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Show Western Brevities j X from the Many 1 Western States j Pierre, S. D. Characterizing the price of gasoline In South Dakota as "highway robbery," Governor McMas-ter McMas-ter ordered the state warehouses at Mitchell to sell gasoline to the public at 16c a gallon. Phoenix, Ariz. A bond issue of $2.1,000,000 for irrigation . and power development on the Verde river in north central Arizona was authorized at an election o? landholders. Salt Lake City, Utah. Robert Me-Cord, Me-Cord, escaped convict from the state road camp, who is now in the hands of the authorities at El Centro, Calif., will be returned within a few days. Santa Barbara, Calif. The fire which has been raging in the Santa Barbara forest for nearly a week is now reported as beyond control and raging along a fifteen-mile front. FTedonia, Ariz. Malta fever, a disease that comes from contact with goats or from use of goat's milk, and which prevails in Mediterranean coun. tries, has broken out in northern Arizonia in the region about Fre-donia. Fre-donia. Los Angeles. The police here are holding C. J. Beer, said to be from Conejos County, Colorado, who was taken into custody on advices frcn the chief of police of Denver ihiA. Beer is wanted in Colorado on a felony fel-ony charge. Ogden, Utah It cost Carl Royce, a rancher of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, $."0 for killing an elk, out of season, according to the report brought to Ogden by Manly Thompson, assistant solicitor of the district forest service office. Havre, Mont. Poison gas, such as was used on the battlefields of France in the late World War, may be released over the grain fields of northern Montana to kill grasshoppers. grasshop-pers. Pendleton, Ore. A syndicate of Seattle capitalists will soon begin construction of three big reservoirs on Couse and Dry creeks, to store water sufficient to irrigate 10,010 acres. Ogden, Utah. Virgil Dalton, 21 years of age, who escaped from the Utah state prison last week, was caught nt Ogden. Casper, Wyo. The twenty-two mile six-inch pipeline of the Fargo Oil company from the Poison Spider-South Spider-South Casper Creek district to this city is complete and ready for a test, which will soon be mace. Turlock, Cal. Nearly all the sacramental sacra-mental wine of the Sacred Heart church here was s'olen from the church. I Colorado Springs, Colo. The locomotive loco-motive and two baggage cars on Santa San-ta Fe passenger tra!n No. .1 were derailed de-railed near Fountain, twelve miles south of hero. No one was injured, nccording to reports. Oakland. Calif. Five persons were almost instantly killed and nnothe-wai nnothe-wai seriously injured when the auto, mobile In which they wore riding collided with a train between Hay-ward Hay-ward and Mount Eden. Baker, Ore. HarcV. Gundcrson of Halfway, Ore., sai ; to bo wanted In Poise, Idaho, for r.n automobile theft, was apprehended near Rose'iurg, Ore., Missoula, Mont. Two logclng camps were burned up in a forest fire which got beyond control In the Marble creek region in northern Idaho. Sioux Falls, S. P. Antons Johnson John-son of Fgan, S. P., Monday was under un-der sentence of life imprisonment following fol-lowing his plea of guilty to a oharre of murder for shooting W. E. Johnson. John-son. Pullman, Wash. Six foreign countries coun-tries and a dozen states are represented repre-sented In the enrollment of tho summer sum-mer session at tho state college of Washington this year. Salt Lake City George Hubble, serving a thlr'y-day sentence In the city jail for drunkenness, banged himself him-self with a towel from tho upper part of ii double deck" bunk In his coll. Evanslon, Wyo. Mrs. Mary Mat-teston Mat-teston and her daughter, Mrs. James Peterson were Instantly killed when they were struck by westbound Union Paciric train No. 7 In a cut east of Iho Fvnnston city limits. San Diego Tli? greatest run of ftlhacore In years Is reported by fishermen fish-ermen arriving from the vicinity of Todos Santos Island, off tho Lower California coast. Seattle, Wnsli. Reports from canneries can-neries and the demand for car;:) space Indicate that, the salmon pack of southeastern Alaska will he lip to normal this year. Omaha, Nob. Two little v.lrls were drowned and property duiiUL'O of sev. oral hundred dollars done by a tor-rifle tor-rifle wind ami r.iln.itorni which swept eastern Nebraska and western Iowa. Denver, Colo. -Mrs. . 1 . Mowry, first woman candidate for t!n Kepnii. 1 f i -ii ti nomination as governor of Kan-Has, Kan-Has, died here. |