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Show I Western Brevities S 1 from the Many j Western States ( Berkeley, Cal.- Called upon o -rfght the wrong" he had done to Julia Ocampo, his Guatemalan ch Id hood sweetheart. Abel Zamora, Urn versi.y of California student sen three bullets into his hea.t and brain. Denver, Colo.-Jnvenile Judge Ben B Lindsev, nationally famous as an authority on juvenile delinquency, is losing his grip on the bench seat he has occupied for more than two decades. de-cades. A total of 20G votes, included includ-ed in the original election returns last November that showed him a winner for the judgeship over Royal R Graham by 117 votes, were lost to Judge Lindsey when a recount had been completed in thirty of Denver's 211 election precincts. Salt Lake City.-The American Falls dam, which is. to cost several million of dollars will be constructed construct-ed without further question, and it will prove a great boon to the farmers farm-ers of the Gem state, D. W. Davis, former governor of Idaho and now director of finance of the United States reclamation service, declared here. Helena, Mont Suit for $90,000 for alleged failure to comply with a contract con-tract to purchase $90,00 in stock of the Southern Livestock company, was filed in district court here by the First National bank of Chicago, against Richard T. Ringling of Ring-ling, Ring-ling, Mont., circus operator and stockman. stock-man. The amount is alleged to be due on a note made by Lester P. Work and held by plaintiff. Rock Springs, ' Wyo. A general bond issue for $170,000 was accepted accept-ed by the people of Rock Springs, Wyoming, by a two-to-one- vote. The city council had already authorized author-ized $255,000 in bonds, both issues to be used in constructing a sewer system and diverting the channel of Sitter Creek from Rock Springs to Reynolds. Colorado Springs, Colo. What is believed to be a world's record for driving a golf ball was made here on the Broadmoor Golf club grounds by Jimmy Gullane, the club's professional. profes-sional. Gullane drove a ball 470 yards toward the seventeenth hole. The ball rested fifty-eight yards from the cup and Gullane holed out for an eagle three. Cortez, Colo. An aged and taciturn taci-turn medicine man, Mormon Joe, who has led his tribe of southern Colorado Colora-do Ute Indians through many tribal trib-al ceremonies and rites, faces two charges of murder, one by the federal government for being an accessory ac-cessory in the burying alive of an lS-day-old papoose and the othor by the state authorities for the slaying of a prison cellmate. Phoenix, Ariz. The sum of $94S,076 was alloted to Nevada by the Federal Government for the construction of federal state highways for the year beginning next July according to word received from Washington. This will permit the state to sign contracts immediately im-mediately for work which has been delayed slightly because Federal funds had not been alloted Boise, Idaho. With arrest of Rus-sel Rus-sel Smith, 22, at Rupert, and Mark Godfrey, IS, at the Lone Star ranch near Caldwell, a man hunt that began in November 1923. came to an end and placed behind the bars the chief ac tors in a holdup of a Pasadena Short Line train at Valley Junction Cal according to C. R. Smith, deputy sheriff of Los Angeles, who . is in Boise awaiting signing of extradition papers to take the prisoners has to California. Phoenix, Ariz.-E. M. Whitworth division engineer for the state hi-;,' way department, whose neck 'was broken ,n four piaCes ,n an .lIIt s b.le accident near here recently "s been taken to Los Angeles for an , eratio n in an attempt to sav Z We. Whitworth's automobile turned o;er when it lost a wheel. K X-ray photographs revealed his nj" had been broken in four places .mb -s decided to take hino UcoU derbanckFrainCMC-JU(lge H;lro1" u- b:vu:derh-- Ellingson. the 16-ve-r i, ..?"rothy Jazz" charged with the k , -ther in the bedroom f T last Januarv. after a n , ",e daughter', "conduct Th?' the nounced that the j'urv -1 i0,""''' an" missed and a new 1u?v dis" determine whetnlr n1"'"" " t present. Eul ls '"na |