The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-11-21
TOWN TALK
DETECTIVES TRAIL AND
CAPTURE GOVERNOR
OF HAWAII.
By THH NAN ABOUT TOWN.

CAPTURE GONENNOH
OF HAWAII.
Wouldn't this have made an interest
ing headline for one of the Hearst
papers when Governor Frear was on
the Coast some months ago. 1t would
have been correct, too, for the Pinker-
tons were hot on the trail of our. Exc
cutive and caught him on the train as
it was nearing Ithaca, New York.
The trouble was caused by Secre-
tary f. A. Mott-smith, who sent a
cablegram to Land Commissioner j.
w. Pratt, who was in San Francisco at
the time, instructing him to forward it
to Governor Frear at once. The mat
ter was important and an answer was
to be obtained Immediately Poor
Pratt, he was up against 1t. Even
with the detective ability of Claudius
H. Mcbride, and a number of kilograms
scattered broadcast over the country,
failed to locate Frear. Then came the
new idea. Pratt rushed to the San
Francisco headquarters of the Pinker-
tons. He told what he wanted and
gave a description of the governor.
Two hours after he was notified that
Governor Frear had been located and
had received the message
The superb organization of the Pink
ertons is shown in this instance very
well. While our police departments
in the various cities of the states have
some fine men for their work, when
it comes to hard, fast accuracy, it
takes either the Pinkertons or the
Secret Service to do the job. If you
don't believe me, just ask the Cover
nor
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| wish that my friend Kotinsky, out
at the Experiment Station, would get
busy and find me a parasite which
would work dire ruin and destruction
to all that horrible breed of news
paper pests" so prolific in Honolulu.
We had a good example of this insect
the other day, when Liddy the Flu
rious" cut across the path of the jury
in the Wynne case, with a scream of
asininity, accompanied by an odor of
elimination in the publics nostrils.
Those two conference.-the man of
bitter language, who thought that Ho-
nOlulu people were dying by thousands
as the result of malaria, and his cyni-
cal opponent and squanderer of capital
letters-(you probably recognize that
mean Messrs. Osborne and Roe) come
in for their share.
That Hanahana Smart Screed pro-
position makes me also very tired but
the only way that l know of is to get
my old friend Anne Marie Prescott aft
er it. She might utilize some of those
caustic pen stabs of hers in that cause
That has given me a clue. 1t re-
minds me of story that my father
used to tell of mining camp in the
west where there was an Irishman
named Mickey Flynn, who could talk
more and louder than any one in the
section. Then a Frenchman, with a
great reputation in the same line, came
to town and a match to see which
could talk the longest was made. Num-
erous bets, were put up and a cimmit-
tee of citizens appointed to act as
judges. The contestants and the
judges retired to a room in a hotel
early in the morning. When it came
time for lunch it was sent to the room,
but the contestants were so busy they
did not eat. Dinner came with like
result and when it got late at night
the judges themselves were tired, so
locked the two competitors in the
room together and retired to sleep.
They came back in the morning and
poor Mickey was lying on the floor
dead, with the Frenchman talking into
his ear.
Might this not work when the poll
tico-medical Mary volumes herself into
print. Couldn't we turn the Regene-
rator of China loose on her and then
dispose of the punitive agent by CIV
ing old PRO Bono Publico" a whack
at him. In this way we might bring
! things down to minimum, and then
perhaps Dr. Peterson might give the
remnant room at his home for the
broken minded out Kalihi way.
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A curious scene was enacted on
Hotel street at midnight, last night
when gang of Japanese laborers, Jap
anese, mind you, not Hawaiians, moved
house for W. r. Castle, agent, from
the makai to the mauka side. Moving
by midnight is a novelty as far as
houses are concerned. Boarders have
been known to move at odd hours, also
burglars and the police.
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Judge Hardy of Kauai has reached
that stage in his career where his ex.
IRENE deafness causes great joy fol-
some of the members of the bar. Al