The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-09-30


Moors.
The visit of President Taft to Oma-
ha was marred by the serious rioting
resulting from the traction strike in
that city.
Voting machines that cost the city of
Los Angeles $4,000 five years ago and
| which were used but once, are being
| sold for junk.
| A disastrous fire in the Mission dis
| trict of San Francisco did damage to
| the extent of $4,000 ON the morning
of September 20.
In letter to his mother, Mrs.
Stephen Whitney, mailed at Lerwick,
Harry Payne Whitney tells of having
met DR.. Cook on April Is last.
President Taft will dedicate the
building of the Young Men s Christian
Association in San Francisco on his
arrival in that city on October 5.
| Father D. o. Crowley of San Francis
co was seriously injured and for
time was at the point of death as
result of being struck by speeding
automobile.
| Professor John J. Montgomery of
Santa Clara college, has invented an
| electrical rectifer which seems destined
| to work revolution in the commercial
uses of electricity.
Mrs. Peter Marietta, the American
wife of prosperous Italian of Utica,
n. Y, was arrested at the direction
of the Coroner, charged with the muir
der of her husband.
II Laura Mcdonald, the waitress who
was tried for the murder of her child
during fit of temporary insanity, was
acquitted by the jury after delibera-
ton of two minutes.
Prince Kuniyoshi Kuni, Japan S rep
resentative at the Hudson-Fulton cele-
bration, shot at target practice with the
Monticello Gun club and scored sew
eral difficult bullseyes.
The veins of gold quartz thus far
discovered in the Fairbanks district
of Alaska are small, according to Alfred
II. Brooks, chief of the United States
Geological Survey, Alaska.
Dunford NJ Austermell of Los An
geles, who arrived in Portland with
his bride, narrowly escaped death from
drowning by going to sleep in bath
tub in which he had left the water run
ming.
The brief honeymoon of two aged
inmates of the German Baptist Old
Peoples Home of Chicago, who were
married two weeks ago, ended tragic
ALLY by their both being asphyxiated
| by gas
Professor Hugh J. Baldwin, County
Superintendent of Schools of San Diego
County, and one of the best known edu-
Gators in California, was seriously in
jured by being thrown out of wagon
drawn by runaway team.
The Anti-saloon League and the
Women S Christian Temperance Union
are opposed to the free distribution of
wine by the Grape Growers Association
of California at the exhibit of the Grape
Growers at Idora Park in Oakland.
Lord Balfour, of England, who is a
member of the commission appointed
by King Edward to protect Colonial
trade, has arrived in New York on his
way to Canada to adjust difference
between that country and the West
Indies.
The official statement of the grain
harvest of Canada, which has been is
sued by the statistics department OF
the Dominion government, puts the
wheat crop at 1oS,386,000 bushels, Civ
ing an average of twenty-five bushel
per acre.
Samuel Brown, of Philadelphia, one
of the occupants Of the automobile
wrecked near Reading, while bearing a
message from President Taft to the
management of the Alaska Y ukon- Pa
cilc Exposition, died, making the sec
ond deaJh as the result of the accident.
The Federal Government is to be
subjected to heavy expense in freeing
Alaska of the undesirable aliens who
reached Nome some months ago after
great hardships in crossing from Sibe-
ria in open boats. They are now in
Jail at Nome and will be returned to
Russia by way of Seattle.
Postmaster General Frank H. Hitch
cock, in speaking before the Post
masters convention at Seattle, dis
cussed at ZENITH the new policy of re-
trenchment inaugurated under instrue-
tions from President Taft and said that
this retrenchment would not be made
at the expense of efficiency.
August E. F. Chamot, the famous
hero of the Boxer uprising, who for
his deeds of valor, was decorated by
Pope Leo XIII and several foreign
governments, is dying in abject power
!, ty at Larkspur, Cal. On his deathbed
he married Miss Betsy Dollar on whose
account his first wife obtained a
divorce.
The recent threat of body of citi-
zens in Southern California to estab-
lish another State because of dissatis-
faction with taxation methods recalls
the fact that before the Civil War an
effort along the same line was in
augurated when it was claimed that
Southern California from Monterey
down was sadly neglected in State
legislation.
President Taft greeted fifty mem
bers Of the japanese Commercial AS
ISOLATION at Minneapolis, babe them
hearty welcome, assured them of the
lasting friendship Of the American
people, praised their qualities of in
dustry and patriotism and in conclu-
sion drank a toast to the Emperor of
Japan as ''the warm and sincere friend