The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-08-01
san Francisco News.

uperlntendent OF the SacraIheutO
division of the Southern Pacific, is
to be discharged for dishonesty in
office. His successor will be J. l..
Frazier.
+. W. Perimen and eX-Mayor
Chapman, of Oakland, are fighting
= in the courts over the title to Clip
perton island, in the South Pacific,
upon which there is a rich deposit
of guano.
Ned McGowan, the famous old
sport, who was one time a refugee
of the vigilance committee, is dying
nj the hospital of old age.
General J. 5. Clarkson, who was
first assistant postmaster-general
under Harrison, has been on visit
to this city. He was the guest of
the Union league club, and pre-
dicted that the Republican party
will be victorious at the next cleo
ton.
John McConger, deputy-cOllector
of internal revenue at Fresno, has
absconded with $1,000 government
money. His bondsmen must make
the amount good.
VI. J. Flavin, the we'll known old
time merchant, died suddenly on
July 10Th. He was the founder of
the 81 Y l." store, but died very
poor.
The final examination of the
suspended Pacific and Peoples
institutions are solvent, and it is
expected that they will resume
business in the course of a few
weeks.
The city authorities of Oakland
have seized the water front at the
foot of Broadway, from the South
ern Pacific Company, and are using
it as n landing for opposition fer
ries. The case Is now being fought
out in the courts.
A Samoan woman and four male
South Sea islanders came up from
Apia on the steamer Mariposa,
which arrived yesterday from the
antipodes. The woman is the
widow of a British subject, and the
Samoan Government placed no re-
straint on her departure although
other women of the islands, with
three or four exceptions, have
been prohibited from leaving the
territory. The four male natives
are stalwart men and come from
islands close to the Samoan group.
IN an r,0f1ta
Chicago to join the little colony Of
twenty natives in the Samoan vii
lage in Midway plaisance at the
Worlds Fair. The native village,
in its entirety, will be one of the
attractions at the Midwinter Fair
In this city at the end of the year.
The Samoan exhibit, although
small, is said to be most complete,
and everything connected with the
celebrated coral islands is produced
in an interesting and instructive
manner.
Creditors are after Chas. S. Vie
land again, with ready made at
tachments, etc, but they can
neither find any property on Mr..
Wieland. The latter is supposed
to be wealthy but his property has
been transferred to relatives.
The total liabilities of ex-senator
De Long who failed recently, are
found to be $685., O37. He borrowed
money like a lord, but no one
knows how he got rid of it.
There are now 1900 nickel in
the slot machines in this city and
each is fraud upon the public.
As they come under the lottery
law they are to be suppressed.
The epidemic of typhoid fever in
Oakland is now under control.
John r. Jarboe, the wellknown
attorney-one of the ablest in the
state, is dead from the effects OF a
bad case of grippe which attacked
him a year ago
The battle against the side en-
frances to saloons goes merrily on
and it looks as though an ordl-
nance would be adopted suppress
ing them for moral reasons.
John w. Flood, the defaulting
cashier of the Donohue-Kelley
bank, has been granted bail at
$4,000, pending his appeal for a
new trial. He was convicted OF
embezzling 1853, 700.
The investigation of the manage
ment of the Soldiers home at
Yountvilie, shows that Comman'
dant Royce began to steal the day
after his election as treasurer, ano
that the management generally was
rotten.
The work of arranging for the
Midwinter Fair is now in full
swing, and about one-half the re-
quired money has been raised. The
popularity of the affair is that
capitalists and property owners are
not supporting the scheme, but the
money is being subscribed by the
masses. The fair is quite certain tc
be held.
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