Local News

L. M. Whitehouse was reselected as City Engineer [Luna nui o na Hana o ke Kalana], in place of W. A. Wall who will be terminated.

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Prince Kampengpetch of Siam arrived yesterday with his wife. The governor received orders from the Office of the Interior [Keena Kalaiaina] at Washington to entertain them.

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There is much woe over the inappropriateness of the will of the young millionairess of Mana [on Hawaii Island, she being Thelma Parker Smart], however, it is being seen as valid.

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The great steamship company of ours is selecting Hawaiian singers to entertain the passengers travelling between Honolulu nei and San Francisco.

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A decision from the jury in the case before the American Court of M. M. Pavao defiling a deaf girl has not been gotten. This is however the Christian era.

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It has been announced that Ailata [??] will be blamed for setting on fire a pile of garbage at Iwilei. The piles of garbage remain there. [illegible digital image]

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The Superintendent of Public Works [Luna Nui o na Hana Hou], Charles R. Forbes, to the the duck ponds right outside of Kalia. The public must support him.

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This past Saturday, Jan. 9, the dead body of John Kapilikea Sumner was found on his bed at the home of his son, R. W. Davis, at Mokapu. He was well known in the newspapers a few years ago.

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This past Tuesday, one of the Filipino detectives of the Honolulu Police Department [oihana makai o Honolulu] was arrested by American Marshal [Ilamuku Amerika] Smiddy, for the crime of adultery.

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Marshal Smiddy once again found fruit of the Insee this past Wednesday. He so easily finds this uncommon thing, meanwhile, the detectives of the County come up empty handed.

(Aloha Aina, 1/16/1915, p. 1)

Ke Aloha Aina, Buke XIX, Helu 68, Aoao 1. Ianuari 16, 1915.