The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-04-05

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long ago and nine Cinnamon are held to
await the action of the grand jury be-
cause one of their country men laid
thieving hands upon the pipe of another
Chinaman.
A Dope Pipe.
For the delectation of those who may
not have an intimate knowledge OF
what an opium pipe is like it may be
explained that such an instrument of
pleasure looks like an ordinary flute
into one end of which, at right angles,
is set howl that looks very much like
wooden funnel, two or three inches
long. Into this the stun is placed and
the happy dreamer at the other end of
the flute puffs away to the land of fly
ing mermaids and ecstatic colors.
With a good pipeful he travels in an
aeroplane, two big fills relieve him of
the necessity of the air-machine for
he finds that he can sing angelic
stanzas. Another pipe and our friend
Chong Ching Chang is driving golden
chariot across wondrous field where
in, at every turn of the wheels, from
three to six acres of poppies come into
view. Beautiful women, in garments
more lovely than costly silks or satins,
are picking the peoples, which they cast
with smiles into the chariot. Here
Confucms, who is acting footmal,
picks up the raw peoples and pokes
them into the golden funnel of the gold
en- flute. Then he wakes up.
And 10 H. WAS Dream
essay, John, what have you been
smoking?' asks the big chief smiling
good naturally and showing thereby
more real gold than John has seen in
quarter century. "Number one stuff"
asks the chief, as if he was just there to
have collar and pair of cuffs done up.
By this time John is awake. He
knows the chief and wonders just what
he is there for. And he is not at all
suspicious when he answers that he is
not smoking the good stuff at all, "too
reilly much plice,' but that his dreams
came from yen-she-ko.
Mr.. McDuffie is very much interest
ed, of course He is anxious to learn
and so he sits down, and makes himself
at home and John tells him all about
the process of getting this fourth rate
opium from old pipes that were smok-
ed, some of them, when the Great Wall
was just string of pebbles. And the
more he talks the more he gives away,
until finally the chief has evidence
enough not only to hold John for Of
Tending the internal revenue laws of
the United States but to get one or two
of John s friends into trouble. And in
this way ten arrests have been made
and nine Cinnamon will have to tell
their stories before the grand jury.
1t appears that some time ago the
internal revenue authorities in Wash
ington wrote to Collector Cottrill here
on the opium traffic in Hawaii, and the
Collector lost no time in getting upon
certain trails. Two arrests were made
by the internal revenue people and the
prisoners were held for the grand jury
A number of weeks ago ChinamaI
appeared at police headquarters and
claimed that valuable pipe had beer
stolen from him. He did not know who
the thief was but he gave good de
scription of the article and Chief Me
Duffie went ont on the case. He located
the pipe and arrested the man in whose
possession it was found. A charge OF
receiving stolen goods was put against
him.
This man, when questioned about
where he got his opium, explained that
it was the No. kind, the yen-she-ko
mixture of the boiled down juice from
the 'fute" part of the old pipes, mix
ed with the ashes or burned opium from
the bowls. The police chief took the
hint and with several members of his
special staff made an Immediate inves
tigation in Chinatown; with the result
that it developed that quite trade il
the manufacture of yen.she-ko had
sprung up. This, however, was none Of
the chiefs business, officially speaking
for there is no territorial law against
the mixture if it is not offered fol
sale, but it is very much against the in
ternal revenue laws of the United
States.
The chief Of detectives knew that the
internal revenue officers were hot or
the trail of the yen-she-ko makers, that
two arrests had already been made;
and without hesitation he got into com
munication with Collector Cottrill and
District Attorney Breckons, with the
result that he was directed to go ahead
and make arrests. Collector Cottril
had already received communication:
from his superiors regarding yen-she
and yen,she,ko in Hawaii and he wai
happy that the local head of detectives