The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-07-29
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A new Federal survey of Yosemite
Valley is to be made.
Further earthquake shocks were felt
at Athens on July 18th.
The battleship Michigan was given
a trial on July Goth off the Delaware
coast.
The vineyardists of Fresno claim that
the county will have 10000 tons of raj
sins this year.
Orville Wright made another success
full flight in his aeroplane at Fort
Meyer on July 10.
The murder of J. B. Sayler, of Cres-
cent City, Illinois, is being Investigated
by the authorities.
Bernard Lagan, who was shot by
Officer Conboy, may live many weeks,
but he can not recover.
DR.. Bowditch Morton, formerly a
prominent New York. physician, died
at Los Angeles on July 20.
James H. Mackie, head of an Ohio
sporting goods house has been jailed in
Los Angeles as an embezzeler.
America is to share in the Chinese
loan and viii be permitted to enter on
equal terms with other nations
A bronze bust of James J. Hill has
been completed in Brooklyn and will
be shipped to the Seattle exposition.
The McCloud Company lumber mills,
which were recently closed as a result
of strike, are again running full blast.
Reports filed with the Board of Equal
ization in California shoNs large profits
by railroads for the year ending June
30. 1909.
Lieutenant Arthur Wilson, Sixth
Cavalry, who was wounded in the en-
counter with Jikiri in the Philippines,
is recovering.
One person was killed and six injur-
ed in an automobile accident in San
Diego by the crashing of motor car
into an automobile.
Horticulturists of Boston have pro-
nouneed Luther Burbank S new 'Ewon-
der berry a failure, but the inventor s
faith IN it is still strong.
Skin grated from an amputated leg
saved the life of George Stockner of
Portland, who was frightfully burned
about the face and body by an explo-
sion
The engagement of Miss Fernando
Wanamaker, granddaughter of John
Nanamaker, to Arturo Hereen, son of
Count Hereen. has been announced in
Paris.
Don Jaime, son of Don Carlos of
Bourbon, the pretender to the Spanish
throne, who died recently, left Paris
Immediately after his fathers death
for Varez.
George d. Collins, who was recently
sentenced to San Quentin on a perjury
charge, has been disbarred from prac-
rIeing law in future in the State of
California
The brother of Lorena de La Mon
tanya, who committed suicide on July
:, will contest her will, in which she
left her estate of $4,000 to another
brother and two friends.
George Ningfeld, the Goldfeld multi
millionaire, has been sued for s7,0o0,0o0
by May Barrie, the woman who has been
for several years seeking to establish
the fact that he failed TO make good
his promise to marry her
President Taft has received MANY
pleas from club women throughout the
country demanding pure whisky in the
interest of the pure food law, which
they wish to see upheld.
The English shipbuilding firm. which
obtained the contract for rebuilding the
navy of Spain has taken possession of
the arsenals at Ferrol and Cartagena,
where the ships are to be built
Mrs. Vera de Mole, who was arrested
by the immigration authorities in Seat
tie on her arrival from Hongkong and
held for deportation, was released on
proving that she was an American.
The suffragettes who were recently
sent to prison in London were released
as result of a hunger strike = One
OF them, Miss Roberts, refused food for
I2o hours and IS now under medical
care.
Hobson, of Alabama, who in a speech
last February charged Ambassador
o 'Br1en with indorsing the application
of certain japanese of San Francisco to
sell liquor without license, apologized