Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1913-05-23
ON PACIFIC COAST

Opium seized at Seattle on January
1, valued at $1,000. was burned recent
ly by the federal officers.
In the vicinity of Portland there are
over 100000 bushels of unsold wheat
in the bins of the ranchers.
At Oakland, Cal, II. e. Magill, re-
Gently appointed city clerk, committed
suicide Saturday by jumping from the
fourteenth story of the city hall.
With the object of walking across
the United States, two Portland men,
A. Herschin and Fred Islin, have
started on a tramp to New York
The biennial convention of the
Brotherhood Of Railroad Trainmen is
being held in San Francisco this week.
Over 1000 delegates were present.
An appeal for financial assistance
has been sent out by the wireless
operators who are out on strike for
higher wages and better working con-
ditions along the Pacific coast.
The armored cruiser Colorado has
arrived at the Puget Sound navy yard
from San Francisco and will go into
drydock for a general overhauling. Re
pairs costing 5 10000 will be made.
Crazed with jealousy, Joseph How
ersby, a Mare Island employee, shot
and killed f. B. Raney, an electrician,
recently. Rainey roomed at Hovers-
by's home. Mrs. Hoversby took dose
of poison and died later.
William st. John Ranney, former
chief clerk to the auditor of the Santa
Fe railroad, who confessed thefts
amounting to between 100000 and
100000, has been sentenced to seven
years in San Quentin prison.
With a silver watch driven through
his body and against the backbone by
bullet fired from revolver by p. H
Lennert, a Burbank rancher, George
Hepp, blacksmith, was brought to g
hospital at Los Angeles in a dying
condition.
Striking employees at Oakland of the
Pacific Gas and Electric company helC
massmeeting recently and reached {
general understanding that recogni
ton of the Light and Power council
shall be a condition necessary to an!
further discussion.
The waters of the Pacific ocean
were let into the Panama canal Sun
day. A giant blast of 32,75O pounds o
dynamite was shot, demolishing tn,
dixie to the south of the Miraflore
locks and allowing the water to FLOW
into an extensive section in which eS
cavation practically has been CON
pleted.
The total value of sea exports o
San Francisco for 1912 reached 500
100000 in round figures, according t
data just compiled by the chamber Q
commerce and made public recently
In addition SIS, S54,567 in treasure wa
exported. The total imports by sea TO
the year amounted to $62,291, 016, no
including $4,546,S28 in treasure.
Joseph Berger who was held to an
swer in the courts of San Francisco
a charge of having swindled a second
hand dealer of that city out of $3.50
through the agency of a money-mal
ing machine, is under arrest at STOCK
ton, Cal, on complaint of Mrs. Fanni
Grunsky, who charges him with bein
responsible for the loss of $1,000.
Federal prosecution of Miss Agne
Tillman, socially prominent in Sal
Francisco, for failure to make a prope
declaration of the value of jewels an
gowns brought with her upon her re
turn from Europe recently, wa
dropped by customs officials in Ney
York. Miss Tillman agreed to pay tn
duty for the full value of her property
which will be returned to her.
The Asiatic Exclusion League O
California has instructed its executiv
committee to draft petition for a rel
erendum vote on the alien land bill, t
be circulated Immediately after tn
measure is signed by Governor JOIN
son. The objections of the league ar
based upon the clause in the Web
bill which permits three-year leases
The purpose of the organization is t
circulate at the same time a petition
for a law which will exclude Japanes
from ownership and lease holding O
any kind.