The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-05
Condensed News From
Latest Coast Files

The cholera situation is well under
control in St. Petersburg.
Conan Doyle S new play, The Fires
of Fate. f" has proven a success in Lon
DON
It is rumored that Oscar Hammer
stein viii erect a new opera house n
Chicago.
Miss Mabel Howard, the actress, has
vent in New York.
As result of a cloud burst IN
Boulder, Col, two persons are dead and
two seriously injured.
A police magistrate sat on his own
ease and fined himself s. and costs
for speeding his automobile
District Attorney Jerome has de-
cided to take part IN the hearing as
| to Thaw's mental condition.
Private kilograms from Belgrade,
! Servia, say the condition of King
Peter is arousing great anxiety.
Ex-President Roosevelt has 1000
| specimens in his collection of animals
as a result of his journey in Africa.
| The report that the United States
viii take hand in the affairs Of Hon
| duras has been denied in Washington.
+ An extensive lake has been distov-
cred 5000 feet above the sea level near
the summit of Mount San sIacinto,
Cal.
| ". D. Boyce has left Chicago n tie
first stage of his trip to study ami
mails of Africa and take photos from
| balloons.
Mrs. Henriette Hellman Seligman,
! -
| banking house of J. ". Seligman, died
| in Marienbad.
/ Roger Winfield, Of Fond dn Lac,
Wis. died of cholera in Prussia after
making a long tour through Siberia
| with his bride.
/ Ella Sterling Migbels has obtained
! a divorce from Philip Mighels, the
novelist, in San Francisco on the
ground of desertion.
Mark Twain VIII act as pilot on the
| boat which is to carry President Taft
down the Mississippi river from st.
Louis to New Orleans.
The police of Los Angeles captured
| a remarkable club Of youthful burglars
which had wireless telegraphy as one
of its principal features.
/ Three men were shot and number
were seriously injured during riot at
the strike bound tannery plant of n.
r. Allen at Kenosha, Wis.
Daniel Levy, honorary president Of
| the Alliance Francois of San Fran
cisco, was made member of the LIE
gion of Honor in Paris on July %.
-Four lives were lost by the capsizing
of boat on the Yellowstone river
| Among the drowned was Alderman John
Staffel. a well-known Montana pioneer
Walter J. BARNETT has returned from
New York to San Francisco with plans
to reorganize the wrecked bank of the
| California safe Deposit and Trust Go
Henry Farman, the English aero
| pianist, made crosseountry flight IL
| Chaion, France, of forty miles, in one
| hour. FIVE minutes and thirty seconds
! It is probable that President Taft
and President Diaz, of Mexico, viii
meet next September at San Antonio
instead of at FL Paso as was first
planned.
| The trolley road which is to be built
On the Stanford University Campus
viii be ready for the use of tbf
students at the opening Of college II
September.
| Substantial progress in canal con
struetion is shown by the recent reports
of the Isthmian Canal Commission. Ex
cavation work approximates $4,000 0p(
cubic yards.
| The prosecutors Of Harry Thaw ara
scored and the insanity experts are
criticized in a twenty page booklet
which Mary Copley 5Thaw, his mother
has Just issued.
Nebraska has paid off 500 300 000 OF
mortgages as q result of splendid corn
crops, and during the last year has adj
vaneed from fourth to third in the
Union as a corn producer.
The city of San Francisco has comt
into possession of a parcel of land il
the Heteh-H etchy valley as part Of
the Sierra reservoir site, on the pay
ment of $105, SS460 to the owners.
Mrs. Helen Chick Gifford-C Of
| Boston was arrested in San Francisco
| for masquerading in male attire anG
| assaulting several defenseless men an6
a policeman while gathering local color
for a novel.
James a. Patten sold 10000 bushel:
of wheat on July % for September and
| December delivery, which has given rist
| 10 the belief that the bull leader has de
eided to retire from active trade and lei
| the market take care of itself for Z
time.
Friction is said to exist between tbs
Department of the interior and the for
| est service, which Is a branch Of the
| Agricultural Department, over the open
ing TO settlement Of lands which hae
| been withdrawn on the advice of Chief
Forester Pinchot
A child. four years and q half old
/ caused wreck in the Redding yards
which bloekaded the southern Pacif,
trains for three hours, by PARTIAL.
opening a derailing switch just as tn,
locomotive Of long freight train wa
on the point of passing.
It has been reported in the Cit,
| of Mexico that the United States i
contemplating establishing a protector
ate over the Republic Of Honduras
and it Is understood that Presiden
Daviil is in receptive mood with re
gard TO Washington 5. proposal.
An experiment in chronology is q
be tried by DR.. Siegfried Bloch, al
aIienist, on an eighteen-year- boy
The proposition is to hypnotic III
boy. who IS chemically bad, into
| state where his thoughts and action