The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-23

Jacob Gording, well-known writer
of Hebrew plays, died at his home in
Brooklyn. He was a native of Russia.
The Cunard liner Slavonia went
aground on Flores Island, one of the
Azores group, and will be a total loss.
Four persons were killed by the col
lapslng of floor in the six-story plant
of the Peninsula Stove Works in De-
troit.
An explosion of dynamite in Freder-
leksburg, Iowa, wrecked the business
section, of the town and injured score
of persons.
Kansas has wheat crop this year
valued at $70,000,000, and the State
will need 1900 extra men to help har-
vest the crop.
A Japanese. supposed to be suffering
from leprosy at Visalia, CAL, escaped
from Waterman while waiting for
medical examination
Twenty-eight miles of carpet to cover
fourteen acres of floor space is being
woven at Hartford for the new La
Sale Hotel in Chicago.
San Francisco hackmen are making
an organized effort to keep taxieabs,
which are trying to get foothold in
the city, off the street.
One soldier was killed and four
wounded in trouble resulting through
the mutiny of the Philippine police on
the Island of Mindanao.
A laborer injured in the Monterey
plant of the Spreckels Sugar Company
has been awarded $4,000 by the Supreme
Court for the loss of an eye.
III
that the Yukon river is free from ice
and the steamer service between White
Horse and Dawson has begun.
Mrs. j. Thurner, of Berkeley, bride
of ten months, admits having commit
ted series of thefts which have been
battling the police for six months.
Bjornson, the Norwegian novelist,
who has been seriously i'll, is improving,
and neither his mind nor speech has
| been affected from the paralytic stroke.
William Manix, private in the Sig
| nal Corps, stationed in the Yosemite
Valley, was fatally injured when his
horse backed over cliff in the valley.
1t is estimated that there are over
| 10000 Japanese in the city of Los An
geles, and they have divided into two
powerful and aggressive factions-re
| form and liberal.
The United States government will
erect additional Notifications at the
| entrance to Puget Sound on 200 acres
of ground just purchased on WILDLY
| Island near Greenbrae.
| Suspects are being arrested almost
daily in connection with the murder OF
the little Poltera girl in Los Angeles
but the authorities have failed to at
tach the crime to any of them.
| Forests fires have been raging alons
the north shore of New Brunswick ant
rain is the only hope of the lumber
men for the saving of many thousand
of dollars worth of valuable timber.
Specifications received from the Chi
cage, Milwaukee and st. Paul carshop
for 100000 feet of lumber have caus
ed the miIlowners of the Northwest t,
predict big revival in the lumbe
trade.
/ A new aeroplane which promises t,
rival the Wright invention has bee
successfully launched in Minneapolis
1t rises with it's own engines and weigh
only one-third as much as the Wrigh
aeroplane.
| A delay in the furnishing of an al
stract of the title of the land selecte
in San Francisco for subtreasury sit
threatens to cancel the sale. Mrs. VII
lie K. Vanderbilt, Jr. Birdie Fair,
the owner of the land.
A wireless appeal for assistance fror
the wrecked steamer Slavonia brough
two steamers to her assistance. Th
message was heard $50 miles, and it
| efficacy on this occasion has added neN
laurels to the wireless system.
George w. Young, the millionair
banker, whom Nine. Nordica is
marry on her return from Europe, ha
purchased for her mansion on tn
Hudson, which she has been oeeupyin
under lease for the past three years.
President indications are that tn
trouble between the quarry owners an
employees in the Rocklin district wi
be averted, as several of the companle
have granted the raise in salary d.
manded. A strike would have tied u
building operations in the prlnelp;
cities of California.
The control of Alaskan business b
Seattle has aroused San Francisco bus
ness men to action, and the Chambt
of Commerce has under considerable
ways and means to get just propo
ton of the trade, which is said to be
more value to the city than the trait
with the Philippines.
In an address at the University {
Michigan, Baron Takahira, Japane:
o Ambassador to the United States, di
eussed the socalled commercial inv
s sion of America and declared that
was impossible to avoid commerci'
rivalry which is the outcome of tt
development of international relation
The War Department has notifie
seven of the eight midshipmen VII
failed at the Naval Academy becau<
of physical disqualifcations and VIII
desired to be transferred to the Goa
: Artillery Corps of the Army, that the
| were unsuccessful on the physical e,
aminations given them for commission
. in that corps.
. A train on the Kansas City, Mexl'
. and Orient railroad was blown fro
the bridge across the Brazos river
Texas and passenger, J. E. Statfor
of Crowell, Texas, was killed. Durlr
the same storm a tornado almost total
| destroyed the little town of Hamh
4 Texas, and in Colorado Springs a pro
/. erty damage of $4,000 resulted from
furious hail storm.
Halsted Lindsey of Yokohama b;