The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-31
LOCAL BREvITlEs.

t Henry Newell of Park City, Utah, is
| at the Hawaiian Hotel.
| Laughing Jackson was registered
on the police register last night for
being drunk.
All the vessels had their flags at
half-mast yesterday on account of the
| death of England's queen.
| kookaana, Kaea and Mataeo, three
Hawaiian truants, were arrested yes
| terday afternoon and brought to the
police station
John Auguste Combra was arrested
| on warrant yesterday for being on
the premises by night of Frank Car
without permission of the owner
| Proprietor Krouse of the Arlington
| Hotel Annex displayed last evening
from his balcony a handsome photo
! graph OF Queen Victoria draped in
| black and the English colors. An in
candescent globe was hung over the
picture.
| The Independent charter provides
\ that one of the duties of the county
sheriff would be to provide lists OF all
the reputable attorneys practicing in
/ tue police court for the city prison
kc,lls. They are to be posted up in a
conspicuous spot in each cell.
j. B. Stetson, president of the Cali
fornia Street Railway Company of
San Francisco, and high official of
the California Northwestern Railway
Company, and of the firm of Holbrook,
Merrill & Stetson of San Francisco is
at the hotel with his wife and child
and maid.
The bookings at the police station
yesterday were: Kim Sing, violation
of carriage regulations; Kaamaana,
Joe Kala, Matalo, truancy; Kiwai
Nam, All Kim, All Yok, common nui-
sance; Joseph Johnson, assault and
| battery on Rose Palenapa; Herbert
Arnold, DESERVING ship; John Augusta
Gamma, unlawfully on premises.
Miss Julia Briggs. Chicago; Miss
Bird Chansler, and Miss Lucy
Schwartz, Los Angeles, and Miss Callie
Mead, San Francisco, form a party OF
society young ladies under the chaper-
onage of Mrs. Walter Cosby, who ar
rived in this city yesterday on the So
noma. The ladies are the guests of
the Hawaiian Hotel, and will remain
in Honolulu for about two weeks.
Japanese child was run over and
hurt by a hack yesterday morning on
King street in front of the Oahu Rail-
way depot. A Japanese woman and
the child alighted from rramcar
which was being driven toward Kalihi.
A hack driven by Japanese came
dashing along in the same direction
on the lower side of the street and
( before the child could be drawn out
of danger it was borne down under
the horses hoofs. The child was re-
moved to the hospital. No bones We're
broken.
A. McNally, vice president of the
California Construction Company and
one of the contractors for the dredging
of Honolulu harbor for the Navy slips.
arrived yesterday on the Sonoma. He
now has the $4,000, 900 contract for
dredging San Pedro harbor. Mr.. Nc
Nally ran for sheriff in Los Angeles
county, and is said to have gone up
Salt River. Mr.. McNany's present trip
to Honolulu is believed TO have some
connection with the opening of Pearl
Harbor bar. which is to De dredged
out within the next three months.
L. A. Van Arnim, prosperous
rancher of Clifton, Arizona is a guest
at the Hawaiian Hotel, who arrived
on the Sonoma yesterday. Mr.. Van
Arnim is one Of the ranchers of that
/ State who have suffered from cattle
thieves, bandits and desperadoes in
general, and adopted a method last
year of Kidding himself of his ugly
customers which has been adopted into
the general ranch etiquette of Arizo-
ma. He secured the services of sew
eral noted shots and made a deter
mined stand against his Prosecutors
One of these men, named Secorro, a
famous man with the revolver or rife,
was killed in one of the forays.