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Show j News Happsniss. j i of the Great jj I htermoustaia States J San Francisco. The Western Fa-if;- Hailroad company has signed an igreement with us striking shopmen, :he nu n have be-n ordered to return .0 work. The settlement was made jnder the Jewell-YVillard plan. I Ana. onda. All miners, smeltermen m l craftsmen of the mining compan-es compan-es op. rating in Butte, with plants at na.-onda and Great Falls. Mont., will eceive a wage increase of 50 cents a lay. About 12,000 men will profit by the increase. The new wages will five miners and smeltermen $1.75 a lay and craftsmen $5.50. Seattle Because he "dislikes lying" ly-ing" Albert Dubey of F.ellingham, Wash., refused to promise ,'udge Jer-?miah Jer-?miah Neerer in the United States dis-'rict dis-'rict court that he would not make my more moonshine. Dubey pleaded truiity of manufacturing liquor and was sentenced to six weeks in jail. He thanked the judge when the latter lat-ter remarked that the defendant did not look like a bad man. Salem, Ore. Judge Percy It. Kelly has handed down a decree invalidating invalidat-ing an initiative measure designed to reduce the legal rate of interest to 0 per cent. The measure was to go on th ballot at the election of November Novem-ber 7, and was assailed by an injunction injunc-tion petition alleging that names were procured for the initiative petition in such a manner as to invalidate the bill. The decree held that many of the names were "false, fraudulent and untrue." San Francisco San Francisco is to onjoy in two days milk at 10 cents a quart for the first time in several years, according to a statement by counsel of the Milk Distributors' Association As-sociation of Alameda county. The present pre-sent price is 3 cents. A "milk war" is responsible for the cut, it was announced. an-nounced. In addition the milk producers produc-ers are to be given) 2 cenrs more a tpnirt for their product. Long Beach. A. L. Crippen, of Al-bupuercjue, Al-bupuercjue, N. M., has engaged railroad accomoiations from Long Beach to his home in New Mexico for himself, his wife, their two children and two goats. Crippen. insisted the staterooms for himself and family be located as near as possible to the express or baggage car whore the goats would have apartments, apart-ments, no the children could have fresh milk. Racine Miss Evelyn Salnan, De- pere, Wis., a teacher in the Kaeine public schools, is dead as the result of an accidental blow delivered with a golf stick by Allan Simpson, assistant assist-ant district attorney of this county, while he was demonstrating the science sci-ence of driving a golf ball on the lawn of a residence. Simpson was showing show-ing the stroke to several women players, play-ers, when Miss Calnan stepped down behind him just as he lifted the driver in its backward arc over his shoulder. The club struck her back of the ear. She fell to the ground and died in 15 minutes. Olympia. Gov. Iewis F. Hart has issued a proclamation calling upon the people to observe the week beginning October 1, as "smile week." His statement said "Let everyone forget trouble. Greet each one with a smile; say some cheerful word. Do a kindly act ; disseminate joy, visit the shut-ins. shut-ins. I wish the newspapers, the theatres thea-tres and the movies would eliminate the murders and all depressing and sorrow breeding items, acts and pictures. pic-tures. Take the 'funnies,' both papers pa-pers and pictures, to the hospital, the sanitarium and all places where the unfortunate are confined, that all may forget trouble and enjoy hearty laughter." laugh-ter." Missoula, Mont The Bitter Root valley, north of here, is to havs? a new mail train to be known as the "Bachelor's "Bach-elor's Special." The special will carry car-ry "adult male pasengers only," from whence it derives its name. The new train is believed here to be the only exclusive "male train" operated on any railroad in the United States at the present time. The decision to limit the train to men only was reached because the train will handle a large amount of freight, necessitating necessitat-ing considerable switching. On account ac-count of the hazard incident to the switching, railroad company officials thought it advisable to limit the passenger pas-senger service to men. San Francisco. Five men, three of Shem quarantine officers and two longshoremen, were asphyxiated and it least ten others suffered from '.yanide gas poisoning in the Shinyo Maru as the vessel rode at anchor here. Portland, Ore. Sweeping denunciation denuncia-tion of mob violence and of secret organizations or-ganizations which foster race and religious reli-gious prejudice, is made in a resolution resolu-tion unanimously adopted by the house of deputies of the Protestant Episco. pal church In the United States Portland. Recommendations that th !U. Rev. W. M. Brown, retired bishon I :f Arkansas, be brought to trial on a rharge of heresy and if convicted be Jeposed of the ministry wp.e made to he house of bishops of the Protestant Episcopal church in convention. |