White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-03-10
PACIFIC COAST NEWS

Melba, the great singer, in San Fran
cisco, denounces as an imposter the
man representing to be her. son.
The Seaview hotel at Moclips beach,
containing 40 rooms and valued at
more than $4,000, was destroyed by
fire Sunday.
Fifteen hundred fishermen, employ
ed on independent halibut fishing
schooners, have gone on strike at
Prince Rupert.
The town of Wedderburn, Ore, was
reported in danger of sliding into the
Rogue river and being carried out to
sea on account of the heavy rains.
Mrs. Gustave Levy, widow, and son,
jumped into the bay recently in San
Francisco, but were rescued. Hunger
was the cause of the attempted sui
eide.
More than 800 telephones and all
the electric lights, except those in the
business section, were out of commits
sion Saturday as result of snowfall
at Eugene, Ore.
Rear Admiral K. Funakoshi of the
Japanese navy arrived at Seattle Sat
urday from Japan, en- route to Lon
don, where he will serve as Japanese
naval attache.
H. G. Brewster, liberal, Saturday de-
feated the newly-appointed minister
of finance, A. G. Flumerfelt, conserva-
tive, by a majority of 1857 votes, at
Victoria, B. G.
After drifting 40 days in the ice OF
Cook Inlet, the launch Onward with
only Captain Schaffer aboard was
picked up off Port Graham by Captain
I. D. Nordyke.
Joint committees of the Master Ba-
kers' association of the Pacific North
west and the Oregon Master Bakers
association met at Portland, Ore, last
week and selected Tacoma, Wash,
for their convention city, May % to
25, this year. Between 800 and 400
Q6loRaL6S are expected.
While walking along a downtown
street at Oakland, CAL, under arrest,
an unidentified man, believed to be a
footpad, drew revolver from his hip
pocket, and by reaching around be-
hind him shot and fatally wounded his
captor, Robert F. Gushe, a patrolman,
and then made his escape
Coastwise vessels which arrived in
San Francisco Sunday from the north
report having weathered gales of hur-
ricane force. A woman passenger on
the steamer Sea Foam was reported to
have died in the storm of terror, sea-
man was washed overheard from the
steamer Roanoke and drowned and
several other members of the crew
were badly injured.
New indictments charging con-
spiracy against the king of Great Brit
ain, plotted in San Francisco, were
returned Saturday by the federal
grand jury against Franz Bopp. Ger
man consul general there and six 9TH
ers as substitute for similar indict-
fment rendered invalid when Judge NJ
T. Dooling in the United States dis
trict court sustained demurrer against
it.
Six seamen were badly burned, one
probably fatally, in an explosion of
gasoline on the torpedo boat destroy
er Preble at San Diego, Col, Saturday.
Arthur A. Grossert, coxwain Of the
Preble, was severely burned. The ex-
plosion occurred in the stern compart-
ment, where the men were engaged in
repairing the mechanical apparatus Of
the rudder, which was broken during
elementary practice last week. Fumes
from pail of gasoline filled the small
space in which the men were working,
and, according to two of the men, the
gas was ignited when Charles B. John
son of the torpedo boat, entered the
compartment and lighted cigarette.
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