The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-10-26
All CHOA AND
LICENSE BOARD
The Charges Against Him Are
to Be Heard Next
Wednesday.

The following letter in regard to a
report of the proceedings of the Board
of License Commissioners appearing in
the Advertiser of October "a has been
received:
Honolulu, T. H, October %, 1907.
Editor Pacific Commercial Advertiser,
Honolulu.
Sir: In your issue of yesterday, I'M
der the caption Moore Called Up On
Carpet in col. 4, page 2. of your pa
per, you allege as follows:
''Ah Choa, the Heeia publican, is
charged with violation of Section Sc
of the liquor law, selling liquor on
credit. 1t is said that he extends gen.
erous credit to the laborers on the
Koolau railroad, settling up with them
on paydays, the settling up process
usually ending up in general drunk
for everybody, with the result that
there is not enough of the wages left
after payday to buy bread for the
families until the next payday, and in
some cases the railroad company has
been obliged to advance money for
food in order to keep its employees
from starving
Under instructions from All Choa
therein referred to, 1 hereby respect
fully request that you will without
delay, and as prominently as the above
charges were made, retract the same.
You, or some of your reporters, have
doubtless been imposed upon in this
matter, by some reckless and malicious
person. Among the facts involved are
the following:
That neither the Koolau railway nor
any of it's laborers are located within
fourteen miles of the All Choa saloon;
that it is absolutely untrue that All
Choa has been selling liquor to said
employees upon credit as alleged in the
article complained of, and especially is
it untrue that such credit transactions
have involved the restitution or
threatened starvation of any of said
laborers or their families; that All
Choa has been twice prosecuted with
in the present month, in the district
court of Koolaupoko, upon the strong
est and most probable charges that the
authorities could bring to bear against
him, concerning sales of liquor upon
credit, and that he was acquitted up
on both charges. without the necessity
of going into a defense, the decision Of
the court in both cases having been
rendered yesterday afternoon, when
the second of said charges was tried.
My client feels that the publication
of the language quoted from your pa
per is a serious injury to him, and
calculated to cast unmerited reproach
not only upon the liquor business in
general, but upon the business con-
Quoted by him, in particular, hence
this request for retraction.
Very truly yours,
c. w. ASHFORD,
Attorney for All Choa.
The statement published by the Ad-
vertiser is the information upon which
the Board of License Commissioners
are acting in citing All Choa to ap-
pear before 1t on October 80 in pro-
eeedings to determine whether his Ii
cense should be revoked or not. The
board expects to have witnesses be-
fore it to testify to all the matters of
information upon which it is acting.
All Choa was on Thursday acquitted
by Judge Aikue of selling liquor on
credit to Driver Bryant of the Koolau
stage. The judge held that All Choa |
was indebted to Bryant and that in |
selling liquor to him he was balancing
and not selling on credit.
The charges against All Choa before |
the Board of License Commissioners |
are on other statements of fact.