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Show I Western Brevities ! from the Marty I Western States San Francisco,-Seven British battle bat-tle craft, the first large Buti-h squadron to enter an American port for forty years, steamed through tt Golden Gate last week to pay a visit to the United States on the way home from a tour of the British dominions do-minions the world over. They weie headed by the battle cruiser Hood, mightiest of all fighting craft afloat. . T(-oori a club- San f ranciscu, -house, the Delevan club has bought a whole town. It is the village of Delevan, in Colusa county, m the rice fields. The purchase includes 72 acres of buildings and town lots and 2000 acres of rice fields, which have been flooded for duck hunting. The town includes a hotel, a number of bungalows, a water works and a mile of streets and sidewalks. Golf links will be built. The club's activities ac-tivities will consist of sports and diversions di-versions the year around. Idaho Falls, Idaho Buyers in this section predict the price of $20 per ton for hay on acocunt of the general gen-eral shortage the coming year. Baker, Ore., At the Gold Hill mine Spokane people under the title of the Durkee Gold Mining company are erecting, a ball mill of 125 tons capacity per day for treatment of ore from the old Gold Hill mine and it is expected the plant will be ready for operation by July 15. San Luis Obispo, Cal. Stanley Brown of Fresno, driving in an lu-mile lu-mile preliminary automobile race here July Fourth, was killed when his car skidded through the fence and turned over several times. i Rockaway, Ore., Junior Schutte, 7, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. Schutte, of Portland, died here as the result of being struck on the head by the propeller of an airplane. The boy was under the plane trying to find his ball, and the pilot started the motor and did not observe the lad. Seattle, Wash. Equipped with a radio position finder and a sonic depth measurer, the steamer Guide of the United States coast and geodetic geod-etic survey, which has recently entered en-tered upon the task of mapping the waters off the Pacific Coast to a depth of 1000 fathoms, was pronounced pronounc-ed in the offices of the survey here to be the most up to date vessel for her work in the world. Anchorage, Alaska. Residents of Rock Springs, Wyo. Juan Lopez, Mexican is in the Wyoming general hospital here with a bullet wound in his right arm and another bullet through his right lung as the result of a Fourth of July altercation at Green River. Two of his countrymen have been arrested as a result of the shooting. Cody, Wyo. As the sun sank behind be-hind the continental range ' July Fourth, Flags veiling a statue of Colonel William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) were drawn aside and a monumental monu-mental likeness of the famous scout on a mettlesome broncho, was dedicated dedi-cated a reminder to America of the spirit that won the West. Prescott, Ariz. Lawton Champie, Castle Lot Springs, Ark., cowboy, riding- as a substitute for "Slim" Riley of Moose Jaw, Canada, won the world's broncho busting championship cham-pionship after one of the roughest rides in the history of Prescott's annual an-nual frontier days celebration. Santa Barbara, Cal. Charles Raymond Ray-mond Nolan of New Haven, Conn., was found guilty of manslaughter by juiy in superior court here. Jack-Carlton, Jack-Carlton, codefendant, was acquitted The men were charged with murder mg Charles Love, proprietor of a hotel here, May 11, after an altercation alterca-tion m which Love was said to have attacked Nolan with a blackpack. Eugene, Ore. The people of Eugene, Eu-gene, by a vote of 1112 to 1082 voted $500,000 to the University of Oregon here to construct an auditorium and student assembly on the campus. This is said to be the first time a city has bonded itself to make a gift of this size for an institution of higher high-er learning. The gift is part of a $10,000,000 campaign. Portland. Ore.-A squadron of Jap. anese war vessels will visit the Columbia Col-umbia river during Fehruury 15 ac fording to word received hero by H sh p iakumo and three other vessels not yet decided upon, will compos!; e squadron. Us arrival will mark w the Panne eoast will in i.,t months. The Itriiwi, , " vnrM" J'iitibh "round the m, iser '1Gl"l,'1 "y " "Ulo "in mn to reach San lrancisco from Vancouver, 1, c. Rock springs, W.vo.,Tlu, offl. c al census of antelope ln the state gg,vethe number of n, "an be 6 l rm- aml " f can be ascertained with any degreo e m'",i S""W3 a cease in the number of animals. the Yukon river ,. . -ckly mail Cice or UirrV,';,i- -co 1898, during the grl'i "Tl -h of the Yukon. Z Alaska S oad has made this possible |