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J. Liftjwlija Sierra-Kore-a, Aus.lt rtr S. F.i Hono.-Chln- a, 157 . Aug. 1J. VtfjWr Frost TaneoiTer : I I I 1 I rrtt 2 Niagara, Sept 10. IN Fr Tancoirrrt s Marama, Sept. 9. Evening Bulletin. Est 1882. No. 5625. t - PAGES HONOLULU, TERRITORY OF HAWAII, i Hawaiian Star. VoL XX. No. 6655. 3 SATUKDAY, AUGUST 1G,1013.22 PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS. GamhUsj ; ROAD CONTRACT More MainlanAers Boy ls PEACH Willing to Serve as Short In Accounts M AlAPff HAF Attorney-Gener- al And Goes To Jail " BE Ms ARIOLES .. ARTICLES ARE BRINGS ' liftJwliJa .... r? V' Letter from Washington to Hilo Gaming Tables Open for City Says Protest Against Pink-- 1 Given as Cause of Youth's ) CUBES ILTII LII.1EIGHT ham Is Small Downfall RECEIVED HERE ii (Special SUr-BuIltl- n Correspondence! Arthur Kui Fay a young Chinese, for some past a employee IIUIJ'TLiij., Overpayment of Alleged HHX), August 15. Attorney James time trusted of RIe $2500 U Coke of Honolulu and Colonel Ball the Bishop Trust' Company, was plac- Supervisor Kealoha Must To Have Been Made on of: Missouri have considerable com- ed under arrest; this morning . on a Answer to Charges by Mile Long petition In the. race for the attorney charge of embezzling 50; brought to Job a generalship of Hawaii, according to a trial and sentenced to three months J August 30 Newspapers of Mexico City Viciously Criticise Man Sent with ' - -- ; - - by prominent bus!-nes- S in Jail. V Special SUr-BulIeti- n. Correspondence! letter receded a Und as Envoy from President He Thinks dur-ing.th- specific Articles of impeachment, carrying a th Attacks man Washington e While the charge count on 15. probe here from sixty-fou-r HILO. August Hawaii : can- which the young man was tried names total of signatures of. Ha Originate in United States and, May Be Due to Politics today com- last week. Three other commissioners will send a willing to serve tile terri- 10 as the amount of his shortage, the wall county voters and naming seven to the Ariol Brothers de- didates are against " munication tory, states, the letter, and all three police state that the entire amount of separate and distinct charges lAMOctatd Pre Cable! ; Ha- manding of considerable - re- Senate Clerk Comes from the return a are '.malnlanders. While the"4- names the shortage will run considerably Supervisor John A. Kealoha, were V MEXICO CITY, Mex August 18. Local newspapers are maklnj vi- money the contractors, po- Attorney-Genera- turn of that it . higher. It is the contention of the ceived by l Thayer cious attacka on William Bayard Hale, who was with Und special waii to Answer Graft Com- -; overpay- are given in the communication they sent as Is calmed, received as an are withheld from print lice that Fa has suffered heavy re- this morning from Special Prosecutor envoys to Mexico City from President Wilson. Hale Is accused of a desire, , 7 i of Coke ment on their Honolil road contract verses while gambling, leading to tW. Breckons. The articles, in the to v.-- , ". ; , plaint Sen. The letter also . carries the news this It force intervention. in 1911. ' The amount in question Is that there is a' great deal of confu- h4s dishonesty. 'V v..; : vf" v form of three separate petitions, ad- v Hale himself attributes the attacka to sources In the United States and said to be 12.500. ' r He was an office boy for the trust dressed to the territorial - suDreme Is inclined to believe that they have a political basis. - 'w; DECLARES LATTER HAS sion on the mainland relative to the ' - In checking' up payments on con office that is to be filled through ap- company and had been with the com - J court will be filed iy the attorney . JUGGLED WITH FACTS tracts, according to statements of the pointment by the president The dis pany for six years, bearing a splendid . general Monday. commissioners, they discovered that a trict attorneyship is the office that reputation throughout that time. He At the same time, he announces, he Gly : Takes Up Attack and Replies. Fum of money in excess of the speci some of the candidates are of the was trusted to the extent of being al will ask, the Issuance of a summons nn Refuses To Refer : . 1 fied contract amount had been paid opinion they are scrambling for. ' lowed on certain occasions to collect on the accused supervisor, returnable Will Make Detailed .Statement to the Artole-Brothe- rs and this was rentals and make other like collec August 30. The summons should According to the letter referred to ; to - ; v , Some Time Next Wee- k- after the "extras" had been added there was very little talk of opposi- tions.