Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-06-18

back the payments, totalling s35oe,
were noted on the back He testified
Kurasakf had brought the paid note to
the saloon and torn Il up,
Nagatani denied that the $3.50 a
month payment was made to Bartlett
as the latter's alleged share OF the
profits CT the business, -,-.
Hashiguchi. Nagatanfs present part
ner, was not called To the stand Ma
gatani testified that the $500 transac-
ton occurred before Hashiguchi be-
came partner in the business.
Nagatani said that following the
$500 transaction he obtained $1,000
and $500 from Bartlett on different
# occasions. Re said he had borrowed
money from the Trent Trust Company
to pay back the $780, He had given
+ the company mortgage on his house.
/ he said.
The witness said he understood that
I the $500 was borrowed from Bartlett
I personally *.-:~
cockett Suddenly Remembers.
/ Isaac Cockett, proprietor OF the
+ CCckett saloon, told the commission
he wished to correct statement made
! by him when his renewal was up for
hearing Wednesday. lie said that last
July he had given the brewery note
for SlS7.50. The money. he said. was
advanced him toNpay his license.
Ceckett testified that some time ago
he gave the Rainier Brewing Company
note for S6S7.50 which later was
taken over by the local brewery. At
the time the note was given, he said.
he was buying his beer from the Raj
nier concern, Bartlett came to him and
said that II Cockett would buy his beer
from the local brewery, the brewery
would assume the note and not press
him for the money
The Field report shows that on June
so, 1913, the note for $6S7.5 so was writ
ten off to profit and loss as ''uncollect-
able
Regarding the note for $1S7.50, Cock
EFT said he knew the brewery had a
collector going around and, as he did
not come to him, Cockett did not pay
the money, as he thought he could
make better use ofsfts
Il am willing to pay any time the
brewery wants IT," he said.
He said he had never paid Bart
lett anything.
Two Brewery Transactions
Under Probe In Evening.
After working all afternoon. the II
cense commissioners and the attorneys
were back In the senate chamber at
1880 in the evening to continue their
probe. The evening session was a
short one.
Two brewery transactions were gone
into. each being explained more or
less logically to the commission.
The first matter up was that of the
Service saloon and Jose Quintal, the
proprietor, was put on the grill First
Field testified that In March, 1913,
Quintal signed note to the brewery
and on January /, 1915, $3.50 was still
outstanding. No interest had been
paid
Quintal had testified the previous
day that he had no indebtedness OF
this sort, so the commissioners began
to question him on the basis Of Fields
testimony j. Ashman Beaver, Sec
rotary of Loyejoy & Company. appear
ed as counsel for Quintal
Quintal said that he had mortgaged
his home on Punchbowl to buy the sa-
loon business and that the original
note was for $4,000. He explained that
en- the previous day he thought the
eommissiCns question about indebted
ness referred only to Indebtedness on
the saloon business itself and that his
mortgaged home did not come in this
category, though he had moftgaged his
home to get into the saloon business.
II was shown that the mortgage
originally carried per cent interest
but Quintal said Bartlett had told him
that was all rfght-he needn't pay In
terest II was shown that the mort.
gage was recorded nearly two years
after the loan was made, and that
Quintal, under Beayen's questioning,
explained that this was a new mort
gage and that the old one had been
cancelled. The witness said he could
net find his copy Of the new mortgage
and that the enc shown by the COM
mission came from the brewery ON
Wednesday,
Sunrise Saloon Probed.
The affairs of tire Sunrise saloon.
Y. Kimura and o. Tagani. proprietors.
were next examined. Kimura testified
en- Wednesday that there was no i'm
dELtedness against his saloon busi-
ness Field testified yesterday that
he found a note to the brewery. dated
September "a. 1914. on which on Jan
uary there was still $500 outstand.
ing
This brought forth an interesting ex-
PLANTATION from Kimura. lie said the
money was borrowed from the brew
cry fer the benefit Of the Hawaiian
Japanese Daily Chronicle when that
sheet was staggering fnaneiallya
few weeks after it went bapkrupt-and
that the loan was negotiated with
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