The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-30

dollar castle on Long Island.
Japan has completed her great trunk
line of two thousand miles.
British collars and cuffs are no longer
glazed but given a dull finish.
Madame Paladino's seances in New
York showed nothing startling.
A Statewide playground commits
sion is proposed for California.
The French Royalists will join the
| Catholics on the school question.
Paul Gilmore, the actor, has married
California actress named Cauley.
Large areas of the San Joaquin VAL
| ley will again be planted to wheat.
Poisonous pills were sent to Austrian
officers who had just been promoted.
A cousin of Lincoln IS wife, who was
kissed by General Lafayette, is dead.
The Standard Oil Company will APP
peal from the decision against them.
Ex-President Castro's business agents
! have gone to Spain to confer with him.
| A great theater will be erected IN
| London as a memorial to Shakespeare
| Hatchetmen are said to have left
San Francisco in search of more vlc-
tins.
American robins have been intro
duced to London and are thriving
| there.
| A Sacramento elopement was spoiled
| by the man s taking out the license
| too soon.
Doctor Cook s report is to be shipped
from New York to Copenhagen under
| an escort.
All naval stations of the French in
Guiding some in Africa have been con-
nected by wireless.
The homeless children of San Fran
cisco were taken on automobile rides
on Thanksgiving Day.
| &. Franklin K. Lane of San Francisco,
will be reappointed to the interstate
commerce commission.
A Paris eabman was severely burned
by his celluloid collar taking fire from
a spark from his pipe.
The proposition to give Spanish
names to certain streets in San Fran
cisco has been defeated.
L. R. CLAWS, accuser of Secretary
Rallinger, has been summoned to testi-
| fly in the coal land inquiry
Alfred Allan Booth, age thirty
seven, has been elected chairman of
| the Cunard steamship line.
Arthur Gilcrest, San Francisco
| automobile man, brooding over his
divorce attempted suicide.
c. L. Garfield, general manager of
the Chicago Milwaukee-St. Paul rail,
| road, died in San Francisco.
Germans are in need of American
| meats, as famine prices keep the poor
people on a diet of vegetables.
President Taft is seeking goo /
place for General James F. Smith. He
| may get the New York appraisership.
A young woman in Tacoma success
| fully repealed man who was holding
her up by jabbing his face with hat
| pin.
The Polar Wave lee and Fuel Com
pany of St. Louis has been declared
an illegal combination in restraint of
trade.
The mayor-elect of Valparaiso, In
diana, celebrated his victory by dis
tributing three tons of candy among
children.
Consul J. W. Ragsdale has been pro-
| NOTED from Tien-Tsin to ST. Petersburg,
| where his salary is not enough to pay
his expenses.
Owing to the showing of great profit
| by the Wells Fargo Company various
| shipping organizations are preparing to
| attach its rates.
1t has been learned that the cleo
trical trust offered the Republican par
| ty 100000 if Roosevelt would stop
investigating it.
Gulls are responsible for the scarcity
of fish off the coast of England 1t is
estimated that they consume hun
I dred million fish a day.
| President Bourn of the Spring Val
ley Water Company, met the city's
committee but failed to fix a price at
which he will sell the plant
The Kaiser offers bonus for larger
families. He win give a ifteen-dollar
| premium for an eighth child and be its
| godfather whether the family is rich
or poor.
Owing TO the duilness of social life
in Hungary, the countess Szechenyi, a
| Vanderbilt, has bought two lace fac
tories and will devote her surplus en-
ergies to them.
In the hitherto unknown region near
the Chinese Tibetan border a traveller
has found colossal elephant of bronze,
q garden of Eden. cannibal tribes and
a huge castle governed by a woman
chief