Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1913-08-08
ON PACIFIC COAST

from Mexico to Japan, says he intends
to sail August Is from Vancouver,
B. G.
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, a railroad con-
struction foreman, formerly of Spo-
kane, was accidentally drowned at
Ivermere, 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. ]. Smyth, 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 n river improve
ments Secretary Garrison declared
himself in favor of dredging opera
tons to deepen the channel.
1--WE just swallowed the contents Of
this poison bottle" said Sylvan Schul,
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 n of those
the postponement of which led to the
t McNab resignation.
,. The real estate, railroad and timber
holdings of Major L. D. Kinney at
North Bend and Coos bay, Oregon,
have been placed in the hands of
, Judge Waters as receiver. The prop
critics are valued at approximately
: $500, 900.
e Secretary of the Navy Josephus
e Danials has announced that as soon
t as Colonel George Goethals gives the
word he will board the old battleship
Oregon and, at the head of the entire
r Atlantic fleet, sail through the Pan
e anna canal.
e Edward Schmidt, a wealthy proper
ty owner of Los Angeles suicided in
the basement of his home here. The
t rope broke. He was found with a
o fractured skull from which he died
Sunday. He was II years old and re-
% puted to be worth. $500, 900.
Postoffice isneptcors announce that
Charles l. Wagner, a mail carrier at
Hachita, N. NJ, has confessed having
robbed the mail carried by himself,
thus solving the mystery surrounding
o. a crime hat has puzzled the federal
20 authorities for several weeks past.
st Five Japanese %argonauts, the last OF
Or a party of nine who crossed the Paci'
lie fic in an a~ntiquated junk last week
and landed five miles from Eureka.
p 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 $50 worthless
70 checks in California within a few
months, are in Jail at Oakland. They
are Melvin Seymour and Everett
Brann and, according to their own ad
nc missions, they have recently cleared
over $1,000 by their dishonesty.
re- Declaring that the failure of tn,
IN authorities to prosecute he leaders o
ut the mob that deported DR.. Bailey K
ed Leach, socialist editor, from Bandon
he Ore, will subject them to removal from
office, Governor West in a writer
he statement scored the radical elemen
,at of the l. w. WIS and leading bushes
men of Bandon.
Gu Cordova, Alaska.-An automobll
la' carrying John Roman and John Fergr
'H son, bound for Seattle, has arrived a
or' Chitina from Fairbanks, having COY
u.s. cred the distance, 800 miles, over tn
ua' government road in As hours. TIL
al road formerly was impossible in sun
mer, but has lately been put in goo
condition. This is the first experiment
w. with an automobile.
cd AS a result of a quarrel over a homt
VIC. stead entry made several years az
70. Frank Hutchins, a rancher near M
70. Minnville, Ore, Saturday shot an
10 killed William A. Rogers, a neighbo
and desperately wounded Frank Wi
bur, a friend of the dead man. tn
nc three met in the road after Hutchin
is said to have sent word to the othe
"a; two that he would shoot them and
quarrel followed. Wilbur and Hutcl
ms engaged in a fist fight, h forme
csc knocking his opponent down, whe
Ie1r Hutchins drew an automatic pistol an
shot Wilbur three times, shatterin
wn both shoulders. Rogers attempted
by ride away, but a bullet from Hutchin
revolver killed him.
".
WV The state railway commission
;os California has ordered reductions
on the express rates of the Wells-Fare
or company amounting to a cut OF $75O,O'
nod from present annual Evel
rate of the company in the state
abolished by the order, which is effe