The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-03-11
NEWS NOTES FROM
THE COAST FILES

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} Jacob Riis is taking the rest cure
in a New York hospital.
The hope of agreement at the AL
geciras conference grows less.
A San Bernardino man drank a gal
lon of wine and never woke W.
General Funston believes there will
be war in China. and wants to go.
The citizens of Bath England have
declined to accept a Carnegie library.
| Congress has retained the grade of
Lieutenant General in the army bill
Snow has been falling in Redlands,
San Bernardino and Cotton, Califor-
MIA.
The Filfpinos are anxious to volun-
! teer for service in the American army
in China.
A ledge rich in gold has been dis
covered by a grave digger in a Reno
| cemetery
| The Insurance inquiry knocked
eighty millions off the business of the
| Equitable.
Five millions have been lost in the
! Wall-street attempt to underwrite a
! ship trust.
| President Jordan wants to censor all
| news that is sent out from Stanford
| University.
In the present year. eleven big ar
| mored vessels have been added to the
| English fleet.
1t is denied that the Dowager Queen
Margherita of Italy will come to the
United States.
The wife OF steel Magnate Corey, of
Pittsburg, has gone to South Dakota
to get a divorce
The charges of graft in the ordi-
nance department at Mare Island have
not been sustained.
The Chinese in the province of Ho-
nan have risen, principally against
the Catholic priests.
The Western Pacific, Gould's rail-
road, is now laying track between San
Francisco and Stockton.
George D. Collins, the San Fran
cisco lawyer of many wives, has been
found guilty of perjury.
Richard Mansfield is to quit the
stage, but denies that his retirement
is due to incurable Illness.
Members of the National Education
al Association have declared for the
phonetic system of spelling.
1t is said that Congress will put
stop to the old practice OF the free
distribution of garden seeds.
Hartman is still trying to depose
Hamilton Fish from the presidency of
the Illinois Central Railroad
The government proposes to hold
steamship companies responsible for
overseas mails lost in transit.
The manager of the Waldorf-Astoria
Hotel has made million clear in
twenty-five years and retired.
The Pope will create several Cardi-
mails during a consistory to be held in
April. There are twelve vacancies.
A ST. Louis trolley car carrying
twelve passengers went adrift in the
snow, and was not dug out for twelve
hours.
The Sultan of Turkey has not yet
given the American schools in his en-
pire the rights to which the treaties
entitle them.
The Car issued the ukase convok- |
ing the National Parliament in direct
antagonism to the wishes of the re-
dictionary party.
All the railroads doing business in
Kansas have agreed to a rate for the
shipment of oil in fiat defiance of the !
law of the state.
The widow of Gunmaker Krupp has
given a quarter of million to charity |
in honor of the Kaiser's silver we'd |
ding anniversary.
Detectives have found a tunnel |
reaching from the residence of John |
D. Rockefeller. in New York, to that |
of his son-fn-law.
Coal has been found at the base of
Twin Peaks. in San Francisco. It is |
Ignite, and is not known yet to exist /!
in paying quantity.
Young Marshall Field has been |
He almost died three years ago as |
a result OF a similar accident.
Boss Martin, Kelly of San Fran |
cisco is to be prosecuted for perjury |
in connection with the trial of the |
alleged boodling Senator French.
Thieves broke into the State Mining |
Bureau of California, in the San !
Francisco ferry building, and stole a |
lot of bogus GEMS exhibited there.
Engineer William Nelson Cromwell |
has absolutely refused to answer a |
question asked him by Senator Nor |
gan in the Panama Canal inDuirv
It has been discovered that Emma |
Goldman, the anarchist, has been in
Chicago under assumed name, and
has been received in the best society |
Somebody threw a Chinese shoe at |
the Dowager Empress while she was |
walking in the palace garden at Pc |
king, which is looked upon as an event |
of ominous character. The shoe |
thrower has not been caught.
The subprefect of Nanchang gave a |
banquet to the missionaries, and aft |
erwards tried to commit suicide. which |
action was seized upon by the Chi |
nese a pretext to attack TIE Chris |
tians. The sub-prefect is a foe to the |
missionaries.
The United Steamship Company, |
which is affiliated with the Union Oil I
Company of California, has been /,
formed to fight Standard Oil in the !
petroleum carrying trade by sea. The
new company has bought the steam !