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Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-08-27

Marblehead, Mass.-Aunt Della Tor
rey stood at the rail of the private
yacht Sylph Saturday beside President
Taft and watched the American boat
Harpoon win the Taft cup in the yacht
races. She excitedly referred to the
big president as "Will,' and she be-
came so elated at the victory of the
American that she audibly expressed
the wish that she might treat the crew
of the victorious yacht with one of her
famous apple pies each.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-08-27
OVER 90 LIVES LOST
RAGING FOREST FIRES
IN AND NEAR WALLACE, IDAHO,
AND PROPERTY LOSS
is ENORMOUS.
Most All Western Montana, Northern Idaho
and Eastern Washington, Covered
With Fire and Smoke.
RESUME OF FIRE LOSSES.

Fifty dead in and around Wallace Idaho; prop
erty loss 81 100000 Fire has not enlarged the burned
Saturday night Muan probably safe but fires threaten
Elk City reported still unburned.
-Four dead in fires Newport Wash.
hundred and eighty in the forestry service
missing in the ST. Joe country
Taft Mont has been burned Saltese is surrounded by
fire; Borga and ST. Regis seriously threatened
Haughan, Mont, is reported destroyed.
Solid line of fire from Thompson Falls, Mont for so
miles Idaho Iine with portions of Beknap, White Pine
Nexon and Heron burning
Conagration RACES Galatin forest Montana. Thomp
Falls is in peril.
Anatone Asotn county, Wash, is threatened with de
struction
Ymr B. c., is in danger from fires which are burning
the BUSH Other fires gaining Roadway in that region
and the situation is alarming.
Avery, Idaho, destroyed and people flock to Tekoa.
Fires in the Blue mountains, southeast Washington.
Conditions in the Clearwater the worst yet
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-08-27
BIG PRIZES ARE NOW OFFERED

Twenty-Five life memberships in the
Dry Farming congress, valued at $25
each, have been set aside by the Spo-
kane board of control, headed by Harry
w. Newton, as special premiums for the
best displays of products grown by dry
farming methods in 1910 by graduates
of colleges of the class of 1909 and ex-
hibited at the International exposition
in connection with the congress at the
Interstate fair grounds in Spokane the
week of October 3.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-08-27
Roosevelt Starts on Long Trip.

Oyster Bay, N. Y, Aug. 22.-Theo-
dore Roosevelt viii start Tuesday on a
journey of 5493 miles, which will extend
over nearly three weeks, and in the
course of which he will travel through
IA states. During the tour he win de-
liver il set speeches and many extern
poraneous addresses from the rear plat
form of his car.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-08-27
TRAINS COLLIDE IN VERMONT
Two Freight Trains in Terrible Smash
Six Men Killed.

Mortified, VT, Aug. 22.-Six men
were killed, one was probably fatally
injured and seven others were badly
hurt as the result of headon collision
between two freight trains on the Gen.
trail Vermont railroad at Mortified
Falls, two miles north of here, Sunday.
All the dead and injured belonged to
the train crew.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-08-27
For Merchants Only.

The Trade Register, weekly maya
zine of 40 pages, published in Seattle
in the interests of the merchants of
the whole northwest, should be had by
them, as it is just full of live trade
news and correct market conditions in
every particular. Send for free
sample copy. Fifty-two issues for 49,
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-08-27
British Cruiser Is Ashore.

Toxic, Aug. 22.-The British cruiser
Bedford ran ashore on the southwest
portion of Quelsport island Sunday.
japanese. warships have been sent to her
assistance. The weather is bad.
The Bedford, at the time of the acct
dent, was sailing with the British
squadron from Weihaiwei for Naga-
saki.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-08-27

