Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1913-08-08
ON PACIFIC COAST

In his address at Portland Secretary
OF War Garrison urged a larger and
stronger state militia as a means of
national defense.
Charles w. Fuller, railroad con.
struction foreman, formerly of Spo-
kane, was accidentally drowned at
lvermere, B. c., Sunday.
Mrs. Alice Stewart, wife of James
Stewart, customs officer at Carson, B.
c., died Monday from burns sustained
while lighting a gasoline stove.
c. ]. Smytn, special assistant to At
torney General McReynolds in the tel
ephone case filed in the federal court
at Portland, says trial will come off In
early September.
At Astoria following an inspection
of the Notifications and river improve
ments Secretary Garrison declared
himself in favor of dredging opera
tions to deepen the channel.
I've just swallowed the contents Of
this poison bottle" said Sylvan Schnl,
an artist employed by the Chronicle
at San Francisco, as he walked into
the city editors office Saturday even
ing.
Maurice l.. Diggs went to trial on a
white slavery charge in the United
States district court at San Francisco.
This case is the other one of those
the postponement of which led to the
McNab resignation.
The real estate, railroad and timber
holdings of Major l.. d. Kinney at
North Bend and Coos bay, Oregon,
Judge Waters as receiver. The prop
critics are valued at approximately
100000.
Secretary of the Navy Josephus
Danials has announced that as soon
as Colonel George Goethals gives the
word he will board the old battleship
Oregon and, at the head of the entire
Atlantic fleet, sail through the Pan
anna canal.
Edward Schmidt, a wealthy proper
ty owner of Los Angeles suicided in
the basement of his home here. The
rope broke. He was found with a
| fractured skull from which he died
Sunday. He was II years old and re-
puted to be worth 100000.
Postoffice isneptcors announce that
Charles l. Wagner, mail carrier at
Hachita, N. NJ, has confessed having
robbed the mail carried by himself
thus solving the mystery surrounding
crime that has puzzled the federal
authorities for several weeks past.
Five Japanese argonauts, the last OF
party of nine who crossed the Paoi
fic in an antiquated junk last weel
and landed five miles from Eureka
Cal, were arrested and Deputy Immi
| grafton Inspector w. Nichols, who
will take them to San Francisco fol
deportation.
Two youths, who boast that they
have cashed over 100 worthless
checks in California within a few
months, are in Jail at Oakland. The.
are Melvin Seymour and Everett
Brann and. according to their own ad
missions, they have recently clearet
over $1,000 by their dishonesty.
Declaring that the failure of thu
authorities to prosecute the leaders o
the mob that deported DR.. Bailey X
Leach, socialist editor, from Bandou
Ore, will subject them to removal from
office, Governor West in a writer
statement scored the radical elemen
of the l. w. W.'ssand leading bushes
men of Bandon.
Cordova, Alaska.-An automobil
carrying John Roman and John FergI
son, bound for Seattle, has arrived a
Chitina from Fairbanks, having COY
, cred the distance, 800 miles, over tn
government road in As hours. TIL
road formerly was impossible in sun
mer, but has lately been put in goo
condition. This is the first experimen
with an automobile.
| AS a result of quarrel over hom'
|. stead entry made several years ag
Frank Hutchins, rancher near Nj
= Minnville, Ore, Saturday shot an
killed William A. Rogers, neighbo
and desperately wounded Frank Wi
bur, a friend of the dead man. tn
: three met in the road after HutchiI
is said to have sent word to the otht
|. two that he would shoot them and
quarrel followed. Wilbur and Hutc
ms engaged in a fist fight, the form,
knocking his opponent down, whe
Hutchins drew an automatic pistol an
{ shot Wilbur three times, shatteriI
both shoulders. Rogers attempted
ride away, but bullet from Hutchin
: revolver killed him.
,. The state railway commission
!. California has ordered reductions
D. the express rates of the Wells-Farl
r company amounting to a cut Of $500
d from present annual revenues. Eve
rate of the company in the state
abolished by the order, which is effe
tive October 1, and over 100000 ne
% rates devised by the commission on
. 1O-mile zone basis are ordered effe