The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-01-02
NEWS
CONDENSED

A Danish inventor has succeeded in
establishing wireless telephone commu-
nication a distance of two hundred
miles -
The STANDARD Oil Company is build
ing new oil refinery at Railway, n. J.,
one section of which will cover thou
sand acres of land
The United States is to investigate a
flow of crude petroleum onder the water
in the Pacific Ocean off Rocky Poinb
four miles from Redondo
The Chicago grand jury has indicted
fifteen members of the Illinois Milk
Dealers Association for conspiracy to
raise the price of milk
The total value of the farm crops of
1907 as reported by the Department of
Agriculture was $3,404, o00,0 900, an in
crease of $478, 100000 over 1906.
The financial disturbances in America
have SO curtailed the purchases of dia-
monds that the De Beers Consolidated
Mining Company has deferred its divi-
dends.
Ex-President Morales of Santa Do
mingo is now homeless wanderer, and
so poor that recently in going from
New York to Porto Rico he went sec
ond class.
Nike" the greatest African ele-
plant in America, died in the winter
quarters of circus at Bridgeport,
Conn, lately. He was ten feet four
inches in height and weighed six tons.
A jury of women in Denver court
returned a verdict in favor of a tailor
who was suing a woman for tailor
suit he had made, and which she refused
to pay for because she claimed it did
not fit.
The chaplain of the Oklahoma House
prayed for the election of Bryan as
President. The prayer was cheered.s
The House and Senate afterwards met
in joint session to listen to an address
by Bryan.
William F. Walker, the defaulting
treasurer of the New Britain, Conn.,,
Savings bank who stole nearly $350,000
in cash and securities from the bank,
when finally arrested in Lower Califor-
MIA, had only $11o in his pocket.
The War Department has modified the
-
salute while the Star Spangled Ban
ner is being played, so as to permit
the men to stand erect and salute on
ly at the last note of the music.
The Illinois Supreme Court has de-
cided that the anti-cigarette law of
that State does not prohibit the sale
of cigarettes made wholly from tobac-
0, but only cigarettes which contain
substances deleterious to health.
The great rush of steerage passengers
for Europe, which was greater during
the fall and early winter in America
than ever before, has about ceased. At
the same time the immigration from
southern Europe has largely fallen off.
The investigation of the San Fran
cisco grand jury has shown that three
fourths of the loans of the California
Savings & Trust Company. which failed,
and whose officers are under Indictment,
went to directors, subsidiary corpora
tions and employees of the concern.
The diocesan authorities have inves-
tigated the alleged miracles reported to
have occurred in the village church at
Brian, near Nancy, in France, and find
it to have been an optical illusions
caused by the reflection of a sacred
image upon the sacred wafer as the
canules moved.
Victorien Sardou has sued LIE Matin
fore its first production. A dress re-
hearsal was gwen for the newspaper
critics with the understanding that
nothing was to be published until after
the first public performance. This un-
derstanding LIE Matin violated
Representative Kahn of San Fran
cisco has secured the promise of the
Department OF Agriculture to send TO-
900 packages of flower seeds TO the
schools OF California to be planted on
vacant lots by the pupils to help hide
the scars of the fire following the
earthquake and to beautify the city.
Klaw & Erlanger, the big theatrical
managers, have definitely announced
that they will abandon vaudeville in
Chicago. In their announcement they
make violent attack on Chicago say
ing the people there are so busy amass-
ing money to spend in Europe that they
do not have time to amuse themselves
at home.
The Chicago and Northwestern Rail
way recently offered a thirty days
q Honeymoon tour" over its lines, toI
newly married couples under certain
conditions. About forty couples actual