The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-24
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Potato-growers in California are get.
ting exceptional prices.
The Southern Pacific bridge at Elyas
Cal, was torn away by the flood.
The California Legislature NAV inves.
tigate Berkeley professors who take mt.
side work.
The Alaska cable, which broke in the
| seismic disturbance on January II. has
been repaired.
The San Francisco police have arrest.
ed Emma Goldman, DR.. Reitman and
Soldier Buwaldo.
The first division of the American
Pacific squadron reached Valparaiso on
Saturday, the 10th.
Joseph Wharton, who died recently
in Philadelphia, left an estate Of
twenty -fve millions
The Southern Pacific shows a net
annual revenue of $16,36S, 226 of which
SO, 23l ,086 are profits.
The California Sons of the Revolution
are trying to get the loan of the liberty
bell from Philadelphia.
Bert III. Lindsay, a sailor of the bat
'tleshlp Minnesota, was stabbed during
q fight with toughs at Nice.
Mrs. Benjamin Harrison and Mrs.
Grover Cleveland have been granted
the franking privilege by Congress.
Senator Tillman says there is a plot
to destroy him and that he is prepared
for anything, even the assassin s dag
ger.
Chicago retail dealers are protesting
against the move on the part of the
manufacturers to stamp the exact sizes
on women s shoes.
The State University of California
wants three million dollars for needed
improvements. Probably half that
will be appropriated.
Mrs. Dumouriez surrenders her claim
to the Estate of ex-Gov. Budd of Cal
lfofnia and a sensational suit against
the widow has been avoided.
Dynamite was used to blow emer-
gency weirs in the nearly constructed
great dam above Vallejo to save it
from going out in the recent floods.
A bill TO pension the parents of large
which started as Josh in
the California Legislature, is now be-
ing regarded seriously in both houses.
Professor Landfield of Berkeley, who |
is married to the Princess Lobanoff- |
Rostovsky, of the royal blood of Rus |
STA, has returned to Berkeley with his |
BRIDE
The Copeland Hotel at Topeka burn
I'd. One man was incinerated and four
zen more or less burned. L. f. Lam
pert, exU. S. Attorney for Kansas. lost
lis life.
nf 1o, |
% Seoul from Fusan, where he went
With Prince Ito, thus dispelling the
ear of his subjects that he had been
The signing of the arbitration treaty
between America and Austria Hungary
makes conventions of that nature
made by the United States with TWEEN
y other nations.
Judge Waste of Oakland has notified
attorneys that he will fine at the rate
# ten dollars per for all silly demur-
ers fled in his court for the purpose
# obstructing business.
At the Southern California Baptist
resolutions in favor of a
ill to abolish racetrack gambling was
'assed, as well as a resolution in favor
f the Sunday rest law.
German aerOnauts are experimenting
II aeroplanes along the Wright model, ]
nd their machines are said to show a
marked Improvement over anything
hat has vet been attempted. i
The American Minister and the Brit
81 Minister to China have protested :
. Prince Ching on the subject of the
ismissal of Yuan Shi Kai from the
rand Council. Their actions were TAX
n Independently of each other and of
he other diplomats. Il
Jared Barker, boy who averted the I
-reck of the eighteen-hour flyer of the
railroad, has been adopt {
d by the corporation as a reward and 7
i'll be given as fine an education as ! 4
ossible. The reports of his scholastic }
rogress Will be submitted to and con-
dered by the board of directors at
leir regular meetings. !
A bill abolishing the Chinese exclu- (
on law and bringing the Chinese i'm !
ligration under the provisions of the
eneral statutes is soon to be intro .
uced into Congress. The bill will re- .
love the irritation felt by the Chi 7
csc at being especially excluded. but
III not make it any easier for them y
} enter the United States. 4