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...editor of the Pacific Commercial Advertiser, Honolulu. He served on the Territorial Board of Education and in the Republican Territorial Commission (1906-07). While Pacific Institute delegates met at Honolulu, Kilauea (largest active volcano in the world) erupted, flooded its eight-mile-around crater with molten lava. Visitors from Hilo (30 miles away) were driven back from the crater by dense sulphur fumes...
...than not the earth's major convulsions take place within a few hours of the first warning quiver. It was just such an instrument that Dr. Thomas A . Jaggar reported having perfected upon his arrival last week in California from his post at the government volcano observatory at Hilo, Hawaii (TIME, May 3). It was an earthquake annunciator, a simplified seismograph for installation in the cellars of private dwellings, with an indicator to be read upstairs. It would, he said-and his high standing as a scientist removed all doubt from the assertion-record earth shocks from the slightest...
Earthquakes followed the lava, of sufficient violence to move buildings eight inches in the island's principal settlement, Hilo, on the east coast. In the mahogany and sandalwood forests and sugar plantations under Mauna Loa's great flanks, damage was extensive, though for the most part the lava followed its old paths, which lie arid and deserted...
John Calhoun Baker, of Everett, Pa. Keuneth Sheffield Boardman, of Campton, N. H., Ernest Howard Crabbe, of Indianola, Ia., John Raymond Gardner, of Worcoster, Leon Goldberg, of Providence, R. I., Miltion Lyle Holmes, of Providence. R. I., Milton Lyle Holmes, of Hilo, Hawali, Richard Newhall Johnson, of Newton Center, Grant Kuhn, of Kenilworth, Ill., Robert Minturn Sedgwick, of Cambridge, Malcolm Dean Taylor, of Farmdale...
John Rollin Desha '12, of Hilo, Hawaii, prepared at Oahu College. He played third base on his Freshman team, and last year played shortstop on the University team. He is 23 years old, 5 feet, 8 inches tall, and weighs 140 pounds...