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

years at salary of $4,000 year.
a honess got loose from a cage in
san Jose, while the cage was being
unloaded from a truck, and injured a
stagehand before she was captured
Yosemite railroad conductor stop
ped his train recently and shot a large
brown bear, which was stalking deer,
about 200 yards from the railroad.
The house of A. j. Dougherty of San
Jose was entered by a robber, while
the family were on side porch, and
jewels valued at $4,000 were stolen.
Miller and Lux. the California mill
honalre cattlemen, have been sued for
$4,000 by one of their foremen, b. NJ.
Fuller. for defamation of character.
Albert Sutton, a prominent San
Francisco architect, has been granted
an interlocutory degree of divorce from
his wife, prominent society woman.
The sailors of the Atlantic fleet do
not favor Santa Barbara, as little has
been done to entertain them. and the
shop-keepers tried to overcharge them.
Miss Gladys Drullard of Santa Cruz
died of typhoid fever and meningitis
on the day she was TO be married to
Edgar Miles Wilson of Fairbanks,
Alaska
The three hundred sailors of the
cruiser Washington entertained twelve
hundred Seattle society people at a
dance given while the cruiser was at
Seattle.
Miss Elizabeth Sothern Ridgley, a
young heiress of Boston. who is to
marry Baron Rudolph Eustance of
Denmark next fall, is at present in San
Francisco.
j. W. Crawford, son of prominent
Boston attorney, has been arrested in
Los Angeles for purchasing an auto
mobile with check which proved
worthless.
The California orange crop. amount
ing to about 10000 carloads, is valued
at nearly $4,000 900. About two-thirds
of the crop has already been packed
and shipped.
The new railroad to Rawhide.
Nevada, will be completed In about
ninety days, giving the new mining
camp direct communication with the
outside world.
The first floating Christian Endeavor
convention ever held will meet in a
vessel in Seattle harbor on May rs and
26, during the time the Atlantic feet
is anchored there.
The Southern Pacific Is building a
branch line into northwestern Mexico
which is about $50 miles long, and
which will open up a new country to
San Francisco trade.
Mrs. Beulah Hawkins, an inmate of
the Eos Angeles County Hospital. has
been in a trance eighty-one days. and
physicians say that she may not wake
for at least year.
Pacific Coast shipowners have or
ganized and reduced rates on -four and
grain to Oriental ports in an endeavor
to drive the tramp steamers out of
business on the Coast.
The Mexican Government has adopt
ed the policy of not permitting the es-
tablishment of any more colonies of
within one hundred miles of
the United States frontier.
About two hundred small boats of the
launch variety are following the feet
up the Coast from San Diego to San
Francisco. Strict regulations will be
enforced against all pleasure vessels.
The Chinese in San Francisco in
spite of their peace settlement signed
several months ago, are in trouble
again. and the police are on the look
out for more outbreaks and tong wars.
Rawhide, Nevada, citizens have raised
$38. 900 to entertain fleet visitors, and
will be made to carry
officers and men from San Francisco
to the mining camp in special train.
A Chinaman at Bellingham, Wash
ington, killed his wife in the govern
ment detention shed, because he
thought he was going to be deported
and another Chinaman would get his
wife.
Three. weeks have passed since the
Ford and Ruef trials began, and the
jury is not yet complete for the Ruef
trial. while most of the prosecutions
testimony will be in by the end of this
week
The Southern Pacific railroad has
agreed to build 123 miles of railroad
into the Owens Valley country that the
city of Los Angeles may ship materials
into the new country for their water
system.
An endurance race between San
Francisco and Los Angeles, in which
thirty makes of cars will be entered,
is being planned by the Automobile
Dealers Associa ton of California for
September.
The jury in the TREY L. Ford case
have protested at the length of the
trial, saying that it was keeping them
away from their business so long that
some of he jurymen were likely to
suffer loss.
President Roosevelt pressed an cleo
trio button at Washington last night
which formally opened the Eastern
Star Fair at San Francisco, which viii
for two weeks in the Dream
and Pavilion.
Admiral Evans will be escorted In
he San Francisco parade by cadet
corps from the Salt Lake High School.
This is at Admiral Evans request.
he latter having received his appoint
nent from Utah.
The Society for the Prevention Of
Cruelty to Animals is distributing cir
,ulars on trains running near the
Mexican border asking Americans not
o patronize the bull-fights across the
Mexican border.
Fred Wilhelm, a former member OF
he st. Louis police force, has been |
Lrrested in Oakland on suspicion that |
lie was connected with the dynamitfng |
f former Supervisor Gallagher's house |
few nights ago.
a GrOnIinC cashier /