The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-07-16

Epes Randolph has been removed as
president of the Hartman line in
Mexico.
The new charter has gone into effect
at Palo Alto and the place no longer |
ranks as a city.
The National Association of Suf
| fragettes held its forty.first annual
convention at Seattle.
A big gold strike has been repotu-
ed from the Philippines from the
Camarines and the Benguet Provinces.
| Interstate Commerce Commissioners
| Franklin X. Lane will visit England
where he will make study of terminal
| charges.
Mrs. George De Mar, society woman
of Kansas City, was married recently
in London to the son of Lord Henry
Somerset.
The robbery of jewels valued at
100000 from a restaurant was re.
ported to Scotland Yard by traveller
from Paris.
Mrs. Gould sent gifts from Tiffany's
to the courthouse attaches who were
courteous to her throughout her trial
for divorce.
The anti-gambling law passed by the
California State Legislature at its last
session is to be tested in the courts of
San Francisco.
The body of F. B. Shepherd, who was
lost in the Yosemite valley, early in
June, has not been recovered, though
the United States troops are still search
ing for it.
A disastrous fire of unaccountable
origin swept over the grain fields of
the San Fernando Mission and laid
bare 5000 acres of wheat and barley
valued at $4,000.
The cable-steamer Colonia has sailed
from London with 1000 miles of cable
on board to lay the Commercial Com
pany's new line between New Found
land and New York.
Maritime customs in the Sungari river,
China, have been opened to interna.
tional trade. This step abrogates the
treaty of Aigun. The Amur river will
be opened on August first.
j, ). G. Chapman, petty officer on the
i cruiser Maryland, nearly lost his life as
result of diving into the bay at Mare
Island after a money box which he
had dropped overheard from a launch
Work ON the million dollar U. s.
: Grant hotel in San Diego has been re.
sumed after being in an unfinished
: stage for a year. Money for its com
: pletion has been furnished by the local
e banks.
r The river steamer Iselton, of the
California Transportation Company
: valued at 100000 burned to the
|, waters edge and advices from Sacra-
I mento are to the effect that she was
+ not insured.
:. Complications have followed the
j. failure of the Cuban Senate to pass
/ the annual budget and President Gomez
n has issued decree making effective
0 Governor Magoon's budget of 1908 and
It 1909 amount to $24,2S5,000.
General Franklin Bell, chief of staff
l. in speech before the Army Service
e Schools at Fort Leavenworth, declared
o that indications of war existed at pres
q ent and insisted that the day of in
e ternational peace was far off.
Horse owners throughout California
i are protesting against the recommends
d ton of the State Veterinarian that al
It watering troughs shall be abolished a:
V the most effective means of prevent
j. ing the spread of disease among horses
Mrs. Lorena de La Montanya, well
J. known San Francisco woman, shot her
d self the day she received the fna
l. degree of divorce from her husband
n but the motive for the deed is shroud
If ed in mystery as friends claim that she
was in no way affected by the releas,
t. from her husband
"A The murder of Miss Caroline Brasch
n. cashier of Gray Brothers in San Fran
+o cisco, by a dissatisfied laborer, is t
- have the effect of institutng reforr
N and forcing legislation in the matte
of pay checks and other unsatisfaC
IN tory methods obtaining among cor
a. tractors in their dealing with unol
~ ganized labor.
\ pending an appeal, has disappeared an
!, his bond of $4,000 has been forfeited.
NC The University of California has e.
-. tablished school of Agriculture whic
% plans to give instruction in practic;
"a farming to boys who have graduate
-, from the grammar school, and aims I
IL raise the standard of agriculture
~ California to the highest efficiency.
~ Hydrotherapy, the water cure for IL
IN insane, which is to be introduced
av the asylum at Stockton. Cal, has bee
10 found efiicacious in the East. TT
in patients are placed in tubs and wat
iii of different temperatures is permitte
es to run on them steadily for hours at
time.
:. San Rafael residents are mu,
wrought up over the appearance in
ok local paper of "want" ad adve
,he tisement inserted by japanese W
ng seeks an American wife through IL
on medium.
al According to cable dispatch frc
eat Nome, Alaska, bloody outbreak
ma Russian political prisoners occurred
vas the Yakutsk district in Siberia, a
was followed by the flight of the N
ges tineers across 2OO0 miles of wildern'
to toward Bering strait in their effort
ave reach Alaska,
ioie The Remington Typewriter Plant
the Utica, n. Y, has closed down
al, definitely because of the attitude
led the employees toward the introdueti
Ra' of new machinery to which the men
'sa, gagged in alignment on the machil
ora objected. over 5000 persons are
of employment as a result