The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-05-12

tions of the town during the same
period.
sheepmen want the Dingley rates re-
tanned.
A statue of Henry w. Longfellow was
dedicated at Washington, D. c., on
May Z.
A Santa Rosa man was sentenced to
ten years Imprisonment for stealing
an automobile.
The British sloop-of-war Algerine vis-
tied San Francisco on her annual cruise
from the north.
Sacramento is facing potato famine
which promises to grow acute before
the new crop is available.
The quarterly report of the United
States Steel Corporation shows that the
earnings for that period are seventy
two millions.
An unidentified laborer dropped dead
of starvation in San Francisco after
partaking of the first meal he had
tasted in several days.
A Santa Barbara Minister was the
victim of an enterprising burglar, who
robbed his home while he was preach
ing his sermon at church.
The Howard-street pier in San Fran.
cisco, having been eaten through by
teredos, collapsed, and precipitated a
load of pigiron into the bay.
A terrible famine is threatened In
Asia Minor to add to the horrors
caused by the ravages of smallpox in
the Armenian districts of Turkey.
By the explosion Of sherry tank
thousands of gallons of wine were lost
and a winemaker was fatally injured.
The American Sugar Refining Com
pany of New Jersey has completed the
payment of a 100000 fine made by
the government for the fraudulent
weighing of sugar.
Representative Tawney, chairman of
the House Committee on Appropriations
will place a bill before the House APP
propriating $4,000 for the President IS
travelling expenses during the coming
fiscal year.
Oklahoma land cases have been or
dered reopened by the officials at Wash
ington. Governor George n Haskell
and six prominent Oklahomans are
charged with conspiracy to defraud the
Federal government.
In violation of all custom, the mem
bers of the senior class of Columbia
University have this year abandoned
and gown during the last two months
of the college year.
Raisin Day in California was a tre-
mendous success. All the good hoped
for by the promoters was accomplish
ed and immense quantities of the
Fresno product was consumed in con-
sequence of the holiday
An increased tax will be levied on in
comes and on the liquor trade in Eng
land that the deficit in the treasury
| may be met. The eighty million dollar
deficit is blamed on the cost Of the navy
and the old age pensions.
An enormous shipment of lemons is
on hand in California waiting better
market, and while the orange situation
is normal the lemon situation is re-
ported critical; $500 carloads are in
storage at the present time.
saltwater Bill Gates. who has
made and lost many fortunes in the
matrimonial career, arrived in Sar
Francisco with his fifth bride, bound
for London on his honeymoon.
Fire was set to tenement building
belonging to man in New York after
he had refused a demand of member.
of the Black Hand Society for $1,000
| Eight persons were burned to death anf
/ fourteen injured as result of the fire
! George Young, who was convicted
/ of robbery in San Francisco, was sen
/ fenced to thirty years imprisonment
The judges in san Francisco are ii
/ hopes that a few severe sentences will
check the epidemic of burglaries il
/ the city.
immigration Inspector Griffiths. afte
an examination of the alien patients Il
I the California State insane asvlums
has reported that six ont of every fiji
| teen examined are subjects for de
portafion on the ground that thew wer
mentally disqualified when they enter
ed this country.
Governor Eben Draper of Massaehu
sets sounded a note of warning agains
/ Japan in speech made in Boston, say
/ ing that Japan was now the creates
competitor of the United States in cot
/ ton manufactures. and that the decreas
/ in the exports of cotton goods to Chin
presented a grave proposition.
Miss Mabel Coey, San Franeise
girl, was forad dead in bath tub a
her home. It is supposed that sh