Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1913-07-11
ON PACIFIC COAST

M. H. Houser, Portland, is the larg-
est grain exporter In the United States.
At Portland fire recently did damage
estimated at $125,000 to a trunk and
bag company.
H. H. Rose is now Los Angeles may
or under a modified form of commits
sion government.
Albert B.. Ruggles, for IL years pres
ident of the San Francisco Stock Elk
change, died Monday.
Disclosures of smuggling operations
carried on by Japanese fishermen are
reported neal San Diego, Cal.
William Haney, so years old, was
struck by an automobile at Sutherlin,
Ore, and instantly killed, his head
being almost severed.
Aviator Grover Bell at Petaluma,
Cal, died Monday, without regaining
consciousness. Bell was injured July
4 when he fell from his biplane at a
trial flight.
BY the overturning of an automobile
near San Diego Sunday Mrs. Ethelyn
G.. Masters, daughter of John S. Brad
ley of Los Angeles, was almost in
stantly killed.
1t will be interesting to observe the
attitude of the state department
toward Representative Humphreys
bill excluding Hindus from admission
to this country.
The official call of the Western Can
ada Irrigation association, inviting
delegates and the people of western
Canada to attend their seventh annual
convention to be held In Lethbridge
August 5, 6 and 7, has been issued.
That the memory of Albert E. Mead,
fifth governor of the state of Wash
ington, is to be p~erpetuated by a
heroic-sized bronze statue to be erect
ed in Bellingham is the statement
issued by the Mead memorial commits
sion.
The Western Fuel and Diggs-Cami-
netti cases, delay in prosecuting which
resulted in the sensational resignation
of United States Attorney McNab of
northern California, will be tried by
three special assistants to the attorney
/ general.
While returning to Cumberland, a
mining district to the north of Nanai-
mo, B. c., with money they had drawn
from a branch bank in Nanaimo, two
bank clerks were held up and robbed
of $2500 at Trent bridge by two men
who escaped with the loot.
A brush fire on the west slope of
Mount Tamalpais, neal San Francisco,
Monday, ran before the wind with
amazing rapidity until the whole side
of the mountain was in flames and the
: Muirwoods, the only grove of s~equoias
on San Francisco bay. were in immi-
nent danger.
Major G. H. Martin, a member of
the general staff of the United States
army, has taken the oath as colonel OF
f the Third infantry, Oregon National
guard. Major Martin is the first reg.
: ular army officer in the history of the
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command of state troops.
Virgil Perrine, aged 20, who says he
came here recently from st. Louis,
: robbed the First State Bank at Mil
waukie, six miles south of Portland,
Saturday afternoon, by holding up the
D., cashier and his assistant, and escaped
: with about $4,000 N booty and later
= was captured and money recovered.
: Construction of what is said will be
, the only powder factory in the interior
: of British Columbia has been begun
4 on a 15-acre site at Granite, which has
been purchased by the Kootenai Elk
plosives Co., limited, which has been
organized by Nelson business men tc
produce XL-Ite blasting powder. Two
hundred thousand dollars is the CAPT
tai of the company. A. c. Towner is
manager.