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Show I Western Brevities . from the Many Western States j Pendleton, Ore, History that extended ex-tended back into the pages of time for many moons was told by Indians of three tribes at the Indian agency in the ceremony attended here. Ths three tribes of the Umatilla reservation reserva-tion were presented with certificates expressing the thanks of the United States government for the aid of tin tribes in successfully prosecuting wai against Germany and her allies. Th certificates were signed by President Coolidge. Xos Angeles, Gene Stratton Porter, Por-ter, novelist and short story writer, died here from injuries sustained when her automobile collided with a street car earlier in the evening. Pueblo, Colo., Carbon moxonide fumes from an automobile caused death in a private garage here oi John Kalata, 36, and his son, Stanley, 3. The door of the garage had been closed after they entered. Seattlu, Seattle celebrated anothei notable community achievement when The Olympic, a $5,375,000 hotel, pronounced pro-nounced by George B. Post & Sons, of New York, its architects, to be the best of its size in the world was opened open-ed under the management of the Olympic Hotel company, of New-York, New-York, affiliated with the United Hotels Ho-tels Company of America. Pasadena, Cal., William C. Brown, 71, former president of the New York Central railroad,' died at his residence here following a protracted illness. San Francisco, Twenty-one men were arrested in a raid on the Em-baracadero Em-baracadero and are held in jail. They are suspected of having distributed alleged seditious literature among high school students. Bail has been fixed at $1000 each but the men will be held for identification by the teachers and pupils. Charges of violating vio-lating the criminal syndicalism act will probably be filed. .San Francisco Officials of sugar companies in California and Hawaii owned by H. Hackfield & Co., a German Ger-man company, have filed denials to charges of irregularity in the sale of the properties during the war by A. Mitchell Palmer alien property custodian. Los Angeles, Calif. June Mathis. famous scenario writer, who once was a Salt Lake City school girl, slipped away to Riverside and mar-rieiJ mar-rieiJ Sylvano Balboni, said to be an Italian nobleman, whom she met in Rome whilst there in connection with the filming of "Ben Hur." Both gave ages as 30 years. Salt Lake Mrs. Rosemary Carna-von Carna-von Sparkman, 28, wife of Colley F. Sparkman, assistant proiessor oJ modern languages' "at the University of Utah, and their two children, Wil-ford, Wil-ford, 9, and Lorna Doone, 7, were found dead in the gas-filled home oi the Sparkmans. Appearances indicated indi-cated that during the absence of Mr. Sparkman his wife had chloroformed the two children while .they were sleeping in their beds and then lay clown on a fur rug and pillow in the center room of the house and had turned on full force the four jets oi a gas stove in the room. Tonopah, Nev., Tonopah Extension Exten-sion completed its cleanup for the last half of November with a shipment ship-ment of sixty-one bars of bullion, weighing 119,855 ounces, valued at $100,000. The first half of the month gave a production of 106,220 ounces, valued at $89,000, making a total of $189,000 for November. This exceeds the production of the Nipissing, Canada's Can-ada's famous silver producer, by several sev-eral thousand. Billings, Mont., Found with theii heads split open with an ax and the instrument of murder lying near by. the bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Nels M. Anderson, proprietors of a barbel ihop and beauty parlor here, were taken from their place of business by police, who discovered the double slaying slay-ing after the couple was reported missing. The dual murder is believed to be the work of a maniac. Seattle, Wash., Seattle's newest hotel, the $5,5000,000 Olympic, .was formally opened to the public with a dinner dance, attended by more than two thousand guests. Cheyenne, Cash payments, foi compensation become due on Marcli 1, 1925, but will be delayed unless applications are filed sufficiently in advance of that date to enable the war department to examine, record and transmit them to the veteran's bureau. Boise, Idaho Selections from the "standard version of the Bible" may be read in the public s-Tiools of Idaho without conflict with the provisions pro-visions of the state constitution, provided pro-vided these selecions are chosen fo( their moral and literary value as distinguished from their religious, sectarian or denominational cliarac. ter, and further provided they ara not commented upon, it was held In an opinion given the state board oi education hj A. H Coani'r, attornej Boneral. |