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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-08-12
.MAY VISIT NAVY YARD TURK GOING AWAY Y
ADMIRAL ENDICOTT INVITED TO
COME HERE.
Soon Have Direction of Pearl Harbor
Navy Yard and Coaling station
Important to Hawaiian Islands.

Captain u. S. G. White the engineer
ing officer of the naval station, is try
ing to induce Admiral Endicott, the
chief of the Bureau of Yards and
Docks, to visit Honolulu for the pur-
pose Of becoming acquainted with the
site and general situation of affairs at
the proposed naval yard at Pearl Har-
Dor.
Admiral Endicott Is the head of the
Department of the Navy, which will
have complete control of the station
within a short time. Inasmuch as the
installation of the buildings and docks
and other parts of the yard will be
under the direct supervision of the
bureau of which Admiral Endicott is
head the visit will be of much impor-
tance to this place.
Admiral EndicOtt is to make his first
tour of the Pacific Coast some time in
September. He will go to the Mare
Island Navy Yard and will also in
spect the Bremerton Yard on Puget
Sound. Captain White has written to
the Admiral sugges ting that he extend
the Pacific tour of inspection to in
clude the station in the Hawaiian ISL
ands. The Admiral can get aboard the
steamer and make a brief visit here
laying over five days and return on the
Alameda. During that time Captain
White and Captain Whiting, the local
commandant, would have ample time
in which TO take the Admiral about the
proposed naval station and enable him
to become entirely acquainted with the
situation and needs of the proposed
station.
No reply has, as yet, been received
from the Admiral, but 1t is earnestly
hoped by those interested in the con-
structiOn of the navy yards at Pearl
Harbor, that he will be able to come to
Honolulu. The Hawaiian Islands are,
I in the opinion of military experts, the
key to the Pacific ocean, and that the
United States intends establishing an
| extensive coaling and naval station at
Pearl Harbor is certain. The visit of
Admiral Endicott is therefore, of more
than usual Importance and it would
seem that the situation actually de-
mands that he come and acquaint him
self with the actual appearance of
things connected with the establish
ment of the navy yards.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-08-12
WILL REFUSE TO PAY
FITCHs SUIT AND THE INCOME
TAXES.
There viii BE Large Delinquent List
and Financial Plans of the Govern
ment May Be Upset

One effect of the suit just begun in
the United States court against oppOs-
ing the income tax law will be 10 make
a very large delinquent tax list Tor this
year, as a large number of people VIII
undoubtedly hold back their taxes.
in the nope Of escaping any payment at
all.
The decision Of the case by Judge Es-
! tee is likely to be reached before The
tax becomes delinquent, hut WutcueVer
way the decision goes, there will prob
ably be an appeal to the 4,Inth Circuit
court Of Appeals and tIom there to the
Uni.ed States Supreme court If Juuge
| Estee decides that the law is uncOnstI-
| tutiOnal and the Territory appeals and
tries to carry out the law, payments Of
| income taxes will be very small. 1t ls
realized all round that when once the
money is paid there will be great diti-
Guilty in getting IL back, whatever the
courts may say as. TO the leganty Of
making the collection. II is easy to put
money into the treasury but to take
| it out requires an act of the legisla-
/ ture.
If the case goes to the United -.ates
supreme court year or more is likely
| to elapse before a decision is handed
down. In the meantime tne TAX as as
sessed now, with ten per cent added on
account of failure to pay it before 4,oy-
emDer ID, and interest from that date
at and rate Of nine per cent will ne
considerably increased. Another years
income tax will probably be due and
( perhaps even delinquent before the
question is finally determined unless
! the legislature should repeal the law.
THE matter ought to have been TAX
/ en- up months ago il it was to be TAX
en- up at ALL" said Tax Assessor Pratt.
! "As it is, / suppose the suit will have
a good deal of effect on the delinquent
4 list. The delinquents will be the ones
! to suffer If they lose the case. They
will have to pay their taxes with large
/ penalties added"
Incidentally Col Fitch is doing a
great charity" job in taking up the
/ case he has just commenced. There
are about fifty firms and individuals
! in the list of plaintiffs in whose BEHALF
the present action was begun, but 9TH
er people generally who are liable to-
pay income tax will come in for the
| benefits If there are any. The differ
ence will be, however, that the fifty
may have a restraining order from
Judge Estee to prevent Pratt from pro-
ceeding against them in the Territorial
courts, while in other cases, the local
courts following the Supreme Court OF
the Territory which declared the act
valid, may issue executions.
| The litigation will deprive the Terri
tory of some expected revenue next
! fall. If the movement to withhold in
come taxes is as general as it is ex-
! pected to be under a decision against
the law, the condition of the Terri
torial Treasury will be made consider
ably worse, and the Executive Council
may have to cut down even further the
departmental allowances for eXpendi-
lures
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-08-12
Is HUSTLING FOR SHIPPING
BUSINESS.
Going To San Francisco To Try and
Secure Local Shipping Agency For
the Ship Owners Association.

