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Show I News Happenings of th Great Intermountain States 'West Yellowstone. All records foi number of persons entering Yellow stone park In a single day were broken brok-en Monday when the Union Pacific brought 794. visitors to thfe West Yel-lowston Yel-lowston entrance. Of the total, 574 went to camps and 220 to hotels In the park. The previous record wai established on June 20, wthen 734 en terfd the park from Gardiner. Portland. Carter E, Talman of Rlelimond, Va., who for the last yeai has been vice president of the American Ameri-can Institute of Banking was elevated elevat-ed to tllie office of president In tb closing session Thursday of the national na-tional convention of the organization Pie suweded Hubert B. Locke of Detroit, De-troit, Mich. Seattle Tliis city's electric light and power supply was endangered Monday by forest fires 15 miles east of here. Fire-fighters were trying to keep ons Maze from the high tension line that brings current from the hydro-electric plant at Cedur Falls. Boise. Idaho, Utah and Nevada last week were visited by showers which covered practically the entire areas of these three states, It was announced at the office the U. S. weather bureau. HoIse was visited by the heaviest rain since June 14 of this year. Missoula, Mont Allied- vrterans, a million of them members of the American Amer-ican Legion, through .their organizations organiza-tions have started an international movement for peace, Ranford Mac-Nider, Mac-Nider, national commander of the American Legion, tod the National Editorial association at its thirty-sev entli annual ineetbfg here. "We believe," be-lieve," said Mr. MacNider, "it is going go-ing to ecome a dominant International Internation-al force. Hclona, Mont. The program for the Montana state fair will tie curried out despite destruction by fire of several of the largest buildings on tihe fair grounds, it whs announced by Cheuer V. Davis. sfte commta-xlont-r of agriculture uml In charge of the fair. Fire, started y lightning In ihe most severe electrical storm of i be season Monday swept the grounds causing damage estimated at $00,000. Missonhi, Mont.-The 200 members of the National Editorial association who arrived In Missoula last week, opened their fhirt.v-seventh annual convention here at the Elks' temple. Governor IMxon welcomed the visitors on behalf of the tte. P. B. Snelson, president of the Montana Press association as-sociation on betiHlf of the state edi-tors, edi-tors, and Mayor W. B. Beacon welcomed wel-comed them for Missoula. Dayton, Wash.-Fire of unknown origin starting In n feed and livery bam at 12:30 SiiiKray morning swept over a whole business block doing damage estimated at I1.T0.000. Spokane Senator Miles Polndexter, who arrived here Monday announced that Frank M. Goodwin, formerly of Spokane, and at present assistant to Secretary Albert B. Falls of the department de-partment of the Interior had been designated to come to the northwest wlhln a week or 10 days to make a preliminary inveslgatton Into tne Co lumMa basin project. Senator Poin dexter Is the father of the bill to ap propriate S10O.OO0 for a survey of the project. Pocatello Fifteen hundred strikers of the four humpbacked shopcrafts of the Pocatello Oregon Short Line Itnil-road Itnil-road shops, with several hundred women wo-men and children, Joined In the first strike parade in the history of the city. Two bands tisik part In the parade. All of the marchers seemed to be In excellent ex-cellent spirits. They were cheered on the different corners by oltlrus as they inarched by carrying bnnn jrs. Idaho Falls J. C. (Dad) Clay of Idaho Falls was made vice president ' the )h.hn Automobile reaiers' as-sxiatluii as-sxiatluii nt their annual meeting held In IIjiiii- r recently K. S. Johnson of T;n Fails vn8 elected president and I. I. Flalie t.v of P.tnckr t and lavld oilifant of Pocatello were selected dl- .ectors. Next years' convention of the association will be held In Twin Falls. r Se.-itile, Wash. Five hundred men look a Great Northern roundhouse rVirennn from the shots nt Havre, '"tit, Wednesday .niglit. curi-hd him six miles Inn i. the country, stripped and tarred him, according to i state inent by .1. II. O'Neill of Seattle, western west-ern general manager of the Great Nort'.ern. O'Neill s:iid his Inforina tion came from t lie (irent Noithen superintend! nt at Havre. Portli'.nd Twelve pe:-ms were in .hired ,six siTionsiy wli n a s.irhtep n,' jiiiiiii!oM!e ran .ff t he (Vliirnida Vghway near Multnomah Fal's and ollided with a tree. Reno.-Declaring th.-.t !njuncti n seen -ed in t'uf (':'!, a 'uni ts -h' old ni'i !( (' ,v !.! t.iI or.i.-Hrs mil ' t ,'':;t" fop es o . I f 1 1 1 1 " : 1 1 TV .toyic in a f. I .' m i , Ms .nu'V 1 ' "al lauui:.-r: r.v.i:-it:.-.-!e.l H.e ;iu "int'in ii : f d"i"tv ! i;tH i sii t J 'M'sSids i.t :.r'. -i" r:.iV :.; m n:. |