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Show I Western Brevities from the Many l Western States : c-go-. Los Angels The residence of Jackie Coogan was robbed of jewelry valued at $10,000 while the juvenile motion picture actor was motorins with his parents, according to a re port to the police. Yellowstone Park A cave-in at the southern part of the Jupiter Terrace at Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone Yellow-stone Park, which covered the road with about one inch of lime for a distance of 200 feet, occurred last week. i Ogden, Utah Two new Elk lodges will be Instituted in Nevada after the dispensations for the charters are granted by the grand lodge. The new lodges will be Ely lodge No. 14G9 and Elko lodge No. 1470. St. Paul, Min. Reduction of the running time toy two hours between Chicago and northern Pacific coast points by the Northern Pacific, Great Northern and Union Pacific railroads, was announced. Monrovia, Calif. The Rev. George Lord, Baptist clergyman, dropped dead in the pulpit while preaching at union services here. He was a suf. ferer from heart trouble. Los Angeles Twenty persons were injured, three of them so severely they may die, in a crash between street cars here. Eureka, Utah. Little hope is held for the recovery of David Erlckson, 4S, who lies In the Provo hospital Id a serious condition with burns about his head and body as the result of a fire which occurred at his home. Heber City, Utah Dr. C. L. Jones of the federal bureau of animal industry, in-dustry, has completed tests of 2,250 dairy cattle in Wasatch county for tuberculosis, with the result that thirty-eight reactors were found. Carson City, Nev. The Nevada supreme su-preme court denied a petition for rehearing re-hearing of the murder case of Gee Jon and Hughie Sing, who were sentenced sen-tenced to be executed by lethal gas. Marysville, Cal. While attempting to rescue a Miss Wilson of San Francisco Fran-cisco from drowning, Kenneth and Keith Torrey, 19-year-old twins, were drowned in Lake Francis. Los Angeles Miss Jessie E. Shuart a nurse, 27 years old, with a world war record, died here after a blood transfusion operation in which she gave her blood to save the life of her patient, a little boy. Vancouver, Wash. Three men wera killed and two injured when an automobile auto-mobile plunged through the railing of a bridge over the Lewis river at Hels-son, Hels-son, Wash. San Francisco. The federal grand Jury returned indictments charging three U. S. shipping board officials and three dealers in surplus war supplies sup-plies with conspiracy to defraud the government in the sales of approximately approxi-mately $1,000,000 worth of material from the Liberty shipyard. Pasadena, Cal. Forbes Seler and. Clarence Giggar, 9-year-old Pasadena boys, were drowned when they fell from a raft into a ten-foot pool at Devils Gate dam near here. Groveland, Cal. The Hetch-Hetchy dam, one of the outstanding units of San Francisco's water supply in the Sierra Nevada mountains, was formal ly dedicated last week.. Pleasant Grove, Utah. Laver Load er, 15, was accidentally shot and probably prob-ably fatally wounded by Izan Anderson. Ander-son. Green River, Wyo. Fire caused by a lighted cigarette tossed among some matches, damaged the Green River cafe, a frame structure. The flames were extinguished by five men. Denver Airplanes are to be used in the quest for Villiam B. Head, missing Denver jeweler, who wandered wander-ed away from a party of friends July 4 near St. Mary's glacier, about forty-five forty-five miles west of Denver, where a ski meet was to be held. Green River, Wyo. Twelve cars, ten of them loaded with automobiles, were completey demolished, rolled down a twenty-foot embankment at a point one and a half miles east of Green River on the Union Pacific. Snn Diego, Calif. Scolded by her mother for talking to neighborhood boys, May M. Rose, pretty school girl of 10, committed suicide by shooting herself through the head. Los Angeles, Cal. A rum runner carrying 100 cases of liquor was captured at Anaheim landing, near here, after it had opened fire on a coast guard cutter which pursued the craft. Kansas City, Mo. J. A. Rose, electrical elec-trical worker, was beaten to death here when four men attacked hir.i and another electrical worker wliiln at work on a home under construction. construc-tion. Miaami, Ariz. Rangers are fighting a forest fire In the I'inal mountains, between Miami and the highest peak of the range. Pueblo. F. W. Teusalman was Instantly In-stantly killed by lightning during a terrific hall, rain and wind storm which swsyt the city. |