The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-04-10

harry u. Brown, fugitive banker OF
Los Angeles, is traced to San Francisco.
The son of the late General Daniel
| Chase shot himself on Broadway in
New York
A series of prohibition debates were
recently begun in Milwaukee before an
| audience of 1000 people.
George A. Metcalf of Boston has in
| vented a new style of airship which he
calls flying automobile.
.Justus D. Andrus, believed to be the
oldest member of the Grand Army of
the Republic, is dead in Chicago.
The Countess of Dudley, mother-in-
law of Mrs. John Ward (Jean Reid, of
California, has published cookbook.
A crowded car collided with an au-
| tomobile at Suffer and Powell streets
in San Francisco, but no fatalities re-
suited.
The body of Lester Elkins, the young
aeronaut whose parachute carried him
into the ocean March 8, was recovered
at San Pedro.
Four prisoners attempted to escape
from an Oregon penitentiary, but were
fooled by armed guards, who were cog
INFANT of the plot.
The British steamer line on the Tt
girls river has been compelled to sus-
pend service on account of the con
tinued attacks of Arabs.
Archdeacon Emery, whose daughter
| married the Japanese, Aoki, has been
sued for $4,000 by a Seattle attorney
for legal services and advice
A Portland school girl tied and
gagged herself as ruse to scare her
parents into giving their consent to
her marriage with a soldier.
Secret Service men in San Francisco
capture the leader of the most daring
band of counterfeiters that has ever
operated on the Pacific Coast.
President Taft favors putting lum-
Der tea, and coffee on the free list and
has come out against the tariff on
women's stockings and gloves.
Reno (Nev) is now the Mecca for
those seeking a temporary abode in
which to obtain a divorce 1t has COM
pletely suppanted Sioux Falls.
A swindler, in the role of farmer,
victimized the bank officials of Hepp-
ner, Oregon, by depositing a fraudulent
deed as security for a big loan.
The naval plans of Great Britain were
upheld in the House of Commons and
the attack of the opposition was defeat
ed by party vote of 353 to 135.
The Department of Commerce and
Labor has made new ruling which
viii expedite the landing of Chinese
who are entitled to enter the country.
The Italians of San Francisco con
tributed toward a fund for the defense
of their countryman, Giuseppe Pia, re-
Gently convicted in Marin County for
criminal assault.
Ferdinand Pinney Earle, the New
York artist, is deserted by his affinity,
Julia Kuttner- Earle, to whom his wife
relinquished him last year. She asserts
that he is a lunatic.
Warren Green, president of the
American Bank Note Company of New
York, after investigating business con
ditions in San Francisco, stated that
the erection of plant in that city~by
his company was not improbable.
Frank S. Witherbee director of the
Equitable Life Assurance Company. has
visited San Francisco for the first time,
and expressed confidence in the city
financial aspect. His company has
loans amounting TO 100000 in San
Francisco.
The jury disagreed in the case of All
Sam, who tried to prove that the Chi
nese were being Disseminated against
in the prosecution against him for gam
bling. Prominent San Francisco club
men and women were summoned to tes-
tify in the ease
The japanese bank in San Francisco
is short of cash and is threatened with
mobbing by its angry creditors. The
main institution of which the San
Francisco bank is a branch is in 1o-
kohama, where the president of the
concern now is.