The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-02-06
ADJOURNMENT CB ELABORATE SWEN HAVE BAD TRIP BRES BRGRH THE SH CANAL
BUNCO sTEERERs Sc
CURE THOUSANDS.
Fake Lottery is Successfully Worked
Amongst the Laborers on Various ISL
ands-Promoter May be Caught

one Of the biggest and, up to the pre-
sent most successful swindles that has
vet been perpetrated in these islands is
presented in the Japanese lottery
scheme the general character of which
was exposed i'm the Star of last Tues
day The details show conclusively that
many false statements have been made
and names wrOngfully used by the pro-
moters so that while it is dOubtfully
thought that a certain percentage of
the money may be paid over i'm order
to save their prosecution or perhaps in
stitute a second series. the whole
scheme bears the palpable hall marks
of a scheme to mislead and swindle the
| Japanese laborers who have put up
their hardly earned dollars i'm the hope
of winning some prize that would allow
them to return to Japan and live Ike
princes.
As there does not appear to be any
white men connected with the affair, it
is thought by prominent Japanese that
the plan was COnCOCted by some Japa~
nese who has visited the States and be-
came acquainted with the details of the
Louisiana lottery scheme; possibly buy
ing some chances i'm it and then seeing
the opportunity that such a scheme pre-
Sented of acquiring wealth from his un-
sophisticated countrymen i'm Hawaii.
| In Japan, the lottery is interdicted by
| the law and it's existence practically
unknown. At the same time the well
/ known axiom that every Oriental is at
heart a gambler is we'll known. This
coupled with the fact that the ambition
! of every Japanese is to accumulate Sut-
| ficient wealth to retire to Japan and
! live the rest of his days in honorable
comfort, makes them an easy prey TO
| the possibility, when presented, of be-
| coming wealthy beyond their dreams at
] 1f IA
\ Ten thousand tickets have been print
| ed by the promoters, representing ten
! thousand dollars, out Of which seven
! thousand dollars was to have been re-
! turned to the lucky ones the promoters
getting three thousand dollars for their
| expenses and their trouble. Even legit-
! imately there was a tidy little sum TO be
reaped by the lottery promoters, but
from all indications the schemers plan
ned to get away with the whole 100000
The tickets have gone like hot cakes.
| Those of the Japanese who have taken
jup the matter state that there have
| been two thousand tickets sold in Homo
lulu alone, while the agents are busy al
work along the railroad lines. Kauai is
said to have been enthused over the
! affair and the agents have successful
ly attacked Maui and Hawaii
The money was supposed to have beer
deposited in a local bank from whence
| the NlnlluB tuethS are SupDOSeu u
come. Needless, to say the bank de-
nies any knowledge of the scheme. The
drawing was to take place in front OF
the judiciary building on the twentieth
of this month.
The spectacle of a mob of excited
ticket holders being allowed to gather
unmOlested in front of the Judiciary
building while a lottery drawing is go
ing on can hardly be imagined, but the
probability is that there will be a crOWC
of gulled Japanese waiting around Ka,
mehameha's statue two weeks from tC
day
The history of the scheme runs as
follows. About a month ago a mar
came into the printing office of the Ha.
wai Shinpo during the absence o
it's manager, G. ShiOzawa and ordered
ten thousand tickets to be set up as
shown below a literal translation being
, given. There We're four of the coupons
i with the printed matter upon it will
perfOratiOns i'm between so that the pur
chaser Of a dollar ticket could share hi
chance withHfOur others at twanty-fvD
cent for a quarter share The Othe
ticket was retained by the agent afte
having been filled in to correspond Witl
those issued. The words comparison
Certificate and "Check" are palpabl!
, inserted with a view to impressing tn
i purchaser with the detailed and elabO
rate manner of the scheme.