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Show I Western Brevities f from the Many : Western States ! San Francisco. California has more automobiles to each thousand of population than any other state in the Union, according to figures compiled by W. H. March director of the state vehicle department. Bismarck, N. D. President Cool-idge Cool-idge and Senator Hiram Johnson of California will be the only candidates for the Republican presidential indorsement in-dorsement in the North Dakota primary, pri-mary, March 18. Phoenix, Ariz. Santa Fe passenger passen-ger train No. 502 was wrecked Saturday Sat-urday at Wickenburg, fifty miles north of here according to reports received here by railroad officials. The engine,, baggage car and smoker smok-er left the rails and rolled down a high embankment, turning over. Lemmon, S. D.r-J. L. Curtis, oil contractor, was arrested here at the request of Thermopolis, Wyo., authorities au-thorities and is being held under bonds of ?1000. Curtis was operating operat-ing for oil in the Wyoming fields for several months after shutting down at the Davis wells here. No definite information concerning the nature of the charge against him was revealed. reveal-ed. Pocatello, Idaho. The monthly payroll at the local shops of the Oregon Short Line is $175,000, according ac-cording to information issued from the office of A. C. Hinkley, superintendent superin-tendent of motive power. The entire monthly payroll of the Short Line In Pocatello, including all departments, is $430,000. Colorado Springs, Colo. Horace M. Carlton, father of A. E. Carlton, widely known banker, died here. He was 81 years old and came to Colorado Colo-rado from Warren, 111., in 1S03. San Francisco. Petitions in support sup-port of the candidacy of Charles H. Randall, former congressman, . of Pasadena, for the presidential nomination nom-ination for the Prohibition party, are being circulated and a delegation from California pledged to him is to have its name on the primary election ballot in California on May 6th. Portland, Ore, Businessmen here dispatched messages to commercial organizations of 11 states asking that they unite in one big drive to secure the passage of the McNary-Haugen wheat export subsidary measure by congress. Three Portland businessmen business-men are ready to go to Washington, D. C, to aid in the drive to put the bill over. Auburn, Cal W. C. Wilkins of San Francisco has . been given an . indeterminate in-determinate sentence in San Quentin penitentiary following his conviction of passing a worthless check on Justice, Jus-tice, of the Peace Melville Stone at Roseville, in payment of a fine for speeding in his automobile. Idaho Falls, Idaho, Idaho led the northwest states in the shipment of fresh prunes, last fall, with 2140 cars, according to a report of the United States department of agriculture, issued is-sued here. Oregon is second with 1441, and Washington third with 4-SG cars. ruyallup, Wash., Ezra Meeker, pioneer of the Oregon Train, whose travels in the east with an ox team, especially down Michigan avenue, in a parade commemorating the exodus of Americans to the Oregon territory, is to have a statue. The statue of Mr. Meeker in bronze Is to be placed in 1'ioneer park here. Los Angeles, Plain, old-fashioned profanity from the lips of a husband is not ground for divorce accrding to a ruling here of Judge Erwiu M. Owen. If plain ordinary swearing constituted grounds for divorce it is safe to say that half of the men would be offenders," said the court "There are times when a man is perfectly per-fectly justified in 'cutting loose.' " Boise, Idaho, As a further precautionary pre-cautionary measure against the spread of foot and mouth disease to Idaho. lr. Wendall R. Smith, director of animal industry, has issued an order to call veterinarians of the state to see that cars of livestock leaving the state are cleaned and disinfected and given clean bill of health. Reno, Nevada. Nevada furnishes the greatest number of prisoners sent to United States prisons on federal charges including violation ot the n tional prohibition and narcotic laws of any state in the Union, reckoned on a basis of population according to estimates of George Springmeyer, United States attorney. |