The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-03-03

brought O. Galveston and used - =
training ship for q Texas naval reserve
70 be organized Tor Texas boys. The
state offers $3.50. 900 FOR the historical
wafscarfed vessel. and keep Il from
going TO the scrap heap.
Fifty women, mounted and won
drilled, led a parade Of two thousand at
kissinimee, Florida, in celebration by
the Grand Army Of the Republic OF
Florida Of Iincolna birthday ami.
versary. A thousand former Union sol.
dicrs were in the column, with several
hundred school children.
Anthony j. Drexel, who married Miss
Marjorie Gould, has gone to work at
New York. He got a Job as messenger
with n stock exchange firm and began
his duties at the stroke of 9 Monday
morning. With an idea to learning tho
business from A to he determined to
start at the lowest rung Of the ladder.
Princess August Wilhelm, wife Of the
kaiser g fourth son, has set herself the
task Of reviving one of Germany's old
est customs, that according TO which
newly-wedded couples Immediately af-
ter the marriage ceremony plant n
couple Of oak sRplings side by side in
a park or by a roadside of their native
town.
Harriet Barney Young, who became
bride of Brigham Young in 1851, died
at Salt Lake City, at the age of eighty
years. She was the last survivor but
one of the widows Of the Mormon lead
er, the one still living, being Eliza
Burgess Young. Mrs. Harriet Young
leaves three children and a number Of
grandchildren.
1t is reported from Paris that Doctor
Yersin, who discovered the microbe of
the bubOnic plague, is to sail for China,
together with Doctor Broquet, former
" director of the Pasteur Institute at
Saigon and now resident in Paris, for
the purpose of fighting the pestilence
which is rousing worldwide and in
creasing activity.
A Pennsylvania representative has in
troduced a bill in congress providing
$4,000 for the removal of the body of
Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock from "a
neglected tomb in Norristown to Al
hngtOn cemetery in Washington.
There has been local objection to this
in the past, but none is likely to he
manifested now.
A monkey overturning an oil heater
in the winter quarters of a small rail-
way circus at Orwigsburg, Pennsyl-
vania, caused the destruction of all the
circus paraphernalia, including a cage
of monkeys, trained apes, a pack of
trained dogs, den of snakes and sew
eral horses. One horse was the only
thing taken out alive.
Thirty-eight Japanese seal poachers
who were taken to Tacoma from Val
DEE, Alaska, where they had served
six months in Jail for having been
caught sealing within the three.mile
limit, were transferred to the Japanese
steamship Mexico Maru by United
States Immigration Inspector Fulton
and deported for the Orient.
DR.. Tanners projected return to the
fasting stage at the age of so is, he
says, to show the American public the
way to settle once and for all the beef
trust and the high cost of living" He
will charge a slight admission fee dur
ing his S0-day hungerfest, as he did
thirty odd years ago when he tasted 40
days at Huber's in New York.
Norway women voted at the munich
pal elections last fall 1t was the first
time that all women in Norway had the
opportunity. Nine years ago the munich
! pal vote was given to all tax paying
women. This proved success, and
three years ago they received full par
Elementary suffrage. Now municipal
suffrage for women has been made uni
versal.
Water used in sprinkling the streets
of Poughkeepsie, New York, has with
it certain amount of chloride mixture
by which it is hoped to check the spread
of infectious diseases. The experiment
will be continued long enough to de-
termine the value of the scheme, and
if any material benefit is observable
this disinfection of the streets will be
continued
The will of Baron Albert s. A. De
Rothschild, head of the Austrian
branch of the Rothscnild house was
filed for probate in Vienna. 1t be
queaths 100000 to charity. The dis
tribution will be left to the discrimina-
tion of his sons. The small bequest
to charity has caused disappointment
as it has been rumOred there would be
So 500, 900.
Permanent headquarters have been
opened at Cincinnati, from which will
be directed the work of organization
throughout the country for the nomina-
ZION OF 0ON. JuusOn harmon lot ptesi-
dent on the Democratic ticket in 1912.
Hugh Nichols, chairman of the Ohio
Democratic state committee, which
managed the governors recent cam
paign, will be in charge. The fnanc-
ing of the campaign, it was said, is
being looked after by Cincinnati
friends of the governor
Through the efforts of the widow of
L. II. Hartman and with the aid of
government officials in Colorado 1000
acres of land in Nevada, said to have
been obtained illegally by the old Cen
trail Pacific railroad, have been decided
back to the government. Negotiations
are still pending for the return of 200
acres of gold mine and valuable mineral
land near Reno. The Central Pacific
has since been absorbed by the South
ern Pacific. Mrs Hartman, it is said,
ordered her attorneys to effect com
promise.
Praise for the boy scout movement
as a notable benefit to American boy
hood was expressed by President Taft
in an address at the White House at
Washington to the national council Of
the Boy Scouts of America and like.
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