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Show "northwest notes Reckling tie days of gold. T. F. WVhrie, prospector, returned from Llowlamj flat to Portorvllle, I'al., with a nugget weighing 10 ounces. The gold was high grade and brougglrt close to $200 it is stated. Mrs. Alice HeiidrWks nud Mrs. Grace McDonald, convicted accomplices in tie looting of a railroad mail car, were snteneed hy Federal Judge Booth to ae year in jail, and three years in tke reformatory, respectively, at St. Pul, Minn. It will be Illegal after Friday to smoke in cafe, hotel dining room or a lining car in North Dakota in which women are present, under a law passed by the lost legislature. Both the smoker smo-ker and the proprietor of the place are made liable for any violation. A 10 per cent drop in the hundredweight hundred-weight quotations on refined cane sugar su-gar was announced at San Francisco by the refiners, it being the second drop of the same amount in two days. Cane dropped to $5.60 and beet to $5.40, the lowest in more than flv years. District Judge Langan at MIndaa, Nev., gave the attorney general until next Tuesday to file his bill of exceptions excep-tions to the decision uplnoldlng th Mnry PIckford divorce. This Is fcho preliminary step to an appeal to th state supreme court toy the state's attorney. at-torney. Massage of the heart by hand failed to revive Miss Rose Ahern, a 19-year-old nurse, who was drowned at Minot, N. D., Friday morning in the Mouse river. Upon failure of the pulmotor to revive her, an operation permitting the hand massage of the heart was performed. A hastily constructed dik protecting protec-ting hundreds of acres of farm lan3 north of Omaha broke under pressure of flood water from the Missouri river recently and immediately a torrent of water began rushing into the lowlands, making a repetition of last year's flood damage almost a certainty. Governor Louis F. Hart of Washing-, ton announced the appointment of Miss Jean Summers of Walla Walla, Wash., as sponsor of the dreadnaiught Washington. Wash-ington. Miss Summers is the daugh. ter of Representative and Mrs. J. W. Summers. The Washington will be launched In a few weeks' at Oamden, N. J. The Rev. T. Davis Acheson of Ohe-halis, Ohe-halis, Wash., was elected moderator of the Presbyterian synod of Washington, Washing-ton, Alaska and northern Idaho at the opening session at Bellingham. The principal address of the opening session ses-sion was delivered by Dr. W. R. King of New York, secretary of the home missions for the United States. property loses In a series of fires In northern California caused damage over the week-end estimated Monday to aggregate more than $2,000,000. Half of this big total was the loss oc-v'asioned oc-v'asioned yesterday when fire swept 20,000 acres of grain north of 151 m Ira, Solano county, burning ten homes, scores of ranch buildings and 100 head of sheep. August Carl Robeck, 76, a subject of Jreat Britain, was refused American citizenship, in federal court at Bellingham, Belling-ham, Wash., when he indicated that he would have difficulty in accepting the eighteenth amendment to the constitution, con-stitution, 'the prohibition statute, ludge Jeremiah Neterer said the constitution con-stitution must be supported or rejected rejec-ted as a whole. Miss Valeria Nelson of Twin Falls, Ida., an aviatrlx and driver of racing automobiles, was Instantly killed at North riatte. Neb., Tuesday when an automobile in which she was taking a practice spin at the race track turn id over, pinning her beneath the machine. Miss Nelson came here with a number of other racers to see the automobile speed events on the Fourth of July. A specially designed truck carrying a crew of men employed by the California Cali-fornia Auto Association Is now en route from San Francisco to Kansas The men are posting signs along the local highway, to be known as the Transcontinental Victory Highway. They are placing signs at road intersections, inter-sections, pointing out the right way and telling the distances to near-by towns. John Urbanowiczy, formerly a fiscal agent for the department of agriculture agricul-ture at forestry service headquarters. 'Missoula, Mont., pleaded guilty in federal fed-eral court Saturday to a charge of embezzling em-bezzling government funds and was -entenced to twenty years in Leaven -vorth penitentiary and was fined $100. 000. Carl Bayer. 60 years old, retired mercant of Chicago, died at E Paso, Texas, from injuries received Monda. when a train struck an automobile in which he was riding. His daughter, Mrs. Yetta Amstater, 45. of VA Paso, was kill m1 instamlv. At least two-thirds of the men in the Fourth dvision at Camp Lewis desire to quit the army. Colonel Joseph D. IOithr-h. division chief of staff, an-TioutKcd an-TioutKcd Tuesday. Wholesale requests for discharges have been filed as n result re-sult of orders that discharges will be granted all enlisted men who apply. to redii'o the army to 150.000 men. in compliance with congressional action Colon. '1 I.eitcb said. Camp Lewis con. ;rns 72i;0 men. In some compairo very onl:sitl man applied for (lis bar;:-. |