The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-25
Condensed News From
Latest Coast Files

Great Britain is taking an active in
terest in the Chinese loan.
Conan Doyle's new play, ssFires of
Fate, has scored success in London.
The German steamer Eva was totally
destroyed in the Mediterranean as the
result of an explosion of dynamite
George A. Hall Of Plumas County.
Cal, has been appointed timber cruiser
IN connection with work in the land
office.
Specifications have been issued for
the construction of the battleships
Wyoming and Arkansas, authorized by
the last Congress.
The Cunard liner Slavonia, which
was wrecked on the Azores, will be a
total loss The passengers were safely
landed at Gibraltar.
Frederick Deiano, of Chicago, presi-
dent of the Wabash railroad, has de-
clined the offer sof President Taft TO
act as Minister to China
The Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
line will not join the Transeontinentai
Traffic Association and will be the only
road between Chicago and the Pacific
Coast not in the association.
As benefciaries under the will of the
late Mrs. Eva Smith Cochran, $50 en-
pioyes of the carpet factory in New
York of which she was the principal
owner, received $1,000 apiece.
A pedestal of California onyx has
been presented to the city by E. Cur
tbs for the medal given to San Fran
cisco by France through her represen-
tative, Ambassador Jusserand.
John D. Keefer, after spending two
days unconscious, with a broken back,
before his injury was discovered at the
Emergency Hospital, where he was re-
moved, is not expected to live.
The Bellinghan Bay Lumber Com
pany, one of the largest enterprises of
the kind on the Pacific Coast, viii go
out of business owing to unsatisfactory
conditions in the lumber market.
AS the launch Rose was returning to
Newport, Oregon, from deep-sea fish
ing excursion a huge wave struck II
and washed overheard City Recorder
and Mrs. Mapes, both of Newport. They
were almost exhausted when rescued.
! Word has been received at Nelson
B. c., of the drowning of Thomas Car
Isle at his ranch on Kootenay Lake by
+, the eapsizing of a canoe. The young
man lately arrived from Newcastle,
England, and began operating a fine
fruit farm east of Nelson.
The Chinese Navy Board has recon-
mended program for the construction
of new navy, to consist of four bat
tleships of the first class, eight second
class cruisers, and ten third-elass
cruisers, for each of two fleets. which
with auxiliaries, viii comprise eighty
vessels
The one hundred and sixty-second
commencement of Princeton University
was held at Princeton. There were 25s
graduates, honorary degrees being con
ferred upon President Abbott Law
renee Lowell, of Harvard; Charlie:
Francis, Boston, and DR.. Frank Hart
ley, of New York.
The Federal grand jury in New Yorl
has handed down indictments agains
Heinze Brothers for conspiracy in spirit
ing way the books Of the United Cop
per Company, while the company wa,
under Federal scrutiny, and for inter
fering with United States marshals il
the performance of their duties.
Individual watermelons, about thu
size of cantaioupe, which can b.
, grown in any section of the United
States, have been introduced into th'
country by Horace G. Knowles, Min
lister to Roumania, who discovered then
in the foothills of the Carpathian noun
tains. For use IN hotels, restaurant
and clubs the new fruit will fill a long
felt want.