The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-01-02

train, was changing engines. He will
return in two years for the honey
moon.
A man who stole $500 from the
government at Denver eighteen years
ago has just surrendered at Omaha.
He wandered all over the world but
never was able to lose his conscience.
John McNear, Sr., the California
flour king, gave $4,000 to his wife
and each of his three sons for Christ.
mas gifts.
Young Chinese "progressives" of
Portland smashed up some josses and
various members of the family of
Buddha which had been installed in
that city by the Chinese of the older
generation. A race war is imminent.
The suffragists of Tacoma, Wash,
do not intend to ask Mrs. Pankhurst
to address them, as they are not in
sympathy with the militant methods
of English suffragitsts.
The Columbian Express of the Chi
cage, Milwaukee and st. Paul rail
road, was wrecked twice i'm one week.
In the first collision. at Odessa, Mimi,
ten lives were last, and the second.
near Glencoe, Mimi, injured two
trainmen and one passenger.
A Portland lineman received a
shock of 1000 volts of electricity,
but will probably survive.
A fire in ire Russian-Greek settle.
ment of San Francisco, starting from
a Christmas tree, resulted in the de-
struction of five wooden buildings
DR.. John Grant Lyman of Los An
geles. the promoter who escaped from
the federal authorities after his ar
rest, has been taken to the peniten-
tiary at McNeil's Island, Washington,
where he will serve his sentence of a
year and half.
A Seattle boy who, knocked from
trestle, was hanging from telegraph
wires thirty feet from the ground,
was rescued by a plucky street car
conductor, who crept out along the
wires and carried the boy back along
the same precarious path.
Charles Anderson, a New York bro
ker, enjoyed his wife's society at
Christmas dinner although separated
by 500 miles. BY means of telephones
placed on the tables they ordered
their menu together and conversed
easily throughout the meal.
Topeka Kansas, is starting hash
crusade. The board of health has
been petitioned to standardize all
hash served in public places.
Reindeer meat is being advocated
for use on the American table Some
thing like mutton and beef, but bet
ter than either, we are informed.
As a result of the crusade against
race track gambling almost all the
thoroughbred studs are being shipped
out of the country, and proper mounts
for the army are becoming unobtan-
able.
A society woman of Durango, Colo
RADIO, was arrested for giving a whoop-
ing-cough party for several children
Quarantlned with the disease
A freshman at the University Of
Missouri is 10 years old and weighs
29S pounds.
Margaret Horton Potter Black, the
Chicago novelist, was killed by an
overdose of morphine.
Hereafter Alcatraz Island in San
Francisco harbor will be the place of
confinement for all the criminal pri-
soners of the army, while those guilty
of military offenses merely will Ee
sent to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
Three girls in Colorado were only
slightly injured when the horse and
buggy in which they were riding slip
ped over the edge of an embankment
and fell seventy-seven feet.
The waitress in a Denver cafe, who
saved up enough dime tips during the
past year to purchase fur coat, has
won ardent admirers and many pro
posals of marriage from all over the
country from men desiring a frugal
helpmeet.
The California Livestock company
has called upon the state to appoint a
state commission to devise a cam
paign against animal tuberculosis.
A special four-coach train of the
Chicago and Northwestern Railroad
made the run from Chicago to Clinton,
Iowa, 3S miles, in 1876 minutes.
A furious wind storm swept over
Santa Barbara, California, unroofng
houses, shattering windows and over
throwing chimneys.
Luther Burbank, the plant wizard
of California, has found that from the
leaves of the common cactus plant