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Show Hews Happenings ofth Great 1 kermountain States Olympla. Crops valued at $50,000, 000 are In Jeopardy in this state owing ow-ing to the uncertainties connected with the- movement of crops to market mar-ket , . 4. - . , Denver Married professors will not be barred at Denver University and the University of Colorado, as they are at Northwestern university, Evanston, 111., according to officials of both schools. Kansas City. Smoking in public -cost Mary Helm, S3 years old, a tine -; of $500 and a sentence of six months ' in Jail here. She was arrested on a charge of vagrancy while smoking a . cigarette In a park. Seattle. rNur policemen are -thought to ne dying and a street car operator was seriously hurt as a result re-sult of a collision between a high dowered automobile driven by one ot the policemen and the street car on a downtown street Seattle. The Ninety-first division, representative ot the Far West in the Meuse-Argonne and other great events of the World war, held its third an-niiAl an-niiAl rounlon here. For the first thus ' ni general reunion was held, the for mcr affairs having been arranged so that simultaneous meetings were held la several Pacific coast cities. Los Angeles. Use of automobile inner tubes by sea bathers at Hermosa Poach, a suburb, has been forbidden by ordinance. Recent narrow escapes from drowning convinced the Hermoca J'cach council the custom was danger ous, as it was said, the tubes soon rotted rot-ted in the water and often collapsed at a greater distance from ahore than the bather was able to swim. Spokane. Plans have Just been announced an-nounced for the establishment of a Spokane valley apple packing school in the warehouse ot the Spokane Vl-ley Vl-ley Growers' union at Opportunity, ten miles east of here. The courses will be nnder the direction ot experts nnd those completing the work In a "atisfactory manner will be given a ertlflcate of graduation from the col-lepe. col-lepe. .voimnvEST . Cheyenne Incorporation papers tare been filed with the secretary ot Uate here by the Mammoth Oil com-is com-is ny ot Delaware, capitalized at $200,-00,000 $200,-00,000 and organized by the Sinclair Oil Interests to develop the Teapot, lomo naval reserve under a contract secured from the federal government The company paid a tiling fee ol 5-10,000. " Butte. Sam J'rotlne, the 08-year old rsutte policeman, whose love affair with a CI year old former circus rider brought him to public attention hero recently, is dead. He was born at P.arnegat, N. J., and claimed to 'lave been a body guard for President Lincoln duirng the Civil war. Seattle. Proceedings of the Veterans Veter-ans of Foreign Wars at their national ' innual convention, were featured by nenlowal ot the French Legion of Hon. ir on Kobert O. Woodslde of Pltts-'mrtr, Pltts-'mrtr, commander-in-chief, and Ruel W. . Mton, New 'York, adjutant general. The ceremonies, conducted by Chris :loa Vocher Corblerre, French consul hfire, were held In Woodland park, -hile a crowd estimated at 50.000) 4toid at attention. - - : Ogden. Excellent roads are being 1 constructed through federal aid in the : states of Wyoming and Idaho for the Yellowstone auto tourists, according to M. D. Williams, senior highway on jr hi cer for the United States bureau )f public roads, who returned to (tyden from an inspection trip through the north. The trip Included a visit to the following projects : Montpeller fton, Warm River-Yellowstone, JJo 'ack canyon and the Dubois-Monlda. .. C!Lo.Tsj fc.ter.ettt: 'warcerre "ommlssiou has authorized the Southern South-ern Pacific to abandon a branch line jf railroad eighty miles long running . from Tulasco to Metropolis in Elko ounty, Nev. This line is owned by ho Central Pacific and has been oper-ited oper-ited by the Southern Pacific under ease since 1011. The Nevada public iorvlce commission opposed the aban-looment aban-looment of this road, which is wholly Intrastate, but, as it is a part ot an ntcr&tate system, the interstate corn-men, corn-men, e commission assumed Jurisdiction. Jurisdic-tion. This rad in six years has nan-died nan-died only 8303 tons of freight, it aerates trains only twice a month.. And as no Improved business Is in. sii'ht the commission authorized abandonment ef the road, especially as thtre is now a daily bus service la operation. Pan Frandsco. Forty young Russian Rus-sian students, Including six women, have come to Amorlca to secure an education as ammunition with which to rout the bolshevik armies and establish es-tablish a povernment ou tho American Ameri-can jilan. They were recently Guests of the University of California, where a special reception was held in their honor. A litre's number of them will nter California this fall. It is said. foit of them will work thuir way lljroflv'h college. |