The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-25

New Orleans have been consigned to
Los Angeles.
Louis Prang, the inventor of litho-
graphed works of art, died at Los An
geles at the age of eighty-fve.
The New York Life Insurance Com
pany has loaned S1,200,000 ON the old
Lick House site in San Francisco.
Celestino Castro, brother of the de-
posed president of Venezuela, has left
the Island of Curacao for Colombia
{ The Spreekels estate is contemplate
ing the construction of a Glass A the
alter on Market street, San Francisco
The Franco-Ameriean treaty of ex-
tradition has been ratified and was
promulgated in Paris to be effective
June Is.
General James f. Smith was tender.
ed notable reception at the Hotel
Fairmont on his arrival home from San
Francisco.
William H. Buckler, secretary of the
American legation at Madrid, has ten
dered his resignation from the diploma
tic service.
Rear=Admiral Benjamin P. Lamber-
ton, who served as chief of staff to
Dewey at the battle of Manila Bay,
has gone blind.
Mrs. Frances Folsom Cleveland has
denounced the Brandenburg letter as
forgery when called as a witness in the
case in New York.
Frank Paraseo of California who was
rescued from death by drowning in the
Sacramento River, died from the effects
of injuries while diving.
French Am Ia ssa dor JusgaTan5 and
party left Seattle in private car over
the Northern Pacific. They will visit
the Yellowstone Park.
Forest fires are raging in Bonave1-
ture county near Quebec. Hundreds Of
thousands of dollars in lumber and sew
eral mills have been DESTROYED.
Count Mensdorff, the Austrian Am
bassador to London, has resigned owing
to the strained relations between Great
Britain and Austria Hungary.
The United States Signal Corps in
Alaska has been reorganized as a re-
suit of the recent installation of wire
less stations in the Far North
The Berkeley Chamber of Commerce
has suggested movement for beautify.
ing San Francisco harbor by planting
trees on the islands on the bay.
Much apprehension IS being felt at
Yuma, that the rise of the Colorado
River of nine feet in four days viii
cause the town to be inundated.
Colonel NJ. III. Heeht, prominent San
Francisco capitalist, and member-of the
firm of Buckingham and Hecht, died at
his country home at San Mateo.
The servants of the Gould household
gave damaging evidence against Mrs
Katherine Clemmons Gould in her suit
for divorce from Howard Gould.
A bill has been introduced in the
Duma providing that measures be taken
against the influx of Koreans. Chinese
and other aliens in the Amur district
Great Britain will join in the Portola
/ festival in San Francisco in October to
the extent of sending at least two bat
| tleships and two cruisers to the Coast.
Harry Young, a Chinese graduate OF
Stanford University, and an author and
magazine writer. has been arrested in
San Francisco for passing d fictitious
teheck
The leaders of the strike in the Ne
| Cloud river lumber district have been
| held for trial in the Superior Court.
| They are Italians, and are charged with
| melting riots.
Theft by postofiee employee and
not an error in routing was responsible
| for the loss of the 100000 in the Los
| Angeles postoffice which created such a
/ furore recently.
| General John s. Kountz. former Ma
4 tional commander of the Grand Army
| of the Republic, died at Toledo, Ohio.
1 He was known as the Drummer Boy
Of Missionary Ridge"
/ On his walk across the continent Ed
ward Payson Weston has arrived at
Spring Valley, Wyoming. He left Car
ter, and is continuing slowly on his
Il journey from that point.
II Abner Smith of Chicago, former
Judge and banker, under sentence OF
two years imprisonment for conspiracy
in the wreck of the Bank of America,
has been taken to Joliet.
Norbert Weiner, who holds the record
of being the most remarkable student
at any college or university, has receiv-
ed his degree of Bachelor of Arts from
Tafts College in Massaehusett.
/ Colonel Robert Lee. a noted Confed-
crate soldier, one of the surviving mem
bers of the famous Charleston conven-
| ton of the Democratic Party Of 1850
died at his home in Tulare at an ad
vaneed age.
| Lieutenant Colonel Woodward, In
| spector- General of the Department OF
| California, is making a thorough in
spection of the posts in his depart
ment and is at present at the Preside
at San Francisco.
An Italian, in San Francisco, against
whom there are many charges of petty
crimes, narrowly escaped lynehing at
the hands of an Infatuated mob, because
of his attempted assault on the wife OF
an italian resident.
| French newspapers have attacked the
measure of listing the shares Of The
United States Steel Corporation on the
Paris Stock Exchange, claiming thai
the introduction Of these securities is
purely speculative and inimical t.
French steel.
Count Mitsui- Aki-Tanaka, minister
of the Imperial household, at Toxic, has
resigned. Prince Iwakura. vice grand
chamberlain, viii succeed him. The
Emperor issued a reseript warmly
thanking Count Tanaka for his long
and faithful service.
Rev Samuel s. Seward of Detroit
Michigan, was reelected president afte
a contest at the eighty-ninth genera