The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-23

The papers of the Calkins syndicate
have been ordered sold.
Rear Admiral John J. bunker, re-
tired, IS seriously i'll at his home in /
Pasadena.
The Union Pacific Overland had a /
narrow escape from destruction bv a /
waterspout near Paxton. Neb.
John D. Ryan has been elected presi.
dent OF the Amalgamated Copper Com
pany to succeed the late H. Ii. Rogers.
James Dunsmuir has asked to be re-
heved from the duties of his Office as
Lieutenant Governor of British Column
bia.
Construction of new and Important
buildings viii be begun at the Preside
of San Francisco on July / bv author
lzatlon of the War Department,
William Jennings Bryan Jr. is to
marry Miss Helen Berger, daughter of
Alexander Berger, a prominent grain
man OF the Northwest, on June "a.
The cruisers West Virginia. MARYLAND
and California have reach Mare Island
from Bremerton where they will under
go repairs before leaving for Australia.
An insane Korean ran amuck in a
crowded street in San Francisco and
shot two men and killed himself. Both
OF his victims were seriously wounded.
The engagement has been announced
of Rieard d. Gatewood, Assistant Naval
Constructor at the Mare Island Navy
Yard, and Miss Ida Pattiana, a society
girl of Alameda.
The beautiful young wife of John
Wright Hunt; the aged millionaire
owner of the Hotel Angelus in Los An
geles, deserted him in Paris and eloped
| with penniless Russian adventurer.
Three deputy registrars, James Bow
| Ian, William Bausman and James
O'Hea of San Francisco, were seriously
| injured by the crashing of a derrick
| through skylight in the old City Hail.
| WI Ting Fang, Chinese Minister at
Washington, was given an enthusiastic
welcome by his countrymen at Panama
| ON his arrival there en- route to Peru
| to which country he is also accredited.
| Arrangements have been made by
the Arctic Club of America for an ex.
petition to go to the relief of DR.. A.
Cook. the explorer who has been in the
Arctic region for two years and I'M
/ heard of since March, 1908.
| The cruisers Tennessee, Washington,
| Colorado and Pennsylvania, will under
60 an overhauling at the Puget Sound
Navy Yard before joining the squadron
| which win mobilize in San Francisco
Bay in August for the fall cruise.
The Supreme Court has upheld the
decision giving to the City of San
Pedro large amount of disputed ter
ritory known as Terminal Island which
has been claimed by the city of Long
| Roach al "a
| 1905.
j. F. Harms, a United States meat
| inspector in the East st. Louis pack.
ing houses, has resigned, and has de-
manded of Secretary of Agriculture
Wilson, an investigation of the meat
inspection system of the National
Stockyards.
Much mystery surrounds the death
of Mrs. Caroline Steinman, of San Fran
cisco, whose body was found floating
in the bay near Fort Point Murder
suicide or accidental drowning appear
equally probable to the detectives
working on the case.
A proposition to do away with schoo
text books and other bound volumes
and substitute for them printed leaf
let's, compiled by local educators. ha
been officially submitted to the Schoo
Book Investigating Committee of thu
Board of Education in Chicago.
The Dominion government is to TAX
| over the Esquimalt Naval Station ant
| it will be used as the headquarters il
, British Columbia for the lighthouse ant
/ fisheries protection service and the war
ship to be brought from Great Britain
as training ship and fishery cruiser.
/ Russia has protested against Turkisl
/ aggression in Northwestern Persia
: Turkey has attempted the occupation
' of the district of Urumiah, which woul
: be of great strategical Importance, a
the Turkish army, in case of war, coul
: operate against the Russian line o
9 | fortresses.