The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1884-06-09


expression on his face, and he
muttcrcd between his set teeth as
he ran his thumb along the gilt
tcring edge OF the weapon. now
trot out your Bank Charter" As
he proceeded down the street, {. NJ.
Cooke wrapped in Hawaiian flag
singing. Hawaii Ponoi and executing
a war dance on top of lumber pile in
the presence of crowd of business
men, attracted his attention as being
something out Of the ordinary line
but he had hardly taken in the full
force of the performance, when
Frank Dillingham; shot out of his
store as if he owned q bran new
catapult, patent applied for, and
was experimenting upon himself as
proiectile. There was blood in
his eve and blood in his step, and n
hungry look about him generally
that said " gore, oh, give me beef
raw beef ! anything so long as its
bloody :. " He came to dead halt
opposite Bumps, fixed n stony gaze
upon him. and jerkcd out in a high
piercing voice and with incoherent
manner, 81 per cent. exchange!
rag money for million store
busted. milk ranch gone up the
spout! Oh somebody hold me tight
or shall get at him. w-h-0-o-r
LA . !" and he dashed down street
and around the corner. Poor
Bumps had been paraly ysed with
terror. :" oh Lord" he groaned,
"he's maniac dead sure. and I'm
a conner. 1t was with feeling
of most intense relief therefore,
that he was left alone. and one of
thankfulness that he saw Jinks
coming up the street BY the
host of Caesars grandfather,
Jinks, what is it? What's the
matter: Are they all drunk OF
crazy or WHAT Why. don't
you know? Don't mean to say you
haven't heard about the Bank
Charter Bill - It's Il long story
but to make it short it's about like
this. You know old Sprecls is the
boss grabber of the Pacific. He's q
big |. little you every time. It's
grab all you can get, and keep all
YOU grab. from the word 90. but he
has spread himself out too thin
You see he took the contract of run
ming the whole islands. as his OWL
private circus, but they don't train
to suit. There's Spreckelsville that
was to be second bonanza. Why
they have never paid expenses
Last year. their total receipts wer,
$600.000, and the expenses were
$1.200.000. Then he was going tc
gobble the whole shipping trade
with his Oceanic line: and then tn,
planters and agents that he had al
trained up in the way they shoulC
90. have kicked and say they won
make any more sugar contracts
Why, year ago Adams, and Ather
ton, and Jones, aud all them feller
didn't dare say their souls wer
their own while Sprecks was within
gun-shot. Well. the old man fel
that he had got to raise the wine
somewhere. so he concOcts this banl
charter: but he knew he couldn'
railroad it through without som
cat's-paws and figure-heads to set
off. lie was sure of Irwin, becaus
Billy he's that kind. that whe
Spreckels says shout, he yells blu
murder, and when Spreckels say
stop, Billy he's mum as an oyster
and bung startle wouldn't ope
his mouth. Next there was Wilder
He's man you can count on ever
time, if-that it's the trouble.
tell you there's nothing takes tn
starch and backbone out of ma
like being in debt. He didn't g
into this thing from choice, bu
, when he bought the Kinau, he ha
to give Spreckels $4,000 of hi
stock, and a $50, 600 mortgage be
sides, so when Wilder he hens an
haw's about the bank busines,