Twenty-three homesteaders are report
ed dead in the Marble creek district.
Mayor of Newport sends an appeal to
Spokane for help.
Conditions are improving at Wallace,
Wardner and other canyon towns.
President Taft telegraphs to the gov
errors of Washington, Idaho and Oregon
that he has instructed General Wood to
use troops to do all in his power to
help save lives and property.
Blue mountains covered with burning
forests and many families homeless.
Gould, Mont, IL miles from Helena
surrounded by fires; Wilbourne also
threatened.
Mullan, Saltese and Henderson are
safe.
Elk City saved by heroic efforts of
is women, while men fight fire in the
forests.
Situation in the Clearwater reserve
beyond control.
The fires have swept past Wallace.
the towns of the Occur d 'Alene have
passed the first stage of wild, unreason-
ing panic and have settled down with
more or less composure to wait for the
iob VI uedu. ne iISJ is constantly
growing as forest rangers, with red
trimmed eyes and blaekened faces, pene-
trate the trails now cholxed with fallen
logs and bring word of fre-fighting
crews cut off, camps wiped out, ranches
and homesteaders caught in the path of
the flames, mountain towns left in ashes.
Newport Appeals for Help.
Newport, Wash, Aug. 23.-Mayor E.
j. Lutz of Newport sent the following
telegram to the mayor of Spokane:
"Forty ranchers in this neighborhood
lost all in forest fres-homes, outbuild-
ings, household goods, crops, standing
timber, absolutely destitute. In need of
help"
Firebugs in the Forests.
hington.-Incendiari is now
believed to be responsible in large
measure for the spread of the devastat-
ing forest fires in the west.
Acting Forester Albert F. Potter to.
night received advices from Supervisor
Buck of Medford, Ore, stating that the
continued spread of the fires in southern
Oregon had revealed the work of incen
diaries.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-08-27

Wallace, Idaho.-Driven by a heavy
gale, the forest fires that have sur
rounded Wallace for weeks swept over
the tops of the hills Saturday and
crept down the slopes at the east end
of town.
Twenty or thirty houses on the north
side of the mouth of Burke canyon
burst into flames about o'clock, and
the flames rapidly spread to the Occur
d 'Alene Iron works. On the southeast
corner of the town about so houses on
the south side of the Mullan canyon
caught and the fire swept down the hill
TO the Sunset brewery, the warehouses
of the Occur 'Alene Hardware com
pany and several smaller warehouses
and dwellings.
Rough estimates of the damage were
placed at 100000. The largest loss
was in the warehouse of the Occur
! 'Alene Hardware company, valued at
$4,000. The plant of the Sunset
Brewing company, held at $4,000, is
also destroyed.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-08-27

workingmen, are homeless and are be-
ing cared for in Wardner and Wallace
homes and hotels. The hospitals are
crowded with fire fighters more OF less
severely burned. The largest losses
follow:
Occur d'Alene Iron Works foundry
and warehouse, 100000.
Standard Oil company, $4,000.
Occur d'Alene Hardware company,
$150,00O.
Times Printing company, $4,000.
Worstell Furniture company, $50, 700.
Smith & Fisher, $4,000.
Sunset brewery, $4,000.
o. r. & n. new passenger station and
row of boxcars, $4,000.
Pacific hotel and annex, owned by
w. l.. James of Spokane, $4,000.
No attempt has been made to list the
losses of residence owners, who number
between rs and 100.
The principal residence district, where
the more pretentious homes are located,
was saved by heroic efforts.
For time the work of the whole fire
lighting force, including every able
bodied man in the city, was conferred on
saving the Wallace hospital and the
handsome home of Angus Sutherland. If
the Sutherland home had caught it
would have been impossible to save
the homes in that part of the city.
At CLOCK tonight the fire had
burned itself out on the hills to the
south and west.
st. Maries Saved.
st. Maries, Idaho, Aug. 21.-After
spending a night and a day on the
wharves and barges on the st. Joe river
the women and children returned to-
night to their homes, satisfied that the
flames that had crept to the outskirts of
the town had been driven back suffi-
GENTLY to make the village safe. The
only building which burned was the
dwelling of Cort Sergeant, the most out
lying east of town.
Two Dead at Cabinet, Idaho.
Fire Ranger l.. N. Swartz brings in
formation that 65 fre-fghters under
Forest Ranger Van Dyke, operating on
the headwaters of the Occur d'Alene
reserve, on Independence creek, about
25 miles from Lakeview, Idaho, are sur
rounded by fire. The fire is beyond
control and grave fears are entertained
for their safety.
reports from OaDlneI, luanO, state
that two lives were lost, the lumber
yards and lumber camps destroyed and
the homes and household effects of
many settlers burned. 1t is hoped the
town can be saved. Westmond, Athol
and Colborn, Idaho, are also threat
ened with destruction, shifting of the
wind being their only hope.
Newport, Wash, in Danger.
Newport, Wash, Aug. 21.-Five, per
haps more, persons are dead, and hun
dreds are driven from burning home:
by the forest fires raging in this region
The known dead are:
George Zeigler, Usk, rancher.
Mrs. Ernest Reinhardt
George r. Campbell.
Thomas Carey.
= - Cady.
Residents Flee.
The fire situation as to Newport re
z mains unchanged, with fires closer t.
3 town, but the wind not so bad. The
t force of fire fighters was out Saturday
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-08-27
Residents Flee.

