Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1912-10-03
CHAPTER XII.

Daylight was in the thick of his
spectacular and intensely bitter fight
with the Coastwise Steam Navigation
Company, and the Hawaiian, Mica
faguan, and Pacfnc.Mexfcan Steam
ship Company. He stirred up a big
ger muss than he had anticipated,
and even he was astounded at the
wide ramifcations of the struggle and
at the unexpected and incongruous In
terests that were drawn into 1t. Every
newspaper in San Francisco turned
yippn him. It was true, one or two Of
them had first intimate6 that they
were open to subsidization, but Day
lights judgment was that the situa-
ton did not warrant such expenditure
Up to this time the press had been
amusingly tolerant and good-naturedly
sensational about him, but now he was
TO learn what virulent scurrilousness
an antagonized press was capable Of.
Every episode Of his life was resur-
rected to serve as foundations for ma
1icious fabrications. Daylight was
cranky amazed at the new interpre-
fation put upon all that he had ac.
eompllshed and the deeds he had
done. From an Alaskan hero he was
metamorphosed into an Alaskan
bully, liar. desperate, and all-around
bad man." The whole affair sank to
the deeper deeps OF rancor and savage
nacq Tho r,oOr utop,on who boJ lSfl1ad
herself was dragged out of her grave
and paraded on thousands Of reams
of paper as a martyr and a victim to
Daylight's. ferocious brutality.
He was like a zig bear raiding a
beehive. and. regardless of the stings,
he obstinately persisted in paving for
the honey. He gritted his teeth and
struck back. Beginning with a raid on
two steamship companies, 1t develop
ed into pitched battle with city
state and continental coast line. AL
lied with him, on q splendid salary,
with princely pickings thrown in, was
lawyer, Larry Hogan, young Irish
man with reputation to make, and
whose peculiar genius had been UNI
recognized until Daylight had picked
alp with him. 1t was Hogan who guided
Daylight through the intricacies Of
modern politics, labor organization,
and commercial and corporation law.
II was Hogan, prolific Of resource and
suggestion, who opened Dayllght's
eyes to undreamed-of possibilities In
notwithstanding warfare; and 1t was
Daylight, rejecting, accepting, and
celebrating, who planned the cam
paigns and prosecuted them. With the
Pacific coast, from Puget Sound to
Panama, buzzing and humming, and
with San Francisco furiously about his
cars, the two big steamship companies
had all the appearance of winning. 1t
cooked as If Burning Daylight was be-
ing beaten slowly to his knees. And
then he struck-at the steamship com
panies, at San Francisco, at the whole
Pacific coast.
1t was not much of a blow at first.
A Christian Endeavor convention was
being held in San Francisco, row
was started by-Bxpress Drivers Union
no. 927 over the handling of small
heap of baggage at Ferry Building. A
few heads were broken, score of ar
rests made, and the baggage was de.
llvered. No one would have guessed
that behind this petty wranglo was
the fine Irish hand of Hogan, made
potent by the Klondike gold of Burn.
Ing Daylight. Il was an insignificant
affair at best--or so it seemed But
the Transfers Union took up the
quarrel, backed by the whole Water
Tr9pt Federation. Step by step, the