The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-07-01
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lowered no trace of the steamer could
be found
| Edward John Gregory, R. A., presi-
| dent of the Royal Institute of Painters,
died at his home in England.
Mrs. Roosevelt and her three chill
| dren will sail shortly for Europe where
they will spend the summer.
The rubber industry in North Borneo
is being developed by the immense capt
tai being put into the plantations theirs.
The British steamer HartIepool with
| which the iceland eollided in a fog
reached port at Shields, Eng, in a
disabled condition.
A courier who arrived from Fez re-
ported that the Moorish forces undel
the insurgent leader Roghi defeated the
| troops of the government.
! E. III. Hartman is in Vienna where
| he will consult specialists as to his phys
| zeal ailments before going to Carlsbad.
| He viii return to America in September.
The gold diggings in the neigbbor,
! hood of Fairbanks, Alaska, will yield
$12, 100000 during tie present year, ac-
| eording to report received by Seat
! tie bank.
The New York Fruit Exchange has
begun campaign against the in
| crease of the lemon tariff and are en-
] deavoring to have the Dingley rate of
one cent a pound maintained.
Electing officers and selecting Los
Angeles as the next place of meeting,
the freight claims agents association Of
America, in session at Old Point Com
| fort, concluded its eighteenth annual
-gathering.
The first expedition sent out by the
National Geological society at Wash
ington to study the glaciers of Alaska
has sailed for the north and will pur-
sue its scientific investigations till
| September.
At the special bond election in San
Francisco recently the only proposition
which carried out of the nine voted on
was the one for the building of the
Polytechnic High School The civic
| center project was badly beaten.
John Barth, aged thirty-five, receiv-
! ing teller, for the Cleveland Trust Com
pany and well known yachtsman of
Cleveland, Ohio, committed suicide IN
the cellar of the bank where he was
employed. Ill health was the cause
! The Army authorities in the Yose-
mite Valley have given up the search
/ for F. P. Shepard of San Francisco
who has been missing for week, as
he is considered beyond human aid and
the prospect of finding his body is con
| sidered meager.
Israel Schwartz of Boston was
rescued on the desert in Southern Cal
! ifornia after he had been three DAYS
without water. Driven to desperation
! by thirst, he had opened veins in his
arms and drank the blood that flowed
from the cuts. He will recover.
Schiller 5 ''Maid of Orleans, was
successfully given by Miss Maude
Adams at the Harvard Stadium at an
open air evening performance. The
/ greater part of the working force Of
:, the Frohman syndicate was actually en-
gagged In the production, which was
unusual IN its beaut9 and magnitude.
State Senator W. III. Savage. of San
Pedro, pleaded not guilty in the Justice
court when he was arranged on the
charge of eriminally libeling T. E. Glib
bon, editor of the Los Angeles Herald.
IN speech delivered in the Senate last
winter In connection with the PROPOSE
/ ton of consolidation of the cities of
Los Angeles and San Pedro.
At their first annual meeting the
grape growers Of California criticized
the high prices charged for California
wines when served with meals in hotels,
and in order to popularize the drinking
OF wine with meals instead of tea and
coffee, 1t was proposed to open grape
growers dining rooms in San Francisco
and the principle cities of the country.
! Through its ambassador, Great Brit.
ain has asked America not to press her
claim for participation in the Hangkow
railroad loan. Great Britain points out
that arrangements for this loan were
concluded with much difficulty and as
America did not ask to join therein, it
was presumed that she did not desire