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Show Western Brevities Ij H from the Many Western States 1 .fflaiaansiprsisiiaaraiaifflaaa Denver, Colo. Failure of Attorneys for W.. E. D. Stokes, wealthy New York hotel man, to prosecute his appeal ap-peal from a juvenile court decision awarding his wife, Mrs. Helen El-wood El-wood Stokes the custody of their two children caused the state supreme court to strike the case from the records. rec-ords. Portland While thousands of spectators spec-tators at the Oregon-California fool-ball fool-ball game in the Multnomah field stadium sat horrified, Albert P. Goss, Jr., University of Oregon student fell nearly 100 feet from the top of the grandstand, narrowly missing striking a group of policemen below and suffered suf-fered injuries which caused his death an hour later in a hospital. San Diego, Cal. Leiutenant Edgai L. Adams, U. S. N., airman, was killed kill-ed and two other men injured when two airplanes attached to the iir squadrons of the battlefieet, based at North Island naval air station, collided collid-ed off Oceanside, forty-five miles north of here. Lieutenant L. C. Stevens Ste-vens and Chief Machinist's Mate J. Mills received slight injuries in the collision. Los Angeles The most heavily armed squad of court; guards seen here for many years patrolled Federal Judge William P. Jame's court here when five members of the gang accused ac-cused of robbing the United States mails of $500,000 here October 8 last were brought up for arraingment All of the men, who are held in jail in default of $100,000 bond each, pleaded not guilty. The trial was set for February 2 next. Rock Springs, Wlyo. The Union Pacific railroad now leads all of 1he Class 1 railroads of the United States in the lowness of fuel consumption, using less coal per ton per mile than any road of the class, according to Union Pacific Fuel Inspector Richards of Omaha, on his recent trip to Rock Springs. The Union Pacific consumes only 117 pounds of coal per gross ton mile, a decrease of three pounds since last April. Butte, Mont. Posses are searching for Art Mann, who disappeared after af-ter striking his mother-in-law, Mrs. Frances Randervich on the head with an ax. The woman is . in a hospital in a critical condition. The attack occurred at Mrs. Randervich's cottage cot-tage on the outskirts of Butte, where Mrs. Mann went to live following a quarrel with her husband. Seattle, Wash. About 40 per cent of the offerings of Siberian, Alaskan and British Columbia furs which went on sale at the Seattle fur exchange were sold before the first day was over, J. E. Agnew, manager of the exchange announced. Between $350,-000 $350,-000 and $400,000 worth of furs were offered. About fifty buyers, representing repre-senting a hundred accounts in New York Montreal, Chicago, Vancouver, Ban Francisco and elsewhere, attended attend-ed the sale. Hollywood, Calif. Construction of. a $2,500,00 hotel, catering to motion picture people and financed by motion mo-tion picture capital, will begin here November 15th next. Plans were announced an-nounced by a syndicate headed by Joseph M. Schenck, film producer. Half the Mezzanine floor will be occupied oc-cupied by a motion picture artists' club. Other features of the 400-room hostelery, designed to provide a social so-cial center for the film colony, will include a Spanish ballroom, a .roof garden and grounds landscaped to produce the effect of a villa garden in Spain. , Sacramento, Calif. Aviators who hunt ducks over the rice fields in Sacramento valley with huge nets spread under the wings of the plane are violating state and federal game laws. This was the reply of George Neale, executive secretary of the state fish and game commission, when his attention was called to the practice. prac-tice. The ducks are caught in the nets and the speed of the plans prevents pre-vents their escape until the nets can be closed. Berkeley, Calif. Monday was a glad, sad day for Folian Radhupper. Tuesday he was at liberty under $20 bond furnished by Fook Ah, alleged head of a Chinese lottery. The charge against Forlian was that of having a lottery ticket in his possession. According Ac-cording to the police, Forlian's ticket tick-et which cost $4 was good for the day's capital prize of $SO00 and the raid came just before Fook Ah had paid over the prize money. |