The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-05-04

most members ~ the bar IN fhe West
died at biz home iu oakland. CAL lie
was state senator In Nevada In 1871
aud 1879, and fathorcd the famous bul
hon tax directed against the Com
stoekers and which involved him In a
bitter fight with The Floods and
Mackeys lie has been intimately
identified with the development Of Cal
ifornia and Nevada, and Mt his death
was southern Pacific attorney.
-Four murdcrers were taken from Jail
and lynched IN Oklahoma by mob Of
200 men
Paul Topeters, an artist, committed
suicide in Seattle by taking cyanide
of potassium.
Several Dies Moines college men aud
women were mysteriously poisoned at
club dinner.
A Chinese girl in Portland riskcd'
her life TO save her small brother from
the flames of her burning home.
Whitelaw Reid, the American Ambas-
sador, and Mrs Reid will remain abroad
and make their permanent home in
England,
John Davidson, the English poet who
has been missing some time from his
London home, is thought to have com.
mitted suicide.
The loss from the fire at st. George
Hotel in San Francisco has been esti-
mated at 100000 with only about $l0,-
900 insurance.
The Japanese Methodists of San
Francisco have dedicated u handsome
edifice on Pine street, as n permanent
place of worship.
The Governor of California has signed
the bill passed by the legislature limit
ing the interest of salary loan brokers
to 8 per cent. month.
Professor Pickering of Harvard says
ten million dollars will cover the cost of
equipment for the establishment of
communication with Mars.
France is beginning to feel the effects
of the prevailing high price of wheat
in the United States and the Bakers
Association is considering raising the
price of bread.
The ship Halve Maan, which the
Netherlands will present to the United
| States on the occasion of the Hudson
Fulton fetes, was launched at Amster.
dam April 18th.
James Clark, wealthy Kansas farm
1
being sent to the penitentiary because
he had not listed all his property with
the county assessor.
1t has been rumored that the Japanese
Ginjiro Aoki and his wife, who was
the daughter of Archdeacon Emery, of
San Francisco, have left Seattle and
| have gone to Salt Lake.
Doctors at the HarbOr Emergency
hospital in San Francisco prescribed fol
patient aboard the steamship Presi
dent, one hundred miles at sea, by
means of wireless telegraphy.
Potomac Drive, the magnificent new
speedway in Washington, ID. c., was
officially opened by President Taft at
one of the most brilliant outdoor events
ever witnessed in the National capital
Virginia Harmed, the actress, has beer
denied a divorce from her husband
Il. II. Sothern, by Judge Pike of Reno
on the ground that neither had estab
lished a bona fide residence in Ne
vada.
The Labor Party, which three years
ago seemed to have the opportunity OF
becoming a powerful political factor in
England, is now slit into factions W hicl
are attacking each other with great
fierceness.
The action of Los Angeles makers il
raising the price of bread is being
widely condemned, it being claimed that
they are taking unnecessary advantage
of the present wheat situation and Of
the people.
1t is reported that the Newport wills
of Mrs. Herman Oelrieh, who wa
| frarago Mir &C Era,1nsoan So gn
sale and that she and her sister, Mrs
Willie X. Vanderbilt, Jr., will go abroad
for the summer.
Permanent and incurable insanity will
be urged as a defense in the case Of
Captain Peter G. Hams for the nurde
of William Annis. General Hams de
clared that his son is dying and will mo-
live more than two months.
Daniel KearDey, son of the anti-Chi
nese agitator, was arrested for carry I'M
burglars tools, but he explained TO thu
judge that he worked for the gas com
pany and that the keys, etc, found OF
him were used in his business.
Religious riots in Valaderno, Mexico
resulted in much damage to the prop
erty of the Torreon Mercantile Com
pany, an American concern. A deman'
for indemnity will be laid before tn
State Department at Washington
Thirty quarts of lady bugs have bee
dug from beneath the snow at Dutc
Flat, CAL, and are being sent to dit
ferent parts of the State for the benef
of gardeners. The chief mission o
these bugs is to devour the insect pest
that infest melon vines.
The Supervisors of San Francisc
have Endorsed the plan to change tn
site of the City Hall to the civic cen
ter of the city as outlined ia the Burn
ham plans. The proposed site is a
Market and Van Ness and includes tn
blocks bounded by Franklin, Hayes
Polk and Market.
, Constantine Wickham,' a waiter il
San Francisco, committed suicide in a
, undertaken establishment and left
note to the effect that he had sough
, for months to kill Mrs. King, nurs
, who he imagined was responsible TO
, the death of his wife, which occurre
in hospital two years ago.
Alvin Lehman, the Tacoma man, VIII
| deserted his bride-to-be a few hours be
fore the .WaddinU and after EeVeTa