The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-03-17

alton went through without trouble, |
SewalI is most pronounced |
Democrat.
X. J. Creighton Recovering.
Mr.. Robert J. Creighton who
broke his leg just before Christmas
is able to be out again on crutches.
but is still very weak. His recovery
has been comparatively rapid, all
things considered.
Panama Canal.
II. 3. Slavin of the Slavin Dredg-
ing Co. and American Dredging Co.
of New York is here. He thinks
that the ditch can be completed at
an expense of S100,00O,0O0, accord
ing to the plan of Santereau, which
contemplates two locks and the dam
ming of the Chagres river. MIR.
Siavin has had several contracts on
the canal. He regards the Nicara-
qua route as entirely feasible, and
says that it all depends which com
pany gets the coin first which ditch
will go through.
Elk United States Senator Warner
Miller of New York has been made
president of the Nicaragua Canal
Company.
Trans-Pacifc Trade.
Correspondence has been passing
between Canada and Australia, with
reference to the subject of steam
and cable communication. The
Dominion has offered to send dele
gates to Australia at any time.
Two new trans-Pacitic steamship
lines are under consideration and
will soon be started. The Northern
Pacific Company which has hitherto
run a line of tea clippers from the
Orient to Tacoma is negotiating with
the Pacific Mail Co. for two steam
ers with which to replace them. The
Union Pacific has also contracted
for two steamers to ply between
Hongkong and Portland. Both
companies intend to compete with
the Canadian Pacific for the Asiatic
trade.
San Francisco News.
Belloc & Co., the French bankers
failed on the 7th inst, an assign
ment being made to the Sheriff
Failure to secure remittances from
the Paris house, which is also badly
involved, was the cause. The bank
owes about 100000 in San Fran
cisco, and had about 27O depositors.
The heaviest creditor is Charles
Mayne, to whom $141,O00 is due.
Large amounts are also owing to
the Nevada Bank, Anglo California
Bank and others.
The moulders of the city have
gone on a strike. Three hundred
men, distributed among fourteen
shops, have left work. The trouble
is entirely due to the arbitrary &C
ton of the labor unions, who cut
down the days work until their EN-
ployers' could no longer compete
with the East. The dispute pro
misses to last indefinitely, as the en-
ployers are not disposed to give in
Colonel j. Mervyn Donahue, Presi-
dent Of the San Francisco and
North Pacific road, died on the 4th
inst, after a long and painful i'll
ness. He was the only son of the
later Peter Donahue, was thirty-on
years of age and leaves an estate
valued at $3,0O0,O0O to his wife and
small children. The funeral was
largely attended from the Catholic
Cathedral.
The unemployed workingmen are
holding daily meetings on the sand
lot, and are in the hands of a gang
Of agitators, who are sending sen
sational kilograms to Washington,
saying that starvation exists in
San Francisco and 8 for Gods
sake have the Federal authorities
issue food" Just how much starva-
ton exists is shown by the refusal
of these same men to work on
Golden Gate Park for SIPS day,
claiming that 81 was " standard
wages as fixed by their union"
An awful, dreadful muss has been
kicked up "in society" by the dis
covery that one E. M. Greenway,
the local social leader, has been
acting as agent for a champagne
house and doing other things con-
nected with I" trade" A dispute has
arisen between Greenway and L. T.
Dargie of the Oakland Tribune,
which in Greenway's mind, calls
for Der l-ud They are both long
range fighters.
American News.
The Behring Seal ease was awarded
February 18th to the North Ameri-
can Commercial Company of San
Francisco for. $1O62aa a skin. This
company is known as the Tevis-
AIills-Liebes Syndicate, the princi-
pal men being Lloyd Tevis, D. O.
Mills, Isaac Liebes, Albert Miller
and Matthias Meyer
The number of victims by the
bursting of a dam on the Hasa
yampa river, Arizona, was forty
nine. Thirty-nine bodies have been
recovered and buried.
The Z. S. man of-war Enterprise
arrived at New York on the 9th
from a European cruise of three
years. Charges of cruelty have been
brought against Commander B. H.
~McCalla, who was in charge, that he