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Show Western Brevities I from the Many 1 Western States 1 fa h San Francisco Figures compiled in the office of Samuel F. Rutter, federal fed-eral prohibition director, disclose that northern California residents legitimately le-gitimately consumed 1,200,000. pints of liquor in the twelve months ending end-ing May 1. This represents the amount of distilled spirits prescribed by physicians. There are 7300 physicians phy-sicians in California who have the right to prescribe liquor but proceedings pro-ceedings are under way to revoke the licenses of forty-five of these. San Jose, Calif. Concealed in steel drums labelled "linseed oil," 2500 gallons gal-lons of alcohol was seized aboard a freight carrier on its arrival here. The liquor was in 50 50-gallon containers. con-tainers. The shipment was purported purport-ed to have been billed by the Erie Refining company of Cleveland, Ohio, to E. Maffey of this city. The officers of-ficers were unable to locate Maffey but held five suspects. Boise, Idaho. With a bid of several sever-al thousand dollars under what the state estimated the work would cost, H. E. Cornell, Boise contractor was awarded the contract to construct the new route of the Mountain Home road into Boise. He bid $36,933.37, which was the lowest of five submitted. submit-ted. The high bid was $42,371, while the state's estimate was in the neighborhood neigh-borhood of $50,000. Los Angeles, Calif. While a lone bandit was holding up the First Exchange Ex-change bank here, John Durant, a teller, stepped on a hidden button which set off a burglar alarm and when the bandit emerged from the bank with $3400 in cash he had scooped off the counter, he was confronted con-fronted by a posse of armed citizens who held him at bay until police officers offi-cers arrived and took him into custody. cus-tody. American Falls, Idaho. A pageant embracing many picturesque features, including an exhibition of progress from the earliest times in Idaho, nine bands, a semi-barbecue at which provision pro-vision will be made for feeding 20,-000 20,-000 persons, natural and artificial sheltered and shaded spots, including large and small tents, resting benches, bench-es, an Indian exhibition of tribal beauty and thrills are included In the tentative plans for the great American Ameri-can Falls dam celebration in July, according ac-cording to announcement from the general committee, dependent upon the financing of a budget of $15,250 concerning the success of which the committee expressed no doubts. San Francisco,' Cal. The trial of Dorothy Ellingson, 17-year old matricide, matri-cide, on a charge of first degree murder mur-der was set for June 15 by Superior Judge Harold Louderback. The girl is accused of shooting her mother to death in their home here on the morning of January 13th. Vancouver, B. C. Discovery of a vein of coal, 525 feet thick in continuous contin-uous formation and practically unbroken un-broken by shale seams, was reported by A. C. McDougall here. The coal find is at Hat Creek, 170 miles north of Vancouver on the Pacific Great Eastern railway, about 15 miles from Pavilion station. The coal area is said to be three and one-half miles long by two and one-half miles wide and has been located by drilling operations. op-erations. Seattle, Wash. Various civic organizations or-ganizations of Seattle have united their efforts to formulate a varied and elaborate hospitality program for the thousands of visitors who will attend the Pacific Northwest Merchants Mer-chants exposition here Aug. 17 to 22. Smith Cove, one the great ocean terminal structures in Seattle is gradually grad-ually being arranged into many individual in-dividual display spaces which will soon be decorated and furnished for the annual exhibit show. San Francisco, Cal. John C. Kelly, 91. bachelor, wealthy farmer of New-Zealand, New-Zealand, refused to register at a fashionable hotel here unless he was permitted to "make my own bed." Mr. Kelly, who is enroute to Ireland to claim an estate of 20,000 pounds left by a sister, explained that he had made his bed for 80 years and did not intend to break his habit on this trip. He plans to visit a 97-year "Id sister in Nebraska. He is making the journey jour-ney alone. Boise, Idaho. Idaho will build 150 miles of state road in 1925, according accord-ing to the survey of economic conditions condi-tions in the intermountain states prepared pre-pared by the department of commerce I made public recently. This is almuat J entirely paving and surfacing, and j will cost $1,560,000. On the project will be employed 120 skilled and 600 I unskilled workers. |