The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-08
Condensed News OF
World, From Files

philanthropist, has given $4,000 to
Whitman College at Walla Walla, Wash.
The Lamb s Club of New York real
lied $4,000 recently at special per
Torrance to which it admitted the
public.
Burglars stole furs amounting to
$500 recently from the store and fac
tory of the Hudson Bay Company at
Seattle.
Carrie Nation s step-son was sentenc-
ed to Imprisonment in Los Angeles for
passing a bogus check while he was in
toxicated
An explosion of gas in an apartment
house in Portland damaged considerable
property in the neighborhood and in
jured several people.
japanese bamboo is to be grown in
America. A government expert who
has been in Japan claims that it can
be successfully done in Arizona.
The annual report of the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company shows deficit Of
over 100000 for the year. The re
firing directors were reelected.
Mrs. Elizabeth Kraft has presented
the town of Red Bluff, Cal, with a
100000 library building in memory of
her late husband, Herbert Kraft.
John H. Nixon committed suicide in
San Francisco because his sweetheart
refused to marry him. He came of
well-known New Orleans family.
Whittier Reform School methods are
to be carefully investigated and an eff
fort will be made to keep young chill
dren from association with degenerates.
According to statistics, divorces are
increasing alarmingly in Los Angeles,
as there have been one separation to
every four marriages during the past
year.
| An automobile road from Sssons to
| a point half way to the summit of Mt.
| Shasta will be constructed this season
! by company of business men of Sis
| sons.
One hundred and ninety-four survi-
vors from the wrecked steamer Column
| bia have been brought to Seattle from
/ Unimak Pass where the steamer found
cred
| The new freboat David Scannell, de-
| signed for the protection of the San
| Francisco waterfront. was launched on
| May % at the Risdon ironworks, where
she was built.
| The Independent Oil Agencies of Cal
| ifornia have formulated plan to build
a pipe line from Bakersfield and Coal
inga to tide water upon which project
three million dollars will be spent
Charles C. Moore of San Francisco,
the Portola Commissioner, has received
his European credentials from the State
Department and will leave shortly to
interest foreign countries in the Festi-
val
Charles E. Kloeber has succeeded
Paul Cowles as manager of the Western
Division of the Associated Press. Cowles
goes East to be assigned to important
duties with the Associated Press in
Washington.
A former circus clown has sued
Adrian C. Honore, the millionaire
brother of Mrs Potter Palmer, for the
alienation of his wife's affection. The
suit is for $4,000, and will be tried in
the courts of Chicago.
Masked bandits held up and robbed
the Overland Limited near Omaha on
May %. They stole seven sacks of
mail and made their escape; 100000
reward has been offered for their cap
ture by the Union Pacific.
A new ruling of the Postofice De-
partment is to the effect that letters
bearing return card indicating that
they come from a collection department
! of a credit house are unavailable, as APP
pearing to be Cunning letters
c. G. Emory Pasadena million
aire. has purchased a 10,000-acre ranch
IN Santa Clara county which was the
/ property of the Spreckels Sugar Com
pany of San Francisco The property
has been bought for an investment.
The attention of the Federal authori-
ties has been called to- the fact that
the mails have been tied up for nine
men on the Georgia railways and the
under his control.
The San Francisco Labor Council has
voiced its opposition to the pro
posed bond issue for the purpose of
acquiring a civic center The reason
given is that the additional debt thus
created would diminish and defer the
chance of securing an adequate water
supply and other urgently needed i'm
provements.
Candy manufacturers in New York
nave begun TO worry over the TumOf
that the Standard Oil interests will en-
ter the candy business. The Corn Prod
ucts Company which is composed of
Standard Oil stockholders and makes
over seventy per cent. of the glucose
of the country, is said to be contem-
plating such step.
, 4 Tennessee sheriff and his deputies
are held to be in contempt by the Su-
preme Court of the United States for
combining in a conspiracy TO lynch a
negro who had been sentenced to death
by the local courts and in whose case
the Supreme Court had interfered to
the extent of granting an appeal. The
negro was taken from the jail and
lynched by a mob and the sheriff and
his officers made no resistance This is
the first time that the highest court
in the United States has undertaken tC
assert its dignity or resent acts reflect,
ing on it.
:; A maniac, armed with two revolvers
drove a big touring car through the
streets of Los Angeles, spreading terror
in his wake. He was finally captured
by strategy, after three hours of de
moniacal exhibition of what he could
do with both the pistols and the auto
mobile in taking the lives of pedes
trians.