The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-09-15
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Orville Wright made flight of fifty
two minutes at Berlin.
The San Francisco assessment has
been shown to be fully up to the 60
per cent. standard.
The Crown Prince of Abyssinia has
invited Roosevelt to join him in a hunt
for a white elephant.
Mrs Grace Prowitt, bride of two
months of Tacoma, lost her life when
a pleasure boat capsized.
Half of the town of lula, in the
state of Tamaulipas, Mexico, was en-
quilted by terrible flood.
The freshmen won the rush at Stan
ford University at the annual contest
on the campus on September 4.
Ralph Tozer, former newspaper
man, attempted to take his life in San
Francisco during a fit of insanity.
Canada is anxious to have her own
fleet and wishes British ship builders
to locate yards on Canadian territory.
1t is rumored that Mabelle Gilman
Corey will return to the stage because
society abroad has refused to accept
her.
President Taft made record shot
on the golf links when he holed out
the brassy shot at a distance of 40
yards.
AS the outcome of government inter
vention the Labor Federation called off
the strike in Stockholm on Septem
Der 6.
Two public building projects in San
Francisco, the Lowell High School and
an Armory, involve an expenditure Of
81, 100000.
Henry Weinstock, State Commission
er of California, has returned from
abroad where he went to investigate
labor conditions.
According to John D. Crimmins, who
has lust returned from abroad, Ireland,
is returning to prosperity under the
wise legislation enacted during the last
decade.
Edward L. Livermore, property man
at the Princess Theater in San Fran
cisco, was killed by his brother-in-law
following quarrel over an estate set
Element.
The constitutionality of the law in
Illinois of forbidding the employment
of women for more than ten hours
day is being attacked by a leading
law firm of the state.
The high mortality returns of the
early part of last week among the
children of Chicago exceeds that of
last year, being 80 per cent. of the
mortality of the week.
The highest meteorological and as
/ Economical observatory on the Western
continent will soon be in place on the
top of Mt. Whitney, Cal, $4,000 feet
above the level Of the sea.
Two women became insane in Los
Angeles after attending a meeting Of
an East Indian cult. The women were
sisters, and it was necessary to over
power them to take them to the re-
ceiving hospital
The life Of valuable horse which
became stuck in quicksand at Jackson,
California, was saved by the local fire
department using the fire hose in sluic-
ing the sand away from the horse suf6
GENTLY for it to extricate itself.
Arthur W. Boyle, guest at the st.
Francis, was prevented from committing
suicide because Of the receipt of a note
he had written to a storage company,
asking them to turn over his trunks to
an aunt, as he was going to kill him
self.
Notwithstanding the rush orders
placed by the railroads for thou
| sands of new cars, it is feared there
viii not be equipment enough to move
the enormous crops and supply the
country with its business for shipments
of ever kind.
The Atlantic armored cruiser squad
| ron, consisting of the New York, the
North Carolina, and the Montana, has
been ordered TO New Orleans for the
purpose of being at that port on the
arrival of President Taft and his party
on October 80.