Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1913-08-01
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The annual Oregon State fair will
be held at Salem. September 20 to Oc-
tober 4.
Fire, originating in burning rubbish
in back yard, destroyed the Erie ho-
tel at Erie, B. c., Saturday night.
The railroad commission Of the state
of Oregon has reduced the demurrage
rate from 50 per car per day to 81.
All dogs in Seaside, Ore, whether
residents" or merely summer visitors,
must be muzzled when they appear in
the streets.
James r. Todd, who was serving a
life sentence for a stage coach rob-
berry in Oregon 80 years ago, died Sat
urday in the federal prison at Leaven-
worth, Kan.
Political opponents of L. e. Pink
ham, appointed by President Wilson as
chief executive of Hawaii, have begun
campaign against his confirmation
Dy the senate.
Two groups of capitalists are pre-
pared to finance a railroad from Resur-
rection bay to the interior of Alaska,
according to reports.
Joseph Archer, former prize fight
er, walked into the room of Lillian
Sadie Fernard, an actress, at San Fran
cisco, shot her five times, reloaded
the revolver and shot himself three
times Both died.
Direct wireless communication be-
tween America and Asia has been ac-
complished, the United States army
signal corps station having been in
nightly communication since Sunday
with the Russian station at Anadyr,
Siberia, 500 miles west of Nome.
According to federal land office Off
Gals at Portland the state of Oregon
and the government will unite in an
effort to recover about 10000 acres OF
land alleged to have been irregularly
obtained a few years ago by f. A
Hyde of San Francisco and others.
Father Alexander Leone, S. j., a pio
neer priest of the Jesuit order in the
southwest, having come to New Mex
leo from France in 1870, died at Albu-
querque, N NJ, Sunday at the age of
"A. Father Leone was reputed to have
been one of the most forceful pulpit
orators in the Spanish language in
New Mexico.
Samuel d. Bridges, former clerk OF
the United States court in Tacoma,
was Saturday sentenced to a term of
Is months Imprisonment in the fed
eral penitentiary at McNeils island by
Judge Robert S. Bean of Portland on
his conviction several months ago OF
being guilty of embezzlement OF gov
eminent funds in his custody.
A committee representing workmen
employed at Mare Island navy yard
recently presented petition to Secre
tary of the Navy Daniels asking that
the men be given representation on
the wage board. Secretary Daniels
told the committee that efforts were
being made by the department to work
out the wage question satisfactorily
Twenty-six timber claims in Baker
county, Oregon, valued at $4,000 each
held in the name Of the Hewitt Land
company, a Washington corporation
constitute the bone of contention in {
suit brought this week against thai
company by the United States govern
ment in which the government viii
attempt to show that patents were oh
tanned by frs I'D.
Near Sacramento, Cal, Saturday, j
S. Appel of Oakland was killed, ant
three others are injured and 1f-year
old boy motorcyclist was badly bruised
when an automobile containing dele
CATION of San Francisco newspaper
men accompanying the Indian trans
continental touring party was ditchet
in trying to pass a motorcycle an(
turned turtle, pinning its occupants
; underneath the car.