The fire situation as to Newport re-
mains unchanged, with fires closer to
town, but the wind not so bad. The
force of fire fighters was out Saturday
night and viii go again tonight. I'm
less extremely high winds come it is
not likely the town win suffer, although
fires are advancing today and efforts
% check them have little result
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-08-27
Tuesdays Renort-

Eight men lost their lives in the
Bullion mine tunnel.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-08-27
Property Loss a Million.

Instead of shrinking, the first esti-
mate of losses in the first that swept
Wallace Saturday night has nearly
doubled. A local newspaper says the
loss viii reach the $1,000, 900 mark
Seventy-fve families, mostly those of
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-08-27

Wallace, Idaho, Aug. 2f.-Safe for
the moment at least, the dreaded wind
having died down Sunday night, the
people of Wallace are looking to the
hills around them through blood-shot,
heavy-lidded eyes, watching forest fires
that ring the city around on every side,
lest they should break through and de-
stroy the city. Lines of hose are laid
along the west side of the city, where
the fire will strike first if it comes, and
all available firefghters are being held
ready to start work at once.
The list of fatalities will run nigh.
There are parties of fire fighters scat
tered through the woods everywhere,
and it is regarded as a certainty that a
great number of men must have been
cut off by the flames. 1t is said that not
less than so have persisted.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-08-27
List of Fatalities.

Joseph G. Boyd, father of Captain
William Boyd, suffoeated in his home
on Pearl street while trying to rescue
the family parrot.
Two unknown mon whose bones were
found in ruins of the Michigan house.
An unknown man burned to death in
che Occur 'Alene house.
William Hearmouth of Winnipeg, fire
fighter, single.
Joe Fene, fire fighter, single, suffo-
Gated in tunnel on Placer creek.
-Four unidentified FIRE fighters suffo-
Gated on Placer creek.
Fire fighter, unidentified, burned to
death in woods near Mullan.
Reports have reached the forest super.
visor that crew of 10 has been burned
in a gulch on Big creek and that sew.
eral groups of from two to six men are
missing in different sections on fire
Out of gang of 16 men who were
caught near Mullsn four whose names
are not yet known are SO badly burned
that they may die.
Hundreds of men fighting the flames
on all sides of Wallace are in imminent
danger, and rescue parties are being
dispatched where they are most needed
One of the most severely injured i,
Forest Ranger Pulaski, who was il
charge of the gang that was caught il
the tunnel at Placer creek. He may
lose the sight of one eye. There ar,
said to be three men under treatment
at Mullan for threatened loss of sight
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-12

back cuff with large black buttons and false button
holes made of narrow soutache A deep yoke effect
gave slenderness at the hips from which the skirt
fell in wide pleats Buttons and braid were placed
the side of the yoke
worn by blonde with golden eyes. She had Sc
lected the yellow-strped linen to match her hair
think The popular kimono blouse of linen
arranged so that the stripes met in points at the
front and formed straight horizontal edges of the
sleeves. The skirt, circular, arranged in the
same way, with double of plain linen buttons
down the front. collar of net and plisse was
with the bodice The deep hem of plain yellow
linen edged the skirt while straight bands of yellow
used for the edge of each sleeve and the belt
Any striped material can be combined in this wav
with plain. L think it an excellent way to use two
remnants. This is certainly season for short ends
isn't it? Goodbye
Your sister, ELEANOR
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-12
I'M A ROSE GARDEN

