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Show i F'i'as''ai'S'tfi'S'a'i'E'at'E 1 1 Western Brevities 1 from the Many g II Western States 1 I 3 E'3J3H5!S"33jrii,i?!SW3 Jackson. Wyo. The people of Teton Te-ton county are opposed to the extension exten-sion of the Yellowstone National Park to include Jackson's Hole and "will go the limit to prevent it." This sentiment sen-timent was strong following the completion com-pletion of a hearing here of the senate sen-ate lands committee on the proposed propos-ed extension of the park. The national nation-al park service was severely rated before the committee by residents and strong opposition to federal control con-trol over Wyoming was voiced. Bismarch, N. D. There will be no election in North Dakota this fall to fill a vacancy in the United States senate sen-ate caused by the death of Senator Ladd. Governor Arthur J. Sorlie has made this announcement. He also declared that he might not attempt to fill the vacancy by appointment, transferring the whole problem to the people in the regular election next year. Portland, Ore. Spurred by the reward re-ward of $500 for the capture dead or alive of the three escaped convicts offered of-fered by the mayor and the chief of police of Portland, providing the bandits ban-dits are captured within the city of Portland, the police are staging the most intensive search for the desperadoes desper-adoes in the history, of Oregon crime. In addition, officers in the northwest are on the lookout. San Francisco, Calif. A. D. Smith, Southern Pacific brakeman, who is in the company hospital here as the result of injuries received when he was thrown from a moving freight train by tramps near Marysville, owes his life to a German police dog. Incurring In-curring a fractured skull from the fall Smith was found unconscious on the tracks by a construction crew after the barking of the police dog had attracted attention. The next train probably would have killed the unconscious un-conscious brakeman. San Francisco. The state laws providing pro-viding that bequests to charitable institutions in-stitutions must be made at- least 30 days before death and that no money can be left to any institution that cannot be reached by Clifornia tax provisions were upheld by the state supreme court. Boise, Idaho. Idaho will probably this year break her record in quality and quantity production of apples, potatoes, onions and prunes, according accord-ing to the annual crop report issued by J. C. Sewell Produce company of Nampa. Crop reports indicate shortages short-ages in these commodities in many producing sections in the east, the report re-port says. The report was compiled by the Idaho division bureau of crop estimates of the United States department depart-ment of agriculture. Oakland, Calif. A sentence of 10 years to life imprisonment in San Quentin prison was imposed on Mrs. Merrie Cunningham, 55, who shot and killed Robert Smith because he refused re-fused to kiss her goodbye following a quarrel last month in the apartment they occupied. Great Falls, Mont. J. B. Wheeler and his wife of Whitefish, missing in Glacier national park since August 12, were found dead by a park ranger. rang-er. Discovery of the bodies was made by Park Ranger J. B. Flemming near Lincoln Pass, where they had sought shelter from the snowstorm of August 14 and 15, during which twelve inches of snow fell. They had been dead about two weeks. Watertown, S. .D. Damage estimated estimat-ed at more than $100,000 was done by a wind and rain storm that struck this section of South Dakota wrecking wreck-ing farm buildings , destroying un-threshed un-threshed grain and killing some livestock. live-stock. The heaviest losses appeared to be in wrecked silos. Two persons were injured. r Lcs Angeles. Lawrence Bird, 30; Santa Barbara plasterer, strolled into the sheriff's office here, said he was wanted in Hastings. Neb., for the slaying of his divorced wife, and man companion, and asked that he be housed in the county jail until author ities checked his alibi. No requests being on file for his arrest. Bird was told to go back to his Santa Barbara job and resume plastering. Reno, Nev. Traveling at a speed of more than seventy miles an hour a racing car so"nersaulted at the state fair track at Fallon, sixty miles south of here, and instantly killed Harlan Rich. 18, the driver. The car rolled over a dozen times, left the track, crashed through two fences and came to a stop in an ail joining cemetery. Rich was tuning up his car for a tryout preliminary to an I tmoteur automobile race. |