The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-07-24

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Foreign troops will be withdrawn
from the Island of Crete on July p.
Much damage was done to property
in Panama bv a hurricane on July 18th.
Masked men looted a hotel at Utah
Hot Springs, secured $500 and escaped.
Nine horse-buyers were murdered by
Mexican bandits near Alton, New Mex
leo.
The Western Hotel Mems Protective
Association viii meet in San Francisco
in October.
Don Miguel Antonio Caro-, former
president of Colombia, has been serious
" iii at Bogota.
Imposing funeral services marked the
burial of Congressman F. w. Cushman
at his home at Tacoma.
The Kramer Consolidated Oil Com
panv struck a rich oil find on the desert
in southern California.
The Quartermaster store at Fort
Wingate was destroyed by fire and the
loss is estimated at $35, 900.
President Taft has definitely decid.
ed to spend three days in the Yosemite
during his visit to California.
Several earthquake shocks were felt
recently in New Britain in the Bis
marck Archipelago, but no fatalities
were reported.
The Pennsylvania Steel Companies
are swamped with orders; some of them
taking new orders at a premium OF
from 81 to SO a ton.
Herbert Latham, the French aviator,
had been delayed in his attempted flight
across the English Channel by unfavor-
able weather conditions.
In order to aid the shipping interests
exclusion laws against foreign coast
wise shipping have become operative in
the Dominion of Canada.
The United States Cableship Burn
side will lay a fre-contro1 system of
cables between the several forts de-
Tending San Francisco harbor.
The fortune which Miss Anita Stew
art, step daughter of tSilent Smith, -
viii bring to Don Miguel of Braganza
on her marriage will amount to $4,000
900.
George Caldwell, an Arctic explorer,
who has been mourned as dead for three
years, is said to be alive and safe, and
expected to return to his home in OF
tawa
The explosion of bomb at the eele-
bration Of religious festival in Kansas
City resulted in the death of three per-
sons and the serious injury of a large
number
The Nationalist quarter of the city
of Belfast was the scene of roting and
numerous conflicts between the Orange
men and the Nationalist took place on
July u.
The Batavia system of instruction
which provides for individual instruc-
tion for backward pupils is TO be in
trodueed next year in the schools of
Palo Alto.
Forty-eight million dollars will be
needed by the Isthmian Canal Com
mission to carry on the work of dig
ging the Panama Canal during the
year 1911.
A fire in the Richmond district in
San Francisco destroyed property
valued at $4,000 and very nearly cost
the life of three fremen who were Sc
riouslv burned
Senator Perkins hopes to induce Con-
gress TO appropriate money next winter
TO plant trees on Yerba Buena Island
in San Francisco Bay.
The delay in the arrival Of the sock
eye salmon on the Fraser River is caus-
ing some anxiety and it is feared that
the pack will be short.
The westbound train of the Sunset
Limited was wrecked 100 miles east of
FL Paso but no casualties were report
ed, the engineer and fireman saving
themselves by jumping.
A number of prominent Turks are to
be court -martialed on the charge that
they were implicated in the Armenian
massacres of last April.
The Mexican government has an
nounced that retrenehment measures are
to be taken on account of the $18 0OO.-
600 deficit which resulted from the
financial panic last year.
King Edward became so absorbed in
a game of bridge at the ball given in
his honor in London by ambassador
Reid and Mrs. Reid that he DELAYED the
supper by more than an hour.
The Western Pacific Railway has
elaborate plans for freight and depot
yard at Seventh and Brannan streets
IN San Francisco and work on the con-
struction of them has already begun.
At the laying of the cornerstone of
"a NAdAIh III w dSHlug tUU, PRESIDENT
Taft took occasion to praise the hon
est, painstaking and efficient work of
the army of civil employees of the gov
eminent.
President Diaz of Mexico has ex.
pressed his intention Of coming to San
Francisco for the Portola festival in
October if practicable. IF he is un-
able to attend he will send a deputa-
ton headed by the vice president.
The suffragettes in London who have
been sent to Hollywell jail are making
it lively for the prison authorities by
all of the rules of the Jail
and openly revolving against the at
-empts to treat them as ordinary crimi-
nails
Baron Oscar RothschId, youngest son
Of the head of the Vienna house of
died suddenly at his fathers
home and it is persistently rumored
hat the young man committed suicide
after quarrel with his father over
4 frustrated love affair
Flood conditions in the vicinity of
Kansas City were much improved on
July ii. The Union Depot officials have
estimated that fully $4,000 passengers
we're held in the city during the six
laws of the blockade and the depot
natron told of great hardships expert.
enced by travellers.