The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-30
STRIKE CASE
IS POSTPONED
Trial of Accused Rioters VIII
Be Resumed This
Morning.

There were no court proceedings yes
terday in the eases arising out or the
strike among the plantation laborers,
a continuance in the trial of the thlr-
teen japanese rioters being granted by
Judge Robinson because of death in
the family of Juror Jones. The trial
will be resumed at 10 O'Clock this
morning, and it is hoped that it can be
concluded during the course of the
week, both the prosecution and the de-
Tense being anxious to secure a speedy
termination of the trial.
The case of the Territory against
Sega, Maxine, Kawamura, Tasaka and
Yamashiro will be resumed before
Judge De Bolt tomorrow morning, the
jury having been completed and ev-
erything in readiness for the placing
of the first witness upon the stand.
Charges Cruelty.
A divorce action has been instituted
by Isabel r. Rasmussen against Horvet
Rasmussen on the ground of extreme
cruelty. According to the allegations
of the complaint Rasmussen beat and
choked his wife and also threatened her
life, brandishing razor. Mrs. Ras-
mussen states that the cruelty of which
she complains began three weeks after
her marriage on March %, 1902, and
that she continued to live with her hus-
band in the hope that he would change
his manner of treatment toward her.
Mrs. Rasmussen asks for an absolute
divorce and the custody of her seven
year-old daughter and permanent ali
| mony.
Verdict of Defendants.
| A verdict was returned for the de-
PENDANTS yesterday in the suit of eject
ment instituted By the Bishop Estate
Company against John Kapono and Ke-
! alaha Kapono. The case was tried be-
/ fore jury in Judge Whitney's depart.
ment of the Circuit Court.
| The case against Parker, the negro
charged with striking Police Officer
| Apapa with bottle, was continued by
Judge Whitney yesterday until July
6, on the representations of Attorney
Glenn Quinn, who made an eloquent ap-
peal in behalf of Nigel Jackson, the
Marathon runner. As all the world
knows Nigel is schampeen" and il
the trial continued it would be impos
sible for him to go to Hilo to enter
the Marathon race on Monday next.
Quinn argued in the name of "sporl
for sport sakeo and he finally pre-
vailed, Judge Whitney conceding thai
Marathon race without Nigel Jack
son would be something contrary to the
form Of the statute in such cases made
and provided.
The Hawaiian Trust Company
through its attorneys Kinney, Ballou
Prosser and Anderson, yesterday FLEE
suit against Hugh Galbraith, alleg
ing that the defendant has unjustl,
and contrary to law taken possession
of tract of fifty acres of land, locat
ed, at Wahiawa. The HAVE ian Trus
Company institutes the action as trus
tee under the will Of the late Georg
| Galbraith. AS such trustee the com
pany claims the title of the land il
: fee simple.
Judge Robinson yesterday granite,
the motion for the entering of deere
for the plaintiffs in the case of Ceci
Brown, II. M. Won Holt and A. n
! Campbell, trustees under the will c
A. N. Campbell against Emma A. Ma
wahi and the Hilo Sugar Company
, Attached to the motion of the plain
tiffs in the case is an affidavit by Hen
|, ry Smith, of the Judiciary Department
stating that the defendants have file,
no answer of any kind to the com
plant. On this showing the motion
was granted.
In connection with the petition file
by S. B. Fujiyama, through his attol
ney E. c. Peters, Judge Dole, of tn
United States District Court, will b
called upon to decide whether misc j
to be construed in a legal sense. a
being composed of rice or beans @
just rice-or simply beans. Fujiyam
has appealed from the ruling of tn
United States customs officials in fix
ing the duty on misc, claiming tina
| h. 49, &c II