Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1913-08-01
ON PACIFIC COAST

The annual Oregon State fair will
be held at Salem, September 30 to Oc-
tober 4.
Fire, originating in burning rubbish
in a back yard, destroyed the Erie no.
tel at Erie, B. c., Saturday night.
The railroad commission of the state
of Oregon has reduced the demurrage
rate from So per car per day to ST..
All dogs in Seaside, Ore, whether
residents or merely summer visitors,
must be muzzled when they appear in
the streets.
James r. Todd, who was serving a
life sentence for a stage coach rob-
berry in Oregon 80 years ago, died Sat
urday in the federal prison at Leaven-
worth, Kan.
Political opponents of l.. E. Pink
ham, appointed by President Wilson as
chief executive of Hawaii, have begun
a campaign against his confirmation
by the senate.
Two groups of capitalists are pre-
paAO AlhdhSC
rection bay to the interior of Alaska,
according to reports.
Joseph Archer, a former prize fight
er, walked into the of Lillian
Sadie Fernard, an actress, at San Fran
cisco, shot her five times, reloaded
the revolver and shot himself three
times. Both died.
Direct wireless communication be-
tween America and Asia has been &C.
complished, the United States army
signal corps station having been in
nightly communication since Sunday
! with the Russian station at Anadyr,
Siberia, 500 miles west of Nome.
According to federal land office Off
C cials at Portland the state of Oregon
d and the government will unite in an
n effort to recover about 10000 acres of
land alleged to have been irregularly
d obtained a few years ago by F. A
4. Hyde of San Francisco and others.
Father Alexander Leone, S. j., a pio-
~ neer priest of the Jesuit order in the
u southwest, having come to New Mex
: leo from France in 1870, died at Albu-
~ querque, N. NJ, Sunday at the g OF
. IA. Father Leone was reputed to have
~ been one of the most forceful pulpit
~ orators in the Spanish language in
New Mexico.
IN Samuel D. Bridges, former clerk OF
ne the United States court in Tacoma
I'D was Saturday sentenced to a term OF
IS months imprisonment in the fed
he eral penitentiary at McNeil's island by
in Judge Robert S. Bean of Portland OF
his conviction several months ago O
er being guilty of embezzlement of gov
eminent funds in his custody.
OIL A committee representing workmel
Oh employed at Mare Island navy yar'
is recently presented a petition to Secre
te' tary of the Navy Daniels asking tina
III the men be given representation OF
the wage board. Secretary Daniel
told the committee that efforts wer'
being made by the department to worl
~ out the wage question satisfactorily.
Twenty-six timber claims in Bake
at. county, Oregon, valued at $4,000 eact
as held in the name of the Hewitt Ian
Cl- company d w doLALASbOh
at constitute the bone of contention In
to suit brought this week against tina
All company by the United States govern
ment in which the government wi
attempt to show that patents were Of
tanned by fro I'D.
Near Sacramento, Cal, Saturday,
s. Appel of Oakland was killed, an
three others are injured and a 17-yea
old boy motorcyclist was badly bruise
when an automobile containing a del
CATION of San Francisco newspap'
men accompanying the Indian tran
-; continental touring party was ditche
in trying to pass a motorcycle an
turned turtle, pinning its occupan
.rg underneath the car.
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