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Show I Western Brevities X from the Many t t Western States f Spokane, Wash.,-F. W. Curran paid with his life for a joke. Riding in an automobile driven by C. Martin, he pulled Martin's cap down over his eyes and the car went over a thirty-foot thirty-foot embankment near Fort Wright, killing Curran instantly. Martin and another passenger in the car were not hurt. Curran was a logging contractor. con-tractor. San Francisco, The board of supervisors su-pervisors of San Francisco have enacted en-acted an anti-smoke ordinance which will require the smoke emitting factories fac-tories of the city, and all buildings which emit smoke, to raise the level of their smokestacks above the windows of adjoining buildings. The board also al-so prohibited any person from allowing allow-ing clouds of smoks to issue from a stack and cinders or noxious fumes. Cheyenne, "Beat Texas to it" Is the campaign slogan adopted by the democratic party in Wyoming, follow ing the nomination of Mrs. William B. Ross, as gubernatorial candidate, j to succeed her recently deceased husband. hus-band. Wyoming passed the first suf-5 suf-5 frage law in 1869 and now seeks to ( hold the honor of electing the first ! woman governor. ; Fallon, Nevada, T. C. Hart, judge of the eighth judicial district of Ne- vada, comprising Churchill and Lyon counties, died in Fallon after an ill ness extending over a period more than a year. Apoplexy was the cause of death: Los Angeles, Three bandits in a large automobile held up Bert Cowan, messenger for the Merchants' National Nation-al bank here, and escaped with $25,000 in currency. The bandit car drew alongside Cowan's machine, the trio covered him with pistols, forced him to drop the money satchel, recovered it and fled. San Francisco, Genevieve McDonnell, McDon-nell, salesgirl in a large department store here, has received notice that she had interited $85,000 from her godfather, the late James Connor, who died here September 3. The bequest be-quest was made as a reward for her kindness to Connor. She is one of a family of seven. Her father was a San Francisco policeman. Rock Springs, Wyo., Admirers of President Coolidge among Wyoming cow punchers Friday presented a plainsman's five-gallon hat to Herb Moore of Plymouth, Vt, boyhood play mate of the chief executive, when the Coolidge - Dawes caravan passed through here. Reno, Nev., Regular operation or an airplane in connection with the business of mining, believed to be the first attempt of this sort, is the plan of C. I. Eastman, general manager of a gold property near Minden. Eastman, East-man, an ace of the British flying corps during the World war, said he hoped to' use the plane not only to travel 60 miles to the mine electric plant, but also for other "errands." Los Angeles, Officials of the Los Angeles chamber of commerce have denied reports that they were backing back-ing a move to construct a new railroad rail-road line from here to Casper, Wyo., via Nevada, Utah and northern Colorado. Colo-rado. They said they believed the Union Pacific system already adequately ade-quately covered the territory. Santa Barbara, Cal., Following an explosion which shook the entire town of Summerland, east of here, fire broke out in one of the large oil tanks in the oil fields nearby. In order to prevent spread of the flames several thousand barrels of oil were let run into the ocean. The fire spread to several nearby tanks, bur was soon put under control. Bingham, Utah, The Highland coy mine, it is renmtj ...,n ,., further curtail production about November No-vember 1. The low price of copper is said to be the cause. From the time operations were resumed in 1922 until last April, this mine produced an average of 1000 tons of ore daily Smce April the shipments have been reduced one-half Denver Colo. . Denver university defeated the University of Wyoming lootball tea- in the first game of the Rocky Mountain conferenc. reason here 7 to o. Until a few minutes of the end of the game it looked as though the teams would tie with ciphers ci-phers Fourie, for Denver, got away near the Cose of the quarter for a Uventy-eight yard run and a touch- Idaho Falls, Idaho.-Potato dirginK and the harvesting of beets have temporarily held up by a heavy f rain visited uZ tt7' f-ehteen months in Mind VVa ,Pemt0"tinry at McNeil's Island Wash., and a $1000 -fine was Judge F. S Detrich in federal our Perry was found guilty 0f making a curlT"10 C" |