The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-02
WORLDS NEWS CONDENSED
FOR HURRIED READERS
PACIFIC COAST AID WESTERN
NEWS.

The Mare Island Navy Yard saved
$4,000 in the repair of the transport
Sheridan.
Admiral Evans hopes to be able to
join the fleet again when 1t reaches
Monterey.
Charles F. Merrill, of the San Fran
cisco firm of Holbrook Merrill and Stet-
son died in New York.
Senator Fulton of Oregon has been
defeated for the Senate by Henry M.
Cake by over 5000 majority.
The list of eligibles to attend the
State banquet at the Paramount Hotel.
to the fleet officers has been cut to
5s4
The San Francisco Women's Santa
ton Committee have demanded an APP
preparation to put the schools in sani-
tary condition.
4 San Francisco is filing up with
crooks, and meanwhile the police seem
to be indifferent and arrests are few
and far between.
A small cyclone in the Yakima VAL
] ley. Washington, picked up. house
and deposited it in the middle of a road
some distance away.
Registration of voters in Alameda
County has exceeded that of former
years at least SO 1-3 per cent. accord
ing to statistics issued.
Congressman Kahn of California has
been accused of favoring gambling by
the Secretary of the International Re-
form Bureau at Washington
Josiah c Thaw, brother of Harry
Thaw, is visiting the Pacific Coast in
a touring car with his wife and fam
lily. He is at present in San Fran
cisco.
r. Harry Smith, a prominent Oak
land broker, is charged with embezzIe-
ment. He disappeared over a week ago
and his whereabouts is unknown to the
police.
The Board OF Supervisors of San
Francisco are unwilling to appropriate
more money to carry on the rat crusade
on account of the protests of tax
payers.
Mortimer P. Barrett, wealthy
stCekman of Fresno, has been sued for
$4,000 in a breach of promise suit filed
against him by Miss Margaret E. Jones
of Fresno.
California defeated Stanford in the
annual track meet 81 rs to 50 3-5
points. California also won tennis and
Chess, and Stanford won the intercol-
aegiate debate.
Wreckage has been washed ashore
near Vancouver. B. c., and 1t is
thought to be from the ship w. F.
Babcock, Captain Sterling, now long
overdue from Newcastle.
Thousands of people are visiting
Evans feet at Los Angeles ports, and
thousands are unable to get to the
beaches owing to the inability of the
railroads to handle the crowds.
Miss Elsie De Wolf, former theatrical
star, who has become a decorator, is
now in California to superintend the
Interior arrangements of the new W.
H. Croker home at Burlingame.
The Santa Cruz, California, grand
jury urges the removal of Forester
Lull, also the dropping of the warden
and assistants on account of the ruth
less cutting of the States redwood
trees
President Michael Casey, president of
San Francisco's Board of Works, has
been accused of using his office to
build up a strong political machine,
and a split is threatened in the city
government.
DR.. Walter Hall of Petaluma, Cali
fornia, has brought suit for divorce
against his wife, Abbie Treadwell- Hall,
who was the former wife of Jimmy
Treadwell, a member of wealthy San
Francisco. family.
The tugs Hercules and Goliath which
left Camden. n. j., last January have
arrived at San Francisco. The Her
cules towed the Goliath and the boats
did not stop for fuel or provisions be-
tween the two ports.
Willie V. Myers of Seattle, recently
elected delegate from Washington to
the Democratic National Convention to
be held at Denver has been arrested
!. in Seattle. charged with obtaining 800
sander false pretences.
The Swedish residents of San Fran
cisco viii send cup TO King Gustave
of Sweden in remembrance of the work
he did in raising and forwarding relief
funds to Swedish residents in San
Francisco during the earthquake and
fire. =.
The Southern Pacific has opened a
new line from San Francisco to Los
Gatos which cuts off seven miles, and
which VIII be extended to Santa Cruz,
cutting off seventy-five miles. The new
line leaves the main track near Stan
ford University.
A masked robber walked into the bar
of the Hotel Metropole in Oakland at
eight O'Clock in the evening and hold
ing up those present robbed the CASH
register of SOS. and escaped in spite OF
the fact that fifty guests were in the
lobby of the hotel.
Twenty-Five Mexican soldiers at
Mazatlan mutinied during the progress
of religious festival and were chased
into the mountains by troops. but not
until the mutineers had killed two po-
iieemen and one citizen. and robbed
three other citizenss
The Pacific Coast Lumber and Mill
Company of Oakland has secured
sweeping injunction against the
Unions, which are forbidden to pick
et the companies property or even
allow union men to yell .sscab" at the
men working there.
Al l. Gibson, who was arrested In
Los Angeles for running away with a