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Show s It J ( lk a ' THE WEEKLY NEWS EXPRESS. LAYTON, UTAH "THE NAPOLEON OF THE PACIFIC By feLMQ SCOfT WATSON ' ' ' i the days ACK.-in- - vhtn President George Waslt-ington was- mastering the first ' x, ( H V''-'V $' .I; ' I 'i , A A if if li J.: H - y!. i t .... 4 'S ' y - ' '"z , ' ' - frblems-o- f democratic govern . fnent in the new republic t' - 'J': . Two New Deal Upset I ''X 25,000 Tatch Frogs-ISchool Until 22 I i well-pave- with Its own mol' or king. The most Important of thosq sovereigns were to the ll&wntfnns. Because of the favqrable situation of his Kalanlopuu of Hawaii and .Kaheklll territory Kamehameha was able to At- - thd coyrt of King secure more of these necessities of of MauL Kalunlopuft was. his nephew, n war than Ids opponents, thertffiy named Kamehameha, having Uocldej advantage. ov6r who .spent many hours on the ; '. them ships and wlioiq Lieutenant Aftef some years KameJhamcha deKing, oi'ie of and Keawemauhlli their scribes as possesslngtlie most sqv; dlfTereuces .and- thepatched up seut A latter age face" hb had ever seen.. number of his warrior to - A. year .of so later when King former. in campaign Against Maul Kalanlopuu grew, old and feeble, he and Onliiv Keoua. yns fa enraged cajlejl a council of tils chiefs,' and by this, that he.mndd an attack oh there. procl'ul fned his son, Klwjilao, the .Hllo'dlstrlct.and defeated and as tils successor. . . .Keoua tlien After tho kings death lit !782jhe Inyaded territory chiefs from all parts 'qf the 'is-- ' and. ravaged two.ef Its districts,' land gathered for the fustennary' but was soon driven out of. thut distribution of,. lahd by Mie new pnrt of. the Jslnnd ef. iiawall. . king, lie was under the Influence tn the summer of 179J Keoua-waof his uncle, Koawejnaulilll, the killed and Kamehameha - be: principal chief of the IJIlo district, came undisputed ruler of and because of thnt fact the chiefs Island of Hawaii, He 'then began of Kona' feared they, would be un-- . of extending. his conquests dream! rig fnlry treated In ttia distribution of over .all the other Islands.-- IBs prinland'. So flv.e of them decided, to' obstacle' was the however, cipal act together .to protect their Interwhich hnd been 'developed strength ests and they persuaded Kame by Kaheklll, the khig of .Maul, who hnnteha to. become their lender. ' hnd succeeded In pinking himself Not long afterwards 'Keona, the brother of Klwalno, inarip an .un- - overlord of .Maul., Molokai, Oahu arid Kauai. For nevernl years the war between these two kings went on Intdrihltfehtly, Culminating In an Invasion of Hawaii by Kaheklll and his brother Kae.o. To repel this at tacit Kaurehameha .'collected a large fleet of .war canoes with .which he .met 'find defeated the fleet of IiIa If the north const of enemy In this- navnt bnttle ench side used cannon which they had obtained from b;ldte fur traders and Kamebanjelm's victory, was large ly due to the fact that two Kng llslimen, Jnhfl. Yojung qnd Isaac Davis, wer. charge, of his ar, tillery. .' ttil battle 'there wns a Afte period of peace tn fhA Isrands. The aged king Kaheklll, dlod Ifr the summer of 179-- and his lands Were .divided between his' brother and his son, Kaianlkupule, ruling over Oahu and Molokai and Kaeo keeping control of Maul and. Kauai. But uncle and itcphfw soon Were In volved Jn War, and In 1794 Kueo was klled. Kamehameha now haw his chnpre to compete his conquest young-warrio- r Krig-Us- h Cook's-officer- - aid-th- l, s the-whol- e . Ila-wnl- - - Accordingly he summoned his chiefs arid warriors anil collected the largest army In fhe history of Hawaii. .Einbarklng In a great fleet of war eiino'es.