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Show 4Cf " Western Brevities from the Many X l Western States : Portland, Ore. A plague resembling resem-bling foot and mouth disease has been discovered among mule deer In Klamath county, Ore., near the California Cali-fornia line, according to a report made by M. J. Barnes, deputy game warden at Klamath Falls, to the state game commission office here. Seventy-two deer were dead in Oregon, in Klamath county; seven more were reported dead at Groh's ranch, south of Klamath Falls. San Jedro, Cal. Selection of Terminal Ter-minal Island as a site for a naval air station and fleet supply base was announced an-nounced here by Captain Stanford E. Moses, commander of the battle fleet air forces. Sioux Fals.l S. D. With the arrival og a carload of gasoline consigned to the state, Warden George Jameson of the South Dakota state penitentiary peniten-tiary announced that state sale of gasoline at 15 cents a gallon will begin be-gin at the penitentiary grounds. State sale is being inaugurated here for the first time since its renewal over the state last spring, under orders or-ders from Governor W. H. McMaster. Sioux Falls, S. D. H. F. Hall of Sioux Falls, manager of a municipal roedo show being staged here, and several performers at the exhibition-were exhibition-were arrested at the rodeo grounds by Dr. T. H. Kindred, humane officer offi-cer and Arthur Anderson, deputy sheriff. They are charged with cruelty, cruel-ty, to animals and their arrest was the outgrowth of a dispute between rodeo officials and humane officers over the "buildogging" and roping events of the rodeo program. Anchorage , Alaska. The Sustina valley is celebrating with an exhibition exhibi-tion and fair its first decade of agriculture. agri-culture. In the ten years since the launching of the Alaska railroad project pro-ject by the government, sufficient land has been brought under cultivation cultiva-tion to assure a display equal to that of many northwestern states. Los Angeles. The body of Jimmy Murphy automobile race driver, wlu was killed recently at Syracuse, N. Y., was interred at Calvary cemetery here. A number of world-famous auto track pilots, friends of the dead racer, attended the cereminies. Portland, Ore. Fossils of another strange animal which used to roam the wilds of eastern Oregon years ago have been discovered. A group of University of California geologists have found the skull, tooth and several sever-al bones of an elotherium, a squat pig-like creature which probably existed ex-isted in the tertiary age. The skull was about the size of that of a horse except that it was flatter. One of the teeth was about two inches in diameter and about three inches long. Wendell, Idaho. A. F. Achinger, pioneer settler of this section who lived alone on a ranch about six miles east of Wendell died Tuesday night at a Wendell hospital, from burns' received when he attempted to light his fire from a five gallon can of coal oil. The oil exploded and the man, a mass of flames, jumped into a nearby ditch, and later was brought to the hispital. Pendleton, Ore. Paddy Ryan of Cheyenne won the championship in the world's bucking contest here Saturday and with it the Roosevelt trophy for one year, a prize saddle awarded by the roundup, and $350 in cash. His victory came when he made a spectacular ride on U Tell Em, before a cheering throng of 45,000 people. Denver, Colo. The Denver & Rio Orande Western railroad will be sold at public auction October 26, according accord-ing to an announcement here by Cass K. Herrington, special master to conduct con-duct the sale mimed by Judge J. Fester Fes-ter Symes. The minimum bid to be received, under the direction of the court, wiil be .f 17,9:iT),70u. Casper, Wyo. The body of an un-Identified un-Identified m;n. badly decomposed and believed to he a victim of the Cole creek disaster of September 27, 1923, to Burlington train No. 30, was found in the Platte river near Park-erton. Park-erton. ek-ht miles below the scene ot the wreck, according to advices received re-ceived from Douglas. Pendleton, Ore. Before a crowd ot -15,000 roundup spectators, IIui'j Strictland won the world's steer rop ing championship roping two steers in one minute 2-.o seconds. Hue'.' Lucaj took the bulldozing champion ship throwing two steers in 50 l-r sec .vis |