The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-05-12

! Robbers looted big gambling resort
at Reno and secured $4,000
Fifty bills are yet to receive the at
tention of Governor Gillett of Califor-
MIA.
The Hamburg American liner Scan.
dia went ashore at Hongkong on
April 2S
An immense underground reservoir of
pure water has been discovered near
Los Angeles.
The Grand Parlor of the Native Sons
of the Golden West met this year at
| Marysville for the election of its off,
GERS.
The roof of the cathedral at forbes,
| Spain. collapsed while mass was be-
| ing said and nine people lost their
lives.
/ The Sacramento and Sierra Railroad
has been Incorporated for $1,000, 900
and will connect Sacramento with Lake
| Tahoe
| The London opera season opened on
| April 26 with Samson and Delilah."
| given for the first time, at the Queens
| request.
| The lumber mills at Port Gamble.
Wash, have closed down indefinitely,
| owing to the demoralized condition of
/ the lumber market.
Thousands of dollars in counterfeit
currency both of the United States and
Italy were seized by Secret Service
agents in New York
Submarines destined for the Philip
pines will be dismantled, shipped in the
hold of freighters, and reassembled
when they reach their destination.
Statehood for Arizona and New Mex
leo will not be considered at the spe-
cial session of Congress, bat will be
taken up by the House in December.
Mischa Elman. the Russian boy vio-
linist, was given an enthusiastic re-
ception at all three of the concerts at
which he appeared in San Francisco.
The captain and a crew of seven
men persisted in disaster on the Mis-
sissippi river when the towboat Eagle
sunk about forty miles from New Or
leans.
Wilbur Wright has sold the Italian
rights to his aeroplane for s200, 900 to
syndicate which will Immediately
begin the construction of military ma
chimes.
The japanese training squadron was
given an enthusiastic welcome at Los
Angeles, but the Federal greeting was
reserved till the ships reached San
Francisco.
Paris merchants deny that they in
tend to aid the customs officials in
| New York by keeping them informed
/ as to the purchases of their Ameri-
| can customers.
As result of blunder in filing
prescription, druggist in New York
will be forced to pay $4,000 and $3.50
| for DOCTORS bills, for the consequent
illness of Mrs. Edith Dreyer.
| Members of the boodling Board Of
Supervisors have been called as wit
nesses for the State in the Calhoun
trial. McGushin pleaded innocence,
but the others confessed their crimes.
Mrs. Maria Antonio Arguella Wilcox,
who died recently in Los Angeles, left
an estate of $2,000,000. Her son gets
an extra $4,000 from the estate for
not having married during his mother S
lifetime.
The tariff officials of the Hill and
Hartman roads are attempting to ar
range a comprehensive scheme of
freight rates which shall apply from
Il
Coast points.
| Josiah Hail. Jr., has been acquitted
of the murder of his father in San
Francisco. The jury held that the
shooting was justifable. The boy kill
ed his father to prevent his mother be-
ing murdered with an AK
Broker w. A. Muir a former mem
Der of the San Francisco Stock Ex-
change. has been formally charged
with ny-embezziement He was
brought back from Denver on chargc
of defrauding his customers
George Laubenthal, the fake naval
officer, who was apprehended in San
Jose, as deserter, when he was posing
as recruiting officer of the United
States Navy, has proved to be an old
onender as passer of fictitious
checks
1t is probable that Detective ST.
Clair Hodgkins. who was accidentally
shot in the throat by his wife, who
engaged in pistol duel with a foot
pad who had attacked the detective.
viii never regain the use of his vocal
chords.
A big mass meeting at San Rafael
was held, as first step in a deter
mined move on the part of the resi-
dents of Marin County to establish an
effectual boycott on the japanese, as
safeguard against the Japanizing OF
the community.
1t was decided at the Native Sons
convention that hereafter no liquors
OF any kind would be used at anv ban
| que by that organization. The con
ventlon will meet next year at Tahoe.
and the celebration of Admission Dav
sentemher 9, viii be held at San Jose,
The Kaiser has again stirred the crit.
les by his proposition to sell off some
Oh ms spare castles He has placed five
] II his forty palaces on the market