The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-07-08

X See the live man-eatfng shark \
X at the Aquarium. i
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The Nature Man has arrived in San
| Francisco.
Joe Cohen is trying to get a steam-
ship for Honolulu trade to make 500
round trip rate.
| -Four hundred laborers on the city
roads received their June pay yester-
day.
The Hoola and Hooulu Society will
hold special meeting at the Mater
nifty Home at ten o'clock this morn
ing.
Sporting Democrats We're around yes
terday offering money on the St. Louis
nominee, whoever he might be, to de-
feat Roosevelt.
1t is reported that ]. L. Coerper's
purpose, in seeking lease of Diamond
Head crater, is to make a horticuI-
tural ranch of it.
Chief Clerk Henry Smith of the Judi
ciary Department had his bicycle stolen
from in front of the Judiciary building
yesterday morning.
sakamoto Kiuschi, japanese, COM
mitted suicide at Paia, Maui, on July
:. His act is attributed to desponden-
cy over long illness.
DR.. G. Waldo Burgess goes to Next
co to take service with DR.. GaIbraith,
formerly of Honolulu, in attending hos
pitfalls in a mining district.
Miss Bernice X Dwight, stenograph-
er in the Public Works Department.
leaves in the Mongolia for vacation Oh
the Coast, to be absent five weeks.
Acting Governor Atkinson has re-
ceived a letter from Secretary Taft
returning thanks for the entertain
ment afforded the Philippine commits
sioners TO ST. Louis at Honolulu.
Chester Doyle, the japanese inter-
prefer let out with other interpreters
from the stoppage of appropriations is
now employed by the Attorney Gen
eral in working up evidence for Grimm
al cases at the September term.
Wong Leong, a local Chinese capital
ist, received a newspaper from Dayton,
Ohio, containing an account of the
graduation exercises at ST. Mary's In
stitute there, at which his son, e.
Wong Leong, was a graduate. The
young mans picture appears in the
paper.
Capt. WilIer of the schooner Robert
Levers brought from Laysan Island
six dozen of the so-called "wingless''
birds for Manager Ahrens of Oahu
plantation, who wanted them to fight
insect pests. As they are ground birds,
they may have a hard chance to sur
vive with mongoose around.
Dickey & Newcomb, architects. have
submitted the plans for the Norn3als
School building to be erected on Punchf
bowl slope 1t will be a three-srory
edifice of brick and terra Gotta upon
concrete basement and foundation.
There will be sixteen rooms. A single
story building for manual training will
be separate.
Col. c. j. Mccarthy does not know
what to make of the election at st.
Louis of Senator Palmer Woods as
Democratic National Committeeman,
forasmuch as Senator Woods by wire
less telegram on July 4 announced his
retirement from the contest in Col.
McCarthy's favor. Perhaps Senator
Woods took for granted that Col. Nc
Carthy would transmit his wireless
message to st. Louis by cable.
superintendent "A. Il. Atkinson mas
cabled to Joseph D. Bicknell al Spring
field, Mass, the offer of a position in
Seminary. Mr. Bicknell is
a Honolulu bred man, who served some
time on the staff of Kamehameha
schools. The place offered him is that
of instructor in agriculture. 1t is
hoped to make Lahainaluna the agri-
cultural college of the Territory, to
obtain the Federal grant of $4,000 a
year.
AT the Democratic mass meeting at
Emma Square this evening, heralded in
Mondays Advertiser, the speakers will
be p O'Sullivan, C. ]. Mccarthy, j. K.
Prendergast, E. NJ. Watson, w. F.
Erving, H. ]. Mossman, Naholowaa,
E. H F. Wolter, Sam Kaloa, John
Emmeluth, Frank Harvey and Fred.
Turrill. 1t is fondIy hoped that st.
Louis cable news will enable the I'M
terrified to ratify the nomination of
the Presidential ticket.