The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-07-20
WANT WINE
At WA|MEA

They are determined 10 have their
booze at Waimea. Kauai. apparently.
Yesterday the OsaN Company, which
was refused license at the same time
that the Kauai Wine and Liquor Com
pany received its temporary turn
down, afterwards made permanent. no.
titled Treasurer Campbell that it
would appeal to arbitration under the
new law, at the same time naming as
its arbitrator Ernest Mott-smith. The
Treasurer has fifteen days In which to
name the arbitrator In behalf of the
Territory. Odo, whose application was
also refused, has not appealed and
can not now, his time having ex-
pired.
II have not named an arbitrator in
the Osaki case" said Treasurer Camp
bell yesterday. Il do not know when
l Will. The same questions are in
volved as in the case of the Kauai
Wine and Liquor Company, and it may
not be necessary to arbitrate at ALL"
In other words, the Kauai Wine and
l@llupl Company ~ lilihltk a hltlu Va
test case. In this, the applicant for
license has named John Cathcart as
its arbitrator, and the Treasurer has
named w. O. Smith in behalf OF the
Territory. The third man has not yet
been named.
In the meantime Treasurer Campbell
has received another bunch of affida-
Wits in connection with the protests in
these Kauai cases, the bunch this time
being hot one. Charges of bribery
are made, even. One of the Opponents.
for instance, states that on July 10
last one ]. A. Akina cameNto him and
Offered to pay to the deponent herein
the sum of s. IL he would sign a GER
tain document, as a registered voter.
and also use his influence to secure the
signature of -, the father OF the
deponent herein, to the said document.
said document represented to the de-
ponent herein to be a protest against
the granting of certain liquor licenses
to the Kauai Wine and Liquor Co,
Ltd, and that the deponent herein then
and there refused the offer so made.
Another affiant says that "one l.
Tanaka presented to the deponent a
petition asking that his name be with
drawn from the protest against the
granting OF certain liquor licenses to
$. Osaki, and requested the deponent
herein to sign the same as a registered
voter, and that the said l. Tanaka Of
fered to pay the deponent herein a sum
of money If he would sign the petit
ton aforesaid, and that the deponent
han clio said natitinn
and after the deponent had signed it,
the said I. Tanaka refused to pay to
the said deponent herein the sum of
money"
Another of the affidavit men says
in substance that ]. A. Akina asked
him to sign the protest against grant
ing licenses 10 the Kauai Wine and
Liquor Co., land that. upon the depo-
nent's refusa! to do so, the said j. A.
Akina offered the deponent herein the
sum of 81 II he would sign the protest
aforesaid, and that the deponent here
in then signed the said protest, and
received in consideration of this, for
his signature, the said sum of 81 from
the said ]. A. Akina."
A petition was also received from
the renewal of third and fourth class
liquor licenses be granted to $. Osaki.
This is accompanied by an affidavit
wherein the deponent says that he
was asked to come to c. b. Halls
place. He signed Hairs petition for
licenses and also another paper, the
contents or purport of which he did
not understand, as hs did not under
stand English, and 1t was not explain
ed to him. The deponent says further
that had he known that this paper was
protest against the renewal Of
Ozaki's licenses, he would not have
signed them. as he was not opposed to
the issuance of these.
Another affiant states that when the
same papers as referred to above We're
presented to him he asked what the
purport of the latter one was, and was
told that 1t was a protest against X.
Odo. He states that he does not OBJ
ject to the Ozaki licenses. and that II
his name appears on the Ozak pro-
test 1t Is not intended or authorized
by him.