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Show LAN A I LAID RARE RV 60ATS 1 PpH Two Original Colonists, Each Over a Hundred, Nenrly Starve. HONOLULU. Nov. 30.-(Via San Fran- Cisco. Nov. 2S.I The Island of Lanal. the PPPJ smallest Inhabited Island of the Hawaiian PpH group, is blng laid bare by the ravages PPB of wild goStS and the blowing away i ppH Its vegetation and soil by high winds. PPB Gov. Carter ha lusr returned from a trip pBVJ to the Island, In the United States tug pHB Iroquois, and expresses the opinion that pBVJ If steps are not taken to prevent the pBVJ continued destruction of vegetation, th pBVJ Island will probably become barren alt.-- pBVJ pmpj Atiout twenty-five years ago a colony of pBVI about four hundred Hr.wallant were set- pBVJ leri on the Island The governor found pBVJ only fo of them left. They are natives pBs each over a hundred years of age. and pBVJ are the only residents of the island aside pBVJ from Charles Gay. who leases it. and hla pBVJ employees. But for assistance th two pBVJ old natives would have died from lack pBBi The mountains and vabevq of the Is- pBBJ land are overrun with wild goats, de- pBVI scendants of flocks of goats kept bv th s former residents. Gay also has herds of pBBJ sheep and cattle, but has lost several pBBs thousand during the past year, owing to pBVJ drouths. The Governor will call the a pBVJ tsiltldn of the Board of Poreslry and the pBV Iigiflature to the state of affairs exist- pHBs pftVJ |