Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-05-07
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/ policeman declared he saw Ada
1 Ward, militant suffragette. place the
| bomb in the hotel and she was ar
rested The officer held the woman
while he extinguished the fuse with
his foot. Miss Ward was held for
trial in the Bow street court with
out bail En- route TO the station Miss
/ Ward broke from the policeman's
hold. The officer set down the bomb
on the sidewalk and overlook her.
On his return with the prisoner the
bomb was gone.
The women. Mrs Forester and
| Miss Manesta. both socially promi-
nent, were brought up at the as
sizes for trial on the charge OF
entering the Manchester art gallery
and smashing the glass of thirteen
famous pictures.
/ The Judge urged the necessity OF
a new and drastic legal cure for suf-
fragette militancy and then sentenced
the women to Jail for three months
and one month, respectively. They
will have to serve additional terms of
six months unless they give bond for
their good behavior on leaving Jail.
With a full realization that the
anti-alien land legislation has pro-
lceeded beyond control in California,
the Japanese government has already
set in motion a plan to prevent the
carrying out OF its drastic provisions
il possible.
Though much excitement prevails
in the capital and other places
Throughout the empire and radicals
are clamoring for drastic action, the
government is not alarmed.
Bulletins were issued today an
inouncing that direct negotiations
have been opened with the United
States government at Washington and
that these are now pending. The an
Inducements ask the people to be
calm.
Declaring that California undoubt-
eddy exceeded it's right in passing a
land law discriminating against the
Japanese. Congressman Britten of ILL
nois today introduced in the house a
resolution proposing that the depart
ment of state and justice should CO
operate to test the California law in
the courts. He asked that the judi
ciary committee report his resolution.
Based on information gathered by
twenty Vassar girls warrants are out
in Poughkeepsic today for three
prominent young men of Fishkill on
white slavery charges. The young
men have disappeared.
A life annuity Of 5000 Kroner
| ($162O) has been voted to Captain
ROAD Amundsen, discoverer of the
South Pole, by the Strothing at
lChristiana.
An amendment offered by Repre-
sentative Sharp of Ohio imposing a
twenty per cent tag On raw wool was
defeated in the house this afternoon
by viva voce vote
| A senate Joint resolution relative to
the division of California into two
states and instructing the secretary
of state to place the proposition of
state division on the ballot was IN
PRODUCED today by Senator j. NJ San
| ford of Ukiah.
A dispatch from Washington says
that Secretary of War Garrison ex-
planned that the shipment of arms and
ammunition from San Francisco to
the Philippine Islands on the trans
port Sherman which left today was
merely in fulfillment of requisition
drawn during the later days of former
Secretary Stimsons tenure of office.
4 He denied the war department is pre-
pairing for hostilities resulting from
the adoption of an anti-aIien land law
in California.
Give President Wilson and his
tariff reforms an opportunity to dis
play their value, was the plea made
by former President Taft, now Kent
| Professor of Law at Yale, today.
\ IF we are to have free trade" said
Professor Taft. Tets have it. Let
the party that favors it vote for it.
Let's try it,
Naming former Senator Guggen-
helm of Colorado as one of the men
who has exerted his influence in that
direction, Clifford Pinchot, speaking
before the senate territories commit
tee today, charged that private inter
ests had held up legislation to open
the Alaskan coal fields under leas-
ing system.
Pinchot offered to furnish the
names of other men, both in and out
of congress, who were opposing the
leasing system.
| A band of Sioux Indians In full war
regalia, headed by Chiefs Pinebird,
Bear-In The-Wood and Bear Shield,
entered Secretary of the Treasury
| McAdoo's office today and squattcd
on the floor
They asked McAdoo to pay the
tribe sS00,0a0, the amount due the
tribe and tribal adherents. Secretary
McAdoo refused to act until Secretary
of the Interior Lane had considered
the matter.