White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-09-05
Worlds News

land has resigned as health commits
sioner at Syracuse, N Y, where rein
forced by the Milbank Memoria
Fund, the city is undertaking to dea
with the various municipal health
problems in such way as to serve
as national laboratory for studying
and demonstrating the best ways IL
which to handle different problems o.
a city health department.
ALLAHABAD, India. Forty-one
persons were killed and 5000 made
homeless by an earthquake in the
Osh district of Russian Turkestan, &C
cording to dispatch recently. Foul
thousand houses were destroyed.
TOKYO, Japan. = An American Is
the only foreigner included among the
1900 persons named by the Tokyo po
lice bureau to be honored on account
\ Aof their conduct during the earth.
Quake period, a year ago. He is e.
d. Berton, representative of the Uni
ted States Steel Company.
LABRADOR. = Trappers coming
back from Labrador relate that the
last winter was very had one for
fur. 1t was not very cold and with.
were set remained empty and only a
very small number Of animals were
caught.
ROCKFORD, Ill. = A newly-born
fawn deserted by it's mother and about
to be attacked by hundreds of crows
was found by mushroom hunters near
Rockford, recently. They are rear
ing it on bottle. The herd, which
roamed the woods near the town, is
believed to be the last of the wild
deer in Illinois The animals have
been decimated by wolves and law
less hunters.
HAYNES, Alaska.-Arter escaping
from drowning in the rapids below
Big Boulder dam, in the wilds of in
land Alaska, AZ miles from Haynes,
nearest town, Lawrence Mcconnell,
surveyor, climbed up the steep banks
Of the stream and on pulling himself
over the last ledge to the top was
paved on the back Of the neck by a
brown bear. A fractured skull and
minor scratches about the arms and
shoulders were the result of the en-
counter. After the bear had struck
him down he remembered stories of
old hunters who had said bear
would not further attack man who
| appears dead. So Mcconnell remain
ed quiet and Mr.. Bruin, who really
was not of the ferocious type, and
had only come to the stream to catch
salmon, walked away. McConnell's
party who had crossed the dam ahead
Of him, dressed his wounds as best
they could. After two weeks recuper-
alton he was moved to Juneau, from
where he sailed for Seattle. He left
for Pittsburgh recently.
MENAI, Wales.-If the famous Me-
mai suspension bridge is taken down,
as is possible, to be replaced by some.
thing more substantial, not only will
a bridge be destroyed, but also ia
nous echo. The sound of hammer
is repeated from each supporting
cross-beam in the bridge, and finally
from the opposite pier SIS feet away.
ST. HELENS, Ore.-Unusual show
of devotion between animals has been
capped by Jersey COW belonging to
v ]. Bevin, farmer living seven
miles west of st. Helens. The COW
has calf, butain addition to this off,
spring returned from pasture a few
days ago with three weeks old buck
in tow. Since that time the COW and
deer have shown themselves devoted
to each other.
GLENDALE, Call Francisco Ar.
ballo, an Indian, credited with being
one of the Oldest men In the world,
died near here recently at the age of
121. He fought through eight wars
and had many other adventures. He
came to California SO years ago.
SAN FRANCISCO. - Some nine
hundred property owners in San
Francisco who suffered losses in the
1906 fire for which the German and
Austrian insurance companies re-
fused to recognize claims, will be re-
imbursed to the full amount of their
policies with an additional 5 per
cent, 1t was announced here recently.
The claims amount to more than $5,-
100000. Payment of the policies was
made possible by the seizure of as
sets of the foreign companies, valued
at $25,000,000, which the government
took over when it entered the war
and since has refused to restore on
the ground that the insurance claims
had not been paid.
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