The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-23
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~ LOS AHSclcS boN VI IOuEtetu ndo
constructed an airship that has shown
flying powers.
An insane japanese patient jumped
| to his death from the roof of a hospital
in San Francisco.
The electric lines of the Fresno Trac-
ton Company is to be taken over by
the Hartman interest within the next
few months.
! William E. Corey, the steel king, and
Mrs. Corey, were in an automobile acct
dent in Paris in which they sustained
slight injuries.
/ The nomination of Colonel Marion P
Maus of the goth Infantry to be
Brigadier General has been sent to the
Senate by President Taft.
| The Supreme Court has ordered re-
view of the Glass ease and the action
brings the telephone magnate once
more in peril of the penitentiary.
The United States government has
put a regulating hand on the Chinese
| lottery at Colon and has limited it's
operations to one drawing week.
| After July l the Naturalization Blu
reau will become part of the Depart
! ment of Commerce and Labor instead
Of being an arm of the Department of
| Justice.
| Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagh
has approved the plan to allow the sub
/ treasury at San Francisco to become
a member of the Clearing House Asso.
citation.
The battleship Oregon has been taken
from the drydock at the Puget Sound
navy yard and her place has been taken
on the dock by the Great Northern
steamer Minnesota.
ALDER Arechega, wealthy ranch
owner of Zacatecas, Mexico. was as
sassinated at his own door after ignor-
ing a threatening letter containing a
demand for money.
Oriental employees of the salmon
plants in Washington have demanded
higher pay and a general strike of
celestials and a complete tie-up of the
canneries is expected.
| Captain John NJ Bower has assumed
the superintendent of the Naval Acad
envy in place of Captain Charles Bad
ger, who has been assigned to the bat
tleship Kansas for sea duty.
j General James F. Smith declared in
an interview on his arrival in San Fran
cisco that his desire is to live hereafter
in that city and that his principal am,
bition is Federal judgeship.
American fnanciers are agreed that
Edwin Hawley would probably take
Hartman s place should continued ILL.,
health cause the railroad king to abdi-
, cate the transportation throne.
Rev. c. E. Rich died in Oakland at
almost the same hour as his former
friend and patron, DR.. Edward Everett
. Hale. under whom he had labored in
{ missionary work in Boston for many
years.
Mrs. Emily Terrill. wealthy San
Francisco woman, made sensational
: charges against her nurse in Los An
| geles whom she had arrested for rob
: bling her of trunk containing jewels
$ and several thousand dollars in money
The charge of criminal libel against
: the editors of the San Francisco Cal
S by P H. Mccarthy has been dismissed
: on the ground that sufficient evidence
0 had not been adduced to warrant 6
r holding for trial in the Superior Court
In her contest for a divorce, Mrs
0 Howard Gould admits having had al
n income of three quarters of million
5. dollars in eight years but denies having
S been extravagant, Incorporate or guilty
t of misconduct. She asks for an allow
ance of 100000 year.
II President Taft has sent the nomina
d tion of Peter D. Overfield to be judg'
e of the Third Judicial District in Alas
l. ka to the Senate. Overfeld was one
S noted football player with the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania. and has beef
n practising law at Nome for three years
It Algernon Sartoris, secretary Of tn
e legation at Guatemala and grandson
IS of the late President Grant, has resign
" ed from the diplomatic service. TIL
cause assigned is i'll health but it /
e stated that his resignation was request
o ed by the Department.
IS Thornton Hams, brother of Peter {
&c Hams, and tried with him for com
g plicity in the murder of William Ami;
has gone to sea to earn has living, an
eI his relatives claim to have no know
d edge as to his whereabouts and sd.
ii that they never expect to see or hea
Isl from him again.
E. The dismembered body of a youn
p man wrapped in oileloth, found on Eas
al Ninety-eighth street, New York, re
vealed the shocking murder of Prus
" sian named Bresin, who is supposed t
j. have been killed by rival sutton fo
er the affection of the girl with whom h
N was in love.
+ The residences of twenty-four we
IF known revolutionists and anarchists, il
ic Guiding that of Gustave Herve, tn
anti-military agitator, were searched b
If the Paris police in consequence of TIL
Sc systematic cutting of telegraph wire
s. which is of daily occurrence latel
a throughout France.
it The new anti-cigarette law which ha
al gone into effect in Washington, place
lie cigarettes absolutely under the ban an
S. under the law any one who has ther
ID in his possession is guilty of misdt
10 meanor. The Alaska Yukon-Pa E.
Sc position police viii enforce the la7
10 strictly and no one will be permitte
st to smoke a cigarette on the grounds.
y 1t has just been learned that Mar
x Agnes Ruiz, correspondent in the Ne
IS York divorce case of Alfred Gwynn
Vanderbilt committed suicide early i
% May, following Vanderbilt IS desertio
m of her. The facts concerning her deaf
in in London We're suppressed and hav
d, just come to light. Mrs. Ruiz divorce
lg husband was former attache of tn
ly Cuban Legation at Washington.