Kauai County HI Archives Obituaries.....Shiraishi, Kitsusaburo July 11, 1921
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The Garden Island, Lihue, Kauai, Tues., 7-19-1921
SHIRAISHI, KITSUSABURO
OLD-TIME JAPANESE DROWNED AT HAENA.  K. Shiraishi, one of the old-time Japanese 
who has been on Kauai for the past 38 years, was drowned at Haena last Monday. 
Shiraishi and a number of his friends were bathing and fishing at the Haena beach. 
He got into a current that was too strong for him and was carried out to sea. 
Shiraishi was a rice planter. He had just finished planting his rice crop for this 
season. As a number of his friends had also just got their crop in they all 
decided that they would celebrate with a fishing trip. They went to Haena on 
Sunday night and spent most of the night fishing for crabs with torches and 
spears. The next morning they decided that they would go farther out onto the reef 
and try for ulua with glass boxes and dong spears. it was at this time that he got 
into the current that swept him under. His friends tried to rescue him but were 
unable to do so until after he was lifeless. Shiraishi was 68 years old at the 
time of his death. The first 20 years that he lived in Hawaii were spent on 
various plantations of Kauai. He was at various times on McBryde, Lihue, Kilauea, 
and the old Princeville plantations. Shortly after the Princeville Plantation 
ceased raising sugar cane, he went into the rice business for himself and has been 
a successful planter ever since.


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