The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-05-01

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Francisco during his recent visit t
that city.
John Turley, desk lieutenant of tn
New York Police Department, found
pearl worth $3.50 in five cent oyste
sandwich
The loss from the fire at St. Geore,
Hotel IN San Francisco has been est
mated at 100000 with only about SO,
600 insurance
Henry Stapf, brutal robber. WHIT
| peat ms victim into insensibility on
San Francisco street, was sentenced t,
/ twenty years in San Quentin.
Mrs. Maud Evans, the divorced wifi,
OF Naval Constructor Evans, has return
ed to the stage and began an engage
ment at the Empire Theatre in Sar
! Francisco.
Frank S. Boggs of Stockston ha:
awarded the contract for public drink
| ing fountain at Princeton. Cal. Al
| q memorial to his father, the late
| Senator John Boggs.
Internal rumblings have been heard
from Mount San Jacinto, an extinct
volcano in Southern California. and
slight earthquake shocks were felt in
1 VI TIC 1uUuHIdlu.
q. W. Poole, an old turfman, killed
| himself at the Santa Anita race track
While respondent over i'll fortune with
| ms horses and grief over the passage
| OF the California anti-gambling law.
Miss Leonora Elms, a high school
g1rl, who comes of a prominent Ore
gon family, was arrested and charged
with attempting to blackmail J. B. Girls
void, merchant of Baker City, Ore.
The senate has confirmed the nomi-
nation of Aloysius T. Mccormick to he
United States attorney for the south
ern district of California, and Ira Alb
bott to be assistant justice of the Su
preme Court of New Mexico.
broker Harry D. Brown, of Los An
geles, accused of defrauding a number
OF people of that city to the amount
OF upward of 100000, was arranged in
court and was held for examination
Aprll "A. His bond was fixed at $4,000.
fofty-tWo employees of the Southern
Paelflc IN the Sacramento division have
been rewarded for excellence of record
length Of service and notable work. nv
nelng gwen star passes, which entities
them to ride free on the trains and
S~AS SoAAi pau
NINE. castro, the wife of the former
president of Venezuela, arrived at Port
Llmon, Costa Rica, but did not land.
gong on to st. Nazaire. She said it was
her husbands intention to come to
costa R1ca but he was prevented by
the French government.
William Loeb, Jr., Collector of the
Fort at New York, was offered s5O. 900
to settle the smuggling cases which
are belng investigated. Loeb decided
that while the government would profit
by the offer, that no compromise shou1d
be made with the smugglers.e
Colonel Mont gomery. who Gained
honors IN the Civil War, died at his
home at Pasadena. After the war
Colonel Montgomery served as United
States Consul at Leipsic, Brussels
trieste and Geneva, and was secretar y.l
to Admiral Farragut on the Admiral;s |
cruise around the world
A syndicate of San Francisco and /
New York capitalists have purchased |
the timber holdings of Colonel w. G |
Greene IN Mexico. The tract is sixtvI
miles wide by one hundred and twenty
miles long and has a growth of yellow
pine timber to the extent of $4,000
100000 feet. At the head of the svndi-
cate is Hiram C. Smith of San Fran
cisco.
More than 100000 acres of land were
restored to the public domain by Secre
Lafy baLlngef this month. Of the total |
acreage restored 100000 acres are in
me Billings and Bozeman land districts
N Montana, 100000 acres In the Boze.
man, Great Falls and Helena land dis
frlcts, also IN Montana, and 327. 900
acres IN the Evanston land district in
Wyoming.
The official scandal disclosed by the
arrest OF nine members of the lower
house of the diet in connection with
he alleged misconduct of the affairs
II the Japan sugar company is steadily
growing and more arrests among the
legislators are expected at any time,
ne department of justice has announc-
'd that 1t IS determined to press the in
James Burns, formerly lieutenant and ].
'hglneer officer in the revenue cutter |
eFVlce, mas made sweeping charges
Vhleh nave been fled with the Seere- |
AIRY or the Treasury to the effect |
nat the service is not properly equip |
,ed to carry on the work of life saving; |
hat officers have frequently refused to
move to the rescue of sinking ships un-
IL ordered to do so from Washington;
nd finally that the work of protecting
he seals in Alaska is practically moth
ng but the protection of the business
f the Alaska Commercial COMPANY. a
rlvate corporation. Burns charges
hat at the time of the wreck of the | |
'alencia in 1906 there were three
egenue cutters within radius of two |
undred miles whose officers waited / |
hree days for orders before going to
ne AID of the stricken ship, and that
t the time of the San Francisco dis-lI
ster that the captain of the cutteril
leCulloeh refused to participate in
escue work because he was not rec !
gnlzed by the naval officers in com
land of the harbor. The charges will :
e investigated.