The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-12

After meeting President Fallieres at
Cherbourg, the Gear plans to visit King
Edward at Cowes.
President Rafael Reyes of Colombia
eabled from Hamburg to Bogota, resign
ing the presidency of that country.
Lieutenant Governor Warren Porter
of California has recovered from the
effects of a recent serious accident.
Old Spanish coins to the amount OF
$500 were unearthed by workmen who
were repairing a road near Stockton.
William Chaplin, formerly of Saera-
mento, has been chosen manager and
publisher of the Seattle Post-Intelli-
geneer.
The business men Of Stockton are
the channel and build a great inland
harbor
The American-born residents of Chi
cago represent only one-fourth of that
city's population, according to the lat
est census.
Two hundred women waistworkers in
a New York factory have struck be-
cause they are not permitted to talk
during the luncheon hour.
City Treasurer George Warford has
become heir to an estate valued at
$4,000, willed to him by former chum
in the United States Navy.
The common stock of the United
States Steel Corporation has been
placed on per cent. per annum basis
by the action of the directors.
United States Senator William j..
Stone of Missouri was for short time
under arrest in Baltimore for striking
colored waiter on buffet car
A conservative estimate of the dead
and injured in the Guadalajara riots
place the number OF dead at twelve and
the seriously injured at thirtyfve.
John Mckinney, general manager of
the Citizens Alliance in San Francisco,
has resigned, and it is intimated that
his successor viii come from the East.
A dangerous conspiracy for the over
throw of the Venezuelan government
was discovered in Maraeaibo. The leader
was arrested while organizing Castro
revolution.
The electrified suburban lines of the
Southern Pacific about San Francisco
Bay, are to have an equipment Of steel
motor and passenger cars costing mil
lion dollars.
L
Chicago Divinity school, who answered
|. some critics of the press in lecture,
says that whaa the public wants 1t gets
IN the newspapers.
Rodman Wannamaker, son of John
Wannamaker of Philadelphia, was mar
ried quietly in London to Violet Cruger,
daughter of the late Eugene Guido
Cruger of New York
The Chamber of Deputies IN Paris
voted confidence in the declaration
which commits the new government I'M
der the BRAND cabinet to the foreign
policy of the outgoing cabinet.
The British government has granted
d pension of $500 annually to Lady
Wyllie, widow of Lieut.. Col i Sir Viii
liam Wyllie, who was assassinated re-
Gently by an Indian student.
The four largest engines ever ordered
by the Santa Fe have been included in
an order for additional locomotive
equipment to supply the motive power
for the steepest portion of the Santa
Fe grades.
The United States Army transport
Buford, from San Francisco. has arriv-
ed at Seattle, en- route to the Philip
pines. The Third Infantry from Fort
Lawton and Fort Wright. will embark
at Seattle.
The Treasury Department has chang
ed its ruling regarding the transship-
ment of opium in bond at ports OF en-
try for foreign countries. This will en-
able the Pacific Mail to handle opium
destined for Mexico.
According to General Brun, the new
French Minister of War, France is to
have a swarm of airships. as the aero
plane and the submarine are, in the
estimation of the French, the war in
struments of the future
The plans of the Hammond syndicate
for the development of electric power
al Lake Tahoe and on the Truckee river
are likely to be interfered with as a re-
suit of protests submitted to President
Taft and the Secretary of the interior.
Remarkable discoveries of antedi-
luyian bones have been unearthed IN
the asphalt beds near Hollywood. Los
Angeles county, and an appropriation
OF 5000 has been made TO the Academy
Of Sciences by the city council to aid
in developing the find.
John 3. Coleman, of Eugene, Oregon,
who gave $4,000 TO Eugene Bible Uni
versity, a Protestant Bible institution
was arrested for using profanity and
fined five dollars Coleman INDUCED in
the profanity after he had been nearly
run down by an automobile.
Grace Stanup, daughter of ChieE
Stamp of the Puyallup Indian tribe,
eloped with John Andrews, a kanaka,
at Tacoma, Washington. The girl owns
$4,000 worth of land and has $1,000 in
the bank, and it is claimed that An
dfews hopes to get her property.
Forty-fve members of the Hale FAM
lly, representing three generations, cele-
brated the one hundredth anniversary
Of their forefather, Marshall Hale, at
Palo Alto. He was the founder of the
extensive business administered by the
Hale Bros. stores throughout Califor-
MIA
The president of the Alaska Yukon
Pacific Exposition has offered, the
Wright brothers, Hubert Latham, and
I. c. Curtis a prize of $4,000 and gold
medals for competitive aeroplane race
beginning en- the fair stadium and ex-
tending across Lake Washington, a dis
tanee of twenty-five miles.
Nearly 80 acres Of land belonging to
the E. j. Baldwin estate, which was
being sued for by Theodore Rimpau on