The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-12-24
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The Santa Fe railroad has appronriat.
| ed nearly $1,000. 600 for stations and
other improvements in Kansas.
Charles Jerome Coleman. former mil
lionaire and musical celebrity. was
found dead in his room at Passaic, New
Jersey, a suicide from gas.
The Missouri Society of Los Angeles
| has invited as its speakers a the
| Christmas week dinner Champ Clark.
| Webster Davis and Purd Wright of St.
Joseph
A Philadelphia who saw child
| crushed by trolley ear wheels has nat
ented fender which may be dropped
to the rails by a latch under the motor
man s feet
| The iewelrv store of Samuel Bron-
stein IN Cheyenne. Wyoming, was
robbed of jewelry and other valuables
| TO the amount of $4,000. the largest
robbery in the history of Cheyenne
| LEROY Scott of Denver. a senior in
| the medical school of the University of
| Pennsylvania, died in the university
hospital from supposed opium poisoning.
| He was thirty years old. The authori-
| ties believe the student took an over
! dose of some patent headache cure
Every street car in Cleveland. Ohio.
stood still for fye minutes while fu-
neral services were being held in Trim
itv Episconal Cathedral for Robert W.
TAYLOR. late nudge of the United States
circuit and district cou1 Is and former
congressman from the eighteenth Ohio
, district.
Kumakichi Takaha shi of Helena,
Mont. upon his release from the fed
eral prison at Leavenworth. Kansas,
was arrested by a United States immi-
grafton officer for deportation to Japan.
Takahashi had served thirteen months
Imprisonment for importing women for
immoral purposes.
Chalmers Hadlev of Chicago, secre-
tary and executive officer of the Amer
lean Library Association. has been APP
pointed librarian of the Denver public
library and viii take office February
/ :. 1911 The contract of Charles P.
Dudley, Librarian for twenty four years
expires at that time.
Harvey o. Miller. millionaire club
man of PHILADELPHIA. president of the
Southern Steamship Company and L. F.
Miller & Sons, Philadelphia, was arrest
at Savannah, Georgia, charged with
unlawfullv obtaining transportation
of property in interstate commerce at
less than lawful rates.
Game Commissioner T. !. Holland s
office received word IN Denver that
black wolves. q nearly extinct species,
are raiding herds of cattle near Krem-
ling. Colorado The Grand Valley Cat
tlemen : Association is offering a boun-
tv Of fftv-fve dollars per head for
wolves, with the promise of all assist
ance possible to hunters.
Richard Morris, a New York the
atrical manager, was fined $40 for vio-
lation of an ancient ordinance which
prohibited the display of posters de-
picting any act which could be classed
as criminal. The fine was paid under
protest. and Norris counsel gave no
tice that he would appeal. The poster
in question depicted a woman in the
act of stabbing man.
Protection against the use of his
name for advertising purposes was
granted by the appellate division OF.
the supreme court at New York to-
"Jack' Binns. wireless operator
whose &c. Q. d. message called help
to the sinking steamership Republic An
order was issued restraining a moving
picture firm from using Binns' s name
on films portraying the wreck.
Calvin Exele and Sylvester Peyton,
negroes. were found hanging to tree
at Double Branches, Alabama. They
had been arrested on a charge of rob
bling the barn and outhouses of Edgar
Bass and confessed to the crime. a
deputy sheriff of Monroe county had
them in charge for safekeeping when
he was overpowered by unidentified
men. his prisoners taken from him and
strung up to a neighboring tree.
After five months search through the
West and ten years of separation, Mrs.
Robert Archibald of Elgin, Illinois,
found her husband at Oracle. Arizona,
and started for home to claim for
tune. Archibald disappeared from
home, it is said. when debts were press
ing him and he was without funds. His
wife has since paid his obligations. The
efforts of others to have him declared
legally dead caused her to search
through the West for him, so that he
might obtain his share of an estate be-
0ueatbed hv a relative