The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-12
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fourth birthday on June z.
A chunk of gold taken from "a new
mining claim near Oroyille, Cal, was
worth $1100.
The citrus fruit crop of Southern
California for this year will break any
former record by $500 cars.
1t is expected that the gunboat
Vieksburg viii leave Mare Island for
the Atlantic coast this month.
The United States cruiser st. Louis
has sailed from Puget Sound navy yard
for an extended cruise to the South
Seas
The operation which was performed
on Caruso's throat has been successful
and The singers voice will be unim-
paired.
ollowing their conviction in court
for disturbing the peace, two Harvard
students were dismissed from the uni
versity.
The San Francisco Evening Post has
changed hands and it is reported that
later the Post and the Globe will be
amalgamated.
The defaulting secretary of the Ma
tive Sons of the Golden West, Charles
H. Turner, has been sent to Jail charg-
ed with felony.
Carpenters in Boston have gone on
a strike to enforce demand for a
Saturday half-holiday all the year
round with pay.
The Treasury deficit for May is
slightly over $5,0OO,000 and the short
age of the year will fall below the
estimate of experts.
Judge Erskine M. Ross of Los An
.eeles was married recently to Mrs. Ida
Hancock, reputed to be the richest
woman in Southern California.
The surface lines of the Chicago
roads will introduce a new system of
burial arrangements and the plans for
improved type of funeral car have been
accepted.
Calvin johnson, negro, has been
convicted of the murder of Walter f.
Schultz, Chicago artist, who was kill
ed in Washington the day following the
Inauguration.
William Graham of San Francisco
committed suicide few hours after his
marriage after confessing to the
woman he had just married that he had
another wife living.
A conference between Southern Pa
cifc officials and representatives of
Sanford University has resulted in
plan for the extension of an electric
line across the university grounds.
poolroom syndicate with headquar-
tiers In prominent office building in
San Francisco is preparing to take bets
on horse races at Salt Lake and Vic
toria, evading the antigambling law by
this scheme.
mysterious pest has made its APP
pearance among the bees of Fresno
County and has aroused the fear that
the honey industry may be destroyed
unless some means of checking the de-
yastation is found.
Anarchists at a conference at Lelp-
sic, Germany, declared that membership
in any church or religious sect was con-
trary to the principles of anarchy and
called on all anarchists to cease their
membership in churches.
Seattle woman hid twenty thou
sand dollars in currency between the
sheets of her bed before going into
town to spend the day. On her return
she found that burglars had ransacked
the house and found the treasure.
Thirty elks, having their home in the
deer enclosure in Golden Gate Park,
escaped and stampeded through the
grounds and were only captured after
four hours of strenuous effort on the
part of mounted policemen and park
employees.
The San Joaquin County vineyards
suffered severely from a recent heavy
frost and the years yield will be
greatly reduced. Up to this time the
indications were that the largest crop
ever produced would be harvested this
season.
1t is rumored that wealthy Brit
ish art lover will give over $4,000 to
make up the $350,000 which is neces-
sary to keep the famous Holbein paint
ing which is being sold by the Duke
of Norfolk, from going to the hands of
an American purchaser.
The New York Life Insurance Com
pany has dropped 1900 agents from its
employ owing to the fact that the New
York law places limit of $3.50, 100000
as the amount of new business written
in one year by any company subject
TO the laws of that State.
Delavan Smith and Charles Williams,
editors of the indianapolis News, have
successfully resisted their removal to
the District of Columbia to stand trial
for criminal libel for publishing arti-
cles indicating that there was enormous
graft in the Panama canal purchase.
The striking millhands al McCloud,
IN Northern California, seized the cleo
trio light plant, cut telephone and tele-
graph wires, and 400 armed strikers
were threatening destruction to the
company's properties. The Sta.e
troops were ordered to the scene by
Governor Gillett.
A meeting between Emperor William
and Gar Nicholas has been arranged
and viii take place in the waters of
the Finnish Gulf about June II. This
meeting, coming so soon after the set
Element of the Balkan crisis, has
aroused eager speculation among Eu-
ropean rulers and diplomats.
The Pacific Mail Steamship Company
notifies the War Department that after
August 8 it will abandon it's run to
Panama. The government is making
efforts to secure a line of vessels to
take over the business of the Pacific
Mail. This is the most impor sant
abandonment of ocean traffic at San
Francisco since the withdrawal of the
Oceanic line, as it means the retire
ment of eight steamships or their
transfer to other service.