The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-12

against the slot machine.
Circus lions broke loose and STAN
peded crowd in a Missouri town.
Memorial Day was observed in San
Francisco with impressive ceremonies.
Forty-nine marriage licenses were is
sued on the first day of June in Los
Angeles
The first carload of cantaloupes has
been shipped East from Imperial Val
ley, Cal.
Gases due to rapid decomposition
caused a coffin to explode while in
transit on a train in Texas.
An earthquake was experienced on
June / on the Morea Peninsula, Greece,
but the damage done was slight.
Governor General James f. Smith and
Mrs. Smith reached Seattle June and
proceeded directly to San Francisco.
Two inches of snow fell at LeadviIle,
Colorado, on June /, being the latest
snowfall ever recorded in that vicinity.
The Wright brothers have completed
their plans for the airship tests which
are to be made at Fort Meyer, near
Washington, D. c.
The Helig, the leading theater of
Portland, has been condemned as a
firetrap and further performances in the
building prohibited.
Booker r. Washington has revealed
the fact that Henry FL. Rogers for
many years has aided in the support
of the schools of the south.
Memorial day was observed by the
American colony at Havana. A wreath
and the colors half masted were placed
over the wreck of the Maine.
oT Dractdnn{
Lincoln, was overcome by the heat at
the ceremonies attending the unwilling
of his father s statue at Hodgenville,
Ky.
A bloody riot, in which hundreds
were seriously injured, marked the at
tempt of the company to run night
ears during the street ear strike in
Philadelphia.
The Santa Fe road is supposed to be
behind a big oil deal which has just
been closed with syndicate to develop
the promising Sunset district near
Bakersfield, Cal.
The president of the Boston Common
Council was sentenced to two years
imprisonment for grating. Two other
city offic ais received lesser sentences
for like offenses.
Portland cit zans forced the members
of the Finnish society to haul down the
red flag of anarchy which they had
hoisted beside the Stars and Stripes
on Memorial Day.
The American ambassador and Mrs.
Reid gave a reception at Dorchester
House on June l in honor of the Amer
lean delegates to the International
Chemical Congress.
1t is the belief that the recent train
robberies in the northwest was the
work of p syndicate organized to make
robbery their business and with head
quarters at Spokane.
A woman became suddenly insane on
a ferry boat crossing from San Fran
cisco to Oakland and attempted to
throw her two foster children overheard
and then drown herself.
{ President Lawrence Lowell of Har
wards University has expressed views
on athletics and the elective system
at variance with those of his predeces-
sor, DR.. Charles w. Eliot.
The agreement between the rail
| roads controlled by E. H. Hartman
and James ]. Hill for joint use of the
! tracks leading into Seattle has been
| signed, sealed and delivered.
| A Tacoma girl is awarded $4,000 in
| a breach of promise suit against man
| who had wooed her for many years and
| then decided not to marry her because
! she had developed extravagant tastes.
Astronomer George E. Hale, director
| of the observatory at Mt. Wilson, Cal,
has been receiving many attentions at
Rome, where he went as the representa-
| tive of the American National Acad-
| envy of Sciences.
| special agent of the immigration
! Bureau arrived in San Francisco for the
purpose of compelling the steamship
companies to provide detention sheds
| that meet the requirements of the I'M
migration Officer.
| Dr. Theodore Barth, leader of one
| of the radical parties of the German
Reichstag, died at Baden Baden. He
was a great admirer of the institutions
of the United States and made several
:, long visits to this country
| Count Zeppelin IS record flight in his
airship in Germany has resulted in of
fetal action on the part of France, and
at meeting called by the Minister of
Foreign Affairs plans were drawn up
for policing the air along the country S
| bOrderi1ne.
Private John Bartlett of the Fifth
Field Artillery bequeathed his death
benefit. which is the equivalent of six
months pay, to Miss Helen Gould as
mark of respect and she has desig-
mated it as the most touching tribute
/ in her career.
The young son of Julius Kruttsehnitt,
director of maintenance of the Harri-
man lines, has been appointed to the
humble position of roadmaster on the
| Shasta division of the Southern Pa
cific that he may learn railroading from
| the bottom up.
Striking lumbermen at Sissons, CAL,
drove the guards from the powder house
and obtained possession of vast guam.
titles of dynamite. 1t is feared that
an attempt will made to blow up the
building of the company as the strikers
| are in an ugly mood
/ One million shares of United States
Steel stock will be listed on the
Bourse in Paris by syndicate formed
there in conjunction with J. P. Nor
| gan of New York The news Of this
| listing created a favorable impression
| on the Bourse and demands for par
ticipation largely exceeded the amount
| available.