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

HONOLULU, HAWAII TERRITOI
Six small boys who aided in the cap
ture of the Omaha train robbers have
given strong evidence against them.
Rockefeller is to build a private
chapel on his estate at Pocantieo Hills,
New York, which will cost s25o,00o.
Melting snow has caused unusually
high water in the Northwest and Sc
rious floods are feared in the State of
Washington.
The San Joaquin valley has again
been flooded from a break in the levee
and rich tract of land has been com
pletely submerged.
WI Ting Fang, the Chinese Minister
to the United States, has gone TO Peru
to investigate the condition of his
countrymen there.
Captain j. Walter johnson, secretary
of the Masters, Mates and Pilots AS
ISOLATION, has been arrested for short
age in his accounts.
G. Nathan, the son of the Mayor of
Rome, has come to San Francisco to
make his home and practice his pro-
fession of mining engineer.
The son Of the late Colonel F. NJ.
Chapman, young man of wealth of
| Los Angeles, married a pretty shop
girl after meeting her but once.
The State House at Montgomery,
Ala, the first Capital of the Confeder-
the Jefferson Davis anniversary.
A murderer in Hamilton, Ohio, was
readily found by bloodhounds when the
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of the man who committed the crime.
The American naval attache at Rome,
| acting for the subscribers for American
relief to the sufferers from the Messina
earthquake as turned over 400 more
| huts for the use of. the survivors.
Luther Welch, who, four years ago,
| submitted to stretching process to
| bring his height up to that required
| for admission to the Naval Academy,
| graduated number four out of this
years class of ia.
The Newport News Shipbuilding and
Drydock Company have announced a
contract with the Southern Pacific
| Company for the construction of four
passenger and freight steamers to run
from New York to the Gulf port.
| According to declaration of AM
bassador O'Brien, made at a dinner in
his honor at Toxic by the American
Asiatlc Association, America needs
trade ships and not battleships to pre-
serve her supremacy on the Pacific
| Ocean.
William Jennings Bryan has again
! begun to show active interest in the
affairs of his party, and has sounded
the slogan for 1912, urging the Demo
Gratis to begin at once to select candi-
dates for Congress. His advice is is
sued through the columns of the Com
moner.
| The first trial under the new Califor-
MIA State law making the desertion of
| wife Or children felony has been be-
| gun in Los Angeles. The law was pass
ed by the last legislature and became
effective on May 10. The maximum
sentence is two years in the peniten
tiary or fine of $1,000.
A government dredger, working in
the Delaware river near Chester, Pa
brought up several pieces of armol
such as was worn by English soldiers
a century ago. The discovery has led
to the belief that one of the English
boats which brought gold to America
to pay the soldiers in the war of 1SIl
may have been sunk at this point.
All commercial interests ON the Pa
elfic Coast have decided to join with
the traffic bureau against the railroads
IN their attempt to throttle industry
on the Coast by creating traffic fol-
themselves from Chicago to the Spokane
Reno and Phoenix distribution terri
tory and to favor manufacturers of the
| NJ ldHin West itb faS hot III
manufacturing on the Coast.
Crowds of curious people have beer
standing daily before Holbien s Dor
trait of Christina, Duchess of Milan
in the National Gallery, wondering how
soon 1t will go to America, which i:
regarded in London as its ultimate
destination. The period of option fol-
its purchase has almost expired and the
promised subscriptions are nowhere
near the purchase price of $350,0O0.
Horace Greeley Robinson, who was ar
rested in New York on complaint OF
II. S. Book of San Jose, Cal, one OF
the many persons in all parts of the
world to whom Robinson had sold stoct
of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph
company which they never received
was found to have jumped his bail ano
escaped when the sheriff of Santa Clara
County arrived with extradition papers
Russia has put the ban on atheists
as the new religious law gives liberty
of thought to all except unbelievers
The government draft placed certain
| restrictions on the changing of one s
faith, but the committee has introduced
notifications removing such restrc
tions. The committee discussed the
position of atheists and decided that
every man must have a positive re
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