The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-10-31

INNlNt lIt CITY MINUS
p Dr. Wilton Berry and A. y. Schind-
Ter, experts sent by the government
to assist in the testing Of tea held at
the San Francisco port, deny that
their presence is a reflection on the
methods of Collector Stratton
An output Of S3,5OO,OOO from the Idi.
troad gold camp breaks the record
among first-year camps in Alaska.
The Southern Pacific railroad is -
put on a train de luxe between New
Orleans and Los Angeles, which will
cut thirty hours off the time of the
present run. The train will carry
manicurists, hairdressers, BARRIERS,
stencgraphers, tailors and other eX-
pensive Injuries
/ On account of disastrous floods eggs
are selling at 20 cents apiece at Gu
aymas and other places in northern
Mexico.
A Chinese leader now in Los An
geles claims that prominent Eastern
banks, including some in Wall street,
have promised loan of 100000 as
soon as the rebels have won their
fight.
The cornerstone of the new St.
Luke's Hospital in San Francisco has
been laid with due ceremony. The
building will be erected with dona-
tions of 100000 by Mrs. Louis Mon
teagle and an equal amount by Mrs.
Whitelaw Reid and Ogden Mills.
Douglas Grant, one of San Fran
cisco's wealthiest society men. is miss.
ing. His wife ruth Goodrich) be
lieves that he has been spirited away
by his father to induce her to sue for
a divorce. Grant, ST., was opposed t.
the marriage.
The California Grays. organized
twenty-one years ago, have taken the
oath of allegiance and have become
militia.
The suffragists of San Francisco are
planning a civic center clearinghouse.
Women may serve on. the McNa-
mara dynamiting jury in Los Angeles.
Both the state and the defense admit
that no sex line may be drawn.
A disabled engine brought Aviator
Fowler to earth on his coast-to-coast
flight. He landed at Beaumont. near
Riverside, Cal.
Mrs. J. J. Moore, San Mateo society
leader, has sued for a divorce. Her
husband blames San Mateo society
and it's influences for their domestic
troubles
Bonnie Benjamin, a we'll known
sporting writer of the Pacific Coast,
died recently in Berkeley.
VIM. Herrin, vice president of the
Southern Pacific, is recovering from
his recent operation for appendicitis.
1t is reported in London that Pre-
mier Asquith is to be elevated to the
peerage before the opening of the 1912
session of Parliament.
Opium valued at $4,000, en- route
from China to Panama and being trans
shipped at San Francisco, was stolen
from the steamship City of Panama
The Pacific Mail Steamship Company
will have to stand the loss.
Henry George, Jr., congressman
from New York and son of the fam
Gus advocate of the single tax, is Wis
iting in San Francisco and delivering
addresses.
In answer to a letter written by
Civil War veteran, Taft declared that
he was not responsible for the defeat
of the Sulloway pension bill, nor was
he responsible for Senator Lodges &C
ton in defeating it.
Henry Strong, a pioneer Western
railroad builder and for many years
president of the Santa F'e railroad
has just died at Denver,
Felipe Estrada Paniagua, consul
from Guatemala, stationed at SAL
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heart failure.
One white man killed, two wounded
and a negro lynched is the result of
race war raging in an Oklahoma
town. Troops are being rushed to Co
veto, as the negroes in that part of
the country are arming to wreak ven
geance.
United States Circuit Judge Far
rington has rendered a decision Civ
ing the value of the Spring Valley
Water Company plant of San Fran
cisco as worth only $25,OOO,OOO. The
water company valued the property
anywhere from $4O,OOO,OOO to $780,
100000.
A beggar just died in San Francisco
who was discovered to have $4,000
in various banks, the result Of years
of begging on the streets,
"A woman has filed her candidacy
for mayor of Davenport, Wash.