTAIN PtNS UNO PANAMA SIGNS PHILOSOPHER KNIVES HAVE DISAPPEARED AND RETURNS PASSING AWAY CANAL TREATY House Members Had Enough Pens at Thirty Dollars a Dozen to Go Around Twice. One of the Few Remaining Great Presents the Completed Instrument Expensive Knives to Give Away. x Literary Names of the to the Consul of the Victorian Era. Five dozen fountain pens for which the Territory of Hawaii United States. paid from $2.50 to $3.00 apiece are missing. They were bought by Si the House during the last session enough to go around the mem- bers twice and they have never been turned into the Secretary The Life and Works of a Man Who Has Made a of the Territory, the proper custodian of ajl such property. There Great Ceremony Observed by the Panamans. are also about four dozen fine pen knives which also went the way Wide and Deep Impress Upon the of the fountain pens. The Territory still has the desks used in the Treaty Wrapped in American and Cuban House of Representatives during the last session, but about every History of His Times. other piece of movable property has disappeared. Flags When Handed Over. No one knows what became of the fountain pens, although some of the native members could put their hands on some of them, without having to leave their firesides. House want- OABUBQRaMB .) ovn What the (ASSOCIATED PRESS OARLJEGRAKS.) (ASSOCIATED PRESS ed with sixty fountain pens no one knows. There were besides LONDON, Dec. 5. Herbert Spencer's condition is grave. these, dozens and dozens of ordinary penholders and gross after PANAMA, Dec. 5. The signed Panama treaty, wrapped in gross of steel pens. And the members never had occasion to use American and Cuban flags, was ceremoniously delivered today to Herbert Spencer, the last of the great literary men who made their pens at all unless it was to sign vouchers for their pay. The United States Consul Gudger. f the reign of Queen Victoria notable, has been seriously ill at his typewriting bills were certainly large enough to include every one of in home near Manchester for nearly six months. He is now eighty-thre- e the reports turned by committees, while some of the commit- years old and has been in feeble health for a long time. tees had so many clerks, interpreters, translators, typists, proof- BOODLING IN SAN FRANCISCO. Herbert Spencer is perhaps the most comprehensive thinker readers, etc., according to the vouchers, that there could not have of the century. He is the philosopher who, in his writings, has been space within the .committee room for the members of the treated the whole universe from one standpoint and who has brought House. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 5. The Grand Jury together and collected almost the whole sum of human knowledge. Still there might be some excuse for the House members. The' has begun an He is the only man who has taken his cosmic theory and worked it could not have known that they were paying for the fountain pens inquiry into the charges of corruption in the County Clerk's office. cut through all the separate fields of knowledge as thoroughly as out of the public purse. When the House session was opened one accbm-plishmen- morning each member found upon his desk a if he had confined himself to but one science. This great t handsome fountain Recent investigations in San Francisco brought to light the of Spencer, given to the world as his system of synthetic pen of the most expensive make. They were pocketed without fact that about $40,000 has been stolen from the city through the philosophy, is truly his life work. To it he has given all the energies question. Some of the members did take the trouble to find the County Clerk's office during the last seven years. Lawyers paid of half a century of unceasing toil. From the time his first book, cause of the presentation and they were told that the pens were fees into the office in many cases which were never recorded on the ''Social Statistics," was published in i860, his work has gone steadily presented to them with the compliments of the Sergeant-at-Arm- s. books of the office and recently the San Francisco police have been on against obstacles that would have daunted any other man, until He was grateful to the members for his election to that responsible trying to locate V. F. Northrup, ex-prob- clerk, who is charged the great system has been finally brought to an end and the ideals, position, but when the source of payment was questioned in the with having embezzled over $2,000 in fees. which at the beginning of his life he hardly dared cjierish for a newspapers Editor Testa of the Independent "rushed to the rescue moment, have been realized. with a statement that the pens would be paid for and it was nobody's business anywav who did it. FOR MACEDONIAN REFORM. THE VOUCHERS TELL THE STORY. MAY SAVE THE FLORA. In the bill of Wall, Nichols & Co. for February 28th there is a charge of $75 for thirty Waterman fountain pens, also a second one LONDON, Dec. 5. Negotiations have begun for an of $15 for a half dozen more. administration of Macedonia similar to that of Crete. VICTORIA, B. C, Dec. 5. Admiral Rickford is superintending It might be considered by people who have no acquaintance with a thirty-si- x to float H. M. S. Flora. There is a bare possibility of saving the inner workings of Hawaiian legislature that efforts pens costing $2.50 apiece ought to satisfy the members of the House The Island of Crete, a Turkish dependency, was taken out of the the vessel. for at least one session. But it didn't. Probably some member hands of direct Turkish rule by the powers and is now governed a was missed in the general- - distribution or perhaps a twenty dollar by the latter. The Powers select High Commissioner who is the a day clerk wasn't able to work fast enough with ordinary pen and head of the Cretan government and as a law-maki- ng body he has DOWIE CREDITORS SANGUINE. sixty-fou- ink. Someone has suggested even, that perhaps legislators have the Bule, or Assembly, of r members elected by the people relatives and friends or constituents who appreciate a little gift every two years, to assist him. Questions of foreign relations are once in determined by the representatives of the powers at Rome. CHICAGO, Dec. Dowie creditors representing $100,000 of awhile. To cut a long story short a month later Clerk 5. Meheula approved a second voucher for a dozen additional pens. indebtedness, oppose the efforts to force Dowie into bankruptcy, Some of "the members surely were about to make a little gift, or ROOSEVELT AND HANNA CONFER. claiming that he is solvent. else weren t quite satisfied with the first pen they had been given A half dozen fountain pens were purchased from Wall-Nicho- ls at $3 apiece. In the same voucher is another charge for pens six at WASHINGTON, Dec. 5. President Roosevelt and Senator KUMALAE GOT A HUNDRED $2.50 apiece. Along towards the end of the regular session another shortage Hanna had a long and cordial conference at the White House during developed in the fountain pen supply of the House. On May 22nd the day ver party affairs. DOLLARS FROM THE HOUSE still a new supply 01 fountain pens was purchased from Wall-Nichol- s. This purchase was of a dozen pens and the price for the dozen was SHUTTING OFF COTTON MILLS. $34- - Representative Jonah Kumalae drew at least $100 from the House members also had a penchant for. pen kjjives and good pen knives House coffers in addition to his regular salary as representative. at that. Enough were purchased to give practically every ' member two knives and as there are none remaining it is BOSTON, Dec. 5. Widespread curtailment of production in Two vouchers which were made out to T. R. Mossman were en- apparent that some of the legislators are carrying the knives in cotton mills is expected owing to the great cost of the raw material. dorsed over to Kumalae. Why, the vouchers do not show. Kumalae their pockets to this day. Of these knives three dozen were pur- --o- probably has a plausible explanation ready. chased in the early part of the session from E. O. Hall & Son at dol- MASKED On June 17th, T. R. Mossman was given a voucher for ten $16.50 per dozen, or $49.50 for the lot. In March still another sup- TRANSVAAL ROBBERS. lars for services performed a month previously, on the special com- ply was purchased and from the appearance of the voucher some of mittee on Joint Resolution No. 1. Jonah Kumalae as chairman of the members must have picked out the knives they most fancied. voucher. Afterwards was endorsed Wall-Nicho- the committee approved the it ls sold these: six at $1.25 apiece, two at $1.85 apiece, RANDSFONTEIN, Dec. 5. Masked robbers held up the Kumalae. Mossman waited just a month be- on the back to Jonah two at $2.00 apiece, one at $1.85 and one more at $2.50.