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Show Western Bre vities'l from the Many 2 I Western States I Salt Lake City. -Frank Proudfoot suffered a fractured pelvis, when he fell from an electric car on which he was working in a repair shop. Stockton. Cal. One man was killed and fifteen persons injured in a fire which started in the Philson hotel here. The fire was one of the most spectacular and disastrous in the city's history. , Alameda, Calif. One person was instantly killed, another died several hours Inter and three others were seriously Injured when the automobile automo-bile in which they were riding was struck by a Southern Pacific electric train. San Francisco Thomas E. Flynn, former publisher and editor of The Wasp, n San Francisco periodical, shot and killed himself in the locker room of the Olympic club. He left a note saying that ill-health was the cause of his act. Washington Sale of 80,000,000 board feet of timber of the Mormon lake and Sawmill springs unit on the Conconin national forest in Arizona at an average of $2.25 per thousand feet was approved by the department of agriculture. Ogden, Utah Myron B. Niles, an employee of the postofflce department in Ogden for the past ten years, has been appointed a postoffice inspector for the states of Washington, Oregon, Montana and Idaho. Malad, Ida. Seven car loads of beef cattle were shipped last week from Malad to Ogden. Phoneix, Ariz. Property damagd estimated at more than $75,000 was done by a terrific wind and rain storm in the vicinity of Glandale, Ariz. Henefer, Utah. Opal Richins, died of burns suffered when a can, from which she was pouring coal oil on the kitchen range, exploded. Cheyenne, Wyo. Injuries received by Eddie' Burgess, full blooded Creek Indian of Schulter, Okla., in the Cheyenne Chey-enne frontier days contest, proved fatal. Salem, Ore. James Arnold, one of the four prisoners who escaped from the Oregon penitentiary returned voluntarily vol-untarily to the institution. Sacramento. A sixty-story lodge building to cost $750,000 is to be built here by the Sacramento lodge of Elks. ' Petaluma. Calif In connection with the Sanoma county fair, this city, known as the world's egg basket, will celebrate egg day on August IS. Martinez, Cal. The smelter furnace here of the Mountain Copper Mining company, having mines in Shasta county, California, were lighted for the first time since 1918, preparatory to resumption of activities. Riverton, Wyo W. C. Whitaker, one of the best known stockmen' in Wyoming, and Lloyd Jennings an employe, em-ploye, lost their lives in the flood when the waters swept away the house in which they were sleeping. Mexicali, Mexico Conditional release re-lease of six of nineteen men accused of murder and mansluaghter in connection con-nection with riots here on July 14, has been ordered by the court-martial convened in the case. Ogden, Utah Marlon Jamin, 17 years of age, of Grand Island, Neb., had his right foot crushed beneath be-neath the wheels of a Union Pacific freight train at Castle Rock, Utah. San Francisco. The passenger steamer Waimea and the freighter Susquehanna were in collision nrTie entrance to San Francisco harbor, the Waimea suffered slight damage. Pueblo, Colo. Seven cars of westbound freight train were derailed on the D. & R. G. W. railway near Shoshone, a few miles east of Glen-wood Glen-wood Springs, Colo. Spanish Fork, Utah. Word has been received here to the effect that Nathan Clayson, Jr., aged about 2:i years, had been accidentally killed at Los Angeles. No particulars of the tragedy were received. Monte Rio, Calif. Joseph Deering; hotel manager, was wounded by holdups who escaped with loot of over $5,000 value from the River view hotel here. Los Angeles wniiam L. Cross an aerial photographer, and a lady companion com-panion were killed at Santa Fe Springs, when the plane Cross was driving suddenly went into a nose-live nose-live and crashed. |