White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1925-02-13
Worlds News

advices received by the convention
department of the chamber of COM
merce from the executive committee
in Chicago.
ELK RIVER, Minn.-Five children
OF Frank Bedoch were burned to death
when their farm house, eight miles
from here, was destroyed by fire re-
Gently. Frank Bedoch was arrested
on the request of the coroner's jury,
which held an inquest over the bodies
of the children. A charge of murder
was placed against Bedoch. Circum
stantial evidence brought out at the
inquest indicated Bedoch was perhaps
criminally negligent, the county attor-
ney declared.
COCHRANE, Ont-Two guests of
the Canada Hotel were burned to
death recently when the building was
burned. Word was also received here
that the wife and five small children
of N. Bedour, homesteader, lost
their lives in a fire which burned
their cabin recently with the temper
ature 20 below zero.
BROWNING, Mont. - Driven into
the wilderness of their own haunts
under the lash of the winters most
bitter billiards., two Indian braves re-
Gently fought and lost their struggle
against the elements. Their fate be
came known when patrols, which had
penetrated the hills beyond the Black
feet reservation, found their lifeless
bodies where they fell John Red
Fox and .Blackfaced Man were sepa-
Nated from tribesmen in the storm,
while trying to reach the reservation.
The two wandered in opposite direc.
lions.
ESTES PARK, -Searchers are
still blowing through the great snow
drifts in the Businesses of the Longs
peak region for Herbert Sortland,
missing member of rescue party
that went to the aid Of the Inflated
mountain climbing expedition which
resulted in the death of Miss Agnes
Vaille, secretary Of the Denver Cham
Der of Commerce. Members Of the
second rescue party declared it was
improbable that Sortland, who has
been exposed to the elements for four
days and nights, could have survived
the arctic temperature and billiards.
of the lofty peak. His hands and
ears were already frozen when he
disappeared, and no hope was held
out that he would be found alive.
PERTH, N. S. VA terrific cy.
clone struck Northwest Australia re-
Gently. The pearl fishing town OF
Roebourne suffered badly. A jetty
2,157 feet long was virtually destroyed
by fire.
JOPLIN, Mo.-Four small children
the Oldest six and the youngest two
were burned to death recently by a
fire that destroyed the four-room
home of Mr.. and Mrs. lack Cooper
near here.
BANDON, .Ore-The sixty-eightt
wedding anniversary of Mr.. and Mrs
Thomas StillweI Of this city was OBJ
served recently. 1t is believed they
are the longest welded pair in the
state. Both crossed the plains in the
year 1874, but they do not know II
they were in the same wagon train
He was. then seven; she was four. To
day he is past eighty-seven and she is
past eighty-three.
LONDON-To relieve the traffic
congestion in London, plans have
been made for the construction Of 6
dock on the River Thames and tun
mel under the river at cost of ovel
| $30,000,000. The tunnel would be con
/ structed at hartford, which would di
vert great amount of road traffic
from the south to the north Of Eng
land at present passing through Lon
don't narrow streets.
| WASHINGTON-T wealth of the
United States at the end Of December
1922, on the best estimates availaLl e
OF all property classified by the cen
sus bureau, was placed recently a
! 1920, 1903, 100000. This was an IN
crease Of 72.2 per cent for the decade
since in 1912 the census found the
nations wealth to be $3.50, 1893, 664,0G
Wealth OF northwestern states wal
listed as follows: Washington, SIS,
1872, 405,0 900; Oregon, $3,419, 459, OOo
Montana, $2,223, $4,000; Idaho. ST.,
/ BRUSSELS-The League of Re
membrance" is making arrangements
for a state funeral for Henry Geereart
lockkeeper Of the sluices Of Nieupor
who, in November, 1914, stopped the
German advance by opening the dyke,
and flooding the User battlefield
King Albert and the British and
French governments will be repre-
scented at the funeral. Burial will