Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-05-20
SHORT ITEMS CLIPPED FROM
DAILY PAPER DISPATCHES
DURING The WEEK.
Review of Happenings in Both East
ern and Western Hemispheres During
the Past Week-National, Historical,
Political and Personal Events Told in
Short Paragraphs.

Louis johnson, proprietor Of a cafe
in Daily City, San Mateo county, Cali
fornia, was fatally shot Saturday.
The team of the Oregon Agricultural
college won the intercollegiate debate
from Washington State college at Pull
man Saturday.
Attorney General Wickersham will be
the commencement day orator at the
graduation exercises of the Yale law
school June 49,
Easiness reasons alone compelled the
retirement of Jacob M. Dickinson as
secretary of war, according to his son,
Henry Dickinson of Seattle.
Rear Admiral Joseph B. Murdoch ar
rived in Toxic Saturday and will as
sumo command Of the Asiatic fleet, sue
ceeding Rear Admiral John Hubbard.
An agitation for a massacre of Jews
is perceptible at Kiev, where many
Jews are reported to be disposing of
their property in preparation for a
flight.
of finance, is leading movement to
obtain fund of $1O,OOO,OOO to be used
for the relief of the sick and poor in
japan.
The United States government has
announced its intention Of prosecuting
Seattle and Tacoma census enumerators
who are alleged to have made fraudu-
lent returns.
Owners of big blocks in the down
town congested district of Spokane have
been ordered by Commissioner of Pub
lic Safety u. E. Hayden to make altera-
lions for better fire protection.
Caught between two cars passing in
the Inland terminal yards at Spokane,
II. w. (Jerry) Callahan, an employee of
the Spokane & Inland Empire railroad,
was crushed to death Saturday.
Spokane lodge of Elks will invade
North Yakima June and 8. Plans
are being made for the temporary mi
grafton of about rs of the local mem.
bers on an excursion Of several days
Guilty of manslaughter was the yer
dict returned in the case of Florence M
Dodge of Lunenburg, who has been Oh
trial for the last two weeks for the
murder of William Heath of Dalton
m. II.
Preparations are being made for the
entertainment for the grand comman
derry of the knights Templars and the
grand chapter of the Royal Arch Ma
sons of Idaho at Occur d'Alene City
June 1915.
Announcement that local option cam
paigns will be started within 30 days il
the towns of Toppenish, Waterville anC
Wilson Creek is made by l.. r. Horton
eastern Washington head of the Anti
Saloon league.
Daniel 2. Benzenhofr, a retired build
ing contractor who had lived in Seattle
Iasny years, shot and killed himself
Saturday. BE was worth $4,000, wal
+ bachelor, had no relatives near, an'
was Ill and Respondent.
Antwerp, Belgium.-A news dispatcl
reports the capsizing of two large barge
laden with Belgian soldiers during
storm on the Lualaba river, one of tn
head streams of the Congo river, nea
Lckandu, Belgian Congo. Thirty live
were lost.
Mrs. Gilbert N. Robinson of Washing
ton, D. c., known under her stage nam
of Emma Lake as one of the cleveres
equestriennes in the world, is dead a
the result of a fall during circu
performance three years ago.
Major General Robert George Broad
wood, ranking officer of the BIRTHS
forces in China, who has been stations
at Hongkong for the last five years,
now in the United States on his way t
the coronation of King George.
Assurance is given that Japan ha
received no official confirmation of cor
clusion of the contract for the foui
power $5O,OOO,OOO currency loan
China. The Japanese government ha
not been advised by its British all
or the other nations interested.