The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-04-14
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portance to San Francisco and Cali
fornia, and which will practically
place all the gas, elrctric light and
power companies of Central and North
ern California in one basket, the con-
tents of which will be controlled by
the Standard Oil interests, has recent
ly been consummateu in San Francis
CO and at the East. The deal amounts
to $45, 100000 in the aggregate and one
of it's results is to introduce, in effect,
more than $b,0O0,0O0 of new money in
to the lighting and power enterprises
OF the State.
Croton oil, put in the coffee by jok-
ers at a lodge banquet at TampicO ILL.,,
poisoned one-half the population of the
village who were at the banquet, and
all but one doctor was knocked out,
the others being unable to attend to
calls from those dangerously i'll.
Graham e. Babcock, a prominent
California millionaire who has made
Colorado Springs his home for the last
two years, died at Colorado Springs
April 6, aged 80 years, leaving a wife
and young daughter.
Major Reynolds, Government agent
on the Grow Indian reservation in
Montana, on April g. testified before
the Senate Committee on Indian At
fairs denying the charges made by Mrs
Helen Pierce Grey of ill-treatment OF
the Indians. He produced a large
amount of documentary evidence.
Great excitement prevails in West
ern Arizona over the recent gold anc
copper strikes in the vicinity of Par.
ker, on the Colorado river. Numerous
assays of samples from the Riverside
range, on the California side, run from
5000 to $1,000 in gold. There have also
been many strikes on this side of the
river, which show high-grade assays.
In an opinion by Justice Holmes Of
the Supreme Court of the United States
that Court held that the State of New
Jersey has the right to prohibit the
diversion of the waters of her streams
to another State
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one of four mensinjured in a head-or
automobile collision at FL Paso. He
was badly cut about the head anC
bruised.
An Antwerp dispatch says the crisis
in the diamond industry, which il
largely due to the cessation of the Am
erican demand for the stones, is acute
The decision OF the Diamond Workers
Union to cease work for the month O
April will make it practically impossi
BILE for merchants to unload thei
stocks and meet their liabilities, ant
as result failures are anticipated
Information from Edgeheld, S. c.
says that Senator Benjamin E. Till
man is slowly improving. He expect
ed to enter a private sanatorium las
week. and after a month there prob
ably will go to Europe.
Pickpockets, fiocking to San Fran
cisco in anticipation of the visit of tn
fleet, are already making work for tn
police.
Captain Frederick w. Coles resig
nation from the United States Arm
has been accepted. Beyond the fac
that he says he is leaving to give hi
attention to pressing private business
Captain Cole will not discuss the situa
ton.
The statement of Samuel Gomperi
president of the American Federation
of Labor, that organized labor woul
rather endure the Sherman anti-trus
law as interpreted by the Unite
States Supreme Court in the halter
case than submit to registration, a
proposed by the amendatory bill draft
ed by the National Civic Federatio
and introduced in the House by HeI
burn, was one of the features on Apr
of hearing on that bill before a sui
committee of the House Judiciar
Committee.
A ten-story union passenger an
freight station on the block bounde