The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-10-12
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| Frederick X. Burton EeW6Pape
man and novelist, died suddenly a
Hopatkung, y. J.
The recent rains in California have
seriously damaged the grape crop The
| white bean crop has also suffered.
Julia Sanderson. the actress, IS seek
ing divorce from Tod Sloan, the
Jockey, whom she married short time
| ago.
| The Southern Pacific Railroad was
fined $1,000 in the United States Dis
trict Court in Los Angeles on the
charge Of rebating.
Statistics show that there was an
increase of nineteen millions in the
customs in the United States over the
three months of last year.
George Washington Moore, founder
of Moore and Burgess Minstrels, and
known in sporting circles as "Pony"
Moore, died recently in London.
General Eliphalet Whittlesy, for
twenty-five years secretary of the
Board of Indian Commissioners, died
in Washington at the age of eighty
eight.
B. C. Cosgrove, one of the best
known hotel men of northern Califor.
MIA, was stricken with total blindness
while dressing, result Of an abscess
on the brain.
Another dissolution Of the Finnish
senate is imminent as a result of the
conflict with Russia over the amount
of Finland s contribution to the de-
Tense of the empire.
The expenses of the State of Califor-
MIA for the first three months of the
fiscal year beginning July / are nearly
one million dollars more than for the
same period twelve months ago.
Passengers arriving from Mexico re-
Gently brought the news that terrific
electrical storm did great damage at
La Paz and at Mazatlan a thunderbolt
struck powder magazine, causing it
to explode.
A number of soldiers dropped in the
ranks from exhaustion while 800 men
of the Second Infantry, U.s.A., were
returning to Fort Thomas, Kentucky,
on forced march of forty-three miles
from Fort Perry, Ohio.
DR.. James B. Angel has retired from
the presidency of the University Of
Michigan which he has filed for thir-
ty-eight years except for the time he
was United States Minister to China
and Minister to Turkey.
According to telegram received
from Percival Lowell at his observa-
tory at Flagstaff, A. T., the anarctic
canals of Mars are disappearing. He
thinks this phenomenon supports the
theory that life exists on Mars and that
the canals denote a system of irriga-
tien.
The eightyeton American fishing
schooner Caldwell Fl. Colt was cap
tured by Mexican gunboat recently,
and word has reached her owners that
the captain and crew are confined in a
Mexican dungeon. The ostensible rea-
vessel was poaching.
Despite reports to the contrary,
the government does not expect any
international complications over the
recent action of the revenue cutter
Bear in OBTAINING the Norwegian
steamer Varig at Nome, Alaska, last
month. The official report shows that
the Varig had no manifest or bill of
health as is required by law.
The dispute between the woolbuyers
and brokers in Sydney, N. S. W, which
has interfered with the annual wool
sales has been temporarily settled and
the growers resolved to resume the
sales on October 5, under the former
conditions on the understanding that a
joint committee endeavor to frame a
set of rules acceptable to the dispu-
tants during a Christmas recess.
General Frederick Grant said in an
interview on his return from the Hud,
son-Fulton Exposition hat he was will
ing to get out of the Army or make
any other personal sacrifice if thereby
he could further the cause of temper.
ance. The remark was Occasioned by
the controversy raised by w R. Mich
aels, an official of the United Societies.
who questioned the propriety of GEN
eral Grant leading a temperance pa,
rade in Chicago recently.