The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1913-07-01
Kealoha Told Graft Investigator
He Would Have to See the De-
ceased if He Wanted Any Info"
nation About Some Missing
Time Books Which Are, Very
Much Wanted in the Checking
Up.
His mornings and His outgoings
Are Telephoned Along His Path
and Great Is the Scattering as
He Proceeds The Suspicion Of
Graft Going on Simultaneously
With Investigation.
(Mail Special to The Advertiser.)

Mail Special to The Advertlser.)
HILO, June 27.-In the course of his
trailing, II. Gooding Field, during the
past few days, has made couple of
trips into North Hilo where his arrival
was attended with much more circum-
stances than the modest investigator
wished for. As a matter of fact, no
royal potentate could have aroused
much more attention and curiosity than
did Field. The telephone was busy,
particularly around Laupahoehoe and
Papaaloa way, and his movement were
watched with an interest as fattering
as it was annoying.
Field made his first descent upon
Papaaloa on Friday, June 90, when he
demanded from Supervisor John Kea-
loha, who has charge of the district,
the timebooks from January !, 1913,
to date. He turned over four such
books, but these contained only an ac-
count of labor performed from May 20
onward.
Field insisted on being given the
books for January, February, March,
April and May. Kealoha insisted that
lie did not have them.
'.Do you know Jim Mattoon2" he
finally asked Field.
''Why, he is dead said Field.
eyes, he is dead said Kealoha,
"'but you must see him. He's got those
timebodks.' -
Then Field gave up the search as far
as kealoha was concerned. He asked
David Nation, the brother of the dead
road boss, where the timebooks kept
by the dead man We're, but David in
=. sisted that he knew nothing about the
! effects of the deceased "
AS there was not much doing in this
line just then, Field started on another
tack. He took up the so-called Crock
crusher plant payroll; then he inter
viewed ten of the men whose names APP
peared thereon.
Field says that he got the following
information:
Wallace Naope, who acted as road
clerk, said that he had secured only
$l5 out of his pay for the month of
May. Kealoha had told him that he
wonld pay him the balance, amounting
to $35, when he paid him his wages for
June.
John Cabral claimed that he had
worked the first week of May for SO
day, but that for the rest &C the
month he had been working for only
$3.50 day. Nevertheless the payroll
has the name of Cahral down for PA
days at SO a day straight through, max
ing the total $Sl.75.
David Kakala said that he had re-
eeiyed the sum of $2l, which was ow
inc him for his services for May, in
driblets. The payroll on the other hand
shows that Kakalia worked ia days,
at SO day. making the total amount
owing him 1875.
Ramon Martins, a Porto Rican, was
in charge of the rock crusher plant,
being the stabeman. He said that he
received pay at the rate of $40 a
month, but GAINED that he had not
received cent of his wages for May.
Furthermore, Field was unable to find
this man s name on the rock crusher
payroll for May.
]. L. Swain told Field that lis
brother, B. Swain, had worked on the
rock crusher during May as laborer,
and that he had $3d due him for these
services, which hs had NOT as yet re-
ceived. This mans name Field was
unable to find on the payroll.
Luau on Full Time.
David Kakalia, John Chase and j.
X. Kapahua are laborers on the rock
crusher plant. but they take up. music
as an avocation. 1t is claimed that
on certain Wednesday during May
the musicians, with the rest of the
gang, went to luau at Laupahoehoe,
but with the understanding that they
should be allowed their time The as
sertion has not as yet been substan-
tiated, owing to the mysterious absence
of the time books.
Drew Money-Paid None.
Field says that all the North Hilo
workmen he interviewed told him that
the sum of seventy cents a day was
deducted from their wages of each man
for food by John Kealoha, and that
he had paid TO the Laupahoehoe Sugar
Co, the amount Of the bill for the food
stuffs. He told the men that he could
not pay them in full for MAY, as he
had not yet received cash from the
county treasurer. Field points out tile
fact that kealoha had received. from
the Laupahoehoe Sugar Co., weekly
sr"'s from Saturday, Anri 20 until Sat
urday, June II, amounting altogether Il
ssdR9j for May, aud to $500 for the
two weeks In June, The MAY advance,
were covered by warrants which Were
turned over 20 the l.aupahoehoe sugar
Go, on assignments by the rock crurhel
gang men.
While the above findings regarding
North Hilo relate only 10 the affair