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Show Western Brevities from the Many j Western States f o Tacoma, Cecil De Mille, moiion picture director, and party of 40 actors ac-tors and actresses were caught in a terrific blizzard in Nisqually Glacier, Mount Ranier national park, and narrowly nar-rowly escaped with their lives after abandoning motion picture equipment valued at $20,000 on location. The women in the party were carried to safety by the men. San Francisco, George X. Wend-lirlg, Wend-lirlg, lumberman, manufacturer and clubman of this city, was found shot to death in the bathroom of his hon.t. A revolver was found in his hand and he coroner said death probably was self-inflicted. Weaverville, Cal., A masked bandit ban-dit held up and robbed H. L. Knowles, treasurer of Trinity county, here, and escaped with several thousand dollars in county funds. A sheriff's posse is searching the countryside for the robber. rob-ber. The robber locked Knowles in the vault of his office. He escaped by picking the lock. Houston, Tex., An outbreak of the foot and mouth disease was discovered discover-ed in a herd of 300 cattle belonging to J. M. Tacquard, on his ranch about three miles north of Alvin, in Brazoria Braz-oria county. This is 25 miles from the place where the infection was first discovered, and is the first outbreak in Texas outside of Harris county. San Francisco, Walter Johnson, whose pitching arm hoisted the pennant pen-nant of world supremacy for the Washington baeeball club, has arrived in San Francisco to "look over the Oakland club in the Pacific Coast Baseball league as a possible buy." Alhambra, Cal., Forest Ranger J. H. Pyle says he has found the perfect reducing medium. After three week3 of fighting a forest fire in the Sierra "''UlJPf mountains, he found he was forty pounds lighter than when the fire broke out. Carson City Nevada, Auto license plates having white numbers and letters let-ters on a blue background have arrived ar-rived at the office of Secretary of State W. G. Greathouse for issuance next year, says the Carson Appeal. There are 16,500 sets of two plates for passenger cars, 3,500 of commercial commer-cial vehicles and 100 sets of dealers licenses. San Francisco, Frank Ross Chambers, Cham-bers, Jr., member of a wealthy New York family, visited the grave of his 17-year-old (laughter Marilouise and returned to his apartment in San Mateo Ma-teo and shot himself to death while brooding over the suicide of the girl two weeks ago. Salt Lake, "Tex" Marshll, maintenance main-tenance pilot on the central division of the air mail service, has been appointed ap-pointed by fly between Reno and Elko, El-ko, Nev., after November 8, accord-ig accord-ig to Frank E. Caldwell, assistant sjperintendent of the division. He fills the place vacated by the promotion promo-tion of Harry C. Smith, who was recently re-cently named as manager of the new mountain division. Winnctnucca, Nev., A new power line from the power house in Water canyon to the city of Winnemucca, will be the next improvement to be carried out by the Winnemucca Water Wa-ter & Light Company, according to information received from Superintendent Superin-tendent W. L. Goodman. The poles o be used in the new work have already al-ready arrived. Seattle, Wash., A complete history of the Eskimo race is to be written by Knud Rasmussen, Danish explorer and leader of the fifth Thule expedition expedi-tion of Denmark, declared Rasmussen here, after his arrival on the steamship steam-ship Victoria from Nome, AlasKa. Rasmussen's party traveled more than 20,000 miles along the Arctic coast of Canada and Alaska by gasoline schooner, dog team and on foot, studying Eskimos and taking motion pictures. San Francisco, Terrance Druggan, 2."i .car old Chicago brewer arrested here as a ftigili.c from justice, was reelased under $."0 Kl bail. Druggan was being lie-Id on information from the United States marsliall at Chi cago that he "jumped" bail after being be-ing sentenced to a year in jail for operating a brewery after an injunction injunc-tion had been issued closing It. Portland, Ore. Charged with having hav-ing committed a murder in Coffee I county, Georgia, eighteen years ago, King Storey, who has lived here under un-der the name of Kenneth McLeod, is under arrest having been accused by bis wife, who informed county authorities au-thorities after her husband hail been arrested on ; charge of nnnsupport. A telegram trom Georgia confirmed the wife's statements. |