The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-10-20

embrace and osculate. The priest will
not listen to the petition of the parents.
THE KISS IN PILITICs.
BUTTE, Mont, Oct. 8.-Because
State Senator William F. Meyers Of
Red Lodge stole kiss from a pretty
society girl of Carbon County a few
days ago President Roosevelt, it is
claimed here, may lose Montana, and
the Republicans also are liable to lose
control of the State Legislature and
thereby fail to elect Republican Unit
ed States Senator.
The Red Lodge Picket, a Republican
paper. has bolted the ticket because of
the stolen kiss and l.. O.. CaSSweH,
candidate for County Attorney, has
withdrawn from the ticket, because he
will not run on the same ticket with
the kiss stealer, and is out to fight
him. The chairman of the County Cen
trail Committee also threatens to re-
sign, and says he viii not support
Meyers. Ex-senator T. H. Carter and
Lee Mantle have been appealed to to
pull Meyers off the ticket.
RUSSIANS MUTINY.
ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. S.-While
the Bugulma Regiment, ordered to the
front from Samara, was en- route to
Ufa. a mutiny broke out. The colonel
of the regiment and a sergeant were
killed and their corpses thrown from
the train. Another mutiny occurred
among the Penda reservists, who mall
treated their colonel.
Even Don CossacHs are mutinous.
Captain Mironoff, an officer of the I'm
perial Guard, Cossack regiment, was
recently arrested for making a speech
charging the government with respon-
sibility for the war; General Klegel,
the new military governor of Kiev, or
dered 10000 reservists under his COM
mand to be searched. All the regi-
ments were subjected to this humiliat-
ing process the same day. Klegel
thought he would find seditious litera-
ture, which had been distributed
les were made. The officers of the regi-
ments have Joined in a vehement pro-
test against the indignity.
LEAVES MONEY TO BURN.
BOHEMIAN, Mont, Oct. ia unique
will. that of j. N Tilton, a well-known
merchant of this city, has been ad-
mitted to probate. One of the provis-
ions of the testament provides that the
income of the estate, which will
amount to several thousand dollars an
nually, shall be devoted exclusively to
the proper celebration of the Fourth of
July, and specifying the purchase of
ample quantities of fireworks, flags and
bunting.
Tilton was intensely patriotic during
his life and was one of the first Of the
merchants to promote anything in the
way of public celebrations. There ap-
pears to be no disposition on the part
of Tilton's relatives to combat the odd
request of the deceased
A KING AS A FIREMAN.
MILAN. Italy. Oct. 10.-The King
of Italy appeared on two occasions
recently as an amateur fireman.
On the nights of Saturday and Sunday
last fires were discovered on two farms
at Racconigi, one of which is situated
in the ROYAL Park and the other at a
little distance. The King arrived at
the fires in an automobile, and gave
his advice and aid in extinguishing
the fires. One soldier was injured
while fighting flames but was rendered
happy by words of encoura cement from
the King
After the work was over the King
ordered a plentiful repast served to the
soldiers and fremen.
GJJARDTNG RATrTJ ESHIPS
BOSTON, Oct. 10.-Owing to the three
determined efforts to destroy the new
battleship Connecticut at the Brooklyn
navy yard. other constructors of war
vessels throughout the country have
become nervous over the safety of the
great vessels now building, and two
yards, that of the Bath Iron Works and
the Fall River Shipbuilding Company,
have taken measures to protect the bat
tleships Georgia and New Jersey, near
~ finished, at these respective plants.
Armed guards have been stationed
about the yards, inside and outside,
and about the vessels themselves. y
dead line has been established, and
any one attempting to get near the
vessels without proper credentials is
liable to be shot first and questioned
afterward. Even an employee cannot
enter the gates of the plants without
surrendering to the guard at the gate
a brass check bearing a number. If
he loses the check he loses his job. All
wagons are stopped and inspected be-
fore they are allowed to pass within
the gates, and the driver is asked TO