The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-10-01

comet.
Edward Morgonbanks, second Baron
Tweedmouth, died in London, Septem-
Der 10th.
j. w. Brick Of San Diego issued in.
vitations to his funeral and then com.
mitted suicide.
The 26,000ton battleship to be built
by the New York Shipbuilding Company
will be named the Arkansas.
A daring attempt was made to rob
the Denver & Rio Grande train at Lead
willie, Colo, on September 10th.
President Taft sent President Diaz a
congratulatory telegram on the occa.
sion Of his seventy ninth birthday.
| Demetry Treschenko, the murderer Of
Dorothy Malakauoff, aged ten, has been
sentenced to death in San Francisco.
George Wingfeld, the Nevada mil
lionaire, has bought new gold claims ut
] Buckhorn for which he has paid $780,.
| 900.
| A dispatch from Tifiis says that 1000
Persian brigands are massed on the
frontier and are menacing Russian
guards.
The Emanuel Walter collection of
1 anu ShtlCHtS uuNc DtCuiuC thc
property of the San Francisco Art Asso-
citation.
Claims for $l1 100000 for extra work
done in the construction of the present
subway are pending against the City of
New York.
The Point Arena Creamery, CO.
operative institution owned by Cali
fornia farmers of the vicinity, was de-
stroyed by fire.
Florence Oakley, the actress, was mar
ried secretly at San Rafael to Percival
Pryor, son of Judge Pryor, the Pasa.
dena millionaire.
!. Halley's comet has been observed at
Lick Observatory and is said to be APP
| preaching the earth at the rate of four
| million miles day.
The Atlantic submarine fleet which
: will take part in the Hudson.Fulton
celebration in New York sailed from
Newport, September 18th.
A welcome banquet to DR.. Frederick
Cook will take place at the Waldorf.
: Astoria, on his arrival in New York
under the auspices Of the Arctic Club.
Postmaster General Hitchcock has
o planned some reforms in the money
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: greater efficiency and less expenditure
The greatest military demonstration
that has ever occurred on tho border
will be made when President Taft and
President Diaz meet at FL Paso OF
October 10th.
American workmen employed in tn,
Pressed Steel Car Company plant il
Pittsburg marched behind the Stars anC
Stripes and defed the strikers to fire OF
= or insult the flag.
Upon their return from Honolulu tn,
= members of the Congressional delega
tion to Hawaii will be taken on triI
to Mt. Tamalpais by the California Pro
motion Committee.
Investigation into affairs at the Maps
Insane Asylum (Cal.) has resulted il
; the removal of Miss Ivy Kingsbury, the
= matron, and DR.. Pulsifer, one of the
resident physicians
, President Taft has placed himself OIL
, record in letter to Washington news
paper as being opposed to suffrage re
strictions intended to discriminate
against the negro race.
I. H. Jacobs, a pioneer merchant et
: San Joaquin valley and the most ex
/. tensive individual land owner of tina
. section, died at his home in San Fran
cisco on September 10th.
The Secretary of the defunct Marke
f Street Bank in San Francisco, admitted
e in court that large amount of securi
g ties are worthless and was charged will
a having dissipated the funds.
j Mrs. George Bramer, bride of three
. weeks, at Lawrence, Mass, has beer
d made heir to 100000 because of the
i kindness of her mother and herself t.
o an old man they met in Bermuda.
1t has been reported that the Swedish
. Cabinet has resolved to present bill t.
y Parliament abOlishing all order of ranl
o and grades of precedence except among
o the officers of the Army and Navy.
{ John Moore, aged 30, and Levi Hall
: aged 49, rival suitors for the hand OF
Miss Harriet Coe, rs, have become sucl
I, bitter enemies that when they met a
= her home in Los Angeles a serious fgh
|, u ensued.
v temperance campaign which prom
:, Uses to have marked effect on the con
" sumption of alcohol in Germany ha
been begun as "A result of a resolution
A adopted at the Socialist convention a
- Leipsic.
d Deputy Sheriff L. G. Wood of Sa
lie Bernadino County, Cal, permitted
e prisoner to escape in Oakland while e
route to San Quentin, but he was re
a captured before making his escape fror
N the city.
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lt prepare statement of what is needle
g in the way of increased transportatio
facilities. This list should be submit
lie ted to the Matson Navigation Compan
IT and to the American-Hawaiian CON
II pany, and those companies should b
'r asked to return an answer by Decen
'e her ], as to what they can do towar
,e meeting the conditions.
70 Give Companies a Chance.
ne "There are some who believe this
these two companies can furnish Hi
wall with the transportation faciliti,