The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-02-17
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BREVITIES
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age was done.
1t is reported that John Sinclair,
Secretary for Scotland, will be the next
General for Canada.
John Gilmer Speed, formerly manag-
ing editor of the New York World and
of the American Magazine and Of Les
lie IS Weekly, is dead.
Michael Coffev of the first Sehmitz-
Ruef boodling supervisors has come up Il
for trial, and SIX jurors were passed
out of forty veniremen examined.
DIR. Edward B. Perrin of San Fran
cisco will sue John A Benson for land
venge and vindication of conspiracy |
charge.
Amos II. Ensign. editor of the New |
York Tribune, is dead. He was grad /
uate of the Cornell class of 1876. He |
was connected with the Tribune for
many years.
President Taft paid an official !
visit 10 President Obaldia of Panama,
accompanied by the American and Brit
ish ministers and officials of the Pana-
ma government.
Elections opposes the clause in the III
rect primary bill giving the people a
voice in the selection of candidates for
United States Senator.
William C. Brown, who, forty years
ago, was a sectionhand on the St. Paul
railway, has been elected president OF
the system of railroads of which the
New York Central is the main line.
The San Francisco supervisors have
given official approval of the project
of holding a Portola festival in com
memoration of the discovery of San
Francisco Bay, one hundred and forty
years ago.
It is definitely stated that Garfield
will not be a member of the new Cab
met. With the possible exception eff
| Secretary of Agriculture Wilson and
PostmasterGe General Meyer, it will be
| composed of new men.
Harry Lair, charged by the govern
ment of being promoter of the
'swhite slave traffic in this country,
was sentenced to two years in the gov
eminent prison at Leavenworth, Kan
sas, and to pay a $4,000 fine
| Bills have been introduced in both
| California houses for a bond issue of
| s1S,000O00 for the development of
| highway system extending from the
Oregon line to the Mexican boundary.
Indications are that the bill will pass.
| The Duke of the Abruzzi still plans
| to marry Miss Katherine Elkins. He
has resigned as an officer of the Italian
navy, and after his expedition to the
| Himalayas it is stated that he has TX
| pressed determination to marry Miss
/! Elkins
Paderewski injured the nail on his
index finger while playing at a recital
in New York and viii not resume play
| ing for several days. Each of his
fingers is insured for 5000, and he win
collect sufficient to reimburse him for
Cancelled reeitals.
Official recognition of the Moroccan
| Sultan on behalf of the United States
was made by the American battleships
Georgia and Nebraska. They saluted
the flag of Mulai Hafd while on the
way to join Admiral Sperry's feet IN
the western Mediterranean.
A member of the Vanderbilt family
confirms the statement that Mr. and
Mrs. W. K Vanderbilt, Jr. (Virginia
Fair), have separated, but there viii
be no divorce, as Mrs Vanderbilt is a
devout Catholic She and her three
children viii sail shortly for Europe tc
spend the summer.
Chief of Police Cook of San Fran
cisco has warned warning tongs IL
Chinatown to cease hostilities. He viii
hold the tong presidents personally re
sponsible for future acts of violence
as he is convinced that nothing is done
| in tong warfare unknown to tong presi
dents.
Police are angels compared with tht
press, according to Emma Goldman
who delivered an address to two thou
sand people at San Francisco, and cred
tied her arrest with the fact that sh'
had such large audience. She SPOKE
for three hours on 'Why I Am an An
archist.'
The World offers prize of $4,000
, to the person making the trip from
New York to Albany in an airship o
flying machine TO commemorate the on
hundredth anniversary of Robert Ful
ton s ascent of the Hudson river in tn
first steamboat by duplicating the fea
in the air -Four entries have alread,
been received frSm the Aero Club o
] | America.
A string of wonderful pearls elingin!
TO the neck of the skeleton of chic
| of an extinct people once living o.
! San Nicholas Island has been found i
| sand dunes by member of the South
| west Archaeological Society. tn
] value Of the pearls has been destroye
| through decomposition, but it is est
| mated that, if well preserved, the
! would have been worth $4,000.
Arrangements have been complete
l for reception of the feet on its Re
| turn to Hampton Roads, February ?
] President Roosevelt. on the Maytiowel
viii review it, and naval commander
| and executive officers win go aboard t
! receive the President ; greeting. II
in turn viii visit the flagship of eae
division and meet the assembled officer
I and six representative saiIormen froI
| each division.
The attention Of astronomers ha
| been attracted by new theory al
/ vaneed by Prof. J J. See Of the Mar
Island observatory as to the origin 0