Show FOREST FIRE IN HAWAII eIpt3 crt 2 Thousands of Acres of Vaiu r able Timber Destroyed CANE FIELDS THREATENED O sup su-p 3ti It Is Estimated That the Fire Is aYu Twenty Miles in Length Sugar I Plantations Are Suffering From aLack 71 a-Lack of Haln U S Marshal DanA lei Dan-A Hay Dies of Brights Disease i TLargo Claims Before Commission to Adjudicate Losses in Chinatown 13 Flro Honolulu Tj r ii CorrespondenceAssociated PrcsaJ Honolulu Sept ISCVia San Fran ciifcoV Scptr 5Thc forest lire reported re-ported In Hnmnkua district weeks ago lii burning yctr with increased fury and threatens Incalculable damage to the plantations and forests In its vicinity vicin-ity It has sucpt thousanda of acres and at > lasl reports tt was driven by N strong winds and wns threatening a p tract of between forty and fifty thousand thou-sand acres of forest It has been pro jtoscd to call out the National Guard o and set the soldiers at work on the 1 flre whIch threatens to such fearful L damage FIRE COVERS WIDE AREA The area burped la almost wholly from Government land but cano t Holds are threatened at some points u It JB estimated that the fire is twenty milosJn length Several sugar plantations planta-tions are suffering from Jack of rain Stock has been removed to Hllo to prevent the animals dying for lack ot ivatcr and there has been a general I exodus of Kiittlera from the district since the unprecedented conditions developed de-veloped to PROPOSED IRRIGATION SCHEME It Is proposed to tap the Kohala mountains where billions of gallons of water are going to waste The post of I the scheme would be between two and f three millions but it is believed that the enterprise would be a great HUC CCSB It would make a large new area ye flt for cultivation ba NIGHT SCHOOLS CLOSED Since tile opening1 of the public schools there has been much discussion h discus-sion over the closing of the night achopls They were originally opened C for the purpose of teaching the English 5 language to Hawallana but It was 8 found that the Hawallans did not pa trqnle the schools The attendants I 7 were rteacly tlI Asiatics most of them D ndulttt and for this reason the schools were closed Many objections have been made to the closing as a discrimination discrim-ination against Asiatics many of whom are taxpayers S S SUIT TO CONDEMN LANDS JThe hearing of the suits brought by the United Slates Government to con demn lands at Pearl harbor for a naval fitatlon haS begun before Judge Estee The Governments slated price is less than 20000 AvXllo the amounts demanded de-manded tire over a million In the aggregate ag-gregate 1 MANY FRAUDULENT CLAIMS The claims before the commission aijointed tO4 idudicqe aimi to 14 On5 in the great Chinatown lire of Jauury ltIOO caused by the hurmng V of a building infected by plague now number pycr filOO and aggregate 2 731781 The commissioners have found evidences of rank fraud In Home of 1hf claims and It appears likely that t the awards finally made will fall far t Short of the sums claimed DEATH OF MARSHAL RAY r United Stntes Marshal Daniel A Ray died suddenly September 17th of I Erlghts disease complicated by heart failure He had been United States Marshal for the district of Hawaii since the organic act took effect being tin first Marshal appointed He came S 3ierc from Illinois where he was for S many years iJTomlncnt In political af S fairs Chief 32 F Hendry has been appointed I ap-pointed by United States Judge Eslee f nfl Maishal to act until an appointment + appoint-ment Is made at Washington PETITION EPISCOPALIANS + Dy the steamer Sierra leaving to 1 day the members of the Anglican 4 church of Hawaii send a petition to + the convention of the Protestant Episcopal 4 Epis-copal church to be held in San Fran + clsco next mouth asking that the + S church here be token under the dlveo tlon of the American church This la 4 another step In the long light of the 4 parishioners against Bishop Willis the 4 iSngllyh bishop The petitioners who t otC IM In number bet forth that the English church has withdrawn support t Plncf annexation They declare that + under present conditions there Is no chance for the church to make any 4 Piogress 4 |