The Hawaiian gazette., 1907-05-07
WORLDS NEWS FROM
LATEST COAST FILES

General Funston's return to Sar
Francisco is very acceptable to people
there.
In an epidemic of spinal meningitis
at Sacramento many deaths have oc-
Cured.
The proposition Of a standing army
of 21.0O0 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 Of Abe
Ruef implicate him in traffic in Chi
nese girl slaves.
The central trades and LABOR union
OF st. Louis declare themselves satis-
fed with Roosevelt.
Germany has declared her intention
to keep her army in a state Of imme-
diate readiness for war.
President Roosevelt has asked the
resignation of Herbert j. Hagerman,
Governor of New Mexico.
H. X. 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 were 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 $1,000,000 to sup
port primary schools for southern ne
groes.
A party of expert mining men were
lost in Death Valley recently and when
rescued had been two days without
food or water.
Ethyl Hergaton, brutally assaulted
and beaten by San Francisco motor
man, has identified her assailant and
he will be tried.
Four men attempted to burn rail-
road bridge in Indiana for purposes of
robbery. One was fatally wounded
while resisting arrest.
Prince Eitel Frederick, a younger son
of the Emperor, was thrown from his
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 s105.00O a 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
ceed 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
murderers of Governor Steunenberg of
Idaho.
1t is reported that Howard Gould
will apply for divorce from his wife,
formerly Katherine Clemmons, an act
ress from whom he has been separated
for some time.
Clarence Mackay and 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 member of the association of
international conciliation, 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.
The Attorney General of Kansas has
secured an injunction against wine
brewing companies to 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 writ OF supersedeas.
He begged the warden to allow him TO
return and his wish was granted by
the courts.
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MEXICAN LAUNCHED.