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Show it Western Brevities X from the Many 1 Western States I San Francisco, Calif. Six pretty girls smashed six bottleB of Pacific ocean and Lake Michigan water on the pilot of the New Overland Limited Lim-ited at the Oakland pier, thereby christening the first section of $3,000,-000 $3,000,-000 worth of passenger equipment to be placed in service by the Southern Pacific Company on the Lake Tahoe route between Chicago and the Pacific coast. Jerome, Arli. The entire town ol Jerome was shaken and scores of windows win-dows in the business and residence districts were shattered when the powder magazine of the United Verda Mining company caught fire and exploded. ex-ploded. The magazine contained 1200 boxes of dynamite. No one was seriously ser-iously injured. Tacoma, Washh. The historic Ta-coma Ta-coma theatre building, erected in 1888 from plans drawn by Stanford White, New York architect who was slain in Madison Square Garden by Harry K. Thaw has been sold. Three presidents, presi-dents, Harrison, Roosevelt and Taft, are Included among the host of celebrities cele-brities who have trod its stage. Quincy, Calif. John L. Cook, barber, bar-ber, opened an important looking letter let-ter from New York and found that he was heir to one-half of the estate of hi3 father, the late Frederick Cook of Hanover, Germany, and that his share would be something like $100,-000. $100,-000. The other half goes to Mrs. G. W. Krutchfield of Huntsville, Mo., the barber's sister. Santa, Rosa, Cal. The signature of Ernie Nevers, Stanford University football captain now graces a contrac to play professional football for a Jacksonville, Fla., promoter. Nevers will get an advance payment of ?25,-000. ?25,-000. Rock Springs, Wyo. Miss Anna V. Burns, for the past three and a half years an instructor in normal training at the Rock Springs high school, has received word that she had been ap pointed state inspect6r of private elementary ele-mentary schools for Missouri, the appointment ap-pointment taking effect January 1. She has resigned her position here to accept the appointment and will leave Rock Springs in the near future. Oakland, Calif. Mrs. Wilmoth A. Groome, 100 years of age, who knew Abraham Lincoln in her youth, died here. Mrs. Groome was a native of Lynchburg, Va., and lived at Broom-field, Broom-field, Ohio, before coming to California Califor-nia in a covered wagon. Besides two sons who survive her in Oakland, Mrs. Groome leaves a brother in Portland, Ore., 83 years of age, and a sister in Pasadena, Calif., 87 years of age. Seattle, Wash. Five miners were killed and a sixth was severely burned burn-ed in an explosion at the Wilkson Coal and Coke company, forty-nine miles southeast of Tacoma, it was revealed re-vealed in a special dispatch to the Seattle Post-Intellingencer. San Francisco. Togo Shima of Berkeley and his sister. Miss Florence Shima, children of George Shima, known as California's "potato king" have filed suit in superior court here to establish that they are citizens of the United States. They were born in San Francisco, but their birth records rec-ords were destroyed in the fire of 1906. The parents are subjects of Japan. Ja-pan. Phoenix, Ariz. The Arizona committee com-mittee on the Colorado river has reached an agreement on an answer to the tri-state compact for the division di-vision of the waters of the lower basin ba-sin of the river among the states of Arizona, California and Nevada submitted sub-mitted to it on December 2 by committees com-mittees from California and Nevada, it was announced by R. S. McCluskey, secretary to Governor Hunt and member mem-ber of the committee. Denver, Colo. Louise Swift, Jr., son of the Chicago packer, is learning his father's business as an office employee em-ployee at the Denver Stockyards. Young Swift followed a course of apprenticeship ap-prenticeship as a butcher and laborer In the Swift company's Omaha plant since the world war, and his present duties represent an advance, company officials say. San Francisco, Calif. When government gov-ernment officials started unloading 10,000 cases of seized Scotch liquor from the schooner Coal Harbor here, 10,000 rats swarmed the deck of the craft. The hold of the dingy schooner was alive with starving rodents whoso food supply was shut off when the Coal Harbor was seized several months mon-ths ago and anchored oft Yerba Bueno island in San Francisco bay. The rats managed to keep alive by eating the corks from a number of bottles of Scotch, rye and champagne that had been exposed by the breaking of cases. Bismark, N. D. A third party movement in North Dakota in preparation prepar-ation for the 1926 political campaign was started here with the formation of the Farmer-Labor party of this state. Tucson, Ariz. Organization of a "league for the abolition of compul-sory compul-sory military training" was effected here by University of Arizona students. stu-dents. This a-as announced by Robert Rob-ert E. Pettengil, president of the organization, or-ganization, wbj said the members would seek a' filiation with similar o-cieties o-cieties through the east. |