Frank ]. Turk, the shipping master,
Will be passenger on the $, S. Ala
media tomorrow Tor San Francisco. He
is not going to resume partnership
with his former aide Oscar G.. Lewis,
who has embarked in the hotel busi-
ness in San Francisco as Turk will
probably continue Independent.
Turks idea in leaving for the Coast
Is to try and effect some agreement
with the ship owners Of san Francisco
regarding the shipping business in Ho-
nolulu. Months ago, Lewis went to
San Francisco ana there had several
consultations with membegs of the
Ship Owners Association for the pur-
pose of securing their agency for the
shipment of sailors at Honolulu. The
proposition which Lewis made on be-
halt OF himself and Turk, was received
with much favor by the directors Of
the Association, but for matters of pol
icy the Association subsequently was
unable to take favorable action, but
closed a similar contract with the
Sailors Union by which all of it's ship
ping business was to be done for the
Association by the Union. This agree
ment extended all over the Coast and
was supposed to include Honolulu.
Lewis returned to this port and he
and Turk continued to do the bulk of
the shipping, but business did not con-
, tinue as good as formerly, and they
finally decided to end their famous
partnership. The Heavenly Twins
reached the parting of the ways some
months ago, for Lewis betook himself
to san Francisco where he will be able
to do politics to his hearts content,
while Turk decided to stick to the ship
| ping business.
| The contract which the Ship Owners
Association made with the Sailors
| Union will expire in September, and
! Turk is going to the Coast for the pur-
| pose of trying to secure the contract
with the Association, that Lewis came
so nearly working. If Turk succeeds
in getting this official recognition for
this port, he will have the satisfaction
of being the King" of the Water
Front, for he will have the shipping
where he desires 1t. He may be able
to get back on the return of the Ala
media. His business will be looked af-
| ter by an agent during his absence
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-08-12
TROLLEY EXTENSION
LINE TO McCULLY FROM PUMA.
HOU NEARLY RIA.
Land Broken on the Waikiki Road
Extension From King Street--Kalihi
King Street Line Ready Soon.

On Saturday next the Punahou line
of the Rapid Transit Company will be
running from Oahu College down Alex
ander, out Beretania to McCully and
down McCully to King, where transfers
to the King street "Kalihi to Waikiki
Road" branch may be made.
The rails are already laid along these
streets the extension is now being filed
in and the track rolled preparatory to
the trolley wires being strung for ac-
tual service at the week end.
This will be the terminus of the Pu-
nahou line for some time to come ana
from that point transfers can be made
to the other cars running either towards
Waikiki, in a short time, or at present,
towards Kalihi. The next possible eX-
tension of the Punahou line will be
along King street to the Mckinley
playground, while in the future the
road may be continued straight out to
Waialae.
Land has also been broken by the
Rapid Transit Company on McCully
street, makai of King, leading towards
the Waikiki road across the banana
fields and rice patches. This work WI
be pushed continually. When the cars
are running from Punahou to McCully
and King and later junction effected
through King, Eva of Fort, to Kalihi,
the company will be able to take off
two cars and yet keep the same sche-
dule.
The Kalihi and King street junction
will be effected within the month. The
wires are already strung and one of
the crossings necessary 70 rthe passing
over Fort and Nuuanu street and
wherever Pains system of rails inter-
venes, is already ready for delivery by
the foundry.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-08-12
TAX FIGHTERS.
TOM FITCH WELL PREPARED FOR
THE FRAY.
Holds That Income Tax is Invalid and
Quotes Authorities-Clients Only Re-
ceive Immediate Benefit.

