The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-05-12


ping post.
The principal of school in Northern
California was arrested for beating a
fourteen-year-old girl.
The Postal Telegraph and Cable
Company has planned to run a line
from Reno to San Francisco.
Eugene Pearson, clerk in the Army |
Transport Service, has been arrested |
for being short in his accounts.
In the initial boat race on the Sew
ern, the Naval Academy crew won
easily from the New York University
eight.
The Australian Government has or
dered in Europe six dirigible balloons
and six aeroplanes for purposes of ex-
pertinent
San Fra neiseo society attended a
brilliant reception at the Hotel Fair
mont in honor of Admiral Ijichi and
mis- officers.
There is a report being circulated
ahat President Taft is preparing to in
:augurate sweeping investigation Of
ahe railroads.
Senior Artino Ortega, the newly-ap-
pointed Consul of Nicaragua, has ar
rived at San Francisco and taken up
his official duties.
The senior class at Stanford Univer-
ssity are preparing for their final week
at the college. The exercises this year
will be most elaborate.
Jim Mccarthy, a San Francisco
alorseman, has taken his string of
horses to Lima, Peru, where he in
tends to race them this summer.
Henry Oliphant, a pioneer stockman
sof Shasta. was murdered as a result
of prctracted trouble with his neigh
Dors, but his murderer is not known.
There was a small blaze at the Mare
Island Navy Yard on April "a, and
though a general alarm was sent in,
the fire was small and the loss NOM
inal
Miss Grace MacFarland, coed at
the University of California. has fall
EN- heir to a fortune of 100000 left her
by her great uncle, a capitalist of
Cincinnati.
A Hindu mystic who obtained money
and personal property was brought
back to San Francisco from Los An
sgeles on the complaint of the woman
whom he had swindled.
INQUIRY into the conduct of Lieuten-
ant Osburn, of the monitor Cheyenne.
with Mrs. Evans, wife of Naval Con-
zstructor Evans, has begun by the
naval board at Mare Island.
The last statistics show that in one
year in Germany the sum of thirty
million dollars was paid to invalid
,workmen to the number of 871.0O0~ in
the form of old-age pensions.
The cross-exanination of James L.
Gallagher has been concluded in the
Calhoun trial, and he has been turned
over to Assistant District Attorney
Heney for redirect examination.
The transbay business of the South
~ern Patio has decreased per cent
this year, showing that people who
went across the bay to live after the
fire are returning to San Francisco.
An attempt was made to ASA ssinate
Rev. Giocomo Seuzareili, Catholic
priest. in Newark, N. J. His assa1l-
sant surrendered and. confessed person.
al revenge as the cause of the as
ssault.
T.os Angeles win hold a big expos1-
4ion four years hence whose main pur-
pose win be to exploit the resources
of the Southwest and to promote and
encourage commerce with other coun-
tries.
Harry c. Hastings, grandson OF
Tudge Hastings of San Francisco,
over whose estate there has been con-
stant litigation for years, has arrived
in California from England to make
his home.
Owing to overwhelming protest, the
Pacific Ocean Steamship Company has
reconsidered its design to remove the
bars from its boats running to Alaska.
The boats between san Francisco and
seattle will, however, run without
them.
Plans are being perfected by which
san francisco will be provided with
a national convention hall, to be erect
ed on the site of the old Mechanics
Institute, on the block bounded by
I.arkin. Hayes, Polk and Grove
streets
Owing TO the recent raids upon
teblind tigers by the police autherl-
ties. the city of Savannah Ga. is the
rossessor of about 10000 gallons OF
vxhistv. beside much beer, wine, cham
nagneI etc 1t can neither be sold nor
given away.
The conflicting cracker interests on
Abe Pacific Coast have been merged oy
the sale of the American Biscuit Com
pany to r. L. Dunn, manager OF th7
Dunn Cracker Company, VINO mas as'
asociated with him number OF East
ern capitalists.
Elmer ]. Smith, on returning 10 nus
apartments at the Cadillac Hotter aitei
a convivial night spent with 1rienos
was severely beaten with hairorusn
in the hands of his infuriated Wiie
Smith is an employe of profniheh'
San Francisco publishing house.
On recent windy day IN san fran, !.
cisco there were serious accidents aho
one death as the result of chasing haes
which were blown off by the wind. Inc
man who was killed jumped OH
moving car to recover his hat. wa
thrown, and fractured his skull. =
George Shima. the Japanese potato
king, has planned to give hundred
of his Japanese laborers trip to saI
Francisco, from the San Joaquin Il
ley, while the cruisers are in port, ane
will dress the men up in new business
suits which he has uurcba Se0, Tit