The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-07-19
Three japanese Arrested
by United States
Marshall.

| Because they were so rude and in
considerate as to sell woman. three
Japanese, Honda, Okata and Kudo,
found themselves taken into custody by
the Z. S. Marshal yesterday. And the
three will be called to face a serious
charge in the Federal Court. 1t is the
old peonage story, with some varia-
lions. 1t appears that two of the three
men were fellow townsmen in Japan,
namely Kudo and Okata. The wife of
Honda, or the woman who came here
as his wife, was also from the same
town in Japan.
| After the arrival of Mr.. and Mrs.
Honda here the man, who is employed
at the bone mill in Kalihi, as all the
men are, Honda seems to have con-
Guided that it would be more profitable
to dispose of the woman than to keep
Okata in the meantime, and as Okata
was young and personable-and want
ed e wife-Kudo seems to have agreed
to act as a go-between in conducting
the sale. Accordingly, after great
deal of riding around in hacks on the
part of Kudo, for which riding Ckata
is said to have paid, the bargain was
struck-or, at all events, the woman
passed from Honda to Okata. This
was several months ago, and the wom- |
an has been living with her new
owner ever since. 1t is claimed that |
she secured a separation but not |
divorce from her husband, although of |
this there is nothing to show.
The consideration, it is claimed, for |
which the woman was disposed, was |
the payment of grocery bill of $6SO5 |
owed by Honda, and one hundred and
eighty silver yen paid to Honda in
hand, all Of which is denied, of course,
by the accused men.
SUES RAPID TRANSIT.
The Attorney General, in behalf of
the government of the Territory OF
Hawaii, has brought suit against the
Rapid Transit and Land Company to
recover 1925 alleged to be due for
damages done TO one cart belonging ID
the Department of Public Works. 1t
is alleged in the complaint, which was
filed in the District Court yesterday,
that on May 9th last one Matthews. a
driver in the employ of the Depart
ment of Public Works, was run down
by a car of the company on Hotel and
Punchbowl streets, the cart being
damaged to the amount asked for. The
usual allegation of negligence is made
on the part of the company.
PARKER RANCH CASE.
The taking of direct testimony was
not reached in the Parker ranch case
before Judge Lindsay yesterday, the
day being consumed in the reading Of |
motions and of testimony already
taken. J. j. Dunno finished the read
ing of Carriers answer to the charges |
made against him by Low, and w. A. |
Kinney read a motion by Mrs. Knight, |
mother of the minor Annie Z. K. Par
ker, asking that the authority of J. 5. |
Low as next friend of the minor to |
bring the suit be rescinded. and that |
the action be dismissed The petition |
of Mrs. knight charges Sam Parker, |
the Lows, Fred Wundenberg and their |
attorneys with trying to GUST Carter |
from the control of the ranch in order |
to get possession of it themselves. |
There are, in fact, number of sensa- |
tional allegations in the motion, and |
Mrs. knight says that she sought the |
appointment of Carter as guardian for |
her daughter because she knew that he |
would not be controlled by Parker.
A similar motion, containing similar |
allegations, was read from Carter, and !
the balance of the day was taken up |
with the reading of dispositions and |
testimony as to the Parker ranch, its |
fences, improvements, and the stock it |
carried.
COURT NOTES.
Laura A. Coney has filed suit against |
the heirs of ]. A. Kaikanahaole de- |
ceased. to foreclose> mortgage on one |
acre of land in Fort street given to Sc
cure a loan of s1400
In the Ii estate fishery case, the ter
ritory has made a claim to the fisheries
all around Fords island. The matter
will be submitted on briefs to be filed |
no later than Monday.
w. A. Greenwich, a graduate of Yale, |
has filed his petition to be admitted to /
practice at the bar of the Supreme |
Court.
Chief Clerk auckland of the Cover
nor's Office did not take his proposed |
trip to Kauai. the Kanealii forgery
case in which he was subpoenaed as a
witness, having gone over for the term