The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-07-17


been reported missing, has been located
A play written by Mrs. CORVALLIS
West was given its initial performance
in London recently.
Labor, charitable, beneficiary and
educational organizations are to be
exempt from the corporation tax.
After eight years of legal fighting
the City of Oakland won its case over
the, Contra Costa Water Company.
The health of E. Fl. Hartman is re,
ported as much improved by friends
who have seen him recently in Vienna
Lieutenant E. Brillhardt, attached to
the destroyer Preble, was seriously in
iured from falling from bicycle at
Mare Island.
|. 1t has been reported on good author
ity that Luke E. Wright of Tennessee
Supreme Bench.
|, The red spider, one of the most dam
aging pests known to hop growers, has
made its appearance in the hop fields
near Sacramento.
The opening of the barracks erected
by the United States for the Samoan
soldiers at Page Page was celebrated
as a social event.
Herman Shainwald, a well known
San Francisco business man, was
seriously injured in an automobile ac.
cident on July 4th.
The revolutionists in Colombia have
seized the town of BarranquilIa and have
named new executive in the person
of Gonzales Valencia.
The old Latin quarter in Paris is to
be replaced in the near future by mod.
ern and hygienie buildings which will
be erected in the section by municipal
order.
According to advices from Poland
the funeral of Madame Modieska is
to be made state affair and the body
is to be laid to rest in some national
building.
The coming Mexican election is
marked by much excitement a riot .hav-
ing followed a recent campaign at
Nogales which resulted in the arrest
of forty persons.
Signora Puceini, wife of the COM
poser, has been sentenced to serve five
months in prison in Rome for SANDER
ing a maid whom she drove to suicide
by her insinuations,
August Belmont, prior to his sailing
for Europe, admitted that his friend
ship for Eleanor Robson. the actress.
was srather serious, but denied his
engagement to her.
President Shaw of the American
Woman's Suffrage Association, which
has closed its convention at Seattle.
holds that the outlook for equal suf-
frage is encouraging.
A San Jose girl who was attacked
by a California mountain lion saved
her life by her dextrons use of long
hat pin, but her body was terribly
mangled before she was rescued.
Christian G. Johnson. German with
many aliases, and said to be one of the
most notorious bigamists in the history
of crime in the United States, has
been captured in San Francisco.
Mrs. silvey .Speer. Thomas, a prom
granted a divorce from her husband
with whom she eloped last year when
he was acting as her chauffeur
An epidemic of typhus fever has been
raging in Ell Paso, Texas, which has
been traced to contamination of the
water supply. The death list among the
poorer classes has been very large.
Amundsen S famous sloop the Gjoa. in
which he navigated the northwest pas
sage, has been placed in position in
Golden Gate Park, where it Will remain
as a memento of the historical event
Freedom of thought and speech with
out restriction or interference is to be
the policy OF the University of Chi
cage, which is equivalent to a declara-
ton of independence of the university
from the Baptist church.
The death sentence has been passed
upon Dario Gonzales. a Mexican mil.
lonaire. for the murder of his brother
in-law. He has also been required by
the court to pay 100000 to the widow
of the man he murdered.
Ex-President Roosevelt has been
made honorary president of the inter-
national committee in charge of the
monument in honor of John Calvin the
cornerstone of which has just been
laid at Geneva. Switzerland.
Hubert Latham. Louis Bleriot, NJ
Caherara and Count Lambert will en-
ter the contest for the $4,000 prize
which has been offered by the Daily
Mail for the first crossing of the Eng
lish channel in an aeroplare.
DR.. Maurice Baum, a well known
Young physician of San Francisco, com
mitted suicide in a hotel where he had
registered for the night, and his friends
are at loss to account for the act as
he left no word assigning a reason.
Creditors of the Pacific Market Com
pany. firm composed of n. G. Ting
Quai and c. J. Wing, in San Francisco.
fled petition in the United States
District Court asking that the concern
be adiudged an involuntary bankrupt.
A strike of the United Mine Work
ers of America. which is regarded a
contest between that organization and
the Provincial Workingmen s Associa-
ton. has taken place at the collieries of
the Dominion Coal Company at Sgd
ney. c. B.
The mystery of the shooting of
Mrs. de la Montanya has been par
tally cleared by the statements Of R.
G. Hanford and G. Whittmore who
lined with her at her apartments.
They claim that she shot herself ac-
eidentv with Hanford's pistol.
Captain Fred NJ. Munger, senior cap
tain in charge Of the Revenue Cutter
Service. has retired after forty wears