The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-07-17

explained in a letter to the President
that he intended no discourtesv.
Work on the impounding of the wa
ters OF the Mojave river is to begin
Immediately.
Albert Kellogg of San Francisco was
seriously burned at Guerneville white
/ attempting to rescue woman from !
| burning house.
Miss Clara Stevenson. a recent Stan,
Iord graduate, was married to Ensign
Relehmuth of the West Virginia at her
home at Menlo Park.
The body of Ashley Leiser. of San
francisco, who was drowned in the
sacramento river, was recovered EIGHT
miles from where the tragedy occurred
Harry K. Thaw has been taken from
the Matteawan Asylum to White
Fialns where he has scored a partial
sanity. ~ ''''
Sergeant Robert johnson of the
Artillery, who was wounded in the
fight with bandits on the Island of
5olo has died from the effect of his
wounds.
Mrs. Louis Bronze, the wife of a
Washington logger, was lured from
her home and killed and her home was
then robbed of her savings amounting
to 5000.
The Duke of the Abruzzi, the Italian
explorer, has scaled the loftiest peak of
the Himalaya mountains and reached
point beyond that of any other ex-
petition.
Mrs. Frank Ridgely Brown. daughter
ln,iaw of former Governor Frank
Brown of Missouri, has sued him for
100000 for alternating the affections
of her husband.
The Signal Corps officers concerned
In the aeroplane trials at Fort Never
are beginning to show signs of irrita-
tlon at the unconeern of the Wright
brothers as to the Importance of mat
tiers upon which the Army officers lay
considerable stress.
Colonel Alfred Bruno Sehantz, a
journalist who was a specialist on
military tactics, died at his home in
Los Angeles. Fifteen years ago he
led the Frank Leslie expedition into
Alaska and was one of the first to
penetrate the remote Yukon region.
Another trial of Patrick Calhoun
will begin July 10Th and will be con
tinued during the coming political cam
paign in spite of the strenuous efforts
of Calhoun S attorneys to have it de-
ferred till after some of the other
graft eases are tried.
A runaway train on the Ocean Shore
road near San Francisco made a wild
dash across the northern end of the
city Speeding CONSERVATION in its
wake, but miracuiously escaping the
destruction of the lives of seven
Greek laborers who were aboard.
Evidence of. an anarchist plot to as
sassinate the Emperor of Russia some
time during his European trip has been
unearthed at Stockholm 1t was dis
covered through the death of Adolf
svang, the swede who gilling Major
General Beckman, chief of the Russian
Coast Artillery, and committed suicide,
leaving letters telling of the plot.
A Danish inventor has perfected a
flying machine which has proven a
success and which it is believed will
be highly useful for, war purposes. It
IS propelled by compressed air and
when the craft is running at full speed
it rises from the water till it clears
the surface with its keel, and obstacles
and strips of land are no bar to its
progress
Andrew Carnegie and Mrs Russell
Sage are assessed as possessing $4,000
900 worth of personal property each, in
New York City. John D. Rockefeller $
personal property assessment is $780,
ooo and say-nn members nf the Van
derbilt family aggregates $3.50 600. J.
Pierpont Morgan is down for $440,0o
while the late H. Fl. Rogers and VII,
liam Rockefeller are each assessed
100000