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Show News Happenings of the Great j Intermoimtara States 1 Seattle Proceedings of the Yoter- J- ans of Foreign Wars at their national , annual convention, were featured by j bestowal of the French Legion of Hon- i or on Robert (1. Woodside of Pitts- j burg, commander-in-chief, and Ruel W, ,' Elton, New York, adjutant general. , The ceremonies, conducted by Chris tion Yocher Corbierre, French consul here, were held in Woodland park, while a crowd estimated at 50,000 stood at attention. ; Ojrdon. Excellent roads are being constructed through federal' aid in the states of Wyoming and Idaho for the Yellowstone auto tourists, according to M. D. Williams, senior highway engineer for the United States bureau -of public roads, who returned to (igden from an inspection trip through the north. The trip included a visit to the following projects : Montpeli-r Afion, Warm River-Yellowstone, llo-back llo-back canyon and the Dubois-Munida. Butte. Sam Protine, the PS-year old ; Butte policeman, whose love affair i with a 04 year old former circus . ; rider brought him to public attention ( here recently, is dead, lie was born at Barnegat, N. J., and claimed to have been a body guard for President Lincoln duirng the Civil war. i Elko. The interstate commerce commission has authorized the South, era Pacific to abandon a branch line of railroad eighty miles long running j from Tulasco to Metropolis in Elko ' county, Nev. This line is owned by I the Central Pacific and has been operated oper-ated by the Southern Pacific under lease since 1911. The Nevada public service commission opposed the abandonment aban-donment of this road, which is wholly intrastate, but, as it is a part of an interstate system, the interstate commerce com-merce commission assumed jurisdiction. jurisdic-tion. This road in six years has handled han-dled only ;i'!03 tons of freight, it operates trains only twice a month.. And as no improved business is in sight the commission authorized abandonment of the road, especially as there is now a daily bus service in operation. Eureka, Cal. A large buck leaped into a corral on a dairy ranch ten miles south of here and was gored to deth by a bull in a terrific battle. Oakland, Cal. Evidence tending to show that Edwin A. Shouse, atttomo- , bile salesman, whose body was found in a thicket near Albany, a hamlet north of here, was murdered at the instigation of a liquor smuggling ring is in the hands of authorities. Shouse i was suspected, the information shows, I of advising federal authorities of the arrival of a big cargo of liquor at j Monterey, Cal., from Canada. j Denver. Three hundred novsboy3 : made away with 2000 bananas, 300 j pints of ice cream, besides candy, j soda pop, sandwiches and cakes, at a public picnic here. There were no j fatalities. J I Salt Lake. Scottish Rite Masons of j Utah are preparing to welcome and ; entertain the supreme council, thirty third degree, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite for the southern jurisdiction juris-diction of the United States, which ' will be here the last of this month. i Members of this body are coming here, I to hold a regular session, the first ever held in Salt Lake, and to confer the thirty third degree. Die first time j this has been done in any western J statei. Members of the council, and ; others who will attend the ceremonies, j are expected to arrive the afternoon of Saturday, August 20. They will ; leave Thursday, August 31, for the j Yellowstone National park. Spokane. For miles In every direo tion, along the coast, in the Cascades, ' through eastern Washington and northern Idaho in the Rockies, as far eastward as Montana, the Pacific northwest i3 under a smoke pall. Three months virtually without rain, ; even in the Puget Sound country, j where rainfall usually is incessant, ; has resulted in the most serious forest for-est fire situation that the northwest ' has experienced since 1909. Millions j of feet of choice pine, fir, cedar and ' spruce, covering thousands of acres scattered over this territory, already j are a total loss. Every available man j forest ranger and day laborer has j been pressed into service in the vain ; efforts to check the flames. Aero- ' planes have been used to locate the I small blazes from which the larger ! start and every modern method of lo- j eating and fighting fire has been tried, I and has failed. Officially, the situa. t tion is characterized as "most serious." ser-ious." ' j Colorado Springs. Falling almost 200 feet from the peak of Sentinel . Rock in North Cheyene canyon, El- ' mer Allison, 16, dropped to his death i at the feet ot his mother, Mrs. R. E. j Allison, a summer visitor from Shreve. ; prt, I.a. San Fratieigeo. The supreme lodg 1 of the Knights of. Pythias has voted j to raise $1,000,000 by Bubscrlbtiom j from members to improve condition" ! at the leper colony on the Isle o Cul Ion In the Philippine. j ! |