Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-07-02
PACIFIC COAST NEWS

An ordinance passed by the city as
sembly of Los Angeles, Cal, which pro-
vided that moving van owners regis
ter all removals in the city has been
vetoed by Mayor Rose.
A loss of nearly 100000 in buildings
and wine is estimated to have resulted
from a fire recently in the Barton win
cry near Fresno, Cal. Between $780,
moo and 100000 gallons of wines es-
capped
Mrs. Joseph Christen, wife of
dairyman, who shot and killed Sun
day by Martin Schubel, an aged re-
cluse near COMA, San Mateo county,
Cal. He then killed himself. No cause
is given.
California has passed a law that
provides that the separate property
of the wife is held liable for debts
contracted by either husband or wife
for necessities of life while they are
living together.
Members of the congressional com
mittee on appropriations who are
touring the northwest spent Sunday in
an inspection of the klamath irriga-
ton project in Oregon, accompanied
by representatives of the klamath wa
ter users and commercial organiza-
lions.
The Pacific Coast Claim Agents as
sociation, including 80 steam and cleo
trio roads closed it's convention Sat
urday in San Francisco, after choos-
ing Seattle as It's 1916 convention city.
Thomas G. Aston of Spokane was
elected president.
Miss Irene Murphy, the first woman
ever convicted in Los Angeles courts
of a Staying charge, was sentenced
Monday to two years in San Quentin
prison as punishment for having kill
ed her husband, VIM. Murphy, at La
Canada, April 10.
Mrs. Molly Burgett and Sour Dough
Bill' Halder were convicted at Baker,
Ore, of robbing the Baker-Durkee
stage April of $1,000 in gold bullion.
George w. Thurman, who as a cor
poral in the second regiment of Ore
gon mounted volunteers participated
in many Indian fights in the early
days, is dead, age 70.
Without any formalities, even of an
nouncing her engagement, Miss Car
die Lee Chamberlain, daughter of Sen
ator and Mrs. George e. Chamberlain
decided she would wed Saturday. and
I she did. The ceremony which made
her Mrs. Donald Wood, of Oakland
Cal, was solemnized during the eve
ming in the family home. The wed
= ding is one of the big surprises of the
season.
A decision of the general land of
flee rejects the claim of Kenneth Wal
lace, son of former lieutenant COVER
: nor of California, to more than 81,
acres of the Henry Huntington estate
within the millionaire colony of Sal
Marine, Los Angeles. The same de
i cision does not, however, recogniz
the claim of the Huntington estate t
ownership of the property on whic
taxes are said to have been paid 70
many years, but gives the estate pei
: mission to acquire the disputed trac
y by purchase.
s The valve of the product of the p;
" cific coast fisheries for the year 1917
Y was approximately $6o,OOO,O00, {
If which amount British Columbia
Is credited with S11,O00,0OO Of seve
y whaling stations on the Pacific Goa.
d British Columbia owns four. Thes
d seven stations reported a catch
h l,426 whales last year which pr
duced 1,751,s3O gallons of whale o.
1t 12s,15O gallons of sperm oil, ISL tor
ie of fish meal, $50 tons of fertile,
p and $500 pounds of whale bone.
= The government lost it's suit in O.
-, supreme court to forfeit the unsO
&c portion CT the Oregon and Californ
y railroad land grant amounting to
De 100000 acres, valued at 100000, 0C
u The railway, however, was enjoin
from future sales in violation of L
On conditions of the grant until congre
at has reasonable time to act JUST
at McKenna held that the government
/" position in claiming that the CON
or tons to the grant and sales were &C
ditions for which violation worked
"a forfeiture, was untenable. Solicit
~ General Davis asked the court to
'u consider and restore the case to t
docket for re-arguments. The ca
was taken under consideration.
IN Pres. carranza's Troops Defeated