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Show f Western Brevities I t from the Many t t Western States San Francisco. A five mile section of wooden highway that can be stacked stack-ed up like a deck of cards and tucked tuck-ed away when the shifting sa.ids that it will traverse threaten to overwhelm over-whelm it, is nearing completion at Pittsburg, Contra Costa county, and will be ready to place along the desert des-ert highway route between Indio and Yuma within a few months, it was announced by the state highway commission's com-mission's San Francisco office. Reno, Nev. A herd of 300 young antelope being kept in Reno by E. P. Sany, assistant biologist of the United Uni-ted States biological survey, until they are old enough to stand trips to various national parks, were stampeded stam-peded by a prowling house cat. One of the kids was killed in the frantic fran-tic plunge of the animals against the wire enclosure. Los Angeles Senora Maria Anton-ia Anton-ia Masino Verdugo de Chavoya, who wa sborn in Los Angeles when the place was still known by its leisurely name of El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora Se-nora Santa Maria La Reina de Los Ange,t-.s, and who has not been out of Los Angeles county in more than a century, celebrated her 120th birthday birth-day anniversary at her adobe home in the Verdugo hills, near here. Sacramento, Cal. Mrs. Lydia Mc-Pherson Mc-Pherson of Los Angeles won a $250 diamon ring as a prize here for having hav-ing the longest hair of any woman at the California state fair. Mrs. Mc-Pherson's Mc-Pherson's hair is seven feet long. Mrs. Anna Olwell of Oakland hasn't bobbed her hair by any means. She won second prize with her six-foot tresses. Missoula, Montana. Richard and Maurice Keller, brothers, age 23 and 21, respectively, of Davenport, la., lost their lives when their car went over a grade, thirty-eight miles west of here and plunged to the bottom, a drop of thirty feet. They were touring tour-ing the west. Seward, Alaska The government's k Vlaska railroad has to fight porcupines. porcu-pines. Rubber in any form is to the tporcupine what wastepaper and rubbish rub-bish is to the American goat, popular ;tfor lunching purpos-es, and the rail-uroad rail-uroad officials have ordered rubber ahose in pumping stations and all rubber rub-ber fixtures to be hung on high poles. " Butte, Mont. A childish desire to asmoke is believed to have caused the ddeath here of the three young sons of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Daugh-Sierty, Daugh-Sierty, whose charred bodies were re-acovred re-acovred from the ruins of a barn uon the Daugherty ranch twenty miles ' east of Rygale. 11 Spokane, Wash. One full city 0:block consisting of eight buildings ;1in the business district of Rathdrum, Ida., SO miles east of here was burn-red burn-red to the ground. The blaze started ilin a hotel. The building of the telephone company was destroyed, cutting all outside communication. s,The fire departments of Spokane and iralso Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, rushed j, aid. San Antonio, Tex. Dr. J. A. New-aman, New-aman, who said he was one of the n;alienists in the Leopold-Loeb murder ecase in Chicago, is under arrest at SiSan Marcos, Texas on a charge of rjforgery. fie was arrested on advices elfrom Detroit. Mich., after he had arrived ar-rived in San Marcos to examine Mrs. k Anne Hauptrief, who is under indictment indict-ment for poisoning three of her step children. Jil Ely Nev. According to advice received re-ceived from Lieutenant Maurice J. Sullivan, Governor Scrugham of Ne- vud nas Deen authorized to desig- nate thirteen able bodied male cit- lzens, not less than seventeen nor more than forty-five years of age as I a team to attend the Small Arms fir ing school and participate in the national na-tional rifle matches at Camp Perry, Ohio, during the period from September Septem-ber 5 to October 2, inclusive. T ymn-A- E- Humphries and J. H. Ratliff and Mary E. Ratliff have applied to the federal power commission for a preliminary permit tor a proposed power and irigation project to be located at the split mountain site in Green River, Uin- rLCmly' KUtfK The aPPlicar.ts propose to build a 160-foot dam to develop G0.000 horsepower, for use in manufacturing fertalizer from adjacent ad-jacent phosphate beds and for supplying sup-plying hght and power to the small nearby communities. Two irrigation canals are proposed, one leading from e.ther side of the dam, to irri gate a total of about 30,000 acres Vancouver, B. C.Authority was received here from the Canadian gTv emment for the Hudson's Bay company com-pany to use the Viking, a giant sea- caughfin theoretic oSn Butte, Mont.-Arthur King ond 5n:otA11len-,mrvs- tr " -wS Ee:; ?rr:uhumir "royed the shafthouse and hi " croom, una dead by Z |