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Show j Western Brevities jj from the Many . 3 J I Western States i: Elko, New Kating weeds which had been sprayed with an arsenic solution so-lution caused the death of 500 sheep out of a block of 3,000 owned by the Union Land St Livestock company. Seattle, Wash. British Columlila authorities are patrolling the highways high-ways with machine guns mounted on motorcycles looking for autolsts smuggling smug-gling liquor Into the United States, Carl F. Jackson, prohibition director, reported. Klcentro, Calif. Carload shipment of cantaloupes from the Imperial valley val-ley to eastern markets have begun. s Elko, Nev. 'Pedro Correa, Mexican, on trial for manslaughter in eonnee tlon with the killing of a negro at Valley Pass two month ago, was found not guilty of the charge. Wells, Nev. That a county fair will be held at Wells, rather than at Klko, the county seat, next fall, was decided upon at a meeting of tin members of the county fair board. Klko, Nev. Spawn from native cutthroat cut-throat trout to stock the streams of the state will be procured in the future fu-ture from Willow creek dam, In this county, according to an announcement made by Game Warden Frank Mid-dleton. Mid-dleton. Ogden, Utah Romub checks amounting amount-ing to more than $0,000,000 will he distributed to sugar beet farmers In Utah and Idaho It Is announced by officials of the sugar companies. Omaha. The UnlonPncflc railroad will spend almost $4.'I,0OO,000 this year In Improvements, of which $ll,.riO0,000 will be for Bventy-elght freight locomotives loco-motives and 13,000 freight cara, a statement by Carl It. Gray, president of the system, said. Susanville, Cal. Sidney Murrell, wanted In Middlesex county, Ontario, Canada, on charges of bank robbery and murder, is In the Susanville county Jail under heavy guard. Reno, Nev. A warrant charging Margaret Baldwin, 20-year old blind girl, a student at the University of Nevada, w'h passing fictitious checks was lssu by the district attorney here. Long Beach, Calif. Judge John Pryor Hand, former chief Justice of Illnola died at a local hotel. He has been 111 for years and was on n annual visit here, lie was 73 ears of age. Evanston, Wyo. Jose Brodlk a Mexican, was killed Instantly and bis body mangled beyond recognition by a passenger train. The accident oc-curing oc-curing near Hampton, Wyoming. lilsbee, Ariz. Four men were killed here when three mixing houses at the plant of the Apm-ho Powder company at Curtis, Arizona was blown up. One man was Injured. Spokane, Wash. About 200 residents resi-dents of 'Pavlflc northwestern states and provinces interested in mining registered at the opening sessions here of the twenty-eighth annual convention of the Northwest Mining Men's association. San Francisco A Southern Pacific tunnel near Coram, Sluista county was partly destroyed by fire and cave-ins. It whs announced tbut pas-aengers pas-aengers between California and Oregon Ore-gon points will be forced to make a twenty-nine mile detour. Blaikfoot, Idaho. Tho double curves cur-ves in the Yellowstone highway near the Fort Hall school, scene of thirty-eltfit thirty-eltfit accidents In 1!'J'J, are to be reformed re-formed when that section of the highway high-way is next repaired. Sacramento. The district court of appeals upheld the conviction of ten members of the Industrial Workers of the World In the Superior Court here Junuary 4 on char;ea of criminal crim-inal syndicalism. Moab, Utah. Ueports are that the Midwest Kefinlng company has started start-ed the drilling of a third well on the Hogback structure fifteen miles west of Farmlngton and 410 feet east of Well No. 1 a producer. Ienver, Colo. A gigantic anowallde struck the west end of tunnel No. 3-' on the 1'enver A Salt Lake railroad between Corona and Iixie lake, Colo., killing four members of a working party an Injuring two others. Phoenix, Ariz., Helegntes of eleven western states an I Pritish Columbia. Lower California and Hawaii met he for the fifth annual conference of the western plant quarantine board. Los Angeles, ( a... -Automobile bandits ban-dits shot Iave Ant.hk. cashier of the Sun Irug company, according to the police, and escaped, lifter robbing him cf $2o,000, which he was carrying to the bank. San Francisco. Conviction of S. M. Nixon and Pari L. Nixon on a charge of conspiring to defraud Kduard II. Sherman of his homestead holdlnta In Fremont county, Idaho, waa upheld by tho United States circuit coun of appeals. |
