Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-03-17
WESTERN NEWS.

The jurors in the case of Clarence
barrow, on trial in Los Angeles for
bribery of jurors in the Mcnamara
case, sent word to the Judge that
they We're too sleepy to deliberate
and court was adjourned till the fol-
lowing morning.
The art store Of S. & G. Gump at
San Francisco has been twice threat
ened with fire within two weeks.
Gufnp believes the establishment was
purposely set on fire.
Rebels against the new government
in Mexico are planning an attack on
Nogales, Sonora. Little resistance is
expected from the garrison, most of
the townspeople siding with the con-
stftutionalists. The railway IS moY.
ing all its equipment across the border
to Nogales, Arizona.
At the opening of the grand opera
season in Los Angeles, hrs. Clara
Baldwin Stocker, the $12 100000 heir
ess of Lucky Baldwin, caused SEN
tsatfon by appearing Respondent in
diamonds and furs, to the extent OF
1858, 400. ~ 80
AID Wolgast and Tommy Murphy
have been signed up for a return
battle to take place in San Francisco
April IL or 19. =:
Rev. John R. Havener, pastor oil
the Ocean Park Christian Church at
Ocean Park, Calf, wandered for four
days in a nearby canyon, suffering
from lapse of memory. 1t was fear
ed he had committed suicide.
According to- the biennial report
just made public, the bureau of labor
in the state Sf California has accomp.
lished more good during the ;ast two
years than ever before, practically
abolishing' child labor and regulating
many of the other abuses.
A woman Of Pleasanton, Calf, has
Just fallen heir to $4,000, and there.
upon notified the police that her hus.
band had been missing for nearly a
year. She had not mentioned it be.
tore, but now says she wishes 70 snare
her fortune with him. :.
A young boy of North Bend, Wash.
accidentally strangled himseii with a
roller towel. 1t is believed that he
was amusing himself by running
around in q circle with his head
through the towel, and, falling, was
Istrangled. r.
Desperate from continued illness, a
Stockton girl placed the muzzle of q
shotgun in her mouth and pulled the
trigger, dying instantly.
/ A San Bernardino couple were sc
occupied in saving their furniture
when their home caught fire, that
they forgot their two.year-old son
who was burned to death.
Professor Olsen, of the Minnesota
ischoof of agriculture, surrendered te
1.-The police, confessing the murder oil
G st. Paul laundry driver as a result
of trouble over Mrs. Olsen,
Rev. Hubert Cowley Carroll, rector
of the exclusive Episcopal church a.
Ross. Valley, Cal.,. has brought "a
charge of battery against Mrs ]. K
Fields, one of his parishioners who
j in turn claims that he struck her al
the altar. He threatens to show love
letters she wrote him, and she dares
him to do so. She is upheld by hel
husband and the rector by his wife.
! The report, that Frank James, one
time bandit, is dying in the Idaho
mountains, has been refuted by let
| ter from James announcing that he is
! in the best of health and intends to at
tend the Panama-Pacific Exposition.
! Prominent stock-ewners of Califor,
MIA and Nevada have formed $4,000
000 company with an acreage of $50,
900, of which a large portion is under
cultivation. 1t is called the Unior
!, Land and Cattle Company, ~
The fifth international good roads
congress has just closed at Chicago
after fixing. on San Francisco as the
next place of meeting. -
The Connecticut weather prophet
Uncle Horace Johnson of Middle Had
don, who predicted the storm at the
Inauguration of President Taft, has
sent word TO Woodrow W::son TO be
prepared with fur coat, as the
weather will demand it. IL -