The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-27
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
FROM MAINLAND FILES
PACIFIC COAST NEWS.

Chinese butchers IN san Francisco
have adopted Union rules.
The State realty convention has be-
gun its meeting in Sacramento.
Eighty-six thousand voters have reg
istered in san Francisco to date.
Health officials report the sanitary
condition of San Francisco's schools to
be bad.
A new Presbyterian Mission home
has been opened in San Francisco for
Chinese girls.
A fire in the hotel at San Rafael was
put out by the manager armed with a
settler bottle.
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is
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 250
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 s67 900, of which
900 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 $4,000. 600 according to the last
report of the Bank Commissioners.
The citizens health committee of San
Francisco have inspected nearly 100000
premises during the last two months.
The Mare Island Navy Yard has
been approved by a special examining
board appointed by President Roose-
welt
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 50,-
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 Is, the vessels be-
ing thrown open to visitors for the
first time.
San Francisco will vote upon a pro-
posed $3.50 900 bond issue next month,
the money to be used for public i'm
sThe schooner Orient tried to leave
San Francisco three times for Eureka
but each time had to put back on &C.
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
Friends hn h1r 80
bet on a ''sure thing
The battleship fleet arrived off Coro-
nado April Ia, and received its first
to the United States since
leaving Hampton Roads.
Thirty-six thousand voters have reg
stored in San Francisco for the pri-
nary and bond elections, the largest
number in several years.
The San Francisco fleet reception
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 a Yukon
river steamer last summer
A contractor uncovered a small coal
mine while excavating for build
ing in the vicinity of O'Farre1 and
Cough streets, San Francisco. /
During the past fiscal year, regular
dividends amounting to $685.
1920 were distributed by the Cali
'ornia Fruit Gamers Association.
Governor Gillett of California has
,ardoned Edward Manase and J. W.
Finley, both of whom were sentenced
o be hanged this month at Folsom.
Frank Kubick, a Portland contractor,
vas knocked down by thugs in San
Francisco and robbed of 81 800 which
he had just drawn from the bank.
Two Berkeley boys have started on a
bicycle trip to Chile. They will pedal
o Curacao, Mexico, and take a steam
n from there to the Chilean capital.
The Masons have purchased a $780,
100 lot on Van Ness avenue, San Fran
,isco. on which they propose to erect
temple costing upward of s1,000,O00.
Santa Cruz has obtained the privilege
f entertaining all of Admiral Evans
Ieet after bombarding the officials at
with letters and tlegrams
The Merchants Exchange of Oakland
las launched campaign to prevent
he Spring Valley Water Company's
on that side of the bay.
Lieutenant VIM. S. Bowen, U. S.. A,
low stationed at the Presidio, is to
Re tried for neglect of duty. Social
ife is said to have caused his down
ALI
Nat Goodwin, the actor, who has
urned mining man temporarily, has
lrrived in San Francisco and is en-
husiastic over the prospects at Raw
hide
President Jordan has refused to take
my note OF the protest made by the
san Francisco alumni against the sus-
'ension of the forty-one students last
month.
Governor GilIett of California de-
lares that a large armada is neces-
airy in the Pacific to insure our share
f trade.
Edna Goodrich, former leading lady
With Nat c. Goodwin, is to be mar
led to James NJ. Macmillan, a Nevada
mining operator who has his home in
The Salvation Army has opened a
ONE for young women on upper Mar
ct street, San Francisco. The build
7g will accommodate about fifty work