The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-05-26


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Although tho Pope has taken some
what longer than usual 10 recover from
his last attack Of goat, he iH ma ntain.
ing his ordinary routine OF life and
holds daily audiences Ills holiness ap.
pears languid and less energetic than
a year or two ago, but no apprehension
is felt.
Congress has called on the secretary
Of commerce and labor for an cor.
respondence and records relating 10 the
conduct Of the seal fisheries Of the
Alaska Coast for the last six years.
Charges that the seals were slaughtered
in a mereiless manner last summer are
specifically mentioned.
Warned that there was extreme dan
ger Of propagation of the bubonic
plague from the rat.infested filth with
which the whole settlement was infest
ed, the Peninsula Industrial Company
at Portland, Oregon, has destroyed
more than eighty shacks, housing be.
tween 200 and 900 Hindus.
The Emperor of Japan, through the
imperial bureau of decorations. has
awarded Miss Maria VOTERS. Brook
| line. Massachusetts,, teacher, diploma
recognition of $4,000 she sent to aid
the starving Japanese in the northern
part of Japan in August, 1905.
The resolution providing for the rails.
ing of loan not exceeding $21,I2I ,020
for public works was adopted by the
committee on ways and means in the
Union House of Assembly at Cape
town, South Africa, and it has now
Ia IL
loan should be increased by $3.50, 900.
Lafayette Grover, the fourth gov
ernor of Oregon, died suddenly at his
home in Portland. He was born at
Bethel, Maine, in 1923. and was gov.
ernor of Oregon from 1870 to 1877. He
went to Oregon in 1851 and PLAYED a
considerable part in the early develop.
ment of the state. He was a Demo.
crat.
Harrison Gray Otis and Harry
Chandler, presirent and vice president,
respectively of the company which
publishes the Los Angeles Times,
charged with having ibeled Andrew J.
Gallagher, and other labor leaders Of
San francisco, were ordered discharg-
ed by Judge Willis, of the Superior
Court of California.
The King of Spain has directed that
music shall be included in the govern
ment s subsidies to art. The sum Of
$4,000 has been granted in prizes. half
TO the best orchestra, on the condition
that it gives ten concerts in the en-
suing twelve months, the program of
each TO contain work by a Spanish
composer, and half for the encourage
ment of native musicians.
Fred Peck was taken out of an iced
car of oranges at Canadian, Texas,
with his hands and feet so badly fIoz-
en- that he will die. Peck was visiting
his aunt in Pasadena, and on May 3
told a young friend that he was going
to steal ride home to New York in
a refrigerator car. The car in which
he was found was sealed up for its
Eastern journey on the same day.
Gen. Thomas L. James, president of
the Lincoln National Bank of New
York, and formerly postmaster general
in the cabinet of President Garfield
was married to Mrs. Augustus Gaffney
of Rochester, New York, who was d.
vorced from her first husband. The
general is eighty years OF age and
has been married twice before. The
wedding was surprise to his family.
Sixty-six index finger prints that had
been dipped in red pokeberry juice
startled Speaker Champ Clark recently
when he opened his mail. They were
Identification marks of sixty-six Chip
pewa Indians of the White Earth reser-
walton, who wrote to protest against
the proposed legislation affecting In
dian lands The finger-prints attested
the long list Of Indian names signed
by an agent.
All nOn-safety matches are condemn.
ed in a resolution adopted by the ma
tional board of fire underwriters in
New York. The board also adopted
resolution urging the enactment of
laws to punish those who throw away
glowing cigars or cigarettes near com.
bustible material. Fire losses in this
country last year exceed those of 1909
by $25, 100000, according to the report
of committee.
Discharging his petit jury following
FIVE acqnittals of saloonists charged
with retailing liquor, Judge Henry c.
Hammond of the superior court, com.
menting from the bench, presented
facts tending to show that despite the
prohibition law in Georgia the people
want liquor the State licenses the
dealers. jurors refuse to convict, and
hence the prohibition law of the State
is a farce ana Al failure.
The commission for the Horace Gree.
ley memorial statue to be erected at
Chappaqua, New York, Mr.. Greeley's
farm home, has been given to William
Ordwuy Partridge. and the sculptor is
already engaged in the work. 1t is
hoped hat the unwilling may take
place in the fall and President Taft
is expected to be there The statue
is made possible by contributions from
all over the United States.
One reason for high taxicab fares in
New York city is said to be the high
charges made by hotels for the priv.
lege of letting cabs stand along their
frontage. There are something like
1870 taxicabs in the city, and they pay
license fees TO the city of $40 each OF
$4,000 in all. But the hotels and
leading restaurants are being paid, it
is declared, at least 100000 year by
the cab owners for stands in front Of
their places
The Daughters of the American Rev
olution marked in a suitable manner
another historical spot in the North
west when they unveiled recently on