The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-04-02

ington favor increasing the expense
allowance of the President that he may
be enabled to visit the Pacific Coast
this year.
The house committee of the Mime
sofa Legislature recommends a bill pro-
hibiting the wearing of the nation s
colors on the stage in the form of red,
white and blue tights.
Hetty Green claims to be the lone
liest as well as the richest woman in
the world, but has left New York for
more congenial place. She refused
to tell her destination.
Prior to his departure Roosevelt fig
ured in a damage suit and his deposit
ton was secured in an action in which
a New York photographer seeks to re-
cover $1,000 from Town Topics.
A student at the University of Mich
igan took out license to marry an
actress, but failed to use it when his
fraternity brothers interviewed and
persuaded him against the step.
A son has been born to Mrs. John
Ward, daughter of Whitelaw Reid,
American ambassador to England.
King Edward and Queen Alexandra
will stand sponsors for the child.
Portland, Ore, contemplates adopt
ing the Gothenburg system of placing
all saloons under single ownership,
and a third of million has been Of
fered for the exclusive privilege.
A big Mexican lumber deal has been
engineered by Hiram c. Smith of San
Francisco whereby the Mexico Trans
portation Company acquires timber
holdings embracing 100000 acres.
Three human heads consigned to a
physician were exposed at the Sacra-
mento depot by the breaking of an ex-
press package, and the gruesome cir
cumstance caused much excitement.
The relative strength of the navies
Of Great Britain and Germany and the
question of the attitude which should
be assumed by England is the subject
of much discussion in the London clubs.
Instructions have been received by
| the transport officials in San Francis
co to prepare specifications for repairs
on the transport Sherman, which has
| been out Of commission for nearly a
! year.
| Einar Mikklesen, the arctic eX-
| pIorer, will start in June for Green
| tdHus To ieCoNtT tHG DUdttS VI nus
| Erickson and Lieutenant Hagen, who
! died on the north coast of Greenland
| in 1907.
Members of the women s clubs in
Chicago object to the tariff on hosiery
! provided in Payne bill. They have
| determined to enlist the National Fed
| Grafton of Women IS Clubs in an attack
! on the schedule.
/ Felipe Galicia. Consul General to San
Francisco from Guatemala. has been
| designated as dean of the consular
! corps, because of seniority. He has
represented his country at San Fran
/ cisco for eleven years.
/ The Asiatic Exclusion League has
/ drawn up resolutions protesting against
i the marriage of Miss Helen Emery.
! daughter of Archdeacon Emery Of the
/ Episcopal diocese of California, and the
/ Japanese Gungiro Aoki.
| John Williams, a familiar character
in San Francisco for a quarter of a
! century, is dead. Under the sobriquet
| of d" Johnny the Bird man. he enter
; tanned visitors TO the Cliff for many
years with his collection of trained
| birds.
The immigrant station on Angel Is
| land will not be opened until the Pa
mama Canal is completed. The volume
! of European imm grafton which will
probably follow the opening of the
| Isthmian Canal viii render it necessary
/ then
The declaration Of principles regard
| ing the laws of maritime war agreed
| upon by ten of the principal maritime
| nations. has been made public at the
/ State Department. According to its
| provisions a vast amount of traffic IS
freed from the possibility ofsseizure in
| time of war.