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Show 1 Western Brevities i from the Many X I Western States I Los Angeles. Patrolman Edward E. Wilhoit, 35, is dead and three other persons are suffering from minor wounds as the result of a shooting affray in the business district dis-trict here, growing out of Wilhoit's attempt to search Edurado Lopez, 22, for concealed weapons . San Francisco Some 900 property proper-ty owners in San Francisco who suffered suf-fered losses in the 1906 fire when the German and Austrian insurance companies refused to recognize claims will be reimbursed to the full amount of their policies with an ad-tional ad-tional five per cent for the 18 years that elapsed it was announced here by Judge J. T. Deasy, representing fire cases. The deficits here amounted amount-ed to more than $5,000,000. St. Helens, Ore. N. J. Bevins, a farmer near here has an addition to his stock. When his cow returned from pasture, she not only brought her calf but had a three-week old deer in tow. According to Bevin, the deer comes in for as much devotion as the calf. Los Angeles, Cal. Blindness, caused caus-ed by the explosion of a keg of near beer, is made the Basis of a damage suit on file in the superior court here. The plaintiff, Wil'am E. Foster, Fos-ter, asks judgment of $25,900 against the brewers and bottlers who sold him a barrel of near beer which exploded ex-ploded and put out his right eye. San Francisco. Inouye, former Japanese minister of home affairs, who is on a tour of the world studying study-ing economic conditions arrived here aboard the steamship Malyo Mam from Japan. The vessel brought in a cargo of silk valued at $1,500,000, consigned to eastern points. Los Angeles. Several delegates and visitors to the national convention conven-tion of the American Florists and Horticulturists'' association in session here, sustained minor injuries in the collapse of a platform upon which they had gathered to be photographed. photograph-ed. None of the injured required emergency treatment. San Francisco. Total production of crude oil for California for July was 19,274,755 barrels, according to figures made public here by the American Petroleum Institute. The total stocks on hand at the end of the month were 101,466,225 barrels, an increase over the previous month of 888,370 barrels. During July, 137 wells were completed with initial daily production of 55,975 barrels. Sacramento, Cal. Absence of its usual blanket of snow has caused such rapid melting of a glacier on Mount Shasta this year that a flow of mud from one to three feet in depth has swept down one of the mountain valleys, broken water mains of the town of McCloud, covered cov-ered roads and discolored the waters of the McCloud river for many miles. Flagstaff, Ariz. Scientists at the Lowell observatory here are taking advantage of the near approach oc Mars to obtain new data on the composition com-position of Martin atmosphere, the temperature of different portions of the planet, and if possible the causes caus-es of seasonal and other changes in surface features. Los Angeles. More than $12,000 worth of jewelry was stolen from Mrs. Mors' body after she was killed, attorneys of Albert Mors, the woman's wo-man's former husband, charged. The charges were made in a hearing on a petition for special letters of administration ad-ministration to permit a search for the jewels. Sious Falls, S. D. The second suit against the South Dakota board of lighway commissioners and Governor W. H. McMaster, to restrain the state from the sale of gasoline at retail, was filed here, when Jacob Shillings Lad, Lincoln caunty farmer, farm-er, asked an injunction in circuit court to stop the state sale of gasoline. gaso-line. Twin Falls. Ida., Prediction that actual construction of the American Falls reservoir project would be-in before the first snowfall this year was made at 'die offices of the American Ameri-can Falls reservoir district at American Ameri-can Falls, following receipt of word from district Judge J. R. p.othwell attorney for the district, that pro cedure in connection with the district's dis-trict's two million seven hundred thousand dollar issue had been ap proved by Wood & Oakley, Chica-o bond attorneys, and that the bonds would be sold September 12. next. |