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Show I Western Brevities : X from the Many : Western States : . ,i, i !- a .--x wt fitrt"ry 0t"h- l.'Uh Mat... Sut-ar comply W1i i..Wi--li"d at M'.U Xt.m, W..,h, ,,, 1.',, if invw,titii ah.. a urr..-i.-,.t arr-ar of .-ur b.-.-r, .,, tin: il-ll.i.am t-rr.tory am! If ..lli-f;:t..ry rs.i!r-.a.l trarkatfe fa -,l,t,.- anr ain.-l. Thi.i announce-,,l announce-,,l wa, ri.ad.i from th- W-r of-fie- , of th'; company. 11,-li oa, Mont. li'-y WaNh, convicted convict-ed in tin- Ji-ff'-rioii county district court and M.-nti-n.-i-d to hang for tl.e rnuriP-r of AHa-rt S. Johnson, .store-l,-,,.-r of Ki-no, Nov., rtni.it pay the penalty for tin crime, under a deri f the Montana .supreme court, atlirMiira; tin; finding of the lower court. Portland, Ore. In an effort to savo tlioii.,ainl.H of hird.-i faring .starvation in all part of the state as a result of the colli weather, A. K. Burgh. luff, ulate Kame warden, ha.s sent out an order to all deputy game wardens to direct the work. He authorized the wurdens to buy grain to feed the birds, if necessary. "Thousands of jranie hird.s are facing destruction on account of the cold and snow," said Mr. Iiiirghiluff. "If the cold weather continues, losses will he heavy, and I in ordering deputies to save as many as they can by feeding. Denver. Fire caused damage of $'0,000 to the I.ahor Grand building here and threatened to spread over the adjoining theatre district. Christmas Christ-mas audiences in theatres in the ami) block filed out without panic when the alarm was given. Downey, Cal. One man is dead and another is expected to die from wounds received in a pistol duel at Ilynes, near here, which started when two civilians and two Los Angeles deputy sheriffs, separately, engaged In a burglar hunt, met and mistook each other for the object of their search. Spokane, Wash. Increase of the capital stock of the Bunker Hill & Sullivan Mining company with principal prin-cipal properties at Kellogg, Idaho, ly an issue of two million dollars' worth of preferred stock with a par value of $100 a share, is announced in letters received here from F. W. Bradley, president, of San Francisco. Present stock of the company with a par value of $10 per share has paid f 1-10 per share in dividends, Bradley declared, and indications are that it will pay as much more. Missoula, Mont. Forty hoad of buffalo from the bison reserve near Dixon have been sold to William Randolph Ran-dolph Hearst at an average price of $1000 a head, according to word reaching here from the Flathead reservation. res-ervation. They will be shipped to Mr. Hearst's ranch in California. San Francisco, Calif. Julius Kahn congressman from the Fourth California Cali-fornia district and chairman of the house military affairs committee, who died here, was buried with ceremonies cere-monies that characterized in their .simplicity the method of his life. Greeley, Colo. Mrs. Lucille Wilson alias Lucille Lavallette, bobbed hair-ed hair-ed flapper bandit, was sent to prison for ten years by Judge Neil F. Graham Gra-ham for the part she played in the holdup and robbery December 6, of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Clark of Greeley. The Clarks were robbed of valuables and their automobile. Sacramento, Calif. The conviction of Tom Connors of San Francisco, secretary in California of the general gener-al defense committee of the Industrial Indus-trial Workers of the World, in the superior court of Sacramento county on a charge of corruptly attempting to influence a juror in the trial of alleged I. W. W. members, was re versed by the Third circuit court of appeals. Rock Springs, Wyo. Miss Barbara Roberts plunged COO feet over a snow-covered cliff to instant death near here. Her head was badlv mul-tilated. mul-tilated. Miss Roberts was hunting jackrabbits with a companion on the outskirts of Rock Springs. She approached ap-proached the brink of the cliff, slipped slip-ped and was hurtled to death. Greeley, Colo. Quick justice was handed out to Jesse T. Lavton. alias Pavul Lockhart, 'Jo. and Ernest Mc-tauley, Mc-tauley, alias John Small. SC. when they pleaded guilty in district court here to robbing the First State bank at Keensburg. Colo. After hearing their pleas District Judge Xeil 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. Cheyenne, Wyo Attorneys and others interested in the trial of the Teapot Pome naval oil lease annulment annul-ment case settled down to awaint the decision of Federal Juct.ee T. Blake Kennedy on a motion by the government for a continuance in r.b hearing. Los Angeles. Robert E. Rose. oS years old, formerly private secretarv to William Jennings Brwan and for-eign for-eign trade adviser under the Wilson Wil-son administration, died here. A widow, a daughter and a brother, former mayor of Milwaukee, surviv. |