- v t reach Kealoha . about next Thursday; Sulzer Fight To Couri the contract' amount They , are very tion to the confirmation of Pinkham His downfall i is" laid entirely; to giving him nine days in which to nre-- 1 i.'.; ' V ; In statement that the ? g am tiling and he, is said have been pare his answer to tAMOcUted Prewi CabUJ ' , WISE SATS. .": . - Mac definite the as governor, when that letter left to and file: the '..:; has-bee- n - - 16.Lieutenant-Govemo- county records show there a Washington. It recites that the- only ALBANY, N. Augdst r Glynn refuses Gov- - I ; payments. alleged protest-t- o bas-- ing money . was by ernor to annnnnaanaaaaa; - , a duplication in The hand at- that time was ' with that not his. in response to an inquiry Spe Sulzer proposal refer to the courts the legality of the Impeach- over-payme- nt only recently been This morning there wete Btreet ru- - j Breckons, attor-mor-s ment proceedings . against' Sulzer to Glynn In- a "If Senator Coke believes 1 a has ed on the fact that Pinkham la a Re dal Prosecutor the and his right retain office. - ,vney-gener- al 1 discovered, is thought, for as late ; . ; ; - embezzlement cases Is sending word sists on taking the governor's office at once, In which he Is defied by embezzled, it publican. '.. of other but Breckons ' the a have grafted, and a . Wednesday basis.- - attorney-general-'s - executive. , ..- w : . why doeent he ewear out a war-- a a H. Southworth, Joe The letter requests that information none were traced to a Jthat the office prob- a Ylerra and New Austin, all of whom regarding Pinkham be to yofB shortage was discovered ; ably will take charge proaecut a ant against me? .Why hide be--8 forwarded 'The of the. were familiar with the Honolii con- capital once. ; , a day or two ago and he confessed. Ing impeachment proceed hind talk of taking it to the a the at . j end of the ' a were questioned to see if they ' 1W nil s ' Ings, special em-- a grand Jury 7 I am here, to antwer a tract and that counsel : acquainted every he could give some explanation of the were Irith the detalla.. tit (Special by Cable and jWlreiess to; ployed by the people of Hawaii cotinty Finance Committee Amends a and ditsrove statement a woeny wews makes" John H. Witt;-- a discrepancy. None of them were able the contract The high cost of the tne via san rraneigco.) j ukely will be unnecessary for this "a to thro any.' light-o- 'the matter. mile of road jwasdue In part to the CANTON, China, August 16 A body particular work. -- ' " Tariff Bill On tt a a a a a The) Arlole Brothers Honolil con building of a big concrete culvert". of insurgents under the leadership of j The petitions reached Thayer In Citrus Frui' a a a a a a a a a a a tract was awarded in 1909 for one 'Demand has also been made on Luk Wing Ting, governor of form, says will cullar but he that '' "- -... ; . - - .' Associated mile, road, the original sum agreed Herman Eldart for" the return of 110 the province of Kiangsi, has attacked! make them none the less effective, . j- Prwa Cable ; ' . peclarlcg that Senator James L. of 939,000. overpayment - slgna-fierc- e : WASHINGTON, D. August 18. t Coke t make good his charges" or upon being The contract was which he received In on the federals stationed here and a AH are identical save for the C,' The senate finance commfttse mf 9.-- ' -- - amended one section In the bill, providing admit thelf Itlsi'ty pafeUcly, John H. not finished until 1911 and by this Puna road contract It. Is under- battle is raging. General Lung tures. One petition bears nineteen tariff for a straljht duty cf h: : allowed,! Kong, governor a cent on citrus and eliminating any - com- - time bills for "extras" stood that he is going to settle the Chi of the province of names of signers, another twenty and fruits references to the size of box:: wWire, clefk of U.e ir.kle and- : ' - ' : .,: ' " on which original proviaion waa J rr.al, brought the cost of the mile of road! county claim and that the case will Kwantung, who was at the head of thel the partly based. pller of the. terete returned - " I 'from Hawaii today ire fired, he says, up. to about 51,000, say those who' cettbe, carried to the courts.; federals, 'has been- killed." .'"" '' (Continued on page three) .' face every assertlpn pf graft made T t. him and to disprove them in ' Diggs dftalL ' ' ' Assaults PhotograDlisr Wten' Senator Coke' made public 1 ' , ; " "v-- v . -- i.- , Star-Bulleti- n I tAssociated Press Cable tla charges la ' the las TIMELY TOPICS IN BLACK AND WHITE 1 8AN FRANCISCO, Cat, August 1 6.
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