Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-01-14
WORLD news NOTES
SHORT ITEMS CLIPPED FROM
LATE PRESS DISPATCHES
FROM The DAILIES.
A Review of Happenings in Both East
ern and Western Hemispheres During
the Past " educational, Historical,
Political and Personal Events Told in
Short Paragraphs.

Whitelaw Reid, American ambassador
to Great Britain, has returned to this
country for two months visit.
Fourteen per cent of the area of Lon
don is free from buildings, while Der
LIN has 10 per cent free space and
Paris Az per cent.
Oscar Solomon Straus Of New York,
formerly cabinet minister and for more
than year and half ambassador to
Turkey, has resigned.
California increased its coal output
at a greater rate than any other state
last year, mining more than twice the
quantity mined the year before.
Mrs. Ellen Changrow, a wealthy In
dian woman of the Umatilla reserva-
ton, Oregon, is suing Nicholas Chan
grow, her ninth husband, for divorce.
Besides shipping several "knock-
down. steamboats, to South America, a
Pittsburg firm has sent one TO the
Congo and another to the River Nile.
The steamship Alameda arrived Sat
urday in Seattle from Seward, bringing
$150,000 of Iditarod gold that was con-
veyed from the camp to Seward by
dog sled.
At Vancouver, Wash, Rev. Angus
Mckenzie, a retired Presbyterian min
lister, for 40 years actively engaged in
religious work in the Pacific northwest,
died Saturday, aged II years.
AL O. Truskett, who Saturday shot
j. d. S. Nicely, a prominent oil man,
at Caney, Kan, was arraigned on a
charge of murder in the first degree.
He was released on $4,000 bond.
Representative Knowland of Cali
fOrnia has introduced a bill making it
unlawful for a railroad to control either
by lease or by stock ownership a steam
ship line with which it may or does
compete foH traffic.
Representative Champ Clark of Mis-
souri,, who has already been pledged the
speakership of the house in the next
congress, says that he was not unduly
excited over suggestions that he be
come a candidate for the presidency.
Two northbound Missouri, Kansas 8
Texas passenger trains collided during
a fog at Abbott, Texas, Saturday morn
ing, causing the death of two persons
Dr K. Aiken, dentist, of Dallas, anC
IL. d. Reynolds, Pullman conductor, Of
Austin.
1t is announced that James J. Hill
Of the Great Northern railway, vii
contribute $4,000 to the endowmen
fund of Willamette university at Salem
providing other contributions to tn,
endowment fund are secured up t.
$25O,OOO.
On the first anniversary of her hus
band death in railway acciden
Mrs. Anna Atwater, widow of Colone
Il. c. Atwater, founder of Clearwate
colony, near Los Angeles, died Satur
day from burns received in lamp ex
plosion at her home.
Ben Simon in a recent aviation NEE
accomplished an unusual feat in tn
manipulation Of an aerOplane, whei
after a spectacular fight, he brough
his machine to earth, and started /
into the air again without having en-
tirely stopped the motor.
The Erie railroad management ha
honored one of it's oldest engineers
both in years and in point of service
by presenting Alexander Larkin on hi
6sth birthday the huge engine whicl
he drives daily in hauling the Pittsburl
hier between Cleveland and Youngs
town.
Judge Lebbeus r. WilAey, who wa
the first judge of the United State
court in Shanghai, China, has just ar
rived in New York from Mexico, wher
he has been for year studying mining
conditions. Judge Wiley declares tina
the revolutionary movement in Mexic
is of small consequence.
TO PAY FOR FIRE FIGHTING.