The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-04-10
Condensed News of
World, From Files

heavy loss.
Colonel Goethals has left New York
for the Canal Zone
President Taft drew his first salary
of s5625 on April /.
High School students of Oakland.
Cal, viii test the new fraternity Law.
DIR. Edmoads of Sitka will accom-
pany Captain Amundsen on his polar
expedition.
Langham, the San Francisco letter
box burglar, is identified as convict
from Texas.
The Wisconsin Legislature passed a
bill making the penalty for kidnapping
life Imprisonment.
Helen Emery becomes subject of
the Mikado through her marriage with
the japanese Aoki.
A Georgia minister swindled people
to the extent of 100000 by the sale
of worthless mining stock.
Captain William B. Moore, founder
of Skaguay, and a pioneer steamboat
man, died in British Columbia.
Mrs. Maurice Schweitzer of San
Francisco lost $4,000 pearl neck
lace while shopping in Chicago.
The electric power plant connected
with the Bonanza King mine IN Trim
ity County was destroyed by fire.
Five suspensions have followed at
the University of California as re-
suit of the hazing of a student.
Opium was barred from importation
into the United States, except for
medicinal purposes, after April /.
Three men were killed in Los An
geles as the result of the eollapsing OF
a Jail wall which was being RACED.
An Italian at San Pedro was killed
as the result of blow from the fist
of man with whom he was arguing.
Six hundred optimists met at dim
per at the WaldorfAstori in New
York. Senator Nixon Of Nevada
spoke.
A laborer at Salem. Ore, unearthed-
ed $4,000 which had been buried for
thirty years, and decamped with the
treasure.
The freshmen of the University OF
California won in the track meet with
the Stanford freshmen by a score Of
80 to A3.
The Duke of Abercorn has sent an
invitation to Roosevelt TO visit Rho
desia. which the ex-President is forced
to decline.
Two convicts escape from Folsom,
swim the American River and get away
in the brush. Both We're serving terms
for robbery.
Fred Stratton, Collector OF the Fort
of San Francisco, says that opium
upon which duty has been paid is not
liable to seizure.
A donation of $3.50 for the students
infirmary of the University OF Cali
fornia was received from Shima, the
Japanese potato king.
The Balstural Golf Club house at
Newark. Y. j., was burned, and sew
eral members and servants barely es-
capped with their lives.
A fine mirage was seen off Point
Iona lighthouse, near San Diego,
which consisted of a vision of big
castle and of large city.
An apology will follow the arrest IN
Pittsburg of a prominent Chinese mer-
chant of. Vancouver, as a result OF
the protest of the Chinese Minister.
Captain Amundsen will meet Nan
sens famous ship Fran at Nome and
will enter the Arctic Ocean through
Bering Sea in his expedition to the
North Pole.
The gums which ex-President Roose-
Welt will use OH his hunting trip are
equipped with silencers which will in
sure his making new records IN big
game hunting.
The mechanical harshness of the
photograph viii be eliminated by re-
cent invention by DR.. John Vahmater
of New Jersey after ten years of labor
on the device.
There will be a technical fight in
the Sothern divorce case which was
filed by Virginia Harmed Mrs. Soth-
ern) in Reno recently. The case will
be viewed as a test of Nevada's d.
vorce laws.
A. L. Conrad of Red Bluff has laid
claim to 100000 inches of the Saera-
mento river. 1t is the biggest water
location ever made in that part Of the
State and is made in the interest of
the Iron Canyon irrigation project.
President Taft has resumed his golf
playing, which has been interrupted
during the past months, and played
spirited game with Vice President
Sherman on the Chevy Chase links.
s. c. Pooler, a Democratic politician
of New Mexico, was assassinated in
his home at Albuquerque, and his slay-
er was brought TO the Territorial PEN
itentiary to prevent his being lvnched.
Discriminatory and unjust rates are
alleged against the Southern Pacific
and the Nevada, California and Oregon
Railroads by the Nevada Railroad Com
mission and in the hearing before
special commissioner of the Interstate
Commerce Commission Reno has sought
better rates.