The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-04-28
CONDENSED NEWS
FROM COAST FILES

The ceord prico Of tii.too was paid
for an antique china plate IN London.
Andrew Carnegie has given Portland,
Oregon, 100000 for Che construction
of three additional branch libraries.
Abraham bclasoo, father Of David
and Frederick Bolasco Of theatrical
Zane, died IN San Francisco.
Spring planting Of wheat in Canada
and the northwest was responsible for
che withdrawal Of S5A0,OOO from the
New York Suhtrcasury In ono day.
With tho battlcships built and to be
finished by the year 1914 of the Dread.
nought type, Great Britain viii have
%, Germany IS and the United states
10.
The U. s. Coal Exchange, composed
Of twenty largo bituminous coal pro-
ductng companies, have made combi-
nation with a capital Of S500,000,000.
The recent cold snap in the San Joa-
quin Valley, California, when the Their
mometer dropped TO twenty-eight de-
grees, has greatly damaged the grape
crop.
Every member of the Japanese Ant
arctic expedition which started pole.
ward in December took q solemn oath
to stick to the leader antll tho South
Pole be reached.
The remains of the late Tom L. John
son, mayor Of Cleveland, Ohio, were in
TERED in Greenwood Cemetery, Brook
| Ign, New York, near the grave of his
old friend, Henry George.
The house in which Thomas Carlyle
was born at Ecclefechan has been sold
to the London syndicate which pos
sessess Carlyle's house at Chelsea, and
will be furnished to represent the house
as it was in Carlyle's boyhOod.
A railroad running 1877 miles in Alas
ka has just been completed by the Gug-
genheim- Morgan syndicate at cost Of
$20,000,000. The construction is said
TO be one of the most remarkable en-
gineering feats Of modern time.
The Ottawa parliament is likely to
reduce the head tax on Chinese immi-
rgants from $500 to 5000, and largo
numbers are taking advantage Of the
opportunities even at the higher rate.
It is proposed to allow a Chinese to
bring in a wife without paying tax.
The 1890 passengers ON the stranded
steamship Princess Irene were trans
ferred to the Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm
in five hours and ten minutes. The
liner was tugged off the sandbar off
Lone Hill Life Saving Station, Long
Island, after being imprisoned for
eighty-three hours.
To tow several million feet Of logs
across an artificial lake four miles long
and two miles wide, formed by dam
ming the Peshtigo River at High Falls,
Wisconsin, lumber company will
transport tug, thirty-eight feet long
and weighing eighteen tons, by rail
from Marinette to Crivitz, and thence
by trucks to High Falls, distance of
eighteen miles.
The President sent to congress a
message announcing his approval of an
act of the Philippine legislature amend
! ing the land laws relating to home
steaders. The amendment specifies the
officers before whom homsteaders shall
submit final proof. The President says
the change of the law is necessary in
order that homesteaders may know
what is required of them.
With the exception of a few beqaests
to his two daughters, grandson and
two employees, the estate of Craige Lip
pincott, head of the Lippincott Pub
| fishing Company, who committed sui
eide recently in Philadelphia, is given
: in trust to his widow, Mrs. Sallie Z.
Lippincott. The value of the personal
estate is given by the executors at Gap.
wards of 100000 and the real estate
at $4,000.