The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-24

Fightlng Moros are being disarmed.
Surgeon General Reilly has retired.
The new Cuban Congress met Janu-
airy 13.
Cortelyou may head big gas COM
bine in New York
California fruit growers demand
tariff on bananas.
Admiral Rojestvensky died of neu-
ralgia of the heart.
Carrie Nation is in an English jail
for raiding saloon.
Two millions have been cut from the
pension appropriation.
The Oklahoma Legislature has en-
dorsed State prohibition.
Secretary Root has signed arbitra-
tion treaties with Costa Rica and Chile.
1t is reported that Hartman will 60
south for period of rest, his health
being poor.
Fair lobbyists at Sacramento wear
frage votes.
The Senate will make no inquiry
into Tillman's action, saying he has
violated no law.
General J. F. Weston has taken
command of the Department of Cali
fornia.
February 10 is the day selected for
counting the electoral vote in the
House.
R. F. Lobbet of Brooklyn has been
arrested for stealing the plans of the
new self-propelling torpedo.
The President, after riding ninety
eight miles in mud and storm, showed
no marked signs of WEAKNESS.
The California Assembly passed a
bill making February Il, 1909, Lin
coins birthday, State holiday.
DR.. Biggar, personal friend of the
oil trust king, says that Rockefeller
will live to be hundred years old.
Bat Nelson, lightweight champion,
called upon President Roosevelt, who
gave him an autograph photograph.
The choice of Abbott Lawrence
Lowell for president of Harvard has
been confirmed by the overseers of the
college.
The Russian Finance Minister has
closed an arrangement with syndI-
cate in Paris for loan of $40, 100000
at Az per cent.
More bounties viii be asked of the
State of California to destroy the
packs of coyotes in Mendocino and adj
jacent counties.
Rafael NebiInias, aged seventy
years, was refused a license to wed
Isabel Bermuda, aged fifteen, by a
Los Angeles court.
A young Fresno mother has been
sent to the insane asylum as result
of Holy Rollerism. She has been in a
trance for several weeks.
Charles Gilman, father of the actress,
Maybelle Gilman, who married Steel
trust Magnate Corey, was stricken with
apoplexy at San Francisco.
The cause of the food in the Sacra-
mento valley was the bursting of the
Philbrook dam, the released water rails
ing the Feather river fifty feet.
The latest developments at Washing
ton point to the probability of Ari-
IONA and New Mexico being raised to
statehood by the present Congress.
A mail carrier in Mexico was MUIR
dered and the mail bags looted of
about 800 in cash. Bandits also raid
ed mining eompany's office and stole
$4,000.
Watchmen and police caught bank
burglar in the Swiss-American Bank
of San Francisco and landed him in
Jail, although the burglar fourished a
revolver
The British steamer Wynerie, from
San Francisco for Dublin, put into
Saint Vincent for coal after having
burned part of the cargo, as well as
stores and fixtures.
E. II. Hartman has ordered the en-
gineering department of the Union Pa
cifc Railroad to parallel at once the
lines of the Colorado & Southern in
the northern part of Colorado.
More than SO, 1000 were realized at
New York from the first days sales of
art treasures of the late Baron Speck
Won Sternberg, formerly German Am
bassador to the United States.
Emma Goldman, the anarchist lee
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