The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-09

Governor Sparks of Nevada is in !
very serious condition due to an al,
tack OF paralysis.
Safe-crackers and thieves are max.
ing things uncomfortable for the police
in Carson and Reno, Nevada.
The Senate has passed a bin ap-
propriating $500 goo for a new sub.
treasury building in san Francisco.
Eiectus Serbs of Lompoc, California
has decided his $4,000 estate to the
Children's Home Society of California
Robbers stole $4,000 from the Wells
Fargo Express car on the Mexican
Railroad. There is no clue to the rob-
berry.
The Los Angeles Evening News ha,
suspended publication owing TO finan-
cial troubles extending from last oc-
tober.
Patrick Calhouns much-discussed
$4,000 donation to the San Francisco
fleet reception committee has at last
been made.
Bob Fitzsimmons. the one-time
prizefighter, has arrived in San Fran.
cisco with his wife to fulfil a the
atrical engagement.
The Republican State Central Com
mittee of Oregon has unanimously in.
dorsed the candidacy of Secretary
Taft for the presidency.
The Pacific Coast steamer Cottage
City. on a recent trip to Alaska, rar
on top of rock, then slid off, righted
herself, and was not badly damaged
Vice President Branner of Stanford
University has returned to Palo Alto
f.fter years absence, spent in Brazil
in geological surveys and research
work
For shooting a Hindu near Oregon
City last October, J. M. Dickinson and
his son, William. of Portland. were
sentenced to life terms in the State
penitentiary.
II. A. Landwehr. president of the
Seal and Gold Mining Company OF
Los Angeles, has been arrested
charged with the embezzlement OF
s2113 in bullion.
Captain Amos Brown OF Seattle was
found dead in bed and his wife was
found lying beside him totally insane.
1t is said the shock of finding her hus-
band dead when she awoke In the
morning made her lose her mind.
The libel case of former Police Com
missioner Thomas Reagan of San
Francisco against the San Francisco
News Company, for 100000, has been
decided in favor of the defendants.
Patrick Calhoun, indicted president
of the United Railroads of San Fran
cisco, was forced to become a witness
in the Ford trial, though his attor-
neys fought to keep him off the
stand
Senator Leavitt at Sacramento
caused a sensation by his scoring of
California banks and their methods.
He says that conditions are such that
regulations.
Detectives declare they have dis
covered the identity and hidingplace
of the thief who looted the Lundy
jewelry store in San Francisco ne
Gently. and who got away with $780,
900 worth of jewelry.
Sailors at Santa Barbara hauled
down the American flags over an ex-
orbitant clearinghouse and then wreck
ed the restaurant with clubs and
stones. The proprietor charged two
sailors Sc for two beefsteaks and veg
etables.
John Treadwell, private in the
Seventeen Coast Artillery. located at
the Preside, has been discharged, as
it is said he was trying to learn the
secret formula for some of the gov
eminent explosives. He speaks Jap
anese fiuently.
A mob of young toughs has. within
the last few weeks, attacked and in
jured japanese residents near Napa,
section of the country intend to bring
the matter to the attention of their
home government.
Henry Jones, whose estate has been
in charge of the public administrator
of Yreka, California, as Jones was
supposed to be dead, put in his APP
pearance and claimed the estate. His
wife filed afffdavits some time ago
saying that he had been murdered.
An automobile crashed into dog
cart near San Rafael. California. on
recent evening, ruined the cart and
smashed the machine and injured the
driver, Frank Wheland.
and seriously injured the occupants of
the cart, Assemblyman Edward I. But
Ter of San Rafael and Frank Haswell
of San Anselmo.
Governor Gillett of California has
stated that he will not declare any
holidays when the feet arrives. 1t is
said that he is angry because he was
not approached in the right way, but
that people went ahead preparing for
a holiday leaving it for him to an
nounce it without being petitioned.
o. P. Widaman. prominent Los An
geIes attorney, and A. r. Sanger, are
under arrest for attempting to kill DIR.
F. NJ. Bell, a wealthy Los Angeles
clubman. 1t is said that the two lock-
ed the doctor in room at the Hollen-
beck Hotel and endeavored 10 make
him sign away property worth 100000.
The University of California defeat
I'd Stanford in the third baseball game
IF the series by a score of 2 to /, there
by gaining the championship for the
year with two games won out of three.
It was a twelve-inning game and the
iercest ever played between the two
colleges. All three games this season
we're 2 to / scores.
David Starr Jordan has informed
President Roosevelt that in his opinion
Great Britain is in the mood to sign
In International agreement TO protect
he seal herds in North Pacific waters