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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-06-19
HOT FIGHT IN SCOTT.
(Continued from Page ~

Cummins convention, but are held to
have been null and void, as the regu-
lar convention had already adjourned.
Regular Perkins Convention.
(. The regular Perkins convention had
los Perkins and So Cumm1ns dele
gates seated by its credentials COM
mittee.
Another caucus was held in the
third ward of Davenport Friday night,
naming solid Perkins delegation
which the standpat convention seated.
This is one Of the wards where the
Cummins men, 1t Is said, refused to
let the Perkins people vote by ballot
the preceding evening, and another
caucus was called in order. to give
voters a fair chance to express their
preference.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-06-19

prevent a terrible catastrophe. Peril
is imminent. Appeal to all influences
to help u.s."
The fact that the telegram, which Ia
dated June II, was dispatched by way
of Helsingfors, Finland, is regarded as
an indication that the senders feared
the results Of sending such information
from st. Petersburg.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-06-19
LONG DEBATE ENDS.

AgarIan Question viii GO to Commits.
sion From Russian Parliament.
st. Petersburg, June 18.-The long
debate on the Agrarian question ended
today in the lower house of parliament
and 1t was decided to send the question
to a commission.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-06-19
SENATE STANDS PAT.
Upper House viii Insist on Its Amen
! ments to Naval Bill.

Washington, D. c., June 1s.-7
senate today decided to insist upon
amendments to the naval appropl
ton bill and to ask for further
ference with the house.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-06-19

joining towns struck Sunday and only
the black bread eaten by the poor was
sold The streets were filled with
crowds IF wOrlSInen
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-06-08
PROGRAM.

l. Best Decorated Shore Boats-1s
and End Prizes.
2. Best Decorated Japanese SampanS
list and End Prizes.
3. 50-Yard Dash championship of Is
land)-Trophy.
f. Clothing Race-Trophy.
5. Yard Dash japanese CCham-
pionship of Island)-Prize.
6. Trapeze Exhibition.
Z. Peter Baron, the Human Cork.
s. Obstacle Race-Trophy.
g. Relay Race, -Boy-Trophy.
10. 25- Yard Dash Championship of IS
land)-Trophy.
II. 25-Yard Dash. japanese tChaih-
pionship of Island)-Prize-
H. Boys Race, % YarGs-Prize.
10. Duck Race-PriZe.
Il Relay Race. 6-Man, at present hel'
by Myrtle Boat Club-Trophy
Is. Launching SGmpan.
Guy Livfngs ,on-Announcer EXtraor-
binary
Reserved seats 80 cents and % cents
General admission % cents.
Tickets at the Hawaiian News GO ;
Young Building store.
The entry book at the Hawaiian News
Co.'S. Entries will close on Saturday
June 9. -,...
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-06-08
LOS ANGELES LIKEWISE
FAILS TO MAKE RAID

Since the sailing of the steamer
Curacao for Ensenada. MazatIan
Guaymas and other Mexican ports on
May 18th. the Los Angeles merchants,
from whom the local exporters and
shippers We're compelled to purchase
their supplies owing to the scarcity
here because of the calamity. have
been endeavoring to induce the dealers
to continue TO operate from the south
ern city. Their efforts. however have
been unsuccessful, for according to
Thomas B. Hilliard, who makes up the
greater percentage of the documents
covering shipments to Mexican points.
all of the leading exporters and ship
pers have decided to remain loyal to
San Francisco, and the next steamer
which is scheduled to sail on June It'll
will carry one of the old-time heavy
cargoes of merchandise, mainly pur-
chased here.
The customs brokers. who are tenn
porariy occupying space in the APP
praiser's building, report no noticeable
decrease in the import and export
business. Foreign shipments via New
York and New Orleans are coming
with the same regularity as before the
great confiagration, and all consign-
meutS are eXpeditiously handled
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-06-08
CHINESE TO STICK
TO SAN FRANCISCO.

