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

Colorado now leads in gold produc
ton.
The Teneriffe volcanoes are quietiu2
down.
Snow fell at Washington on Novem
Der "a
The Hague is planning an exposition
for 1913.
Peary has refused TO go on the lee
ture platform.
Guggenheim may get control of Gold
field Consolidated.
Madagascar cattle are being used il
the Paris markets.
There is a land and manufacturing
boom in the south.
Bjornson, the Norwegian author, is
considered out of danger.
Chief Justice Mills of New Mexico
has been made governor.
Much fertile land has been laid waste
by the eruption of Teneriffe.
Speaker Cannon attacks insurgent
senators as allies of Democrats.
One thousand persons were married
in Chicago on Thanksgiving Day.
Ben S. Cable of Chicago is the new
assistant secretary of the interior.
\ niece of President Taft is engaged
to George H. Snowden, of Seattle.
Madame Steinheil, under an assumed
name, was ousted from London hotel.
There are 370,065 persons employed
by the United States in civil positions.
The Chicago drainage canal will be
used to develop electricity to light the
city.
A Yale alumnus offers 100000 for
the discovery Of cure for consump-
ton.
Attorney General Wickersham denies
that he was ever counsel for the sugar
trust.
Secretary Ballinger urges that the
United States retain title to all mineral
lands.
General Grant has given his support
to total abstinence movement in the
army.
Alena Bell was acquitted of the muir
der of Joe Armes and will go on the
stage.
The President had a possum and s
mammoth turkey for his Thanksgiving
dinner.
VIM. Rockefeller says that the OF
trust viii observe the spirit of the
statutes.
Nine of the gunboat Marietta's mer
were carried out to sea on small boat.
at Colon.
Surgeon operated on a six-month
old Detroit baby for appendicitis. The
baby lived.
1t is denied that Sir Morris de Bun
son win succeed Ambassador Bryce a
Washington.
A tablet to the memory of Captain
Gridley, U. S. N, has been unveile,
at Annapolis.
japanese socialist spoiled the arm,
maneuvers by trying to kill the Korean
military attaches.
Miss Sidonia Furth, Seattle heiress
is engaged to Capt. Alexander McCom1
Wetherill, U. S. A.
New York city will spend $50,000,00
on a subterranean aqueduet to dis
tribute CatskilI water.
The sessions of the new provincial
assembly at Picking have received tn
approval of the throne.
A million barrels of oil seeped ava,
at Bakersfield and efforts are bein,
| made to find the pools.
Lieutenant Sherman Miles, son o
General Miles, and Miss Davide Yule
Noble, have been married.
The returning Turkish envoy says h
intends to give fine report to hi
master of America and Taft.
The United States has invited Grea
Britain to assist in preserving the sea
herds from japanese poaehers.
Harmony now prevails between Bal
linger and Pinchot and the Presiden
will retain the services Of both.
San Francisco supervisors are in fav
or of buying the Spring Valley waite
system and an election may be called
Doctor Cook s records and reports
which have gone on to Copenhagen
contain about thirty thousand words
A Los Angeles trained nurse was ar
rested in New Orleans as suspicion.
person. There was nothing else agains
her.
A Chicago man committed suicide
on Thanksgiving Day because he haC
lost Ms false teeth and coulGu t ca
turkey.
1t is charged that Zelaya imprisoned
all American residents who would no
contribute to his war fund. Zelay;
denies it.
A skeleton of a woman was found il
drygoods box at Ell Centre, Imperia
Valley. 1t had been washed out of
graveyard.
A Seattle man named Kaufman ha
left thousands to a young woman whom
he met during the San Francisco earth
quake panic.
The prisoners in the St. Louis work
house voted against a turkey Dime
on Thanksgiving Day, preferring frank
furters, sauergraut and potatoes.
! American tobacco interests are pro
testing at the Philippine government
| guarantee of the quality of ManiI
| cigars which goes with each box.
With the payment of the last 50
dividend. stockholders in the Calume
and Hecla have received S105 40 90