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Show ifiTHWEST NOTES Nearly one thousand oil workers at Bakerstield voted in favor of calling a strike September first if owners refuse re-fuse a wage conference. Charles MeXulty, 54, is dead and three other persons are in a hospital tonight as the result of eating poisoned pancakes for breakfast Thursday morning morn-ing in Minneapolis. . The Touopah ad Coldfield Railway company has applied to the public service ser-vice commission for permission to build a branch line from Coaldale to Fish Lake valley. B. J. Finch, district engineer of the bureau of public roads, left Ogden a few days ago for Jackson, Wyo., to in-, spect the work on the Iloback canyon project which leads to the Yellowstone l'ark. Harry E. Stew-art, mayor of Tteno, Nov., nnd chairman of the Nevada He-publican He-publican state central committee, and Miss Adeline M. Braun, formerly of Reno, were married at Itedwood City, Gal., late Wednesday. Henry T. Hazard, former mayor of Los Angeles and said to he 1he oldest patent and land attorney on the Pacific Pac-ific coast, died at his home at Los Angeles at the age of IS. Hazard came to Los Angeles in a prairie schooner OS years ago. Mrs. Madelin Obenchaln, wealthy woman and divorced wife of a Chicago attorney, is held for investigation following fol-lowing the mysterious murder of John D. Kennedy, rich Los Angeles insurance insur-ance man at Kennedy's cottage at Beverly Bev-erly Glen near Los Angeles. Positive identiflcatlonof a naked, mutilated mu-tilated body found in a trunk in Lake Union at Seattle, W'nsh., as that of Mrs. Kate M. MahoViey, missing wealthy weal-thy Seattle woman, was made by Sirs. C. Hewitt of Wenatehee, Wash., a niece of Mrs. Mahoney police have announced. announ-ced. , Proof that Dr. W. E. Stone, former president of Purdue university, reached the summit of Mt. Eanon, an achievement achieve-ment hitherto unaccomplished, a moment mo-ment before he fell to his death, has been found by the party which recovered recover-ed his body, declared a dispatch from Banff. A great portion of the little town of Ayimer, Que., was in ruins Thursday and 125 or more families are homeless as a result of a fire. The body of D. Forties, 68, a grocer, was discovered In the ruins' of his shop. Provisions ere being sent from there and from Hull, Quebec. Lead mines in the Coeur d' Alehes which have been operating under difficulties diffi-culties for several months, probably will take on a new lease of lfe because be-cause freight rates on pig lead from Brawley, Idaho to the Atlatic seaboard will be reduced from 22 to $16.50 a. ton, says a report from Wallace, Ida ' ho. The Wyoming & Missouri River railroad, rail-road, whi:h operates between Aladdin, Wyo, and Bell Fourche, S.D., a distance dis-tance of eighteen miles, will be sold at public auction at Cheyene, Wyo. September 21, next, to satisfy a judgment judg-ment held by Mahlon S. Kemmere.' of Pittsburg, Pa., United States Marsha'' Hugh. Patton has announced. What the forest service officials termed the worst fire of the season In Montana and northern Idaho was burning in the Flathead forest in northwestern north-western Montana. Fanetl by a high wind, the flames .swept over half a mile of trenches. The blaze has burned over 2500 acres. New fires were reior-ted reior-ted today from oilier national forests Id Montana and northern Idaho. Another chapter in the story of 10 years' litigation ovvr Elk Hills oil land, near Visalia California, worth from S20.000.000 to $35,000,000, is scheduled to open son, when United States land office officials begin rehearing an nc-tion nc-tion of the federal government against the Buena V'ista Land & Development company of Kern county, with the stntfe of California and the Honolulu Consolidated Con-solidated Oil company as interveners. Notwithstanding the present Inactivity Inactiv-ity In local copper mining, the Nevada , Consolidated Copper Company has paid to White Pine county, Nevada, a tax of $2,138.02 on the proceeds of mines for the quarter edlng June 30. The check and statement from the copper company was received by County Assessor As-sessor J. F. Miles Monday. The statement state-ment showed that while no ore xvt I mined during the quarter there wa. ' a production of bllstsr copper attrib. uted to .e cleanup of the Inventory. I |