The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1911-05-13
Honolulu
Newsletter
Racy Paragraphs From the Capitol On
Current Topics.
(By Oscar Brenton.)

Honolulu, Tuesday, May 8, 1911.
When Abner Bixby's boy, John
ny, came back from college in 'S9
he was full of new tangled ex-
pressions as dog is of fieas. Abnel
had a ranch back in Clay County,
Indiana, where he raised steers fol
the Kansas City cattle market. AT
the particular time of which / speak
the old man had added considerably
to his holdings in the bank at Terra
Haute and he was feeling chesty.
The boy was making a mental sur
vey Of the parlor furniture and fit
tings and chanced to observe that
the tout ensemble did not appeal to
him. It don't, eh?" ventured the
old man with a panied expression
on his countenance ''Well you show
me where that tootensemb is and
I'll have it dug up. That's about
the way the gathering of witnesses
in the Hilo scandal impressed me
as l saw them in the corridor watt
ing for chance to cough up before
the grand jury yesterday.
My intention to cut out any re-
ference to the Hilo affair was good
when / last wrote but as the Star
intimates that there will be no bill
found against any OF the parties
concerned / want to enter q protest
against any more of the affairs of
the schools Of the big island being
aired in public. In my opinion the
lingerie in the present case should
have been fumigated before sending
it to the school laundry for washing.
/ am not quite sure that there was
more than circumstantial evidence
introduced and it was without the
backing necessary to make it worth
while. Iagree with the man who
says it is the best kind of evidence
# it is right. But it is demmed bad
if it is not. On the whole | would
not convict a Korean of chicken
stealing if it depended on such
stuff.
AS to the standing of the people
of Hilo as gossips l was in the Office
of a newspaper the other day and
heard a gentleman recounting an
experience he had had as resident
Of the place some years ago. He had
been, or was at the time, quite i'll
and physician was called. AS the
case was supposedly serious the
doctor remained at his bedside for a
long time. At the end of an hour
neighbor came in, accidentally of
course, and when she saw conditions
made inquiry and retired. The next
day the neighbor called again and
at that time told the sick mans
wife that neighbor next door had
told her that gentleman had called
on Mrs. Blank, entered the bedroom
and remained an hour, and she had
gone over the day before to confirm
or deny the rumor. You see the
stranger who had entered the house
was no stranger but the family ply
sician. The man whom the gossip
said was there had never been in
the house. Now that is sample
Of Hilo gossip. Really a foundation
for mighty unpleasant slander. ]
know nothing of what was stated to
the grand jury. / know what was
told the commissioners, and it did
not smell good. If there was nothing
better told the jury it's no bill al
the end, and possibly an invitation
for the parties at interest to tender
their designations as teachers in the
public schools in the Territory.
understand the affair has caused
separation of the ties which have
bound friends and neighbors in
Hilo for years. The substantial