The Daily Missoulian., 1909-06-14
FIFTEEN LEADERS I'M HAWAIIAN
ISLAND DISORDERS HAVE
THEIR HEARING.
PROSECUTION HAS PROOF
District Attorney Claims That Papers
Secured in Raid Show That Sons Of
Nippon Intended to Use Intimidation
in Furtherance Of Plan to Gain Con-
troll of Internal Affairs.

Honolulu, June 1S.-Fifteen OF the
Japanese strike leaders arrested YES
terday upon indictments returned by
the grand jury We're given a prelim-
mary hearing today. District Judge
w, l.. Whitney held IL of them for
trial on charges of conspiring to riot.
and three for conspiracy to murder,
The energetic action taken by the ter
ritorlal authorities. it Is believed, will
make military interference and the
declaration of martial law in any part
OF the Hawaiian islands unnecessary
When the territorial district court
convened in extraordinary session for
the preliminary examination of the
strike leaders, Sheriff Jarrett, with
the approval of Presiding Judge w.
j. Robinson, ordered that no crowd
would be allowed to assemble about
the court house during the hearings
Of the case against the japanese. on
the ground that it was likely to lead
to disorder and disturbance of the
forced by a large detail OF police.
No Gatherings.
Following the action of the court
in holding the indicted japanese for
trial, William P. Henry, territorial
high sheriff. united with County Sher-
If Jarrett in the issuance Of procla-
nation forbidding the assembling of
rIsn lc
tory while present conditions In the
islands obtain. With thousands OF
idle Japanese excited over the arrest
and trial OF their countrymen, the
authorities deemed it wise to prevent
the assembly Of strikers in numbers
that might lead to disorder and vio-
lence
The authorities declare that the evil
dence adduced before the grand jury
yesterday and the papers seized Fri
day when the offices of the Jill, Jap-
anese newspaper, and those of the
Japanese Higher Wage association
We're raided, furnish abundant grounds
for the belief that the strikers intend
ed from the beginning to resort to in
tlmidation and violence in their effort
to control the sugar industry and
eventually the internal affairs of the
territory.
Have the Papers.
District Attorney w A. Kinney.
who has charge of the prosecution of
the alleged conspirators stated today
that the evidence in the possession of
the authorities discloses the entire
plan of the strike leaders from the in
eeption of the agitation for higher
wages.
The plan, he alleged, included the
controlling of the strike by secret
committee and the carrying on of a
campaign among the Japanese labor
ers, through the columns OF the Nippu
and the Jill, two newspapers controlled
by the leaders; the accumulation of
funds for the hiring of attorneys to
defend and furnish bail money for
those placed under arrest as Il result
OF their activity: to unite in the pun
ishment by strikes or otherwise of
such planters as opposed the program,
and to boycott such of their own
countrymen as refused their co-opera-
ton.
Senichi Uyeno, Japanese consul gem
eral. has advised his countrymen
against the men who led the strike
movement from the beginning of the
agitation. He expressed approval of
their arrest and prosecution.