The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-07-20
TOWN TALK
BY THE MAN ABOUT TOWN.

me to the mining camps. What stories,
romances and life tragedies could be
told by the thousands who have ex-
plored the vast mining district of Ne
vada, which includes those three towns
of Goldfeld, Tonopah and Bullfrog,
within the past few years All Of
these people have gone in with visions
of gold to be taken out of the earth
and memories of old Comstock days.
The names of the lucky ones who
struck pay dirt buoy up the treasure
seekers with hopes of the days to come
when palatial mansions, automobiles
and steam yachts will be within reach
or maybe his hopes only rise to owner
ship of a saloon in Goldfield. Every
one to his fancy. Speaking of saloons
just think of a saloon that paid a
thirty per cent dividend month on a
capitalization of 100000. Such a divl-
dend was paid in Goldfeld in May.
Among the Island people seen in Gold
field on a recent visit was Billy cassie
who is probably the most popular man
in Goldfield and who is loaded up
with stocks and prospects. Curtis who
was with L. B. Kerr here has a ladies
toggery there. keaTns, a civil en-
gineer has struck OIL Beswick has
a fine saloon business, but Billy Cum
ningham has not done so well in that
business but has stock in mines that
, he expects will pan out we'll Harry
t Bruins and lot of others who have
gone there have lit out again for new
fields not being able to get in anywhere
, There are no police in Goldfield, the
= county constable preserves order ana
, it has been said that a man is actually
J safer there at night than on the streets
= of San Francisco.
, :. Z" !: I.
5 In my wanderfngs the other day
= discovered a newspaperman, who has
{ been here but few days, knocking
} the flesh off his fists by beating them
4 against a spiked railing on a side
7 street He had torn his clothes into
= little shreds, pulled most of his hair
t out by the roots, bitten a chunk out
4 of a fire-alarm box and had sharpened
}. his teeth on the curbstone to nibble al
e the spikes on the railing. Finding lie
Y could not masticate said spikes he was
s smacking them with his CORY fists.
S called hack, took him to the insane
S asylum where he was bathed in sweet
oil and the best butter. We then read
to him passages from the Psalms and
r the Honolulu Times and patted his
/ hands and kissed him on the left tenn
= pie, after which he came around and
weeping, told us what had driven him
= mad
Sobbing through the terrible reaction
S of his insane ecstacy he brokenly re-
e lated the following:
e He was sent out to get news about
e a prominent man of Honolulu who was
d supposed to have the measles. He
went to the sick mans business partner
to inquire and was told that he knew
S absolutely nothing about it; he didn't
S know if he had partner, for publica-
ton, and didn't want it to get in the
paper if he did know. COnfidentially
= if he had partner he might have the
t measles, just as any one of the people
S of this earth might have the measles
+ Good gracious, couldn't a man have
o the measles without the countwisted
r newspapers making a sensation out OF
T it? No, his partner, if he had one fol
= he couldn't remember whether the part
It ner he didn't have was still his part,
n ner or not didn't have the measles un
n less the Board of Trustees OF the Clut
S of which he was a member would give
= out the information. The reporter call
S ed on the members of the Board OIL
$. Trustees and they referred him back tC
r the partner of the man alleged to have
y the measles whereupon the reporter
e said the partner had already referred
s him to the Board, whereupon the BoarC
e called a secret session and voted the
n press a nuisance and declined to give
e out any information about the gentle
e man with the measles, if he had the
measles or if he was gentleman.
The reporter is slowly recovering his
e original mind and says he will apply
:, for a license to peddle salmon wner
e he is out again. He never reported II
d Honolulu before.
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