The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-11-13
GRAND JURY REPORT.

GRAND JURY REPORT.
Hon. Jacob Hardy, Circuit Judge, etc.
Sir: The grand jurors duly empan-
eled and sworn for the November term,
1905, of the Circuit Court of the Fifth
Judicial Circuit, beg leave to report as
follows:
The grand jury have considered the
following cases presented to them, in
all of which true bills have been found:
Yu Dali Yen, murder, first degree;
William Kaui and Ane Wahaokaale,
adultery; Yamada, Hironaka and Suda,
extortion; K. Odo, violating liquor
license; K. Odo, violating liquor
license; Z. Odo, perjury; S. Tanaka,
violating liquor license; S. Dobashi, ,
illicit sale of liquor; S. Ozaki, violating
liquor license; William Meheula, en-
bezzlement; All Nook and Lung, con-
Quoting gambling game; Leong Hing,
assault and battery; Tai Ian, All San
and NJ. Yukichi, conducting gambling
!, game; Simeon Dias and Iokepa Lowell,
present at gambling game; Tai Ian,
disorderly house; Miu Pung, Lung Sam,
All Chee, Ching Yong and Aloiau, con-
Quoting gambling game: D. L. Kala-
waia, gambling; D. L. Kalawaia, per-
jury; William Werner, unlawfully
upon the premises of another at night;
MaIie Kerr and Miyasaki, adultery;
All Mung, maintaining lottery; Tai
5 Lung, unlawfully permitting gambling.
In the following cases the grand jury
failed to find true bill: Kimm 500
Eung, forgery; Kamahiai, burglary.
LIQUOR LAW DENOUNCED.
In accordance with the suggestion of
the court, and with personal knowledge
of the frequent complaints and com
ments of our stable population, con-
cerning the great number of liquor
licenses on this island and the abuses
in the conduct of such establishments,
the grand jury devoted a large part of
its time to the examination of the
causes of this evil and to Tie probing
of the regretful discovery that such
licenses, greater part of them,
should or could have been issued in the
faco of general opposition.
We find that the Honolulu authori-
ties, for reasons known to themselves
only, have acted in the granting of
new licenses, applied for under the
baneful law placed on the statutes of
the Territory by the last legislature, in
a haste unusual in such matters and
certainly most unwise and hurtful.
Our legal ad User informed us that
retarded for a reasonable time after
the application for such license has
been filed. no doubt for the purpose of
enabling an inquiry into the merits of
the application. vet we find from the
copies Of the original licenses and
other documents, furnished us by the
territorial treasurer, that licenses were
issued within the shortest possible time
after the receipt of applications, in
one case the holder of a license of the
fourth-class receiving a third-class
license on an application made by an
agent Of the applicant and on the
statement of such agent that he had
been requested to apply for the license
by wireless message. This Incense was
granted a dav after the receipt of such !
novel application and was dated back
some six weeks. Any kind of notifica- !
tions to the public-as is usual IN other
branches of the government-of such
applications for licenses would have en-
abled the opponents of such liquor |
places to use their legal rights of pro-
testing against the granting of the
licenses
TREASURER CAMPBELL WRITES.
Sheriff Rice submitted to us a letter
to him from the Treasurer of the Ter
utoFy, from which we extract the 1ol-
lowing matter pertaining to one of the
licenses under review, viz:
''With reference to S. Ozaki case, I
am able to write as follows: Ozaki
applied for third-class license on Au-
gust oath and received a license on the
25th. The third-class license he re-
ceived was dated August 25th, and was
for the twelve months from July 1,
1905, to June 80. 1906 The person rep
resenting the applicant claimed to
know nothing more than that the
Kauai people had wired up for third