Thomas Fitch is confident that he can
find the Income Tax law invalid and
prevent his fifty odd clients from hav-
ing to pay out their proportion of what
they think an unjust law.
I'm the decisions of the United States
Supreme Courts" says Mr.. Fitch, vol
umes 157 and 1853, nearly one half Of
volume 157 is taken up with the case of
Polk versus the Farmers Trust Com
pany where it was held that a tax upon
the rents or income of real estate upon
which taxes had been or were IiauIe to
be paid, were invalid according to the
fourteenth amendment to the Constitu-
tion of the United States and therefore
an act of Congress known as the In
come Tax law was invalid in all cases
where the income was derived from
rents.
''This was in 1895. The following year
when the appeal came up, not only Polk
and the Farmers Trust but also the
attorney general filed for a rehearing
upon the question Of whether the in
validity of a certain section did not
render the whole law invalid. This was
so held.
"The Dred Scott decision, reversed
indeed upon the field of battle, as far
as slavery was concerned, but the bal
ance of which still stands as good and
accepted law. This holds that nc le-
gislature of a territory can enact a
law that Congress is unable to do, or
which is, in other words uncons Ltu-
tional.
THE Star, which Is usually correct,
was in error in stating that this MAJ
ter has been before the Supreme Court
of the Territory of Hawaii. What was
decided was relative to the case of the
Oahu Railway Company, which helu
that they had a ten years exemption
from taxation under their franchise
The Supreme Court simply held that
this exemption did not hold good as
far as the Income tax was concerned
The validity of the tax was not toucn-
upon in the judgment.
Il think the matter will be speedily
decided. OF course all hands are eager
to have the affair settled as speedily
as possible. 1 shall apply for an in
junction on behalf of my clients against
paying the tax, if get my decision and
any appeal that will be made will not
affect that enjoinder as far as the orr
| ginal fifty are concerned. Others wnC
pay on appeal will perhaps ultimately
| gain the benefit but in my opinion
money once paid in the territorial COZ
| fers is likely to be a hard matter foi
anyone to get back again after it hal
| once been paid out on warrants.
1t is within the power of anyone t
join the fifty clients for whom l an
acting up to the time of the trial and
even after in another case. The ques-
| tiOn of the legality of all my clients
! joining together, if 1t comes up, vii
be very easily settled, 1 think, by re.
ference to Estee's second volume OF
/ Code Pleadings.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-08-12
POLITICIANS LEAvE.BLACKMAILING GANGS
HOW JAPANESE THUGS Ar u
OPERATING
A System OF Levying Blackmail on
Japanese With Money That Causes
Many Cutting Scrapes.

when there is a Japanese cutting
scrape or murder case, said High
Sheriff Brown this morning, 1T is
nearly always a case of blacKmailing
by gangs of thugs whom 1t is almost
impossible to reach. They hang around
Japanese hotels and lodging houses,
and when a Jap with money comes to
town they blackmail him. If he resists
there is trouble.
THE hotel keepers usually stand in
with these blackmailers. They have to
or they would get in,o trouble them
selves. They generally know when a
Japanese with money comes in, or
they do not know him, he is nKely 10
let it become known that he has
money. He is then approached and told
to give up a certain amount of cash.
under penalties of various sorts. Some
times bodily harm is threatened, some
times relatives are threatened. If the
victim gives up the cash. that is the
end of it. If he does not the thugs
carry out their threats and there is a
cutting sCrape, or even murder.
an the Hilo case nine or ten men
were in one job of this kind. In the
cutting affair here the other night
there were four. Both were the same
proposition. 1t was resistance to
blackmail. The thugs were carrying
out their threats.
I'VE may know that this kind of
thing is going on, but to punish the Of
tenders is an impossibility in most of
the cases. The victims are afraid to
testify. The gangs stand together,
the average Jap has not the courage to
go against them"
The high sheriff stated that the Japs
were keeping up high rate for crimes
of violence. The figures for the year
ending with July 30, 1902, show arrests
of Japanese numbering $3.50. Hawai-
ians and part Hawaiians were z,5S5 an
Chinese 2,495. The Hawaiian arrests
are very largely for drunkenness, while
the Chinese are arrested by the hun
dred for gambling. Though the Japs
are not addicted to either of these vices
to any great extent, they lead in the
number of arrests, and most of the ar
rests were for crimes of violence.
The problem of dealing with the
criminal gangs is a very difficult one
and the experience of the police with
the difficulty of getting victims to tes-
| tify shows that there must be many
cases that have never resulted in any
| arrests. There are gangs of thugs llv-
ing on the sums of money out of which
they are able to blackmail fellow
| countrymen.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-08-12
ANOTHER sTABBING AFFRAY

