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Show NORTHWEST NOTES Over ouo hundred merchants of Iteiio attended a meeting last week and decided to organize u credit bureau bu-reau lu Iteno. Mayor Illram (3111 bos decided to make every move tho military authorities authori-ties deem neceswry In a campaign to clean up Scuttle ami make It a safe place for visiting soldiers. Kvorett It; (Julnes, 21 years old, a negro, was arrested by a railroad detective de-tective at Iteno on a charge of being a slacker. Ho was taken to the city jail where be Is being held, pending Investigation. At the eighth annual exhibit of the Northwest Livestock association held at l.owlston, Idaho, addresses were Hindu by Governors Wltbycoiabo of Oregon, Stuwar. of Montana aud Alexander Alex-ander of Idaho. Max Lucke, who was editor of tho Deutsche Zeltung, which recently suspended sus-pended publication at Portland, lias been arrested on u presidential Warrant War-rant and ordered Interned for tbe duration dura-tion of tbo war. Tim McCarthy, being held lu tho city jail at Nampa, Idaho, on n charge of passing a worthless check and on another an-other charge of larceny, set lire to tho bedding In ids cell. Ho narrowly escaped es-caped death by sulTocatlou. II. II. milliard, professor of agricultural agricul-tural economics ut tho University of Wisconsin, led the discussions on markets mar-kets and marketing at tbe second annual an-nual state convention of bankers und farmers held ut Pullman, Wash., last week. Martin S. II. Ilarclay of Dundee, Scotland, resigned ills position us skilled mechanic with a Koine, Idaho, automobile company, to enlist lu thu Ilrltlsb servlcu to iivcngo treatment received re-ceived by ids brother when lie was captured cap-tured by tho Uermans lu October, 1011. Waste lu Utah this year of more than u 'million dollars' worth of food products Is claimed by John II. Walker, Walk-er, state crop pest Inspector. In tbo ono Item of upples,, Mr. Walker declares, de-clares, the loss Is about 100,000 from too Into picking aud the Inroads of the coining moth. Idaho men will bo well represented ut tbo biggest athletic program ever given at Camp Lewis for tho head-liners head-liners lu tho boxing bouts aro from tho Three Hundred and Forty-sixth and Tli rev Hundred und Forty-seventh artillery ar-tillery regiments which aro comprised largely ut Idaho men. Tbo fnct that Mrs. Margaret L. Itobb of Spokane bus Just passed her eighty-fourth eighty-fourth birthday does not prevent her from doing her sharu lu helping to win the war. Site recently completed knitting knit-ting six sweaters, six helmets, six pairs of wristlets for tho men of tbo United States npvy. . M. II. Houser, federal "grain administrator admin-istrator for tho northwest, lias gone to Chicago to Anfer with tho officials of the national food administration 'regarding 're-garding plans to relievo northwest farmers from 111 clTccts of an embargo declared against tho shipment of grain to northwestern terminals. Thu food administrator for Nevada asks families to use' ns little while bread its possible und cautions all li'ikfis to have as heavy supplies as ran bo obtainable for brown bread, rye aud graham bread. Tho bakers In u short tlmo will probably bake no white bread at all on Wednesdays. Dora Harvlll, convicted ut Caldwell, Idaho, of a statutory crime against her l.'l-year-old daughter, IMItb HarVIII. by advising, abetting und em-ouraglug James Dagger to commit tbo crime, was sentenced to servo from seven to twenty years lu tho state penitentiary, ami Dagger was sentenced to servo from llfteeu to thirty years. J. V. (irlflltlis, Seattle murine engineers, engi-neers, wus found lying dead at the foot of tbo grave of his friend, O. Hall, lu ii Seattlo cemetery. A bullet wound pierced his skull, und by his side lay n smoking revolver: From tho contents of two notes found, officials concluded Griffiths was so sorrowed by Hall's recent re-cent death that hu look Ids own life. Acting upon Information submitted by grain aud milling companies of tbo state, tbe Oregon public service commission com-mission has addressed a letter to Secretary Sec-retary of State Olcott, who Is also secretary sec-retary of the state emergency board, suggesting that ho call u Meeting of tbe board for tho purposo of appropriating appropri-ating money to maintain for the remainder re-mainder of tbe hicnnlum tbe gralu inspection in-spection department of tbo public service serv-ice commission. In a roundup of alleged pro-Gormnns aud non-purchasers of Liberty loan bonds at Hillings, Mont., a delegation of 050 citlzeus, who inado no effort to conceal their Identity, forced Curtis O. Oebme, a local architect, to resign as a member of tho etato board of architectural archi-tectural examiners; compelled Alderman Alder-man Herman Scliwnnr. to glvo up Ida seat as member of tbo city council, aud forced lCdward J. Kortzborn, u local lo-cal butcher, to kiss tho American Hag aud publicly declare his allegiance to tbe Pnlted States. P. M. Ilayward dropped dead while loading hay near Nampa, Idaho, heart failure being tbo cause of death. Newton N. Jacobs, son of Mr. und Mrs. Phil Jacobs, or Iteno, has received re-ceived an appointment from Congress-man Congress-man K. K. Huberts to West Point. Ho Is now attending Drew's preparatory school lu San Francisco prior to his leaving for tho inllitury academy. A lone robber held up tho officers of tbo First National bank of Sjirliw-Held, Sjirliw-Held, Ore., secured $200 In currency and escaped on a bicycle. Flvo men In the bank wero made to hold up their bands by tho robber who had two revolvers. re-volvers. Tho robber left u largo amouiit if gold and currency on tho counter. |