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Show H Western Brevities i ! ! from the Many 1 i Western Slates Salt Lake City. The traffic department de-partment of the Salt Luke Chamber of Commerce is piven credit for sav tag shippers of Ut:ih $9,000,000 In, the past three years. Ssmtn Rnrtmra. Warm and calm weather has opened the seal catching seas on the Santa Barbara chunnel Lslainds. Austin A resolution commending efforts at law enforcement by Governor Gov-ernor J.'lin M. Parker of Louislanii nd approving his actions aRainst "hooded mibs and masked political organizations" wa adopted by the Texas senate. Sacramento. A bill to prohibit capital punishment in California is to be introduced by Assemblyman Roy Fellom of San Francisco. Denver. Colorado Mixer, owned by Georjre W. Gaiter of Littleton Colo., wa3 adjudged grand champion In the fat competition of the seventeenth seven-teenth annual National Western Livestock show. Grand Forks. The strike of shop orafts on both the Great Northern nd Northern Pacific railroads her nd at East Grand Forks, Minn., 1. officially over, it was authentically reported. Sacramento. The Colorado river pact signed at Santa Fe, N. M. last November will be. put before the California legislature for consideration. considera-tion. Austin. Governor Pat M. Neff was inaugurated for his second term. T. W. Davidson t ok the oath of office of Lieutenant Governor at the saino time. Oklahoma City. Four teachers from a school in an outlying district and a pupil died from injuries received re-ceived when a speeding passenger train struck their automobile. Los Angeles. O. A. Simon, a photographer pho-tographer pleaded guilty to having made counterfeit Bank of England notes. He was sentenced to 4 years Imprisonment. Denver. Indictments charging Rn-ginnld Rn-ginnld W. Barrett anil John F. Barrett Bar-rett with the use of the United States mails In defrauding residents of Colorado Col-orado of huge sums , wure among eighty-two true bills returned by a . federal grand jury here. Reno., Whether the lethal pas death penalty of Nevada can be put ! fato effect depends icn the legisla ture's providing funds for the building build-ing of a death chamber. Washington. The Salt i-ake CIt;r postal savings bank had $1 (9,252 on deposit December 11. The Pocatelkj bank had deposits aggregating $197,-229. $197,-229. Salt Lake City. Mrs. Henry W. Vonna Peterson, died from Uie effects ef-fects of a scaldinlg suffered while bathtng nt her home. Ogden. The Wasatch forest reserve re-serve had C0.285 visitors during, the past year, according to the annual report of Danna Parkinson, supervl-or. supervl-or. Seattle. Clara Skarin was acquitted acquit-ted of tlie murder of Ferdinand Houchbrunn, 72, her benefactor. Denver. Ninety-one tons of 3 1-2 par cent radium ore have been received re-ceived here from the mines near Moab, Utah. Portland.' Relators' reports slV"w that large numbers of houses ana Outs are vacant here, with rents 2C per cent lower than 18 months ago. Los Angoles. Uwon Bartlett was warded ?2."0 damages, in the superior super-ior court, for alleged assault by Toddy Hayes, Jack Dempsey's trainer. train-er. I'lugone. To check destruction ot ch lions off the Orognn const nn Investigation has been ordered l chief wf the Bureau of Biology at Washington 1). C. Spokane. Use of radio aa a means of combating the spread' of crime pnd hastening the arrest -of criminals will lie instituted in Spokane county coun-ty tills spring. Kemmorer. Harry Gordon, formei marshal of Dlnmondville ani confess oil murdered of George Charldson, was sentenced to the state prison for life. Helena. Threats to tar and feather, feath-er, and signed K. K. K. have been received by Representative Lehn! of Lewis county, who is the nuthn of a prohibition enforcement bill. Ogden. -As the result of the work of the federal bureau, about 775 miles of fonds were added durilng the pas; Bummer to the highways of Idatic und 241 miles to tlia roads of Wyoming:. Burfcloy. Eight youths. wti police po-lice say, waged a campaign of holdups hold-ups on unsuspecting spoouers for a period of three months were under rresL Tncoma. Police and firemen are searching the ruins of Empire heto:, ' recently destroyed by tire in hopeo i ot finding the bodies of 7 niissin; guests. Oenver. Robbery with a gun will bo punishable by death In Colorado If legislation now being considers' la passed. |