Pacific Mail seeks transfer to American registry
A Washington dispatch says vice president Schwerin of Pacific Mail Steamship Co. seeks to transfer its mail steamers to American registry to gain subsidy advantages and pursue new contracts tied to Philippines and Hawaii. AssistantPostmaster General Schallenberger backs the plan, while Congress consideration looms. Schwerin sails to San Francisco today as talks continue. The Sugar Company entries note capital and officers but are secondary.
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the Sun
Washington
Schwerin
Pacific Mail Steamship Company
Post Office Department
American Line
Department
Schallenberger
Pacific
St. Paul
New York
Paris
St. Louis
Philippines
Hawaii
Pacific Mail Company
Congress
Schwerto
San Francisco
Bennington to sail for Hilo with two week coast plan
Bennington will sail for Hilo late this afternoon and may wait until tomorrow morning if delayed. Captain Taussig plans to stay along Hawaii’s coast for about two weeks before returning to port for Christmas. The Moana sails for the colonies at 5 p.m. today. The Portland Steam Packet Company's Portland-bound sidewheel Portland went down with all aboard in a Cape Cod storm early Sunday.
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Hilo
Taussig
Hawaii
New York
Portland Steam Packet Company
Porthland
Boston
Portland
Cape Cod
Moana
Colo~ Oies
Peace Commission progress and Hawaiian territory plan
Paris reports rapid work by the Peace Commission with a treaty expected within a week. Merritt and staff discuss Philippine conditions, targeting December 10 sailing to New York. Honolulu context notes Hawaii likely to become a U.S. territory on July 4, 1909, with a territorial government bill pending in Congress and implications for laws, suffrage, and governance.
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Peace Commission
Weasley Merritt
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London
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Philippine Islands
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New York
California
Hale
Merritt
United States
Philippines
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Washington
Hawaii
Congress
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Hitt
Justice Frear
Hawaiian Supreme Court
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Islama
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Legislatare
Honolulu
Professor Koebele Returns With Bugs From Abroad
St. Louis reports Prof. Koebele has returned after six months abroad bringing parasites and other enemies to destructive insects. He visited California, Arizona, Mexico, Texas, Washington DC, Philadelphia and New York and met entomologists in government service. He notes enemies of the horn fly, predaceous beetles on soil pests, and imported cabbage butterflies detected on the islands from San Francisco. He also brought suitable plants including the Mexican rubber tree and eleven banana varieties. Ex-Queen Liliuokalani and her party passed through St. Louis en route to Washington to present a claim for a million acres of Hawaiian land and offer to sell the property to the US for six million dollars.
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Arizona
Mexico
Texas
Washington
D.C
Philadelphia
New York
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Aldo
Koubole
Europe
San Francisco
Roebele
St. Louis
Liliuokalani
Hawaii
McKinley
United States
AILEY'S Be ITS. Remarkable bicycle sale in Honolulu
The ad touts top American made bicycles at low advance prices with guaranteed value and durable equipment. It promises economical management, reduced costs, and swift service including repairs and puncture fixes. Payment options are offered with monthly installments.
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Sys
Bailly
Honolulu
Naval Officer Dead Chief Engineer Loch Dies in Washington
Word reached Chief Engineer Incl Us and N Mellond of the death of Chief Engineer Loch at Washington on October 18. Loch, twice aboard United States Navy ships, married a daughter of Reverend Sheldon Dibble of Hawaii. He served aboard the Wyoming in 1861, sinking two Japanese gunboats at Shimonoseki and silencing forts, an act that helped spur Japan toward modernization. He was retired for age and left a wife and two children. A memorial discourse by Dr. Charles W. Eliot was sent to his family.
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Us & N. Mellond
Marriad
Honora
Princeton College
Alexander
Washington
Charles W. Eliot
Harvard University
Eaogineor Loch
Wyoming
Abe
Shimonoseki
Lelade
Japan
Throm family keeps cheerful note after Kenilworth disaster
The Throm family welcomed G. E. Throm home this morning after his perilous voyage aboard the ill fated Kenilworth near Valparaiso. He arrived in Valparaiso on the Kenilworth on the 24th and left September 6 after seven weeks in the area. From Valparaiso he went to New York arriving November 16 and, after a ten day stay, crossed to San Francisco then returned to Honolulu unexpectedly. The Kenilworth disaster and Throm’s role are detailed in Bunneria. The bark Ceylon arrived Port Townsend from this port November 29 and the barkentine Omedga at Genys Harbor that same day.
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G. E. Throm
Kenilworth
Valparaiso
Mr.Throm
New York
San Francisco
Honolulu
Thram
Ceylon
Port Townsend
Genys Harbor
Minister identifies better school site at Waipahu
Walyehy Mehwat Miter Minister Cooper locates a superior schoolhouse site on government land at Waipahu. The chosen location sits on a commanding knoll above Osho Initation, a quarter mile from central population, and replaces the lost Circuit Court site. The Willow line has remained calm at Mukapua Point since last evening.
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Cooper
Waipahu
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