Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1913-06-27
ON PACIFIC COAST


attorney, has been sentenced to the
penitentiary 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 j. G. Christensen of Ell
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 viaduct in Vancouver
barracks. There were no marks of VIC
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 total wreck al
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 H. Wyeka, two Japan
csc farmers of the delta regions, pur
chased 200 acres of rich delta lanC
near Terminous, not far from Stock
ton, for which they paid $25, 100. Ii
view of the anti-alien land law legis
lation this probably will be the last
transaction of this kind in the history
of the state.
John l.. McNabb has rendered his
resignation as United States district
attorney of northern California tC
President Wilson because he was or
dered by the attorney general to post
pone until autumn the trials of Drew
Caminitta, con of the commissioner
of immigration, and Mary briggs, who
are charged under the white slave act
The question of responsibility fol
the recent wreck of two trains of the
San Francisco, Napa & Calistoga cleo
trio line now becomes one of veracity
between Conductor Horace RichmaI
of the northbound train and Dispatch
er Ed O'Leary. Richman, who was in
jured seriously in the collision thai
cost the lives of 10 passengers, re
gained consciousness long enough t
make statement to the coroner.
A petty real estate war which re
suited in the tearing down of signs Of
warning at a dangerous spot at OceaT
Beach ct San Diego was the cause Of
three deaths by drowning Sunday. The
dead are John Stewart Brown, life
guard for the bathing house of j. d
Kenney; John l.. Manson, aged 10, a
seaman of the cruiser California, who
has sister living in Los Angeles, and
an unidentified man, believed to have
been a sailor.