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Show J Wesieni Brevities i j! from the Many jj Western States j Hend. Ore. Three men were killed instantly and a fourth was mortally Injured when a runaway flat car 1 nided with steel rails charged down a steep grade. Sacramento. Owners of 470.987 nn-tomobiles nn-tomobiles in California will pay taxes this year of a total ussessed property value of $13o,001,180. Los Angeles. Mrs. Rose Febro, who appeared in federal court with a bahy in her arms, has been sentenced to serve five months in the county jail for violation of the Volstead act. Trinklad. Nine business houses hi the town of Branson, in the east end of Las Animas county are reported to have been totally destroyed In a fire. Portland. Governor Ben W. Olcott, in a statement said the state was ready to "go to bat" with the I. W. W. In case there was an invasioa, and that there was "no room" in the state for them. He indicated he had instructed the adjutant general In command of the national guard to see that the guard is ready for service in case of necessity. M'Curtain, Okla. An open light carried car-ried on the cap of F. F. Zaton, mine forman and fire boss of a coal company com-pany at a mine caused the explosion which killed eight men including himself him-self and injured four others. Los Angeles. Wallace Reid, motion picture actor, is reported by relatives to be seriously ill. Dorothy Devenport, his wife, at the bedside in their home here, confirmed reports of her Iiub-band's Iiub-band's collapse, although the nature :f the illness was not revealed other than it was a "complete nervous breakdown." Turmer. The fact that thirty-one industries showed a gain in the number of hands employed! indicates that the industrial revival is here to stay. The greatest increase, 15.8 per cent, appears ap-pears in ear building and repairing. Cotton finishing had an increase of 11.3 per cent and woolen of 11 per cent. Salt Lake City.- The Interstate -commerce commission has Issued a certificate cer-tificate of public convenience and necessity authorizing the Los Angeles & Salt Lake railroad to build a thirty-two-mile branch from Lund, on the main line, to Cedar City, in Iron county, coun-ty, Utah San Francisco. Charles Buckley, Electrician, who while In an intoxicated intoxica-ted condition, police charged, ran down and killed Marion Newton 4 years of age, in his automobile Wednesday night, Monday offered to give his own child, Isabel 5 years of age, to the parents of the dead child to compensate compen-sate them for their loss. Houston. The Rev. Joseph Madison Evans 85, pastor of Evans Memorial a Presbyterian church here, and said to be the oldest minister in the United States actively engaged as pastor of a churcn, is dead here He had told friends he had preached about 20,000 sermons and made upward of 10,000 converts. Little RooK, If J. D. Young, recently recent-ly convicted of murder in Monroe county, coun-ty, Ark., and sentenced to die in the electric chair, shall at any time make an attempt to the commutation of his death sentence to life imprisonment granted by Governor T. C. McRae becomes be-comes void, and the death penalty will be Inflicted. Denver. Twenty persons were in jured, several seriously when an inbound in-bound street car from Berkeley, a suburb, sub-urb, loaded with workers, crashed into in-to another shreetear which had derailed de-railed while turning a corner. Bellingham Wash. Emigration of Russian loggers to work on concessions conces-sions in their native country is cause-lng cause-lng a shortage of skilled labor in logging camps of the state of Washington. Wash-ington. Cripple Creek. Old timers of this once famous mining camp are seeing visions of a revival of those prosperous prosper-ous days when this scetion was the greatest gold producer in the world. Since 1018 there has been little or no activity and Cripple Creek.s Long Beach. Cupid, taking on a merry chase the minions of the law here wh0 seek to inforce the antl-spooning antl-spooning ordinance led policemen up a tree. As a result there appears on the police blotter the names of a young couple, with the charge "tree spoon ers" registered against them. |