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ESTABLISHED JULY J, 1858. VOL XXXV., NO. 6285. HONOLULU, HAWAII. TERRITORY, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1902. PRICE FIVE CENTS. LEPE DECLARE THAT CABLE STE AMERS THEY OPPOSE CHANGE ARE NEARING HONOLULU A Great Petition The All Red Cable Comes to the May Come Senators. Here.

The Residents Insist That Assistant Superintendent They Believe Present of Fanning Station System Is Best. -. : ' ' i- iliTy "'Hiil.';- iif'':'- W .'iiiid tmij: 1 fi' "id 'I u. ..TSs - .y.'.'i- .i,.Ji-i'Zo- ' : i Arrives.

Leper residents of Kalaupapa have : Two British cable steamers will ar- spoken to the Commission of United rive in Honolulu during course of States Senators, and there is no possi-- j the the next days. billty of doubting their stand as against few One is the Colonla which left on Sept. 19th to the taking over of the Leper Settlement I lay by the United States. In a petition, 3,540 miles of cable to near Fanning Is- land and return to which will be filed by the commission : then Honolulu. The I othor is the steamer Anglia which at once 750 of the patients at the Molo-k- ai left settlement have declared that they London on August third and after mak- will be better pleased if the control of ing the long voyage around through the the establishment rests in the local Suez canal is due here on October third. government. ' The latter vessel is to lay the cable be- The petition for memorial to the com- tween Fanning Island and Suva, . mission comes through W," O. Smith The Colonia is laying the new Pacific who. appears as amicus curae for the people. There was held on Thursday last' cable at a smart rate. She left Bam-fiel- d ' a mass meeting at Kalaupapa, which j Creek on the nineteenth and is JOSS HOUSE AND PAVILION PANG was well attended and after the WHERE FOOK LAY THE JOSS HOUSE IS IN THE CENTER. putting the cable on the sea bottom at J;, fact 15 that the expected visit of the Senators! the rate of seven and a half miles , ah would not be had, was explained, there j hour. Her cable only reaches to with- were several rousing speeches bearing in a hundred and seventy-fiv- e miles of on the effects of the leper bill of Dele- Fanning Island and when she gets to gate Wilcox, and its effects upon the that point she will attach the cable end n - people of the settlement. It was stated to a buoy and leave it there for the .that the first effects of such a manage- -' Anglia to connect and lay it in to Fan- ment of the settlement as is contem-- j ning Island and thence to Suva. The plated in the federal control bill, would Anglia comes here to meet the Colonia ! i be to make certain the division of thei so that the engineers who are laying families, and that then there would be : 5 y t t the cable may be transferred to her such military control of the settlement from the Colonia and also some of the as Insure to would the Issuance the' cable laying machinery. Both are large lepers of a ration like which now; that steamers and should excite considerable comes to the soldier. 5 interest while they remain in por as After some discussion a commit- "if it is seldom a cable vessel is Been tee of fifteen was appointed for the pur- that in Pacific waters. pose of distributing copies of and se- curing signatures to a petition or WILL THE CABLE COMB HERE? memorial to the Senatorial Comisslon. J. E. Dicketts, of Halifax. Nova Sco- So successful was this committee 4 1 tia, arrived on the "all-red- " liner Ao-ran- gi that the petition or memorial yesterday from Victoria. Mr. 1 'Hansfe came up in yes-da- y hi Is- which the Lehua -- jiv- u. ... - r Dicketts is on his way to Fanning sir -- . r has on it the names of near-- land where he is to be assistant super- 90 ly per cent of all the inmates of the f' "if 1 intendent of the Pacific cable station. settlement at the present time. The BP Mr. Dicketts is now at the Moana Ho- committee forwarded the papers here' Ml tel and will remain here until the ar- and they will be taken up by the Sena"-- ! rival of the Anglia from London as he given Be- - tors and full 'consideration. is to go to Fanning Island by that papers were fore the tendered theyj steamer. Mr. Dicketts states that the were fully fumigated and it is even yet cable from Bamfleld creek, Vancouver probable they will be copied and . that ,i . Island, to Fanning Island will be laid the copies put into the testimony of Mr. very near the Hawaiian Islands but Smith. The memorial reads as follows, definitely whether the there being an Hawaiian copy and a could not state - be Honolulu. If translation in English as well, in the cable would laid into "3 the Pacific Cable Board could make ar- same handwriting, while the signatures fi- show that they are originals and that rangements with the Commercial Cable there was nothing like gatting a long Company, which is to lay the American to Honolulu, it is likely that the line of names in the same handwriting: j cable "We, the undersigned, residents of the cable which passes by the islands to ,4 Leper Settlement on Molokai, would re-- ! Fanning Island will be taken up, cut, spectfully present the following memo-- J the two ends laid into Honolulu, and a rial relative to our position and cir- transmitting station established here. cumstances, and would ask you to con- - If this is done Honolulu would always sfder the same and present it to your be sure of a cable service for if one line colleagues on your return to Washing- -' THE BODY OF PANG FOOK LYING IN STATE. broke the other could be used by both ton. OOOOOOOOOCXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX3 companies until repairs could be effect- "First. We beg