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Show F'S'EE'3a'EES.'S.,2.'3S!Sy, li I Western Brevities S from the Many g J Western States San Francisco, Calif Five salt producing pro-ducing companies and distributing companies of California, with total assets as-sets of approximately $3,500,000. have been consolidated under the name of the Leslie California Salt company. Nederlands, Colo. Firesides in the little homes of the mining town of Cardinal and surrounding communities communi-ties are blazing merrily, for all of the men, except two, who were trapped in the Fairview company's gold, silver and lead mine, had come out alive. Spokane, Wash. Resolutions demanding de-manding that vast areas of federal . . ir, TJnckv mountain lanci in me j and Pacific coast states be ceded to the states to permit its taxation and control, and opposing any abandon-ment abandon-ment of the government railroad in Alaska, were passed by the Northwest North-west Mining association at the closing session of its annual convention here. Los Angeles.--Constance Talmadge is a citizen again. The nationality she lost by marrying J. T. Pialoglou a New York Greek, has been restored by court order. She is now divorced. Rock Springs, Wyo. It is not every man who can sleep when his bed is on fire and still enjoy his sleep. Re-centliy Re-centliy an attendant of a local soft drink establishment was rudely awakened awak-ened from his sleep by the fire department de-partment to learn that his bed was on fire. Even after he was awakened he asked as to the trouble, but his query was answered by fire scorching a foot on the burning bedclothes. Great Falls, Mont. Sam W. Weeks, secretary-manager and promoter oi the defunct Montana Automobile Finance Fi-nance company of Great Falls, pleaded plead-ed guilty to making a false statement for the company to the First National bank of Butte, and was sentenced to a term of 2 to 5 years in the state penitentiary. Salt Lake City. The full bench of the Utah supreme court will decide which parent is to have custody of Shirley Cooke, pretty 5-year-old daughter daugh-ter of Henry J. Cooke, Toronto barrister, barris-ter, and his estranged wife, Hilda Be ty Cooke. Fort Collins, Colo. A grade crossing cross-ing encounter between a Union Pacific Pa-cific locomotive and an automobile truck near here resulted in a draw. The truck was demolished and the engine disabled. The truck driver escaped without injury. The truck hit the engine pilot, was thrown against a telephone pole, and rebounded re-bounded against the engine, breaking a drive shaft. Seattle, Wash. Evidence "sufficient "suffi-cient to justify the removal of Mayor Brown from office, either by impeachment im-peachment proceedings or recall," was reported by the King county grand jury. Sheriff Matt Starwich was held responsible for laxity of Ion, onfnT.Qmont nnrQirlo the cit.V. and County Auditor E. F. Ferguson was indicted for misconduct in office. Anchorage, Alaska. The First National Na-tional bank of this city announced that a $731 nugget brought here recently re-cently by C. B. Nelson was one of a collection worth $1000. On the $731 nugget Nelson borrowed money with which he bought an outfit before going go-ing back to where he found the gold Redding, Calif. Deer are so plentiful plenti-ful in the Paynes Creek region, southwest south-west of here, that ranchers are appealing ap-pealing to game wardens for help. A rancher reported that he has more than 100 deer on one of his pastures, and that they ate up a crop of acorns he had stored to feed his hogs. Jamestown, Calif. In the days of the gold rush this picturesque mining town was the hard-drinking, hard-fighting hard-fighting pride of the Mother Lode, but recently it yielded to a party of federal fed-eral agents who raided every old-time bar, arrested nine persons and gathered gath-ered up sufficient evidence to assess $1900 in fines. And the whole procedure pro-cedure was over in less than an hour. Culver City, Calif. Five world's speed records were broken here dur-' dur-' ing the running of the Culver City 250-mile classic. The event was won by Frank Elliott, who established a new record for 250 miles, with ar average of 127.S7 miles an hour. Seattle, Wash. A $4,000,000 shipment ship-ment fo silk, the largest consignment of its kind to be carried by an American oriental liner for several months, is due here on the steamship President Grant. Besides the silk, the President Grant has 4000 tons of general gen-eral oriental freight and 3000 bags of mail. The vessel is bringing 250 passengers. Pierre, S. D. Judge Polly of the South Dakota supreme court signed an order permanently prohibiting the state of South Dakota from further engaging in the retail gasoline business. busi-ness. Rock Springs, Wyo The operation and the management of the Green River Light and Power company has been taken over by the Utah Powct and Light company. J. H. Jacobucci, manager of the system under the old regime, will continue under the Utah concern. |