CHICAGO May 30--Many Chinese of
San Francisco. dislodged from their
footholi by the earthquake and fire,
are arriving at Chicago, New York and
other towns.
According to Moy Stone, mayor of
Chinatown. few of the strangers VIII
remain here TO go into business.
Some of our young men," said Moy.
have decided to go East to finish their
education. as Stanford University Is
badly damaged. Many students are
here. The business men you see are
en- route TO New York. They have a
little time on their hands now and are
seeing the country Some of them will
locate in New York, some in Boston
The majority will stick to san Fran
cisco. They have property there ana
believe that the city will be better
riace for business than ever.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-06-08
A LITTLE DOG PASSES
SAFELY THROUGH THE FIRE

, During the early hours of Thursday
morning, April 18th. while the flames
W ere licking up everything infiamma-
BILE within the walls of the Hotel St
Francis, little fox terrier remained
locked up III the wine cellar of the
. hoteI. deserted and forgotten by the
attaches of the hotel when they Were
forced at midnight to abandon the
doomed structure. When the beautiful
and costly building on Union square
became a blackened ruin and the con-
fagration was fighting its way toward
, the Western Addition, the little fox
, terrier still lived, unframed though
terror stricken from the fortunes to
which it must have been subjected.
But with the dying out of the flames
that consumed everything within the
four walls of the building save the lit
tie fox terrier, the dogs troubles were
by no means at an end. James Hall.
who had charge of the wine cellars of
the hotel was the owner of the little
animal, and he remembered, while the
hotel was still a Seething furnace, that
tre dog was locked in the cellar.
Though powerless to rescue it, he lost
no time in getting back to the hotel
after the fire to discover the dogs fate.
but ne could not get near the Nlilc
cellar. For days afterward the ruins
were so hot that all thought of prob
ing about in the ruins was out of the
question. Five days later Hall sue
ceeded in getting into the wine cellar
and one of the first things to greet his
startled gaze was the little fox terrier
crouched beneath some machinery. The
heat in the wine cellar must have been
intense, but the little animal had man
aged to escape the flames and came out
of the ordeal unsinged, although near
Iy dead from thirst and hunger.
With tender care Hall nursed the dog
back to good health and spirits, and
not many days after his rescue he was
as cheerful and lively as before the fire.
Now Mrs. James Wood, wife of the
manager of the St. Francis, has be-
come the new owner of the animal The
terrier that lived through the st. Fran
els fire has been rechristened with the
name of Francis, and Mrs. Woods de-
cIares that henceforth he shall be cloth
ed with the dignity Of the hotels mas
cot.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-06-08

Continued from page ID

are some pools left. but before the
wholesalers get through with their
work of Improvement the face of the
landscape viii have been entirely
changed, and the new inhabitants of
this section will find that oIfactory an
noyances have been banished.
An index finger on a sign points the
way to the temporary center of whole
sale trade, New Wholesale District
Three Blocks being the words on this
descriptive board. A walk of three
blocks or more to the car will have
to be endured by the lords of local COM
merce unless the United Railroads car
ries a track nearer TO this spot when
IT becomes busy mart. AS yet there is
not suggestion of a restaurant in the
neighborhood. The men of the whole
sale district were good patrons of the
restaurants at the middle of the day
before the big fire came, and when
the noon whistles blow at the factories
around the temporary wholesale dis
trict signs will go up for lost gastrono-
mic delights. If the restaurants of old
are re-established down town the
wholesalers will be doubly anxious to
get back as soon as possible to their
former quarters.
The construction of the one-story
structures in which they are to be
housed for the next year or two has
not progressed with the rapidity which
was expected. open for business
May 18th was the sign put up by a
firm on a building which is not yet
finished. Scores of carpenters are now
al work and it will be weeks before
their labors are finished, only the
ground timbers of some of the empori-
ums of commerce being in place at
present. Several of the buildings are
to be very large.
Numerous spur tracks have been laid
by the Southern Pacific. and some of
the more extensive stores are so close
~ the r@ils that goods can be trans
ferred direct from the cars to them.
This situation is considered advanta-
geous. The site for their temporary
location was not severed or supplied
with water when the wholesalers took
1T, and proper connections with these
pipes are now being made. In about a
month, probably, business will be in
full swing along the new Front street
and the other avenues on the former
dumps.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-06-08
SOUND CITIES WILL NOT
CAPTURE DESIRED TRADE.

Lendal NJ. Gray, manager of the
Kosmos Steamship Company on this
Coast, has returned from a business
trip to Seattle and brings the Informal
tion that the Puget sound ports have
secured none of the transpacific or ORR
entail traffic that they confidently ex-
pected to acquire in consequence of the
San Francisco disaster.
No foreign trade is going by way
of Seattle yet-absolutely nothing"
declared Manager Gray yesterday
though the people up there expected
much. The fact is that shippers know
the lines running out of San Francisco
are as we'll equipped as ever to handle
all available business, or even better,
with all the attention that is now being
given to the traffic. The Honolulu
trade is really better than ever out of
this port. I think San Francisco will
be found to have reaDed more good
than harm from the recent disaster"
Seattle does not appear to have been
benefited either in trade relations along
the Southern coast, for Mexican and
Central American merchants are tenn
porarily ordering goods from Eastern
coast points. These buyers are all
loyal to San Francisco and will return
to the old channels as soon as they are
advised that wholesalers here are again
ready for business.
In this connection it may be stated
as significant fact, in the opinion of
competent authorities, that San Fran
cisco viii for the next several months
be the best coffee market in the whole
country. In the recent fire an aggre-
gate of 100000 bags of coffee was de-
stroyed. and this viii cause a shortage
in local wholesale circles that will be
hard to fill. Coffee will be shipped
here. and at a good profit, for perhaps
more than year, in preference to any
other large distributing point in the
United States.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-06-08
DEBRIS CAN BE REMOVED
IN BURNED DISTRICT

