The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-01-26
Telegraph Brevities


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Potato-growers in California are get
ting exceptional prices.
The Southern Pacific bridge at Elvas,
Cal, was torn away by the flood
The California Legislature may inves-
tigate Berkeley professors who take out
side work.
The Alaska cable, which broke in the
seismic disturbance on January 12, has
been repaired.
The San Francisco police have arrest
ed Emma Goldman, DR.. Reitman and
Soldier Buwaldo.
The first division Of the American
Pacific squadron reached Valparaiso on
Saturday, the 10th.
Joseph " harton, who died recently
i'm Philadelphia, left an. estate Of
tv'~~tv-e'', millions.
The Southern Pacific shows a net
annual revenue Of $16,S6s,226 of which
SO. 231 ,0S6 are profits.
The California Sons Of the Revolution
are trying to get the loan of the liberty
bell from Philadelphia.
Bert III. Lindsay, a sailor of the bat
tleship Minnesota, was stabbed during
fight with toughs at Nice.
Mrs. Benjamin Harrison and Mrs.
Grover Cleveland have been granted
the franking privilege by Congress.
Senator Tillman says there is a plot
to destroy him and that he is prepared
for anything, even the assassin IS dag
ger.
Chicago retail dealers are protesting
against the move on the part of the
manufacturers to stamp the exact sizes
on women's shoes.
The State University of California
wants three million dollars for needed
Improvements. Probably half that
will be appropriated.
Mrs. Dumouriez surrenders her claim
to the Estate of eXGov. Budd of Cal
ifornia and n sensational suit against
the widow has been avoided.
Dynamite was used to blow emer-
gency weirs in the nearly constructed
great dam above Vallejo to save it
from going out in the recent floods.
A bill to pension the parents of large
families, which started as a josh in
the California Legislature, is now be-
ing regarded seriously in both houses.
Professor Landfeld of Berkeley, who
is married to the Princess Lobanoff-
Rostovsky, of the royal blood of Rus
STA, has returned to Berkeley with his
bride.
The Copeland Hotel at Topeka burn
ed. One man was incinerated and four
teen more or less burned L. Z. Lam
bert, ex-U. S. Attorney for Kansas. lost
his life.
The Emperor of China has returned
to Seoul from Fusan, where he went
with Prince Ito, thus dispelling the
fear of his subjects that he had been
kidnapped.
The signing of the arbitration treaty
between America and Austria Hungary
makes conventions of that nature
made by the United States with TWEEN
ty other nations.
Judge Waste of Oakland has notified
attorneys that he will fine at the rate
of ten dollars per for all silly demur-
rers filed in his court for the purpose
of obstructing business,
At the Southern California Baptist
convention. resolutions in favor of
bill to abolish racetrack gambling was
passed, as well as a resolution in favor
of the Sunday rest law
| German aeronauts are experimenting
on aeroplanes along the Wright model,
and their machines are said to show
marked improvement over anything
that has yet been attempted.
The American Minister and the Brit
ish Minister to China have protested
to Prince Ching on the subject of the
dismissal of Yuan Shi Kai from the
Grand Council. Their actions were tax
en- Independently of each other and of
the other diplomats.
Jared Barker, boy who averted the
wreck of the eighteen-hour flyer of the
Pennsylvania railroad, has been adopt
ed by the corporation as a reward and
will be given as fhne an education as
| possible. The reports of his scholastic
progress will be submitted to and con-
sidered by the board of directors at
their regular meetings.
A bill abolishing the Chinese eyclu-
sion law and bringing the Chinese i'm
! migration under the provisions of the
general statutes is soon to be intro
duced into Congress. The bill will re-
move the irritation felt by the Chi
nese at being especially excluded, but
will not make it any easier for them
to enter the United States.
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