The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-07-14

Edgewater Iannery at seattle on July
4th.
/ E.. Campbell, sailor from the
cruiser Maryland, attempted suicide at
! Vallejo. July 4th.
Charges of immortality in the Pasa
dena High School have started move
ment to segregate the sexes.
| A FIVE million dollar contract for
/ steel cars for the Hartman lines has
been placed with Pittsburg companies.
Marie Bakhtadske, a Russian woman
who was police spy, was assassinated
+ by bomb concealed in gift of cher
ries.
Failure to declare all his goods cos
Solomon Blumauer, of Portland, Ore
honeymoon trip.
i The cruiser South Dakota has re-
turned to San Francisco after ten
months of police duty among Central
| American Republics
! Mrs. Holbrook Blinn, wife, of the
Deputy Surveyor of the Port of San
| Francisco and mother of the noted
actor, died on July 4th.
/ France has signifed her intention,
through the Minister of Marine, of
sending two warships to the Portola
Festival at San Francisco.
The BulIfrog Bank and Trust Som
panv at Rhyolite, New, has been
closed by the State Bank Examiners,
because it is short of funds.
Vienna plans to put new transpor-
tation system into effect by using an
underground electric railway for the
transmission of postal matter.
The daughter of Thomas w. Law
son became the bride of James Gulles
Lord of Chicago at her father home
at Scituate, Mass, on June Both.
Rafael Reyes the president of Colon
bia, has reached Paris and will tour
the Continent before returning to
Colombia to resume the presidency.
The helicoptre, a heavier-than air
type of fying machine which depends
on aerial screws for its lifting power,
has successfully lifted itself with an
operator.
z. F.. Calvin, vice President and Gen
eral Manager of the Southern Pacific
Company, underwent an operation for
appendicitis from which he is recev-
ering rapidly.
Few casualties resulted in San Fran
cisco from Independence Day, owing
to the precautions taken by the police
to enforce strict ordinances passed for
sane celebration of the 4th.
Affdavits have been fled to disquali-
fy Judge Lawlor, by Patrick Calhoun,
in support of motion for change of
Venue in his case, on the ground of
the alleged prejudice of Judge Lawlor.
The State of Mississippi would pro
hibit the Oil Trust from doing bust
ness there by perpetual injunction
and is seeking to collect 81 100000
for alleged violation of the antitrust
law.
Daniel J. Keefe, Commissioner Gen
eral of immigration, will compel the
Pacific Mail Steamship Company to
build new detention shed, according
to his orders prior to his departure
from San Francisco.
A reorganization Of the Denver and
Rio Grande Railroad is contemplated
and F. A. Delano, formerly president
of the Pittsburg Terminal Railway
Company, will probably succeed F. j
Jeffrey who is soon to retire.
William Bradbury, an eccentric Gal
| ifornia millionaire, has been sentenced
to wears imprisonment IN the Pen
! itentiarv at San Quentin for perjury II
civil action in the Supreme Courts OF
Marin county in October, 1904.
Spencer F. Edge, well known Brit
ish motorist. on his return to England
] from America. warned the British man
. ufacturers that unless they wake up tt
:, tie ina, taa.ce of caeap car, tn
market, OF Europe will be flooded Wit
Il fnC
Lord Charles Beresford has agai1
criticized the Naval administration be
fore the London Chamber of Commerce
and advised the expenditure OF $500,
100000 in the next five years IN thu
construction of war vessels and docks
A small and harmless looking Britfst
steamer lying on the South Brooklyn
waterfront was seized by the Unitet
States Customs officers on suspicion
that she was about to engage IN I'LL
clustering expedition against San DO
} mingo.
I In order TO protect her subjects II
Teheran and to keep open the highwa.
] between Enzei and the capital Russl'
= is preparing to send troops to Persia
! 1t is believed that Great Britain vii
! made by the House of Representatives
| petition.
The Hartman lines in the North
I west have broken away from the Stand
ard Oil Company and the Union Oh
! Company and have closed contrac
with the Associated Oil Company il
yolying business amounting to $500
900 year.
Thet present state of the@governmen
finances shows a deficit of $50 100000
for the fiscal year and the Treasur
I officials express much qualification tina
= the official estimate of deficit mad
= on December of $l14,000,0G0 has nc
! | been verified. -
! The proposal to reach the Mort
{ Pole in a Zeppelin airship is 'regarde
\ as feasible by Eriek Won Drygalskitl
geographer and explorer, who consider
a the scientific aims of the expedite
Z as fully iustifying the venture and til
\ expense entailed.
4 The breach of promise suit il
\ stituted against Philip Bowles, the so
of prominent banker and formerl
Z private secretary to Victor Metca
j when he was Secretary of the Nav,
Z by Miss Clara Haggett, has been begu
i in the Oakland courts.
{ The Washington State Senate, 81