- the expedition sailed frenr Hawaii In February, 179.1., for Maql. After, taking possession ef that Island, Kamehameha next ov cupled Molokai arpl then snileii to .Oahu, where he landed at' . .During this passage one of the prlnctp.nl chiefs,' Kalana,' deserted with, his followers arid Joined Kaianlkupule- .where .his army was posted la' ths Nuuanu valley. But despite fhls defection Kamehameha won an overwhelming Hundred's of oyer the enehiy Kalanlkuputes, nitn, 'including tlie traitor, Katrina, .werfe killed In. battle and. iarge' number weredrlven .over- the precipice to. their deaths on the rocks .below. .Kaianlkupule wn among Jho.se who.escnped birt. after' wande.rlng about . In the mqijntAlns for 'several 'months, he was cfliquud and sacrificed to the '.war god, t ; Although this victory' was 'a decisive one, ttlere sttll remained the Islanits ef Kaudt and Mllhao to be conquered. Moreover, during absence' from Hawaii a brother .of Kalana hnd led a revolt qn that Island and gained possession of a large part of IL But in the fall .of 1700 Kamehameha returned and In a battle fought near Hilo quickly crushed the rebellion This marked the end of Kameha-mehn'wars. From thnt time on he could devote his time to building np the empire of which he had dreamed There was no one left powerful enough to Oppose his rule. Having proved his supremacy as a war leader, Kamehameha next - Waikiki - 6TATUE OF KAMEHAMEHA I BEFORE THE JUDICIARY i ' . . .IN HONOLULU . . This Is a copy of the original statue which 'was' lost it sta later and set up In the district of Kohala, Island of HAwali; tho relief the base depict scenes In the conqueror' life... around plaques EUH-OIN- . tlve houses with their patches of .taro, papala and breadfruit groves to the blue Taclflc beyond. Winding, downward to these fields the boulevard, cut from the sides of the mountain, and a masterpiece of road engineering, continues. But before you reach this beautiful valley you ace fastened to the rocks at the top of the precipice a tablet bearing this Inscription: "Erected by the Daughters of Hawaii, 1907, to commemorate the BATTLE OF NUUANU fought In this valley In 1795 when the Invading conqueror Kamehameha I drove the forces of Kalaunlkaputl, King of Oahu, to the Pall and hurled them over tho prodplce, thus establishing tho Kamehameha dynasty." This Is the story of that battle and its place In American history. provoked attack, on some of KAtne hamehas peoplp. This led to h battle la which KawohaniMia victorious over Klwat'ao who Wrs slain. JBs uncle, Keayvenjauhlll, was captured, but ftinnuged to and flee to llllo. As A rtisult of this battle, which matted' an Important step In the career df the Island of Hawaii was divided Into three parts the districts of Kona, Kohala and Ilamakii coming under control of Kamehameha, Kan under the control of Keoua, the brother of Klwalao and llllo and Puna under the sov' ereignty of Keawemauhlll. During the next ten years Kamehameha had a hard struggle to keep what be had already won and to gain control of the remainder of the Island of Hawaii and of other Islands In the group. Ills prtnclpnl opponents were Keoua and on the south and east When Copt James Cook, the and Kaheklll, king of Maul, on the English navigator, discovered the northwest During this period forHawaiian Islands In 1778, they were eign trading ships began to, visit ts escape Kamq-hameh- a, 'yle-tor- - Kame-hatpelia- g . . Yf Cold is Curious Rock Bed ' South Africa' Wltwatersrand, which has produced more than fiv bljllon dollars worth of gold since Us discovery 50 years ago, had near ly all its gold found In curious bed of rock, few feet thick, called . . . Tea Mack Meats! Exertion A man who. never changes hfa Religious. Thought a CeffSa In museums 'qf the world there are .150 painted coffins f Egyptians Inscribed with religious thought 4,000 years old, The Geological Survey say that the geographical center of North CegrpWal Cents America Is located In Pierce coim ty, a few miles west of Devils Lake, '.-. N. O, .. r Elepkeat Can Lift a To . Sueceiifw! Grafting average sensible American he Is twenty-tw- on the Farm and would do well o to continue on that basis. . Sir Hubert Wilkins, who has flown is tn the Arctic, Antarctic and other, f'.r Will. Uad.r Eagtuk Law Under English law a person can dispose of his property by will a . he chooses. Neither husband nor ' ., wife la under any obligation to . leave any part of hla .or her prop erty to the other, mind may have the courage of his convictions, but as a rule he doesn't care to undergo the. mental exertion of forming new opinions, of.