The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-10-10
ALLEGED TRAIN
| WRECKER INDICTED
BY GRAND JURY
KaIena Charged WithAttempt To
Commit the Crime Of First
Degree Murder
NO TROUBLE WHEN I r=s@
LURLINE REACHED PORT
lGOast Unionists Fail Te Help aLo.
cal Strikers-Steamers
Unloading Quietly

Kalema, alleged to be the man who
rolled an empty gasoline drum under
an Oahu Railway Land Company
locomotive on Wednesday, while the
train with a load Of strikebreakers was
on its way to the waterfront, was in
dicted by the territorial grand jury
yesterday. .sls.
The charge against Kulema is that
he is guilty OF the "crime of an at.
tempt &c commit the crime Of first de.
gree MURDER Among the men whose
lives were imperilled when the train
was wrecked, claims the indictment,
were Faustino Reyes, Celestino Lopez,
Wong KLINE and Nui On. u.s..
Judge Ashford ordered bench war.
rant to issue for the apprehension Of
Kalema, returnablc at nine O'Clock
next Monday morning, when the man
will be arraigned and asked to plead.
The empty drum, said TO have figured
lin the wreck, was logged to the grand
jury room by Capt. Harry T. Lake and
Officer Apau. It seems to have gone
Through fre, earthquake, tidal wave
and what not, considering its misshap-
en- appearances. The cylinder was all
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kicked together in the most fantastic
manner imaginable. The rail hoops
had been detached from the cylinder,
stretched out in parallel lines, rolled
and twisted SO no one could tell really
what they had beer originally.
Business As Usual
1 Castle & Cooke, Matson agents, made
1.-The positive statement Yesterday that
the Matson steamer Lurline was being
worked as Usual at San Francisco, and
&c. Brewer &'Co., Oceanic agents, made
a like announcement regarding the
Ocean mic steamer Sierra. These vessels
l)Riled from Honolulu for San Fran
cisco last week, and arrived at Sar
Francisco Tuesday.
Honolulu union lOngshorem"n had re
quested the San Francisco union to re-
fuse to discharge them on the ground
of "unfairness, as union labor did
mot load them here, Shipping men say
that much Of the lingering hope of the
ktevedores of winning the strike here
rested upon San Francisco. This hope
in view of the positive statements of the
Honolulu agents, evidently is pau. II
had not been believed generally that
the San Francisco union would aid the
Hon olulu union to that extent.
Wage Question On
Correspondence between the HOnolulr
shipping Offices and Snh Francisco as tt
the new wage schedule is continuing
A definite announcement is expected
1aily. There is a possibility that there
| will be three elements, one for regula
work, one for sundays and holidays anl
one for overtime nt&I. - g.
Yesterday was a day of extrem'
ruiet on the waterfront. There hardl,
were any piekotS 10 be seen at thu
wbarvrs where vessels were bcing w0r (
cd, and the usual clusters of union me,
about the headquarters of the Sailors
Union and the longshoremen s union
were missing.
Small Raise Would Do '~
: Union officials said that they did no
know what the men would do if seal,
approximatiug thirty aud fifty cent
were granted. 1t would rest with tn,
committee they said. but they did NO
conceal their belief that the men nigh
return to work without further ado.
Quite a lively interest In the pr:mart
elections today undoubtedly will b.
taken by the union men. Indications a
70 what candidates, II any, that the
would support in body were lacking
Officials said that no instructions hnc
been issued by the union as to whom
the men were TO support.
More strikebreakers than needle,
were available yesterday, McCn'c
Hamilton& Kenny stated, The Mat
son steamer Manoa worked IN the da
md the O. = x. chartered fr"igh
steamer InRhO Maru was to begin Iii,
charging last night. but lack of Ii rht,
not of labor, prevented. The Grlc
steamer Columbia is dischargin
nitrate. -.fE
One feature Of the strike which ~
trnGted som" attention yesterday is tina
house and yard boys are appeariu
among the strikebreakers, much to tn
disgust of their former employers.
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