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


Mrs. Oetavia Leitner, cashier at the
Hotel Lankershim in Los Angeles. re-
Gently married Milo Baker, millionaire
of that city.
A great gold strike was made in
Sierra County, Cal, recently, $4,000
having been taken out of a tunnel with
in few hours.
William Welch, high school boy,
was electroeuted while examining the
electric wires in the basement of the
school at Alameda.
California fruit will be sent to the
Yukon exposition from the San Joaquin
valley several times week for distri-
button in the north.
The stockholders of sthe st. Francis
Hotel company of San Francisco have
elected the incumbent board to succeed
itself for the coming year.
Charles HI. Turner, grand secretary
of the Native Sons of the Golden West,
has been found nearly six thousand dol
lars short in his accounts.
Ex-President Roosevelt has again de-
nounced fake reporters and reiterates
that the reports being sent from the
African hunting camp are mostly un-
authorized.
j. P Morgan Jr. has been elected
a director of the United States Steel
Corporation and member of the
finance committee to succeed the late
Henry H. Rogers.
Oklahoma City suffered from the
effects of flood, in which five people
lost their lives, ten were seriously in
jured and several thousand acres of
crops were inundated.
Five thousand salmon were captured
in one day with hook and line at Mon
terey during what was claimed to be
the greatest salmon run ever expert
enced in that section.
An Army recruit depot is to be es-
tablished shortly at Fort Mcdowell,
Angel Island, under the command of
Lieutenant Colonel L. A. Lowering,
Fourth Infantry, U.S.A.
HI. B. Stephenson, who graduated
from the University of California with
this years class, has received COM
mission as lieutenant in the Philippine
Constabulary and will leave at once for
the Islands
The purchase by Kuhn, Loeb G Co.
of New York, of $30,000,000 worth of
bonds Of Armour & Co. of Chicago, has
been announced The bonds are to run
for thirty years at 1-2 per cent. inter
est and will be used in paying off the
company's floating debt.
The Alaska salmon ship Columbia was
wrecked in Unimak bay and is total
loss. The vessel went ashore in a fog.
Thomas Williams, the well-known
race horse owner. has disposed off his
San Joaquin county holdings to Colonel
Dan Burns, the capitalist
An immense irrigation and COLOMBIA
ton scheme is being undertaken in
California which involves an expendi-
ture of $9,000,000, the irrigating of
$50 600 acres of land and the placing of
100000 settlers upon the land thus
reclaimed. The territory lies principal
" in Glenn and Cousa Counties.
The police were called in to quell
an incipient riot which followed the
hearing of charges against the Board
of Public Works by the Good Govern
meut League in San Francisco. The
arrival of the police resulted in limit
ing the encounter to verbal engage
ment on the part of the belligerent mem
bers.
The commercial organizations of the
Pacific Coast have joined forces to
fight the proposed action of the rail
roads in establishing graded rates that
would discriminate against the mercan-
tile interests of the Coast, in every city
| from Seattle TO Los Angeles in favor
| of st. Louis. St. Paul, ard other eastern
terminals of the Western roads.
The girls in a Los Angeles reform
school INDUCED in fight which de
veloped into a small sized riot which
the police were called upon to queli
and in which the interior of the home
was wrecked. 1t resulted in some of
the combatants being taken to the
| Emergency Hospital and the others to
| the County Jail. The fight was be
tween two factions of the girls and
did not involve the officers of the Home.
| The Washoe Indians are causing
| some alarm to the authorities in Ne
vada because over 500 Of them have
gathered at Reno and have planned a
| nowwow when the body of Charles
Kaiser, who has hanged On May p, is
| handed over to them by the prison
| warden. Kaiser was the son of Black
| Horse. a Washoe chief. and was con
| victed of the murder of his wife. He
| is the third Indian to be hanged by the
| State. and the Red men are resentfu
| of this. believing that they should be
allowed to punish their lawbreakers.