Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-03-25
WORLD NEWS NOTES
SHORT ITEMS CLIPPED FROM
LATE DISPATCHES In
THE DAILIES.
Review of Happenings in Both East
ern and Western Hemispheres During
the Past Week-National, Historical,
Political and Personal Events Told in
Short Paragraphs.

The Colville reservation will not be
thrown open until 1913.
The population of Greater New York
is in the neighborhood of 100000.
David II. Moffatt, prominent business
man of Denver, died suddenly Satur-
day in New York.
The American ambassador, Henry
Lane Wilson, has returned to Mexico
from the United States.
The strike is broken in New York
and teamsters who threatened to tie
up trific went back to work.
Grover Baggott, an 1s-year-old lad,
was killed recently in the caving of
workings in a mine near Omak, in
Okanogan county.
All approaches to the bridges leading
from the American side to Juarez, Mex
leo, are now guarded by three times the
usuel force of United States troops.
Andrew 10th has been released from
the Pennsylvania penitentiary after
serving 20 years for a crime he did not
commit. 10th was accused of murder.
The 700 American residents at Chi
huahua held a meeting Saturday to con-
slider plans for appealing to President
Diaz to end the war as soon as possible.
The attempt to secure the release
from San Quentin prison of Abraham
Ruef, former political boss, now serv-
ing a sentence of IA years, was begun
Saturday.
The Mexican federal judge at Por-
firio Diaz has decided to release Henry
Whittle, the American held in prison
there on charges of connection with the
revolution.
The body of Al Haas, the Lind news
paper man who was a patient at the
hospital for the insane, and who escaped
Christmas eve, was found Saturday I'M
der the ice in Medical lake.
Active work has now been started
on the improvement of the channel of
the Columbia river north of Wen
atchee, Wash, for which work the state
set aside the sum of 100000
John Schenk, superintendent of the
Northwestern Gas Light and Coke com
pany, Chicago, was found dead recently
with two bullet wounds in his body, al
, his home in Park Ridge, a suburb
Eight hundred pounds of yellow pine
seed gathered from the Black Hills in
Dakota will be scattered over the Black
foot (Mont.) national forest this spring
during the course of reforestation OF
the burned areas.
After June of this year no woman
or girl in the state of Washington EN-
ployed in mercantile establishments
offices, laundries, hotels and restau
rants will be permitted to work NOR,
than eight hours a day.
r In spite of the united efforts of tn,
S officers, F. E. Jones, the supposed slaye
4 of Engineer A. S. Lowe at Washtucna
D Wash, on the night of March IA, hai
t managed to evade the posses of mel
r. which are securing the hills in ever,
r direction.
One man was killed and 800 head O.
caJJle burned 10 ueaJn IN nre Wnlcl
destroyed a square block of pens il
y the Union stockyards, Chicago, Satur
= day Various commission firms owne,
+ the cattle destroyed. The loss is esti
mated at $25,OOO
s Interest in the strange Disappearance
o of Miss Dorothy Arnold of New Yorl
= was revived Saturday afternoon whe
three squads, under the direction of tn
e park department, commenced to dra
), the three lakes in Central park i
search of the young woman's body.
The number of idle freight cars i
. the United States and Canada, a
- shown by a recent report of tn
= American Railway association, is on tn
increase. On January IS there wer
= 122,297 idle cars, more than twice tina
of January 10, 1910, when 51,s36 wer
reported.
n Charles r. Davis, who served as
private in the Indian wars in Montana
Wyoming and the Dakotas and who, i
1877, killed the Sioux chief, Lame Dee
after the latter had attempted to al
sassinate General Nelson A. Miles, die
recently at Seattle, aged So years. H
- was born in Boston.