Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1913-04-04
NEWS OF THE WORLD
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
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Happenings National, Historical and
Political and Personal Events
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for Busy Readers.

G. A. Coolidge, general manager OF
the Hill electric lines in the north
west, which include the Spokane &
Inland, the Oregon Electric and the
United Railways company of Portland,
has resigned, his resignation to be-
come effective April 1.
Ten thousand men will be employed
the coming summer on construction
work on the Grand Trunk Pacific rail
way in western Canada, and more will
be used, provided they can be secured,
according to Alex. Johnson, a railway
contractor of New Hazleton, b. G.
The Fruit Growers association of
British Columbia has asked the Cana
dian government to increase the duty
on apples from the United States from
15c to zoe a box, the latter figure be-
ing the tariff charged against Cana
dian apples coming into the United
States.
Parcel post business last month was
almost 40 per cent greater than in
January, as shown by reports to Post
master General Burleson. In Febru-
airy 100000 parcel post packages
we're handled, an increase of 100000
over the previous month, but, as Feb
ruary contained three days less than
January, the real gain was about 40
per cent
The department of agriculture has
been figuring up the losses by fires on
the national forests for the calendar
year 1912, and finds that they were
the lowest of recent years. Less than
one acre to every thousand Of tim
bered lands were burned over, and the
total damage is estimated at $75,290
or less than one dollar to every 2,00C
acres of area.
California is 775 miles long, has
1000 miles of coast line and an average
width of 200 miles Contains 153,65(
square miles, an area equal to the
states of New York, New Jersey, Mas
sachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont
Maine, New Hampshire, Connection
and Ohio. The population of thes'
nine states is 26,623,535 The popula
ton of California is 1877 $40. an in
crease of over 60 per cent in ten years
Lightning caused more fires thar
any other agency, followed by rail
roads, campers and incendiaries, II
the order given. The greatest losse
occurred in Arizona, Arkansas an,
California, in which States there wa
also the largest proportion of fire
caused by lightning and by incendiaI
ism. About 81 per cent of all the fire
were started by lightning. and abou
3S per cent were due to carelessness
The proportion in each case was prac
tically the same as in the previou
year.
Imports into the United States las
onth aggregated $149, OFT ,O63, an in
crease of approximately $4,000, 90
over the imports of February, 1912
according to figures issued by the de
partment of commerce. The export
of the United States for the sam
period amounted to $193, 092, 042,
falling off of about $5,00O,O00 from tn
exports for the same month a yea
ago. Europe received the bulk of thu
exports of this country for the month
S113,956,913 being the value of article
sent to that quarter of the world. Dur
ing the same month of 1912, Europ
received articles from the Unite,
States valued at $12S,338,1o9.