Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-09-24
PACIFIC COAST NEWS

Robbers held up a money changer
at the Panama-Pacific exposition Sat
urday night, got $500 and escaped.
Half a million dollars in gold bull
lion was received at Seattle from
Nome Sept IS on the steamship Vic
toria.
Herman Shainwald, a real estate
man, shot and killed himself in his
office in the First National bank build
ing, at San Francisco, recently.
The attendance at the Panama-Pa-
cific exposition reached the 100000
mark Sunday. The average daily at
tendance since the exposition opened
has been 61,311.
Wage differences between wireless
operators on ships plying out of San
Francisco and their employers, smoul-
dering for months. threatens now to
terminate in a strike.
Four confessions have been made
by members of an arson gang of six
which was broken up with the arrest
of Monte Keeney, former lieutenant
in the Portland fire department.
Patrick McHungan and Mcgeorge
Mcfaun, axmen in a railroad survey
party of the Alaska engineering corps,
were drowned recently in the Nenana
river while attempting to cross in
polling boat
While attempting to escape Seattle
police, who pursued him in the be-
lief that he had been involved in
street fight, Carl Frisell, 90, was shot
and instantly killed by Alexander Gou-
ley, private Waterman.
Fresno, Cal.-Mrs. Maggie Klein,
aged "a, and Annie Klein, her Swear
old granddaughter, we're killed and all
the other five members of a family
seriously hurt when their automobile
stalled in front of a Santa Fe train
near this city Sunday
Nagging, fault-finding ministers
were held up as undesirables in Meth
odist Episcopal pulpits by Bishop Ed
win Holt Hughes in an address to a
class about to enter the ministry at
Saturdays session of the Methodist
Episcopal conference of California
The California Retail Grocers' and
Merchants association will hold it's
annual state convention at Oakland,
October 6, 7 and s, 1915. From every
indication, it will be the most largely
attended and most successful conven-
ton that has been held in the state
The program has not yet been made
public, but it is said that it will be
an elaborate one.
Consul General Mansfield reports
from Vancouver that there is little
prospect of any big fur sales in Van
couver this season, and the usual an.
nual influx of fur buyers is notice
ably absent. With an almost com
plete absence of demand from Eu
rope, which is the chief market fol-
furs, from the costly black fox and
glossy beaver to the humble skunk
and muskrat, combined with mate
rial decline in the values of the high
priced pelts, the lot of fur dealer OF
trapper in the Canadian Northwest is
not a highly remunerative one al
present. The supply is very good
accordingeto reports from the north
which fact may tend to force prices
still lower. 1t is anticipated, how
ever, that there will be demand fol
moderate-priced furs in the near flu
ture. A prominent dealer in Vancou
yer has pointed out that when times
were good people were willing to pay
high prices for the best furs, and thai
they now require furs having the
same artistic effect, but at a very
moderate price. Black furs will be
much in demand in Europe and else
where because of the almost univer
sal mourning. Other furs, like the
white fox, musquash and lynx, will
I be dyed black to meet the demand.