The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-13
Originating West of the Mississippi
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mas alleauy given Sllls dHlOuuuhS " /
100000 to the colony.
Southern Pacific officials have re |
fused to deal with the San Francisco !
Labor Council in an effort to secure |
shorter hours and higher wages for
the freight handlers. The officials |
resent interference by outsiders.
The California legislature has le-
handed full information from the Gov
ernor regarding the ousting from
office of State Printer Shannon, The
legislature is after the men higher
up" in the graft in this Office.
Postal clerks are barred from Sc
cret orders issued by G. p. Grandield,
assistant postmaster general.
A temporary grandstand at the
state fair grounds at Jackson, Miss,
collapsed, iniuring fifty persons, some
of them fatally.
Traffic has so increased on the prin-
cipal streets of San Francisco that
it has been found necessary to install
mounted traffic squad of policemen
to prevent the now frequent congea-
lions at busy crossings.
Abe Ruef the former political boss
of San Francisco, ate his Thanksgiv-
ing dinner of roast pork and apple
sauce in San Quentin prison.
A storm has been sweeping the
Mexican coast, wrecking one tug
Three dozen tramps were found
hilariously drunk from wine stolen
from Southern Pacific cars near Vina,
Cal.
Didier Mason, the French aviator,
left Golden Gate Park, in San Fran
cisco, flew across the city, then across
the bay and landed safely in Oakland,
A delegation from New York ar
rived in San Francisco to select the
site for it's state building at the Pan
anna Pacific Exposition.
The western governors who are
making a tour of the east spoke in
the Detroit churches on Thanksgiving
Day. Cancellation and peace were the
subjects of several of the addresses.
A mining man of Calaveras county,
California, after treatment for sew
eral years for a supposed case Of
tuberculosis, coughed up rusty
screw which had been causing all the
disturbance.
The Southern Pacific railroad has
arranged fast schedule between
Pacific Northwest towns and Los
Angeles, and will cut the time De
tween Portland and Los Angeles from
sixty to forty-nine hours.
George Terry, teller in the Interna-
tional Banking Corporation of San
Francisco, has been arrested for en-
bezzling $4,000, most of which he
spent in riotous living.
Agents of the Royal Mail Steam
Packet Company, a holding concern
for half a dozen British lines, has
come to San Francisco to look up
traffic prospects with the idea of cs-
tablishing a line as soon as the canal
is opened up.
A San Jose, Cal, man, tried to kill
his family, succeeded in killing a
woman neighbor, then barricaded
himself in an clubhouse and fought
until his house was set afire by the
police. then committed suicide.
Alarmists have started the report
that an extra session of the California
legislature will be necessary to pro
vide for more taxes. State Controller
Nye asserts that there was never less
excuse for such a cry.
The Southern Pacific railroad has
threatened to wipe the town of
Tracy, Cal, of the railroad map I'M
less steps are taken at once by the
town to protect railroad employees
/ from attacks by the few strikers who
live there and who are causing con
siderable trouble.
/ John McGraw, owner of the New
York Giant baseball team, is born
gambler, and is said to be worth less
than $4,000 cash, while Christy Math,
ewson, his peerless pitcher, is said 20
be worth all of 100000,
A Galveston, Texas, girl, gave up a
/ Fo,.t,,pa Of SIOO Gao 10 wed the man
she loved, in this case young Cali
fornian. The aunt who was to leave
her the money, disliked the young
man.
C. f. Richards, a prominent San