-the- l ' '. Use af Word "Ckaqaa' The word cheque is the British spelling for bank .check ; fof other the British meanings of "check spelling Is the same as ours. starts making a living long before . la Raff Symbolio Color The Chinese hare symbolic colors Red signifies fire nd the south; black, water and the north; blue or green, wood and the east; white,-metaor mist and the west; yellow, . earth and the center, . t Th .' bankets." . n qoeer regions by plane, crossed the, ' Atlantic by dirigible recently. . . . Says Sir Hubert;' From almost anywhere 'fa the United States,, a business man. could spend Wednesday and Thfirday go- -, ing About' hi, business, catch' the . .dirigible by airplane Thursday midnight, spend tw business days fa 'Europe rind be- at his desk the. early part of the next week;" I. . V Market Placa af tha Catk The Free City of Danzig at the port of the Polish Corridor was originally spelt Gdanzlk from Godanzlk, which mean the Market Place of the Goths, - It Is suggested that every. American be 'compelled to- - go to School until twenty-two- . years of age to cut down the competition fox Jobs, . It might be simpler to keep every body la' school until glxty and then give everybody a pension of $?00 a month- - What could be sl.mpler than .. that! ' . , l. the Islands. '. - . .t f Taltail Tree la World The tallest trees fa the world are the giant eucalyptus tree of Australia, some reaching height of 480 feet- They are more slender thau the sequoias of California.' - " . . .. . g g . - Catvw ... .AthUae, v' Atbfane Is the gateway both that part, of Ireland lying west of the River Shannon, and to two lit' erary shrines: LIssoy, to which Oll-vey Goldsmith gqve fame as "lovely end Auburn," Edgeworthstown, where Marl. Edgeworth, the oov;.',. 1st, Jived-- . . tivity, ' , . ftfoaBtaiae af the MstS The Mountains of the Moon were described by Ptolemy as being in the Interior of Africa and contain-lnthe sources of the River Nile. ' They have disappeared from. the. . modern map. . e - - of ..' - the Fifth century before Christ, said that GlrgentL In SIcIlly. was "the most beautiful city f mortals." nof It is still regarded ns beautiful ' . as s city but as ruins. t At Angel Camp, Calif, 25.000 persona watched, the annual Calaveras county contest and saw "Cant Take It" cover distance of 12 feet 3 Inches la three hops. Another frog,, raised on the ranch f the la.te Will Rogers was second, with 12. feet 3 Inches, ' ' Twenty-fivthousand .human be ings' watched aome frogs hop'; not hAlf as many would have gathered to hear Einstein lecture-orelafrog-jumpin- nd. of... BaSatiM for 2,000 tlndar, Greek poet who lived fa ' . - Buhl Fvraitwr ,'. Buhl furniture fa style of fuf t . hitnre 'which was Invented made by Andre CharleA Boulle B&hl, cabinet maker to the court of Louis' SrV.' It is ' richly Inlaid with gold, coppef and tortoise shell, . under. the last named of which a' h crimson fabric Is often placed, . '. . . reable ruler. Ue encouraged turn to- prosperity by setting the example himself. Of him the common people jooa began saying He is a farmer, a fisherman, a. maker of cloth, provider tar the needy and a father to the fatherless." lie not only led the way la promoting agriculture, fishing and Other, useful work but he also organized a strong centralized government levied taxes 1A proportion to' the ability of the people to pay and maintained the ancient religion f bit people. More farseelng 'tlva most native chiefs, - Kamehameha realized the advantage' of maintaining friendly relations with the. white traders who began to come- to Hawaii In Increasing numbers arid as the result of his fair dealings the Sandwich Islands; as they were' then called, soon became the most Important commercial center la the Pacific. As- commerce deyeloped the prosperity, of .his kingdom increased, and this brought him Into closer relations with the United States. Naturally some-- of the nhtlons of the world casting covetous eyes upon be-gn- ! . . si . . ..... . .