Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-05-17

transportation.
Instructions to Immediately draft .
reply to Japan's protest of the Cali.
fornia anti-alien land bill were given
Secretary of State Bryan at Wash
ington today at two hour and
half session of the cabinet
1t was believed the reply was out
lined at today's meeting. but all the
cabinet officials were reticent.
The government is endeavoring tt
prevent publication of any jingo re
ports by ordering that for the present
there be no movements of the army
or navy published.
Secretary of War Garrison denied
that the recent sending of a com
pany of coast artillery from the Pa
cifci Coast to Hawaii has any con-
nection with the Japanese situation
Rioting in Cincinnati was begun
shortly after noon, when Vine and
Clifton line car was attacked by
strike sympathizers at Fifth and Wal
nut streets and for fourteen minutes
rocks, bricks and other missiles were
uurleu through the car.
The company's employees, who were
riding in the car, were rescued by tho
police and hustled out OF the neigh
borhood. After reinforcements arriv
ed the police were able to control the
situation. Ten arrests were made.
Manned with heavily armed strike
breakers, the traction company later
operated thirty-four cars over fouI
lines, while thousands of streetcar
men on strike and sympathizers par
AIDED through the streets.
Probability of John D. Rockefeller's
entire fortune escaping income and
| Inheritance taxation is seen as a re.
suit of the opinion, voiced in Washing.
ton by Representative Hull that the
Rockefeller Foundation would escape
| taxation under the terms of the In
come Tax Law
Many able attorneys voiced the
opinion that Rockefeller could place
| his entire fortune in the hands of the
| foundation and this would mean thai
the annual income of from $4,000, 00(
to $4,000.000 would be exempt from
| taxation.
Geo. H. Bixby. the Long Beach
banker, charged with contributing t.
the delinquency of tno girls, agar,
failed to appear in court al Los An
geles today. When he failed to ties
tify at the preliminary hearing Of
Mrs. Josie Rosenberg, who was charg
ed with pandering, a bench warrant
was issued. Later he was indicted
by the grand jury and was to have ap
peared to plead today
| Three harmless suffragette bombs
were found today in various parts OF
the city. The impression is growing
that the planting of these bombs is
Esimply a notice by the militants that
they contemplate a serious outbreak
and police guards over the public
buildings and tie cabinet officers
homes are being doubled in prepare
lion for the expected trouble.
i The. inquest into the death OF Adj
j miral Jos. c. Eaton, who died on
March s last. was resumed at Abing-
i don, Mass. today The presence OF
| Chas. Estes, a Rockland druggist, in.
dicates that the inquiry will revolye
karound the poison theory Mrs. Eaton
the admiraIs widow, arrested on a
! charge of murder, is held without bail
Tor trial. Ill. ~
| James E. Sullivan of the Amateur
Athletic Union. announces informally
| that the United States will send an
athletic team to The Olympic games
IatC be held at Athens, Greece, during
the spring of 1914. ...-. ,...>... -. :.
BY a vote of 315 to 24f, the chamber
| of French deputies in Paris today APP
lproved the governments military pO-
i1icv and the revival of the compulsory
l5three year military training for all
young men. During the debate, Pre-
mier Barthou told the deputies that
the retention Of the present year 5
ltime-expired soldiers in the army was
of the European situation. ~
| The provisions of the Arizona anti
| alien land ownership bill, which be
came law BY virtue of the governors
approval today. prohibit any alien,
| whether of Caucasian or Monaghan
descent, from owning land if he has
not declared his intention of becoming
| a citizen. This not only bars Asiatics.
who cannot become citizens, but also
q large number of wealthy MeXicans