IN EARESTe eMADGE:
1 have just seen three pretty maids all in
row. They in the rose garden in the
place adjoining, and quite busy with the flow
eIs One pretty pink dress was worn by visitor
workers. The yoke was extended over to the upper
portion of each sleeve, which was quite short the
lower edge being finished with broad band of tucks
less, and girdle effect was apparent secured by
the tucked portion below the yoke Lace insertion
was used to outline the tucked bands. The full
round length skirt was decorated with broad band
of the tucks placed above the wide henl A simple
little frock cool and becoming, and also capable of
being washed and ironed in safety.
There especially good-Iooking black-and-
white cotton voile. You know how cool and clean
black and-white material always is. The blouse with
kimono sleeves was edged with Pierrot ruff1e of
sheer white linen. Elbow sleeves had deep turned
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-25

The properties of the companies op-
Grating in Ventura county are scat
tered throughout the oil belt, and upon
the most of them active work is now
in progress, and each month adds to
the volume OF their production. The
properties are numerous, and yet the
field has been only slightly developed.
For a distance of fifteen miles is what
is termed the eX-mission leases. This
land extends from Santa Paula cam
yon to the Ventura river. Upon these
leases c. A. Burroughs has six wells
producing about 1000 barrels a month;
a Saltmarsh Canyon Oil company has
five wells, production 400 a month. The
Midway Petroleum company brought
in a we'll last summer and has leased
200 acres from the Union Oil company,
which it intends to develop. This COM
pany is from Pasadena. The Union
Oil company on the Adams canyon
lease has nine wells, production 1000
barrels a month, Slocum Oil company
eight wells, production 1000 barrels
month.
These are the oldest wells in the
county, and in fact in the state. The
oil runs in gravity from 20 to 81 de-
grees.
Paula Oil company has three wells,
with very little production. 1t is drill
ing one.
Ihe Capltal CRUDE mas ten OF LWeiHS
wells, with 1000 barrels production a
month.
PRODUCE IL GRAVITY OIL
Bard Oil and Asphalt company has
ten wells and is drilling one. Four
of these, two miles from the old lease,
are producing Ii gravity oil.
Ojai Valley Oil company has two
wells producing heavy gravity OIL
DIAL Petroleum company is drilling
wells, each doing thirty barrels, IL
gravity; drilling one.
The Hilltop Oil company is drilling
a we'll. 1t has new lease near proved
property. The Hillside Oil company
is also just starting to drill.
The Empire Oil company-with cap
itaI Crude-in the Big Sespe district,
has eight wells; production included
with Capital Crude; gravity 81.
Union Oil has fifteen old wells pro-
ducing 1000 barrels a month.
Turner Bros. running one string OF
tools, have one well producing twenty
five barrels of 32 gravity oil.
Elk Consolidated has two wells dolns
500 barrels a month, and is drilling one.
Rose Oil company Is drilling; has en-
countered heavy flows of gas.
The Harris Oil company has two
wells drilling in Piru district. 1t has
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-25
VENTURA COUNTY OIL FIELDS ARE
ENTERING ERA Of GREAT WEALTH
MODERN METHODS DEMONSTRATE WORTH OF HIGH GRAVITY
TERRITORY
Oldest oil Region in State Barely Scratched Past Where Orig
ina Wells Are Still Producing Steadily Forges Ahead with
the Advent of New Capital and Modern Development

