Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-01-22
BOOZE CAUSE OF
MANY TROUBLES

Queer pranks were played by "old
dents during the last week and many
are today rubbing the bleared eyes of
Saturday night all day Sunday
head" and wondering why such a
thing as intoxicating liquor was ever
manufactured or sold.
To start with there we're appro>i-
mately AZ arrests for drunkenness
alone out of total Of 122 arrests dur
ing the week and So more taken we're
for such offenses as disorderliness, as
sauit, profanity and vagrancy. A :.w
individual cases showing the wide
scope and heartlessness Of John 3ar-
leycorn follow:
Joseph Souza, driving auto 2472
Saturday evening on King street, near
Pawaa lane, lost control of the car
and ran it through, j. K. Clark's stone
wall, the machine sustaining consid-
cradle damage. Motorcycle Police
men Hustaee and Sizemore, who re-
ported the affair. say they under
stood the man had been drinking.
On Sunday Joe Hudson got out his
hatehet and chased Sam Kaulatco
into All Kwails coffee house at Punch
bowl and Allen streets, where Hudson
was arrested when Policeman NJ. A.
Gonsalves responded to a hurry-up
call. Too much gin is said to have
caused this excitement
Falls Into Show Case
Francisco, Filipino, got so much
of the fiery fluid in his system Satur-
day night that he smashed a $14 show
case in the Vat Sing & Co. store, cor
ner of King and River streets, and
Policeman Sam Kalilimoku led him
off to jail
Shortly afterwards Noah tore loose
near Palama Junction and destroyed
most of the furniture in his room.
The wife asked the police to take
care of him until the demoralizing ef-
fects of cheap liquor had worn off.
When All Tuck started to shoot up
the town in good old frontier style on
King street, near Liliha, early this
morning Motorcycle Policemen Fer
rera and Branco dashed towards him
and removed him and a loaded pistol
from which he had fired four times,
to the police station. Chinese New
Year efreshmentsy were the reason for
his hilarious outburst, the police say.
Nautical, Men Go Wrong
b Oscar Rud was taken off the trans
port Dix early this morning by Police
man John Hills when he hove on
board with full cargo of gin. mostly
inside, and issued a declaration that
he could lick anyone on shipboard
from captain down
Another salt water man who is ac-
cused of taking more firewater than he
could comfortably carry without list
ing a bit was. Capt. |. Matsnbayashi
Of the Ide Maru. He was taken from
the ship about 3 O'clock this morning
in state of intoxication by Policemen
John Hills and J. NJ. StuDplebeen, who
had been sent to the boat on COM
plant of Albert Kauwe, who said the
captain tried to shoot him. Kauwe
says he was hired early in the even
ing to watch at Pier to see that no
Japanese sailors went ashore and that
the captain did not recognize his new
Waterman when he came rolling back
this morning and showed a pistol IN his
face.
When Mrs. Benoit's 14-year-old
daughter could not quiet the drunken
garrulousness Of her mother in the
Metropole at the corner of Alakea and
King streets last night the woman
was hurried off to Jail
Patriotism and Americani7Hd vodka
combined with a surplus Of plantation
bonuses did not work we'll for a Rus
sian. Ushokoff. on the Young Hotel
roof garden SATURDAY. night, for when
the ObstreperOus subject of the car
demanded in no uncertain tones. first
an encore and then the Russian an
them he WIS prODelled towards the
police station bv Manager T. q. Thiele.
assisted b" Motorcycle Policemen
Hustace and Sizemore
The Eank Of Long Island has sent
ont checks amounting To Over $3.50 600