The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-07-24
WESTERN NEWS.
Originating West of the Mississippi
River.)

Originating West of the Mississippi
River)
Ethel Barrymore has cancelled her
coast engagements and will hurry
back to New York on account of her
divorce suit brought against Russell
Colt, her husband It is rumored that
a reconciliation is not unlikely.
The torpedo boat Farragut collided
with the torpedo destroyer Lawrence
at Eureka, Cal, while the flotilla was
moving northward. A hole was torn
in plate of the Farragut, which
temporarily delayed the voyage.
! Aeronauts in the balloon race start
ing from Kansas City had narrow
escape from death when their balloon
rose four miles in the air because of
a jammed valve. The men were
nearly asphyxiated before the valve
could be opened and descent made.
The Chinese secretary of the Six
Companies of San Francisco is miss
ing, and his books show discrepancies.
The Chinese are out in full force try
ing to trace the defaulter.
The retention of the Mare Island
Navy Yard as one of the great naval
stations is said to depend upon the
Navy Department securing Hunters
Point drydock at San Francisco, now
the property of the Union Iron
Works.
County Assessor Henry f. Dalton
of Alameda county, Cal, seventeen
years in office, was found guilty of
soliciting and accepting a bride from
the Spring Valley Water Company.
A terrific cloud burst in the Sierra
, Nevada mountains is supposed to
have cost the life of several autoists
making trip to Lake Tahoe.
/ The Los Angeles dynamiting cases
E will be brought to trial on October
) 18th, at which time the McNamaras
= will be put on trial.
The big Hamburg-American Steam
, ship Company of the Atlantic has Sc
, cured options on dock sites at San
Francisco and Oakland, with an idea
of opening direct European and At
lantic service upon the opening of the
canal.
Seventy million acres of govern
ment land will be thrown open for
settlement in the Dakotas, Montana
Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, Washington
Oregon and Colorado as soon as sur
veys are completed and coal deposits
located.
President E. T. Jeffrey of the West
ern Pacific Railroad has arrived at
San Francisco on his first tour of in
+ spection of the new transcontinentaI
+. railroad
i An experiment is now being made
2 of sending a refrigerator vessel to
t Alaska for frozen salmon to be
! brought to San Francisco. If success
, full, salmon which is at present sailed
will be frozen instead and then ship
ped to all parts of the country to be
sold as fresh fish.
A big Japanese colony is to be
, founded near Sacramento. japanese
paid $32,625 for a 435-acre ranch
, There will undoubtedly be white OF.
position to the colonizing scheme.
Mrs. Nels Rasmussen of San Fran
cisco battled in her room against two
masked robbers and pluckily saved
$1,000 worth of jewels and 5000 in
r cash.
The international Typographical IN
ion will hold its fifty-seventh annual
e convention in San Francisco next
I month
An unusual hot spell in the North
S west has caused three deaths ant
e much suffering in Portland and ada
cent towns.
n Indications are that fruit shin
4 ments from California will be yer,
q small this year as a total of all kinds
To date there are only half as man,
shipments made as during the sam
time last year
Five people We're hurt, two proba
bly, fatally, when a Los Angeles inter
urban car crashed into an automobile
Ethel Barrymore had a baby and i'll
parents elected from the theatre II
! which she was playing at Sacra
mento because the babys crying dis
t turbed one of the acts.
Fl FOREIGN NEWS.
t Originating outside North America