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Show News Happenings of the Great j Intennountain States j Portland The county presented the city with a $200,000 golf course last week. Spokane. Unless rains heavier than those experienced to date begin falling fall-ing over we?ern Washington the season sea-son of fire hazards will last about five weeks longer. Portland. Certain diseases which are attacking the cranberry In the vicinity vi-cinity of Astoria will be Investigated by Professor R. Kent Beattie, pathologist pathol-ogist of the United States department of agriculture from Washington, D. C. Alameda, Cal. Mrs. Nellie Kendrick announces that she bartered her husband hus-band to Mrs. Edith Spreciles Wakefield Wake-field for $100 a month and of how she later regretted her bargain. She is now considering suing Mrs. Wakefield Wake-field for $25,000 alleged alienation of affections damages. Spokane. He hadn't seen her sinc she was a 12-year-old school girl back In Austria, but twelve years of cor respondence had convinced Sam Viro employe of an electrical company here, that Alice Cavisth was the girl for him. They have been marriel although al-though the bride can speak no Enj lish. San Francisco. Five hundred and twelve persons were convicted of vi olarion of the narcotic laws in Cali fornia in the past year, it was shown in the annual report of the state board of pharmacy just made public. Portland. Paintings by famous, masters are to be exhibited at Oregon Ore-gon state fair. Minneapolis. Joseph Rhenstrom said to be wanted by Spokane, Wash., authorities for Jumping a $10,000 bail there following his conviction of a federal charge, was arrested here. Rhenstrom, according to information here, was out on bond pending an appeal from a conviction of using the mails to defraud in connection with his real estate business. Salem.- United States Attorney General Daugherty refers to the Ku Klux Klan as "a distinct menace to decent government'' in a letter to Governor Olcott concerning the move of the governor against the Klan In Oregon. The letter is in reply to a letter from Governor Olcott thanking the federal department for its cooperation cooper-ation in its prosecution of men said to be Klansmen for outrages in Jackson Jack-son county. White SaUiion, Wash. Fruit Inspector In-spector Mills states his estimate of the 1922 apple crop for this district is 500 cars, against 750 for last year. Denver Married professors will not be barred at Denver University and the University of Colorado, as they are at. Northwestern university, Evstnston, 111., according to officials of both schools. Kansas City. .Smoking in public cost Mary Helm, 35 years old, a fine of $500 and a sentence of six months in jail here. She was arrested on a charge of vagrancy while smoking a cigai ette in a park. Seattle. The Ninety-first division, representative of the Far West in the Meuse- Argonne and other great events of the World war, held its third annual an-nual reunion here. For the first time one general reunion was held, the former for-mer affairs having been arranged so that simultaneous meetings were held in several Pacific coast cities. Los Angeles. Use of automobile inner tubes by sea hathers at Hermosa Beach, a suburb, has been forbidden by ordinance. Recent narrow escapes from drowning convinced the Hermoca Beach council the custom was dangerous, danger-ous, as it was said, the tubes soon rotted rot-ted in the water and often collapsed at a greater distance from shore than the bather was able to swim. Spokane. Plans have just been announced an-nounced for the establishment of a Spokane valley apple packing school in the warehouse of the Spokane Valley Val-ley Growers' union at Opportunity, ten miles east of here. The courses will be under the direction of experts and those completing the work in a satisfactory manner will be given a certificate of graduation from the college. col-lege. Cheyenne Incorporation papers have been filed with the secretary of state here by the Mammoth Oil com-I'.mv com-I'.mv of Deleware, capitalized at $200,-500.000 $200,-500.000 and organized by the Sinclair Oil interests to develop the Teapot, t",ome naval reserve under a contract secured from the federal government The company paid a filing fee of $40,000. |