- - . Detswtr Rivet wt TidVte I The Delaware rlvef meets tidewater at Trenton, N. 1, 13Q miles above the mouth. Below thlsdty the broad, sluggish Inriver becomes with sea the many 'marshes let it aide, Its widening eteadily along Into it great estuary, Delaware bay. The decisions set forth that "these major experiments in socialization involve unlawful delegation of powers vested la congress and violation by. the federal government of the rights ef the states" th Washington dispatch avers. The resettlement decision affect fd only that part of the relief activities urider Professor Tugwell Administration, leaving, undecided the remainder of the 94,800,000,000 voted to the President last year. Much f the resettlement money has been spent and much more allocated, cancellation of which will raise problems. - - . lms, e Deal are declared uncon' stitutional. '"The Stipremt court lh a sweep lng 'decision killed' the Guffey . coal act the District of Columbia Court of Ap peals held the Resettlement Administration under Professor . Tugwell violates (he fundamental law of the land- - y r put. New ht w'lth-thei- ex pertinents of the Roosevelt battle, which resulted jn creating the island empire of HaNvaii, flinety-e'igyears later this empire gave place to a republic built.on the lines' of the Ameri- -' A MODERN Or KAMEHAMEHA8.LANDrNGk AT WAIKKt, OAHU . . tan government and in 1898 bePresent-daIn Imitations of (be garments. of ths period, play parte In the bistorts dreseed HawaUana, came a territory of the Unite.d scene. The king Is represented standing the pi atf ehw between the twa tapoev Ranked by warrior hold' .States, the territory- which is ing kahili, symbols of royal rank, '. .. . n6w asking that it be admitted to the Union as the '49th state. ' divided' into '.four kingdoms, each the Islands, bringing gun and proved bis ' ability as a wise, and i beauhappy .crowds playfag-otiful Waikiki .beach at 'Honolulu, the surf boats and cartops rpshlng at. express speed .through the surf which breaks on. the coral reefs and the bather enjoying the quieter waters Inside' the reefs, l.t.ls difficult to renllzfe that less than a century 'arid A half ago an ariby of. 16,000 savage browji sklnned warriors, were .landing on thJa.:snrne beach frbnr their fleet .of war caqoes to. give battle eQnnlly fiorcq enemies.- And when' one ipotor.s over boulevards from the beach through Die modem city of. Honolulu with Its W0.Q0U Inhabitants, passing Imposing business buildings and climbing up this mountains on Mopalne road, bordered by fine homes set In beautiful gardens, It Is equally difficult to realize that ' over this Bnme finite KnlnebnmeJin drove his enemies through tropical . Jungle to the .top of the' . mountain pass, at 1'ali.nnd hurled' them over the. precipice there. But that boulevard leads you up to that precj pice, and from It you look across fine dairy farms, na- - Two "ftir-reaohln- 'g -- tndi . lurabl. Na-pple- d ro diamonds originally cam from India. Fof centuples that country remained the sole source of Europe's supply; Diamond were discovered la Brazil in 1730. and Ip South Aides 1 .18CT.' South Africa produces 90 pef cent of the worlds out- Big news from the Supreme Court would nialte him. first Emperor of the French', .a. brjvh far out in the Pacjfie was s'truggling1 to establish a ynaty ior an island empire, He was ICamchAtndiA I and on June 1 1 .of this year the citit zens of Hawaii will celebrate th. 200th anniversary of the birth of the Napoleon of. the Pacific. At that time they'will .recall, too, how in 1795 he fought and won the decisive is . of the United States and the United States Court of Appeals 'for, the District of Co- - ing tupbn 'the career which ana-playe- . - Round. Trips to Europe jr JNapoJeon Bo'napante was start- ;the n ' Pahs Fart M Rallgioaa Work During the Middle ageS fa Eh '; . an Important parf " Pope, f fa reilgloh. Thqy were vve5 eveP . the priests head while they sah3 mass 4q keep away tbb files Which t represented, the 'devil Later, tani were supposed fa yield divine fafln . ence, their, movement . symbolizing th wing of (he Seraph. dv-tle- s. THIS WEEK United States, of America and As the visitor tq Ilaw'nll watches Cobh, ths pert ef Conk, Iceland, end ea Increasingly popular debarkation point tot visitors fa the British Isles, probably Is the most mispronounced word fa shipping ft is called Cobb, Kobe, but ts correct. It is rarely Cove, tfhlch as Queenstown, s R th same elty .. was known, .' , , formerly n of-th- e . . .. SAFE-CONVENIE- NT - . New Tork police arrested middle- woman begging near a church and acting