Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1901-09-20
CHAPTER VII.


each othar, then went on their way
@ CHAPTER VII.
Vinton's fiotilla came steaming in
to Hosoolulu harbor just as the smoke
of the Doric was fading away on Che
western horizon. o
Cheers and acclamations, a banquet
| rendered to the entire force n the
beautiful grounds about the palace,
an3b q welcome such as even San
Francisco ha& not given awaited
then. Three days were spent in coal
ing for the long Qoyage to Manila,
and during that time officers and me&
were enabled to spend hours in sea-
bathing and sightseeing. 90
| Vinton, eager to push ahead, tuned
with Impotence over the slow ana
primitive methods by which his ships
were coalea, but the junior officers
found many a cause for rejoicing
over their enforced detention. Din
ners, dagces, and surf rides were Iae
order ef every evening. Riding parties
to the Pail and picnics at Pearl Ear-
Dor and the plssntations along the
railway filed up every hour CO Iae
long, soft, sensuous days.
The soldiers explored every nook
and corner of the town and, for a
wonder, got back to ship without
serious diminution in their number,
and with high opinion of the police,
who seemed bent on protecting the
| blue-coats from Che states and max
| ing the best of their exuberance of
spirits.
Only one row OF any consequence
occurred within the Airty-eight hours
of their arrival. THREE of the Colo
RADIO volunteers playing billiards in a
prominent resort were deliberately
annoyed and insulted by come mer-
chant sailors who had been drinking
heavily at Ahe expense of a short,
thick-set burly fellow in a loud check
suit and flaming nec1stie, a stranger
to the police, who knew OF him only
that he had landed from the Doric
and was waiting the coming of the
Miowera from Vancouver for Aus
tralia, and she was due on the NOR
row.
He had taken quarters at a second
rate sailors lodging house and at
| first kept much to himself, but, once
starting to drinking with his mari
| time neighbors, he became noisy and
of his new-found friends, all half
| drunk and wholly bent on mischief.
The sight of three quiet-mannered
young fellows playing pool in the
saloon was just the thing to excite
their half sodden skins, and from
sneering remark they had rapidly
passed to deliberate insult.
n IaSs than 70 he
young volunteers, flushed and pant
| ing, were surveying the police and by
| ISLANDERS engaged in dragging out
from under the tables and propping
up some wrecks of humanity, while
the head devil of the whole business,
the bur1y civilian IN the loud checked
suit, pitched headlong out of a rear
window, was stanching tie blood
from his broken nose at the hydrant
| of neighboring stable.
The volunteers were escorted to
the landing with all honors, and their
antagonists, barring the ringleader,
to the police station. The affair was
over so quickly that few had seen
anything of it, and only one man had
pitched in to the support of the SOL
diers-a civilian who came over on
| the Vanguard by the authority of
Gen. Vinton, the ex-brakeman of the
Southern Pacific. While the Colorado
men had little to say beyond the
statement that they had been wan
| tonly insulted if not actually assailed
by q gang of strangers, the railway
man was ablaze with excitement and
| wrath over the escape of the leader
of the vanquished party.
1--WE seen that cur dog face of his
somewhere before" said he, land the
| quicker You find and nab him the
| better. That mans wanted in more
| than one place or I'm duffer."
And SO the police spent hours that
| night in search of the stranger, but
to no purpose He kept in hiding
somewhere, and their efforts were
vain Search of his luggage at the
| lodging house revealed the fact that
he had lot of new shirts, under
wear, ETC., but not a paper or mark
that revealed his identity. The pro-
prietor said the man had given the
name of Spence, but he heard two of
the sailors call him Sackett.
| The following evening the general
home of one of the old and wealthy
residents, and towards nine o'clock
Mr.. Stuyvesant asked his generals
permission to withdraw, as he had
| two calls to make before returning
aboard ship They were to saR at
| dawn.
| Bidding good night en3 zoo1-sy -