The Hawaiian gazette., 1888-03-13
LATEST FOREIGN news.
San Francisco, February 2sth, per
s. s. Australia.
AMERICA.

singer, died in New York on Febru-
airy 9th.
a strike has caused a suspension of
business on the Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy Railroad
Cadet w. c. Davis has been arrest
ed at West Point for hitting an in
structor with a hot potato.
Burgess. has designed four yachts
of different models, but all measuring
forty feet on the water line.
Arrangements are making for one
hundred families from Illinois to col
onize in Ventura county, Cal.
Ex-senator Tabor and w. 7. earle
ton were arrested at Denver for Civ
ing a sacred concert on Sunday.
An appropriation of $250,OO0 is
urged on the House Harbors and
Rivers Committee for the improve
ment Of Humboldt Bay.
A resolution is before Congress for
extending the Presidents term to
April 80, 1889, and changing the date
of the meeting of Congress.
The Dominion Government is 60
ing ahead with proceedings against
American fishing vessels libeled for
buying bait in Canada waters.
Thos. Mast, late cartoonist of Har-
per's Weekly, is giving entertaining
lectures in San Francisco. Robt j.
Burdette, humorist, is also there.
Democrats are charged with flibus
tering to defeat public buildings bills
in the House. San Francisco and
Portland may thus be kept out of
their buildings.
The schooner Coronet, that defeat
ed the Dauntless in the trans-At-
lantic race last year, is preparing at
New York for voyage round Cape
Horn to San Francisco.
The trial of DINING for the muir
der of Benhayon is still proceeding at
San Francisco. Evidence was given
of poison found in deceased's stom-
ach and on his clothing.
There being no information in the
New York Collectors Office to 60 by,
the Federal House Committee on
Manufactures will have to itself in
vestigate the Sugar Trust.
Col. B. c. Cash, the South Caro-
lima duelist who killed Col. Shannon
in duel in 1880, is dead He was
buried beside his son, who was killed
by a Marshal while resisting arrest.
Signal Service officer Greedy, in his
report on the rainfall west of the
Rocky Mountains, intimates that the
condition of that country will force
upon Congress the question of irri-
cation.
DIR. Bredmeyer has been fasting
thirteen days in jail at Salt Lake,
and says he will keep it up till he
dies if his wife, for beating whom Lie
is imprisoned, does not withdraw her
divorce case.
In 1856 the Chinese arriving in
California nGmbered 6,714 and de-
partnres of that nationality were H.
267, and 1887 there arrived II, 572 and
departed 1919. These figures show
net decrease of $500 Chinese the
last two years, but do not include
clandestine arrivals over the British
Columbian and Mexican borders.
James D. Lick, heir apparent Of
the founder of the Lick Observatory,
has instituted suit for an account
ing against 28 partners of his late
father in a Santa Barbara COLOMBIA
ton scheme. The case involves the
title to $4,000 acres of the best land
in Santa Barbara county, and, if
Lick is successful, he will get $3,000,-
600 IN money.
Representative Morrow introduced
resolution in the House, calling
upon the President to transmit to
Congress information as to what
treaty negotiations have been con
Quoted with the Chinese Minister in
relation to the total exclusion of Chi
nese. Morrow's action is due to a
suspicion that no such treaty is in
existence, but that rumors regarding
it were foated to prevent fresh legis-
lation for exclusion of Chinese.
The Standard Oil Trust is being
investigated by the New York Senate
Trust Investigating Committee. F.
D. Rockefeller was examined Febru-
airy 9th, giving interesting figures of
the huge monopoly. The Standard
Oil Company, of which he is Presi-
dent, has capital of $S,5O0,0OO. He
is a member of the Standard Oil
Trust, which is not incorporated but
based upon a written agreement.
He asked that the contents of
the agreement produced be kept from
the press, as it contained private
matter. From five to ten companies
he declined to give the exact num-
ber-had entered the Trust The
capital is $90,0OO,0O0 The oil pro
duct of the Company is about 7,0O0,-
600 barrels annually, and three
fourths of this is controlled by the
Trust. Certificates are worth $165,
par value 500. In 1887 the share
[1l1o-, 100000 On 49,. oo1A 1900