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Show Western Brevities from the Many I Western States l 2 Sterling, Colo. Four young persons per-sons who had attended a dance at the Elks' club here were ground to death under the wheels of a Burlington Burling-ton train while they were enroute to Iliff, twelve miles from Sterling. Greeley, Colo. Quick justice was handed out to Jesse T. Layton, alias David Lockhart, 25, and Ernest Mc-Cauley, Mc-Cauley, alias John Small, 32, when they pleaded guilty in district court here to robbing the First State bank at Keensburg, Colo. After hearing their pleas District Judge Neil F. Graham sentenced each to from twenty twen-ty years to life in the state penitentiary, peniten-tiary, just seventy-two hours after they had robbed the bank of about 550. Tacoma, Wash. John Ellegood, 56, was killed, $40,000 worth of property was ruined and three buildings were wrecked in a double explosion at the Du Pont Powder company's plant fit Du Pont, Wash. San Francisco. Charles D'Arcy, well to do San Francisco business man, is in jail, reading some of his favorite authors and taking a rest for an indefinite period, because he refuses to pay his wife $300 a month alimony unless she obtains a divorce. Cheyenne, Wyo "Official business" was given by governor-elect Nellie T. Ross as her reason for declining the invitation sent here by "Ma" Ferguson Fer-guson of Texas to be present at the latter's inaugural ball in Austin, January 20. Seattle, Wash. Fourteen Campfire Girls, who were aboard their clubhouse club-house ship, the Camaraderie, when it swung in the wind at its mooring In a 100-foot arc and damaged a houseboat and a dock nearby, were taken off the vessel unharmed. Hood River, Oro. The Apple Growers' Association has sold to New York City export apple merchants, the entire remaining export tonnage of all grades and varieties of apples totaling 3000,000 boxes. The sale, which will involve payment of an approximate $500,000 was the largest in the history of the northwestern apple ap-ple industry. San Francisco. Lee Bong, S;vn Francisco Chinese did a thriving business bus-iness in the sale of pills, but when he began extending his venture over the state the federal authorities became be-came interested. He was under arrest charged with using the mails to defraud. de-fraud. According to postal inspectors inspec-tors Bong advertised his pills thru the mails as being absolutely infallible infall-ible in winning and holding love and affection. Santa Rosa, Cal. Three men were overcome by the fumes from a 10,000 gallon empty wine vat at the Olivet winery, near here. Peter Fracanido, working over a vat, became uizzy from the odor and fell 20 feet to the bottom. His two helpers became unconscious un-conscious while attempting to reach him. Other workers cut a hole in the irat and rescued the three. Klamath Falls, Ore. Bargain rates of $2.50 per ceremony on weddings have been announced by Justice, of the Peace R. A. Emmitt, effective for the Christmas season. The cut is an inducement in-ducement by which Emmitt wishes to increase his total for the year to 200 Denver, Colo. Thin ice took its first toll of the winter in the Denver Den-ver district when two sisters, Josephine, Jose-phine, 8, and Emelie Debelock, 4, drowned in a pond near their home in Globevill, a suburb. Their ten year old brother nearly lost his life when he dived into the frigid water in an effort to rescue his sisters who disappeared dis-appeared from view clasped in each other's arms. El Paso, Tex. Liquor smugglers in ambush on the banks of the Rio Granden shot and killed immigiation inspector Frank Clark. Inspector Clavk was on duty with Herbert Brown, another inspector, who was fired upon but was not injured. 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. The three tribes of the Umatilla resorva tion were presented with certificates expressing the thanks of the United States government for the aid of the tribes in successfully prosecuting war against Germany and her allies The certificates were signed by President Coolidge. Seattle, Seattle celebrated another notable comrr unity achievement when The Olympic, a $5,375,000 hotel, pro-nounced pro-nounced by George B. Post & Son3, of New York, its architects, to be thx best of its size in the world was oen-d oen-d under the management of the Olympic Hotel company, of New York, affiliated with the United Hotels Ho-tels Company of America. Los Angeles,- Gene Stratton Porter, Por-ter, novelist and short story writer, died here from injuries sustained when her automobile collided with Ureet car earlier in the evening ' |