Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1909 — BESIEGED BY JAPANESE [ARTICLE]

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Armed Men Hurry to Rescue of Hono-* lulu Sheriff. Honolulu, July 13. —County Sheriff William P. Jarrett was besieged in a plantation mill at Waimanalo by a crowd of 300 Japanese strikers. A squad of mounted police and a dozen deputies and special policemen fully armed started in automobiles for Waimanalo in response to the sheriff’s urgent message. Jarrett went to the Waimanalo plantation and arrested five or six Japanese charged with being ringleaders in an assault upon Japanese laborers who had returned to work. Finally Jarrett and the police brought their prisoners to Honolulu.