Mauna Kea Oral History Appendix - Office of Mauna Kea Management

KM: Not Purdy
EK: No.
HK: It’s not a Hawaiian name. Anyway, they were trying to take over the ranch [S. Parker, E.
Low, and F. Wundenberg in June, 1904].
KM: Oh yes, yes.
HK: Sam Parker wanted to take the other’s share.
EK: Thelma’s.
HK: Thelma’s share and tried to get.
EK: Eben Low them.
HK: Alfred Carter out of the Trusteeship.
KM: A. W.
HK: Yes.
HK: Get him out, you see. They were trying to block some ways. In that process, it almost
came to a western story like, they had to guard themselves with guns.
KM: Amazing!
HK: And her father had to guard the Parker Ranch office during the night.
KM: You’re kidding!
HK: With a shot gun.
KM: And that’s the office where sort of the bank is now
HK: Right, Bank of Hawai‘i. The hours of sacrifice, her dad had been taken over by Alfred
Carter’s orders. To talk to the cowboys. Her father was a liaison type of a person to talk
to the cowboys to support Alfred W. Carter.
KM: Oh, wow!
HK: In fact, they took more like a vote. Anyway, what her mother went through without her
husband staying home those nights and nights. The hardships she went through. I
brought Brother Low to my home. As soon as he put a foot step into my home, she saw
him, immediately, immediately without any…[pauses, thinking]
EK: Hesitation.
HK: She says, “Get out of this house!”
KM: Oh, yeah. Nui ka pilikia!
HK: “Get out of this house.” And I didn’t know the history back of that. I was shocked!
[chuckling]
EK: Well, maybe the history was not only here. The history was in Pu‘u Anahulu too, up Pu‘u
Wa‘awa‘a when they were living there.
KM: Yes. And there ended up being pilikia about, in between 1898 to about 1905. Low and
Hind were partners, because Low’s wife was Elizabeth, she was a Napoleon, but she
was Sanford Dole’s hänai daughter.
EK: Hmm.
KM: Low’s sister, Hannah.
EK: Hannah.
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A Collection of Oral History Interviews (HiMK67-050606) A:223