The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-05-28

A fire at Fort Smith, Arkansas, de-
stroyed the Fort Smith compress and its
contents of 5000 bales of cotton.
An ordinance fixing an eighty FIVE
cent gas rate has been finally passed
by the supervisors of San Francisco
Broughton Brandenburg has reached
New York and has been placed in jail,
where he will await trial for larceny.
The gunboat Marietta has been or
dered to Nicaragua because of serious /
labor disturbances ON the banana plan /
tatlons.
Jewelry worth $1,000 which had been |
stolen from the burning residence of |
Judge Archer of San Jose has been re-
covered.
George C. Potter of Los Angeles was
instantly killed as result of col |
lision between his automobile and a |
street car.
The class of 1909 at Stanford Uni
versity closed its college career with
impressive exercises during commence
ment week.
An Oregon rancher murdered his
young wife with a cleaver because she
gave him milk instead of cream for
his breakfast.
ne uISI DdDy porn III an American
house erected for the earthquake suf
ferers at Messina has been named Theo.
dore Roosevelt.
Tracy & Co., firm of New York
brokers, have failed for over a millioa
dollars. Much of their money was dis
sipated in backing taxicab concern.
The Japanese sealing schooner Maza
Maru was captured in Alaskan waters
for violation of the sealing laws and
towed to Juneau by the revenue cutter
Rush.
About three hundred books, contain
ing records, maps and municipal COM
pilations, have been recovered from the
ruins of the old City Hall in San Fran
cisco.
The plant Of the Pacific Asparagus
Canning Company at Stockton was
burned to the ground with loss of
! 100000, covered by about $4,000 in
| surance.
| The appeal of George D. Collins, the
| bigamist, has been denied by the Fed
| eral Supreme Court, and he will have
! to serve his fourteen-year sentence in
| San Quentin.
John Burns, an old man in Sacra
mento, committed suicide to avoid be-
| ing detained in Jail as witness against
a gang of boxcar thieves which had
been recently arrested.
The Asiatic League in San Francisco
has suggested that strong measures be
inforced in the boycott which is to be
| inaugurated against the japanese
throughout the State.
Before leaving Victoria for Van
couver, Admiral Ijichi gave a reception
on board the flagship Aso to express
his appreciation Of the enthusiastic
welcome extended to the visiting fleet.
William Mitchell, the Los Angeles
youth who killed Cecil Thayer, a mes
senger boy, for the alleged betrayal Of
his sister, and whose trial for murder
resulted in hung jury, will be tried
again.
Five more men have been found
guilty of completely in the murder of
their officers in the revolutionary out
break in Constantinople and were hang
ed in front of the Parliament building
in Stamboul.
A Russian woman who is a Federal
prisoner in the Alameda county jail has
been ordered deported On the charge of
leading an immoral life within three
years subsequent to her arrival in the
United States.
Il King Manuel of Portugal has bestow-
ed upon Queen Amehe, widow of King
Carlos, the decorations of three orders
for her heroism on the occasion of the
assassination of her husband and son in
February, 1908.
Messina is being menaced by the re-
turn. of refugees from the various towns
of Sicily and Italy owing to the cessa-
ton of charitable support in those
places. 1t is predicted that serious
riots will follow. The government will
be induced to take some action.
Japan IS conducting experiments with
airships at an interior point some dis
lance from Toxic, and it is reported
that improvements have been recently
patented that are calculated to startle
aer0ists all over the world. Great Sc
crecy is being maintained during the
tests
Chinatown in San Francisco was the
scene of much excitement when placards
were placed on it's walls ienouncing the
Chinese Consul-General and accusing
him of graft. He has made a strenuous
denial of the charges, and half the Chi
nese population in the Oriental quarter
have rallied for his defense, while an
equally large number are arrayed
against him.
Corporation lawyers and men well
known in the financial world are in
cluded in committee of one hundred
appointed by the Republican Club of
New York to conduct fight prepare
tory to the campaign against Tammany
in the municipal elections next fall On
the committee are Edward w. Harri-
man, Paul Morton, Jacob H. Schiff, Cor
nelius Vanderbilt and Henry W. Taft.
?. H. Mccarthy objects to the accu-
sations against him by the editors of
the San Francisco Call He has fled
complaints against them and warrants
were issued for their arrest, as well as
that of John D. Spreckels, proprietor of
the Call. He charges them with crimi-
nal libel, and denies that he is traitor
to the Union Labor party, and also that
he attended any meeting with Southern
Pacific officials
Twelve persons were injured in a
holdup of a Great Northern train near
Spokane. The bandits looted the reg
istered mail and made their escape
without molesting the passengers, whose
: injuries were received when the mail
car and engine, which had been de-
tached from the train by the robbers