The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-05-01

dent of the bank, to success David T.
Beais
Patten, the wheat king, has retired
to his ranch in Colorado and denied
himself to interviewers.
Captain George Bunnell, U. S. A,
wounded himself fatally while de
spondent from i'll health.
The wife of Captain Rush Wells has
made charges Of extreme cruelty in
counter-plea fer divorce.
Two men We're severely stabbed
with a hatpin in a conflict with an
angry actress in Cincinnati.
A prairie fire in Texas was finally
extinguished after burning fourteen
days over an area of 100000 acres.
Dustin Farnum, the actor, denies
Howard Gould's charges that his rela-
tons with Mrs. Gould were improper.
A daring but unsuccessful attempt
was made to hold up the American Saw
ings Bank at Seattle by an unidentified
man.
The American Newspaper Publish
ers' Association has urged that no
duty be placed on pulp and print
paper.
Experiments with the electric
smelter have proved successful and
promise to revolutionize the iron in-
dustry.
F. w. Gilbert, general superintendent
of the Northern Pacific Railway, died
at st. Paul after a brief illness of
pneumonia.
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guilty of numbering Harry Boas in San
Francisco and was sentenced to i'm
prisonment for life.
A big new seven-story fire ladder
which shoots to full length in twenty
seconds is to be put in use in San
Francisco on June 1.
Under the will of the late Charles
Ellis, the millionaire railway magnate
of Philadelphia, 100000 is given for
a home for fatherless girls.
Arrangements for the wedding of
Miss MurieI White, daughter of Amer
lean ambassador White, and Count
Herman Scherr-Thoss have been COM
pleted.
On the last trip the Holland Ameri-
can liner Ryndam arrived in New
u,
second cabin, between the ages of four
and ten.
The San Francisco chief of police has
announced that the crooks which have
infested the city all winter are taking
their departure, owing to the efficiency
of the police,
The San Francisco Labor Council has
decided not to indorse the ordinance
to abolish free lunches in saloons which
has been proposed by the Asiatic Ex-
clusion League.
The Pacific feet will go to Seattle
to take part in the opening of the ex-
position. They will proceed north upon
the completion of target practise at
Magdalena Bay.
The Mayor of San Francisco has
signed the ordinance for the Geary
street road and the first step has been
city's management.
The time of the first sale Of scrip
under the sew land law, carrying the
right to purchase government land,
WAS set for May by the Surveyor
General of California.
Governor Hoggatt of Alaska visited
San Francisco, en- route home from
Washington, and said in an interview
that Alaska needs more mine devel-
opment and less politics."
Broughton Brandenburgh, accused of
forging the signature of the late Gro
yer Cleveland, in an article indorsing
Taft, was arrested in San Francisco
on his arrival from Denver.
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reduce the flow over Niagara Falls.
The consent of the War Department
will therefore have to be obtained in
order to carry out the plans.
Mrs. William Bartels of Chicago, was
robbed in her apartment in Paris. Her
loss included small sum of money and
five valuable diamond rings which the
robbers wrenched from her fingers.
Roland Richie, a stenographer in
Los Angeles, has been arrested for
blackmail for trying to extort money
from DR. w. L. Graves, vice presi-
dent of the Merchants National Bank
At the second trial of Beach Hargis,
charged with the murder of his father,
Judge Hargis, in Jackson, Kentucky,
one of the thirteen attorneys for the
defense will be woman, Mrs. Will
liam A. Young. Her husband will also
act for the defense.