The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-03-29
LATE NEWS NOTES
From Coast Files.


! because of the existence of infectious
disease among the horses
Rev. Madison c. Peters of New
York has created CONSERVATION among
his parishioners by his sermon against
the cocktail habit among women.
Young Elliot F. Shepard will be per-
United by the French authorities 10
| escape with a fine for running over and
| killing a young girl with his auto.
A warrant has been issued for Walter
Scott, the Death Valley spectacular
miner. upon a charge of shooting at
| men who went to look at his mine.
Bellamy Storer resigned the post OF
| Minister to Austro- Hungary because
| President Roosevelt refused his request
to be transferred to some other post.
Adelina Patti has had a young wo-
man instructing her how to sing as
well at S. as in her youth and so
another farewell tour may be antic-
| ipated.
An application has been made to the
City Council of Eureka, California, for
Ct franchise for d railway which it is
said is to run from Humboldt bay to
Wyoming.
number of efforts, none of them
SO far successful, have lately been
made to wreck suburban electric cars
in San Francisco by placing ties across
their tracks.
Colonel Dennis Geary, who passed
through Honolulu in command of the
California Heavy Artillery with the
first military expedition to Manila in
1898, is dead.
aThe Eureka, California, Times called
Evangelist Bu1gin liar for rejecting
on the chastity of the women of Eu-
reka, and the preacher has sued the
paper for libel
The company controlling the San
f. $50 ST., ct car system has plan
to tunnel California street hill and
reach the Western Addition without
climbing Mob hill.
The labor union men of Chicago will
boycott the City Directory Company
by having their names kept out of the
book. Two hundred thousand are said
to be in the movement.
The Spanish ministers have placed
their designations in the hands of the
king, compelling him to postpone his
intended trip to the Canary Islands
until the crisis is over.
The twenty-year- daughter of
Bishop Tyler of the Peoples United
found in opium den at Spokane.
The girl is common vagrant
John Armstrong Chanler has sued
Town Topics for $4,000 for libel be-
cause the paper made improper
charges against his former wife,
Anele Rives Chanler-Troubetskoi
NJ. George Bakhmeteff, the new Rus
sian Ambassador TO Japan, raised a
row in San Francisco because neither
the ST. Francis nor the Palace Hotel
would give rooms to his wife's dogs.
Leonora Cunning of Santa Rosa, CAL
ifornia, has brought suit for divorce
from her husband Alfred Cunning, on
statutory grounds, after having been
married to him for seventy-five years.
Uncle Sans contingent fund Tor
diplomatic service is exhausted, and as
Congress has failed to make an appro-
priation all diplomatic and consular Of
ficers have been notified to make no
more drafts.
United States Circuit Judge Morrow
has decided that the Southern Pacific
owns the entire Oakland waterfront |
thereby shutting out the Gould West |
ern Pacific. The case will go to the |
United States Supreme Court.
Senator Flint has reported from the |
Pacific Islands Committee the bill |
providing for filling in a portion of the |
Honolulu Naval Station site, known Is |
1.-The Reef with material dredged from |
the harbor at a cost of $4,000.
Standard Oil Magnates Henry H. |
Rogers and James d. Archbold, lately
visited the White House to present i
their side of the trust business to the |
President and to deny that Rookie |
Teller is the manager of the concern. |
DR.. Parkhurst says that the Presi- |
dents telegram to General Wood fol- |
lowing the slaughter of the Moros was |
the act of pagan. Woods act, says
Parkhurst, was no more a brilliant |
feat in arms than smoking rat out
of a hole would be.
Miss Halle links, nurse in the Ari-
IONA Insane Asylum. has been arrested |
on a charge of numbering a patient.
The lunatic would not keep quiet, and
the nurse compelled silence by holding
a handkerchief saturated with turpen-
tine to the unfortunate's nose.
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