The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-05-14

/ japanese immigration to Canada
Q. increasing.
Senator La Toilette of Wisconsin j
for Roosevelt.
New York has been warned that j
may have earthquakes.
Ex-Governor Routt of Colorado ha
been declared insane.
/ The Huntingtons have bought 1905
acres of grazing land near San Diego.
Six postal cars Of steel are being
built in the Union Pacific shops at oma
ha.
Carrie Stevens Walter, prominent
California writer, died recently at San
Jose.
Zion. the town built by the late Alex
ander Dowie, viii be made a summer
resort.
George Allison, a Fresno, Cal, ranch
man, was stricken with blindness on his
way to church.
The Standard Oil is trying to drive
the Union Oil Company Of California
out of the State of Washington.
Mr.. Sellers Largey, a millionaire mine
owner of Butte, sunk 100000 backing
a New York theatrical company.
| Decollete gowns are forbid ter to be
worn by the women managing the
Actors Fund Fair in New York.
One million dollars will be raised for
the defense of the accused officials of
the Western Federation Of Miners.
| james Bartlett Hammond, president
of the typewriter company that bears
his name, has been declared insane.
Claus spreckels viii spend 100000
in repairs on the spreckels Annex build
ing on Market street, in San Francisco.
E. G. Russell, executive agent of the
Grand Trunk Pacific railroad at Veto
ria, B. c., committed suicide by shoot
ing himself.
Harry Schaffner robbed IN shop in
San Francisco where he was formerly |
night Waterman and was sentenced to
three years in prison.
The Rockaway Beach Taxpayers As
ISOLATION has asked the police to forbid
persons to appear on the beach in i'm |
proper bathing suits.
Captain Charles Chandler of the U. s.
Signal Corps, with aeronaut J. c. Nc
Coy, has undertaken balloon trip from !
st. Louis to Washington.
David Wilcox, ex-president of the
Delaware and Hudson railroad, shot |
himself on board a steamer returning |
from Italy. He was in bad health.
The widow of Silent Smith re
ceived but 100000 of his large es-
tate. His sister received $40, 600 |
a contest over the will is expected
A pistol falling from the pocket of
Hilano Hernandez, priest of Pueblo,
Mexico, instantly killed A. Sheora, a
wealthy friend with whom he was rid
ing.
Nevada farmers are fighting govern
ment agents over water rights. They
claim they are being duped and will va
cate their ranches if rates are not low
cred.
FL. E. Harrington denies that there is
any possibility of combination be-
tween himself and Hartman in the
electric railway interests in southern
California.
Katherine Morrison of San Jose was
kept prisoner by an insane brother and
made to pray continually for forty .
eight hours. When rescued she became
unconscious
Fred Reed, miner, slid 1900 feet
down a deelivity on an avalanche, in
Trinity county, California. He was
badly bruised but by some miracle es-
capped serious injury
A panic was averted in the Orpheum
theater at Kansas City by Clifton Cor
dan. An alarm of fire had been given
but he assured the people that there
was no danger and went through with
his act.
Ian Maclaren who died recently at
Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, was stricken on
the train en- route from Minneapolis.
He was carried to the hotel unconscious.
His illness was due to abcess in the ear.
A fierce snow storm swept over Ohio
May 4. In northern Missouri the mer-
curry registered 81 degrees above zero,
the coolest weather ever known in May,
in that locality.
S. I. K Prime, for 25 years a col
leetor of crop statistics, died recently
at the Home for Incurables in Chicago.
Primes Crop Reports were known
to American farmers everywhere.
Albert Ritter yon Mosetig -Moorhof,
a famous Vienese surgeon, who intro
duced the use of iodoform fell into the