PACIFIC COAST AND CANADIAN NEWS.

PACIFIC COAST AND CANADIAN NEWS.

(From our regular correspondent.) The city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, is calling for tenders for the construction of four new fire halls. During the winter months the firemen of the Prairie City are called on to make long runs in response to alarms, and the new buildings will relieve the firemen in the main hall from leaving the business district, as they now do, uncovered, while responding to alarms of fire in the residence districts.— The many friends of A. G. .YlcKenney, the Pacific coast representative of the Canadian branch of the Gutta Percha & Rubber company, will be pleased to hear that he has recovered from a severe attack of typhoid fever. For some weeks his life was in danger—The town of Princeton, British Columbia, was recently almost entirely wiped out by rive. The town is located 170 miles from the nearest railway and telegraph station and is without fire protection. The loss was $15,000.—The British ship, Sihna, loaded with lumber, took fire at Port Blakeley, Wash., a few days ago. The Seattle fireboat, Snoqaalmie, made the run from Seattle to Port Blakeley in fifty-five minutes and saved the ship. Chief Cook and the officers and members of the fireboat were commended by the public and press for their efficient work.—At a meeting of the Pacific Coast Fire Insurance company, held in Vancouver, B. C., the annual report showed that the fire losses for the past year amounted only to onehalf of one per cent, of the premium paid.—At a recent meeting of the fire commissioners of San Francisco, Chief D. F. Sullivan was granted six months’ leave of absence. The chief’s physician reported to the board that the former should have a rest, as his nervous system is not in good shape and a temporary relief from the responsibilities of his office would be of much benefit to him.—Walla Walla, Wash., received the first-size Metropolitan steam fire engine on the 15th inst. and the authorities are greatly pleased with it.—Boise City, Oregon, will install 1,500 feet of Keystone hose; La Grande, in the same state has placed orders with A. G. Long for 1,000 feet of Keystone, and Marshfield, also in Oregon, ordered 500 feet of a similar kind of hose.

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