The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-12-01
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Governor Gilett. of California, will
deliver the eulogy at the Lodge of
Sorrow" held December 1 by the Oak
land Elks.
The Iron Moulders Union of America
now has 100000 members. Since 1896
it has paid in benefits to its sick MEM
bers s1.597.76
Alfred E. Snyder and Lynn Bowlby,
strike breakers, have been held for the
murder of V. E. Bardeson, a cook in
San Francisco.
The ascent of Twin Peaks. San
Francisco, by an automobile, was
given much prominence in the san
Francisco papers.
A movement for a Greater San
Francisco" the new municipality to
include all the cities and towns around
the bay. has been inaugurated.
The California senate has passed an
act extending the time within which
taxes may be paid for sixty days.
This act is to help out the present
financial situation.
The National Prohibition party viii
hold its convention to nominate cam
didates for President and Vice Presi-
dent of the United States. in Column
bus. Ohio, the first week in June, 1908.
The Panama Canal Commission has
asked bids to supply 100000 feet of
Douglas fir or Oregon pine to be used
in canal construction. This is said to
be the largest single order for lumber
ever given on the Pacific Coast
The American Federation of Labor,
in convention at Norfolk, has decided,
that lin view of the organization of
Employers Associations throughout
the country, it is recommended that
no employers of labor be admitted to
membership in the federation"
Morgan and Guggenheim have Sc
cured the control of the Alaska Steam
ship Company and will operate a fleet
of eighteen steamships to coast points
from Seattle and Tacoma in OPPOSE
ton to the Pacific Coast steamship
line controlled by Senator Perkins.
Commercial communication between
San Francisco and Los Angeles has
been brought almost to a standstill as
a result of the determination of the
Los Angeles banks to meet their San
Francisco obligations in Los Angeles
clearing house funds only.
The Harbor Commissioners have es-
tablished deadline outside the Ferry
building in San Francisco, outside of
which all baggage solicitors, newsboys,
peddlers of all kinds, waiting automo-
biles. and other distractions must
stand. The deadline is the result of
numerous complaints from the travel
ing public.
A. r. Exley in Tacoma bought
s1,25a.0a0 of the stock of the United
Wireless Telegraph company, paying
one dollar and giving his note for the
balance due in ninety days. The stock |
was transferred to his name. He was
shortly afterwards declared insane, and |
this immense block of the company's |
stock is tied up.
c. W. Miley of Continental. Ohio, |
was recently converted at revival, |
and has since made restitution for a |
number of wrongs he did before he |
was converted. Among other things he |
sent w. H. Long of Cloverdale, Cali |
fornia twenty-five cents for a huSk- /
ing peg he stole from Long many
years ago in Ohio.
Judge Shortal of San Francisco has
declared that now that conditions are I
normal every employee of the United t
Railways found carrying concealed /
weapon will be dealt with severely. He
said he had dealt leniently with such |
cases during the troublous period of
the strike, but there was now no fur
Their occasion for il.
There seems to be an effort to get |
Governor Gillett of California to call
another extra session on the ground |
that there is legislation needed which /
is not embraced in the call for the
present session. The Governor says
the call is broad enough to include all
another extra session.
Eighteen members of the House
Committee on Appropriations have
Just returned from an inspection of
the Panama Canal Chairman Tawney
says that everything is all right, but
that he thinks the appropriation
granted for the coming year will be at
least million dollars less than the
thirty-two millions asked for.
4 japanese tracked his faithless wife
and her paramour for six months from
Seattle through many places to Fresno.
and killed him there by shooting him
and then escaped. The paramour had
tried TO square the outraged husband
by sending him gifts of money aggre-
eating $500 in all. These were accept
ed by the husband. who used them 10
help him in his search.