The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-03-26
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! Napa (Caf.) is dead.
The submarine Grampus has been re-
| built at Mare Island.
Warships are gathering at Magdalena
/ Bay for target practise.
| Mrs. de Gorzo is given $500 month
pending her divorce proceedings.
| A runaway train in Montreal smashes
station and kills four persons.
The Calhoun jury has been increased
| by one more temporarily selected juror.
| A blaze in nickelodeon in China
| town in San Francisco causes a small
| panic.
A Berkeley, CAL, man will serve
| eight years in States prison for having
three wives.
Colonel Frank Chapman, staff officer
of Governor Gillett, is critically i'll in
Los Angeles.
The principal graft witness in the
Los Angeles municipal scandal has fed
from the city.
Party lines will be eliminated in the
consideration of the Payne tariff bill
in the House.
Misereants dynamite the home of an
attorney who is fighting the liquor traf
fc in Indiana.
The street car franchise on Stockton
street in San Francisco will be sold to
the highest bidder.
Train robbers who held up Denver
trains on February 81 are captured at
Fort Collins, Colorado.
A group of copper claims on the
klamath River is sold to Eastern CAPT
talists for over 100000.
Ruby Castleman. the woman forger,
is denied a new trial and will serve
seven years in San Quentin.
The Los Angeles Chamber of Com
merce protests against the sending of
more consumptives to that city.
Importers are rushing coffee to the
United States in large quantities in
| fear of the imposition of heavy duty.
A woman in the audience dies while
| listening to lecture being given by
William Jennings Bryan at Ann Arbor,
| Mich.
A Pennsylvania company claims to
| have found a material for the manu-
| facture of a steel raid that win not
| break
Germany menaces the sea power of
Great Britain by the extraordinary de-
.elopment in her capacity to build big
battleships.
The torpedo boats Farragut and
| Davis crashed together in San Diego
| harbor and were both considerably
| damaged.
William J. Palmer, the millionaire
railroad builder of Colorado Springs,
leaves fortune of $6,000,000 to his
three daughters.
Central American countries are pleas
ed at intervention from Washington
which promises to check military ac-
tivities in Nicaragua.
An impressive Oriental funeral ser
vice is held in Chinatown, San Fran
cisco, at the burial of the president
of the Sue Dong Tong.
The United States has decided to
keep three cruisers in Central Amer
lean waters, owing to the unsettled con-
dition in the republics.
An aged man who had prospected for
forty years without the hoped for re-
suits, commits suicide on his worthless
claim near Canyon City, Or.
Colonel George Goethals, chairman of
the Isthmian Canal Commission, defends
the lock canal and says that sea level
waterway is not practicable.
Professor Suzzallo, Californian and
former Stanford man, has been ap-
pointed to the chair of Philosophy OF
Education at Columbia University.
Passengers on the Pacific Mail liner
Acapulco were denied landing at
| Corinto, Nicaragua, and La Union
Salvador, because the towns were un-
der martial law.
Susan Alexander McCook of New
York is married to Peter Jay, Secretary
to the American legation at Toxic
They will sail from Vancouver to Jap
) an next week.
American methods are being adopted
: with success in the management o. Lon
don shops and for the first time the
newspapers are filed with conspicuous
"ads'' from many houses.
The personnel of the court at The
Hague which is to pass upon the issues
regarding the New Foundland fisheries
has been decided upon. The tribunal
will meet April 4th of next year.
A police officer in San Francisco
gains admittance to room where a
poker game is under way, by being
lowered by rope through skylight
and makes arrests while dangling IN
midair
The assembly of the California legis
lature declares that the habit of treat
: ing should be stopped and bill passe:
the lower house by a vote of ~ to 10
making it crime to ask another tt
drink.
1 Protests from consumers of gas IL
San Francisco have called for an in
a vestigation as to the methods of thu
company and the Board of Supervisor
i will examine into the complaints abou
: the working of gas meters.
Thomas Edison loses big suit and
n held in contempt by the decision of th'
New York Appellate Court The SUI
o involves the rights to the sales of tn
l. Edison inventions in New York Stat
e and over 100000 are involved.
n After announcing that the tax o.
4 petroleum would be removed the Way
and Means Committee restores it as
s result of the pressure brought to bea
IS by producers. The tariff on lemons |
# raised and that on other produet
e stands.
VI A syndicate of Americans hav
is bought the salt deposits of Carme
Island in the Gulf of California. 1t
" expected that $4,000 tons of the produc
E, will be shipped annually from tn
n island, which is eight square miles L