The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-05-24
NEWS NOTES FROM
LATE COAST FILES
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Il Taft says that the government shout,
| have IFS own cable to Panama.
I Aluminium scabbards are to be gener
: ally adopted in the United States army
The new protected cruiser ST Louis
built at Rockland, Me, made p. 81
knots her trial trip.
Salinas, California, has been visitet
by an electric storm, an almost unhearC
of phenomenon in that region.
Wells, Fargo & Co. has denied TIL,
charge that it made profit from sending
relief supplies to San Francisco.
The ariny at Manila is preparing fol
extensive field movements against the
dissatisfied natives in Northern Luzon
Clara Rockers. of Richmond, Indiana
ate OF spinach and strawberry short
cake and died OF potomaine poisoning
The Navy Department has given
Pacific Coast concerns four per cent
differentiai in the construction of war
ships.
The Princess Chimay, whose latest
eccentricity is an Italian husband, says
that she wants her Gypsy Rigo back
again.
! 1t is said that DR.. R. P. johnson, pas
tor of the Fifth Avenue Baptist church
in New York, will not succeed the late
DIR. Harper as head of the Chicago
University.
The Western Pacific has purchased
100 acres of land from the Mormons
in Salt Lake City for terminal pur-
poses. This is the Gould line to San
Francisco.
The Tauru river in Tahiti, has been
damned by landslide and the people
of one of the most fertile island val
1eys are in fear of flood.
Prof. Thomas Augustus Jaggar, Jr..
of Harvard, thinks that a more careful
study of volcanoes would save number
less human lives.
1t is said that Charles t. Elliott of
Stanislaus county, viii succeed John III.
Shine as United States Marshal for the
Northern District of California.
Drs. Grenfel and Hart, who searched
the ruins of Oxyrhyncus, have found
fragment of a supposed lost gospel
in which Jesus denounces some Phar-
isees for mere outward publication.
The Presbyterian Board of Foreign
Missions has forbidden its missiona-
ries in China to interfere with the
processes of Chinese civil courts. The
action was taken at the request of the
Chinese Vice Consul in New York
A captain of the Marine Corps, FL.
T. Barss ordered the band to play rag
time at. the funeral of private drown
ed in the discharge of his duty at
Olongapo, Philippine Islands, and was
almost mopbed by his command for it.
The matter has been reported to the
navy department.
The New York Mail charges that
there is a conspiracy among Senators
of both parties to discredit the Presi-
dent.
At the first meeting of the Trustees
of Stanford after the big earthquake,
We're made for the i'm
reconstruction of the quad
rangle, the chemistry building, and
Encina and Robe halls. The debris
has already been cleared away.
The explosion of four magazines be- |
longing to the Union Metallic Cartridge
Company at Bridgeport, Connecticut, |
the other day made the people of the |
town think that the earthquake bad |
got them.
The British troops in Zululand are |
making effective use of searchlights in |
cowing the natives.
Frank Rockefeller says that his faith |
err lives on North Dakota ranch and /
is well cared for. Frank is a brother
of John D.
Regular troops will be withdrawn
from San Francisco on June 1st, and |
relief work will be handed over to the
Red Cross.
The United States Supreme Court has
decided that the city of Los Angeles |
owns the water of the Los Angeles
river.
Mrs. Frank Carolan of San Francisco |
was in a French railway wreck, but
was not seriously hurt.
The Earl of Wemyss urges that army
service in Great Britain be made COM
pulsory
The clause against the issuance of
passes was embodied in the railway
rate bill before it's final passage by
the Senate.
The Pennsylvania railroad ferry boat
Baltimore was damned by a big lighter
and sunk in the Hudson river on May
l6. The three hundred passengers
aboard We're thrown into a panic, but
none of them was hurt
Eki Hioka, former attache of the
Japanese legation in Washington, says
the United States will soon be firsti
in the race of mankind.
Don Emanuel Contravas Y. Cooke, for
1
Consular service, has been detained at
Ellis Island as pauper, and will be
deported.
The Iron Trade Review says that de-
mands for structural steel for San
Francisco have not yet reached the
mills.
A big gray rat went through the San
Francisco fire and was found in a cage
in basement in Chinatown. 1t es-
capped from it's rescuers, who had In
tended to preserve it.
hin known as Mount Detuia, in the
province of Abra, Luzon, sank bodily
into the earth on May 8, and a lake ap-
peared in it's place. Fears are enter
tanned for the lives of the natives who
lived on the sides of the mountain
The city council of Topeka, Kansas,
has decided not to permit a circus per-
formance on Decoration Day.
Brigadier- General John c. TiddalI
retired. who was the first Governor of |
Alaska, is dead.