The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-04-17
NEWS
SHIPS

University.
The undertakers of Alameda cities
are placing Sunday funerals under a
ban.
The San Francisco clearing house
adopted resolutions against the Aldrich
emergency currency bill.
A strike of granite cutters in Yer
mont, involving between 1000 and 5000
men, has been compromised.
Lincoln, Neb., Bryan's home town,
voted to retain saloons by a majority
of ia in total vote of 1900.
Jerome Churchill, a pioneer of Siski-
you county, Cal, died at Yreka on
April Z. He first settled there in 1850.
]. ]. O'Rourke, one of the best known
realty and insurance men of San Fran
cisco, died April in an Oakland hos
pital.
A horde of hoboes looted a carload
of provisions at Lucin, Utah. The five
trainmen being outnumbered did not
interfere.
A prairie fire north of McGrath, Ma
nitoba, has devastated large territory.
Many new settlers from the United
States lost barns and feed.
The anti gambling crusade at Reno,
Nevada has come to naught. After
the city council revised the petition for
a prohibitory ordinance on gaming,
there were not enough names left to
carry the measure.
George Worley, master of the United
States auxiliary vessel Abaranda want
ed in Porto Rico, where he is charged
with having beaten some sailors, sur
rendered voluntarily at Seattle lately
and was released on bond.
The body of an unknown man, evil
IDENTIFY dubbed to death, was found still
bleeding on the beach at San Diego at
noon of April Z. Footprints OIL a wo-
man and other feminine belongings
were found on the sand.
The San Francisco Chamber of Com
merce has called the attention of the
California Congressional delegation to
the fact that the Department of In
dian Affairs discriminates against San
Francisco merchants in the matter of
delivering supplies.
Druggists convicted of selling opium,
morphine or cocaine to customers
without requiring the prescription of
a physician are being punished with
increasing severity in the San Fran
cisco police courts. Several have been
| fined SIS and others $50 each.
Samuel A. Stodel, a representative OF
the Industrial Workers of the World
stated at a labor convention in New
York that a reasonable estimate OF
the number of unemployed through
out the United States at the present
time would be at least 81, 750,0OU.
Secretary Metcalf will take two Cali
fornians to San Francisco with him as
members of his staff, besides Rear-Ad-
miral Glass, commandant of the Naval
District of the Pacific. They are Lieu
tenant Cyrus R. Miller, Bureau OF
Equipment, and Ensign Martin X. Met
calf.
On April Z, Mrs. Jessie S. North, who
with her husband, Peter North, was
making a tour of the Coast from Van
couver to Los Angeles, was taken sud
denly i'll on the deck of the steamer
Buchanan, near San Francisco, and had
to be carried into her stateroom, where
she expired.
Four French bankers-Edward Jul
heit, Jacques de Neufize, l.. Monniel
and ]. Mallet-who spent ten days IL
San Francisco investigating the in
dustrial investment possibilities of Cal
ifornia on leaving all expressed them
selves as greatly impressed with thu
solid foundation upon which San ran
ciscos progress rests.
In a drunken orgy the house o
Timothy Hayes, San Francisco, wa
set on fire and burned April z. Mrs
Hayes persisted in the flames and tn
husband was reported dying of hi
burns next day. 4wo firemen, G. h
Brown and Samuel Brown, going to tn
; fire in an auto were severely injure
in collision of their machine with
hook and ladder truck.
The formal reply of President Roose
D+c&c+c#S+e+G4s#S#S+o+S+S