Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-05-26
PACIFIC COAST NEWS

Major Albert A. Perkins, attached
to the staff of Brigadier General ].
Osterhaus, retired, in the civil war,
died recently at Los Angeles.
The Rev Madison Slaughter, pastor
of the Chico (Cal.), Baptist church,
who was convicted and sentenced to
Is years for attacking Gertrude Lam
son, is now in San Quentin prison.
M. j. Clint, fisherman, was drown
ed, three other men had narrow es-
capes from death and two fishing pow
er boats were lost in the surf in Sun.
set bay, near Marshfield, Ore, Sun.
day.
Deputy Sheriff Teagarden of Placer
county, California, was shot and fatal.
ly wounded Saturday by Finley Biggs,
a mailcarrier at Mount Vernon, a
prosperous farming community, nine
miles from Auburn. Biggs surrender
ed himself to the sheriff
A voting contest to select the most
popular girl in Oregon and southern
Washington to be the queen of the
Rose festival in Portland on June 7-9
resulted, according to figures made
public, in the election of Miss Muriel
Sailing of Pendleton, Ore.
Three boys, members of the Column
bia Park Boys club of San Francisco
were instantly killed Sunday, another
was fatally injured, and fifth slightly
hurt when the automobile in which
they were riding was struck at South
ern Pacific railroad crossing at Red
wood City, Cal.
Myself and II women, of the kind
you are seeking to drive out of the
city, have sworn to kill you," wrote a
woman recently to Bascom Johnson
executive secretary of the Law En-
forcement league, San Francisco, who
il waging a campaign against disor
derby houses.
The amazing confession written to
his parents that he was a German spy
enlisted in the Canadian army expe
dictionary force was discovered on the
person of Fritz Lehman, who used sew
eral aliases and who was arrested al
Vancouver, B. c., two weeks ago on
suspicion. He was sentenced to two
years in prison.
A body found in Columbia slough
near Portland, Ore, was identified as
that of Miss Ella May Harris, former
teacher, who had been missing since
May 8, at which time she had declared
she could no longer bear her burdens
and would destroy herself. Miss Har
ris first disappeared May 5, leaving g
note to her sister, saying: 81 wont
sell my body for money, and I can not
seem to keep a place"
California is going to have a bump
er crop of grapes, according to present
reports received by the fruit men, fol
it appears now that the frost of a few
weeks ago did not damage the fruit
as feared. Thus, in table grapes al
least, each sprout is setting two
punches of grapes instead of the Gus
tomary one, which leads the fruit mer
to make an estimate of more than 1O(
per cent of a crop. Last year the
grape production was 60 per cent.
AT the annual convention of the
Oregon Retail Merchants association
held at Astoria, G. Clifford Barlow Of
Warrentown was elected president
while l.. r. Merrick, on whom fierce
fight has been made by a certain ele
ment, headed by R. G. Duncan o.
Portland, was reelected secretary
Other officers chosen were: w. A
Bell of Eugene, first vice president
A. G. Marsters of Roseburg, SECOND
vice president; R. M. Smith of Bend
third vice president, and T h m
Watts of Reuben, treasurer.
The navy department announces the
program for the summer cruise of the
Washington and Oregon naval militia
and the First battalion of California;
naval militia. The Californians will
board the battleship Oregon at Sar
Francisco, July Is, and disembark a.
the same place July %; the Oregon
militiamen will start from Portland OF
the cruiser Marblehead July Is and re
turn July 20 and the Washingtonians
will ship on the cruiser New Orleans
at Tacoma July Is and disembark al
Seattle August 5. Pay, transportation
and subsistence will be allowed all of
ficers and men who report on the dates
announced and serve throughout the
cruise.