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bill. Instead he married his landlady.
She was recently granted a divorce at
Portland and has filed suit for S160
to pay the longstanding board bill.
AmundsOn's north pole expedition
has been caught in the ice floes, off
Cape Serge Siberia. according to word
brought to Seattle by Captain Olaf
Swensen, of the arctic trading schooner
kanchatka.
Miss June Kennedy of Denver prob
ably will lose her automobile license
following the death of Mario Campig-
liza, aged 8, as the result of being
struck by Miss Kennedy's car. A cor
oner's jury recommended that the sec
rotary of state revoke the license.
When Miss Betty Brainerd, Tacoma
newspaper woman, was arrigned at
New York on a charge of kidnapping
the 2-year-old son of Robert Stack, Il
New York newspaper man, the case
was adjourned until October 81.
Every afternoon the past week has
been holiday in Montrose, Colo, but
iiASANou VI lbhilS INC plIi buSl-
ess men, members of various organi-
cations and school children have been
working in the orchards nearby TO save
the fruit crops from destruction should
freeze come.
Carl j. Coleman Il wealthy raneher,
was killed while deer hunting in the
mountains near Canyon City, Colo,
stumbling while carrying IA shot gun,
the weapon being discharged, the shot
entering his breast, causing almost
instant death.
DOMESTIC.
The planters cotton gin at Hayre,
Okla, was destroyed by fire of I'M
known origin Saturday. The loss was
estimated at $4,000.
Mrs. May Pudgett was indicted at
Mt. Vernon, ILL.,, for the alleged muir
der of her step-daughter, Maudie Jane
Padgett, April 23 last. The indictment
charged the stepmother beat the girl
to death.
Archdeacon Hudson Stuck, the first
man to scale Mount Mckinley, who
died of pneumonia last week, was
buried in humble cemetery at Fort
Yukon, Alaska, beside the bodies of
natives among whom he has labored
for the past sixteen years.
Resolutions calling on President
Wilson to remove Secretary of the
Treasury Houston from office because
of his 'persistently unfriendly atti-
tude toward agriculture were adopt
ed at the annual meeting of the Geor-
gia division of the American Cotton
association.
Joseph Taplin, aged 65, of Duchess
Junction, n. Y, is in Il hospital, suf
fering from IA broken spine, the re-
there five days until found by hunt
ers. Taplin lived alone.
The most sweeping federal investi-
cation ever conducted into illicit
liquor deals is under way in Los An
geles. A booze scandal greater than
the one that followed the exposures
in San Francisco is expected.
United States secret service opera
tives, working with Canadian authori-
ties, stopped train as it entered
Sarnia tunnel and confiscated 300
cases of liquor found in ears labeled
rags" and potatoes"
John Sullivan, San Francisco insur-
ance man, has been held for investi
cation in connection with the robbery
of the Bank of Alvarado, Mt Alvara
do Cal. II is believed the robbers
secured between $4,000 and 100000.
Ships reaching Norfolk, Va, suspect
ed of containing struggled liquor are
to be boarded by federal officials and
searched, it is said, 1t having been
reported that liquor in large quaint
ties was reaching that port.
A proposal that the government
seize liquor now in bond and compen-
safe the owners may be placed be-
fore the next session of congress,
Wayne b. Wheeler, general counsel of
the Anti-Saloon league, has announced.
The Old Hickory powder plant at
Jacksonville Tenn. has been sold to
the Nashville Industrial corporation,
the director of sales of the war depart
ment announced Wednesday. The
price was $3,505000.
Five masked men blew open the safe
in the Union bank ut Winkler, Mani !
toba, aud escaped with $4,000, after
shooting and wounding w. Graefer,
who attempted to rouse the town by
ringing the town fire bell.
Three men vote for every two wom-
en- in Chicago, according to estimates
of the registration. There are S93,S41
voters registered in Chicago. This is
n record. OF these 556,903 are men
and 336,93S are women.
The Cleveland team of the American |
league won the worlds baseball cham
pionship in the seventh game with the |
Brooklyn team of the National league. |