The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-07-01

| York Times last August was written a
| month after Cleveland 8 death.
/ The following have been appointed
| postmasters in California; at Carbon.
Shasta county, Mrs. Maude GULL. vice
>. II. Martin, resigned; Bluffs, Hum
boldt county, Mrs. M. ". Matheson,
| vice A. G. Matheson, deceased.
Arrangements are under way to re-
ceive and rehabili5ate the defunct CAL
ifornia Safe Deposit and Trust Com
pany, according to the statements OF
several members Of the Deposition y
Committee who are now in New York.
Two Japanese, claiming to be agents
of the Japanese government, have been
seeking to obtain an option ON Sec
ton of land from the Mount Diablo Oil
Company near Bakersfield. The COM
pany named million dollars as its
price.
The Healy-1ibbitts Construction Com
pany of San Francisco was the lowest
of eight bidders for the construction Of
about 1900 feet of timber dikes form
ing part of the channel controlled workn
at the Mare Island navy yard. Its bid
was $52,S
The zafiro, which was purchased from
British ownership by Admiral Dewey
prior to the battle of Manila, in order
to get coal Ito carry him through the
engagement, has been sold to junk
dealer for $4,000, according to report
at the Bremerton navy yard.
Bids for construction of the two bat
tleships Arkansas and Wyoming, au-
thorized by the last Congress, will be
opened at the Navy Department. at
Washington on August rs. These
ships will be of the Delaware type of
10000 tons or more displacement.
Emperor Nicholas has sent 800 TO
the engineer of the British steamer
Woodburn, who was slightly wounded
when that vessel was fired upon in
Pilikas Bay by Russian torpedo boat
for approaching too close to the REM
devious of Emperor Nicholas and EN-
peror William.
A head-on collision occurred at
Mount Carmel, Illinois, between two
Southern Railway passenger trains.
The accident was caused by an errcr
in train orders. Mail Clerk Jackson
was killed. Both engineers were SER
iously injured and several passengers
received slight injuries.
The owners of the line of sailing yes
sells between San Francisco and the
East by way Of the Horn, have an
nouneed that they have succeeded in
getting control of the easfbound traffic
and are now prepared to bid for the
westbound business, and war is on with
the Pacific Mail Steamship Co.
James Dumphy, the San Francisco
millionaire. has added further to his
matrimonial entanglements by marry
ing Dodie Valencia, a notorious woman
of the Tenderloin. His recently di-
vorced wife, the validity of whose mar
riage with him caused her te lose set
Element Of 100000 will be married
again shortly for the fifth time.
The secretary of the Asiatic Exclu-
sion League in San Francisco, stated in
his official report that the figures is
sued by the japanese Foreign Office
relative to the influx of japanese into
California were full of falsiieations.
Much concern was also manifested over
the encroachment of the Nipponese into
the business of manufacturing electri-
cal appliances in Japan which they were
shipping into the United States.
Professor Lncin Foulet, the newly-ap-
pointed professor of French at the Uni
versity of California, who recently at
tanned much mention because of his
spirited resentment of the remarks OF
David Starr Jordan at Bryn Mawr on
the degeneraey of the French nation,
said IN an interview on his arrival at
Berkeley that he had differed with the
Stanford president, but that be had not
called him a liar, as had been reported,
and that he hoped the incident wa,
closed.