Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1913-08-29
ON PACIFIC COAST

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The California Retail Grocers asso-
citation will hold its annual convention
in Santa Rosa, October 6, 7 and 8.
The Best Baby in the World" will
reveive prize of $4,000 at the Pan
ama-Pacific exposition by the Child
Life Exhibit company.
The Norwegian steamer Thodefage-
lund and the German bark ThielDek
collided bows-on in Astoria harbor
Sunday, doing heavy damage.
Jack London's huge new residence,
on his ranch near Glen Ellen. Cal,
was mostly destroyed by fire recently. |
Only the stone walls remained.
The constitutionality of the charter
amendment providing four-year term
for office holders in San Francisco is
now upheld by the supreme court.
c. f. Beynon, 80 years old, of st.
Louis, Mo-, was drowned recently in
the 1histochina river while on his way
TO the recently discovered Shushanna
gold field of Alaska.
Walter S. Hobart, San Francisco
millionaire and club man, and prob
ably the best known of western polo
players, was seriously injured recently
in a fall from his pony while practic-
ing
Sacramento and interior California,
from noon Saturday until Sunday
night, suffered the hottest SO hours in
the history of government weather OBJ
servations. The thermometer regis
tered 109 Saturday afternoon.
Near Santa Cruz, Cal, Sunday,
Charles Colin, member OF party OF
deer hunters, was killed when Earl
Sheldon, with another hunting party,
fired at fleeing buck and discharged
a load OF buckshot into Collins body.
Jesse w. Lilienthal, prominent in
the financial world of san Francisco,
will succeed Patrick Calhoun as presi-
dent of the United Railways OF San
Francisco, a subsidiary OF the United
Railways Investment company OF New
Jersey.
! At Sacramento, Cal, Sunday, Lynn
Todd, son of r. B. Todd, was pushed
: from a rowboat into the Sacramento
river by Ray Hite, 10 years old, and
was drowned. On June 16, 1912, Hite
shot and killed Willie Morrow, aged
years.
Patrick Mcdonald, wealthy Alaska
miner, and Mrs. Alice Reese, widow OF
McDonald's former partner, were mar
ried at Vancouver, Wash, recently as
the result of the inability of the two
TO disentangle their joint property
: holdings after the death of Mr.. Reese
} two years ago.
4 The Juneau land office has refused
. the application for patents made by
3 the claimants of what is known as the
I Chezum group of coal land claims in
$ the Boring river district, Alaska, Gov
ering 1850 acres of land adjoining the
U cancelled Cunningham claims. The
U land is reputed to be enormously val
y liable.
:, Joseph Parron, the man shot during
q the train robbery at Portland, August
, 10, and who died next day from his
q wound while being held as a suspect,
n has been identified as a former con-
q ivtct in Walla Walla penitentiary,
! where he was sent from Seattle Is
). years ago for highway robbery. He
was known under the aliases of J. b
Il Allison and Yellow Bill.
J. A condition said to be unique in &c
Il clesiastical annals of California has
n grown out of the hospitality of Rabbi
4, Martin A. Meyer and his congrega
D. lions, who have thrown open theil
n place of worship, the Temple Emanu
IL El, San Francisco, to the congregation
l. of the First Congregational church
D, and for the next two weeks Hebrews
y and Christians will worship, according
to their separate creeds, in the same
II edifice.
p In reply to a recent order of the
state railroad commission slicing ever!
70 express rate in California of Wells
h Fargo C Co., and severely criticisinl
n the relationship between the express
w company and the Southern Pacific rail
NJ road, the Southern Pacific filed thi
n week with the commission petition
for rehearing. Already Wells, Far
go & Co. has filed its own answer, ant
Y the railroad asks permission to maxi
common cause with the express CON
at pany. 1T is respectfully represented,
recites the petition, that the Southern
nt Pacific is not principal stockholde
H. of Wells, Fargo & Co., but that to tn
70 contrary your petitioner does not ow
nj any stock in said express copnay."
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