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Show Western Brevities j from the Many I Western States Salt Lake City, Utah. The monthly old storage reK.rt of Hie dairy and food bureau or the state department of agriculture, shows considerable reduction re-duction ill llie quantities of foods held in storage. The most notable reduction reduc-tion has been in dairy products. (Ireat Falls, Mont. Doors of the Commercial Xatkmal bank here have closed. The suspension announcement announce-ment gave the bank's deposits aB $1,?02,000 and its loans at $1,505,000. Phoenix, Ariz. Mit Simms, former secretary of state and Democratic candidate can-didate for governor in 1920, is charged with conspiracy in an indictment returned re-turned here by a special grand jury. Reneo, Xv. Mrs. Fanny IP.zlett, Ni, who crossed the plains in an ox cut to Nevada in 1849, ha.s realized her latest ambition by taking an airplane air-plane flight. San Francisco. Frolv- ;ms relating to the development oX the Colorado river for hydroelectric power and other purposes wer outstanding themes in the opening session of the fall meeting of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Miles City, Mont. Two residents of. the Cabin Crk district, north of Baker, Ba-ker, Mont., are dead from poisoning believed to have resulted from eating preserved com. Tacoma, Wash. Mrs. Johanna Byan has spent her tenth day in jail here for refusing to sign her name to certain cer-tain papers that would effect a settlement set-tlement of community property between be-tween herself and the husband from whom she obtained a divorce. San Francisco Ten persons were injured, one seriously, as a result of fire which started with two explosions explo-sions in a film exchange. Los Angeles. Mildred Harris, motion mo-tion picture actress and former wife of Charles Chaplin, filed a petition In bankruptcy in which liabilities were listed at .$30,000 and assets $1500. El Taso, Texas. 'Stock in a revolutionary revo-lutionary movement in Mexico is being be-ing offered at .$10 a share by an organization or-ganization with headquarters in New York. Billings. Work on test well No. 2 that 'the Murray brothel's are drilling in the P.roadview district was temporarily tem-porarily halted 'when the crew refused to stay as long as the company em ployed a Japanese cook. San Francisco. Immediate construction con-struction of a 150 room wing addition to the Whitcomb hotel heie and plans for additional units to total 1500 rooms at an approximate cost of $5,000,000, were announced "by D. M. Linnard, lessee. The first addition will cost -MOO. 000. Omaha. C. C. Lange of liacine, tt'js., pilot in the air mail service, had a narrow escape from death when bis plane, with a cargo of mail, plunged Into a field nea. the local station while he was attempting to land after a trip from Cheyenne. Wyo. According to Pilot I.?nge the machine's rudder control broke. Tho plane fell from a height of about 200 feet and was demolished. de-molished. Vancouver. P.. C. City Paymaster T. A. School; y was held up and robbed of $75,000 by two automobile bandits. The robbers escaped, making a sensational sen-sational dash through the business district. School ey had just loft the city hall when the men ur.sanlted him and snatched a hag containing thf money. Portland. Frank Flint, first Ke d college man to receive a Khnd s scholarship, schol-arship, also has won the chancellor's prize for an English essay at Oxford university. Kngland, according to advices ad-vices received at the col'ege. Flint is the first American to win this pri::e. It is one of the greatest honors within with-in ihe reach of Oxford students. San Francisco. The . State Crape Growers exchange, in order to move California's "50. 000-tcn wine grape crop, is shipping to the Fast through the Panama canal without refrigeration. refrigera-tion. The grapes are saturated with I a combination of carbon dioxide and other gases and experiments have shown the grapes can l.o kept s ven weeks at least. Detroit. Peter Van I.erher.he. 2C-, paid $30 to learn what "cafeteria" meant, lie bawled the help out lor not "ailing on him. It led to a free or-all fight and the fine. Sun Francisco. Cheese and ham no longer appeal to certain aristocratic San Fram-ison rats, residents of a government warehouse. Since r-rohi-lion they have cultivated a taste for Cncle Sam's choice whi'-ki's. according accord-ing to John Toland, government ware house custodian. I |