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


The Chutes. a famous san Francisco
resort, has opened again after being
closed for several months TO be re-
paired.
A japanese has just finished a re-
markable juorney Of 1000 miles over
the ice from Herschel Island to Daw-
son. Yukon Ty.
/ A pickpocket lifted $500 from the
pocket of Rear Admiral Thomson. re-
tired, in Seattle, just after he had
drawn it from the bank
| Senator Joseph w. Bailey OF Texas
is having the fight OF his life TO pre-
vent himself from being retired from
politics for good and all.
| Reports have reached san Francisco
OF impending trouble in Central Amer
! lea between Panama and Columbia and
Nicaragua against Salvador.
! The Independent Telephone Company
of Seattle is to be merged with the
Pacific States Telephone and Tele-
graph Company of san Francisco
| The repair steamer Panther and the
supply boat Arethusa arrived in San
Francisco ahead of Evans fleet which
they accompanied around the Horn.
The Seattle Merchants Association
have met to stop the rate war between
the Inland Navigation Company and
the Canadian Pacific Railway COM
pany
Reno, Nevada. is hopelessly in debt
owing to bad management on the part
of the city officials. Property owners
! are threatened with a deficit OF
| 100000.
! The Southern Pacific proposes to
erect a great station at Sixteenth
street. Oakland. and run its suburban
i tracks on an elevated railroad out OF
Oakland.
| The foreman OF smelling company
near Anaconda, Montana, had his home
blown up with dynamite, planted evil
/ IDENTIFY by men whom he had refused
to employ.
The official reports OF the earnings OF
the Southern Pacific and Santa Fe
railroads show a falling Oft In receipts
for the month of February over pre-
vious years.
| J. A. McKenna. brother OF Associ-
ate Justice McKenna of the United
States Supreme Court, was arrested
| in San Francisco for issuing a bad
check to a saloonkeeper.
| Harry and Louis Lefkovite, who con-
duct a big general merchandise busI-
ness at Rawhide, Nevada, have had
-
ed with defrauding their creditors.
| A White steamer, owned by Fer
| nando Nelson. has broken the round
| trip record between San Francisco
and Los Angeles, making the distance
OF s46 miles in thirty-seven hours.
Cleveland Murphy, son Of a wealthy
stockman OF Reno. walked into a sa-
loon, and after rolling a cigarette and
Joking with his friends picked up a
revolver and shot himself through the
head.
George Fl. Higbee. formerly president
of the Moran ShipbuIlding Company OF
Seattle, has been appointed manager
of the Pacific Coast Steamship Com
pany with headquarters at San Fran
CISCO
The Oakland police are hopeful that
Fred Wilhelm, the arrested suspect.
will break down and divuige the
names of the men who employed him
in connection with the Gallagher dy-
Mantle outrage.
Los. Angeles has declined to allow
the sailors OF the fleet to erect tablet
in that city in memory Of their visit
and reception there. The city does not
want them TO show their appreciation
In anything else but words.
was remodeled at the Vallejo navy
yard, sank while being launched owing
to the fact that someone left a sea-
cock open. The Grampus was TO have
taken part in the feet parade.
Detectives from New York and Wash
ington, considered to be among the
greatest experts I'm their work. have
arrived in San Francisco to assist the
local police in Identifying the crooks
which are swarming into the city.
Catherine Ivancovich. of San Jose.
widow of John Ivancovich, who was
shot several months ago by a probation
officer while trying to take his boy
from the officer. has ssed the latter,
Frank r. Shafter, for $4,000 damages.
Mrs. Perry MCGEE Of Tacoma. who
married her cousin, who was forced
then TO leave the country to escape
arrest is going to reJoin her husband
in British Columbia, where there is no
law to prevent the marriage Of cousins
A trained nurse and former chorus
girl have started to walk from San
Francisco to Terre Haute. Indiana. be-
cause they want 10 go there and have
MT the money to pay their fare. Their
only weapons OF defense will be hat
pins
Through the efforts Of Mayor Mott
OF Oakland the general public will be
admitted to Goat Island on the day the
fleet enters San Francisco This IS
probably the best position that can be
secured to witness the arrival OF the
fleet.
Posfofice inspectors have arrested
six officials Of the TranscontinentaI
Aerial Telephone Company Of Oakland
on the charge Of using the mails 20
defraud. The company has sold con-
sidera bile stock around San Francisco
and Oakland.
A petition to the Secretary OF the
Navy to keep at least twelve first-class
battleships and eight armored cruisers
in the Pacific Ocean has been signed
by the governors of California. Oregon.
washington. Nevada, idaho. Utah, Arl-
IONA. Nebraska and Hawaii.
I. DalzeIl Brown, former manager OF
the defunct California Safe Deposit
and Trust Company has testified that
the Treadwells got most Of the stock
missing from the banks vaults. and II