The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-12-12
OUR SAN FRANCISCO LETTER
Per 5. S. Rio de Janeiro, San Francisco,
December 3, 1889.

December 3, 1889.
(From our special cOrrespondent.)
Sugar.
The market for sugar remains
steady and unchanged. The receipts
from all quarters are light and the
demand is only fair Spreckels' new
refinery at Philadelphia is ready for
business and cargoes are arriving
from Manila and elsewhere. Steam
was got up in the boilers on the 9th
ult. Sugar Trust stock has dropped
to $50.
Meeting of Congress.
Congress met on December I'd, and
in the House Thomas B. Reed, Of
Maine, was made speaker; Edward
Mcpherson, clerk; Alfred Holmes,
sergeant alarms; G. A. Adams, door
keeper, and William III. Wilburn,
blind preacher and Democrat,
chaplain. The Senate met and the
new Senators from the Dakotas and
Washington were swore in. On the
Sd the Presidents message was read,
in which the policy of the Govern
ment In relation to the Pacific islands
and steamship subsidies was distinct
~ enunciated. The legislation which
is proposed this winter is of utmost
value to the Hawaiian Islands. Not
only will the navy be increased, but
provision will be made for the coal
ing stations at Pearl river, Pango
Pango In Samoa, and the proposition
to have a Minister Plenipotentiary
at Honolulu meets with much favor.
The estimates Of Secretary Window
for the appropriations required for
the fiscal year ending June 80, 1890,
have been filed. He estimates that
$341 ,428,977 will be needed. The
estimates for 1889 were 1928, 467, 489.
The appropriations for the present
fiscal year were 1928, 1896, 1886. The
principal increases in the estimates
are for pensions and public works,
the former exceeding the appropria-
tions of the present year by $8,827,-
SIG, and the latter by $6,996,272.
San Francisco News.
The steamer Gaelic arrived here
on Dec. lst, and was sought to be
Intercepted outside the Heads by
the United States revenue cutter
Roor IN cooroh Of
The Gaelic's commander refused to
be boarded, and the two steamers
had a race into port, in which the
Gaelic was the winner.
California has been endeavoring
for the past two years to gain control
of the raisin market of the United
States, and has succeeded so we'll
that the imports of Spanish raisins
has fallen off from 100000 boxes to
10000 boxes in the past two years.
It is believed that the California
product will eventually replace the
Spanish raisin in it's home territory.
The Supreme Court has affirmed
the death sentence of Thomas Bow
man who murdered Samuel Dunn, in
cold blood.
The Board of Health is just now
very much agitated over the fact that
San Francisco has no pest house fit
for human beings to occupy, and an
effort will be made to compel the
Board of Supervisors to provide suit
able quarters for patients infected
with contagious diseases.
Travellers just returned from New
Mexico and Arizona report that
smallpox is appearing in those sec
tons.
Following the death of Mrs
Charles Croker, widow of the late
Charles Croker, the railroad mag
: nate, comes an incorporation includ
ing the interests of the various heirs
The capital stock is $7,OOO,OOO
divided into 10000 shares of $1OC
: each, of which @. f. Croker owns
1899, Geo. Croker 10000, w. H
Croker 1889, Harriet V. Alexander
, 10000 shares, and others.
The Boston baseball club is in this
city playing exhibition games.
The British Columbia salmon
, packers have sent a deputation tc
7 Ottawa to demand the removal of the
: Chinese tax restriction. They claim
that it threatens the destruction oil
3 their industry.
: The Oregon Improvement Go. has
mortgaged all its property to the
:. Farmers Loan and Trust Co. of New
3 York for $15,00O,000.
The Supreme Court, on November
l 80, reversed the decision of the lower
7 court which made Richard Jessup
5 the illegitimate son of Gersham P
l Jessup, heir to the estate of 500,
900.
During the first ten months O.
4 the year the arrivals and departure.
t of passengers at this port aggre
: gated 1921, of which 1850 wer,
: arrivals and 1851 departures. The
: arrivals from the Hawaiian Islands
: numbered 1888 and the departure,
}, 1888. From Australia and New Zea
land 1921 people arrived and 131(
departed for the same countries.
General American News.
! Judge Anderson, of the United
: States Court of Utah, has decided
that alien Mormons who have beer
4 rhrOuph the Endowment Hons. o.