respectfully to repre- ed to the broken one. sent that we are here, not of our own HIGH CHINESE OFFICER WILCOX HAD NOTHING Mr. Dicketts thinks that the new free will but at the instance and by the TO "all-red- " cable will get a tremendous power of governmental authority,, as a amount of business. He says that there measure of sanitary precaution and IS BURIED WITH POMP DO WITH SENATORS COMING is a great deal of sentiment behind the protection for the community at large, cable and that Britishers will give it and that our lot is a hard one, by rea- great support. has for years son of a compulsory separation from With the salute of bursting bombs, For two weeks has the mourning for '"Our trip here was made for the sole from Senator Jones, of Nevada, and been in the hands of the Eastern Cable borne friends. The hardships of and. surrounded by the faithful members the chancellor of the order gone on purpose finally I had it passed through the Company and now that an all British our lot are however softened to a cer- of procuring information and here, the date of the funeral having Senate. Then in committee I was ask- line is being put through Australian tain degree by the freedom of our life of the order of which he was the local we have got a great deal of matter," been set forward on account of the ed to take charge of the work and and English merchants will use it In the present system of rules head, the mortal remains of Pang Fook, said Senator Mitchell last evening as hereunder necessity for time so that outsiders finally consented." preference to the old one. and regulations. . Therefore we most supreme On de- -. late chancellor of the Ket might have a chance to come in and he sat at work in preparing for "From that account there Is no "The cable," says Mr. Dicketts, "will earnestly deprecate and protest against Fui Kon Association, were committed show their respect for the dead ruler. parture for his home at Portland. "Our ground for the statement made at a be completed before the end of Novem- any legislation which would control our yesterday in to earth afternoon the Daily has the ceremony of making ma- coming was due primarily to lack of public meeting by Delegate Wilcox, ber. Already the line has been laid and liberties and subject us to further and cemetery. Pauoa terial provision for the wants of the accurate, specific knowledge. ! that he brought the Commission here. is being used between and srreater hardships than we now have to was in one of the most re- It itself dead been carried out, and in the im- Did you have any talk with Wilcox , a distance of 8S5 miles, endure. And in particular we would been "During the winter past we had sev- markable ceremonies which has provised room in front of the regular abaut a commission?" was asked. and between Norfolk Island and Fiji, protest against any law being enacted seen in the city, committing to the eral bills before us, and on each oc- this meeting house of the Association there "I never talked with Wilcox about 981 miles, and between Norfolk and tending to the separation of the sexes; body one who since his casion of a hearing or discussion there earth of the of has constantly burning tapers an investigation here. Neither did he 518 2,334 in a which in our humble opinion been in came up the same lack cf knowledge. New Zealand, miles, or miles measure selection as the head of the Association memory ever mention such a thing to me. of the dead. The culminating, During one meeting this was so pro- all, which is now In working order. In would lead to serious disturbances whose name is practically connected From the tenor of the conversations in commensurate ceremonial was observed on Saturday nounced Senator Foraker, two weeks tims the section as far as without any benefits. with his own, has done so much not that the committee I should say that there, was "Second. We would respectfully rep- evening and yesterday morning, there chairman of the committee remarked Fanning Island will be nearly complete only for its extension but as well for the being a universal feeling that we should have con- i resent We are not frv, favor of practically no cessation as the that some one should come here. It and a few weeks more will see it that Chinese of the Territory. There follow- information and of course I cannot say transferring the care and management whole affair was a continuous perform- was then suggested that I draw a reso- structed to Fiji, completing the work ed the hearse bearing his body not less that Wilcox did not speak to others, of settlement to the Federal Gov- ance. The arrival of vessels bearing lution and I did so. Senator Foraker and forming one of the finest cdble the 2,000 of members of the order, but to me neither before I introduced posi- than the members of the order from out of town me to push along I it services in existence." ernment, but heartily endorse the asked it and had the measure, or while it was pending, while surrounding the grave and taking who wanted to pay respects to the to got is going to Fanning for Mi tion taken by the , Hon. Secretary their referred our own committee, and Mr. Dicketts part as spectators more than twice the did he say a single word about Cooper, that the Territory is able to deal in person, made the crowd of a favorable report. It then went to the a two years stay. He expects his wife Si number wore the colors of the the plan. As to its inception I drew Committee on Contingent Expenses and the resolution and I know that he had (Continued on Page Z). (Continued on Page 4.) there again I had a favorable report nothing to do with it at all." (Continued on page S.)

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