The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-02-21


The local market is unchanged
Hopkins of Pennsylvania has in.
troduced in the House resolution
directing the Acknowledgement tc
inform that body why the persons
originating and controlling the
American Sugar Refining Company
or Sugar Trust were not proceeded
against the same as other persons
charged with crime.
Politics.
1t is authoratatiyely announced
that Mr.. Cleveland has definitely
decided upon the following mem
bers of his Cabinet: Secretary OF
the Treasury, John G. Carlisle OF
Kentucky Postmaster General,
Wilson S. BisseI of New York
Secretary of War, Daniel S. Lamont
of New York Secretary of the
Interior or Agriculture, Hoke Smith
of Georgia. Walter @. Gresham OF
Indiana was slated for Secretary of
State but declined the honor. 1t
now looks as though Bayard would
be the man. Governor Boies of
Iowa was asked to accept the port
folio of Secretary of Agriculture
but refused on the ground that he
preferred to go to the Senate In the
near future.
The deadlock in Nebraska has
resulted In the election of VIM. V.
Allen, a populist, to the United
States Senate. The Democrats
elected him rather than have Re-
publican succeed.
San Francisco News.
Excellent progress is being made
on the new railroad which J. D.
Spreckels & Bros. are building in
the Coos Bay (Oregon) country.
Claus Spreckels has secured
control of the North American
Navigation Co., which will run op-
position steamers to Panama land
connect for New York against the
Pacific Mail Company.
The Internal Revenue officials
are planning to start the wholesale
deportation of all Chinese who have
not registered by May 9TH.
DR.. Edward A. Ross has been
appointed Professor of Finance in
the Stanford University, and viii
begin his duties in September. He
has been Associate Professor of
Political Economy at Cornell Uni
versity
Captain Russell White, of the
Fire Patrol, died recently at his
post. Heart disease was the cause.
About ten Chinese women who
arrived in the steamer Peking have
not yet been allowed to land. Three
of them bear certificates from the
Chinese Consul at Yokohama GER
tifying that they are the wives of
Chinese merchants here, and for
that reason are entitled to admis-
sion. Collector Phelps does not
believe that the Consul has power
to grant such certificates, and is
doing something that the Chinese
Government will not do itself. The
Collector has declined to honor the
Yokohama certificates, and if the
women are permitted to land it
will be by orders of Courts.
A Cod Fishery Trust has been
formed by the Mcclellan Fishing
81 Trading Co., Lynde IL Hough
and other cod fishing concerns.
The new opera, "His Majesty"
by III. J. Stewart and Peter Robert
son, was performed at the Grand
Opera House recently, and proved
a great artistic and social success.
All the Alaska salmon canneries
have been brought under the con-
troll of the recently organized Sal
mon Gamers Trust. There are
twenty-seven in all in the pool.
J. w. Girwin IL Co., rubber
dealers. have been attached, and
will undoubtedly go under. Their
liabilities are about $4,000.
The Cremation Society has at
last succeeded in raising the neces-
sary $25, 600 with which to erect a
crematorium at Cyprus Lawn Gem
etery. The work will be begun at
once.
Rev. Father Harrington, of st.
Francis Church, died recently at
the age of 20 years.
1t is stated that Chris. Buckley,
the ex-Boss of the Democracy, is
about to return TO California. He
has been Away two years to escape
prosecution for bribery.
Judge Hebbard of the Superior
Court has decided that the railroad
must pay the city and county
S950,000 in taxes due from 1877.
An appeal will be made to the
State Supreme Court.
If the Blythe estate proves to be
worth but the 100000 it is gen.
orally estimated to be, Attorney
General Harris percentage will be
about $4,000, Mrs. McAllister
and Mr.. Bergin will get about
$4,000 apiece, the firm of CARRIER,
Boalt 81 Bishop viii receive about
100000, and the shares of II. l.
Kowalsky and W. w. Foote will be
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