The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-03-20

threatened by. Max Thanner, another
employee, who is partially insane
through dissipation.
On kissing the Bible, after taking
the oath of allegiance, President
Taft's lips touched the significant
prayer of Solomon in the third chap
ter of the First Kings.
Allen Beatty, a safe expert, was ar
rested in Ohio on suspicion of being
the man who looted the Monrovia Bank
of San Francisco of $4,000 in securi-
ties three months ago.
Dominador Gomez, the Labor leader
in Manila, is barred from the City
Board, because he has been convicted
of crime. The ruling was made by
Governor General Smith.
| Through the skill of a mining en-
gineer, NJ. NJ. johnson, two miners
were rescued from death near Salt
Lake City, after being imprisoned
underground for fifty hours.
new clew in the Croker pearl rob-
berry in connection with the arrest of
waiter at the Hotel st. Francis leads
to the belief that the famous pearl neck
lace was sent by express to Prussia.
Henry Clay Bates, noted authority
on Spanish law, and who was head of
judicial district at Ilolo while Taft
was Governor of the Philippines, dies
after two years illness at his home
in Berkeley, California.
The fact has just been made public
through the Treasury Department that
the sum of $4,000 was appropriated
by Congress in July, 1902, for expenses
incident to the last illness and burial
of President Mckinley.
Marines may not be reassigned to
duty on warships, despite the provi-
sion of Congress which says that APP
preparations for the maintenance of the
Marine Corps must not be used unless
marines are aboard ships.
The suit of the United States Gov
eminent against the Standard Oil re-
suited in a verdict of "Not guilty, -
and the famous $29,000,000 fine the
government surrendered on the ruling
that no offense was proved.
A second robbery at the Hotel ST
Francis in San Francisco during the
progress of a smart society function
/, led to the arrest of waiter, who is
suspected of being connected with the
theft of the Crocker pearls on the
night of the Mardi Gras bill.
} The proposition to put a tax on cof-
fee stirs a protest as unjust to con
sumers, detrimental to trade and irri
tating to the masses. 1t would result
I 70 ,11\s
but wonld not produce any material rev
enue to the government.
Through the Peace Society. Of which
he is president, Andrew Carnegie gave
5 out the statement that an alliance
!. should exist between Great Britain and
/. America to prevent future conflicts:
t and which would serve to further naval
; expansion in the interests of interna
tional peace.
A revolution in the manner Of dis
7 ciplining students at Stanford Univer
g sity is expected. A student BODY OF
e twenty members to be known as the
] Student Conference will be chosen by
the students to act as a medium
e through which undergraduates will ex
: press their ideas to the faculty.
: Scandal is precipitated in church anf
social circles by the determination OF
Gladys Emery, daughter of an Episco
: pal arehdeacon of San Rafael, to marry
4 japanese who claims to be a relative
: of ex-Ambassador Aoki. Her mothe,
: uphoids her, her father has left home
IN consequence, and the brother of tn.
t japanese violently opposes the unior
and declares that thew ara farsoars i, -
n not of distinguished lineage, as Aok
: pretends.