The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-12
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The San Francisco mint has coined its
first issue of pennies
The labor conflict in Sweden is prov
ing question of much gravity.
A Western Hotel Press Association
has been formed in San Francisco.
Alabama has become dry" by the
latest act of the State Legislature.
A special board at Mare Island has
disrated several veterans of the eleri-
cal force.
The survey for the automobile road
to the summit of Mt. Shasta has been
completed.
The French Ambassador, NJ. Jusse-
rand, and Nine. Jusserand have sailed
for Europe.
The Van Nuys Hotel in Los Angeles,
owned by Milo Potter, has been sold
for $150,000.
President Roosevelt was the guest of
honor at public banquet at Nairoba
on August 8.
Lieutenant H. F. Wensthoff, U.S.A.,
has applied for divorce from his wife
at Cincinnati.
E. Fl. Hartman has gone to Vienna
for a course of special treatment at the
Austrian capital.
The degree of LID. was conferred
on ex-President Roosevelt by the Uni
versity of Leipsic.
The Cleveland three-cent fare ordi-
nance was defeated by vote of the
people of the city.
Governor Hughes was the speaker
at the celebration of New York day
at the Seattle fair.
President Taft will spend only one
day at San Francisco on his tour of
the West in October.
A French airship reached the height
of 800 feet near Paris beating the rec
ord of Wilbur Wright.
Count Zeppelin personally steered his
airship on July 81 for the first time
since his recent accident.
A Fresno farmer has just concluded
thirty fast, and says that he has
overcome the habit of eating.
A eloudburst at Lagos, Mexico, re
suited in much damage TO property and
the death of three children
A combination gasoline and electric
engine for use on motor ears has prov
en- a great success in Chicago.
A bronze bust of James J. Hill was
unveiled on Minnesota Day at the Seat
tie exposition by Governor johnson.
Nine. Lillian Nordica, the American
opera singer, was married in London to
George ". Young, a New York banker.
The daughters of Emperor Nicholas
went ashore at Cowes on a shopping ex-
petition and attracted much attention.
The Western Federation of Miners,
in convention at Denver, have voiced
their sympathy in the cause of social
ism.
The Portola Committee of San Fran
cisco will send twelve working girls
of the city to the Seattle fair for a
trip.
To promote the use of the wireless
telegraph. German insurance men viii
cut the rates for ships having the equip
ment
An enormous run of salmon is ON in
the northwest. Half million fish were
taken in twentyfour hours at Belling-
ham. Wash.
The wife of the captain of the Win
nebago proved heroine when the ship
was sinking near Point Arenas on
August End.
Two thousand pilgrims gathered
near Dublin, ireland, to hold eontin-
! uous prayer meeting and await the end
of the world
Francis J. HeDey has returned from
his Alaskan trip and viii proceed TO
San Francisco to act as prosecutor IN
the second Calhoun trial.
The victoria and team Of Mrs.
Timothy Guy Phelps, society woman
of Burlingame, were stolen from her
stables, during the absence of the fam
ily.
A sailor was fatally hurt on the e.
s. s. Vermont while engaged in a real
istie exhibition bout which was TO
have been used to make a moving pic
ture film.
Ten thousand dollars in cash and a
large quantity of provisions have been
sent TO the earthquake sufferers ar
Acapulco by the Federal government
of Mexico.
Railroads throughout the country are
considering the wisdom of doing bust
ness according to the calendar year,
instead of having the fiscal year end
June 80. as heretofore.
Miss Ruth Sikafoss, the Stockton
schoolgirl, arrested in San Francisco
for masauerading in male attire while
S3GDISFS4HR III SAkHo h was III SAItAco-
ed by the judge with severe repri-
mand.
Millionaire William B. Bradbury has
been remanded to the jail at San Ra-
fael to await the result of his appeal
to Governor Gillett. He was sentenced
to one year in the penitentiary for
perjury.
The fear of scandal caused Mrs.
Emma Michel of Chicago to kill her
self and her two children. when an
indiscretion committed before her mar
riage was to be communicated 10 her
children.
Free-thinkers from all political par
ties in Portugal presented petition TO
the Cortes for the abrogation Of the
existing laws of the freedom Of CON
science and for the suppression of the
religious orders in the country.
I. ". Hellman, ST., of San Francisco.
returned from a SIX months trip to
Europe and in an interview said that
F. H. Hartman has reached a position
in his career where il is no longer
Necessary for him to seek money and
the rumor that he has been working in
Europe TO interest capital in American
investments is unfounded.
Miss Jennie Belle Wolrath Of Los