Another stabbing affray among Jap
anese occurred shortly before noon
this morning on Beretania street Nj
shimura, an eXpressman, was driving
along the street when he was hailed
by Kanako, a barber who inquired
when Nishimura was going to liquidate
bill of 81. The eXpressman said he
would pay later on, and was asked to
alight and talk the matter over. He
says that Kanako then came out OF the
shop and stabbed him in the back with
a knife. Nishimura went to the police
station suffering from a flesh wounu in
the small of the back. Chester Doyle
asked If he did not wish to be sent to
the Queens Hospital, but the injured
man said he had no confidence in Tor
eign doctors and preferred going to one
of his countrymen physicians. Ka-
mako was taken into custody.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-08-12
A sNAKE-HUNT ON THE ISLAND
OF MAUI.
Wilcox and Party off on the Claudine.
Kuokoas Preparing to Hold a Primary
Election.

Delegate to Congress r. w. Wilcox,
Senator Kalauokalani, Senator Kanu-
ha, Representative f. w. Beckley, Re-
preventative William Mossman and d.
Kalauokalani, Jr., are the members of
a party of politicians who left today
on the Claudine, booked for Lahaina.
They will hold a mass meeting there
next Saturday, opening the W-.cox
campaign for reelection there, as well
as the legislative campaign. Maui is
- Oilv Bill Whites district for the senate
and 1t is BeCkley's district as a repre-
sentative. Beckley has been suspected
of Kuokoa tendencies, but he has join
ed the delegate, and proposes to stand
by the old party.
The Kuokoa party has decided to ho.d
primaries for a convention about Sep
tember /, when Prince Cupid returns
Cupid win be back at the end of next
week. By that time, it is expected
the party will have organized in the
outside precincts so that arrangements
will be complete for primary voting
The party will adopt the same rules as
the boilers stood for in the Wilcox con-
Vention.
According to Representative EN-
meluth the Home Rulers have now
adopted the very constitution which
caused all the trouble. This is the 40
cument on which Prince Cupid's factor
insisted until they were promised its
adoption and bolted when the other ele.
ment did not keep faith. GAS near as
can learn" said Emmeluth, the nome
Rule party has adopted the constitution
we demanded. They will not put i
into effect at once, however. 1t has
been adopted,--for next time"
1t now seems likely that the Repub
lican, Democratic and Kuokoa conven
about the same time. ALL inulcationi
point to a fusion of the three, under {
Republican for Delegate to Congress
and a legislative ticket apportioneC
among the other parties according t.
their strength.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-08-12
AN ocToGENARIAN MISSIONARY

The Reverend Father Lenor, cele-
brates today his eightieth birthday at
the Catholic Mission. Father Lenor
has been forty-eight years a missionary
on these islands, his labors having been
divided principally between Wailuku,
where he was located for twenty EIGHT
years, and HonolulW Father Lenor
came from France originally. After his
long career of activity as a missionary,
he is now practically on the retired
list. He was extremely popular during
his regime at Wailuku and still has
many visitors who call for a chat over
old times. He is still in vigorous health
although not as active as formerly on
account of stoutness.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-08-12
WANTS RECORD KEPT.

The Treasury Department recently
issued an order to Collector Staclable
to keep data and records of the busi-
ness done between the MIinlan1 and
the Territory OF Hawaii. Pursuant to
such a request, the Collector mas ad-
dressed letters to the various CONNER
cial and import houses of the territory,
asking for data and general informa-
ton concerning their business to and
from the Mainland. Collector Stack
able has kept up a record of such data
and sent it forward in his annual re-
port to the Secretary of the Treasury,
but additional data is desired.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-08-12
MILITARY PING-PoNG.
Officers Club Members Inaugurate a
Tournament.

