The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-10-01
Condensed News From
Latest Coast Files

when he committed suicide by shooting
himself.
The country about Calistoga and st.
Helena, in California, has been devas-
tated by fierce forest fire.
An explosion caused by the bursting
Of steam generator at the Lurline
Baths in San Francisco, resulted in the
serious injury of two men.
William s. Porter, president of tho
Associated Oil Company of California,
was stricken with apoplexy while in
New York, but is recovering.
Eugene Pearson, the defaulting Quar-
termaster clerk of the Army Transport
Service in San Francisco, was sentenced
to one years Imprisonment at San
Quentin. His populations amounted to
over $1,000.
General Albert L. Myer, commanding
the Department of Texas, says in his
| annual report that the Roosevelt riding
1 test for officers in the army is a detri-
ment to the service rather than an aid
in increasing its efficiency.
C. G. Moore, the Special Portola Com
missioner, was sent to Europe in the in
terests of the celebration to be held at
San Francisco, has returned to London
| iioh thV Cohliucht dlttE IL suCCtSSI
visit to the principal countries.
Consul William Coffin of Tripoli re-
ports that party of French engineers
are said to have discovered phosphate
deposits there, but there is question of
their being proftably worked without
constructing a railway to the coast.
The brief honeymoon of two aged
inmates of the German Baptist Old
Peoples Home of Chicago, who were
married two weeks ago, ended tragic
ally by their both being asphyxiated
by gas
Professor Hugh ]. Baldwin, County
Superintendent of Schools of San Diego
County, and one of the best known edu.
Gators in California, was seriously in.
jured by being thrown out of wagon
drawn by runaway team.
The Anti.saloon League and the
Women 8 Christian Temperance Union
are opposed to the free distribution Of
wine by the Grape Growers Association
of California Mt the exhibit Of the Grape
Growers at Idora Park in Oakland.
Jacob Fickel, brewer of Cleveland,
Ohio, permitted his wife to go to Jail
under two.years' sentence for embez-
element, rather than give her $500 to
repay the estate Of q woman whom she
, had robbed while acting as her guard
r ian.
Lord Balfour, Of England, who is q
member Of the commission appointed
by King Edward to protect Colonial
trade, has arrived in New York on his
, way to Canada to adjust q difference
between that country and the West
Indies.
An incipient blaze on the Mayfower,
D the private car of President Taft, at
Des Moines, caused commotion among
those on the car, who were aware of the
blaze. There was practically no dam
age beyond the scorching of the wood
work.
! The official statement of the grain
harvest of Canada, which has been is
sued by the statistics department Of
the Dominion government, puts the
wheat crop at l6S,3S6,000 bushels, e
ing an average of twenty-five bushel
per acre.
The owners of foreign automobiles
who bring their machines into France
after the first of January for touring
purposes, will be taxed according to
their horsepower and lengths of soiourn
in the country. Great protest is expect
ed from foreign tourists, especially
: Americans.
The Federal Government is to be
subjected to heavy expense in freeing
Alaska of the undesirable aliens who
reached Nome some months ago after
great hardships in crossing from Sibe.
ria in open boats. They are now in
Jail at Nome and will be returned to
Russia by way of Seattle.
Postmaster General Frank IL. Hitch
cock, in speaking before the Post.
masters convention at Seattle, dis.
cussed Mt ZENITH the new policy of re.
trenchment inauguTated under instruc-
tions from President Taft and said that
, this retrenchment would not be made
at the expense of efficiency.
August L. +. Chamot, the famous
. hero of the Boxer uprising, who for
his deeds of valor, was decorated by
Pope Leo XIII and several foreign
: governments, is dying in abject power
+ ty at Larkspur, Cal. On his deathbed
5 he married Miss Betsy Dollar on whose
u account his first wife obtained a
i divorce.
The recent threat of a body of citi-
u zens in Southern California to estab-
fish another State because of dissatis-
faction with taxation methods recalls
:, the fact that before the Civil War an
" effort along the same line was in
;, augurated when it was claimed that
Southern California from Monterey
a down was sadly neglected in State
n legislation.
y President Taft greeted fifty men,
!. bers of the japanese Commercial AS
q ISOLATION at Minneapolis, babe them
!. a hearty welcome, assured them of the
d lasting friendship of the American
people, praised their qualities of in
dustry and patriotism and in conclu-
sion drank toast to the Emperor of
1t Japan as "the warm and sincere friend
a. of America"
IS According to resolutions adopted by