The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-08

Six Methodist Episcopal deaconesses
have been graduated from the National
Training School at San Francisco.
For the second time this year frost
has damaged potatoes, beans and other
vegetables in the. San Joaquin valley,
CAL
The "Passion Play is to be pro-
dueed in San Francisco next September
under the auspices of the Franciscan
Friars.
The artists of California are to be
asked to compete for a prize for the
best design for the Portola Festival
poster
Orion Bunker, pioneer resident of
| California, fell only two feet from his
veranda, but died as result of his
injuries.
An italian boy of weak mentality was
sentenced to nine years imprisonment
for setting fire to an apartment house
in San Francisco.
Mrs. James b. Hume of Oakland was
elected president of the State Fedora
ton of Woman's Clubs at the eonven-
ton held at Del Monte.
The new mayor of Spokane, Wash,
has planned to put stop to all gam
bling in the city, and has warned all
social clubs that cardplaying must be
discontinued.
On May % the Rio Grande river
reached the highest point in its his
! tory and much damage was expected to
the surrounding country unless the
water subsidized.
The famous Mary Murphy mine at
Buena Vista, Colorado, which has pro-
dueed more than $30,G00,000 since it
has been in operation, has been sold to
an English syndicate.
The appointment of Vice President
Sinclair of the Edison Electric Com
pany to the position of manager of the
Great Western Power Company is taken
| as an indication of the close bond be-
tween the two concerns.
Loring P. Rixford has been appoint
ed city architect of San Francisco to
succeed Newton Sharp, who died re-
Gently while on trip TO New York.
Nome s gold output this year will be
approximately $5,000,000.
Clifford Hartridge, counsel for Harry
Thaw in his trials for the murder OF
Stanford White, declares that he spent
more than 100000 to protect his clients
reputation, aside from the legal ex-
| penses incident to the trial
t John Converse, of Philadelphia, adj
dressed the General Assembly of Pres
| byterians held in San Francisco, and
urged the ehnrchmen to go out of their
churches to seek sinners and not wait
| for sinners to come to them
A Dakota millionaire, with his fam
| lily, travelled to Europe in the steerage,
with an automobile in the hold, in which
| they will tour abroad. He explained
that as the steerage was good enough
/ for him when he came to America, it
was good enough now.
| Every saloon liense which was in
! force on April 80 in Chicago has been
| renewed in spite of the increased tax
/ The city has ISL saloons, and the of
/ feials believe that in future Chieago's
j income from the saloons will never fall
below $7,0oo,000 year.
Lands of the E. j. (''Lucky'') Bald
J win estate are selling rapidly, and in
dications are that the great Santa
! Anita ranch viii soon be in small par
| cells and in hundreds of hands Approx
imately $22,000,000 will be distributed
among the benefciaries of the win.
The parents of Benjamin Kreiger,
"the boy hero - of the explosion aboard
7 the battleship Georgia, have been
awarded a pension of $12 month for
the remainder of their lives, from the
date of the accident, July Is, 1907.
They reside in San Francisco
The decision of the district court Of
appeal which reversed the conviction
of Louis Glass Of the Pacific States
Telephone Company, has been traversed
in a strong and logical brief filed with
the supreme court, in which the prose-
cutor declares that the appeal judges
erred.
An attempt to have Michael ". COT
fey, the convicted boodling supervisor
admitted to bail and released from the
county Jail for medical treatment, has
been frustrated, as the city physician
insists that his alleged ailment can be
treated in the county hospital, whore
he would be in the custody of the
sheriff.
An official luncheon given in San
! Francisco by Consul-Generai Nagai in
honor of Admiral Uriu was the occa-
sion of an interesting reunion of naval
men who were al Annapolis thirty years
ago. At that time RearAdmiral Mer-
rili Miller, L. S. \. (retired). was Ad-
miral Uriu's instructor at the Naval
Academy.