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Show s"sra'a'a'ar3;affflajaa3Era'3i3'a'3 1 Western Brevities j from the Many gj 1 Western States Rock Springs, Wyo. The Roclc Springs National Bank was the successful suc-cessful bidder for the $170,000 general gen-eral bond issue of the city of Rock Springs, paying a premium of $61. 2a per thousand. This issue will furnish fur-nish part of the funds of a $425,000 sewer and drainage district. Thirteen firms bid for the bonds. Los Angeles, Cal. Harry Simonee, 24, Boston welterweight boxer, died in the general hospital here as the result of injuries which developed immediately following a bout with Bobby Allen in San Bernardino, Cal., recently. Ontario, Ore Ontario citizens have filed articles of incorporation for a building and loan association. Harold Har-old Rowland, formerly manager ot the Enterprise, Ore., association, id o be the manager. Jerome, Ariz. Two persons lost their lives, two others are missing and $50,000 to $100,000 worth of property prop-erty was destroyed in a fire which swept Cotton wood, near here. Olympia, Wash. Credited with the fourth world's record to be broken by a cow from a Washington herd at the Western State hospital at Steil-acoom, Steil-acoom, Chimicum Gerben, a four-year -old Holstein, surpassed all former records for her class by 1400 pounds of milk and 4.4 pounds of butter fat in a 304-day test, the department of business control announced. During the test, Chimicum Gerben produced 24.697.S pounds of milk and 990. S pounds of butter fat. On the average the milk produced by the state cow tested 4.1 per cent, it was announced. Los Angeles Prince Aagie ) of Berylwood, a four - year old pedigreed Holstein - friescan bull, whose seven nearest dams aTe reputed to hold a world's record for butterfat production has changed hands for a price of $110,000, a new record for such a transaction. Fresno, Calif. W. H. Elliget, Tulare Tu-lare Lake grain grower, presented Charles M. Hatfield, Glendale, Calif., "rain-maker," a check- for $S,000 in payment for rain-making operations from March 15 to April 15. San Francisco. Forty two east Indians, In-dians, picked up in various parts of the United States were deported to India on the steamer President Tatt as "undesirable aliens." Many of them had slipped into the country in defiance de-fiance of immigration laws. Salt Lake City. Fire Chief William H. Bywater has resigned, effective July 1, after he had been sustained by the city commission after a hearing hear-ing of a petition of 100 firemen asking ask-ing for his removal. The resignations resigna-tions of 91 fire fighters who quit, effective ef-fective April 21, were accepted but it is thought they will resume their duties. Ogden, Utah. A bundle of young five-leaf pine trees, shipped by the D. Hill Evergreen nursery of Dundee, 111., was seized here by federal and state inspectors, who declare the nursery company faces a fine ot $500 for sending this type of nursery stock into the west. Federal regulations prohibit such shipments, they declare, because such nursery stock often spreads white pine blister rust. Vallejo, Cal. Warning city authorities author-ities that vice conditions have reached reach-ed the point where a cleanup is necessary, neces-sary, Rear Admiral John H. Dayton, Mare Island commandant, threatened threaten-ed to close the city to navy men. Price, Utah. Between 300 and 400 miners employed ly the Independent Coal & Coke company at its Kenil-worth Kenil-worth mine refused to go to worS last week as a result of a 20 per cent cut in wages proposed by the company. The cut was to have gone into effect April 16, and was to have been sup plemented by a 20 per cent cut in tho rents on company owned houses and a 20 per cent cut in the board scale at the company boarding houses. Walter D. Clark, superintendent of the Kenilworth mine declined to make any statement regarding the failure of the men to report for' work and refused to admit that the men I were on strike Great Falls, Mont. Progressing swiftly, a jury was completed and I taking of evidence begun at the open-mg open-mg session of the trial of Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana, in federal district court here. The sena tor is charged with accepting a $1000 fee after he was elected in 1912 for prosecuting 0q and gas prospecting permits before the department of in-tenor in-tenor for Gordon Campbell, Montana oil operator. j Riverside, C; 1. Five hundred students stu-dents of Sherman Indian institute here are recovering from the effects of poisoned food. The redskins were fed cockroach poison which had been accidentally substituted bv (he dorm itory chef for baking powderit was! announced after an official investi- ! gallon. It was first believed that a wholesale dose of strychnine had been administered t lha ,,., h.le more than half of the 900 tu-uenls tu-uenls of the school felt the effects ts0 food' pone - . |