Show I HEWS BOILED DOWN I II I The Taxpayers ticket defeated the Prohibitionists in the municipal election elec-tion In Eugene Or yesterday Throe alleged pickpockets Were arrested ar-rested in Seattle last night by the police They arc named Joe McDonald George Lewis and Charles Evans alias 1 Buck Gagus In Golden ale Wash in the city election the citizens ticket which favored fa-vored licensing saloons was successful I J A M McLeod was elected Mayor dc eating the present Incumbent The auxiliary cruiser Buffalo I which has been lying In the Brooklyn navy yard since she returned from Ma nlla last summer is to be commls j i I sloned again as a training ship i j 1 In Portland Or seventylive union painters and decorators struck yester j i day They demand an eighthour day and 250 per day as the minimum I wages A general strike of the painters is imminent j M Michol Ephrussi who was offend 1 ed by l and insulting passage in the let tel from Comte dc Iiuborsac to Baron do Rothschild Paris has been Informed by hIs seconds that the Com refused I i to light They therefore consulted with the friends of the Comtp and agreed to accept arbitration but the proposed arbitrator ar-bitrator refused to act I Secretary Root slated yesterday that Maj George C KIrkman Fortyninth volunteer infantry Is no longer In the service of the United Stales Under the I articles of war the approval of Gen j I Oils of the action of the courtmartial which recommended KJrkman for dismissal j dis-missal on the charge of drunkenness I was sufficient to execute that sentence I |