The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-07-01


to take advantage of the share to which
she was entitled under the convention
with China.
Ex-President Roosevelt sent two
baby antelopes by express, from Africa,
to his daughter, Mrs Nicholas Long
worth.
False rumors of the critical illness
of E. H Hartman in Vienna caused
much agitation in Wall Street till they
were officially denied.
Calhoun's eounseI say that Judge
Lawlor is biased and that they do not
want the next trial in his court. They
also object to Heney.
The Union Oil Company of California
will spend a million dollars in the
construction of a plant at San Pedro
during the coming year.
Mrs. Mary Low Dickinson, the au
, thoress and founder of the International
Order of Kings Daughters, is seriously
i'll at her home in New York.
Richard T. Schipley, a freight solic
itor for the Portland Steamship Com
pany, committed suicide in San Fran
cisco because of domestic troubles.
The ruins of the old county jail in
San Francisco, together with a lease
of the lot on which they stand, was
auctioned off recently by Mayor Taylor
The international Reform Bureau are
preparing to launch a great national
campaign to spread the movement of
total abstinence throughout the coun-
try.
The immensely of the volume of fruit
shipped yearly from the orchards of the
Pacific Coast is attes5ed by the fact
that the Hartman lines carry nearly
$4,000 carloads year.
Mason City, Iowa, which has $1,000
inhabitants, and no saloons, finds that
prohibition is good economy. as it costs
only one-ffth as much TO police it as
any city in Iowa having saloons.
Professor Howison, head Of the de-
partment of philosophy at the Univer-
sity of California, will represent that
college at the International Conven-
ton of Universities in Leipsic in July.
President Diaz of Mexico has ex-
pressed desire to meet President Taft
for personal interview at some point
on the boundary between the United
States and Mexico during the latter
part of this year
The Western Pacific tug Virgil Bogue,
which is TO be used at San Francisco
for moving vessels at the Western Pa
cific wharf and towing ear floats, has
been launched at Long Beach, and will
reach the Coast in July.
Robert S. Symington, one of the Cal
houn jurors, has taken, serious excep-
ton to the remarks of Francis J.
Heney, the prosecuting attorney, saying
that his address contained fragrant in
suits and reflected on their honesty.
A communication signed by Arthur
Prague, manager of the Spokane News
boys Association expressing regret ON
the death of Rev. Edward Everett Hale,
was read to the Senate and will be
printed in the Congressional Record
Governor ,McCord of Arizona, who
died recently, is said to have been a
bigamist and a suit has been fled in
volying claim that his first wife was
living and undivorced when he mar
ried the third.
The prospects of American partiei-
patton in The Hankow railroad loan
are regarded In Paris as having i'm
proved considerably as America has in
sisted that she be admitted to this
transaction on an equal footing with
other nations
Thomas Jordan, a cattleman of
Oklahama, was acquitted of a charge
of robbing a bank at Collinsville.
Jordan had been refused money by the
bank where he had $500 on deposit
and he was arrested for forcing the
cashier to cash his check at the point
of revolver
Henry Fletcher, the American
Charge d 'Affaires at Picking. has re-
iterated the protest of his government
against the efforts of German inter
ests to force a ratification of the Ger
mani French British loan of $27, 900, 900
for the construction of the Hankow-
Szechuen railroad.
Colonel William F Tucker and his
wife. who is the daughter of General
A. Logan, will probably settle their do
nestle difficulties by the Colonel per-
hitting her to get a divorce without
opposition provided Mrs Tucker limits
her charges in her bill of particulars
to desertion.
The thirty survivors of the crew of
1853 men who manned the Kearsarge
during her famous sea fight with Con-
federate ship Alabama celebrated the
forty fifth anniversary Of that encoun-