The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-04-14
LATE NEWS NOTES
From Coast Files.


from the Craftsmanship of the Illinois
Central railroad, which is a distinct
triumph for Stuyvesant Fish
John D. Rockefeller has bought a
handsome place and will make his flu
ture home at Pasadena, Southern Cali
fornia.
The exiled King of Dahomey has
been given permission to return to his
native land by the French govern
ment. He has been living at Mar
Unique
A Los Angeles small boy VINO tried
to snatch a few scraps of metal from
a load of garbage. fell into the gar
bage incinerator and was burned to
death
The House has passed the quaran-
tine bill vesting the control of all
quarantine stations, grounds and an
chorages in the Secretary of the
Treasury.
A petriied oyster has been found
in Mendocino county, California, hum
dreds of feet above sea level. 1t was
uncovered by a slide Of earth in a rail-
way grade.
An absent minded Ohio man left nine
thousand dollars in currency on Lake
Shore train at Ashtabula, and the
money was returned to him by the
next train.
Emperor William of Germany re-
Gently sent a regiment to the town of
Creefeld because the girls of the town
complained that they had no partners
to dance with.
James j. HIS proposes to build
transcontinental road north of the
Canadian border. Five hundred miles
of the new line are already in process
of construction.
Police Commissioner Frank James of
Los Angeles was refused permission
to ride free on local street car, and
has declared war on all local motor
men and conductors.
Mrs. Coils P. Huntington denies the
report that she is to marry H. E.
Huntington, nephew of her late nus
band. who was recently divorced from
his wife in California.
The New York firm of Speyer & Co.
has withdrawn its support from the
Southern Pacific because the members
of the house do not approve of Har-
riman and his methods.
A Los Angeles police magistrate ad-
journed court the other day until the
walls of the court building could be
propped up, being fearful that the
structure would collapse.
Rev. F.. X. Farnsworth of Sebasto-
pol, California, has resigned his pulpit
and viii devote himself to the practice
of the law because he sees no future
for preachers in California.
The San Diego Chamber of COM
merce has issued statement showing
that the Santa ~Fe railroad discrim- |
mates against that city in favor of
Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Mrs. Mary r. Crandall of Los An
ge1es conceived the idea that she own |
ed the Huntington street car system, |
and upon going to take possession !!
was lodged in jail upon charge of |
insanity.
The Typographical Union of New |
York is after the Methodist Book Con
-ern. which is charged with employing |
union printers to set UP whisky adj
vertisements. and a book in defense of
Bernard Shaw
A chunk of beeswax, weighing two
hundred pounds, recently picked up
IN the Oregon coast, proves to have
been part of the cargo of a ship lost
here more than two centuries ago.
The ship was Spanish.
Joseph j Turney. note teller. robbed
he National Bank of North America,
n New York in exactly the same way |
hat his father. occupying a like posi-
ion. robbed the same institution of
f06 600 twenty years ago.
Attorney Thomas Geary of Santa
Rosa. California. father of the Chi
lese exclusion law, lost a valuable
liza T17ond and found it again in the
rop of a prize chicken which his
ook had killed. 4irp his table. So
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