The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-08

ten-foot alligator on his recent trip to
Panama.
President Taft has been elected hon
orary president of the National League
of Unitarian laymen.
Helen Cortelyou, the nine year-old
daughter of George B. Cortelyou, died |
of grip in New York
Consul General Wynne has resigned |
from the Consular Service and given |
pup his post at London.
Mrs. Horace G. Davis, daughter of |
Thomas Starr King, and one of the
most prominent women in San Fran
cisco, died at her home in that city. |
An overwhelming sentiment in the |
! Senate is favorable to protection, and !
| lumber will not go on the free list.
Arthur I'll. Cornwall, one of the best
| known capitalist of San Francisco, died
| suddenly at his home of heart disease.
| Homer Davenport, the cartoonist, and
| his wife have separated though no inn
mediate action for divorce is contem-
| plated
| The lives Of forty-two little crippled
| patients were menaced in a fire in the
Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn,
| New York.
The entire plant of the California
Fruit Gamers Association at Fresno
was wiped out by fire, entailing loss
of 100000.
The beautiful country home of the
Joseph D. Grants at Burlingame was
burned to the ground as the result of
defective fiue.
The Spreckels will contest has been
delayed by the illness of the attorney
for the contestants and will not be
heard until July.
The great wheat deal has come to a
close, and Patten and his close follow
ers are reputed to have cleared up
million dollars apiece.
President Taft indicated his disap-
prevail of play being given at a Wash
lngton theater by refusing to witness
more than the first act.
The criminal libel suit instituted by
2. H. Mccarthy against the proprietor
and the editors of the San Francisco
Call has been dismissed.
Eight Swiss capitalists have arrived
in New York en- route to Nevada,
where they contemplate investing over
a million dollars in mines.
! A shepherd dog saved the lives of
the Rev. Asa Ferry and his brother of
Trenton, New Jersey, when their canoe
upset in the Delaware river.
Cornelius Shea, who conducted the
great teamsters strike in Chicago four
years ago, has been arrested in New
York for numbering a woman.
The daughter of former Austrian
Consul at New Orleans, Mrs. Alice
Chopin, died in poverty at the leper
colony in the City of Mexico.
Secretary of War Dickinson has al
most entirely recovered from the illness
with which he was stricken while
aboard the Mayfower recently.
Bank commissioners have received re-
ports from all the State banks in Cali
fornia, which shows that their resources
have increased by nearly five and a half
millions in a year.
The race and labor questions are
both involved in the Georgia strike,
and offers serious problem-the first
acute situation since the Inauguration
of President Taft.
Rev. George W. Bridges of New York,
known as the "revivalist of the
South,' and a graduate of the Univer-
sity of Alabama, was arrested for steal
ing a collection box.
Jack Williams, a reporter of Philadel-
phia, has reached Chicago on his way
from Philadelphia to Seattle, a dis
tance of $500 miles, which he has start
ed to cover on foot.
Mrs. c. T. Mills, the founder of Mills
College, has resigned from the presi-
: dency of that institution and has been
succeeded by Miss L. c. Carson of the
University of Oregon.
Ambassador Bryce told the Lake Mo
bonk Conference on International Ar
bitration that the newspapers did not
deserve the blame for stirring up trou-
bic among the nations.
All those nations whose possessions
border on the Pacific Ocean will be in
vited by the State Department to send
at least one warship to represent them
at the Portola festival in October.
Mrs. Hermann Oelriehs has denied
the report that she has sold her New
port mansion, Roseclif, or that she is
dissatisfied with the class of people who
are now making Newport their home
: The States having exhibits at the
Alaska Yukon Exposition have Joined
with Oregon in the protest against the
] effort to place selling booths on the
lawns in front of the State buildings.
Over half million acres of rich In
dian lands in Montana, Idaho and
settlement. The President S proclama-
ton fixes the date of drawing as Au-
J gust g..
An Englishman in San Francisco, de-
claring himself to be Lord Darlington,
has been declared an impostor by the
British Consul at that port and has
been arrested for not paying his auto
4 mobile bill.
Andrew Carnegie has arranged to
give $1,000,000 for the establishment
of hero fund.- in France under
4 practically the same conditions as gov
4 ern similar funds in the United States,
England and Scotland.
At the request of the managers of
the Alaska-Yukon Exposition, the sail
q ors from the japanese training ships
Also and Soya, now at Seattle, were per
mitted to take part in the parade at
the opening of the exposition.
The Supreme Court of the United
States has decided that express com
panies may ship liquor into local OPP
ton State on the ground that the trans
action is interstate commerce and not
subject to interference by the State
4 authorities