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Show 1 Western Brevities I 3 from the Many j I Western States 1 San Francisco. Togo Shima of Berkeley and his sister. Miss Florence Shima, children of George Shima, known as California's "potato king" have filed suit in superior court here to establish that they are citizens of the United States. They were born in San Francisco, but their birth records rec-ords were destroyed in the fire of 1906. The parents are subjects of Japan. Ja-pan. Phoenix, Ariz. The Arizona committee com-mittee on the Colorado river has reached an agreement on an answer to the tri-state compact for the division di-vision of the waters of the lower basin ba-sin of the river among the states of Arizona, California and Nevada submitted sub-mitted to it on December 2 by committees com-mittees from California and Nevada, it was announced by R. S. McCluskey, secretary to Governor Hunt and member mem-ber of the committee. Denver, Colo. Louise Swift, Jr., son of the Chicago packer, is learning his father's business as an office employee em-ployee at the Denver Stockyards. Young Swift followed a cqurse of apprenticeship ap-prenticeship as a butcher and laborer m the Swift company's Omaha plant since the world war, and his present duties represent an advance, company officials say. San Francisco, Calif. When government gov-ernment officials started unloading 10,000 cases of seized Scotch liquor from the schooner Coal Harbor here, 10,000 rats swarmed the deck of the craft. The hold of the dingy schooner was alive with starving rodents whose ; food supply was shut off when the Coal Harbor was seized several months mon-ths ago and anchored off Yerba Bueno island in San Francisco bay. The rats managed to keep alive by eating the corks from a number of bottles of Scotch, rye and champagne that had been exposed by the breaking of cases. Yreka, Calif. Emmett D. Boyle, of Mason, Nevada, former governor of Nevada and owner of the Nevada State Journal at Reno, was striken with a heart attack near Happy Camp, sxity miles from here, and brought to a local hospital, where physicians say he has a fair chance of recovery. Boyle was inspecting mining property near the Happy Camp settlement when seized by the attack. Seattle, Wash. A crazed man who had been dismissed from railroad employ em-ploy is sought as having sent upon its course a locomotive that ran a mile and smashed into the rear of a Great Northern train m the Union station here, killing one person. Roaring into the station, the engine, with no one aboard it, struck a train from the south as passengers were leaving it. Aberdeen, S. D. Apparently reconciled recon-ciled to the fact that their real son lies buried in a lonely Nebraska cemetery, cem-etery, the Rev. and Mrs. Charles Fra-zier, Fra-zier, who several months ago made a futile attempt to establish the identity identi-ty of Arthur Lopez, a Mexican, as their son, Arthur Frazier, applied to Adjutant General W. A. Hazle of Aberdeen for government and state war bonuses. The application is based bas-ed on the death of Arthur Frazier iD the world war. Shedd, Ore. The Shedd Savings bank was entered by robbers. After blowing the safe and deposit boxes, they escaped with bonds and negotiable negotia-ble securities. The loot will "probably "probab-ly total more than $100,000" said C J. Shedd, president of the bank. The robbers did not get into the main vault where the bank's funds are kept. Pearce, Ariz. The word "finis" was written to another chapter in the history his-tory of the old west here when Joseph Jos-eph Bignon, S5, proprietor of the old Bird Cage theatre at Tombstone was laid to rest. Greeley, Colo. The right of public school authorities in the state of Colorado Col-orado to have passages from the bible read "without comment" as part of the regular school exercises was upheld up-held in a decision announced recently by District Judge Robert G. B. Smith. Los Angeles, Calif. Chief of the Santa Ysabel tribe of Mission Indians in San Diego county filed suit in the United States district court here asking ask-ing $50,000 damages and the return of land from which the tribe says it has been driven by the white men. The defendants are three trustees of the Charles Marin company, four ranchers ranch-ers and four persons and a corporation, corpora-tion, names unknown, all of San Diego county. Spokane, Wash. Resolutions demanding de-manding that vast areas of federal land in the eleven Rocky mountain and Pacific coast states be ceded to the states to permit its taxation and control, and opposing any abandonment abandon-ment of the government, railroad in Alaska, wer passed by the Northwest North-west Mining association at the closing session of its annual convention here. |