The officers Club have started ping
pong tournament in emulation of the
one just completed by the Elks. Many
names have already been handed in
and all desirOus of competing are In
vited to hand in their names to H. L.
Picker who has the matter in charge.
The club boasts one ping-pong table
at present and another is ordered to-
gether with two electric fans to cool
the heated competitors. The rules of
the competition will be practically the
same as those inaugurated by the Elks.
The tournament is open to all and not
restricted to members of the club
Prizes will be given in accordance
with the number of entries received
and viii be distributed at the smok-
ing concert to be given by the club
members at the close of the COM
petition. The tournament viii start,
in all probability next Monday, the
preliminaries and first rounds being
played off as speedily as possible.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-08-12
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
The Annual Meeting Is Called For
Tomorrow.

The annual meeting of the Chamber
of Commerce will be held tomorrow
afternoon in the room of the Chamber
Hackfeld building. Notices of the
meeting were sent out today by Secre-
tary Spencer, stating the principal
business of the meeting to be the cleo
ton of officers and receiving a report
from the committee on fire claims. =
The fire claims committee, of which
w. w. Hall is chairman will present
report from j. G. Pratt, who was
elected by the committee to go to
Washington and work for an apprOpri-
alton for the fire claims. Pratts re-
port will tell of the work he did at the
national capital and give his views as
to the chances for the fire claims ap-
preparation in the next session of Con-
gress.
The programme in the elections of Of
ficers in the past has usually been to
elect the vice president to the chief
office, while the president retires,
though there is no rule providing for
such a course. The present president
is William G. Irwin, while c. NJ. Cooke
is vice president
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-08-12
NOT IN FAVOR.

Well informed people on Maui state
that a majority Of the voters do not
favor a city and county bill. They
figure that taxes are sufficiently high
a the present time and they have no
desire to add any additional burdens.
WilcoX's visit may change the Hawai-
ians, but of this there is no certainty.
He viii probably promise them a house
and lot each, but he will have to agree
to pay the taxes on the property,
otherwise his generous offer will be de-
clined.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-08-12
SAW WILCOX DEPART.

The crowd was much smaller this
morning at the departure of the Hilo
boat than usual. Delegate r. w. Will
cox, d. Kalauokalani, d. KalauOkalani,
Jr., w. Mossman and Fred w. Beckley
We're the Home Rule politicians who
were passengers on the Claudine for
Lahaina, as they will open the cam
paign on the Island of Maui tomorrow.
Mrs. Theresa Wilcox did not accom-
pany her husband. She remained be-
hind to look after his political fences
and furnish amusement with her paper.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-08-12
SAID HE WAS DRINK.

Ichnashi was before Judge Wilcox
this morning 10 answer to the charge
of assault and battery on Mo, a Jap
anese female. The defendant is the
same man who is alleged to have at
tackled his wife at Waikiki Sunday
night and injured her with a pair OF
scissors. The defendant said that he
had been so drunk at the time Of the
assault that he did not remember what
he had done. The case was continued
until Wednesday.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-08-12
CHANCE FOR BROOKS.
Friends Thought They Scented An
other Habeas Corpus Case.

When the. name of S. Shimamoto
charged with selling tobacco and sal
mon without licenses was called in the
police court yesterday a diminutive
Japanese arose and walked forward.
The supposed defendant was immedi-
ately recognized by the court officers
as a substitute and the fraud was
brought to the notice of the court.
Judge Wilcox sentenced the culprit to
serve four hours for contempt of court.
1t was stated subsequently by an ir-
responsible person, that the man had
been sentenced to four months. Friends
of f. NJ. Brooks, the attorney, at once
started to notify him by wireless tele-
graph to hurry home from Kahului as
glorious opportunity for some more
habeas corpus proceedings awaited
him. When it was subsequently learn
ed that the Japanese had not been con-
signed to such a severe punishment
the friends decided to allow Brooks to
remain and continue his celebration as
one of Chillingworths personally con-
Quoted excursion.
Shimamoto appeared in court this
morning, and explained that he had
been unable to appear yesterday on ac-
count of a sprained ankle. Inasmuch
as he had secured the two licenses for
the sale of salmon and tobacco the
cases against him were nolle pressed.