The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-06

Failure to procure licenses from the
City and County Treasurer to carry on
business brought no end of woe to sew
eral japanese and Chinese merchants in
police court yesterday morning where
cense fees were due July /, but those
who were brought into court by License
Collector TurrilI had failed to take out
new licenses during July and were
therefore Illegally carrying on business
for that month.
Sing Hung Kee was warned several
times to get his license. He was quite
Independent, however. and even turned
his back on Turri1l and concluded the
frequent conversations with the word
+" Mahope. y Turril1 became tired of
this performance and got out a warrant
for him. Sing Hung produced a license
when he was brought to the station
and said he had taken this from the
wall. Apana, however, refuted this
statement saying that Sing Hung took
il from trunk in a rear room. He
never saw the license on the wall and
Turri1l said he never saw it there. The
defendant appeared to be trying TO
crawl out of hole and the judge fined
him $40, double the amount he would
have received under ordinary cireum-
stances.
Tataki, a japanese lodging house
keeper, was fined $50 for operating his
place during the month of July with.
out license. He stated that he had
received information from the Treas
urer's office that, if license fees were
not paid during July it would be all
right, but after August / delinquents
could expect to be arrested. Judge An
drade said the Treasurer had no right
to suspend the law.
Kim Tin Wo, who sells vegetables on
King street near the market was fined
S25 for failure to take out license.
He produced license but it was dated
August 4, and was procured after he
was arrestedsF He explained his failure
to take out license with the state
ment that he had no money.
Many of the Asiatic merchants labor
under the disadvantage of not knowing
TO whom TO pay. their fees, some being
under the impression that they should
pay to the Territorial Treasurer It has
been suggested that the County Treas
urer issue notices about fees in Chinese
and japanese, thus saving much trouble
all around.
e. Take, the japanese from whom
License Inspector Fennell bought booze
on Wednesday night, failed to respond
when his name was called, and his bail
of 800 was declared forfeited.
Moke Nahulu. lei seller, was fined
S. and costs for being drunk in public
place. This IS his fifth conviction. Mo-
Ike is making a, nuisance Of himself be-
cause of his drinking habits. He sells
leis at the corner of Hotel and Fort
streets, and at times is quite quarres-
some and is objectionable to patrons
of the stand.
In the trial of a Young Hawaiian,
whom his former wife accused of as
saulting her, II turned out that the real
assailant was the divorced wife. On
the stand she testified that she beat
him with stick, and it developed that
she had fought everybody in the neigh
borheod just previously. She was wear
ing male attire at the time The judge
discharged the former husband and told
the wife that she was the assailant
throughout and told her to be careful.
John A1meida and Albert MeKinnon,
two of the men sent as immigrants to
Hawaii from Massachusetts, per the s.
s. Aorangi, were in court on various
charges. Sentence was suspended on
them for thirteen months, on their
promise to leave town today.