The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-11-23

the public has real chance to learn
the truth | believe in that rule In
spite of all the noise a Motley and a
Mossman can make on an ignOram-
uses platform in Aala, surrounded by
a crowd looking for Saturday evening
entertainment and led i'm applause or
boots by unthinking bands Of the hood
lum class, there are today enough Ha-
waiian votes in the islands to sweep
Wallach out of sight and by the next
election there will be more.
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District Attorney Breckons is the
Sherlock Holmes of a little story Of a
recent police station scene in which
the subject was Lionel Hart. 1t hap
pened just before Hart confessed,-|
naturally, because it helped to make
him confess. The case against Lionel
was getting to be a pretty good one
and there was no moral doubt Of his
guilt but he was stoutly holding out in
an interview in which Breckons was
telling him what evidence there was
against him. The only thing at that
time lacking was the chauffeur who had
taken Hart to the warehouse to set
it afire,-or the haclman or whatever
it was At a seeming advisable time
BreckOns turned to a phone in the
Office where he and Hart were, to call
up Shiozawa and have a conversation
about the missing mana Jap. It.
was nice little game, for BreckOns
didn't get Shiozawa. He got someone
or other and apparently held a CONVEX
sation. What Lionel heard was Brec-
kOns replies, indicating that the wit
ness had told the date and everything,
had it in his book. Just as this was
going on, in stepped ShiOzawa. 1t
looked pretty bad for few seconds,
but the conversation went on with a
remark or two to indicate that it was
with Shiozawa's office-not Shiozawa
in person, and the bluff worked be
cause the subject happened to be
guilty, which makes all the difference.
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In an interview j. H. Boyd protests
against dragging up the incidents of
his closing days as superintendent of
Public Works as an injustice to him.
because he was acquitted by a jury.
His apparent reference is to remarks
made in these columns, and they in
dictate that such remarks were under
stood by him as going back of the
rrf,. I, +bn
benefit of it. ! cannot see that any
such construction can be properly
placed upon what was written. The
criticism was simply that a man who
as head Of a department of public
works allowed lot of public money
of that department to turn up miss
ing, his chief clerk went to Jail for
small part of it but a lot is still I'M
accounted fOr,-is queer candidate
for the position Of auditor, of which
the duties are to watch public funds.
As far as any criminal charges that
may have been brought against Mr..
Boyd are concerned, they are closed, in
the eyes Of justice and common fair
ness, by verdict of acquittal. But
the charge of a very unauditorlike ad-
, ministration stands forever.
All the world loves a lover who is
successful and laughs at one who is
, not, wherefore San Francisco is hav-
ing a lot of fun over Prince Salmon of
2 Tahiti, who, true to his name, APP
pears to be good deal of a fish. 1t
: seems now that his campaign to cap
{ ture the heart of Hawaii's queen was
. one of cupidity and not cupid being
e scheme financed by certain Tahitians
including, say the San Francisco pa
S pers, an American planter. Salmon
, was shipped from his balmy islands
f under a remittance in the hopes that
- he might wed suitably as far as fortune
, was concerned, and also to- prevent
} the dying out of his illustrious line
e His failure in Hawaii was not his only
- one, and finally the remittances were
cut off, the hackers concluding that the
y merry royal Falstaf couldn't MAKE
- good
3 Why laugh at the poor prince.
t Didn't he learn the game from our owl
70 race, especially the European end Of
4 it? How many Of his rank from the
10 nations Of Europe board a steamer on
y the other side hoping to return arm il
% arm with an heiress? Only the Other
a day The Star printed an account Of
j the duke of something or other,-"onC
y Of the oldest purest, highest families
= in Europe Of course, and tracing di
r rect ancestry to some impossible scouG
Il drel Of forgotten days,-who won al
e American heress under the impression
70 that she was class A, and then founC
g that she had only about Sl5O,000 {
t year The blow was something awful
d His Grace could not find words to eX
r. press mis- love and devotion, and h,