The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1911-06-03
Honolulu
Newsletter
Racy Paragraphs From the Capitol On
Current Topics.
(By Oscar Brenton.)

What a shame it is that a party
of young folks cannot go for an out
ing without being pestered by a lot
OF crooks such as accompanied the
excursion to Maui last Saturday. [
thought as | sat in the shadow on
the voyage back to the city that the
one thing lacking to make the ex-
cursion something to be remember
ed was McDuffie. 1 would have
enjoyed seeing him take those harp
les by. the nape of the neck and
shaking them jointly and singly, as
a terrier would shake rat and drop
them over the side. The manage
ment of the next excursion by sea
should see to it that crooks are
barred.
News comes from Hilo that the
chief baker of the Enterprise has
been caught by Marshal Hendry
with opium in his possession. This
does not surprise me as much as if
| had been told that no opium ever
gets ashore at that port. Why it is
the easiest thing in the world.
True enough the customs officer is
aboard but one man is as smart as
another and maybe smarter. There
never was a customs man who did
not find his equal, in keenness. out of
the service. Hilo is different in the
handling of its shipping. The Office
there has not as many inspectors
nor as many spies as in Honolulu
so that a man on ship occasionally
has chance to make an honest
penny by defrauding the govern
ment, Down here there is as much
to fear in Breckons as there is in
the whole customs department of
the Territory and Hilo is getting a
taste of it. Of course there had to
be some one on the coast to tip
Breckons, and the men who handle
contraband stuff had better make
up their minds that their end of the
rope is the shortest. They will be
landed sooner or later just as sure as
the pitcher that goes oftenest to the
well is the soonest broken. There was
time when it was not so much of
a crime to bring in a .swag of dope
or even handle it after it was land
ed. But that was before Uncle took
hold Of the islands and the people
no longer called them blessed. And
there were many ways of bringing
in the stuff from the interior of a
bellows to hollow places in redwood
posts. 1t was often demonstrated in
the old days that where there is a
will there is a way.
l heard something amusing the
other day in which young married
man and his wife were the leading
characters, 1t seems that chauffeur
who had lost a chance for a load
spied the young husband in a pub
lie machine making for the other
side of the island. 1t seems, too,
that the chauffeur overhead some
remarks about luau and the good
aftermath that would come to them
when they reached their destination.
With an eye to business and anoth-
er for revenge he waited until the
party had had time to reach the
pail when he telephoned the wife
the circumstances and asked her if
she was going to the luap. 1t seems
there is some jealousy in her COM
position and she Immediately told
him not to take anyone but to wait
for her. Now, the rest of it is hear
say so | will not name the officer TO
whom she communicated the facts
and asked him if he would not like
to go over and get a case. 1t was
in his line and he accepted the job
and he found-perhaps it was only