Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1913-06-27
ON PACIFIC COAST

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attorney, has been sentenced to the
pe~nitentiary for embezzlement.
At Kaslo, B. c., Sunday Charles
Ross fell from the veranda of the Elk
change hotel and received fatal in
juries.
The oil town of McKittrick, located
about 40 miles west of Bakersfield,
Cal, was almost completely destroyed
by fire recently.
A new era of prosperity is dawning
over the whole Pacific coast country
under the stimulus of the opening of
the Panama canal.
Mrs. S. l.. Knight, a daughter of
City Marshal ]. G. Christensen of FL
gin, Oregon, committed suicide recent
ly, owing to i'll health.
Owen d. Conn, known as the 100000
burglar" will begin his sixth prison
term, having been sentenced this week
to 10 years in the state penitentiary
at San Quentin.
The body of w. S. Brace, a conduc-
tor on a passenger train, was found
Monday under a viaduct in Vancouver
barracks. There were no marks of Vio-
lence on his body.
Earl Fullerton has been sentenced
by Federal Judge Harrington to three
years at San Quentin. He was charged
with bringing Verna Scranton from
Seattle for immoral purposes.
Seth Mann, personal representative
of President Wilson, accompanied by
| several magazine writer's and a dele
CATION of business representatives, will
| spend the next 80 days in Alaska Wis
iting.
A million dollars in gold, the first
shipments from Nome, Alaska, this
year, were received at Seattle Sunday
by the steamships Senator and Vic
toria, which completed their first
round trip of the season to Boring sea
tonight.
Fruit dealers of Portland are prepar'
ing to file with the interstate com
merce commission a protest against
the proposed increase in rates on cit
rus fruits between California points
and Portland via the Southern Pacific
railorad.
The steamer Curacao of the Pacific
Coast Steamship company, Captain
William Thompson, is a total wreck a
Warm Chuck, about 80 miles from S
Fish Egg, on the west coast of Prince
Of Wales island, where she struck al
uncharted rock. No lives were lost.
J. X. Oda and II. Wyeka, two Japan
csc farmers of the delta regions, pur
: chased 200 acres of rich delta LAM
near Terminous, not far from Stock
ton, for which they paid $4,000. IL
r view of the anti-alien land law legis
lation this probably will be the las
transaction of this kind in the histor,
: of the state.
John l.. McNabb has rendered hi
resignation as United States distric
t attorney of northern California t.
President Wilson because he was OF
' dered by the attorney general to posi-
> pone until autumn the trials of Drew
; Caminitta, con of the commissions
! of immigration, and Mary briggs, VIII
!. are charged under the white slave act
The question of responsibility TO
D the recent wreck of two trains of tn
i San Francisco, Napa & Calistoga eleC
trio line now becomes one of veracit
!, between Conductor Horace Richma,
6 of the northbound train and Dispatch
er Ed O'Leary. Richman, who vas il
jured seriously in the collision tina
cost the lives of 13 passengers, re
gained consciousness long enough t
e make a statement to the coroner.
A petty real estate war which n
suited in the tearing down of signs
warning at a dangerous spot at Ocea
Beach OF San Diego vas the cause
three deaths by drowning Sunday. TIL
k dead are John Stewart Brown, a lit
guard for the bathing house Of j.
Kenney; John l.. Manson, aged 10,
i seaman of the cruiser California, VIII
has a sister living in Los Angeles, an
an unidentified man, believed to hay
. been a sailor.
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