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Show tt.ttttttOSSSS : Western Brevities from the Many J : Western States I San Francisco. The foot and mouth disease outbreaks in Los Angeles An-geles are being held in check and in San Francisco all evidences have been wiped out, federal and state officials of-ficials have announced. In other parts of the state the epidemic situation sit-uation is being controlled. Los Angeles. A runaway house wrecked an automobile here and resulted re-sulted in injuries to two persons according ac-cording to a report on the police blotter. The residence was traveling slowly upgrade, hitched to a house mover's cable, when the cable snapped. snap-ped. R. O. Beatty and his wife, in an automobile, saw that four rooms with bath and kitchen bearing down on them and leaped from their car. The house hit the car, and the Beatty Beat-ty family is nursing cuts and bruises as the result of their sudden jump. The movers captured the house and tied it down. Galveston, Tex. Alberto J. Pani, minister of foreign affairs in the cabinet of President Obregon, has been appointed ambassador to the United States, according to advices received here by Consul I. Magana from Mexico City. Portland. Higher railroad rates on cattle shipments from eastern Oregon and southern Idaho to Portland Port-land and other northwest terminals than those that apply to Salt Lake have been instrumental in diverting many cattle shipments to interior markets to the detriment of Portland. Port-land. This testimony was presented at a continuance of the interstate commerce commission hearing on westbound cattle rates. Elko, Nevada. Northern Elko county is threatened with complete isolation, as far as speedy communication communi-cation with the outside world is concerned, con-cerned, if the public service commission commis-sion grants the application recently filed wih them by the Northern Nevada Ne-vada Telephone and Telegraph company com-pany for permission to abandon its telephone lines and discontinue service ser-vice to its subscribers. Portland, Ore. The latest freak a six-leafed clover! It was found here by Mrs. Mardella A. King on a clover patch in her yard. She was hunting for the four-leafed variety of good luck and went two better for her trouble. It is believed she has made a rare find. Idaho Falls, Ida., As the result o! experimenting with high explosives ii the laboratory of the Idaho Falls hig school, Dean Kelly and Horace Gesas students in the junior class, wers severely burned in an ' explosior caused by mixing red phosphate and potassium chlorate. Los Angeles, Calif., Four fossilized human skeletons, estimated to be from 10,000 to 25,000 years old, havt been unearthed in excavations neai here which recently gave up a skull classified by some paleontologists as possibly one of the earliest relics ol primitive man yet brought to light, il was announced recently. Sacramento. Cal.. Governor TiVienrl W. Richardson has announced that the execution of all persons condemned to die in prisons of the state on April 18 will be postponed for the reason that the day is Good Friday, "a day revered by all Christians." Three men have been condemned to hang on that date. They are William A. Bring-hurst Bring-hurst and Willard Thompson of Salt Lake and Isaac Wolfgang of Los Angeles, An-geles, all convicted of murder. Trinidad, Colo., Purl Brown, a negro is dead, John Davis proprietor of a men's club here, is seriously wounded and three other men are suffering minor injuries as the result of a shooting affray during a session of justice court being held in the Y. M. C. A. building at Berwind a coal camp near here. Los Angeles, Rear Admiral Harry H. Rosseau and J. C. Anderson, president presi-dent of the Pan-American Petroleum company, appeared before Federal Judge Paul McCormick and qual: fied as joint receivers for California naval reserve . 1. Each furnished bond for $50,000. Gooding, Idaho, Four pairs of Hungarian partridges, costing the state $10 a pair, and coming here direct from Hungary, have been introduced in-troduced into this county by the state fish and game department. Berkley, Cal. Helen Wills, women's tennis champion will sail from New Yprk the middle of May to condition herself for the women's international tennis matches at Wimbledon and the Olympic games at Paris, William C. Fuller of the Berkeley Tennis club announced recently. Los Angeles, William S. (Bill) Hart, who shoots from his hip in the film and regularly drops his man, missed the bulls eye in court when Judge J. W. Guerin overruled his de. murrer to the suit of the picture player's play-er's wife, Winifred Westover Hart. Los Angeles, Mrs. Elizabeth Good, rich, who journeyed west from Beaver Dam, Pa., in a covered wagon in 1S42, and had her hair bobbed in a Los Angeles barber shop in 1924, celebrated cele-brated her 110th birthday at her Monte Bello home near here. |