The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-05

-NOA1e win @ooV,Vou II gold dust anu
bars.
All trains through the Cascade tun-
mel on the Great Northern railroad will
hereafter be hauled by electric locomo-
tives.
Baron DetIey Won Lilleeorn. the poet
and author, died on July %, in Ham
burg.
Government surveyors have begun
work on the reclamation project at Red
A new diamond field has been discov-
cred IN the African desert where the
gems are small but fine.
The Rock Island hoad viii use motor
ears IN future if the experimenting now
being carried on is successful.
The international aeronautic exhibl-
non which was held in Frankfort has
been pronounced great success.
Forty-one deaths have been reported
as the result of the hurricane which
swept portions of Tennessee and Louisi-
ana.
E. Fl. Hartman has proved great
disappointment to walters and hotel
poTters in Austria on account of the
smallness OF his tips.
Secretary Charles Nagel, of the De-
partment of Commerce and Labor. is
developing plan to establish a great
inland immi grafton Office at Chicago.
Mrs. Marine Mayfield was arrested in
Chicago for attempting to kill her
mother, Mrs. Gertrude Hinekley, a
wealthy widow, in quarrel over money.
A slxteen-year boy in Tacoma was
q lSf7fT rad
kite he was flying coming into contact
with high-tension electric power wire.
Europe is much interested in the new
French Ministry which has just been
formed, and Germany fears a return
of the power which made Delcasse fam
Gus.
The Michigan has been pronounced
the best ship in the navy, having fully
met the rigid requirements of the Uni
ted States Naval constructors IN every
test.
William English Walling, the social
ist husband Of Anna Strumsky, the Cal
ifornia writer, has been sued for breach
Of promise by Anna Grunspan in New
York
Japoniea Fleming, an eleven-y year old
girl, was kidnapped in Chicago in the
daylight III the presence of her parents
by being wlisked away in an automo-
bile.
A fire in the British Columbia peni
Tertiary at Westminster, caused by
spontaneous combustion, threw the pris
| oners into panic, but no one was in
jured.
Secretary Meyer has ruled that the
spread-eagle fgureheads which are Il
be removed from warships of the navy
may be loaned to the States or cities
for which the vessels are named
j. Pierponf Morgan denied himself II
| interviewers on his return to the Unitet
States from Europe, but insimated tina
no statement would be issued relatiF'
to United States Steel Corporation at
fairs
the Army Board, appointed to exam
inc into the hazing conditions at tht
| United States Military Academy, ha.
reported that the custom still exists a
West Point despite drastic action fol
its eradication.
The Pacific Mail Steamship Company
has asked for a change in the laws ap
plying to opium, 10 permit of trans
shipment in an American port of opium
intended for Mexico or South America
on payment of duty.
I he death of Frank Frost IN San JOS
was the first 10 occur in the Frost fam
ily, which is prominent IN the SAINT;
Clara valley, in forty years. The fam
lily includes fourteen children, beside
the father and mother.
Iaeag,h Z a Civil Wa
| pensIoner, has just received bronZ
medal from Washington, authorized b,
Congress IN 1864 for bravery at tn
Battle of the Wilderness. The eaus'
of the delay in the delivery Of the media
is not known.
Enterprising thieves stole bras
cannon weighing $50 pounds from th'
garden of the country home Of Colone
! Leroy Brown, U.S.A-, retired, at SAINTS
! Monica 1t was memento OF tn
Spanish war. having been cap
tured in the Philippines.
Professor David Starr Jordan an
Professor Edward E. Prince, respective
| lv American and Canadian members o
| the joint Fisheries Commission, are nov
engaged in examining the Fraser hsh
cries. They favor a uniform close sea
son in Canadian and United State
waters.
The Italian press in Rome is great,
agitated by communications from n
| Southern States of the United States
declaring the condition of the Italian
there as alarming, and dissuadIng IN
| migration to those States. 1t advise
Italians to 90 to the Northern state
or to Canada.
The personal telegram sent by Pres
dent Taft to Prince Chun, the Chimes
Regent, in behalf Of the American clam
for equal participation in the HankoE
/ Szechuen railroad loan. has created a SCI
saJion among the foreign bankers an
members Of the Legations in Picking, a
| they claim that the question has nor
become political, while before II va
never recognized automatically.
According to Ebert c. F'erguse,
/ prominent Chicago lawyer who Ia
been travelling IN Europe, sbTinkage
| prosperity Is evident n many part
Of England from the fact that theF
! is an excessive percentage Of idle an
| vacant business and residential proL
| erty for sale. He says also that Ii
! people Of Berlin have met an unwe
come surprise in the disclosure tia
| the eity's population has come to
standstiu,
A system of Identification has bee
adopted by the Pacific feet TO designat
! what division and 10 what position