The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-05-07
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General Funston's return to San
Francisco is very acceptable to people
there.
In an epidemic of spinal meningitis
at Sacramento many deaths have oc-
Cured.
The proposition of standing army
of $1,000 is opposed by many Cuban
patriots.
The pictures by five American ar
lists were accepted for the Paris Salon
this spring.
Recent revelations in The trial CT Abe
Ruef implicate him in traffic in Chi
nese girl slaves.
| The central trades and labor union
| of ST. Louis declare themselves salts
fed with Roosevelt.
Germany has declared her intention
to keep her army in state of imme-
date readiness for war.
President Roosevelt has asked the
resignation of Herbert J. Hagerman,
Fl. K. Clever was arrested in San
Francisco for impersonating an officer
of the United States navy.
People driven from their homes by
floods in Oklahoma City spent hours in
the treetops, but We're finally rescued.
Senator Depew was entertained at
Delmonico's on his seventy-third birth
day by the Woman's Republican Club
of New York.
Mrs. Ana T. Jeanes, a Philadelphia
Quakeress, has given 81, 100000 to SIP
port primary schools for southern = !,
groes. ST. f3D
A party of expert mining men were
lost in Death Valley recently and when
rescued had been two days without
food or water. 10
Ethyl Hergaton, brutality assaulted
and beaten by a san. Francisco motor
man, has identified her assalant and
he will be tried.
Four men attempted to burn a rail-
road bridge in Indiana for purposes OF
robbery One was fatally wounded
while resisting arrest. - IsGt
Prince Eitel Frederick, a younger Son
horse at recent review near Potsdam,
and was badly injured.
Bad rails, with latent flaws, are re-
sponsible for many of the disastrous
railroad wrecks that have occurred in
the United States this year.
The Palace Hotel Company in San
Francisco has leased the new Fair |
mount hotel for ten years at an an
nual rental of 100000 year.
If the ironworkers' strike in San
Francisco continues, the warships Da-
kota and California will be finished by
the government at Mare Island.
Representative Burton hopes to sue
coed Senator Foraker in the Senate, |
and has the support of Secretary Taft
whose Presidential boom he will as
sist
President Roosevelt declares that the
Miners Union is trying to influence
the course of justice in shielding the
murd arers of Governor Steunenberg of
Idaho.
1t is reported that Howard Gould
will apply for a divorce from his wife, |
formerly Katherine Clemmons, an act
ress, from whom he has been separated |
for some time.
Clarence Mackay and a party of
Eastern capitalists have been making |
a tour of the west in the interests of |
the Postal Telegraph Company. I'm |
portant extensions are being planned. |
Mrs Mary Baker Eddy has been ap- |
pointed a member of the association of |
interna tional Cancellation, to serve with |
Andrew Carnegie, Seth Low, Nicholas
Murray Butler and other eminent |
Americans.
The fight between Mayor Mcclellan |
and Tammany ended in compromise, |
the Mayor agreeing to recognize the |
organization which will put forward |
only efficient men for appointment.
A constitutional amendment has been !
adopted by the Society of Native Sons |
of the Golden West, which provides |
for the expulsion of Ruef and his fell |
low grafters. There was but one dis
senting vote.
secured an injunction against wine |
brewing companies 20 prevent their |
owning property and operating saloons. |
1t is considered the most effective pro-
hibition measure ever undertaken.
Louis A Gourdain, convicted of |
using the mails to defraud, and sem
fenced to prison, served four days and |
was released on a writ of supersedeas. |
He begged the warden to allow him to !
the courts.