The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-06-29

Alum Rock park must be abolished.
Attempting to rescue Antoine Meyer
: from Lake Samarnish, Washington, hi
r naother, sister and aunt were drowned
= a Chicago physician was paid fe
- of $4,000 for the prescription "Sto
, smoking" he gave to a wealthy pa
= tient.
The city Of Hamburg, Germany, ha
voted s14,375, 600 for the extension o
Il that port and the development Of thu
e harbor.
+ The American Federation of Must
clans, at Washington, viii probably
expel Sehmitz, vino is an honorary
; member.
The first National Bank of Fairbanks
7 has shipped to Seattle during June q
> total of s473,500 worth of gold dust by
registered mail.
F. Augustus Heinze the mining wiz
ard of Montana, is said to be effecting
, a great combination of rich Utah min
ing properties.
A strong organization among manu-
facturers and employers to fight for
the open shop is reported from many
places on the mainland.
General Funston has issued orders to
post commanders instructing them to
take severe measures to put a stop to
the traffic in army uniforms.
John F. stevens, formerly chief en-
gineer of the Panama Canal, is said to
have been appointed general manager
Of the Northern Pacific system.
Mrs Besant, who has arrived in Lon
don from india to assume the leader
ship of the Theosophists, denies that
| there IS any spit IL their ranks.
| A two and a quarter million dollar
bond issue by the city of Seattle to
| extend its water supply has all been
taken up by the banks of that city.
The Burlington road has put boxes
in all observation ears into which pa
irons of the road are invited to put any
complaints they may have of the ser
vice.
Cudworth, the member of the Mayor
Schmitz jury who was arrested imme
diately after the verdict for threaten
ing the life of his wife, has been dis
charged.
A mutiny of the seamen of the Rus
STA Black Sea fleet was frustrated by
the suspicious of the admiral in COM
mand, who had all the big guns dis
mantled.
Peter Updegroye, a street car con-
ductor in Chicago, was found out to be |
a bigamist because both of his wives /
happened to board his car at about the |
same time.
Father Grisar, a Jesuit and a noted |
archaeologist, has been secretly en-
gagged in a search of St. Peters tomb
in Rome to ascertain if the Apostles
body is really there.
Mrs. Sarah L. E. Read was given a
verdict for $101, 7S9 in the Supreme Il
Court of New York against the New
York Central Railroad for causing the
death of her husband. Il
Railroad statisticians now claim that d
the enforcement of the two cent a mile
passenger rate, passed in SO many
States during the last winter, will Sc
riousIy affect railway earnings.
Isidor Wormser the well known New
York banker is not expected to live.
He and his brother Simon came to
California from Bavaria as young men
and made money. They went to New
York in 1870.
The Vanderbilts are said to have
made a coup by which they have Sc
cured the control of both the inner
and the outer belt roads in Chicago,
giving them the control of ninety per
cent of the traffic originating in that
city.
Nat Goodwin, the actor, Is to build
/ large hotel at. Santa Monica. Some
lime ago he announced that he would
go into the Nevada gold fields and
make his fortune where he could
commune with men with the bark
1n.''
Because he became embroiled in the
quarrel between Nicaragua and Sal
Iador, the usefulness of John Jenkins,
United States Consul at San Salvador
las been impaired, and Samuel E. Ma
gill, Consul at Tampico, Mexico, has
been sent to replace him.
Miss Elizabeth Burton, school,
teacher who resides in Terre Haute, In
diana, is preparing to go to Toxic to
marry Hero Ichinomiya, who is now
connected with the Japanese official
service, whom she met while both were
students at the Indiana University
Thomas B. Dawson, the first owner
IF Harper's Ferry, which was the scene
IF many stirring events just before and
during the war of the rebellion. has
Just died at Long Beach, California,
It the age of 101 years. He is said |
1ever to have had a sick day in his
ife. q
detective Sergeant Harry G. Rey-
lolds of the San Francisco police force
las resigned on account OF i'll health. / =
he has been connected with the de-
'artment for twenty-five years. He
vas in Honolulu something over two
ears ago to investigate the cause of
drs Stanford's death.
The ferryboats Cazadero and Dona-
Tue collided in a heavy fog on san
francisco Bay on the evening of June
3. The passengers of the Donahue
we're transferred to the Cauadero and
zone were lost. Two were injured
lightly. The Donahue was towed to
he Lombard street wharf in a sinking
condition.
Because of rate legislation in many
tates, many of the railroads have de-
Jared their intention of refraining
rom further extensions of track. Elec-
re railroads, however, are in MANY !
Instances preparing to make extern
ions to meet the needs of growing !
fade In Texas, especially, the devel-
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