The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-06-12
TELEGRAPH BRIEFS.

| The Spanish royal wedding is esti
! mated to have cost ten million dollars
/ Six transatlantic liners sailing from
| New York on June ? went out with
every berth on board taken.
! The Yukon and K1ondike rivers are
| in high flood and reports from Dawson
and other Yukon towns are serious.
Insurance companies are severely
criticized editorially by the San Fran
cisco Chronicle, which charges then
with disreDutable tactics.
Eighty-one of the III insurance COM
panies affected in California have
agreed to an extension of the time il
" Mich policyholders can file proofs OF
loss.
The captain and boatswain of the
British bark Morven have been ar
rested at Port Townsend for the muir
der of sailors boarding house
runner.
Plans have been prepared for a
twelve-story building on the northeast
corner of Bush and Kearney streets.
San Francisco, the site of the original
Chronicle building. The cost will be
$3.50, 900.
came to two convicts in the Wyoming
penitentiary last week. The poisonous
liquid was obtained from the broom
factory.
The largest electrical plant in the
west is to be built at Buckley, Wash,
near Tacoma. where $4,000 horse power
will be developed for an electric rail-
road system Power will be obtained
from White river.
The American Biscuit Co. will at
once begin the construction IN San
Francisco of one of the largest and
best cracker factories in the United
States, which will give employment to
nearly 1000 persons.
The trial of Meyer. Haywood and
Pettibone, the w. F. of NJ. officials
charged with the murder of eX-Gov-
ernor Steunenburg of Idaho, has been
deferred pending the Supreme Court
decision on the habeas corpus proceed
ings.
In certain parts of the burned bust
ness district of San Francisco higher
rental is demanded for land than was
obtained for the buildings thereon pre-
vious to the confiagration, and in some
locations realty is held even higher
than before the fire.
An attempt TO xii State Senator
Simpson of Alameda has been made by
Miss Isabel Davis, the StenOgrapher
who accuses Simpson Of wronging her
under promise of marriage. One shot
was fired at him by the girl, who was
seized and disarmed. The shooting oc-
| Cured in the city hall at Alameda.
| On board the Cedric. sailing from
| New York on June 2, was Commander
| Nakagaw of the Japanese Naval Con
| struction Bureau. who has been study
| ing the iron and steel industry in this
| country. He said his Government was
to establish a great plant at Toxic tc
| turn out material for building war YES
| sells and steel rails for railroads If
| Manchuria and Korea.
| The German Butchers Association
| has sent a strong petition to Chan
| cellor Won Buelow and Minister Of
! Agriculture Won Poddbieisk agains1
| any treaty arrangement with the
| United States permitting increased i'm
| ports of meats. 1t AYERS that the di-
rectors of the association had learned
| that the great slaughtering companie:
! in the United States. in order TO ex.
| pand their sales abroad, intended Il
| seek a relaxation of the German SAM
| prospective commercial treaty negoti
| atoms between Germany and the Unit.
| ed States.