The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-05-12
NEWS
FROM COAST FILES

Davenport the carloonist died at paea
dena, California, agod eightynve years.
Arrangements arc being made an
Sweden 10 utilize the vast peat deposits
OF that country and mix Il with coal
20 operate raiways
-Four robbers rode into Naponee,
Nebraska, in an automobile, blow mp
the vault of the Naponee state bank
and escaped with $4,000.
A tunnel for another railroad under
the Alps is now being bored at tho rate
Of twelve feet a day at a height OF
lO,soo feet above the sea.
European dealers in apricots are in
California buying up the coming crop
Of apricots in the field and paying
thirteen cents a pound for them.
Theodore Roosevelt will be tho prin-
cipal speaker at the unwilling Of n
Lincoln statue in front of the court
house in Newark, New Jersey, on Me.
mortal day.
The South Carolina Republican
executive committee has passed resolu-
tions indorsing President Taft and
pledging the States eight delegates to
his denomination.
A wood block pavement in Paris used
exclusively by automobiles is said to
be better after three years wear than
when il was new, and there have been
no repairs uponit
Bangor, Maine, was swept by a FIRE
which destroyed more than one-third
of the city, at property loss of more
than $6,000,000. Thousands Of persons
were made homeless.
Cripple Creek continues to be the
rreatest mining center in the United
States The output of the mills and
smelters in the district for March
amounted to $1,364, AL.
"BealS House, made famous by
Charles Dickens and once his favorite
home, is to be sold in London Dickens
wrote almost the whole of ''David
Copperfeld in this house.
Orders for the national encampment
of the Grand Army of the Republic at
Rochester, New York, August 81 26,
were issued by Commander in Chief
John +. Gilman of Boston
BY the will of Julia X. Barker, of
Worcester, Massachusetts, $1,000 is set
aside from the estate. which is es.
timated at about $4,000, for the care
and comfort of her pet cat.
City Attorney Simpson of Alameda,
former state senator and prominent
national |guardsman in California, was
drowned by falling from launch and
becoming entangled in running line.
Fire destroyed the three story dormi.
tory of the Riverside government In
dian school in Oklahoma. Eighty-seven
girls and two matrons who were sleep.
ing in the dormitory escaped without
injury.
Textile mills are building rapidly in
the South. During the first three
months of this year, $4,000 spindles
and 1860 looms were added represent
ing $l,500,000, besides $l,00o,00O in
factories.
Harry Fem, one of the founders of
the American Water Color Society, and
said to be the dean of American water
color painters in America, died at
Montclair, New Jersey, aged seventy.
four years.
Two robbers held up a. saloon in
Portland, Oregon, and after herding
the sixteen occupants of the place down
trap door into the cellar, took $l60,
all the money in the register, and made
good their escape.
The fiftieth anniversary of the found
ing of Vassar College was celebrated mt
Poughkeepsie. New York, April g. The
thousand college girls assembled on the
steps of the Rockefeller hall and sang
the college songs of fifty years ago.
The Canadian Pacific and Canadian
Northern railways have agreed to an
increase of wages of fourteen per cent.
More than 10000 men are affected by
these new conditions. They are en-
ployed between Port Arthur and Van
couver.
y company has been formed in Der
lin. Germany, with capital of $4,000 900
to build nm airship to carry 300 persons.
1t is to be TVS feet long, and will be
driven by thirty motors. 1t is intend.
ed to make Transatlantic voyages if
it works right.
Horatio w. Parker, professor of
music at Yale University, and Bryan
Hooker, formerly of the faculty of the
same institution, were awarded prize
of $4,000 for composing the best
: opera in the Metropolitan grand opera
I contest, New York.
The government has issued n report
showing that the annual loss of timber
destroyed by the action of insects
, amounts to s6O,0OO,000 year The
timber is not altogether useless but
badly damaged, Some boring insects
: even cut down trees.
United States Senator O'Gorman
Charles +. Murphy, Governor Dix and
Norman +. Mack, chairman of the
democratic national committee, are
slated by Tammany aus the four dele
gates-atlarge from New York to thu
next national democratic convention.
The Metropolitan Life Insurance
I Company is making arrangements Il
: bnild a tuberculosis sanatorium OF
Mount McGregor, situated about sil
7 miles from Saratoga Springs, New
|. York, to be devoted to the treatmen
of the company's employees.
. Senator William T.. Borah of Idah'
a has become the teacher of the Bibl
class in the Eastern Presbyterian
j, Church Sunday school in Washington
!, He began recently with an attendane
=, of thirty.five and the belief Is express
]. ed that this class is 20 become one o
!. the strongest and best known In Wash
d ington.