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Show News Happenings oftheGrtat " J Intermountain States Yakima, Wash. One hundred carloads car-loads of Yakima valley lambs representing repre-senting nearly a quarter of a million dollars on the cars, will be shipped to the Chicago market at once, according accord-ing to the railroad officials from whom the cars have been ordered. Nearly all important sheepmen of the valley wil be represented in the shipments. .Halifax. Harry McDonald, a 12-year 12-year old lad living at Falrview, on the outskirts of Halifax, has to his credit three rescues from drowning, all within with-in the past three years. His latest feat was the saving recently of 5-year-old Teddy Moller, when the small boy fell through a hole in a Fairview wharf. Young McDonald had to dive over the wharf and swim a distance of 20 feet among the piles. El Paso. Fifty trainloads of Men-nonites Men-nonites will leave Canada for new homes in Mexicoo this fall. The colonists colon-ists will join the 1C00 members of that sect already In Chihuahua, and who have broken land, built houses and barns, and put in a water system, as well as established schools and i hurches. Fort Worth, Tex. Joe Furey, whose body Is being shipped to Oakland, Cal., from here following his death at 'he state penitentiary, was one of (hree Implicated in the swindling at Los Angeles of J. Frank Northfleet. The trio was trailed for more than a year by Northfleet, who is a farmer. N'orthfleet spent thousands of dollars in his search and finally was successful success-ful in landing the entire band behind "tar". Seattle. llrltlsh Columbia "isn't going go-ing to play bartender to the state of Washington much longer." Prohibition Director Roy C. Lyle declares. "The ! liquor supply from Canada is doomed" he explains. "Either British Columbia Colum-bia Is going dry or the export houses hous-es which supply liquor to the states ill lie put out of business. Either way, we win." According to Director Lyle, Canadian officials are strongly against the export houses. Oakland, Calif. If anyone within the next five years drives up to William Wil-liam Affleck in his automobile and greets him with an invitation to 'hop In," Affleck will be compelled to decline de-cline with regrets. He. is under a eotirt Injunction not to drive or even ride in an automobile for a half decade, de-cade, as a result ot his conviction on a charge of falling to render ala to Fred Geyer, 70, whom his car strrrck tnd killed. Lander, Wyo. Gannet peak, altitude alti-tude 13,755 feet, the highest mountain in Wyoming, and on which clings what Is claimed by many scientists to lie the largest glacier in the United States, has been scaled for the first time, according to A. C. Tate of Stam- ford, Conn., member of the American Alpine club, and Floyd Stalnaker of Dubois, Idaho, who have Just returnod from the Dlnwoody country north of here to forward to Washington the record of their rlp to the summit. There is no record here of any previous previ-ous ascent of the peak, and many have turned backs after attempting to climb it Oakland, Cal. William Eikens, tho aged Janitor of the Oakland Baby hospital, hos-pital, is dead, but the fifty infants for whom he fought back a fire all are safe. The fire threatened to destroy the hospital, but Eikens, single-handed, held it away from the tiny children until the fire department arrived. Then he collapsed and a few minutes later he died. I lloquiam, Wash. Ths Rev. M. L I I'etelle, former pastor of the Chris tlan church here, has taken a place as a resular patrolman on the local police force. He recently resigned his pastorate. Mr. I'etelle Is a former logger and some time ago became a minister after graduating from an Oregon seminary. Panama. Tolls collected by the Panama Pa-nama canal authorities during July totalled to-talled $1,001,000, surpassing all other aionths In the fiscal year. lnver.--"It was rny first drink In PK) days,' Stuart Payne, broker, arrested ar-rested for the fifteenth time slnca January 1. told Magistrate IMee. "I haven't had one In thirty years," s.ild Hire, fining him $30 and cots. Colorado Springs, Colo., Miss Pauline Paul-ine White and Miss Marion Woody ere severely shocked and burned when a motor car in which they were tiding in t'te Pass was struck by lightening. Miss White was t!c more s rlonsly Injured and wr.s removed to n hospital. P.aker. Oeore Howard, murderer if (ieor'e Sweeney rear Valo in 10lf, returned to Valo upon the flmring of I lie state supreme court sustaining his convl'tinn In the circuit court, and v as resentenced by Judge lalton 11!;', s to hang SeptemN'r Sweeney, i traveling salesman of Vale, was ll'ed dy Howard !' oMain pos.-U'asion if his car, the body boing first sunk n the rher nd later raised by How- rJ and buried on a raii' h where he as working. j |