The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-07-20
WANT WINE
At WA|MEA
Osaki OF Kauai viii
Arbitrate for a
License.

They are determined 20 have theil
booze at Waimea, Kauai, apparently
Yesterday the Osaki Company, which
was refused license at the same time
that the Kauai Wine and Liquor Com
| pany received it's temporary turn
Gown, afterwards made permanent, no.
tilted Treasurer Campbell that it
| would appeal to arbitration under the
new law, at the same time naming as
it's 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 Osakf case" said Treasurer Camp
I 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
Liquor Company is making kind of
test case. In this, the applicant for
license has named John Cathcart as
it's 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 afhda-
Wits in connection with the protests in
these Kauai cases, the bunch this time
being a hot one. Charges of bribery
for instance, states that on July 10
last one J. A. Akina came to him and
Offered to pay to the deponent herein
the sum OF So if 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
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 zone /.
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
s. Osaki, and requested the deponent
voter and that the said I. Tanaka Of
fered to pay the deponent herein a sum
of money if he would sign the petit
ton aforesaid, and that the deponent
herein then signed the said petition,
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 j. A. Akina asked
him to sign the protest against grant
ing licenses to the Kauai Wine and
Liquor Co, land that upon the depo-
nent's refusal to do SO, the said j. A.
Akina offered the deponent herein the
sum of 81 if 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 j. A. Akina.''
A petition was also received from
twenty-five Waimea voters asking that
the renewal of third and fourth class
liquor licenses be granted to S. Osaki.
This is accompanied by an affidavit
wherein the deponent says that he
was asked to come to c. B. Halls
place. He signed Halls petition for
licenses and also another paper, the
contents or purport of which he did
not understand, as he did not under
stand English. and it was not explain
ed to him. The deponent says further
that had he known that this paper was