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Show Western Brevities from ifig Many J Western States I ! a- Los Angeles. Two new outbreaks af the foot and mouth disease in Los Angeles county were reported to quarantine authorities' here. Denver, Colo. A strike of nurses employed in the Denver hospitals, where the basic working day exceeds twelve hours was threatened here whon the Denver nurses' association, at a special meeting, decided not to work in hospitals that demand more than a twelve-hour day. Denver, Colo. Firing at Nick Ranker, Ran-ker, taxi driver, when he resisted her attempts to hold him up, Nellie Waters, Wat-ers, 18 missed her aim and hit her husband, 27, in the left arm, according accord-ing to the story told police. Mrs. Waters is held in the county jail at Littleton, a suburb of Denver. Her husband is under police surveillance in the Littleton hospital. Los Angeles, Cal. Jack Dempsey, world's heavyweight champion, will box two exhibition bouts of two rounds each here May 24 at an athletic ath-letic program to raise Los Angeles' quota of $50,000 to send American athletes to the Olympic games. Sacramento, Cal. Governor Richardson Rich-ardson has cleared away all doubt concerning his attitude toward federal fed-eral intervention in the foot and mouth disease situation in California by a telegram to Henry C. Wallace, secretary of agriculture, requesting his department to assume full control. con-trol. Bend, Oregon. Lava caverns from which rushes an icy wind have been discovered southeast of Bend, in the desert country, according to local persons. The winds which come from the caves are so cold that dripping water at the entrance is frozen. They tried to throw a hat into the cave, but the wind was so strong it was blown out time and again. So far the caves have been unexplored. Ely, Nevada. Establishment or a national park in Nevada is proposed by Senator Key Pittman who is considering con-sidering the introduction of a bill that would make such a park of the Lehman Caves, now a national monument, mon-ument, Leo MeClatchy has written to western newspapers for which he is Washington correspondent. Portlnd, Ore. Absolute embargo on all tourist travel into Oregon, Washington and Idaho will be ordered order-ed if the hoof and mouth disease in California reaches a point within 200 miles of the Oregon border. Representatives Repre-sentatives of the three states reached reach-ed this decision after a four hour conference. Elko, Nevada. What is believed to have been the largest male mountain lion ever killed in Nevada was taken recently in the wilds of White Pine county, by S. R. Dunham, Utah lion hunter, after the beast had been trailed for three days by Dunham who was accompanied by A. L. Ras-mussen, Ras-mussen, inspector for the biological survey in Elko and White Pine counties. coun-ties. Fargo, N. D. Immediate relief to farmers in the purely wheat growi-ing growi-ing regions of North and South Dakota, Da-kota, Montana and Minnesota through the special $1,000,000 livestock live-stock loan fund, created by the new $10,000,0000 agricultural credit corporation, cor-poration, was approved at a meeting .lere of approximately 250 expert agriculturists, business men, farmers, bankers, railroad men and others invested in-vested in the northwest. Phoenix, Ariz. Negotiations are under, way by which the holding :apital of the El Paso & Southwest-2rn Southwest-2rn railroad will acquire the capital stock and "control the destinies' of the Tucson, Phoenix & Tidewater railway. San Francisco. Miss Mildred Mul-!er Mul-!er former Boston high school teacher, teach-er, was awarded damages of $113,000, said to be the largest ever given in .he United States for personal injuries, injur-ies, by a jury in superior court here in her suit against the Coast Counties Coun-ties Gas and Electric company, controlling con-trolling owner of the Union Traction company of Santa Cruz. Cheyenne, Wyo. The issue between be-tween the United States of America and the Mammoth Oil company concerning con-cerning the validity of the Mammoth's Mam-moth's lease on the Teapot Dome naval oil reserve, Wyoming, became joined when the Mammoth filed its answer to the government's bill of equity praying annulment of the 'ease on the ground that it was obtained ob-tained through fraud. |