The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-06-09
CONVERSATIONS
FROM THE FILES

| California is shipping cantaloupe:
East.
Senator Aldrich heads the new cur,
rency board.
| Dallas, Tex, was inundated by the
recent floods.
4 price-cutting war in Portland &C.
ment is beginning.
A balloon $50 feet high is 10 be sent
up from ST. Louis.
| Big Jim" Gallagher is retiring from
house-building in Oakland.
| A 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
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 ]. H. Mcmillan, a young Tonopah
magnate.
Ex-President Cleveland has left
Lakewood. n. J.. for his home IN
Princeton.
Two dangerous counterfeiters, Cohen
and Salamewisc, have been arrested at
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 a 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. Rough Rider
and a newspaper man, succeeds the
A French artist and his 'nother-in- !
law were bound and choked to death
in their home in Paris Burglary fl
lowed.
There are signs of a revolution in l
the Republic of Panama. The Presi- /
dent has removed Governors who favor /
his rival.
Grant Poole shot Mrs. e. H Orvis
in a Methodist church at Oakfiel1, |
Wis. He was an undesired suitor for
her daughter.
little girl was bitten near Santa /
Rosa, Cal, by rattlesnake. 1t took
two hours to get her to a doctor, but /
her life was saved.
To prevent incendiarism, Tonopah 4
people are warned that they will be
shot by the police if seen walking On
the sidewalks after dark.
The national Republican leaders are
said to have sidetracked Beverldge so
as to keep him from making a third
term speech at the convention.
F. L. Wood made a parachute drop
of 1000 feet at Passaic, y. j., waving
a flag. He fell into the river with the
flag 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
Ferrian's family is prominent in the
Parham cult at Zion City.
Last month the employees Of the
Mare Island magazine turned out $780,
900 worth of ammunition at the yard
plant, which is just 100000 more than
sny previous month. Nearly all OF this
ammunition was used to replenish the
stocks on board the battleships Of the
feet which were used up at
the recent target practise at Magda-
lena Bay.
Mrs Stanford's Jewels, which she
valued at 100000, have been devoted
to an endowment for the Hbrary Of
Stanford University that win even
tually make 1t the most complete col
lection Of books on the Pacific Coast.
At the meeting OF the trustees re-
Gently the final arrangements for the
Of the Jewel funi" IN
the full amount OF 100000 were made.
the income to be used exclusively Gar
he purchase Of books for the unl,er-
sity library.
Mrs. Elsie French Vanderbilt was (
granted an introductory decree Of d. /
Torce from Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt !
~ Justice O'Gornnan In the Supreme ,
court on the report Of the referee who
vas appointed to take testimony and
determine the findings in the suit in (
'tituted by Mrs. Vanderbilt Justice