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Show I j ES'aS,a:S.'a3.'J,2.7i.'aS'EI'2.SIS.E'E., j 1 H !j Western Brevities j J from the Many I 1 Western States I i ?) E.r5JS'Sr5!??3l!53rS'5 13 13133,73 rF.ra'5f5if5ir53r3 "It was a regular hell let loose." That was the terse description of residents of Jackson, Wyo., who witnessed wit-nessed the slipping of an entire mountainside moun-tainside of the Teton range into the Gros Ventre river, twenty miles from Jackson, near the entrance to J'ellowstone park. The mountain is known as Little Sheep mountain. A scale of wages for labor in San Joaquin valley, California, cotton fields will be established by the Valley Val-ley Fruitgrowers' association it was decided at Fresno, Cal., at a joint meeting of cotton gin owners and directors di-rectors of the association. Gin owners own-ers said a uniform wage will reduce the tendency of pickers to seek continually con-tinually a higher price at other points and will persuade them to work in fields where labor is needed at a time when it is needed. Agreement by Frank Lorimer Mayo, Ma-yo, film actor, to pay his former wife, Joyce Eleanor Mayo, $25,000 back alimony and $150 per week, was entered into in the superior court at Los Angeles. The Mayos were separated in 1919. R. A. Johnson, former Minneapolis school teacher was arrested at Los Angeles on charges of forgery and embezzlement and as a suspect in connection with a Minneapolis bomb outrage in which two persons were injured. Love at first sight and whirlwind courtship are entitled to the protection protec-tion of the law, regardless of how they may shock a young woman's relatives, rel-atives, a superior court jury decided at Los Angeles, when it brought in a $15,000 verdict for Charles Haro-witx Haro-witx against his mother-in-law and others, who, he alleged whisked his bride of two months away from his home and persuaded her to stay away. Sacramento, Cal. Dragged from the bank by two girl playmates whom they were attempting to rescue from the swift current of the American river near here, two young girls went to death with those they sought to save. Pueblo, Colo. A Pueblo newspaper reporter was arrested for speeding, charged with driving 53 miles an hour. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced sen-tenced by Justice of the peace B. D. V. Reeve to write and have published "An article on the sin of highwayway speeding." This was done, but the court, still feeling that the sentence had not been satisfied, ordered him to write a story on the evils of burglary, robbery, bootlegging and similar offenses. of-fenses. Baker, Ore. The supreme court of Oregon has dismissed the appeal of Baker county in the case of Oxman and Harrington, highway contractors, I against the county for the collection of $26,000 due the road builders for construction work on the Love bridge and Black bridge section of the Baker Cornucopia highway. The decision of the court upheld that of the lower court tried in Union county last year. Ogden, Utah. A receiver for the Interstate Sugar company is sought . in a suit filed by the Columbia Trust company of Salt Lake against the company. The action seeks to have a mortgage, given March 1, 1921, and amended by an agreement between tluse two parties, December 22, 1922, adjudgd to be a lien on all property of the sugar firm; that all outstanding outstand-ing bonds be adjudged and declared a valid obligation of the defendant company and that the Interstate Sugar Sug-ar company be decreed to pay all money due on first mortgage bonds, amounting to $750,000. Seattle. The gunboat Princeton, which was with Admiral George Dewey Dew-ey when he won the Battle of Manila Bay twenty-seven years ago. is crumbling crumb-ling at a wharf on Lake Washington, j opposite Seattle. The Princeton cost ! $250,000 in 1S97, when she was launched laun-ched at Camden, N. J. A Seattle lawyer bought her in 1919 for $36,000. and has been trying ever since to sell her. Spokane, Wash. John Hackett aged 99 years, a pioneer of the Coeur d'Alene mining district has received re-ceived word of his inheritance of an estate of S3. 000. 000 from a brother, in- j formation received here from Kellogg, j Idaho, said. The brother, Pat Hackett, Hack-ett, died recently at the age of 101. John Hackett. a veteran of the civil war .is reputed to have made and lost several fortunes during his leftime in mining. 1 Thomas W. Gilchrist was indicted j by the county grand jury at Los An- j geles for the murder of his 19-year j old stepdaughter, Mrs. Olive Lucille ! Norse, whom he is alleged to have j admitted slaying last week 'because the Lord commanded me to do it." Hammer blows and, knife wounds caused the woman's death. j Grand Forks. N. D. Governor A. D. ; Sarlie has stated that if he finds it ! legally possible for him to appoint a successor to the late Senator E. F. Ladd. he will do so rather than call a special election I |