The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-07-13
WAIMANALO JAPS
QUIT RIOTINC TO
RETURN TO WORK
JARRETT ANTICIPATES FURTHER TROUBLE TONIGHT AND WILL
RETURN OVER THE PAI-REs sTANCE TO ARREST OF RING
ASSAULT ON Lu DEVELOPED SERIOUS sITuA-
TIoN IN WHICH LIVES ICERs WE'RE THREATENED

Sheriff Jarrett this morning return
ed from Waimanalo, leaving every
thing quiet, following the riot of yes
terday, the Japanese having returned
to their labors in the field.
! This evening, however, the Sheriff
will return to the scene of the recent
excitement, for he is of the opinion
| that the difficulty is not yet settled
and anticipates somo unlawful demon
stration on the part of the Iaborers
/ tonight
/ He left ten men armed with rifles
/ to protect the plantation property
| Last night the Sheriff and fourteen
armed men divided into two watches
and patrolled the plantation head
quarters.
a unique incident of yesterdays sup
/ preston of the trouble and the res
cue of Sheriff Jarrett by reinforce
ments from town, was the swapping
of photographs of the mob surround
Ing the office in which Jarrett was
held prisoner with the interpreter,
Townsend, county officer and the
five ringleaders they had taken from
the camp. a =
These photographs will be used by
the Attorney-GeneraEs department in
the prosecution of the rioters.
1t was for this evidence that Jar.
rett delayed ordering the mob to dis
perse after his reinforcements had ar.
rived, so that when the photograph.
er, Williams, arrived with Deputy Higf
Sheriff Doyle, some effective pohto.
graphs might be taken.
In perspective, in years to come, the
Walmanalo riot of yesterday will ranF
as matter of greater seriousness thar
some of Hawaii's bloodless revolu
tions.
The attack on a luna by Japanese
4 plantation laborers Sheriff Jarrett's
dash to the scene over the Pail in an
auto; his capture of the ringleaders;
his Imprisonment with his prisoners
in the plantation Office where he was
surrounded by three-hundred fanatics
ready to go the limit of desperation
If he attempted TO take away the CHIEF
rioters; the call for reinforcements
from town and the ride of mounted
men and the swift rush OF guards with
bayoneted carbines in automobiles
and finally the arrival on the scene
of excitement of Deputy High Sheriff
Chester Doyle with representatives OF
the press who were called upon by the
authorities to assist in suppressing the
outbreak when the scene was reached
with DOyle's effective Interpretation
at the psychological moment. after his
machine had charged the crowd and
dozen leaders had been literally
snatched from the mob surrounding
the Sheriff and made prisoners; all
this make a thrilling story of few
hours of the most serious incident
since the first trouble with Japanese
plantation laborers a couple OF months
ago.
LUNA ASSAULTED.
On Sunday the Waimanalo laborers
demanded the dismissal of a japanese
luna. Manager Chalmers refused. Yes
terday the luna was assaulted and the
plantation management phoned tC
town for police assistance. The Jap
anese laborers, as they have done be-
fore in defiance of all law, We're con.
stituting themselves court, judges jury
and eXecutioners in regard to any oI
their number who offended them. Sher-
if Jarrett went in an auto to the
scene, leaving the city at 10 a m. ac,
companied by Interpreter Townsend
who is also an officer. Jarrett en-
tered the camp and demanded the lead.
ers of the assault on the luna.
MOB RESISTS.
The cry of the leaders was that II
any prisoners were taken the whole
mob must be taken, Jarrett, Town,
send and Officer Jones of that dis.
trict got five Japanese to the planta-
tion Office and tried to enter them in
an auto to be taken to town The
mob jumped the auto, captured the
prisoners and refused to allow them
to be taken TO town. The three po-
lice retreated with their prisoners in