The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-03-16
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/ ton IN IaIlI0fnld.
| A big winter carnival is being eel
ebrated at Truekee, Cal.
A leading society woman Of Sacra
mento married her chauffeur.
Hop-picking by machinery ha:
proven failure in California.
Frederick s. Winston, the noted Chi
cago lawyer, is dead at Pasadena.
Failing to find work, Los Angelo:
window decorator committed suicide.
President Taft will visit California
next summer and may also visit Alaska
The Spanish steamer Monro has been
| lost off the coast of Cape de Laehevre
Mrs. Russell Sage will experiment
in the building of tenement houses
near New York.
The Senate of California State Leg.
islature is opposed to the creation of
divorce examiners.
The wedding of the Princess Kane,
daughter of the japanese Emperor,
viii take place in April.
The Family Club of San Francisco
is to have handsome country club
house near Redwood City.
California products are well guard
ed in the tariff bill prepared by the
Ways and Means Committee.
President Taft will not use simpli-
fed spelling in White House CORE
spondence, as did his predecessor.
Edith Hamilton of Washington, D..
c., an actress, and niece of Billy
Burke, died of spinal meningitis.
Adolf B. Spreckels has arrived in
San Francisco from abroad, where he
has been spending his. honeymoon.
The oldest store ON the Strand, a
famous London landmark, will disap-
pear to make way for improvements
An Illinois woman claims that she is
a sister of "Lucky'' Baldwin, but this
is denied by his relatives in California.
Little Rock, Ark, was swept by
tornado and eight persons were killed.
A disastrous fire followed the storm.
Mrs. George D. Seeley, widow of
Colonel Seeley, q. S. A., was asphyxi-
ated at her home in Washington, D. G.
!. The Russian Duna criticizes the gov
eminent S policy of erippling the press
and governing the country by martial
law.
A Waterman fell from a dredger into
the estuary in Oakland and remained
thirteen hours buried to. his neck in
mud.
Eighteen culprits were logged in
single day in Wilmington (Del),
breaking the record at the whipping
post.
A lone thief robbed the manager of
the Bon Air Hotel, in San Francisco,
of 500 in broad daylight and made his
escape.
An insane soldier jumped through a
window at the General Hospital at the
Preside of San Francisco and was Sc
verely injured.
Fairbanks, former Vice President,
has returned to his home in Indian
apolis, where he will resume the prac-
tise of law.
An attempt is being made to parole
Chris Evans, the noted bandit, who has
spent fourteen years in Folsom, for
train robbery.
Don Luis Proto, a Greek million
aire ranch-owner, of Nogales, A. T.,
was murdered by Mexicans with whom
he had trouble.
The Earl of Morley has gone to Brit
iSI d1SCt oho1G LII
San Francisco. He went to hunt and
study conditions.
A Chicago murderer. for whom the
police have been searching seven years,
is doing sentence at San Quentin, Cal
ifornia, for robbery.
Ex-Pres. Roosevelt will take enough
drugs to doctor regiment, on his COM
ing trip, that the effect of all African
ills may be eounteraeted.
A FIRE in the juvenile detention home
in San Francisco caused a panic among
the children and many serious acct
dents were narrowly averted.
A Detroit man refused TO give up
his reservation on an Atlantic liner
to ex-President Roosevelt as requested
by the steamship company's agents.
w. H Osgood, assistant biologist of
the Department of Agriculture, after
a study of the game resources of
Alaska, reports great variety Of
fauna.
Ex-President Roosevelt spent his first
day out of official life in reading and
chopping trees. He denied himself to
callers and refused to talk for publ
cation.
Owing to the increase IN the con-
sumption of horse flesh in Vienna,
slaughter houses, for horses, costing
500, 900 have been erected by the mu
nicipality.
1t is reported that the Pope has
placed ban on the Socialist party and
that members of the Catholic faith
must choose between that party and
their church.
DIR. Wilfred Grenfell, a medical
missionary from Labrador, delivered
an interesting address in San Fran
cisco, describing his work among the
fishermen of the frozen north.
A Chicago professor predicts that
African expedition will
end fatally, basing his prophecy on his
knowledge of the dangers from the in
sidious fevers peculiar to the country.
Shima, the japanese millionaire "po-
tato king is preparing to again cor
ner the potato market in California.
He adds to his enormous holdings by
the lease of $500 acres more near
Stockton.
Mrs. Lena Seton Wakefield. a promi
nent Society woman of San Francisco,
has filed divorce complaint and a