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Show j Western Brevities ( from the Many 1 I Western States Ely, Nev. Local mining men have been considerably interested by the announcement of a strike in the old Piermont mine in Spring valley, a property that is reputed to have an output ranging from $2,000,000 to $3,-000,000 $3,-000,000 in early days. Fresno. Calif. The gift automobile presented to Captain Lowell Smith, captain of the round-the-world fliers by the city of Chicago is too fast for California highways. As a result Captain Smith was in Visalia to answer ans-wer charges of speeding. He is charged charg-ed with driving forty-five mile an hour on the state highway. Captain Smith said he would plead guilty, as his machine was "going a little too Tast." Los Angeles, Calif. Gunner Kas-son, Kas-son, northland musher who leaped into in-to the limelight and a movie contract through his sensational dash to Nome with antidiphtheria serum, has found little fame and no fortune since coming com-ing to Los Angeles with Balto and the rest of his dogs, he relates in a complaint com-plaint filed with the state labor department de-partment here. Denver, Colo A gift of $100,000 to the University of Denver by John Evans, Denver banker, was announced announc-ed at the opening of the school's drive for an endowment fund of $2,500,000. Mr. Evans is a grandson of former Territorial Governor John Evans who founded the institution in 1864. Denver, Colo. Plat Nae, Ute Indian charged with the murder by burial of his infant child, pleaded not guilty when arranged in federal court. Trial (set for the present term of court and the clerk instructed to appoint an attorney to represent Nae. Nae was brought here from Pueblo. His home is on the Ute reservation in southwestern Colorado. Los Angeles. Dagmar Dahlgren, dancer and eighth wife of Kid McCoy, Mc-Coy, expugilist now at San Quentin penitentiary is being sought by police. Warrant for the dancer's arrest was issued on complaint of two former employees who charge that she failed fail-ed to make reply to wage claims filed fil-ed with the state labor department. Reno, Nevada. Because he treated federal prisoners, sent to the Fallon county jail as his guests, Sheriff J. B. Crane was hailed into the United States district court at Carson City and fined $500 on contempt charges. The sheriff permitted his prisoners to accompany him on arrests, to attend at-tend the movies alone at night and to enjoy tne rreeuom oi tne grounus outside out-side the jail. Santa Ann, Cal. Three high school students were killed and another was probably fatally hurt and two other seriously injured when their auto was struck by a Pacific Electric interur-ban interur-ban near here. Authorities ordered complete investigation of the accident acci-dent Los Angeles, al. Promising tneir clients $10 for every $1 which they entrusted to them, Thomas Hennessy and Harry D. Hibbs, Los Angeles stock promoters, collected between $300,000 and $500,000 in a fake railroad rail-road merger it was charged by public prosecutors. San Antonio, Teias. Thirteen airplanes, air-planes, three hangfrs and a machine shop were destroyed in a tornado which struck Stinsol field, a commercial commer-cial flying field. lour employes escaped es-caped injury, thougl the debris swirled swirl-ed about them in vhit was estimated to be a 100-mile al hour wind. The damage is estimate! at $50,000. Los Angeles, Ca. A new use for motion picture "(oubles" was revealed re-vealed to police it the story of Justine Jus-tine Neff, known p. pictures as Justine Jus-tine Valse, who wis arrested at her own request to jrotect her against men, who, he sail, had used her in a blackmail plot igainst Pola Negri. The girl explainec that because she closely resembled Miss Negri and once had "doublet" for her in a picture, pic-ture, she was chisen by the blackmailers black-mailers to pose Miss Negri in a scandalous photojraph they intended to use as a means of intimidating the screen star into aying them money. Nevada City, !al. Two men, believed be-lieved to be Joi Tanko and Floyd Hall, escaped rurders from San Quentin prison .eld up the United States mail stae between North Bloomfield and Groniteville. They drove the maehie at high speed thru the mountains, ussed through Nevada Neva-da City and Grrts Valley, and abandoned aban-doned the car d the road. Sheriffs of four counties-Sacramento. Placer Nevada and Jerra had posses searching the lountains within an hour after the tage was held up. |