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Show S Western Brevities j H from the Many E 1 Western Stales 1 Price, Utah. Between 300 and 400 miners employed by the Independent Coal & Coke company at its Kenil-worth Kenil-worth mine refused to go to work 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 supplemented sup-plemented by a 20 per cent cut in the 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 were on strike. Great Falls, Mont. Progressing swiftly, a jury was completed and taking of evidence begun at the opening open-ing session of the trial of Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana, in federal district court here. The senator sena-tor is charged with accepting a $-1000 fee after he was elected in 1912, for prosecuting oil and gas prospecting permits before the department of interior in-terior for Gordon Campbell, Montana oil operator. Boise, Idaho. Boise's dream of forty for-ty years was realized on April 16th, with the inauguration of main line service on the Union Pacific system into this city. The ambitions, the desires, de-sires, the hopes of Idaho's capitol may be summed up as centered in this history-making event. Denver. Colo. Three police sergeants ser-geants and ten patrolmen including nine members of the "bootleg squad", were suspended from the police department de-partment pending investigation of graft charges brought by Major Benjamin Ben-jamin Stapleton. The suspensions came as an aftermath of the Good Friday raids, when nearly 200 persons, per-sons, alleged to have connection:' with Denver's underworld, were arrested. ar-rested. Yanktown, S. D. Two women and one child were burned to death and another woman was injured when their automobile plunged from the highway near Beresford, overturned and burst into flames. Los Angeles. Approximately $30,- 000 was collected in Los Angeles by I various relief societies, including newspapers, to aid victims of the recent re-cent tornado in Illinois and adjacent states, according to final figures made public. Vancouver, B. C. It is reported that an airplane service from the coast to the Dease lake district is planned by a Vancouver organization. Seattle, Wash. A contract has been signed by the Superior Oil company com-pany for leasing 12.S00 acres of land in Alaska, on which development work is to be started immediately, announced by J. W. McCord, who arrived ar-rived en route to his home in Alaska. Alas-ka. "This makes the fifth company I have been able to get started in development de-velopment work in Alaska," said McCord. Mc-Cord. "The other companies were the Standard Oil of California, the Associated Asso-ciated Oil, the General Petroleum cor-portaion cor-portaion and the Honolulu Consolidated Consoli-dated Oil company. Denver, Colo. The Denver & Rio Grande Western, recently organized under private ownership after years of federal court receivership, has asked ask-ed the interstate commerce commission commis-sion for a permit to construct a 131-niile 131-niile broad-guage blanch into the heart of the Uintah basin in Utah from Soldier Summit to Vernal. This Ivie. according to J. S. Pvatt. presi-dent presi-dent of the system, will tap for the lirst time the potentially rich basin territory. Construction work on the !..o,jseu urancli of the Rio Grande will not start until J02G. it is expected. expect-ed. During the present summer if the permit is given favorable consideration, consid-eration, however, final survevs and rreparajons for the building will ho perfect! d. Victo.la, B. C.-Twenty Victoria "" '"'ought into Canada in infan-V infan-V and who married Canadians now employed in the United States have been refused admission to the United Mates by immigration authorities it learned here. The other brides have been ordered deported from the Mis ""'-""'V-l a ix "ion- Ihs visit. Los Angeles. Cal.-f,!:1,,sko A,. ' ; ',i,Vis' Vork. ,;,,n,d opor waH HlToi- divorce hero bv '"rtl Sw""" "--is. Los Angeles ;- ;.-t. Davis charged in his com Wo" . tl,U ' ''-i-U.,l l.lu. two years ago Tii,.- I Ap.il. 11,17 m"n'U'd |