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Show X : Western Brevities from the Many I Western States l Oakland, Cal. A widespread rat extermination campaign is under way following a report by health officials that five out of forty rodents examined exam-ined were infected with bubonic plague. No cases among human beings be-ings have been reported, and as the section inhabited by the rats is remote re-mote from the city proper there is little fear that the disease will sperad. St. Paul, Minn. A workman who loses an eye through an industrial accident, even though he is blind in that eye is entitled to compensation under the workmen's compensation law, the Minnesota supreme court held in affirmative the state industrial industri-al commission. Cheyenne, Wyo. Judge T. Blake Kennedy has granted a continuance until March 9 of the trial of the gov. ernment's suit in equity for anull-ment anull-ment of the Mammoth Oil company's lease on the Teapot Dome naval oil reserve. San Francisco. Mrs. Hazel Hart filed suit for divorce against George H. Hart, charging him with being sulky, morose and temperamental. The climax came when he refused to speak to her all Christmas day, she charced. Portland, Ore. C. S. Jackson, veteran vet-eran Oregon newspaper publisher, died at his home here at the age of 64. Mr. Jackson has been publishing; the Oregon Journal, and afternoon Portland newspaper, since it was founded in 1902. Prior to this he was publisher of the Pendleton, Ore., East Oregonian. Mr. Jackson was a native of Virginia. He came to Pendleton from Virginia in 1879. Denver, Colo. Although more than $20,000,000 more precious metal bullion bul-lion was coined in the Denver mint during 1924 than in 1923, not a single sin-gle silver dollar was turned out, Frank E. Shepard, superintendent of of the mint, announced. Oregon City, Ore. Mrs. Rosamund Lee Shaw Samuelson, 27, who was discharged as a teacher in the Canby high school after she married Clifford Clif-ford Samuelson, 17, one of her pupils,, pu-pils,, filed suit in the circuit court here for $25,000 damages a'gamst members of the Canby school board. Mrs. Samuelson charges that she was libeled in "defamatory and malicious statements" published by the school board after she married her pupil. Great Falls, Mont. The three-ton three-ton boiler of tho Great Falls gas plant, used to distill creosote and other by-products- from the residue of coal used in the plant, exploded, jumped its solid masonry bed, skidded skid-ded 100 yards into the house of Geo. Maiden, trouble shooter for the plant, badly burned Maiden about the feet and injured Eli Maiden by shock and bruises. Salt Lake. A beet sugar factory of the Utah-Idaho Sugar company will be established at Bellingham, Wash., early in 1925, if investigations show a sufficient acreage of sugar beets in the Bellingham territory and if satisfactory railroad trackage facilities fa-cilities are gained. This announcement announce-ment was made from the general offices of-fices of the company.,.. J Helena, Mont. Rcv.'V-alsh, convicted convict-ed in the JeffersorAounty district court and sentenced to hang for the murder of Albert S. Johnson, storekeeper store-keeper of Reno, Nev., must pay the penalty for his crime, under a decision deci-sion of the Montana supreme court, affirming the findings of the lower court, Downey, Cal. One man is dead and another is expected to die from wounds received in a pistol duel at Hynes, near here, which started when two civilians and two Los Angeles deputy sheriffs, separately, engaged in a burglar hunt, met and mistook each other for the object of their search. Spokane, Wash. Increase of the capital stock of the Bunker Hill & Sullivan Mining company with principal prin-cipal properties at Kellogg, Idaho, by an issue of two million dollars' worth of preferred stock with a par value of $100 a share, is announced in letters received here from F. W. Bradley, president, of San Francisco. Present stock of the company with a par value of $10 per share has paid $130 per share in dividends, Bradley declared, and indications are that it wil) pay as much more. |