Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-19
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United States is impending as q re-
suit of California's Anti-Alen Bill and
that only the influence of Christianity
could prevent hostilities was voiced
i'm Toxic in a public speech by Count
Shigenobu 0kunIa, former premier of
Japan. = .-....--.:-E~..~. Il.
Anti-American sentiment is in
creasing rapidly and while Count
Okuma declared the government did
not share the popular hostility against
the United States, changed conditions
in Japan now make it impossible for
the government to restrain the low
er classes and irresponsible news
papers who are insistent in their de-
mands for immediate war.
Would Seize Hawaii. ..->&
Certain newspaper writer's have
outlined plans for the seizure of the
Philippines and Hawaii, openly de.
4esuncing the governments submissive
attitude Japanese officials are adj
| mittedly alarmed over the situation.
Hysterical demands by 10000 per-
sons assembled at mass meeting in
Toxic last night that the Japanese
government resort to arms to protest
the passage of the Anti-Alien Land
Bill now pending before the California
legislature failed to excite President
Wilson here today. ="
Naturally Washington officialdom is
| slightly concerned over anti-American
agitation. In Japan but the President
| insists that California is privileged to-
, it seems certain that the government
will not interfere with the passage
of the land laws III .:s.
President Frank About It.
President Wilson expects California
to pass the Land Bill and frankly
told the Japanese ambassador that
when it is passed he expects Ore.
gon and Washington to adopt identi-l
cal bills.
The President expects Americans
to become most unpopular in Japan
and he wants an ambassador there
capable of handling. the most delicate
situations.
BY unanimous vote, the state SEN
ate yesterday decided to defer action
on the proposed Anti-Alien Land Bill
| until next week, by which time it is
supposed some authoritatively word
will be received from Washington as
to the feelings of the federal govern
ment regarding@it. The fact that re-
ports from Toxic show that popular
| indignation in the Mikado's empire
has been aroused to the point where
| the populace and press is demanding
war has not influenced the actions Of
| the state senators in the matter, ac-
cording to the statements of several
/ of them.
Confession that he is a wholesale
murderer and that he strangled Mrs.
Mildred Donovan to present. her from
| telling other crimes he committed,
has been made BY VIM B. Jennings,
| in Boston, an obscure pugilist, known
to the prize ring as Young Kid Carter
of Boston. Jennings confession fol-
lowed sentence OF life Imprisonment
upon him after he had been found
guilty of numbering VIM. MacPher-
son. 1 q sfa
| Contrary to expectations there was
no contest between Democrats and
Republicans on the tariff question to-
| day at Sacramento, when the assem-
bly, resolution, asking congress to
care for beet sugar, was taken up for
action.
All the Democrats were for the res
olution after Senator Mott had ex-
planned that free sugar, or great re-
duction in the present duty would kill
| the beet sugar industry in California.
With the city assuring them they
| would be given the same meals as the
other city prisoners receive, instead
of the bread and water diet that has
been their lot since their arrests in
/ Denver, the seventy-five /. w. VS.
! jailed here during a Representation,
called off their hunger strike in the
city's bull pen today.
Quietly slipping away to Sacrament.
to, where his fiancee was visiting
friends, Alfred Logan Scroggy, son of
! A. d. Scroggy of Honolulu, and Miss
| Melissa Bannernlan, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. R. D. Bannerman of South
! ern California, were married by SUI
perior Judge Shields on Wednesday
and returned to San Francisco yes
( terday. - 80, -. -.. L..
Although the young people have
| been engaged since last October the
wedding came as a surprise to their
i relatives.
! The strike of the Paterson silk
workers is near crisis. The strikers
are enraged at the employers for i'm
! porting guards here from Newark,
| and trouble is feared. .'..* ..-.5
i Two guards are under arrest on a
charge of shooting Antonio Vischio, a
striker, during a disturbance. Vischio
is reported to be dying. .+.
Except for an occasional coughing
] spell, Pope Plus rested we'll last night
and the papal physicians today ex-
pressed satisfaction over his condition
issuing the following statement. "
"The Holy Father passed tranquil
| night and is without fever today. His
/ temperature is 97.8. The bronchial af-