The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-08-21
OUR SAN FRANCISCO LETTER.
Per 8. 9. Australia, San Francisco,
August II, 1901.
From our special correspondent.)
(Concluded.l
San Francisco News.

Things lively III wan SiT00G.
The Swiss residents celebrated the
sixth centenary of Suras independence
with appropriate ceremonies.
The well-known periodic comet OF
Encke was rediscovered on the 2d at the
Lick Observatory by E. E. Barnard. Ii
is very faint and is following very closely
the path predic'ei for it by DR.. Back
land. The position of the comet at
hours AZ minutes 81 seconds, Mount
Hamilton mean time. was K. A. 3 hours
81 minutes and II second.
The ferry boat method OF suicide Is
becoming popular. Tue latest victim is
Mrs Hattie Dodg IAN abandoned woman,
VINO went overheard OH July 3lst.
The body of John E. Dixon, we'll
known stock broker. was found OH the
81 at Mussel Rock seven miles from the
Cliff House. The holy was despniltd
of all v.uables, and 1t is thought he
was murdered There is no clue to the
supposed murdrrers.
John q Howell. founder OF the Rus
sian River Flag of Heald>burg, AMI at.
present wealthy farmer oil Placer county
shot K. :. Calvin, stenograp her, i'll Oak
land Oh the night of the Sd. Calvin died
q few DAYS LATER. lie hat been perse-
tions and with inuendoes in lille
paper called Current Comment. The
shooting caused great sensation in
Oakland and San Francisco.
John g. MorIz, wealthy butcher,
committed suicide by poison recently.
He was respondent about threatened
heart disease.
Matthew Carrin. an aged leper, has
pAsfhnncn H. SnuIA,l
the wall and it is b4li .ved that he trav-
eled south along the San B.uno road
toward San Mateo. There will be little
trouble in finding the unfortunate man,
for the marks OF his disease are too plain
to escape notice, but it will take some
body with stout heart to capture him.
Two hundred and forty Chinese ''mer-
chants" are booked to arrive on the
steamship Oceanic from China. The
courts are preparing to check the In
6ux.
Adolph Sutro is building summer
will cost 100000.
The National Librarians Association
wi meet i'm San Francisco shortly.
Petro cum has been discovered near
Petralla in Humboldt county.
n
near Point Lab IS
The sqnabbe over the Chief of the
Department of Horticulture and Viii
culture of the Worli's Fair continues.
1t is believed that De Barth Sharb OF
San Gabriel will get the place.
The city debt is $6l7 9l4.
The profits of the recent Fete Cham
petre for Charity at Sutro Heights were
$2,S42.
James G. Fair has been beaten out of
among Pine street operators of present
ing the man, whose name is Bayard
Saville, with testimonial.
American News.
The question having arisen as to the
status OF woIkmen brought TO the United
States by foreign exhibitors TO work on
their departments in the Worlds Fair,
the Attorney General has rendered an
opinion that skillet employees OF foreign
exhibitors and clerks, stall-keepsrs and
others at the Chicago Expositi IN who
come in good faith for the purpose of
setting up and operating the machinery
of such exhibitors are outside of and not
subject to the contract laws of the Uni
ted States.
Secretary Foster says that the immi-
grafton laws will be strictly enforced in
connection with propositions of phian-
thropists to bring Russian Jews to this
country. They will be FRED out where
it is shown that they are pauper criminal
or decrepit.
The Government ha rec ived bids for
the construction of 100 high power guns
for coast defense. TIE bids call Tor The
con. tructipn of 25 eigiIi-inch, 81 ten
inch AMI 25 Twelve inch br-ech loading
riff IS. the lowest bid Was 50 694 900.
Millions of worms are destroying the
hemloc forests of Pennsylvania
Countess nf Caithness and the Dnch,
ess of Pomar have been selected to snc-
ceed the late Madame Blavatsky, the
famous theOSOplll5t.
g. V. BDughton, Secretary and Man
ayer OF he Buffalo Seal and Press Works,
is working on an electrical IN lchine for
conversation at long distances. MIR
Boughton is an inventor who has come
into prominence lately nv hIs machines
for making seals, and ha two big con-
tracts with the Government for fnrni IN
ing them. He is not prepared to give
ont details of his plan, as the foreign
patents have not yet been obtained He
has been at work on the scheme for
year, and has spent $4.6l0 The medium
used is electricity. 1t Is not system OF
signals, he says, nor anything of the
kind. The Presidents message or the
contents Of newspaper NAV be trans
United to vessel ten miles distant with
ease. He will be ready very soon to
show its operations to the world.
Shipping.
Herreshoff's latest production, the Jave-
lin, attracted much attention among ma
val men and yachtmenlb by going over the
official mile course at Newport. :. l..
and making speed of 231a knots, the
contract calling Tor only r. She proved
herself flyer and her turning evolutions
We're simply perfect.
The Oceanic steamer Alameda COM
pleted her fiftieih round trip WHEN she
locked on her last trip. and the passen-
gers, both down and up, presented Cap
tain Morse with handsome testimonials
Twenty five of the voyages were to Homo
lulu and return, and the other twenty
five were through to the Colonies. Cap
tain Morse mas been continuously i'm
command, j. B. Sutton has been purser
all the time (bar one trip, A. D. Little
has been CHIEF engineer, and o. N. Clark
chief steward ever since she was built.
The steamer has never met with an ac-
cident during all this voyaging, which