Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1914-01-02
ON PACIFIC COAST

Asahel Bush AGED sc, pioneer bank
er Of Salem, died recently.
Frank Melville and James Hurley,
convicts, escaped from San Quentin
recently.
The mineral output of California |
for 1913 will total s95,O00,OO0. This is
an increase of s4,OOO.UOO over 1912.
Coast towns between Long Beach
and Santa Barbara, Cal, suffered great
losses from heavy seas recently.
A 1O-foot tide, driven by a strong
southwest wind. caused damage on the
water front at Newport, Ore, Satur-
day.
Ralph CarteLo, a Mexican, was cap
tured soon after he had attempted to
blow the safe of the Eagle Rock Val
ley bank.
Long Yep, the first of his nation to
be sworn in as a policeman in this
country, is now member of the po-
lice department of Los Angeles.
Edward Hughes, alias David e. Al
lison, who escaped from the Jail at San
Francisco recently, was shot and killed
near Auburn, Placer county, during
capture.
AT Tehama, Cal, recently, five Chi
nese were beaten badly and one fatal
ly by gang of men who invaded Chi
natown with clubs and held up the
merchants securing nearly 5000.
Clasped in each others arms, the
bodies of John Bastian, IA years old,
and his brother, Richard. years DID,
were recovered from the bottom of a
reservoir near Olinda, Cal, where they
broke through the ice.
David Yust, aged 20, said to be a
member of the crew of the steamer
Whatcom, is charged with being impli
Gated in the looting of a mail sack be-
ing conveyed from Anacortes, Wash.
to Seattle on the steamer.
Edmund e. c. Won Klein, under con
viction of having lived polygamously
in Portland with Miss Ethel Newcomb
of San Francisco, was sentenced to
the penitentiary for an indeterminate
term of from one to four years.
Dodging attendants in a ward at the
Napa state hospital during the break
fast hour recently, Charles Perkins, a
patient, strangled to death G. Fraghis,
76 years old, and Emil Weiff, AZ, bed
ridden patients of the same ward.
Guilty of negligence was the verdict
returned by board of United States
inspectors against Henry w. Ravens,
first officer of the steamer President
for his conduct on the night of Novem
Der 26, when one passenger, the fourth
officer and two seamen were drowned
1t means Is months suspension from
duty.
Norris w. Rowe of West Buxton
near Portland, died recently from ;
bullet wound said to have been III
, flicted by his 12-year-old son, Leon
The boy declared he shot in defens1
of his mother after her husband hat
seized her by the throat and threat
ened to kill her and their five chill
dren.
John Bostick, the confessed trail
} bandit, who shot and killed Passenge
Agent M. e. Montague of the South
ern Pacific railway on December
was sentenced at Los Angeles to hang
! He confessed that his name is Ralpl
Farriss and that his father is Jane
! Farriss, railroad man, who has beel
in the employ of the Southern Pacifi
at Bakersfield for % years.
7 Judge Galloway in the circuit cour
! at Salem, Ore, pronounced invalid tn
local option election in Salem on Nc
/ vember 4, by which the city went int
2 the dry column, and the city election
/, of December 1, by which an amend
= ment to the city charter was adopte,
= prohibiting the issuance of saloon Il
3 censes, and the capital city of Oregon
D again reverts to the wet column.
T. permanent injunction was issued re
r straining the officials from enforcin
r the two laws passed against the So
n looms.