The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-02-21
WESTERN NEWS.
,(origlnating West Of the Mississippi
RiVer.)

voters ratified the proposed State con-
stitution, including the initiative,
referendum and recall.
San Francisco motorists ran down
a woman, then carried her to her
home and left her on her front-door
step to die.
Mrs. Rebecca Spring, mother of
Steele Mackaye, the dramatist, has
just died at Los Angeles.
Four prominent Reno cattlemen
were found murdered on the desert in
northern Washoe County, Nevada. 1t
is thought either Indians or cattle
rustlers" were the slayers, but there
is no definite clue.
The San Francisco Bar Association
has refused to indorse the judiciary
recall measure pending before the
California legislature.
The daughter of Judge Works, SEN
ator-elect from California, is suing her
husband for divorce in Los Angeles,
alleging cruelty.
Sergeant of Police James T. Dono-
van, of San Francisco, has been found
guilty of neglect of duty and unofti-
cerlike conduct and dismissed from
the force, because he failed to dis
cover gambling in his district.
A San Francisco girl, fourteen
years old, eloped with and married a
man forty-four years old.
Oakland is to be made a transcon-
tinental railroad station by the Santa
Fe railroad.
Senator-elect Works, of California,
declares that Associate Justice Hen
shaw of the supreme court should be
impeached if Attorney General Webb's
affidavit in the Ruef case is true.
A nine-year-old boy in San Fran
cisco was dragged from the top of a
roof where he was flying his kite and
killed.
w. McAdams, a prominent citizen
of Gilroy, California, shot his wife and
a prominent restaurant man of the
same place whom he found with her
in his home when he suddenly re-
turned.
The Mocklips Hotel, beac h resort
near Hoquiam, Washington, was
wrecked by terrific storm which
swept the coast
Three hundred students of the Col
Orado State School of Mines went on
a strike because they were not al
lowed a holiday on Lincoln's birth
day.
Stephen G. Clark, one of the found
ers of the Republican party, and the
chairman of the first county commit
tee of the party ever held in New
York City, died in Oakland at the age
of ninety-fve years.
The gasoline schooner Oshkosh
turned turtle at the mouth of the
Columbia River and only one man es
capped.
A demented old men with S14,60l
in his pocket was found in the streets
of Reno. Local thugs are kicking
themselves out of town.
The new California railroad meas
ure recently adopted puts an end t.
passes in that state except in limited
cases IN which railroad men and news
papers are directly concerned. Over
400 passes will be called in at once.
The Mexican revolutionists are Sc
cretly recruiting in San Francisco, anC
offering gold and land for good fight
ers to aid the cause.
Five trainmen were injured and fiji
teen passengers severely shocked wheI
a Southern Pacific train was ditcheC
near Martinez, California.
Governor West, of Oregon, has
vetoed the measure adopted by the
legislature abolishing the whipping
post law. The governor believes il
logging for wife beaters. An effOrt
, will be made to pass the bill ovel
his Veto
The California State Board of Edu
cation has adopted a new text bool
on physiology to replace one in use
for four years. This is the thirteenth
change made by this board since 1906
and is the ninth new book adopted il
less than a year. This board is no
popular with parents.
Senator-elect Works, of California
opposes the application of the recall
to the judiciary, in spite of the fac
that Governor Johnson thinks other
wise, and both were elected on thu
progressive ticket. Judge Works de
clares such a move is Reform rul
mad.
The United States Circuit Court o
Appeals has decided that Oklahoma