The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-02-03
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an uprising
The recent mutiny at vladivostok
was serious.
The siberian Ry. has resumed
full operations.
Emma .calse scored a great SUCCESS
in San FRANCISCO.
A Jewish league IS to be organized
at San Francisco.
Arizona was shaken by an earth
quake on Jan. p.
Hearst has scored the statehood
measure as unjust.
Not a woman or child was saved
from the wreck of the Valencia.
San Francisco entertained big del
egation of Chicago business men.
Thos. Hardy, who built the Hunter s
Point Drydock. died at Angeles, Cal.
The State Bank Commissioners have
closed up the Bank of San Luis Obispo.
An unusually large flight of robins
was observed recently at Marysville,
Cal.
: The City Council committee of Chi
cago is expected to declare for cheaper
gas.
) S J. Nathan, a former merchant and
pluItrySI VI san toA01ooo, oleN III new
York
American imports and exports To-
1905 approached the $3,000,000,000
mark.
The .'see America First publicity
congress at Salt Lake opened auspi-
ciously.
Chas. L. Currier, prominent in insur-
ance circles in Chicago, died at Los
Angeles.
Gen. W. E. Webb, who gave the name
Of ''Buffalo Bill to Col. Cody, died
in Coronado.
Mayor Wood of Santa Barbara has
Withdrawn his resignation and will con-
tinue in Office
Representative Foster introduced a
bill making sweeping changes in the
exclusion law.
j. j. Miltenberger of st. Louis went
into bankruptcy with S1I1 ,916 of debts,
and $500 in assets.
F.. D. Sherman, who is said to have
paid a bride of $4,000 to Tacoma S
mayor, must stand trial.
President and Mrs Roosevelt issued
invitations on January 20 to the Roose-
velt-Longworth wedding
House of Commons for the City of Lon
don, gave Balfour a seat.
Bunkers' testimony in the Sacra-
mento court favors French, who is on
trial for accepting brides.
One hundred and eighty-five cases of
Egyptian antiquities have been added
to the Berkeley collection.
Philip James, who shot John Lodge
at Sacramento was sentenced to I'M
prisonment in San Quentin.
Thirty miles of track on the North
ern Pacific Ry have been rendered use
less by the storms in Oregon.
Senator McLaurin made an attack on
Secretary Metcalf because of the lat
ter's alleged views on exclusion.
Jasper Jennings of Grant s Pass,
Ore, was convicted and will be exc
cuted His sister escaped conviction.
The Simplon tunnel was opened Jan
uarv 90. The first passenger train
passed through amid artillery salutes.
The tug Pioneer arriving at Port
Townsend, reports having seen another
tug bottom upward off the Washington
coast.
District Attorney Jerome of New
York has not abandoned his plan to
take criminal action in the insurance
cases.
Fresno judge decides that the
grand jury has no right to ask news
paper men where they obtain their in
formation.
Shonts has admitted getting 100000
from the government and $4,000 from
the Glover Leaf Ry., as salaries, at the
same time.
The new fort at San Diego bay has
been named Pho Pico in honor of the
governor Of that name under Mexican
Sovereignty.
Application has been made to build
a breakwater at the mouth of the San
Gabriel river (West Long Beach), Cal,
to cost $1,000,000.
Young Decatur, midshipman at the
Navy Academy, and ,great-grandson of
: Commodore Decatur of 1872 war fame,
has been dismissed for hazing.
4, The National Tube Co. has closed d
contract with the: Union Oil Co. for
fifty miles of piping to be used in
pumping oil across the Isthmus
! Edison, the wizard, wins a suit
against the Goulds after thirty years
of litigation involving $50,000,000. 1t
was all due to telegraph patents.
Chief Constructor Capps, .. S. NJ
saws that work on the naval collieE-On-
tario will cost more at the Mare Island
yard than if built at private yard.
Monongahela district of Pennsylva-
MIA is terrorized by the ''Black Hand
organization and the authorities have
appealed to the state for assistance.
| Burlington passenger train No. q
struck landslide on the Great North:
ern Ry., near Rock Island, Wash, and
was tiitched. The train messenger vas
drowned.
Bishop O'Cenaen of Maine, who
nasSai thrnunh Honolulu reft.ntlX Ell