! lieving in the existence of oil in this
locality was they did not have to drill
to find it. Seepages were so numer-
Gus that many pools were found-and
are found today, for that matter.
TUNNELS DRIVEN FOR OIL
This oil was tunneled for and al
lowed to run out into barrels, later
being marketed at a small profit. This
oil is the best found in California, and
even in its crude state makes a splen-
did lubricant; refined, 1t contains as
high as 60 per cent gasoline The noun
tains about contain large quantities
of sulphur and 1t is the general theory
that the oil in seeping through the sui
phuric formations undergoes a refin-
ing process.
Pools of asphaltum are frequently
found in the canyons, some of which
spread out for many yards, and in
stances are recorded of cattle getting
their feet stuck in the substance and
dying before relieved.
The oil-bearing stratum lies in the
mountains to the north of the Santa
Clara river. 1t starts near the eastern
boundary of the county and runs in a
southeasterly direction to the San
Buenaventura river. 1t is also found
near the Congo Rancho The wells
are chiefly situated from three to six
miles north of the edge of the Santa
Clara valley, in canyons, namely, from
east to west as follows:
Piru, Hopper, Sespe, Santa Paula,
Adams, Saltmarsh, Wheeler, Sulphur
and Coche. On the south side of Sui
phur mountain lies the Hardison and
Stewart holdings, where early devel-
opment in the region had its begin
ming.
UNBROKEN RIDGE
Between the Ojai valley on the north
and the Santa Clara valley on the
south there extends an unbroken
mountain ridge, its peaks towering
1000 feet above the level of the sea.
This is Sulphur mountain. The can
yons named lie on the southern flank
of it.
In 1864-65 Tom Scott. the then fa-
nous railroad king, acquired 10000
acres of land in this locality. He pros
pected for oil and drilled several wells.
but the production never exceeded
seven barrels to the well. Later de-
velopments proved that Scott's wells
were on the wrong side of the forma-
tion. For twenty years after Scott's
experiment the oil industry there was
at standstill, the vast acreage having
been divided into ranches.
In 1888 John Irwin was sent from
Tltusville to prospect the territory.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-25
THE NATURAL VENTURA

Ventura Oil company of Los Angeles
is preparing to drill on their elBhly
acres of leased ground in the north
half of the northwest quarter OF sec
tion 20-4-20, six miles northeast OF
Santa Paula, Ventura county. ana near
the head of Timber canyon. The COM
pany has long time lease with option
to buy and is beginning active ana
aggressive development.
The property adjoins that of the
Santa Clara Oil and Development COM
pany and lies just east of the Empire
Oil company, the Capital Crude, Pyra-
mid, Ojai Petroleum and other pro-
ducing properties. Transportation by
pipe line is close at hand, water is de-
Welcomed on the ground and a test well
sunk only to shallow depth revealed
the presence of high gravity oil of the
same quality whicn has made the Ven
tura fields famous.
All of the above companies produce
the highest gravity oil in the state,
being a refining oil of from 2S to 80
degrees gravity and brings $1.25 and
upward per barrel at the well and Tor
this reason does not depend on the
fuctuating fuel oil market, its value
being considerably more than double
that of fuel oil and in great demand
at the refineries.
The National Ventura company has
it's bunk houses up and lumber for
derricks on the property and fully ex-
poets to be drilling inside of thirty
days.
In an interview with w. w Conklin,
secretary and treasurer of the COM
pany, one could not help but feel the
contagion of his forceful enthusiasm
regarding the future of his company
Mr. Conklin Is a shrewd, honest, mag
netic business man and has been close-
ly identified with the oil industry ever
since he came here from the east,
where he gained his first experience IN
the oil business.
William f. Barclay, president of the
National Ventura, was formerly con-
nected with the we'll known lumber
firm of Barclay Bros, London, Eng.
He is thoroughly imbued with the
American spirit and is conversant with
the oil business in all its branches.
All of his time is devoted to active
work for the success of his company
The other officers of the company
are: Vice president, B. G. Barker, "a
retired orange grower of Orange, Cal;
attorney, E. l.. Brady of Los Angeles;
director. Henry Rohwer, assistant
cashier of the German American saw
ings bank of Seattle, Wash. AS gem
eraI manager in the field the company
has secured the services of M. L. jerks
of Nordhoff who il also field manager
for the Santa Clara O. and d. COM
pany. General Manager jerks has Sc
Iected for we'll No. l a location about
three-ouarters of a mile east or tne
Empire producing wells and on the
same anticline along which are a row
of producing wells for miles In length'