The insurance adjusters signed an
greement yesterday, which will be
given the public today, by which policy
holders will be permitted TO remove
debris without invalidating their poll
cies This agreement was arrived at
al er a good deal of discussion,
1t was finally decided that a state
,nent should be given out, signed by
the representatives of all the COM
panies, officially promulgating today
action 1t was also decided that policy
holders should be given sixty days
from June 18th in which to file proofs
of loss.
Both of these decisions are of the
greatest Importance to policy holders
and settle two points which have here
tofore occasfoned much argument. I'm
der the first decision property holders
will be able to go ahead with building
operations at once. The agreements
were prepared yesterday and Will be
finally submitted tomorrow to the va
rious companies
The Liverpool and London and Globe
Company is making a specially favor
p bio record in the payment of indlVi-
dual policies Soon after the fire II
secured quarters on Suffer street, west
of Fillmore. where il at once began the
registration of policies. and soon there
a fter installed adjusters in house on
the opposite side of the street By May
18th the adjustment of claims had been
no forms of proof of loss
being required. and on May 18th the
nay1nent of policies was begun at the
eompany's offices in Oakland. Since
that time the Liverpool and London
and Globe Insurance Company mas
made 2S7 adjustments and PAID out
$500 goo in losses. Most of this money
has gone to small policy holders, as
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-06-08
JEWELLERS IN THE PARKS
TO LOSE THEIR VOTES

Matters of great Importance to the
| electors Of San Francisco were passed
! upon by the Board of Election Com
mlssionerS at a meeting held at the
home of Commissioner NoorSanger on
thursday night. Voorsanger is i'll and
confined to his bed, hence the holding
. of the meeting at that place.
The Board has had under advise
ment the question of the residence of
the thousands of electors who were
burned out, and also the right of those
persons occupying tents and other ac-
commodations in the public parks and
squares and on Federal reservations to
exercise the franchise.
Commissioner Thomas V. Gator eX-
pressed the opinion, which was con-
Cured IN by his associates, that per-
sons who have been burned out and
have of necessity abandoned their
homes cannot acquire a legal residence
in public parks, places and squares, as
they are recreation resorts and COM
mon or public ground, the same as a
street.
The law requires, in relation to a
residence in a city, that there shall be
given a street number, floor or other
designation by which it may be readily
ascertained or identified. Unless the
ruonc authorities having in charge the
property of the city authorizes legal
residence to be acquired in the public
parks and devise some means of num-
bering or designating tents and other
habitations no residence can e ac-
quired in the parks under the present
conditions.
Us decision. of the Board is re-
garded of such Importance that Com
missioner Gator was requested to re-
duce it to writing before it is finally
given to the public.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-06-08
WITHDRAWING THE TROOPS
FROM SAN FRANCISCO

The military divisions are a thing of
| the past and the city is no longer an
armed camp.
General Greedy yesterday issued an
order, which is No SO of the series sent
out from headquarters since the Army
came to the assistance of the city in
which he abolishes the military dis
tricts with their headquarters, in diff
ferent parts of the city, and directs that
the troops which have been attached
to the divisions be hereafter placed
directly under their several regimental
officers
This is one Of the steps, General Gree
" explained, in the gradual withdrawal
of the military assistance and the re-
sumption of normal conditions. In fact,
some of the more important steps have
already been taken. The streets in the
residence district are no longer patrolled
at night by the soldiers. and the num-
bers still stationed in the city were
few Consequently this disseminating
of the formal framework of their or
ganization as it was used in the first
few weeks will not be felt
The forces of the National Guard re-
main in the field as formerly. They
are not affected by this order, and con-
ditions in the division which they have
policed will remain as heretofore.
The following is the text of the or
Ger:
"First-The military districts estab-
lished by general orders, No. 25, head
quarters Pacific Division, May s, 1906.
are hereby discontinued
''Second-The department commander
will make such Encouragement of sta
tons of troops as TO permit regiment
al and other commanders to properly
control their organizations, except such
as have been, by orders from these
headquarters, placed under the exclu-
sive control of the division commander
in connection with sanitation and in
camps under military control; also such
troops as are stationed temporarily in
the city of Oakland, Cal.
'Third-Duties in general to remain
as at present, except that patrolling of
streets and kindred work is to be dis
continued.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-06-08

