The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-05-15

Come quick" neighbors Of George b.
Andrews. of this place, ran TO his
house to find out the cause. They |
knew the cries were made by his par
rot, but they had never heard 1t
scream so loud before. Andrews lay I
on the floor unconscious, bleeding from |
a great cash in his neck He had
been repairing the ceiling and had
fallen from a step-ladder, striking a |
stove. A physician took six stitches |
in the wound and said that in only
few minutes Andrews would have been
dead. This is not the first time the
parrot has looked after the welfare OF
it's owner. Some years ago the house
next door caught fire. The parrots
screams awakened Andrews in time
to arouse his neighbors before much
damage was done. Andrews is
veteran Of the Civil War and some
time ago he applied for admission IN
the Soldiers Home. On being inform
ed that he would be accepted ne
wrote the authorities, asking II ne
would be permitted to bring his par
tive. he decided not to 60
THE HUMBLE WORSHIPPER.
KANSAS CITY, May S.-By a de-
cision of the Circuit Court of TINS CITY
the aristocratic members or cnurcn
have no legal right to deny humble
worshipper the occupancy OF seat
among them. The Congregation
Gomad Cheese, a Jewish synagogue
c11nA nv Samu6l
Graves, a pawnbroker and jeweler, Tor
sixtv-fiye dollars, the value of pew
which he had agreed to sell TO n.
Jagota. a shoemaker, and the court
rendered a judgment against the CON
gregation. Before buying the pew
| from Graves. Jagota, like all OF the
| poorer members of the congregation,
| had occupied a seat in the rear OF Tue
| church. When Jagota with his family
! attempted to enter the arlstocratlc
section where his new pew was
| located, we was met by the presldeht
of the congregation who told MIN tnaC
he could not sit in that section ia
gotta pushed by determined to assert
bic RIGHTS. but when he reached his
new he found its entrance blocked and
barricaded with chairs. In the race
of this opposition Jagota abandoned
| his claim to the pew and refused TO
NAV for it. Thereupon Graves Drought
suit against the congregation oInclaily
to recover the amount he lost because
he was unable to deliver to Jagota the
pew according to contract.
CARLOADS OF IVORY.
TACOMA. (Wash), May 5.-What
is believed to be the largest discovery
| of ivory ever made in Alaska has been
| uncovered by miners on Stone House
fork of Chicken creek, in Forty Mile
country. The miners believe they nave
discovered prehistoric graveyard ere
ated by glacial action. 1t was Iouhu
on the edge of what was once one oL
the great glaciers which swept through
Forty Mile. country, grinding down
| mountains and separating gold Whlch
miners are now washing from the creek
bottoms.
| In this graveyard were found mas
todon tusks, buffalo horns, teeth and
Ibones of all descriptions. The mas
todon tusks are from twelve &c
fourteen feet long The tusks. teeth
horns and bones are all touho
living together as if the masto-
don and other prehistoric animals had
been swept down by the glacier from
remote regions and left to die together
| 1t is more probable. however that
the bcnes thus deposited were carried
down by the glacier from great area
where hundreds of mastodons had been
icaught by the moving ice Two car
loads OF tusks and bones have been
removed. The ivory will be shipped out
side. bringing n large revenue.
PRAIRIE SCHOONER REVIVED.
! TACOMA. CEash.), May 6.-The prai-
RE schooner has been revived as one
of the most popular ways OF crossing
the continent by settlers. During the
spring to date some 200 families IRON
Tennessee. Missouri and other Eastern
states have arrived in the Northwest
by this means. one party of 100 fam
lilies came from Missouri. using 1o'
teams andewagons. They took a south
ern route over the plains, through
Kansas and Nevada. then up through
| Oregon. Some of the immigrants re-
NAMED in Oregon, and most of the
others have come into Washington.
T. a. Sessions. who was member OF
this party, drove his family from Garth
age. Mo. Sessions frankly admits tha'
they travelled in this manner TO save
railway fare The total cash outlay
for himself and family was less thar
$50
! Sessions declares that there are thou
sands of poor tenant farmers in the
East and South complaining that they
II are barred by railroad rates from reach
ing better country on the PACING
Coast. He points out that the cost OF
a single ticket will bring out an entire
family, as he and others have proved
He consumed a little over three months
from Carthage to Tacoma, and th'
team he drove was in good condition OF
its arrival here.
CRUDE OIL FOR HOGS.
| INDIANAPOLIS (Ind). May 7--Sev
eral well-to-do farmers of Cass county
have formed a company to drill To-
oil and County Auditor Gard. who L
/ | president Of the company. announce
that the crude oil viii not be PLACED
on the market, but win be fed to hogs