The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-05-31

Frauds by which valuable coal and
timber lands in Colorado have passed
into the hands of capitalists and syn
dicates will be investigated.
1t is said that King Edwards offer to
stand godfather for the heir to the
Spanish throne was declined. Pope Plus
having already been named.
| Colonel Goethals has cabled Secretary
Taft that railroad and steam shovel
men employed at Panama have accepts
ed the wage-scale proposed by him.
| H. Clay Pierce of St. Louis, the oil
magnate. has been taken to Texas to
answer to charges OF perjury and false
swearing in connection with an oil
| trust
A letter to his mother, found in his
| room at the hotel, In which he con-
fessed that he was living on bogus
| checks, led to the arrest of A. NJ. Brun-
| ner in Denver.
Marquis Ito has rebuked Japan for
its selfish policy toward Korea and has
urged the government to further the
interests of other countries, beside
Japan, In that land.
Mrs Houser, wife of Daniel Houser,
publisher of the st. Louis Globe DEM
ocrat, committed suicide by shooting
herself in the temple. She was Ill with
nervous prostration.
The parole of j. j. Murphy, serving
sentence at San Quentin for the murder
of Patrick Ryan eighteen years ago,
liz being opposed by friends and rela-
tives of the murdered man.
The New York Court OF Appeals sus-
tains an attack upon the title of G. 3.
Mcclellan as Mayor of New York in
behalf of william r. Hearst. The
Hearst cause has now won in all
courts.
Max Coster, who claims to be q
lieutenant in the German army. ana
says that he came to the United States
to marry an heiress. has been arrested
In New York for defrauding hotel
keepers. He was arrested at the Hol-
land House.
A dress rehearsal of Nazareth
passion play given by the students or
Santa Clara College, was witnessed by
large audience of nuns from various
converts in California. An orchestra
of twenty pieces and choir of fifty
voices assisted In the presentation of
the play.
The profits of the Anaconda Mining
Co., in Montana. for the year ending
December 81. 1906 were $S,S42,669.
In an address in San Francisco,
Emma Goldman, the anarchist, made a
rabid attack upon religion and the
Bible.
Alice Cooper, the sculptor, who de-
signed the Sacagewea at the Portland
Ore. Exposition, has mysteriously dis
appeared from Chicago
A split has occurred In the ranks of
the Dowieltes-half following Voliva,
the others declaring for John A. Lewis,
appointed by Judge Lewis as Dowie's
successor
Mrs John Love Elliott has obtained
a divorce from her husband. who Is
president of the Consolidated Arizona
Smelling Co. The court awarded the
wife $1,000, 900 alimony.
The pupils of the Ladd school in
Portland, oregon, refused to enter the
schoolhouse because one of the pupils
died Of spinal meningitis which has
been prevalent In that city.
William q. Douglass loan clerk of
the Trust co. Of America, said that
he was advised by "A New York lawyer
to steal 100000 from the company for
which he Is now awaiting sentence.
Captain Herbert Winslow, In com
mand of the Kearsarge. is the son OF
Admiral Winslow, who was In COM
mand OF the old Kearsarge when she
sank the Alabama off the coast of
France.
George Grant Mason has been be-
lueathed sl2,OO0.OO0 by his uncle. ISL
lent" Smith. lie Is division superin-
tendent Of the Chicago, Milwaukee and
~, Paul Railroad and Will stick 10
his business.
The Baltimore, which took part in
The battle of Manila and has been for
some time In the Philippines, Is now at
.he Brooklyn navy yard, She win 60
lut Of commission and be converted
INTO "a mlne-aying vessel,
A stage being driven across Death
valley caught ire from tho drivers
cigarette and vas totally consumed A
PART II IiH rarFn WAS balrt hay, Hank
lpies worth flt|0np and registered lot'
.ers amounting o. $4,000 Were com
sumed
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