Elk City mining news., 1913-07-03
ON PACIFIC COAST

At Kaslo, B. c., Sunday Charles
Ross fell from the veranda of the Ex-
change hotel and received fatal in
juries.
The oil town of McKittrick, located
about 40 miles west of Bakersfield,
CAL, was almost completely destroyed
by fire recently.
A new era of prosperity is dawning
over the whole Pacific coast country
under the stimulus of the opening Of
the Panama canal.
Mrs. S. L. Knight, a daughter of
City Marshal j. G. Christensen of FL
gin, Oregon, committed suicide recent
ly, owing to i'll health.
Owen d. Conn, known as the 100000
burglar" will begin his sixth prison
term, having been sentenced this week
to 10 years in the state penitentiary
at San Quentin.
Earl Fullerton has been sentenced
by Federal Judge harrington to three
years at San Quentin. He was charged
with bringing Verna Scranton from
Seattle for immoral purposes.
Seth Mann, personal representative
of President Wilson, accompanied by
several magazine writer's and a dele
cation of business representatives, will
spend the next 80 days in Alaska Wis
iting.
A million dollars in gold, the first
shipments from Nome, Alaska, this
year, were received at Seattle Sunday
by the steamships Senator and Vic
toria, which completed their first
round trip of the season to Bering sea.
tonight.
Fruit dealers of Portland are prepar-
ing to file with the interstate com
merce commission a protest against
the proposed increase in rates on cit
rus fruits between California points
and Portland via the Southern Pacific
The steamer Curacao of the Pacific
Coast Steamship company, Captain.
William Thompson, is a total wreck at
Warm Chuck, about 80 miles from S.
Fish Egg, on the west coast of Prince
of Wales island, where she struck an
uncharted rock. No lives were lost.
j. K. Oda and H. Wyeka, two Japan
ese farmers of the delta regions, pur-
chased 200 acres of rich delta lands
near Terminous, not far from Stock
ton, for which they paid $25,1OO. In
view of the anti-alien land law legis-
lation this probably will be the last
transaction of this kind in the history
of the state.
John l.. McNabb has rendered his,
resignation as United States district
attorney of northern California to.
President Wilson because he was or
dered by the attorney general to post.
pone until autumn the trials of Drew
Caminitta, con of the commissioner
OF immigration, and Mary briggs, who
are charged under the white slave act.
The question of responsibility for
the recent wreck of two trains of the.
San Francisco, Napa & Calistoga cleo
trio line now becomes one of veracity
between Conductor Horace Richmap
OF the northbound train and Dispatch
er Ed O'Leary. Richman, who was in
jured seriously in the collision that
cost the lives of 13 passengers, re-
gained consciousness long enough TO,
make a statement to the coroner.
A petty real estate war which re-
suited in the tearing down of signs of
warning at dangerous spot at Ocean
Beach at San Diego was the cause of
three deaths by drowning Sunday. The
dead are John Stewart Brown, a life
guard for the bathing house of ]. d.
kenney; John l.. Manson, aged 10, a
seaman of the cruiser California, who
has a sister living in Los Angeles, and
an unidentified man, believed to have
been sailor.