Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-09-18
MEMS Of THE WORLD
SHORT ITEMS FROM ALL OVER
the ENTIRE GLOBE.
A Review of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-National,
Historical. Political and Personal
Events

OlulCl lNc lAtoAutAt| Ohaiito w.
Fairbanks is now at Manila
At Sacramento, Cal, fire of unknown
origin destroyed the Chamber of Com
merce building recently. George
Brosche a lodger, was burned to death,
and Benjamin Storkman, stranger in
the city, is believed to have persisted.
Gilbert b. Densmore, pioneer news
paper man who came to California dur
ing the first gold excitement and who
for many years was identified with
San Francisco papers, died Saturday at
his home in Thermolita, Cal, aged 81
years.
The wrestling polar bear of the
Hagenbeck troupe with the Hagenbeck
Wallace show, died recently, leaving
only five of the troupe, which origin
ally consisted of 10 bears.
Mining men who have arrived in
Seattle from Fairbanks, Alaska, bring
glowing news of the prospects in the
Innoko district and along the creeks of
the Iditarod country, 140 miles from
Innoko. ~ ~
A Missouri Pacific passenger train
was derailed near Swope Park, 10
miles south of Kansas City, Saturday.
Several passengers were injured
Beverly, Mass, was crowded as never
before Saturday afternoon, when Presi-
dent Taft reviewed a parade of some
1000 Grand Army men belonging to
posts there.
The sound of 10000 children IS voices
singing Columbia, the Gem of the
Ocean" in unison greeted President
Taft within half an hour after he step
ped off his special train in Chicago
Thursday morning.
C. S. Darrow of Chicago, who was
taken i'll at Bellingham, Wash, is re
ported better.
Manufacturers of the submarines
Porpoise and Shark claim that in the
recent trials of speed and marksman
ship their vessels beat the records made
in the maneuvers on the Atlantic coast
, London.-The admiralty denies th'
report from Norfolk, Va, that 16 bat
tleships and cruisers Of the British
navy might engage in manepvers AM
tactical evolutions in Hampton Roads
There has been no change in the orig
inal plan of sending four British war
ships to the Hudson Fulton celebration
Captain Harry f. Mitchell, com
mandant and military instructor a
: Washington State college, has asked t
! be detailed for another year. Captai
e Mitchell went to the Preside at Sa
Francisco in June and entered the hos
e pital for course of treatment for
e chronic disease Of long standing. H
= was given a leave of absence for on
. year, at his request, but the treatmen
!. has been so successful that he has as1e
f to be returned to Pullman.
e The receipts of the United State
assay Office in Helena during Angus
amounted to 1914, 9s2.19, of which MOI
tana contributed $24O,9s2.7S. By
} splendid margin this eclipsed all prev
n GUS records within the last decade an
70 indicates the activity in the indust1
|, throughout the state, and especially
,s Chouteau county, which steps into fir
,e place with yield of 500 939. Fergl
n county Is second with $61, 524. Mad
l. county is second with. sol, 524, Mad
son third with $4O,427, and Lewis al
CLARK fourth with upward of $4,000
The Chouteau county showing is Il
D yield of the Ruby Gulch, August, Lift
4. Rockies and other properties in al
Ne near Zortman, which ore is susceptib
ne to the cyanide treatment at a handson
I'd profit. Helena capitalists are the lea
ing operators in that field.
III The following promotions have be-
TX made in the consular service: Dav
f. WILDER of New York, from cons
general at Halifax to consul at Kot
o. Japan; James w. Ragsdale, Californi
be from consul at st. Petersburg to cons
NJ general at Halifax. Ragsdale enter
u the consular service as consul at Tie
IT. tsin, China, in 1897 and was tranferr
Ia to st. Petersburg in 1908.
NATIONAL ORDER OF HOO Hot