Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-03-07
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The appointment of J. o. Davis as |
collector for the port of San Francisco
is regarded q certainty today, follow
ing the reported decision OF President
Wilson TO consult with Secretary of |
the Interior Lane and Senators Works !
end Perkins of California, over all
California appointments.
1t is authoritatiyely stated that
President Wilson will tender the posi-
ton of immigration commissioner a.
San Francisco to Anthony Caminetti.
Caminetti is favored for the position
by Secretary Lane. .....
Several members of the Democratic
national committee are urging On
President Wilson the appointment OF
Norman E. Mack, OF buffalo, former
chairman of the committee, as am
bassador to Austria. Mr. Mack is a
candidate and enjoys the friendship of
Secretary Bryan. IT,.
The total number killed as the re-
suit of the ramming of the torpedo
boat destroyer SITS by the cruiser
Yorck, off Heligoland, was given to-
day as seyenty-one, including two Of
ficers. .... -.
1t is stated by the admiralty that
most of these were frozen to death
while clinging to loose parts. The
storm made the rescue of the men inn
possible and many of the corpses were
not picked up until today. 49,.
Sir Thomas Lipton's challenge to-
the New York Yacht Club for a series
Of races for the America Cup, to-
take place in 1914, was received in
New York today. 1t will be consider
ed formally by the clubs directors
March %, and the terms Of the chal-
lenge will not be given to the public
until then. -. -. -.
| Permission to withdraw his suit for
trial by jury to determine his san
| ity, was granted Harry K. Thaw, STAY
er of Stanford White, today by Jus
| tiee Giegerich, of the state supreme
mediately returned to the Mattewan
asylum for the criminal insane.
President Wilson reached office at
nine o'clock this morning and imme-
diately plunged into pressing matters
| of business. Joseph Tumuity, the
presidents private secretary, had ar
| rived an hour earlier, long before any
| of the doorkeepers of the executive
offices arrived. .... ."*... 3.-..--s
To display her barefoot canoes in
! America, LADY Constance Stewards
| Richardson has signed a contract for
a four-week engagement in New York
in June. ... ~. ......
DR.. Frederick Friedman, discover
er of an alleged tuberculosis cure, to-
! day moved his belongings from the
| Waldorf Astoria to the MeAlpine Ho-
ltel. A hint from the management of
the Waldorf Astoria that guests were
complaining of the gathering of tuber-
culosis sufferers in the corridors of
the hotel cause friedman to change
| hotels. ..~. ." -
| Here is a dead man." remarked a
| parcel post clerk at Denver of small
package. It contained the ashes of
Edward E. Knots, and was addressed
to his widow in San Francisco.
Declaring that white savers ioiter
around the night courts of New York,
| to prey upon girls who are released,
| Mrs. o. H. p Belmont has appealed
for the appointment of women officers
in the police department.
President Wilson was strongly urg-
ed by house leaders To-Day to use his
| influence for and agree to a plan
which would. confine congress at the
special session, called for April 1, to
the enactment of tariff legislation and
the passage of the two appropriation
bills, which failed in the closing days
of the last congress.
That her son, Walter Lathrop Han
son, twenty-five is an haJiiual drunk
ard and should therefore be declared
/ incompetent as an heir to 100000, is
a statement made at a referees hear
| ing here today, by Mrs. Anne E. Han
i son, niece of the late Mrs. Leland
PARIS Hospital