The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-02-13
LOCAL BREVITIES.

J. w. kutZ Of kekaha arrived on
the Mongolia.
Mrs. Allan Herbert is convalescing
from an injury to her wrist.
The Hawaiian Hotel gave a hop last
evening in honor OF its guests.
Bishop and Mrs. Hamilton will leave
for the Coast on the Manchuria.
Architect F w. Beardslee returned
from the Coast on the Mongolia.
Lincoln's birthday was recognized in
city public schools yesterday with ap-
propriate exercises.
Bishop Hamilton's lecture on Mis-
chief in Mexico" will be given tonight
a Odd Fellows Hall.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Hopkins have
announced the marriage of their
daughter Ellen to Mr.. c. a. Vickery.
Mrs. D. Howard Hitchcock has an
nounced the marriage of Mrs Laura
Dickson Mott and Mr.. George Sherman
on January 1G.
Jacob Gargus, the Austrian who was
badly injured in the Kakaako railroad
accident, is still in a very precar1ous
condition. His recovery is doubtful.
Attorney General Peters is preparing
a case against Benson, Smith & Co.
to test the law requiring corporations
to file annual exhibits of their affairs.
Damien Council, Y. NJ. l., will give
a literary and musical entertainment,
followed by a ball, the evening of
Washington's birthday, at San An
tonic Hall.
Jas. F. Morgan yesterday sold a
Oh LOT 0y1D tn
Marie Olsen for 1925. The Jones tract
on private terms.
VIM. K. Makakoa, a graduate of Ka-
mehameha School for Boys, has been
appointed as lecturer on Hawaii in the
public schools of New York City So
he informs the Governor by letter.
There will be a meeting of the Ka-
pahu1u Improvement Club tomorrow
evening in J. j. Egan's office, Fort
street, by order of the president. All
members are requested to be present.
The forty-third anniversary of the
order of the Knights of Pyth1as, whica
will fall on Monday next, is to be sig
nalized in the Pythian lodges OF Ho-
nolulu by the initiation of seventy or
eighty new members.
Word has been received that Secret
Service Agent Hazen and United States
Marshal Shine, called as witnesses be-
fore the Federal grand jury in the
transport Sherman counterfeiting case,
will be here on the China.
Frank Andrade, chairman of the
committee on pau riders, is making
to procure a herd of
thirty horses from the country for the
pau riding section of the floral parade
on Washington's birthday.
The Teachers Association will meet
at the High School on Friday evening
next at eight o'clock. The meeting
will be given over to a discussion OF
the best methods of teaching physical
geography led by Mr.. Sprague.
Henry Wears, secretary of the Hilo
Board of Trade, came here to con-
suit with r. w. Single of the Henry
Warehouse Trust Co about the ship
ient of bananas and other develop
lau today for home
Eleven minute guns were fired and
he flag placed at halfmast yesterday
1t the naval station, out of respect /
o the memory of Commodore William
Penn Mccain. who died at New
rochelle Hill, New York, January Is. ,
The dead officer was veteran of the :
Evil War.
Supt. c. S. Holloway of the Public |
Works Department says the damage |
" the explosion at the Beretania
jumping station will rot exceed $50 or
10 ard may be repaired in two or
hree days. He has no doubt the ac-
ident was caused by gas from the oil,
ct holds it no reason for condemn
ng the use of oil as fuel.
Secretary Wood of the Hawaii Pro-
notion Committee has the promise OF
ne plates in the Fishery Commits
ions report, illustrating the beaut;-
lilly colored fishes of Hawaiian
'aters. He thinks that the pictures
18th description of the aquarium and
erhaps something about local fisher
IS, would be an attractive exhibit for
lainland hotels.
Mrs. Maude Robinson King, widow of
Millionaire James c. King of Chicago,
no died several months ago, will
'hteSt the Will by which she was {
IT mere pittance of S100 900. The
lngs visited Honolulu little over a /
ear ago and We're guests at the Young 1
otel Mr. King was an elderly man {
Id ms Wife was young and quite I
'etty. Mrs. King is now in Cuba.
Inc grand jury took another fall out
the che-fa gamblers yesterday. .
eeplnS Amin cooling his heels and his :
'nsee coat in the corridor all day +
ng-and then failing to call him in. +
aEbe he will have his cnance today. l,
is expected that the grand jury viii 8
I'VE several indictments before the r
'se of the week, and perhaps Amin a
ay not find himself sighted when O
e prizes are given out But nobody h
lows llif .