The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-27

= The Oakland Transcontinental Aerial
and Power Company, a wireless con-
Germ which has been selling stock, is
being investigated by the police as
it is said to be a rank fake.
The Shriners in connection with the
Sells-Floto shows, will give circus
for the benefit of the Children's Hos
pitaI of San Francisco on April q.
The tents will cover ten acres.
A large meeting of Iaborers is plan
ned in San Francisco to voice the pro-
test of organized labor against the
recent anti-labor decision of the
United States Supreme Court
Captain A. W. Hall, an old-time sea-
man with a bad record, is trying to
interest San Francisco society women
in a, scheme to unearth buried treasure
on an island in the South Seas.
The California Wine Association has
been awarded $500 on a Commercial
Union Insurance Policy. This is an
earthquake settlement, the insurance
company. trying to avoid payment.
The Moisant sisters have returned
to San Francisco from Salvador, where
their brothers were in prison for some
time for engaging in flibustering ex-
pGu4ltOAAS ctlaSl Tic SoN
Alexander Mclean, the hero Of Jack
Londons Sea Wolf has accepted the
job of transferring dynamite up Alas
kan rivers for construction camps Of
the Crank Trunk Pacific railroad.
Weinstock, Lubin & Co, a Califor-
MIA department store firm, have pur-
chased a ten-acre tract of mountain
land in California, and will send their
employees there for their vacations.
The Board of Supervisors are deter
mined to examine the books of the San
Francisco Gas and Electric Light Com
pany, and will take the matter into
court if the company does not produce.
Grace Smell Love, daughter of the
late millionaire, A. J. Smell, of Chi
cago, who married and divorced Frank
Nixon Coffin three times, is now suing
Hugh NJ. Love for divorce in Los An
geles.
The Home Telephone Company of
San Francisco will be forced to relay
miles Of trenches in the streets, the
original work not being done to the
satisfaction of the Board of Public
Works
Robert Dachman broke all automo-
bile records coming down Mt. Hami1-
ton to San Jose with his unconscious
son, who fell from the dome of the
Lick Observatory and was seriously
injured.
The refrigerator vessel Glacier
which came around the Horn with
the fleet. has arrived at San Fran
cisco to take on a load of supplies for
the fleet which it will meet at Santa
Barbara.
The San Francisco Board of Super
visors have asked Californias rep
resentatives in Congress to aid in Sc
curing the reservoir sites in the Yose-
mite Park for a proposed municipal
water system.
Samuel Retkay, a teamster, killed
himself after trying to shoot David
Stegeman, foreman of the Overland
Freight and Transfer stable, because
he thought the latter had insulted his
young daughter.
The police of Portland captured three
robbers, killing one and wounding an
other in a desperate battle. The third
is in a jail and has confessed. A po- I
lice officer was wounded in the arm
during the fight.
Johy Cyty, owner of the Big Belle |
mine in Nevada, lost 100000 shares in
illlS III SdIiIc Will
c. E. Jones, the proprietor of the
gambling hail. The shares were worth
thirty cents apiece. !
After waiting fifteen years, James J.
Hill has arranged for the entrance of
the Great Northern to Tacoma over
the double tracks of the Northern Pa
trance to Vancouver.
The two aEil6rnY of Mrs
tro were ground to death by South |
ern' Pacific switch engine in Los An
geles before the eyes of their mother |
She is lying at the point of death on
account of the shock.
Charles Winters and Charles Denny, |
two prominent Yolo County ranchmen,
who We're accused of starting grass
fires, We're acquitted within five min
utes by the jury who took one ballot. /
This is a record case.
After waiting five years for her hus-
band to return, Mrs. Thomas H. Ken
ago her husband kissed her goodbye,
to go to work, and since
that time he has never been seen.
DIR. Halstead A. Stansfeld, a promi-
nent army physician, committed sui
II
brooding over the death of his wife
and child, who both died a short time
ago and within week of one an
other.
Crooks reaped but small harvest
1t San Diego owing to the vigilance
If the police who were reinforced by
detectives from neighboring towns who
vent there to study and get acquaint-
ID with the crooks .Who have focked
o the Coast.
The Bernard plans for the Univer-
sity of California, selected twelve
years ago in competitive test. will
be considered by the Board of Trus-
ees next month for formal adoption.
The original plans have been some
what altered.
Four hundred persons from the
steamer Umatilla are detained in
quarantine on Angel Island for four
teen days because a case of small
2ox was discovered on the steamer
Turing the run from Puget Sound to
san Francisco.
a 70-foot dam at Hauser Lake, near
Helena Montana has bYol~ar ana MOO