Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-01-29
PACIFIC COAST NEWS

The Portland Traction is
losing more than $500 daily by the OPP
Grafton of nickel buses in the longest
ed districts of Portland.
Elwood Bruner of Nome, Alaska,
member of the Alaska territorial SEN
ate from the Second division, died at
his winter home in Byron Springs,
Cal, of heart failure recently.
Mrs. Mary Ann Stephenson, age "a
years, died recently at Baker, Ore.
She was a pioneer of Oregon, coming
to the state with her husband, the
late DR.. d. d. Stephenson, in 1852.
'Jitney buses in San Francisco are
costing the United Railways alone
considerable in excess of 81 a minute
between 6 O'Clock in the morning and
the same hour in the evening, accord
ing to reports.
Charges of conspiracy to commit
murder were sworn to in San Fran
cisco by Harry Hargrave, editor of a
weekly publication, against Carlton
Wall, John Birmingham, Eddie Graney
and Matt Tierney, whose arrest he
caused.
Governor Hiram w. Johnson placed
himself squarely on record recently as
opposed to any amendment to the anti
alien land act passed by the California
legislature in 1913. He indicated that,
if the Shartel bill, introduced in the
assembly, eliminating the three-year
leasing clause, passed the legislature.
he would meet it with the executive
veto.
Three engineers employed in the
quarries of the British Columbia
Transport company at the mouth of
Pitt lake were drowned recently when
a 10-foot tidal wave swept away nea
" all the equipment of the quarry. An
exceptionally heavy blast had torn
away part of the mountain and the
huge mud slide into the lake caused
the tidal W.
Planning the installation Of lumber
displays and selling exhibits which
will attract the attention of lumber
men from every part Of the United
States, the Western Retail Lumber
mems association will every de-
| partment of it's activities temporarily
from Spokane to San Francisco dur
ing the twelfth annual conference OF
the association on February II, IS and
| 10. The displays and sessions of the
association will be in the Hoo Hoo
building ON the exposition grounds.
Redding, Gala magnificent spec
tacular demonstration was given Sat
urday by Lassen peak, which early
broke forth in what is perhaps the
most violent eruption of the series
that began last May. Su%bterranear
rumblings and tremors of the earth
were heard and felt at Volta, Is miles
from the peak. Falling ashes covered
the snow fields 1t Macomber flat, L
miles away. The plumed column o.
steam from the crater was visible
at a great distance.
A tong al broke out suddenly Sun
day night at a peace conference in Sar
IL ullSiSSO bCbWCCA IhC ouCy oAhSo
Sen Wings and the Four Families, in
which one Chinese was killed and an
other, President Quong Quock Wall OF
the Sen Suey Wings, seriously wound
ed. simultaneously hostilities started
in other California cities. One Chi
nese was killed and another shot il
the hip near Stockton and still anoth
er wounded in Oakland. A score O
arrests were made in the three cities
The Canadian Northern railway il
now completed from Lake Superior t.
the Pacific coast, the last rail havin.
been laid at Basque, a village on thu
North Thompson river, 200 miles cas-
of Vancouver. 1t will require unit
April Is to ballast the line in shape
for trains, and the official ceremon.
of driving the golden spike ~probabl.
will occur about May l. 1t may b.
midsummer before a regular through
service is opened. From Vancouver t,
Edmonton the heaviest grade is four
tenths of 1 per cent.