The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-07-14
Condensed News From
Latest Coast Files.

| IN the San Francisco courts.
The fishing boat Emelie Marie has
| been lost off the coast of Iceland.
| Epes Randolph has been removed as
president of the Hartman line in
/ Mexico.
The new charter has gone into effect
/ at Palo Alto and the place no longer
ranks as city.
The National Association of Suf-
fragettes held its forty-frst annual
| convention at Seattle.
| A big gold strike has been reporG-
ed from the Philippines from the
Gamarines and the Benguet Provinces
IL. Interstate Commerce Commissioner
| Fsanklin X. Lane will visit England
whese he will make a study of terminal
| charges.
The robbery of jewels valued at
| 100000 from restaurant was re-
| ported to. Scotland Yard by traveller
! from Paris
Mrs. Gould sent gifts from Tiffany s
to the courthouse attaches who were
courteous to her throughout her trial
| for divorce
The gambling law passed by the
/ California State Legislature at its last
| San Francisco.
The body of F. B. Shepherd, who was
! lost in the Yosemite valley, early in
| June, has not been recovered, though
| the United States troops are still search
| ing for it.
| A disastrous fire of unaccountable
| the San Fernando Mission and laid
| al
valued at $4,000.
| The cable-steamer Colonia has sailed
from London with 1900 miles of cable
on board to lay the Commercial Com
! pany's new line between New Found
land and New York.
Maritime customs in the Sungari river.
China, have been opened TO interna
tional trade This step abrogates the
/ treaty of Aigun. The Amur river will
| be opened on August first.
4 S. G. Chapman, petty officer on the
cruiser Maryland, nearly lost his life as
| a result of diving into the bay at Mare
Island after a money box which he
] had dropped overheard from launch.
Work on the million-dollar u. S.
| Grant hotel in San Diego has been re-
sumed after being in an unfinished
/ stage for a year. Money for it's com
pletion has been furnished by the local
| banks.
The river steamer Iselton, of the
California Transportation Company
valued at 100000 burned to the
waters edge and advices from Sacra-
mento are to the effect that she was
not insured.
I Complications have followed the
failure of the Cuban Senate to pass
the annual budget and President Gomez
has issued a decree making effective
\ Governor Magoon's budget of 1908 and
1909 amount to $24,2s5,000.
General Franklin Bell, chief of staff
in speech before the Army Service
Schools at Fort Leavenworth, declared
: that indications of war existed at pres
ent and insisted that the day of in
ternatienal peace was far off.
Horse owners throughout California
are protesting against the recommenda
ton of the State Veterinarian that al
watering troughs shall be abolished al
the most effective means of prevent
ing the spread of disease among horses
Mrs. Lorena de La Montanya, well
known San Francisco woman, shot her
: self the day she received the fna
degree of divorce from her husband
but the motive for the deed is shroud
: ed in mystery as friends claim that she
was in no way affected by the release
! from her husband.
II The murder of Miss Caroline Brasch
cashier of Gray Brothers in San Fran
cisco, by dissatisfied laborer, is t
: have the effect of instituting reform
| and forcing legislation in the matte
of pay checks and other unsatisfac
, tory methods obtaining among con
= tractors in their dealing with unor
/ ganized labor.
pending an appeal, has disappeared anc
I his bond of. $4,000 has been forfeited.
The University of California has es
9 tablished a school of Agriculture which
plans to give instruction in practica
e farming to boys who have graduated
from the grammar school, and aims t
/ raise the standard of agriculture il
a California to the highest efficiency.
/ Hydrotherapy, the water cure for tn,
III insane, which is to be introduced a
: the asylum at Stockton. Cal. has beer
: found efficacious in the East TIL
patients are placed in tubs and waite
q of different temperatures is permitted
z to run on them steadily for hours at
a time.
!. San Rafael residents are mucl
i wrought up over the appearance in
!. local paper of WANT ad adver
tisement inserted by japanese VIII
I seeks an American wife through thi
! medium
According to a cable dispatch from
= | Nome, Alaska, a bloody outbreak o
I Russian political prisoners occurred il
}, the Yakutsk district in Siberia, an
was followed by the flight of the mu
Z tineers across 1000 miles of wilderness
y toward Boring strait in their effort t.
y reach Alaska.
~ The Remington Typewriter Plant a
s Utica, n. Y, has closed down in
. ! definitely because of the attitude o
the employees toward the introduction
n OF new machinery TO which the men en-
q gagged IN alignment on the machine
e, ~e55Jected- Over 1000 persons are on
OF employment as a result.
u call on national depository bank
le for a return to the Treasury of tn
Government funds aggregating $25
L 100000 has been made by Secretar
~ Mae eagh. The call will PRACTICAL
:. Wipe out all of the deposits of Gov