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Show I Western Brevities t. from the Many I Western States I r Phoenix, Ariz. Governors of west, era s-tates will be called to a conference con-ference soon at some central point in the west to discuss the quarantine situation growing out of prevalence of the foot and mouth disease in pa'ts of California, according to a message received by Governor Hunt from United States "Senator Ralph Cameron of Arizona. The conference conferen-ce will be called by the department of agriculture, the message said. Los Angeles, Cal. James Calnay, motion picture director and proeacer, convicted in federal court here of using the mails in a scheme to defraud, de-fraud, was sentenced to serve eighteen eight-een months in Leavenworth prison and was fined $2000. Calnay announced an-nounced his intention to appeal the case and gave bond of $10,000. Los Angeles. Mrs. Frank Wyn-koop, Wyn-koop, known to the stage a half century cen-tury ago as Helen Truman and said to have been one of the company playing at Ford's theatre in Wash-inton Wash-inton on the night President Lincoln was assinated is dead here. She was 78 years old. Signal Hill, Cal. This city, center of a wealthy oil belt, recently carved carv-ed from Long Beach and incorporated separately has elected a woman its first mayor. She is Mrs. Jessie El-wyn El-wyn Nelson, a resident of Signal Hill for twenty years. Signal Hill is a city of the sixth class with a property prop-erty valuation of $34,287,000. Pueblo, Colo. Crushed when its mother, Mrs. Millie Smith 22, fell Jn a faint on a downtown street here, a 1-year old baby was instantly killed. kill-ed. Mrs. Smith was holding the baby close to her breast and fell with her entire weight on it. Great Falls, Mont. Harry J. Skinner, Skin-ner, former president of the State bank of Stockett and for thirty years one of the leading business men of Cascade cotmty, was dismissed on order of Judge H. H. Ewing for lack of evidence to convict. Skinner was arrested six weeks ago in Los Ange les on a Cascade county grand pury indictment charging misappropriation misappropria-tion of funds. Sacramento, Cal. A message to President- Coolidge saying that the "people of California would deeply resent any capitulation to Japan" on the question of the immigration bill now pending was wired by State Senator J. M. Inman, president of the Japanese Exclusion league. Portland, Ore. Reduction of the rate on wheat from Idaho to Portland was asked of Harry M. Adams, vice president of the Union Pacific system, sys-tem, who conferred here with an Idaho Ida-ho delegation consisting of Governor Gover-nor C. C. Moore of that state and J. T. Young, secretary of the Pocatello chamber of commerce. Anaconda, Mont.- Discouraged because be-cause she was behind in her work in the eighth grade, Ethel Johnson, 15 years old, shot herself through the right temple at her home here. She died two hours' lated. The girl left a note addressed to her father saying she was discouraged at her lack of progress in her school work. Williston, N. D. A penciled note in a childish scrawl addressed to President Coolidge pleading with him to "arrest the men who are selling liquor to my daddy," has been received re-ceived at the sheriff's office here, after af-ter having passed through various government channels from the chief executive down. San Diego, Cal. Lieutenant E. A Musk, an aviator stationed at the North Island naval air station here, was killed when his plane collided with another in midair, damaged one wing and fell 2300 feet into San Diego bay. Lieutenant O. Walker, pilot of the other machine was uninjured. unin-jured. San Francisco. A breach of promise prom-ise action by Evan Burrows Fontaine Fon-taine of New Haven, Conn., against Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, seeking seek-ing $1,000,000, was filed in federal district court here. Similar action In superior court here recently ordered transferred to the federal court because be-cause Whitney, now in business in San Francisco, is a resident of California Cali-fornia and Miss Fontaine is a resident resi-dent of the eastern state. Gallup, N. M., C. R. Knapp and j Edward and George Gooch, said to be from rhoer.ix, Ariz., were killed when the automobile in which they were riding plunged into a canyon at Manue'ito, an Indian trading post, j seventeen milrs west here. The car ran off the bridge and fell to the bottom of the canyon. San Francisco. A regular quarterly quarter-ly divimd of 50 cents a share on I stock of a par value of !T25 was' du-! du-! clarcd by directors of th3 StandariT id Gi'.par.y of California, payable Ju::e 16 to stockholders of re:ord May 30. I". rpo, X. D. The joint cm''ezx1e rr.e-t charre aeninyt A. C. Town'c and J. J. Hastings, former Nonpartisan Nonparti-san len'Tue officials, was dir.misr.c" in Ju !;:e Le:?h Monon's c.jr: o the ground of the North Dakot; statute of tin-.itations. |