The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-06-09
CONVERSATIONS
FROM THE FILES

California is shipping cantaloupes
East.
Senator A1drich heads the new cur
rency board.
Dallas. Tex, was inundated by the
recent floods.
A price-cutting war in Portland ce-
ment is beginning.
A balloon $50 feet. high is to be sent
up from st. Louis.
Big Jim Gallagher is retiring from
house-building in Oakland.
simple-life colony of American
Socialists will locate in Mexico.
Fresh refrigerated milk is being sent
in bulk to Panama by steamer.
Judge Victor Bowling of New York
says Harry Thaw is incurably insane.
A mammoth has been unearthed in
the bed of a stream near Pomona,
Cal.
Luke E. Wright. who is mentioned
to succeed Secretary Taft. is a DEM
ocrat.
Edna Goodrich, the actress, has mar
ried J. H. Mcmillan a young Tonopah
magnate.
Ex-President Cleveland has left
Lakewood, n. J., for his home III
Princeton.
Two dangerous counterfeiters, Cohen
and Salamewisc, have been arrested a
Winnipeg.
Torpedo boat destroyers were badly
battered by the recent storm and put
into Eureka.
Madam Gould denies that she was
welded to Sagan by Hoboken Justice
of the Peace.
Charles Conn, a snake-charmer. was
fatally bitten by a rattlesnake at
Louisville, KY.
The Yaqui Indians have agreed to
abandon their tribal relations and be-
come citizens.
The cable has brought the news that
the Kaiser has changed the fashion
of his mustache.
The Illinois Central Railroad has
given an order for a million dollars
worth of steel rails.
Congressman Moore says Washing
ton laundries spoil shirts and intro
duced a bill to regulate them.
Don S. Dickerson, a Rough Rider
and a newspaper man, succeeds the
late Governor Sparks of Nevada.
French artist and his Fnother-in-
law were bound and choked to death
in their home in Paris. Burglary I'll
lowed.
There are signs of a revolution in
the Republic of Panama. The Presi-
dent has removed Governors who favor
his rival.
Grant Poole shot Mrs. E. FL. Orvis
in a Methodist church at Oaktield,
| Wis. He was an undesired sutton for
her daughter.
little girl was bitten near Santa
| Rosa. Cal, by a rattlesnake. 1t took
two hours to get her to a doctor, but
| her life was saved.
To prevent incendiarism, Tonopah
people are warned that they will be
/ shot by the police if seen walking IN
| the sidewalks after dark.
! The national Republican leaders are
| said to have sidetracked Beveridge so
| as to keep him from making third"
| term speech at the convention.
| F. L. Wood made a parachute drop
| of 20O0 feet at Passaic, \. J., waving
/ a flag. He fell into the river with the
tfag tangled about his legs and was
| drowned.
| Visions of her father writhing in a
| sea of birthstone which came to Flor
| ence A. Ferrian of Chicago. twenty
| years old, a follower o the fanatical
/ religion of Parhamites, so preyed upon
| her mind that she killed herself. Miss
Ferrians family is prominent in the
Parham cult at Zion City.
| Last month the employees of the
| Mare Island magazine turned out $780,
600 worth of ammunition at the yard
plant. which is JUST 100000 more than
| any previous month. Nearly all of this
| ammunition was used to replenish tbs
/ stocks on board the battleships of tht
! Atlantic fleet which were used up al
the recent target practise at Magda-
| lena Bay.
II Mrs. Stanford's jewels, which sht