The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-02-26
TAFT CALLS FOR TARIFF REVISION
ARREST
OF SOGA

Y. SOga was indicted by the Terri
torial grand jury before Judge De
Bolt today as "a dangerous and disor-
derly person
Soga was arrested and taken by
Deputy Sheriff G. II. Rose to Judge
De Bolts Office a little after two
O'Clock this afternoon to arrange for
bail He was accompanied by Maxine,
the well-known japanese druggist.
Deputy Attorney General Whitney was
called in. Bail was fixed at $3.50, the
offense charged being a misdemeanor.
Soga will be arraigned at 8 o'clock
tomorrow morning.
He is called a "disturber of the
peace" in the indictment in that,
knowing ull well that a large num-
ber of the Japanese residents of the
Territory of Hawaii, more than one
thousand in number, were in an eX-
cited, turbulent, lawless and unruly
condition and state of mind and
threatening to do injury to the per-
son and property of their respective
employers and others within said
Territory, and more particularly to do
injury to the person and property OF
one S. Sheba, residing in Honolulu,
and then and there and at all times
manager and president of the Hawaii
Shinpo, daily newspaper published
in the Japanese language in said Ho-
tnn 1t1t hrl of A
of him the said Sheba, then and there
with him living and residing, and
well knowing that large numbers of
Japanese residing in Honolulu and
elsewhere in said Territory, exceeding
one thousand in number, were then
and there in an hostile and inflamed
state of mind towards the said Sheba
and believed him then and there to
be spy for the sugar plantation en-
ployers of Japanese labor throughout
said Territory and to be working in
an underhand way to prevent an in
crease of the wages of said en-
ployees, said japanese exceeding one
thousand in number as aforesaid, be-
ing in said hostile and inflamed state
/ of mind towards said Sheba and be
lieving him to be a spy and to be
working in an underhand way as
aforesaid, largely by reason of arti-
cles in support of higher wages and
hostile to said Sheba published by said
/ Y. Soga during the three months last
/ past in a certain newspaper published
! in the Japanese language at Homo
/ lulu aforesaid, by name Nippu Ji1i, Of
which said paper said Y. Soga was
then and there editor, wilfuIly, mali
ciously and unlawfully intending to
disturb the peace of the said Sheba
and the members of his said family
and of the citizens and residents of
said City and County of Honolulu, and
then and there well knowing that pub
lications in said newspaper named
Nippu Jill and articles appearing there
in were read and understood by the
subscribers to said newspaper and
purchasers thereof, many in number,
exceeding five hundred, residing in Ho-
nOlulu and elsewhere in said Territory
including many of said Japanese re-
sidents of said Territory, exceeding
two hundred and fifty in number, in
an excited, turbulent, lawless and un-
ruly state of mind and in an Unnamed
and hostile state of mind towards said
Sheba as aforesaid, but whose names
or a more accurate description OF
whom is to the members Of this grand
jury unknown, the same however be-
ing all persons resident in Honolulu
aforesaid and elsewhere within the
Territory of Hawaii Of Japanese ma.
tionality, did, in conducting an agi
tation and campaign for higher wages
for Japanese 1abOrers in said Terri
tory, publish and cause TO be publish
ed in said newspaperNippu Jill,
certain menacing, threatening, excit
ing an abusive words, statements anC
articles, in the Japanese language, il
support of said agitation and cam
paign calculated and designed to in
duce, on the part Of Japanese resi-
dents understanding statements
and articles, unlawful violence upol
and an unlawful assault against tn
person of him the said S. Sheba, an,
him the said s. Sheba and the mem
bers of his said family TO terrfy il
manner and form and at the date
and time following"
Exhibits of the obnoxious article
are attached in Japanese with Eng