Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-14
JAPANESE GIVEN
SPEEDY HEARING
HAWAIIAN STRIKE LEADERS
ARE ARRAlGNED
TWELVE HELD FOR RIOT, THREE
FOR PLOT TO sLAY
Nipponese at Honolulu Much Wrought
Up Over Arrest of Officers of
Higher Wage Asso-
citation
1Rx Assoeiated Press.l

HONOLULU, June 13-Fifteen of the
Japanese strike leaders, arrested yes
terday on indictments returned by the
grand jury, were given preliminary
hearing today.
District Judge w. l.. Whitney held
twelve of them for trial on charges of
conspiring to riot, and three for con-
spiracy to murder.
The energetic action taken by the
territorial authorities, it is believed,
will make military interference and
the declaration of martial law In any
part of the Hawaiian islands un-
necessary.
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 crowds be
allowed to assemble about the court
house during the hearing of the cases
against the Japanese, on the ground
that it was likely to lead to disorder
and disturbance of the peace.
This order was rigidly enforced by a
large detail of police.
Issue Proclamation
Following the action of the court in
holding the indicted Japanese for trial
William p. Henry, territorial high
sheriff, united with County Sheriff Jar
rett in the issuance of a proclamation
forbidding the assembling of large
crowds anywhere in the territory while
present conditions in the islands OBJ
tain.
with thousands of idle japanese ex-
cited over the arrest and trial of their
countrymen the authorities deemed 1t
wise to prevent the assembly of strlk-
ers in numbers that might lead to dis
order and violence.
The authorities declare the evidence
adduced before the grand jury yes
terday and the papers seized Friday
when the officers of the Japanese news
paper Jill and those of the Japenese
Higher Wage association were raided,
furnished abundant ground for the be-
lief that the strikers intended from
the beginning to resort to intimida-
tion and violence in their effort to
control the sugar industry and eventu-
ally the internal affairs of the terri
tory.
District Attorney w. A. Kinney, who
has charge of the prosecution of the
alleged conspirators. stated today the
evidence in the possession of the au-
thorities discloses the entire plan of
the strike leaders from the inception
of the agitation for higher wages.
The plan, he alleged, included the
controlling of the strike by a secret
committee and the carrying on of z
campaign among the Japanese laborers
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 these placed
under arrest as a result of their ac-
tivity: punishment by strikers, or
otherwise, of such planters as opposed
the program, and a boycott of such
of their own countrymen as refused
their cooperation
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 expresses approval OF
their arrest and prosecution.