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Show NEWS BRIEFS J . 1 Washington'. Aup 1 Brigadier Geiiorui Edward hi taker, who as; ,n union officer, is said to have car-j ried the message which halted the pr -1 pared union charg.- at Appomattox ami which rcsuitc.j m the unconditional uncondi-tional surrender of bc's .-irmy dleJ! Sunday at his home here He was! (holder of a oonsreeelonal medal of; honor and during President Grant's I administration served as postmaster at i Hartford, l !onn DUBLIN, Aug. 1. Throe armed men held up tho staff of the Dublin customs and excise office this morr.-lng, morr.-lng, seized over 1000 in money and escaped. EDMONTON Aug 1. Trappers from the trading ptrals on take Athn-basca Athn-basca report that the Indians ure dy-i ing In large number of influenza. The present population of Fund !.:' lv.n 1h s.ilrl to be ahout 40u with many! bands still In the hunting ground- I The recent deaths of 74 natives then with losses from Influenza at other posts Indicate, said the trappers, that thr- Indians are rapidly bMng wiped out. DUOENB, ore. Aug. 1. A hospi I lal and sanitarium to cost $100,000 Will be erected in Eugene at once bj ,the Euvene Bible unlversltj according accord-ing to announcement today bv Dr E C Banderson, the president 1 OLTMPIA, Wash., Aug. 1 Goveni-or Goveni-or it. in today telegraphed H. c. Wallace, Wal-lace, secretary of agriculture, urging that he prohibit the lssuanco of fire, permits In the federal forest reserve "ii the Olympla peninsular until rains have reduced the fire hazard. CT( IRJ . B C . Aug Sir Keith Smith, famous British aviator and brother of Sir Ross Smith, who SaS l.Hle, In England Jn.-t b.-f.,re he n . to -tart a world flight, will arrive here from thc orient In September on a tour to map out the route for another world flight, according to Major 11 B Unider. h're today from the fnr east. M-W YORK Aug l. a special commission from the grand lodge of Masons In New York state headed bv Supreme Court Justice Arthur S.' Tompkins, grand master sailed today on the PTederlok U to constitute th. tlrel Masonic lodge in the republic of Finland It will be located at Hci-j slngfors. |