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Show INLAND NORTHWEST Fire destroyed 140 tons of hay ou one ranch and 01 tons on another iD the same neighborhood near i'rosser Wash. Receiving word from London thi.l he is heir to a ?20.000 estate. H. Cato of Bend, Ore., will make his 2th trip across the Atlantic. The pool of 112,000 pounds of this year's crop of raspberries handled for the growers of Lane, county, Ore., has Just been closed. Two highway lighthouses with lights which will burn 6 months without refilling re-filling are to be used at dangerous crossings near Astoria, Ore. The state of Washington will need 9,334,400 ncre feet more water for irrigation ir-rigation purposes from the Columbia river than is now being used if proposed pro-posed projects are put through. Details of plans for establishing at Portland headquarters for the SIGth reserve re-serve division, a project announced from 9th army corps headquarters several sev-eral months ago, has been received. Fourteen Montana cowboys recently drove 2000 head of cattle 240 miles, suffering many of the hardships of their predecessors of the early days on the western ranges. At the age of 93 years, Charles Hut-chins, Hut-chins, pioneer of 8149, and one of the oldest Oregon pioneers, died of heart disease at his home In Portland, Ore., recently. In line with announcement made by other railroads In the Middle West, employes of the Western Pacific rnil-road rnil-road In Salt Iake received notices of a series of conferences to be held at San Francisco for the purpose of discussing proposed wage reductions. The total debt of the state of Washington Wash-ington as represented by warrants and bonds for the year ended June 30 was $174,303,003.73, according to figures just issued from the state auditor's office, of-fice, while interest paid amounted to $S,053,464.84. Following out the suggestion of the special committee on unemployment, Walla Walla, Wash., is preparing to rush work on public utilities this winter win-ter Instead of waiting until spring. Heads of families will be favored on these Jobs. Work on Uie Columbia-slough channel, chan-nel, which was contracted for in imy at an approximate cost of $350,000. la practically completed.. This channel will furnish the outlet for sewerage for the entire peninsula district, comprising com-prising an area which includes about 40,000 Portland city lots. While out hunting, the intents of a double barreled shotgun, which jack Latta of Klamath Falls, Ore., war trailing behind him as he climbed out of a boat tore the flesh from the left leg near the hip and physicians were unable to stop the flow of blood. He died two hours later. A historical relic of exceptional In., terest has just been presented to the museum of WTTTtmnn college at Walla Walla. WasTi.. by a member of the board of overseers. The relic is the swivel end of a brass howitzer which was used by the Oregon volunteers against the Indians in 1S48. An acute shortage of funds in the public welfare bureau, due to exhaustion exhaus-tion of the $45,000 Multnomah county budget appropriation for relief work and an additional $30,000 tranferred from another county fund during 1921, has made it necessary for the county commissioners to come to the rescue to prevent possible death hy starvation of poor families dependent on public g'tpporl. An unidentified man, about 30 years old, is being held at the Cottage bos-piftal bos-piftal at Hood River, Ore., in a partly coimuose state, tie was found in a b.irn. His clothing indicated that ne might have been a lugger, hile he ('als, he has not spoken since found Ills case puzzles physicians. The board of governors of the commercial com-mercial club of Salt Lake has indorsd a petition submitted by trie Hoy Scouts and various civic organizations, which calls upon congress to set aside jo.twi acres in the Wasatch forest as a w:id life sanctuary. The secretary was authorized au-thorized to communicate with the Utah delegation in congress relative to tills matter. The same area of land was recently set aside as a game preserve und.-r the .-'tate fish and game laws. |