The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-03-31
CLEANUP MADE
ON TWO BOATS
BMIaRAlTTs FIND IT GREAT
DEAL HARDER TO GET OUT
THAN IN.
Crrom ThnIaany . AdrertIser.l

CFrom Thursday AdvertisoF.l
Warrants, commitment orders and
subpenas were brought into play yes.
terday with decided success TO break
up the party Of emigrants being sent to
the Alaskan canneries, nearly all those
booked by the recruiters to depart being
still in Honolulu, good part Of them
in Jail. Only ten Of these had been
recruited by Frank Craig, the others
being on the books Of Henry Ogawa.
This action, though working success
fully, served well enough as a tempo.
rary measure to stop the first flood Of
the emigration, but it is not expected
that it can be continued with the same
success, especially after the laborers
testify in the cases which were ere.
ated by the arrest of several Filipinos
for allegedly recruiting without q
license.
The legislature, however, is now sup.
posed to be building the permanent bat.
terics against recruit agents in future
under cover of the activities Of the
police picketers working under author.
ity of warrants sworn to by the attor-
ney-general and attended to by the city
attorney.
The first case made out of the lacl
Of a recruiting license was the arrest
of two Filipinos, named Baltzar ant
Alvarado, the first Of whom was tht
I" JIM reported to have been offered
$500 by the planters association TO ge
Craig's name when the operations frs
commenced. A long list of names wal
then placed on subpenas and given Il
officers to serve, as being witnesses
against these two, all of the men being
on one of the vessels. Yesterday morn
ing in court, when the cases wert
called, none of the witnesses was pres
emit, and Judge Lymer issued bencl
warrant for them, upon which twelve
were arrested.
Lymer Refuses Warrant.
After the witnesses had been brought
before the district magistrate and thu
cases of the two principals were SCI
over, Harry Lake, city attorneys de
tective, brought a warrant before Ly
mer which would have placed all Of thi
twelve witnesses in Jail for SAT,
keeping"
Lymer, however, refused to sign thu
warrant and the. twelve are still a
large. At the time of their arres
Sheriff Jarrett expected trouble 70
they all wore ugly looks. Captain
Nielsen and several extra men wer
sent for, but they were not needed
More difficulty was experienced in get
ting the witnesses to take their bag
off the ship, all of them being NATURAL.
10th to quit their intended trip SO sud
denly.
Other Warrants.
Meanwhile Harry Lake had place
Edward de Gusman, another Fiiipin,
under arrest for the same offense an
he is being held on investigation
/ pending his examination at the hand
of the grand jury.
All those who had not been alfeste
already on a district court warrant a
witnesses were found to be witnesse
against de Gusman and after they ha
been removed from the ships an
placed in safe keeping it was foun
that the first emigration party ha
dwindled down to nil.
They were all arrested on commit
ment orders from the cire1It court on
are being held in jail, twenty-five
number, as witnesses pending the gran
jury investigation, the date of which
not set yet.
De Gusman has served time in ia
on a statutory crime and was once al
pretended by Chief McDuffie for SUI
posed crooked work in insurance solicit
ing, at which time the "Industrii
Workers of the World" descended o
the chief in body and demanded hi
release. incidentally they didn't g
it until several days afterwards whe
the charges had been fully investigated
Got the Wrong Men.
The wholesale spirit of the summon
ing went a little too far by acciden
and two men, at least, whose names di
not appear on any subpoena or warraT
We're taken off the ships. When tn
Filipino interpreter of the sugar plan
ers association was sent dow
with Harry Lake to do the translatini
he assumed that the warrants were
rected against everybody who wante
to 90 to San Francisco.
After he had translated the warran
and Lake was gathering up the foile
emigrants, the interpreter noticed IL
two whose names were not include
among the lists. He merely remarke
to them in Spanish:
"You are captured. Come"
And they came. They waited 70
lornly around the police station all da
while the Sierra was humping Il
waves on her way to Frisco and do NJ
yet know what they are wanted 70
Neither does any one else.
The Legislature.
Meanwhile the legislature proeeedS
to get busy. Three bills were intr
duced into each house, identical
wording. intended to put stop TO sue
emigration IL il could be done The bill
are drawn up carefully and by ezper
and dovetail into each other mo
harmoniously.
The first of these bills necessitat
$500 annual license fee for recru