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Show Western Brevities j Z from the Many l Wesiera States j Rock Springs, Wyo. The Rock Springs municipal camping ground lias been closed for-the winter, having hav-ing been open since May 6. During that time more than 25,000 tourists have spent at least one night in the park. Since registration and a 25-cent 25-cent per night was instituted June 20, 3M12 cars have visited this park. Rock Springs, Wyo. The Union Pacific Coal company has announced that construction had been begun od the new water system for Reliance. A water station will also he established estab-lished at Reliance Junction, on the South Pass line of the L'nion Pacific, to supply water to locomotives. Now the water is obtained at Rock Springs making a hca-y drain on the water supply pumped from Creen river. Salt Lake Utah ranked fourth in the United State in the production of canned poas for 192-1, it was revealed in a report to the Utah State Farm bureau from the U. S. department of commerce. During the year the United States canned 19,315,000 cases of peas, with 24 cans to the case. Of that amount, Utah canned S30.000 cases. Salt Lake, Charles Peter, Salt Lake mining man, was indicted by the federal grar.d jury here on a charge, embodied in six counts, of misuse of the mails to defraud investors in-vestors in the Mascot mine, near Hailey, Idaho. Marshfield, Ore., Four trainmen were drowned near Powers, in Coos county, when a locomotive and one car went through a bridge on the log ging railway of the Coos Bay Lumber Lum-ber company. Evanston, Wyo., The state of Wyoming Wy-oming will receive $71,167.G6, through he annual distribution of 25 er cent, of the gross receipts of the National forests. Lincoln county's share ol this fund is $3191.74, its interest in the Caribou, Teton and Wyoming forests-, portions of which lie in this county. Tacoma, Cecil De Millev motion picture director, and party of 40 actors ac-tors and actresses were caught in a terrific blizzard in Nisqually Glacier, Mount Ranier national park, and narrowly nar-rowly escaped with their lives' after w, Jandrfning motion picture equipment valued at $20,000 cn location. The women in the patty were carried to safety by the men. Weaverville, Cal., A masked bandit ban-dit held up anil robbed H. L. Knowles, treasurer of Trinity county, here, and escaped with several thousand dollars in county funds. A sheriff's posse is searching the countryside for the robber. rob-ber. The robber locked Knowles in the vault of his office. He escaped by picking the lock. Houston, Tex., An outbreak of the foot and mouth disease was discovered discover-ed in a herd of 300 cattle' belonging to J. M. Tacquard, on his ranch about three r. i'.es north of Alvin, in Brazoria Braz-oria county. This is 25 miles1 from the place where the infection was first discovered, and is the first outbreak in Texas outside of Harris county. Alhambra, Cal., Forest Ranger J. H. Pyle says he has found the perfect reducing medium. After three weeks of fighting a forest fire in the Sierra Madre mountains, he found he was forty pounds lighter than when the ire broke out. Carson City Nevada, Auto license plates havin? white numbers and letters let-ters on a blue background have arrived ar-rived at the office of Secretary of State W. G. Great-house for issuance next year, says the Carson Appeal. There are 16.500 sets of two plates for pass-anger cars, 3,500 of commer-a.'al commer-a.'al vehicles and 100 sets of dealers Bcenses. , San Francisco, Frank Ross Chambers, Cham-bers, Jr., member of a wealthy New Vnrk family, visited the grave of his 17 year-old ihu;gh;er Marilouise and rntarned to his apartment in San Ma-eo Ma-eo and shot himself to death while brooding over the suicide of the girl two weeks ago. : Salt Lake, "Tex" Marshll, main tenance pilot on the central divisioii of the air mail srrvice, has been appointed ap-pointed hy fly between Reno and Elko, El-ko, Nev., after November 8, accord ig to Frank E. Caldwell, assistant rjperintendent of the division. He fills the place vacate:! by the promotion promo-tion of Harry C. Smith, who was re cently named as manager of the new mountain division. San Francisco. George X. Wen.d-ling, Wen.d-ling, lumberman, manufacturer and clubman of this city, was found shot to deaih in the bathroom of his home. A revolver was found in his hand and the coroner saia death probably was self-inflicted. San Francisco, Walter Johnson, whose pitching arm hoisted the pennant pen-nant of world supremacy for the Washington baseball club, has arrived in San Francisco to "look over the Oakland club in the Pacific Coast Baseball league as a possible buy " |