The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-10-12

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The line of the Western Pacific has
been completed from Salt Lake to
Winnemucca.
Bullion amounting to 100000 was
withdrawn from the bank sof England
for the shipment to Panama.
Yukon Exposition, the Italian Swiss
Colony at Asst has received the high
est awards for California wines.
The strike of the street car men in
Omaha, Neb., has been practically set
tied on basis favorable to the men.
The Varsity eleven of Yale will
present President Taft with his '.Y,
at the close of the football season this
year.
Rev. Ignatius Renaud s. J., one Of
the most prominent Catholic educators
in the United States. died in PhiIadeI-
phia at the age of 20.
Father Denis Crowley of San Fran
cisco, who was seriously injured by be-
ing struck by an automobile, is slowly
recovering at the hospital.
The Burlington and Great Northern
Railway has announced a raise in pay
for its $4,000 employees to take effect
on orders from James ]. Hill.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Jennings
Bryan celebrated their twenty fifth
wedding anniversary on October LIST,
at their home at Lincoln, Neb.
In the competition in the Interna-
tional Air Exposition, Rulenburg won
the prize of $500 offered by Count
Zeppelin for the smallest dirigible
balloon.
The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
railroad has added its name to the
"roll of honor" because not single
person had been killed on the road
for a year.
Miss Mary Seymour, a Los Angeles
girl, had a narrow escape from death
at Long Beach, Cal. by being dragged
beneath the surface of the water by a
giant octopus.
Naturalization was refused to 2067
aliens during the last fcal year, ma
terial increase over the rejection of
would-be United States citizens during
the preceding year.
The Tooth anniversary of the birth
of Admiral Raphael Semmes, naval
hero of the Confederate States, was
marked with public ceremonies in the
South on September 9th.
The death list in the Gulf region as
a result of the recent storm has been
placed at over 200 and foeks of vul-
lures lowered for days over the storm
devastated towns of southern Louis
lana.
The engagement just announced
in London of Miss Aurel Lee, the
actress, and Maj. Melloy Kennard who
served with distinction in the South
African war. Miss Lee will remain
on the stage.
Elmer E. Smith the MERGED capital
list who sold the Hetch-Hetchy valley
to the city of San Francisco a few
months ago was seriously injured by
being thrown from his horse in the
Yosemite Valley.
William j. Breen, a member of the
Breen Single Company at Aberdeen,
Washington, was mysteriously shot and
killed at his home, and though he lived
for several hours, he was unable to
throw any light on how the accident
occurred.
1t is rumored that General Bernardo
Reyes, governor of Monterey, Mexico,
is about to leave the country. He
has offered his residence for sale for
$4,000 and has resigned the presidency
of the local casino, the highest social
position in the state.
A new American aviator, Dale Hurl-
burt, has made several successful aero
plane flights at Lucerne recently. His
aeroplane differs from existing ma
chimes inasmuch as it travels length
ways through the air and has two pro-
pellers, one in front and one behind
The charges brought against Rev. w.
w. Morrison, an American missionary,
by one of the Congo concession com
panies which has a monopoly of the
rubber gathering in the Kasai region,
have been withdrawn but the plaintiffs
reserve the right to bring suit later for
damages.
The arrival of Malapai Mike,
typical "desert rat at Greenwater,
Cal, after terrible experience in
Death Valley confirms the belief that
David Eldridge, son of B. Eldridge,
president of the National Sewing Ma.
chine and Bicycle Company. has per-
ished on she desert.
DR.. r. w. Corwin, superintendent of
the Minnequa Hospital of Pueblo, Col
OTadO, declared that bath tubs in pub
lie institutions are unsanitary and that
they should be substituted by showers.
The statement was the cause of much
discussion at the conference of the
American Hospital Association.
Well authenticated reports indicate
that the United States Steel Corpora
ton is preparing TO control the coal
and iron mines and the steel business
of China. The vast deposits in the
province of Shan ST believed to be the
richest in the world, is said to have
come into the control of the corpora
ton.
Wilson Miner, who was arraigned
in court in New York on the charge of
forcing his way into the room of an
actress, Theodore Gerard. escaped with
only a reprimand on the showing that
the actress was not occupying the
room at the time and that he wished
to get some of his belongings that
were there.
Professor Charles Zubelin of the
University of Chicago in a lecture
upon Democratic Religion in San Fran
cisco, elucidated upon a condition of
existence wherein there would be no
religious, intellectual or moral subiec-
ton. 1t would be life in which
every man through his personality
would express his relations with the