The Garden Island. [volume] (Lihue, Kauai, H.T.) 1902-current, 1921-02-01
kapaa Notes

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Have you ever seen railroad cars
travelling on the Government road
without tracks? We were treated to
this rather unusual sight ON Wednes
day last week when a string of empty
cane cars were hauled to new sec.
tion of the Ahukini Railway at Wal
pouli through here from Kealia, with
truck as an engine. This hauling
was made necessary by the under.
mining of two of the bridges in this
locality by the recent storms.
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An unusual and rather numerous
situation has developed i'll the iAawai-
hau Winter League. The Allies and
Farmers played a game last sunday,
this game being billed as the first
of two-out-of-three game series 10
decide the championship of the league.
The Farmers won, but at meeting of
the Hawaiian Athletic Association
held last Friday, it developed, accor-
ding to the officials, that the Pacifics
still had chance to tie the Farmers
for the championship of the second
series by winning a postponed game
they had with the Allies. This
game will be played next Sunday,
weather permitting. and the numerous
part now comes in. If the Pacifics
win, and then beat the Farmers, the
Pacifics will meet the Allies for the
championship of the season. If this
happens, the Farmers will have the
distinction of having won a game in
a championship series when they had
no chance to win the championship.
A rather bad tangle, but the officials
report that the Allies and Farmers
played without authority last Sunday,
both teams taking it for granted that
the Farmers had won the second SER
les.
The Rev. Okumuru of Honolulu paid
q visit to the Kapaa postoffice last
week in the interest of the Kauai
Shinpo, weekly Japanese newspaper
at Kapaia. He came with the inten-
ton of reporting to the postmaster at
Honolulu the failure of the local office
to make delivery of this paper to sub
scribers, but departed completely sat
isfied that the fault rested entirely
with the private carrier hired by the
local Japanese colony, and not with
the postmaster.
The story of the failure of many of
the subscribers of the Kauai Shinpo to
receive their paper started early last
year when the strike of the Japanese
aborers on Oahu was at its height. |
The Kauai paper is alleged to have
criticized the action of the Japanese
Federation of Labor in Honolulu, and
of the action of the Kauai
Japanese in supporting the strike with
financial aid, etc. Those in charge |
)f the Union on Kauai then, it is |
alleged, declared a boycott on the
paper, with the result that a majority /
Of it's local subscribers refused to
accept it. The mail carrier hired by
he local Japanese, being pro-union
nan, also refused to deliver the paper
% the subscribers, leaving it in the
postoffice to be called for if any
subscriber wanted to read it.
When the strike was over, many of
he subscribers decided that they
would continue to suscribe to the
5hinpo, but the carrier refused to
make delivery of the paper. This
action brought complaint to the
publishers, eliminating last week with
he arrival of Rev. Okumura to try to
traighten things out.
Rev. Okumura arrived without
that the carrier who had
'een refusing to deliver the papers
vas not a regular mail carrier en-
'loyed by the government, and
therefore, not responsible for his act
ons to the government. but was mere
y a mail messenger hired by the local
esidents to receive their mail twice
week at the postoffice and deliver
t. When informed of the real sit
alton, he departed satisfied that
Jncle Sans representative of the
ostoffice department in Kapaa was
ot Withholding the Kauai Shinpo
rom circulation, as any subscriber
an have his paper by calling or send
ng for it.