The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-12-06
NEWS CONVERSATIONS
FROM COAST FILES

Madame Calve will give two con-
certs in San Francisco this month.
The British admiralty is importing
fuel oil from Texas in its own tank
steamers.
The Prohibitionists have begun
campaign to put the State of New
York into the dry column.
Captain E. K. Dorm, now on the
retired list of the navy, has been
appointed Governor of Guam, vice
Commander T. NJ. Potts.
The steamer Yucatan recently ar
rived at Seattle with 1000 pounds OF
gold from the Fairbanks region,
Alaska.
New York, obtained $4,000 by forging
bill of lading. When detected he
committed suicide.
President Roosevelt divided the pat
ronage of South Dakota between the
two Senators from that State by
drawing lots for it.
Mrs. Betsey r. ,Braden, aged e
years, one of the Oldest and wealthiest
women in Santa Cruz County, has
married a man of 80.
This has been the banner year for
skyscrapers in New York. Permits for
fifty-one buildings more than ten
stories high have been issued, as
against forty-eight issued last year.
jeremiah f. Oman, chief OF police, of
San Francisco under the Schmitz
regime, now has the rank of corporal
of police and is suspended pending his
f1ia m fov.
The Board of Foreign Missions of
the Presbyterian ChuEch has author
lied a special campaign for a fund of
$4,oO0,0OO to be spent in missions in
Korea, where the field is considered
especially promising.
Right Rev Francis Aidan Gasquet
Abbot, President of the English Benz
edictines, who is in Rome to under
take the revision of the Vulgate, was
insuIted by some anti-clerical roughs.
while he was walking in the street.
The Chicago City Council by unani-
nous vote asked the Chicago Law and
Order League to desist from its war
on Sunday saloons and let the ques-
ton be submitted to vote of the
citizens at the next election.
Governor Moore of Tutuila was to
go on the Annapolis to Tahiti in the
latter part of November to convey
Astronomer Boss of Tutuila and the
astronomers of Lick Observatory to
Flint Island to observe the eclipse OF
the sun in December.
The delegates from the native popu- |
lation of American Samoa have unan- |
imously voted to sell their copra crop
+ h he TT1Sf off
has been customary for several years
past. A vote of confidence in Gov |
ernor Moore was adopted.
The American colony at Page Page |
have adopted a resolution asking that |
DR.. Fauntelroy of the navy may be
retained there until all the people are
we'll" DR.. Fauntelroy has had sue
cessful record in the treatment of trop-
ical diseases.
Aquida, one of the last of the Mis-
sion Indians in California, died at San
Juan Capastrino lately aged 125 years.
The records of the mission show that
she was baptized III years ago, when
she was eight years old, fourteen
years after the building of the mis-
sion.
May Yohe, once Lady Francis Hope.
who passed through Honolulu once or
twice with Captain Putnam Bradlee
Strong is now singing in vaudeville
in San Francisco. She is quoted as
saying she wished she had never seen
Captain Strong and regrets having
left Lord Hope.
Adjutant General Ainsworth in his
report says that the army is 10000
below the authorized strength and thar
the reason is that men can not be-
TO enlist. He says that the
army has to compete everywhere with
private employers and that it wiz
nave to increase the pay given or re-
sort to CONSUMPTION.
Colonel Frank J. Bramhall, author Of
several books on the Civil War, COM
oanion of Admiral Farragut in the
run past the forts on the
writer, railroad man and
native of Albany, ". Y, died recently /
1t the home of his son at Fair Oaks,
dozen miles above Sacramento, aged
o years.
Rear Admiral Caps. Chief of the
Bureau of Construction and Repairs, Il
las devoted the larger part of his
eport to the Secretary of the Navy TO Il
the charges that have been II
made of defects in the construction
f our battlesbips. He declares that II
ur battleships are fully equal TO any II
quail number of ships in any other II
ayv designed during the same period III