Of the san Francisco disaster and has
just arrived from the East. He said
yesterday that the great faItu Jnal
Eastern people have IN the future of
San Francisco and in the ability OF the
city TO recover quickly from the effects
of the big confagration is encourag ing
and satisfying to those who have the
welfare OF the city at heart.
Around the Waldorf-Astoria and
Astor and other big hotels 1 met and
talked with many people Of prominence
in the business and financial world, .
said McDermott yesterday, and it was
cheering to hear the expressions of con-
hGeIce III san FrancIsco's future well
fare.
Five years from now You will
never know that San Francisco had a
fire. said a prominent New Yorker to
me just before l started West All
kinds of money will flow into San
Francisco to assist in reha bilitating the
city The enterprise and courage of the
people of California is a we'll under
stoou thing. You can't stop San Fran
CISCO
McDermott is here looking for hotel
employees and is making his headquar-
ters with Manager Woods at the st.
Francis. The new hotel which he is to
manage will be opened for business,
he says, on August 18th
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-06-08
THE KILAUEA SLIP.

Yesterday morning saw work started
on the new Kilauea slip by Lord &;
Belser. TIE contractors. The dredger
Governor was busy yesterday excavat-
ing the black sand makai Of the old
D1cffc Mail wharf retaining wall.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-06-08
EASTERN MEN EXPECT
A VERY QUICK REVIVAL

John McDermott. who was chief
clerk Of the Hotel St. Francis from the
date of its opening until few weeks
before the fire. when he resigned 10
assume the management of the new
Hotel Savoy at Seattle. is in town. Nc
Dermott was in New York. gathering
ideas about modern hotels, at the time
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-06-08

they are those who generally insure
in only one company
The Royal and the Queen are also
doing well in the same direction. they
having adjusted over $50 losses and
Paid out 500. eco
The Aetna of Hartford, one of the
Oldest OF American companies. is busy
making good its risks where it is alone
concerned, though, as adjustments and
payments are being made both in this
city and in Oakland. the number and
amount cannot be stated. but the state
ment comes from DR.. Wyndham Lewis,
a dentist, that while he has been paid
his policy by the London Assurance
Company, it was not until it had been
shaved for cash payment
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-06-08
1T WILL ALL BE GOOD
TO BUILD SEA WALL

Henry H. Lynch, consulting engineer
of the Board of Harbor Commissioners,
declared yesterday that practically all
of the material, such as brick, mortar
and other debris that will have to be
removed from the burned district coul'.
be disposed of to the greatest advan-
tage by utilizing it as filling in con-
nection with the building of the sea-
wall extension.
This debris would make the very
best filling for the seawall,'' said En-
gineer Lynch yesterday land if the
seawall We're now in process of con-
struction 1 should say that the debris,
or as much of ie as could be used ad
vantageously, ought to be employed for
this very purpose. Brick, of course
could not be used in the construction
of the seawall proper, which must be
built of heavy stone, but it would
make admirable filling for the space
behind the seawan, which will have to
be built up solidly to the street
grade. Material for filling has cost a
great deal in the past The State now
has an opportunity to obtain an almost
unlimited amount of filing at small
cost. Owing to the fact that Gray
Brothers, who have the contract for
tHe SedWdl1, NAVE IOl
work on the structure as yet, the ma
terial now being removed from the
burned district will have to find lodg-
ment in other dumping grounds. Later
on, however, I should say that much of
the debris could be conveniently dump
ed along the seawall.
$50 far as I can see, there is no i'm
mediate hurry for removing all of the
debris from the burned district. If
property owners intend to erect tenn
porary structures on their property UNI
til such time as they are prepared to
put up more substantial buildings,
there is no need of clearing away all
of the brick from their Easements.
Some owners have simply leveled off
their lots and then put up temporary
structures and this seems to be
rather sensible plan. When they are
ready to put up skyscrapers or other
modern buildings of a permanent char
acter, their lots can be eXcavated just
as they have been in the past. Under
such an arrangement the problem of
cleaning up the burned district would
be greatly simplifed." ;
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