The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-09-04
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Z Street graders at PIaceryllle, GAL,
unearthed rich quartz ledge.
A prisoner in the jail at Red Bluff,
CAL, was murdered by his cell mate.
Colonel Roosevelt killed an elephant
while hunting in the Kenya province.
The Sockeye pack in British Column
bia fell short of expectations this sea
son.
Billy Sunday, the evangelist, was in
jured in an automobile accident at La
porte, Ind.
Mrs. Helen Kelly Gould has secured
final decree of divorce from Frank
J. Gould in New York.
Charles Rancier of Vancouver, aged
fourteen years, was drowned while
swimming in the Lewis River.
The Duke of Newcastle has arrived
in New York and will visit the West
during his stay in the country.
The Department of Marine and Fish
cries has let a contract for the first
vessel of Canada's new navy.
Fifty deaths out of seventy-six eases
of cholera occurred in the Philippines
for the week ending June 26.
A petition for the pardon of William
Bradbury, the San Rafael millionaire,
has been presented to Governor Gil
lett.
The summer maneuvers of the Rus
sian Army We're inaugurated August "a
by Grand Duke Nicholas at st. Peters
, burg.
The surface plant of the Ell Orc Min
ing Company near Grass Valley, Cal,
was destroyed by fire entailing loss
of $4,000
The King of Sweden has been asked
to intervene in the strike between
laborer and employer which has lasted
over month.
Bernard Lagan, the victim of ex-
Policeman Captain Joseph Conboy, has
suffered relapse and is In preca-
rious condition.
The United States torpedo boats
| Goldsborough Lawrence and Davis will
| be at San Diego, CAL, several weeks
| for target practise.
A forest fire that broke out near
| Grass Valley, Cal, was caused by a.
squirrel climbing an electric pole and
| short-eireuiting wire.
According to dispatches from Aca-
puico, fear is entertained that the Chip
perton group of Islands were swallowed
up DS tue Sea duiihS tHe heteHt eaAeh
quake.
Mrs. Jennie May Doak, wife of Da-
vid P Doak, capitalist, banker and
president of the Pan-American Rail-
way Company, has sued him for di-
vorce.
The report of the State Building and
Loan Commission for the fiscal year
shows that the assets of the companies
N,J. a.1
$20.000,000
Specimens taken from a ledge in
! Shasta County, Cal. are supposed to be
.pitchblend from which radium is OBJ
tanned and will be given thorough
examination.
The Bayard-C Clement dirlgible bal
! loon built recently for the Russian gov
eminent was wrecked near Paris dur
ing its preliminary trial. The aviators
were not injured.
/ The policemen of Nashville. Tenn.
| viii wear no uniforms in future as it
| is believed that the regalia handicaps
them in their efforts to suppress viola
tors of the prohibition law
The presidents of the Western rail
| roads are trying to bring about the
! abolition of all reduced passenger rates
and to make the legal maximum rate
in each state the minimum rate also.
Eighty City and County Superintend-
| ents of the State of California met in
! convention in the Yosemite Valley in
accordance with the State law which
calls for an annual gathering of school
| superintendent.
An injunction was issued by Circuit
Judge Burdette of West Virginia re-
| straining the State from enforcing the
| two-cent fare law against the Norfork
and Western Railroad. The court holds
| that the law is unconstitutional
! The foreign debt of Honduras will
/! be refunded by the negotiation of a
loan with J. P. Morgan and Company
| of New York in order that the finan-
cial affairs may be Strengthened out and
the resources of the country developed.
James ]. Hill will be ready to de-
liver through passenger business by
combined rail and water lines from
Eastern points to San Francisco in com
petition with Hartman by September
25.
A human skeleton found in the Ne
Cloud river district has been identified
as that of August Pehrin who persisted
in the snow four years ago. A broken
I leg bone made the Identification posi-
tive.
Under the enlarged homestead act.
! allowing $50 instead of $50 acres, the
Secretary of the Interior has designat-
ed for settlement 542.s40 additional
acres in Montana Under the same act
1888 acres of land have been desig-
| mated in Utah
Countess Helen Lopska de Lubistow-
ski, who is supposed to have come TO
San Francisco just previous to the fire
in 1906, is being sought for by an agent
of her father from whom she was es-
tranged and who is now dying in his
home in Cracow, Poland.
Mrs. Robert Potts. wife of Rear Ad-
miral Potts, Z. s. Navy. retired, was
removed from the steamer Minnetonka.
at New York, unconscious and believed
to be dying of apoplexy. She was re-
turning from abroad where she. has
been for year in an effort to regain
her health.
James De Laney, the largest owner
of lumber lands in the world. said in
an interview that he believes that the
problem of reforestation and conserya-
ton are to be solved by scientific ad-
vanees in the utilization of the lumber
by-produets and he also takes the posi-
/ tion that the large holdings of lumber
! lands by individuals are not 4 menace