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Show BLAND NORTHWEST Fire of ac unknown origin complete-v complete-v destroyed the rigging of the W. D. Newlon Oil company at La Barje, c'yoming, Saturday afternoon, with a loss estimated ut between S-5.000 and $.30,0-. While attempting to make a flying leap from a speeding automobile tJ an airplane at Long Beach, Cul., late Tuesday, Miss Madeline Davis was so badly injured that she died from a fracture of the skull In a hospital there. Her home is in Fort Pierce, m There are 223 species of birds in Park county, Montana, according to a survey just completed by Boy Scout Executive Vincent Evans. Along the Yellowstone river many -birds rarely seen in Montana may be sighted, ac-I ac-I cording to Evans. Tonopah, Nevada, is planning the construction of a ?40,000 school house. Colonel George A. White, adjutant general of Oregon, is in receipt of information in-formation from the war department that the national economy policy will prevent the organization of any more national guard units iu Oregon "at the present time. The appeal for clemency made by Roy Gardner, mail bandit, who escaped from McNeil Island federal prison, to President Harding through the San i'ranclsoo Bulletin, will be submitted to the attorney general, according to a letter received by the Bulletin from George B. Christian, the presidnt's secretary. sec-retary. Three suits for recovery of loans aggregating $345,000 were filed at Reno, New, iu district court against the Nevada Nev-ada and California Land and Livestock company. In the complaints it is set forth that the money was loaned to the company on promissory notes signed sign-ed by Joseph G. Hooper, Sr., and Joseph Jos-eph G. Hooper Jr., president and sec-reary sec-reary of the company. To enable the livestock and agricultural agricul-tural interests of the intermouCftain country to participate In the benefits 6T the credit extensions offered thrdigh the war finance corporation, organization organiza-tion has been perfected by bankers ol Salt Lake, Ogden and other Utah and Idaho cities of the Bankers' Loan company com-pany to facilitate the htfndling of these loans. Maj. Michael McGuire, 76, resident of Rapid City, S. Dak., for many years died at the home of his daughter at Omaha Monday. He was well known in the Black Hills region, having gone through during the gold rush. He first engaged in staging and freighting, but later became the owner of mines at Pactola, S. Dak. Thomas Williamson of Fallon, New, has contracted to ship 100 to 150 tons of hay to New ork via the Panama Canal, for which he Is to receive 9 a ton f. o. b. Fallon. The rate to Oakland Oak-land is about $5 a ton and from there to New York la said to be $12. With a surplus hay orop, it is expected that much Nevada hay will be shipped In this way. m . The state of North Dakota has won Its financial fight of more than twa years to dispose of it real estate series ser-ies of bonds. The untold balance, it was announced recently by the Bank of North Dakota, has been bought by Spitzer, Borick & Co. of New ork. The bonds will be offered for public subscription sub-scription in the usual way at 101 and accrued interest, yielding 5.75 pel cent. 4 But 21 fires were reported this season in the Deer Lodge National forest according to the annual report of the forest issued Tuesday by Supervisor Super-visor Fay G. Clark. These fires, the report shows, damaged a total of 135 acres covered for the moat part by stumps or scrub timber; the loss was therefore only nominal but the cost of fishting the fires amounted to ?049.52. Permission to erect a dam in the "narrows" of Star valley, Wyoming, to impound approximately 100,000 acre feet of water with which to irrigate lands In Idaho has been issued by State Engineer Frank C. Emerson to the Oswald Basin Land & Water company. com-pany. The permit was issued after the officials of the state as well as those of the water company had visited vis-ited the proposed site of the dam. mm Frank E. Dominguez of Los Angeles announced Wednesday night that he had withdraw as a member of counsel coun-sel for Roscoe C. (Fatty) Arbuckle in his trial on a charge of manslaughter in connection with the death of Miss Virginia Rappe. Dominguez, In a letter let-ter to Arbuckle which he later gave out for publication, declared he could not spend the necessary time In San Francisco to carry on Arbuckle's defense de-fense in the courts there. The Midwest Refining company, one jf the two principal purchasers of orjde oil in Wyoming, Wednesday posted an Increase of 25 cents a barrel n eight grades. ... More painstaking and the general ldoption of thrift, with particular emphasis em-phasis upon the necessity of keeping mt of debt, was the dominant keynote of the ninety-second semiannual general gen-eral conference of the Mormon church, which opened in the Salt Lake taber- oacle tlds wtwlc |