The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-19
lingo STORIES
FAN FEELINGS
OF JAPANESE
Anti=AmeriCan Sentiment Not
Helped by Dispatches
From Coast
COnspiratOrs In Honolulu Are
Held for Trial; Editors
Charge Burglary

TOKYO, June Especial dispatches
from San Francisco to Japanese news
papers are so worded as TO indicate that
conditions obtaining in the Hawaiian
islands. growing ont OF the japanese
sugar plantation hands strike, are ex-
tremely serious. They declare that the
japanese on the mainland. as well as
those in the islands, are greatly incen-
sed over the treatment accorded their
countrymen by the Hawaiian planters
and say that relations are strained al
most to the breaking point
The publication of these infiammatory
dispatches is again arousing an anti
American sentiment among the Japan
csc lower classes. The sensationalist
papers are selling the opportunity and
commenting editorialIy in a manner
calculated to increase this feeling of
4 Hostility.
japanese Consul General Uyeno at
Honolulu and the oricials of the Jap
anese foreign Office are inclined to min
imize the seriousness of the Hawaiian
situation. They frankly declare their
belief that the special dispatches are
giving untrue reports. evidently the
work OF the lingo element among the
japanese Of Hawaii and on the main
land.
japanese Charge Burglary
HONOLULU. June lS.-The latest
development of the complicated sit
nation which has grown out of the
strike Of Japanese plantation laborers.
and the subsequent arrest of their
leaders IS a charge Of burglary pre-
ferred today by Attorney Joseph Light
foot. who represents the accused men,
against High Sheriff William Henry.
and Attorneys William A. Kinney and
Mason FL Prosser. counsel for the
Planters association.
The accusation grows out of the
blowing open Of the safe in the Office
~ the Jiji. the radical Japanese news
paper. and The seizure of books and
papers belonging TO Editors Sega and
others which are alleged to have re-
Vesled a conspiracy among the leaders
OF the strike TO obtain control of the
islands The matter is now being in
R-estigsted by the grand jury.
AT meeting Of the leaders of the
strike today. N. Negoro urged that the
men be advised TO return to work. but
TINS course was opposed by f. Maxine
and others. Although many unofficial
approaches have been made in an eff
fort to restore peace between the
strikers and their former employers,
nothing has yet been accomplished,
and the situation remains unchanged
LEADERS HELD on BAIL
The strike leaders. Y Sega. editor
OF the Jill; F. Maxine NJ. Negoro, K
Kawsmura and Y. Tashaka, were ar
raigned today on the charge preferred
against them by the grand jury yes
terday Of conspiracy to murder and
TO induce others TO commit crime in
connection with the alleged attempt to
take the life of Editor Sheba of the
conservative paper, shinpo.
They all were held to answer and re-
leased on each furnishing a bond of
$1,000 in addition to the bond of $3.50
given when arraigned for conspiracy
TO incite riot.
The Is strikers on the Kahuka
plantanon, indicted for rioting, will be
srraigned to plead on Monday.
Consul General Cyeno cabled to
Tokyo tonight that the statement that
he was advising the planters not to
yield 70 the demands made by the
japanese plantation laborers for an in
crease in wages was evidently a mis-
Interpretation Of his cabled report on
the situation and one that was causing
him much embarrassment. The consul
declares that he is not advising the
planters in any manner; that he is re-
naming strictly neutral and only urg-
ing his countrymen to preserve order.
Situation Not Serious
J. r. Hackfeld, one Of the most prom
inent businessmen in the territory Of
Hawaii, who arrived here yesterday on
the japanese liner Chiyo Maru and who
paid a fine Of $500 for the privilege Of
violating the cosstwise shipping law
says that he does not regard the jan
anese situation in Hawaii as serious
He thinks the proba bilities of inter
national complications are slight and
believes that all disputes will be
AsettIed without further violence He
saws that the national guard is sufi-
cient to preserve order, particularly in
view Of the considerable military estab-
lishment now maintained at Honolulu
by both the army and navy. Before e
left. he said, the japanese on three
plantations had gone back TO work