strangely.. She wore men 's' shuts, five dresses, one ever the other, and carried hank books showing deposits, of $25,000, wise . This should not discourage charity. Not every old' woman, beg-- , gfng, has four 'extra dessses and $25,000. But It aright well discour- age thoughtless, indiscriminate giving, which encourages professional beggary and causes young beggars to graduate as criminal -aged ' KAMEHAMEHA I Portrait Made by g French (From Artist In ISIS.) these tick Isiahds, and the later years of Kanlehamehas life were troubled hy an attempt of a Rus- ' sian .adventurer to gain control. of the Island of Ka.uaL- That attempt Roman custom, 'Following an was thwarted, however, and reign ended peacefully Mussolini. Is taking a census of the Ethiopian that reinaln., The' total with his death on May 8, IS is). number la between six and fourteen The house of Kamehameha, esmillions. Exact figures- afe wanted. tablished by. the' "Napoleon or the The will be' put. ta 'Pacific" In 1795,- continued to reign work wIth plows8pa(lei and shovels 'until .1S93 LlHuokalanl uppUed by Mussolini,' with Italians' waa xleposed aud the HAwallap the Ethiopians w here and telling kingdom came to an 'end. During ' fa what dig. That need- not hqrrify ' the century of Its, reign there, were us, for It 1$ what we.bavb been .many threats, to Its sovereignty doing In- this country for A .long ffoiu England, from France. and time. It. will be better fop the n froin Bussla.. But Plainly through than And. killing each .selling the friendship of. the United States . thet Into .slavery. that Sovereignty was presorved. In - tll Kame-hqmeh- as te! '. th touch of $ iwifch fight yogf farm, house ani buildings. Electricity ' is much Safer, cheaper, cleaner and much mor convenient, than .older. ! methods. ! .' . Able-bodie- d - when.-Qube- - - After . your wiring it donv you'll appreciate the magic of easier' life. In your horde youll have : dean, Vutomaticcooking; refrigeration - EthJ-(rpla- e banlel Webster, of state, sent a letter to secretary December, 1S42, the',' governments of France aud Great Britain declaring It was "thd sense of The government', of the United States that the Government of the Sandwich 'Islands oughl to b.e respected; that no power ought either to take possesion of the Islands as a conquest or, fpr the purpose of colonization, and that ho power ought to seek fos any undue control over Jthcr existing government r any .exclusive privileges of comor preferences. merce." Beglnntng In the fifties sentiment for annexation of Hawaii by the United States became strong and finally on June 16, 1S97, the treaty of annexation was signed. Since that time Hawaii has been a territory under the American flag and the time may not be far off when the kingdom which Kamehameha established 140 years ago Is represtar In sented by the 1 . - , . Atnerlcan ask three, questions: 'Whlit.U the news? 'Who won the game! Have ?qu heard the storjr about ?" Fof that reason thq sue-cesful newspaper pays atteutloa first to the, ries; told accurately . and vividly, then It concentrates n sport, then n humor. Such .dry things a plqlons, editorials, books,t in the re.a'r. 'Fiction ongKt 'fa be cumber four 'but .good fiction scarce and the othef kind not worth ... printing. , . . . ; . foods, arid yrater lieating'. !. Churn, sweep Wash dishes, play the adio. And out doors a small motoV, ' which operates'for only a few cents, . grinds, pumps and hoisfa. . ; J 4 " ELECTRICITY .IS THE CHEAPEST 1 SERVANT YOU CAM HIRE. - -' forty-nint- h that flag. WMtra Miwwtpw Calew. . hatred persists In Spain: While Pope Plus income was addressing representatives of Catholic newspapers deploring Coni- - , uranism and the Hitler attitude toward the Catholic church and the Catholic press a Spanish mob fa Valencia was burning two Catholic churches, beautiful monuments', of early days. Former Indifference to religion has turned to actual hatred in many countries, and In those thut were most deeply religious. Anti-religiou- s C Kins Syndicate, Ftur WNU 8rvlc Ino. CAtV AT i)UR LOCAL STORE AND ASK ABOUT THE COST APPLICATIONS, 10' and HOW EASY IT IS TO MAKE PAYMENTS FROM YOUR BUDGET ON ELECTRIC SERVANTS-- . . ..tUffAHI POWER " LHGETC? 50. ' . , |