The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-10-10
WESTERN NEWS.
Originating West of the Mississippi
River.)
TUESDAY, October 2.)


An avalanche, started by an earth
quake, swept the town of Golden
Alaska. The inhabitants rushed on
board boats, where they remained for
a day.
A tong war is impending in San
Francisco's Chinatown on account Of
the stealing of a slave girl.
The Southern Pacific railroad strike
has arrived at a state of siege. Both
sides are signing peace compacts and
now will endeavor to "starve" each
other into submission. The strike, Il
is expected, will last two months.
The government has released the
colored or faced tea seized at San
Francisco and refused entry because
of new laws. The government will
allow the colored plant to enter for
one more year.
Cromwell Dixon, the nineteen-year-
old Curtiss aviator, who recently
crossed the Rocky Mountains, was
killed in hundred-foot fall in an ex-
hibition flight at Spokane, Wash.
Omaha, an insurgent stronghold,
gave Taft an exceedingly chilly re-
ception on his visit there. Lincoln,
fTe3.5 hit give frrfn n1uth better
one. He dined with Bryan That
wasn't the reason, though, for the
chilly reception.
In an address before the Public
Land Convention at Denver former
Secretary of the Interior Ballinger
was cheered when he opposed further
Capitalization of the governments
powers.
DR.. Henry Gibbons, Jr., who has
been dean of the Cooper Medical Col
lege of San Francisco since it's insti-
tuition, has just died at the age of
seventy-one years.
The California State Mineralogst
has just issued statistics showing the
mineral production of the state for
1910-exclusive of precious metals
amounted to $67S79,7S9
During the last six months 10000
strangers have visited San Francisco
as a result of the various conventions
held there These conventions were
secured through the efforts of the
San Francisco Convention League.
An internal machine was produced
by the authorities of Hutchinson,
Kan, after President Taft had visited
there. The police suspected a plot
and found the bomb along the marcn
of the presidential parade.
The Hartman railroad system is to
be reorganized as to departments.
There will be presidents of each sys-
TEN, with Robert Lovett as the exec
utive head, in New York city. Will
liam Sproule, present head of Wells,
Fargo Express, is to be stationed in
San Francisco.
The Southern Pacific is experiment.
ing with 10000 ties which have been
soaking in the Great Salt Lake for
three years. On account of the long
submersion in the strong salt solu-
ton it is thought they will last con-
siderably longer than ordinary ties.
Fourteen miners are entombed IN
a shaft near Fairbanks, Alaska.
Communication has been established
with the men by driving pipes into
the shaft and the work of rescuing
the men is being rushed.
The Armour Packing Company and
Schwabacher Brothers of San Fran
cisco are involved in criminal pro-
ceedings in Seattle, being accused of
selling short weight goods
Los Angeles has decided to furnish
its own light and power and if the
present corporations will not sell
their plants the city will probably lay
its own mains and conduits.
Bob Fowler, the aviator who left
San Francisco to aeroplane to New
YORK, has given up after repeated at
tempts to get over the Sierra Nevada
He could not get an en-.
CINE powerful enough to lift him over
the high peaks through the rarifed !
Between 10000 and 10000 work
men in the car shops of the Hartman |
railroads have gone on a strike TO
'orce the recognition of their Fedora ;
ton. The strike, it is understood,
will be a peaceful one.
A Porterville, Cal, woman, weigh
ng 100 pounds, gave birth to a ten
pound son on Tuesday and a ten
pound daughter was born on the fol.