The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-05-04

ratten. the wheat king, has retlred
to his ranch In Colorado and denied
himself to interviewers,
Captain George Buunell, u. s. A.,
wounded himself fatally while de-
spondent from ia health
The wife Of Captain Rush Wells has
made charges Of extreme cruelty In
ocun'cr-plea fti divorce.
Two men were severely stabbed
with a hatpln In n conflict with an
angry actress In Cincinnati.
A prairie fire in Texas was finally
extinguished after burning fourteen
days over an area of 100000 acres.
Dustin Farnum, the actor, denies
Howard Gould's charges that his rela-
tions with Mrs. Gould were improper.
A daring but unsuccessful attempt
was made to hold up the American Saw
ings Bank at Seattle by an unidentified
man.
The American Newspaper Publish
ers' Association has urged that no
duty be placed on pulp and print
paper.
Experiments with the electric
smelter have proved successful and
promise to revolutionize the iron 10
dustry,
F. w. Gilbert, general superintendent
of the Northern Pacific Railway, died
at st. Paul after a brief illness OF
pneumonia.
Electrician Wilson was found
guilty of numbering Harry Boas in San
Francisco and was sentenced to i'm
prisonment for life.
A big new seven-story fire ladder
which shoots to full length in twenty
seconds is to be put in use in San
Francisco on June /.
Under the win of the late Charles
Ellis, the millionaire railway magnate
of Philadelphia, $2,000,0O0 is given for
home for fatherless girls.
Arrangements for the wedding of
Miss Muriel White, daughter of Amer
lean ambassador White, and Count
Herman Scherr-Thoss have been COM
pleted.
On the last trip the Holland Ameri-
can liner Ryndam arrived in New
York with 1870 children aboard, in the
second cabin, between the ages of four
and ten.
The San Francisco chief of police has
announced that the crooks which have
infested the city all winter are taking
their departure, owing to the efficiency
of the police.
The San Francisco Labor Council has
decided not to indorse the ordinance
to abolish free lunches in saloons which
has been proposed iby the Asiatic Rx-
clusion League.
The Pacific feet will go to Seattle
to take part in the opening of the ex'
position. They will proceed north upon
the completion of target practise al
Magdalena Bay.
The Mayor of San Francisco has
signed the ordinance for the Geary
street road and the first step has been
taken to run a car-line under the
city's management.
The time of the first sale of scrip
under the sew land law, carrying the
right to purchase government land
was set for May 8 by the Surveyor
General of California.
Governor Hoggatt of Alaska visited
San Francisco, en- route home from
Washington, and said in an interview
that alaska needs more mine devel
opment and less politics"
Broughton Brandenburgh, accused OF
forging the signature of the late Gro.
yer Cleveland, in an article indorsine
Taft, was arrested in san Francisco
on his arrival from Denver.
Chicago's drainage canal rcheme will
reduce the flow over Niagara Falls
The consent of the War Department
will therefore have to be obtained II
order to carry out the plans.
Mrs. William Bartels of Chicago, wal
: robbed in her apartment in Paris. He
loss included small sum of money anC
,, five valuable diamond rings which tn,
robbers wrenched from her fingers.
Roland Richie, stenographer II
Los Angeles, has been arrested 70
blackmail for trying to extort none.
from DIR. w. L. Graves, vice presi
dent of the Merchants National Bank
At the second trial of Beach Hargis
! charged with the murder of his father
! Judge Hargis, in Jackson, Kentucky
:, one of the thirteen attorneys for tn
defense will be a woman, Mrs. Viii
!. liam A. Young. Her husband will ais,
act for the defense.
J. Wilson Perry, of st. Louis, ha
:. purchased the entire interests, amount
ing to 100000, of DIR. Woods of Kan
: sas City, in the National Bank of Com
merce. Later Perry was elected presi
= The Attorney General will enforc
the judgment of the Railroad Commits
sion against the Santa Fe for $4,000
which was recently assessed. TIL
: case will probably be appealed to tn
Supreme Court.
/. Judge de Haven holds that oceai
carriers from foreign countries ar
not embraced within the interstat
!, act. The Southern Pacific was over
ruled and the Pacific Mail demurrer
sustained by the decision.
:, Two Nevada miners were shot in
!, row which involved the ownership o
an old hat. The tragedy took place a
: Searchlight, and the victims and tn
: man that did the shooting have larg
mining interests on the vicinity.
Theodore Foensmeier, Los Angelo
/ mining engineer, who was arrested oil
charge of having obtained $4,000 70
e fake "gold mine" was releases
from Jail by Chicago judge, becaus
of illness from which he was slowl.
+ dying.
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