Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-05-14
OVERNIGHT
FEDERAL
WIRELESS
re the Advertiser

II State BryanS Geographic plea. to with
hold action on the antialien land ieGis
lation for the present through veto.
The renly may he ready later II
4 the day. he added, but fer the pres
/ cnt there is nothing to be made pub
( lie ~. -.
It is stated by those. closest TO tie
governor that the reply tottle naiioRai
administration formal request will be
= reiteration of his already declared
| stand that California has right &c
enact such legislation; that the state
demands it. and that hc will not pul
his veto unon the Webb-Birdsall bill.
New Treaty.
A new treaty to settle definitely and
fcteyer the status OF the japanese. as
residents and land holders in the
United States is. soon to he negotiated,
! according to Information at the state
department. ~:
This treaty, it is SAID, will be con
Guided independently of what action
Governor Johnson of California takes
on the new alien land law Of that
state. 1t is admitted by attaches OF
The department that Secretary Bryan
| and Ambassador Chinda believe that
1.-THE time has arrived TO finally settle
all possible points of controversy.
No definite Indication of what the
Japanese protest aginst the California
land bill has yet been made public. II
il admitted, however, that the protest
| is general in character and it is denied
that it definitely demands that Japan.
csc be declared eligible to citizenship.
Diplomats here. as whole. think that
new treaty between Japan and the
United StateS~ss imperative.
"Finis" was written today to the
trials of labor leaders and strikers in
West Virginia by military courtmar-
tiaI by an announcement to that effect
by Governor Hatfield. The governor
declares that hereafter any charges
against strikers viii be turned over
to the civil authorities.
Charles p Neill, United States COM
missioner of labor since 1905 and re-
Gently made commissioner of labor, re-
signed today to take position outside
the government.
Agents of the Huerta government
at Nogales assert they have received
word that large federal achievements
have arrived by boat at Gtlaymas and
that the main group of federals nov
besieged a few miles north will begin
to work its way toward the town.
The most conservative estimate of
the killed in the fighting above Quay
mas placed the dead at 400.
It is understood today that naval
officers, having failed in their efforts
to have the battleship Oregon sold as
Junk, now propose to use her as al
target for the modern dreadnoughts
of the navy as was the obsolete battle
ship Texas a year or two ago: 1t is
said the battleships Massachusetts and
Indiana are doomed to the same fate.
Jack Johnson, the negro champion
heavyweight pugilist, was today found
guilty under the Mann white slave act.
The case has been on trial for more
than a week. Johnson is convicted OIL
an offense alleged to have been COM
lnitted in 1910 in transporting Bell
Schroeder, a handsome but irrepressl-
BILE white girl. from Pittsburgh to Chi
cago. The girl, despite the pleadin2s
Of her distracted parents, reiterated
her love for the negro fighter after his
arrest.
johnson. with the aid Of the best
lawyers obtainable, made strong eff
fort 10 prove his innocence, but the
convincing evidence could not be over
come. It is believed that the convict
al fighter is impoverished as a result
Cf defending himself against numerous
criminal charges and that he will be
unable TO keep cut Of prison as a re-
suit of his conviction today. The max
imum penalty is ten years. -
Flat rejection of the plan of Mayor
Hunt bywhicil the street chr strike ut |
Cincinnati would be practically SET |
tied Of the Hen operating the cars |
under arbitration could be arranged
was made today by the strikers and
further serious trouble is expected rs
a result of tie comDany's determine
tiGn to import strikebreakers:
Maintaining an average altitude OF
two miles. Oscar Rjder. arSWfSs ayia,
ter, today monopIaned - miles over
Inc Aims TO Sion. He made tho trip ind.
2 hours and IL. minutes. Bider was
almost frozen when he descended.
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