The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-05-01
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
FROM MAINLAND FILES
PACIFIC COAST NEWS.


The State realty convention has be
I gun its meeting in Sacramento.
f Eighty-six thousand voters have reg
istered in San Francisco to date.
Health officials report the sanitary
condition of San Francisco's schools t.
, be bad.
? A new Presbyterian Mission hom,
has been opened in San Francisco fo
Chinese girls.
A fire in the hotel at San Rafael wa.
put out by the manager armed with {
seltzer bottle.
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra /.
to visit Oakland in the near future
and give concerts.
An italian peddler in Oakland was
fined $50 for selling impure sweets and
ice cream to children.
The Southern Pacific has laid off 25C
men at Sparks, Nevada No reason
for the act was given.
The Southern Pacific is ordering new
ferry boats for San Francisco bay and
a fire tugboat for Seattle.
The total fleet celebration in San
Francisco will cost $4,000, of which
$4,000 remains to be raised.
DR.. Henry T. Legler, the oldest ply
sician of Oakland, is dead. He was
a veteran of the Civil War.
The 507 state banks of California
hold s421, 100000 according to the last
report of the Bank Commissioners
The citizens health committee of San
| Francisco have inspected nearly 140,O 900
premises during the last two months.
The Mare Island Navy Yard has
been approved by special examining
board appointed by President Roose-
velt
Grandstands seating $4,000 people,
will be erected in San Francisco streets
along the line of the street parade of
sailors
San Diego contained upwards of 5O,-
600 people on April IA, thousands hav-
ing poured into the town to welcome
the fleet.
Enormous crowds visited the fleet
at San Diego April 16, the vessels be-
ing thrown open to visitors for the
first time.
San Francisco will vote upon a pro-
posed $1S,000 10000 bond issue next month,
the money to be used for public i'm
provements
The schooner Orient tried to leave
San Francisco three times for Eureka
but each time had to put back on ac-
count of storms.
j. Dalzell Brown, wrecker of the
California Safe Deposit and Trust
Company, will go on trial in San Fran
cisco on April oath.
A woman was recently relieved of
$4,000 at the Emeryville race track by
some friends who took her money to
bet on a "sure thing"
The battleship fleet arrived off Coro-
nado April IA, and received it's first
welcome to the United States since
leaving Hampton Roads.
Thirty-six thousand voters have reg
istered in San Francisco for the pri-
mary and bond elections, the largest
number in several years.
The San Francisco fleet reception
committee has been compelled to cut
out the use of fireworks owing to the
lack of funds subscribed.
Richard Hall of Dawson, Y. T., has
been acquitted of the charge of steal
ing $4,000 in gold dust from Yukon
river steamer last summer. !,
contractor uncovered a small coal
mine while excavating for build
ing in the vicinity of OFarrel and
Cough streets, San Francisco.
During the past fiscal year, regular
dividends amounting to s2OS,-
1920 were distributed by the Cali
fornia Fruit Gamers Association
Governor Gillett of California has
or1a Wy
Finley, both of whom were sentenced
to be hanged this month at Folsom.
Frank Kubick, Portland contractor,
was knocked down by thugs in San
Francisco and robbed of $500 which
he had just drawn from the bank. |,
Two Berkeley boys have started on i
bicycle trip to Chile. They will pedal
to Curacao, Mexico, and take a steam
er from there to the Chilean capital.
The Masons have purchased $25O,-i
900 lot on Van Ness avenue, San Fran
cisco, on which they propose to erect
a temple costing upward of s1,OO0,OOO
Santa Cruz has obtained the. privilege
If entertaining all of Admiral Evans
1eet after bombarding the officials at
with letters and tlegrams
1Hc hcICAdttS ChCildHSc Oh OdhldHu ]
las launched a campaign to prevent
he Spring Valley Water Company's
on that side of the bay.
Lieutenant VIM. S. Bowen, U. S. A,
now stationed at the Preside, is to ,
be tried for neglect of duty. Social
life is said to have caused his down
fall.
Nat Goodwin, the actor, who has
turned mining man temporarily, has 9
arrived in San Francisco and is en- r
thusiastic over the prospects at Raw {
hide. Y
President Jordan has refused to take G
any note of the protest made by the t
San Francisco alumni against the sus-
pension of the forty-one students last .
:
Governor Gillett of California de- |
clares that a large armada is neces- I
sary in the Pacific to insure our share ;
Of trade.
Edna Goodrich, former leading lady
with Nat C. Goodwin, is to be mar
ried to James NJ Macmillan, a Nevada ,
mining operator who has his home in
Berkeley. ,
The Salvation Army has opened a I
lone for young women on upper Mar
Iet street, San Francisco. The build
ng will accommodate about fifty work