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Show j Western Brevities f j from the Many Western States f Hollywood. Wanda Hawley, motion mo-tion picture actress and J. Stuart Wilkinson, Wil-kinson, former automobile racing driver were married here. Brawley, Cal. That there were two Henry Kirks in the tragedy revealed by the "duel" deaths of two men in Imperial valley last week, and that it was the "wrong" Henry Kirk who waB slain, is the latest theory developed by investigators working on the case. Fort Collins, Colo. Return of the grazing rights on federal public lands to the states and a separate bureau bu-reau to administer grazing on the national na-tional forests and public domain was advocated by speakers at the opening session of the third annual western regional farm bureau conference here. Eleven western states, including, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Ore-gon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming were represented at the conference. Vernal, Utah. The annual sun dance of the Ute Indians came to a close with the expiration of the allot- J ed seventy-two hours annually devoted devot-ed to the ceremonial. The dance wjvj ! held on the tract of land known as the "sun tlance grounds" located six miles southwest of Whiterocks, the site of the Indian school, and thirty-five thirty-five miles northwest of Vernal. The rites attending the dance were opened open-ed with a bringing in of a pole about twenty feet high. Considerable ritual is connected with this pole, for when conditions are not precisely "just so" the Indians will at times delay the setting up of this pole 'several days until the mystic signs are more propitious. pro-pitious. Without this pole in place the dance can. not be commenced. San Diego, Calif. Plans for making mak-ing San Diego the home airport of the rigid dirigibles Los Angeles and Shenandoah Shen-andoah and the main operating base of all future rigid type aircraft constructed con-structed by' the United States navy were announced by Secretary Wilbur of the navy. Spokane, AVash. Grand Command er Asa C. Jewett of the Knights' Templar of Rhode Island and Massachusetts Massa-chusetts died in Glacier National park, according to a private dispatch received here from C. M. Dunbar, a member of his party, en route to the triennial conclave of the Knights Templar at Seattle. Cheyenne, Wyoming. Dropping hiB newly acquired title of "Great White Father No. 2," conferred upon him by the Sioux Indians here Vice President Dawes assumed the role of music director di-rector and led an orchestra, playing the piano himself. Tacoma, Wash. Girl stenographers 100 of them, completely surrounded one lone male delegate to the semiannual semian-nual convention of the International Association of Public Stenographers held here. The one male delegate, E. E. Lescher of Belligham, Wash., is however, holding for the year the office of-fice of president. San Francisco. Lawyers and income in-come tax experts collect five times what the government collects from the income tax because of the necessity neces-sity of explaining the tax laws to the public, and because of the complicated complica-ted structure of the governing federal bureaus, Secretary of Commerce Herbert Her-bert Hoover said in an address to the Commonwealth club. Rock Springs, Wyo. Steve Balog, 19 years of age, was crushed to death when he was caught by a falling slab of roof rock in the coal mine of the Megeath Coal company. The rock weighed more than half a ton. Balog had been working at the mine only a little more than two weeks. His parents par-ents are dead. Salt Lake City. Frederick Kinney, 56, veteran editorial employe of the Salt Lake Tribune, died here after an ' illness of several months. He was born in Ohio and began his newspaper news-paper career on the Ohio State Journal Jour-nal in Columbus in 18S8. Winnemucca, New Hauling sheep in motor trucks to the railroad for shipment is cheaper than standing the loss in weight entailed by long drives across the desert, is the belief of Simon Icarran, a sheepman of this section, who just completed the j transfer of 6000 sheep to Winnemuc-i Winnemuc-i ca, from his ranch thirty-five miles I north of here, by that method. The I trucks used were equipped with ! large double-decked crates which held from 75 to 100 sheep each. Six trucks j were employed in the work and two i trips a day were made from the ' ranch. ! Los Angeles An engineer was kill-I kill-I ed and 'five passengers were injured ! when a national guard troop train on the Southern Pacific collided with a I freight train at Sudden, north of I Sa-nta Barbara. The troop train was returning to Los Angeles from an encampment en-campment at Delmonte. Cal. Cheyenne. Wyo. About 25 persons were injured, none seriously when a 50-foot section of the wooden bleacher collapsed at Frontier park during the Frontier days wild west celebration. Approximately 300 persons were seat-id seat-id on the bleachers which gave way. |