The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-08-05
PANTHEON TO
CLOSE A WEEK


Was Eot Protected.
Follow ng fhe innocent Silva H. NJ
Nyres was c.llod upon for bis side Of
the story. % disag ecd n some rather
remarkable par icu'ars with that told
by Silva. AFIes couldn't Iac.l Get that
Silva ever intcrposed his protecting
form between MrFadlen and the man
the pugilis' wanted TO fight Neither
did DE remember that Silva tried TO pull
McFadden and HeIue of him when they
were beating him. Nor, 10 the best of
his knowledge aud belief, was Silva in
the little room, as Silva had claimed to
be, endeavoring TO stop the fight. In
! fact, nobody came in until policeman
Kamauoha arrived and yanked the two
belligerent pugs of the man they were
assaulting Asked as TO whether or. not
Silva could have Stopped the fight,
Ayres, swapping his fingers. replied,
frankly, l think the fight could have
been stopped as quick as that. "
Chairman Watkins stated that pro.
test had been received from officers of
the antisaloon league, asking the Silva s
license be revoked if it were found that
! Ayres story were 'srue.
After the two men had told their
stories, the board went into executive
session, and when the doors were again
opened, Chairman Watkins read the sen
tence of the board, as follows:
Silva Is Sentenced.
Mr.. Silva, it is the decision of this
board that your license be suspended
for the term of one week from Satur
day, August 6, for allowing a fight t.
take place on your premises and no
taking proper steps to stop the same, OF
the evening of July &c. 1910, and tn,
board further finds that your saloon hai
not been conducted in an orderly man
ner in the past.
Rank Forgery.
a rank case Of forgery, perpetrateC
with the evident intent to iniure tn,
liquor firm of Wing Chung Lung, wa
discovered by the board. Wing ChunI
Lung came up on a petition for rehear
ing on their application for wholesal
license which had been refused at
previous meeting of the board. The,
we're represented by Frank Thompson
who presented the facts in the cas-
with his usual clearness. Then a pre-
test, signed by three Chinese, was read
t in which it was stated that it woul
be a bad thing for the community t
2 grant a license to Wing Chung Lung
who had been running bad place.
J. was also stated that L. Ayau ha
/ boosted that he had bribed the boar
, of license commissioners with a fly
, hundred dollar bill to grant the licens
and had claimed that he had the SUI
4 port of ninety per cent of e beard.
T Two of the names on the protest wer
Chez Lung and Chez Chez Chez Lung
t a clerk in Bishop & Co. IS bank, was o
Y hand and the letter was shown to hin
y He was asked if the signature of hi
$ name were his own. He denied that
t was and said he had never seen it b,
fore. Chez Chez was also present an
e he likewise disowned the signature
r his name. l.. Ayau. also on hand, d
S MED fatty that he had bribed the boar
n or had ever said he had bribed them.
:. That was enough; the protest wei
INFO the wastebasket and the board. a
ter going into executive session, granite
4 the rehearing and then allowed the
E cense to issue.
). Breckons May Get Busy.
l. In that connection, however, Chat
e man Watkins, after examining the pr
u test and two or three more, like it, pr
S nounced them all to be on the same kin
: of paper, written with the same typ
writer-and stated also that as a men
>, Der of the last federal grand jury /
+ had been called upon to examine ce
i tain obscene letters that passed throug
b the mails, and the obscene letters WEI
:. written on the same kind of paper an
r with the same typewriter. There ma
be trouble in store for the writer,
Breckons gets hold of the protests.
< r. j. Buchly, who was present, e,
d planned to the board that under ne
It ruling of the federal authorities II
n California wine people need no long
re put the word "type" on their label
but that all future shipments would
a labeled "California port, Burgund
i, and so forth.
1t Two applications for retail licens
it were received, those of Ota and Max
d. mura, both of Waipahu. They W
lie come up for hearing September ..
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