Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-04-09
PACIFIC COAST NEWS

Vancouver, B. c., shoremen's strike
has been settled.
The Oregon guards are not to see
the Panama-Pacific exposition.
Six hundred Russian ~reservists left
Vancouver, B. c. for vladivostok Sat
urday.
Each of the 100000 Chinese in the
United States soon will be ased to
pay a $40 tax for the purpose of rails
ing a fund to fight Japan's demands
upon China.
Suits for libel aggregating more
than 1000, 900 were filed against Mrs.
May X. Rindge, head of the Rindge
company, by nine members of the city
council at Los Angeles.
The gunboat Concord, one of the
vessels of Admiral Dewey's fleet at
the battle of Manila bay, is to pass
ner remaining days as detention ship
at the quarantine station at Astoria,
Ore.
Huge breakers tore out sections of
piers at various ocean shore resorts
lear Los Angeles Saturday night and
damaged numerous cottages on the
Strand. William H. Reeder, a painter
was drowned.
Frederick A. Hyde, millionaire club
man and business leader of Oakland,
Cal, has been released from the fed
pfol onifnnfforu hxy Drncfdanf yNysIcn,
after serving Is months, in connection
with land frauds.
P. H. McCarty, former mayor of
San Francisco and president of the
state and San Francisco Building
Trades councils, has announced that
he would be a candidate for the
mayoralty at the municipal election
in 1916.
CALIFORNIA; barley crop this year
will be about half that of last, grain
men say, because farmers every
where have reduced their barley acre
age to raise wheat on account of the
allurement of high prices resulting
from the European war.
Naval militiamen of Oregon and
Washington will make their cruise,
including a visit to the Panama Paci-
fic exposition at San Francisco, on the
cruiser Albany. The Washington or
CARNATIONS will have the ship from
July / to 10, and Oregon from July
26 to August 9.
The total attendance at the Panama
Pacific exposition for the six weeks
ended last Saturday night was an.
nounced officially as 2,264,S13. The
attendance for the last week was 246,
81. The average daily attendance
since the opening day was approx
mately $4,000.
The Hood River Apple Growers as
ISOLATION Saturday unanimously adopt
ed a resolution withdrawing from the
North Pacific Fruit Distributors. An
~nouncement was made that a market
ing alliance between the Hood River
organization and the fruit growers Of
southern Oregon and the Rogue river
valley may be effected.
The county grand jury at Los An
geles rejected as %unfounded the al
legation of Charles e. Sebastin, chic
of police, that the charges of mora
misconduct made against him by two
delinquent girls were the outcome o.
a plot to ruin his chances for beeom
ing mayor at the approaching mum
cipal election. Having disposed o.
this phase of the case the grand jury
stated that attention would now BIZ
utrned to the matter at issue"-tht
charges made by the girls, Victoria
Desparte and Lucille Livingstone
wards Of the juvenile court.
The California citrus crop will b.
the same as last year, $4,000 cars, will
an enormous increase in the lemon
crop and a slight diminution of the or
ange yield, according to the manage
of the California Fruit Grocers' ex
change in a recent report. The asso
Citations are said to report that thu
fruit was never finer than this yea
and that lemon trees were neve
fuller. The oranges and lemons will
be extra high quality this year and i
is estimated by the indications tina
the lemon crop will run between 7,50
to 5000 cars.