Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-08-15

IL Is announced tnat England Is
again planning TO send a polo team TO
this country to challenge for the inter
national cup. The Duke of Westmin-
ster will have sole charge of the ex-
pedition, and will bear most of the
financial burden.
Governor Woodrow Wilson is re.
in passing the wool bill over the Pres
iGent's veto. He expressed a wish
that the Senate would do the same.
The Democratic cotton tariff bill
passed the Senate yesterday by a vote
of Sc to 10. 1t carried an amendment
recalling all the Canadian reciprocity
agreements with the exception of the
free paper provision.
No trace of c. E. Greenfield, who
was last seen In company with high
eight-year-old stepdaughter, whose
body was found in a lodging house in
Venice, Cal, has been found. He is
sheet metal worker.
1t is rumored in Washington that
Colonel Goethals, chief of Panama
canal construction, is to be promoted
as chief of staff of the army. He will
receive other honors as soon as the
big ditch is finished.
Word from Oyster Bay states that
he Roosevelt campaign is to open
Friday night with speech by Colonel
Roosevelt himself at Providence,
Rhode Island. Next to his confession
of faith at the third party convention
in Chicago, this address is believed to
be the most important made by the
rough rider to date, on the theory that
he will give his impressions of the is
sues in the fight to the voters of the
country.
Collector of the Port Stratton de-
clared yesterday that he has positive
evidence that there. are many thou
sands of dollars worth of ontJaband
opium on board the Pacific Ma liner
China, which is scheduled to sail for
the Orient Saturday. No attempt has
been made to land it while ut the
Coast port. ~.
Grave doubt concerning the fate of
the steamship Corsican, whieA collid-
ed with an. iceberg yesterday, was
cleared away today when a wireless
message from the damaged liner
stated, "tAll's well, fog lifted, and yes
sci proceeding ..-.~. ....l. ~. i
Miss Julia Langhome. daughter OF
Mr. and Mrs. James Potter LANCE,
home. and a popular society bell oil
San francisco, was married there last
night to Lieutenant James Parker, U.
S. NJ, at st. Luke's church.
Sugar took drop of ten cents a
hundredweight in San Francisco yes.
terday. This brings the price from
S5.40 to $3.50, the lowest it has reach
ed for years 1t is just possible that
a further reduction may be announc
ed within few days. x
The Federal Sugar Refining Com
pany, an independent concern control
led by Gus Spreckels, is operating in
opposition to that of his brother, John
D. Spreckels,7 and has invaded the
local territory, and there is talk of a
price war in consequence.
The Coast Grand Jury has begun an
investigation into the affairs of the
Continental Building & Loan Associ
alton and the conduct of William Cor
bin, the general manager.
Miss Catherine Elliott, eighteen
years old, applied at the navy recruit
ing station at Newburg, N. Y, for en-
Iistment in the navy. She gave as
her birthplace Eat sea bound from
Melbourne to New Orleans" and SAID
that she was raised afloat." Mis-
Elliott was disappointed when she
learned that the navy is for "mer
only"
The Senate yesterday deliberately
struck at President Taft when il
passed the army appropriation bill by
| replacing in the bill the clause which
caused the President to veto the bill
in the first place. The appropriation
bill carries a total of $94,000,000 fol
the arm. 1t is still possible that the
President will again veto it.
Attorney Earl Rogers, council fol
Clarence barrow, on trial here on the
| charge of having bribed a juror II
the famous Mcnamara case, created
| a sensation in the courtroom, Wher
! in the closing remarks of his argu
nent for his client, he bitterly de
nounced the prosecution.
Mrs. Alice Brown, accused Of haV
ing biiked her adorer, David Nap
ping, of something like $4,000 denies
that she ever promised to marry him
in return for the money he lavished
upon her during their courtship oil
, more than a year Mapping, who
comes from Illinois, states that theirs
was an open courtship, and that Mrs
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