The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-02

game April 10. He is steadily improv-
ing in health.
District Attorney Langdon of San
Francisco has married Mrs. Myrtle Nc
Henry of Modesto. California.
An early breakup of the ice is pre-
dicted for this season in the Tanana
and Cinema river districts, Alaska.
It is probable that there will be a
rate war between steamship companies
whose vessels run to Nome, Alaska
Rev. William Sturgeon, of London,
cousin of the famous Charles Sturgeon,
is delivering addresses in San Fran
cisco.
Stockmen in California are required
to pay taxes on grazing herds which
are not on the home range, but which
are in other counties.
Claim jumpers near San Bernardino,
California, severely injured Charles
Beck, a mine owner, who sought TO
protect his property.
The San Francisco police are looking
for smooth stranger who has passed
several confederate bills around the
city on unsuspecting shopkeepers.
H. H. Franklin, the well known au-
tomobile manufacturer, who is visiting
San Francisco, predicts that the prices
of cars will be lower next season.
The truce in Oakland between the
two Chinese t6ngs, the Hop Sings and
the Bing Kongs, has been declared off,
and serious trouble is again threatened.
T. c. Diffenbacher, an expert wire
Taper who has fieeced pool-rooms in
the country out of thousands of dol
lars, is under arrest in San Francisco.
Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley peo-
pie are trying to get the government
to allow them to go on Goat Island
the day the fleet enters San Francisco
bay
Joe Cans, lightweight champion of
the world, will start training imme-
diately in San Francisco in preparation
for his fight with 'Boer" Unholz on
May 14th.
President Roosevelt is quoted as say
ing that he has about made up his
mind to grant Lake Eleanor and the
Heteh Hetchy reservoir sites to San
Francisco.
Reporters of the Los Angeles Ex-
aminer who stole valuable films from
a San Diego photographer while the
fleet was at San Diego have had to
stand trial.
Rival claimants to the management
Francisco fought a pitched battle in
the hotel yesterday and a riot call had
to be turned in,
President Roosevelt has signed the
Owens River proclamation giving Los
Angeles a water supply and rebufing
Representative Smith who fought the
project from the first.
While examining the Bank of Cal
exico in the Imperial Valley, Califor-
MIA, Bank Commissioner w. S. Vawter
discovered forged bond for $1,000 sign
ed with his own name.
Patrick Calhoun, the indicted rail-
road magnate of San Francisco, spoke
on the Benefits of Good Citizenship
at the laying of the cornerstone of the
new temple of Chevra Mikvah Israel
on Valencia street.
D. A. Pollock, general manager of
F. NJ. Smiths borax plant at Ryan,
California, was so severely beaten by
a cook whom he had discharged, that
he had to be brought to Oakland for
medical attendance.
Sidney L. M. Starr, a prominent San
divorce by his wife, known as one of
the most exquisitely dressed women in
the bay cities. Three years ago Mrs.
Starr visited Honolulu.
Friends of Charles C. MacCleverty,
San Francisco manager of the marine
branch of the Standard Oil Company,
F1A 81 l,o
in Lower California where he went to
meet the fleet at MagdaIena Bay.
San Francisco women who are in
charge of the entertainment of the sail
ors are in quandary as to whether
they should wear full evening gowns
to the dances or dress informally to
make the tars feel more at home.
President Jordan in an address de-
livered in san Francisco said that Jap
an does not want to fight the United
States because she cannot: and that
the United States does not want to
fight Japan because she wishes well
to alY nations.
Emma Goldman. Queen of Anar-
chists." accompanied by DR.. Ben Reit-
man. king of the Tramps," arrived in
San Francisco April II, and took rooms
at the ST. Francis, which they were
afterwards asked to give up. They are
under police surveillance
Bishop William F. Oldham of the
Methodist Episcopal church, stationed
at Singapore, and who is now in San
Francisco, states that the victory of
Japan has made the natives of the
Orient very restless and the awakening
of Asia is viewed with anxiety.
A B. Hoag, a school teacher arriving
from the Philippines on the transport
Buford, says he was robbed of $3.50 by
Freight Clerk Backerman and Stew
ardess Knoke. Colonel Bellinger, re-
fused to permit the arrest of the ships
officer by the San Francisco police.
Charges brought against German
Pouchan, president Of the French Be
nevolent Association, led to a fistic en-
counter between the president and a
discharged employee at recent meet
ing. and it almost became necessary
to call the police before quiet was
restored.
The cruiser Buffalo has been ordered
TO Panama from Vallejo to take on a
draft OF bluejackets and marines for