The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-05-13
THE IRON HAND OF LAW.
1T FALLS ON TWO RoYALIST
EDITORS.
Sheldon Of the "Holomua" and Bush
of "Ka Leo" Arrested for
Criminal Libel To-day.

Won, of the HdOdu Holomnd, were
arrested at twelve o'clock to day, on
warrant for criminal libel in the first
degree.
The complaint was sworn out by
Acknowledgement William O. Smith,
and the warrant therefor issued almost
Immediately.
Captain Harry Juen took charge of
Kenyon, whom he found plaintively
playing the Kreutzer Sonata on one of
the pianos in Soper's Music store. Ken.
yon was Immediately taken across the
streetto the police station and after being
searched was put into cell No. T..
The only thing found on his person
besides some small change was clasp
knife, but the police thought it best to
keep that for fear of a suicidal attempt
on the part of the imprisoned libelllst.
Soon after Kenyons arrival Bush put
in an appearance escorted by the vigi
LIANT Schlemmer who had found him
in Seventh ayAdventist alterations at
his house on Punchbowl street. Bush
was accompanied by his henchman
Nawahi and Attorney J. l.. Kaloukou
He was placed tete tete with Dep
uty Brown and after telephoning
considerably brought two bondsmen
to the front They were J. Akahoonei,
a native out at Kallhi, and one Elias K.
Wright, halfwhite dentist, who quail
fed in the sum of $500, the necessary
amount. In the meantime poor (tri
day. Kenyon was thinking mother,
dear, of thee" in the cool environs OF
cell No. 7, But royalist friends of the
unfortunate had hocked about the
doors of the station house at the news
of the arrest of their friends, and soon
they had hustled out John +, Bowler,
a contractor, and H. E. Mcintyre, a
retired grocer Of the city, who put their
hancocks down for $500, and Kenyon
walked abroad, as Micawber would say,
d" a free man."
But he fingered around the portals
of the prison for awhile and nervously
remarked, "Well, this is the annivers-
airy of my landing in this country. |
d-d-d-didnt know would get to be
such an i-i-important parsonage in SO
short time" Prosecutor Wilder eyed
him somewhat CONTEMPORARY, and, no
doubt, thought before long that he
would become a much more important
parsonage, perhaps, than he even
dreamed now. As for Bush, he had
disappeared again to his Saturday
Sunday devotions at his home. He
said nothing much when he was arrested
except that he thought it somewhat
hard that the Government couldn't
have some consideration for his religion
and waited until Monday or even to-
morrow. All the usual amount of
royalist loungers, especially the gang
that act as the uninvited supports to
the columns in front of Cecil Browns
office, were on hand at the station.
Bolabola Wilson dashed up and grasped
Kenyon's moist palm in hearty, sym
pathetic grasp Contractor Ned Thomas
was also around with hearty proffers OF
friendship. Testa Norrie, and others,
were also there, but under the adj
vice of Peterson and Creighton,
attorneys for Kenyon, the excitement
cooled down and the crowd of royalists
melted away, Kenyon "a conquering
hero" going arm in arm with Norre to
the HolomHd office and the remainder
to where the booze is cheap in the
near neghborhood The ofense for
which Kenyon is arrested is under the
Libel Act of the session laws of 1884
as follows:
"Sec. 7. Whoever is guilty of the Of
Tense of making or publishing a libeI
in the first degree shall be punished by
Imprisonment at hard labor not more
than one year, or by fine not exceeding
$1,000"
The warrant reads, "for printing the
following article, entitled THE How
in Hawaii %:
THE LIBELLOUS ARTICLE.
Minister Stevens had gone beyond his au
thority in hosting the flag of the United
States over Hawaii. He had attempted tC
steal the lSldnu anu ONGIliIOW ISCOSHlGCu SON
eminent authority to which he was accredited
as minister. His was the act Of a ROBBIE
chief. A few bold characters upon their owl
motion, through the assistance Of UniteC
States marines and under the threatening gun
of the warship Boston, deposed the Queer
and set up a Provisional Government. Fo
the protection of the Provisional Government
and to give sanctity and prominence to tn
steal, Minister Stevens lent the authority O
the United States, under the national emblem
known to all nations
President Harrison, in reply to Ministe
Stevens official notification of his action in tn
revolutionary movement, rebuked the ministe
and dsavowed his authority of imparing tn
" sovereignty of the Hawaiian government b
substituting the flag and power Of the Unite
States"
Mr.. Blount, as Commissioner from tn
United States, in pulling down the flag a
Hawaii, has only carried into effect the dis
ayowal and implied order Of President Han
rison.
Under their own flag and government
the people Of Hawaii are no longer prisoners
but free to act with our 0ccredred agents il
the matter of annexation or establishment q
protectorate.
There was no other line Of action left opel
to President Cleveland than that he ha
chosen. Every movement surrounding tn
late Provisional Government, proclaimed the
and infamy Spectators, free-booters an
6libusters must not steal the GOOD name an