The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-09-11
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George B. Katzenstein, a California
pioneer, died at his home at Sacra
mento.
An early morning blaze on August
Goth threatened the business section OF
Seattle.
Clifford Danz, two year-old child
was killed by trolley car in San
Francisco.
Rain Kahn, Persian bandit, has
been captured by Russian punitive
expedition.
A Portland trolley car struck wagon
load of picniekers, killing one and
wounding four.
King Edward has shown marked at
tention to Maxine Elliott, the Amer
lean actress, at Marienbad
The authorities at the Matteawan
Asylum have appointed Harry Thaw
librarian of the institution.
Mrs. O. ii. p Belmont has said that
her life and fortune is to be devoted
to the cause of equal suffrage.
DR.. Carl Kurtz of Los Angeles has
been chosen president of the Pacific
Association Of Railway surgeons.
The cruiser Yorktown met with a
mishap at Hoquiam, Wash, which put
her in the dry dock for several days.
The troops of the 14th Cavalry doing
duty at Sequoia Park, Calf, have re-
turned to the Preside at San Francisco
During an electrical storm lii htning
fred three oil tanks of the Ohio Com
pany at Cygnet, causing loss of $780,
900.
Orville Wright denied that he had
been married to Miss Ada Miller of
Carson, Nevada, when interviewed in
Berlin
Ten thousand Germans in San Fran
cisco marched in the parade which
opened the Schuetzen Verein's golden
jubilee.
Nine Fabbri- Muller, the one time
famous prima donna, died in San Fran
cisco on August Both at the age of
seventy-nine.
Louis F. Haffer has been removed as
president of the Borough of the Bronx
in New York for misconduct and neg
lect of duty.
Ethel Due, seventeen year old girl,
beat the record swimming the New
York narrows from Fort Hamilton and
the Staten Island shore.
Mrs Carrie Saunders Of st. Louis
attempted to kin her FIVE children by
feeding them morphine during fit of
insanity.
K. r. Flannery, superintendent of the
registry department of the Dallas,
Texas Postofice, was shot by his
divorced wife.
A great mission bell was unveiled at
Monterey, CAL, on Aug. 20, by the
civic club on the 125th anniversary of
the death of Junipera Sierra.
Henry Francis Dougherty, mail order
" on the cruiser Colorado, has been
charged with stealing $4,000 in cash
and iewelry from his shipmates.
United States Senator Aldrich of
Rhode Island has sailed for Europe
where he will gather information re-
garding the monetary system in Italy.
Bishop Fallows of the Reformed
Episcopal Church said in an address
that spirits have intercourse with the
world and become visible to mortals.
The report that General zelaya, Pres
iueHG VI NiCdIdSud, ID eHSdStu III III
ting out a flibustering expedition is
causing uneasihess in Guatemala and
Salvador.
Earl Grey, Governor General of Can
ada, nearly lost his life while on a
hunting expedition in Alaska. He was
lost in the woods and utterly exhausted
when found.
Mrs Annie Besant, the theosophist
in an interview in San Francisco, seor'
ed viviseetionists and physicians as
cruel wretches and praised the givers
of libraries.
The landowners in the Sacramento
Valley have planned a concerted action
in the building of levees and will re-
claim a million acres of land which
are now useless.
Two large forest fires threatened Ell
Portel in Yosemite valley and after
heroic efforts to stop the flames, the
MERGED grove of big trees were saved
\ from destruction.
The mail boat Nord, running from
Calais to Dover, went ashore at the
mouth of the harbor in thick fog on
August %. Four hundred passengers
were landed in lifeboats.
Private William Lane, Company c,
22nd infantry, who deserted while on a
furlough at Fairbanks, Alaska, is being
sought for on a charge of having
embezzled $4,000 of Government funds.
A terrific rainstorm which swept
southwestern Arizona and southern Cal
ifornia on August Both undermined
miles of roadbed and paralyzed South
ern Pacific traffic between Yuma and
Salton.
Mrs. Kate Soffel, the woman who
liberated the notororius Biddle boys
from the Allegheny County jail, de-
serting her husband and children and
going with the fugitives, died in the
West Pennsylvania Hospital.
Walter Wellman who recently made
an unsuccessful attempt to reach the
North Pole in dirigible balloon return
ed to Tromsoe, Norway, leaving three
men to guard the airship at Spitzbergen
during the winter.
Samuel Gompers, the president of the
American Federation of Labor, was the