The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-04-10


Ex-Seeretary of the Navy Newberry
and family have gone to Europe.
The San Francisco Lodge of Elks lay
the cornerstone Of their new building.
Plans for a memorial amphitheater
at Arlington cemetery are being dis
cussed.
a petty offender when he attempted to
escape.
The Insular Commission, sitting at
Baguio, favors free trade for the Phil
ippines.
London suffragists get prison terms
of from one to three months in Hollo
way Jail.
An Oregon woman found the body of
her drowned son through the actions of
! his pet dog.
Mrs. John E. Vincent, wife Of Bishop
Vincent of the Methodist Episcopal
church, is dead.
A ,,an Jose undertaken fell dead into
the grave of a man whose funeral he
, was conducting.
A white woman in Seattle has be-
come the wife of japanese and re-
nounces her country.
The British Ambassador James Bryce
and Mrs. Bryce visited Luther Bur
bank at Santa Rosa.
A congress of mothers held at Los
Angeles was attended by prominent
| women of the State.
According to the State Controller,
| the cost of the thirty-eighth California
| legislature was $255.000.
| Jacob Neff, California pioneer and
former Lieutenant Governor, died at
! his home in San Francisco
| The Standard Oil Company is plan
ming to increase its capitalization from
800, 000,0 900 to $500,000,000.
| Twelve thousand steel workers in
| Reading, Penn, have voted to strike,
because of reduction of wages.
| The New York Senate has approved
| the bill making fifty years the maxi
mum penalty for child stealing.
| A Chinese girl at Los Angeles defed
tradition and married the man of her
choice despite family opposition.
Austria has formally accepted the
surrender of Servia and the difficulty
| between the two countries is closed.
| The Hotel Rafael. in Marin County,
| California, has been purchased from
| Baron Won Schroeder for 100000.
Miss Marion Spier, a trained nurse
| of Cumberland, Nd, died of blood
! poisoning as a result of kissing dying
! patient.
W. G. Palmenteer, prominent bank
er of Oakland, died of smallpox at Los
Angeles while en- route home from
Mexico.
Salome, a new mining town in the
desert section, is having the widest I'M
| tiation that has attended camp IN
many years.
| Harvard men will raise a fund of
| $25o,oo0 to help President Eliot ae-
cept the position of ambassador to
Great Britain.
The abductors of Willie Whitla have
| been formally arraigned and will be
given an immediate hearing in Sharon,
Pennsylvania.
President Taft is being deluged with
| invitations for visits and speeches in
every part of the country during the
coming Summer
Fairbanks, Alaska, is threatened with
| meat famine, and an attempt will be
made to drive a herd of cattle over
the trail from Valdez.
The daughter of a Santa Barbara
minister ran away to San Francisco
to marry bellboy. Her father tele-
graphed consent to the marriage.
Paderewski has decided to forego
playing for two years for fear he may
be disabled for life by player S cramp-
He sailed for Europe and win compose
an opera. -
A soldier at Port Townsend was
caught in a hosting cable, and with
of MIND coro9 hiQ II
| .by kicking the safety valve which stop
| ped the engine.
Mrs. Sarah Woodwork died within
| twenty-four hours after the death of
| her daughter. Mrs. Vanderlip, and a
double funeral took place in the Chi
cago home.
Josiah Hall, former special police
man in San Francisco, was shot by his
son who fred the fatal shot in defense
of his mother, when she was attacked
by her husband.
Dredged land near Sacramento will
be reclaimed and planted to eucalyptus
trees. If the experiment is successful
all dredged land in California will be
treated likewise.
The Norwegian Consul in San Fran
cisco has opened a subscription to pur-
chase the Ghoa, in which Amundsen
made the Northwest passage and when
it is proposed to place in Golden Gate
Park.
Saloons in Roanoke (Va.) won their
fight against dry ordinance when the
local option election was declared null
| and void on the ground that the tax
list furnished by the City Treasurer
was Illegal.
William Van Arsdale, San Fran
cisco capitalist, died at his country
home in Mendocino county of heart
failure His only daughter was recent
" married TO Lieutenant Thomas
Kurtz, Z. S. n.
Isador Straus, brother of the ex-
Secretary of Commerce and Labor,
while visiting San Francisco, said that
his solution of the Oriental problem
would be to let European immigrants
supplant the Japanese.
George W. Peltier. vice president OF
the National Bank of Sacramento, re
ceived a check for $3.50 from man
in Nevada to cover damages to his
al two