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Show I Western Brevities j I from the Marty Eg I Western States Seattle.-The gunboat Princeton, which was with Admiral George Dewey Dew-ey when he won the Battle of Manila Bav twentv-seven years ago. is crumb-ling crumb-ling at a wharf on Lake Washington opposite Seattle. The Princeton cost $250,000 in 1897, when she was launched laun-ched at Camden, N. J. A Seattle lawver bought her in 1919 for Mb.uuu. and has been trying ever since to sell her. ,. . n - rims E Mellon Victoria, B. C. L.nas. and Joseph Cassars, constables m New Orleans, it was announced, will split a $2000 reward for the capture of Harry F. Sowash, who. with Owen B Baker, was sentenced here to hang for Killing William G. and William E. Gillis, father and son, in a hi-jacking raid on a rum-runner. Denver, Colo. The grim reaper of the "white plague" is about to cheat either the gallows or prison cells of its prey in Piatt Nae. Ute Indian accused ac-cused of burying alive his infant daughter in accordancewith a tribal rite, United States District Attorney George B. Stephen believes. ' Spokane, Wash. John Hackett aged 99 years, a pioneer of the Coeur d'Alene mining district has received re-ceived word of his inheritance of an estate of $3,000,000 from a brother, information in-formation received here from Kellogg, Idaho, said. The brother, Pat Hackett, Hack-ett, died recently at the age of 104. John Hackett, a veteran of the civil war ,is reputed to have made and losit several fortunes during his leftime in mining. Jerome, Ariz. Several stone picks or hammers, believed to be implements imple-ments of prehistoric man, have been found by -workmen at depths of over 100 feet in sodium sulphate deposits at Camp Verde, near here. Two of the finest specimens are being forwarded for-warded to the Smitsonian Institute. Position of the implements, when found, indicates they positively were contemporary with the deposits of so dium sulphate, local archaeologists declared. Los Angeles, Cal. Captain Lowell H. Smith, leader of the army's around the world flight, was presented with the medal of the chevalier of the Legion Le-gion of Honor by order of the president presi-dent of France. The medal and the order erecting him a chevalier were presented to Captain Smith here by Eugene Genis, acting consul for the French. San Francisco, Cal. Evolution ia the subject of a debate to be held in the municipal auditorium in Oakland Oak-land between Maynard Shipley of the Science League of America, who will Uphold the theory of evolution, and Kev. W. B. Riley of Minneapolis, secretary sec-retary of ths Christian Fundamentals association. Yuma, Ar'z. The jury trying Geo. W. Lynn, Yuma publisher charged with criminLl libel, reported that it was unable to agree on a verdict and was discharged. It stood five for conviction con-viction and feven for acquital. The case will not be retried until fall. Elko, Nev A government plane, piloted by I ieutenant Van Candt, and bound for Washington, D. C, cracked up at the local field just recently, when the pilot overshot the field and connected with the irrigation irriga-tion ditch at the west end. West Yellowstone. The bars to the Yellowstone are down. In official ceremonies held at the western en trance nere, june istn, tre national park was opened by Mrs. Nellie Tay-loe Tay-loe Ross, governor of Wyoming, together to-gether with Governors C. C. Moore of Idaho, J. E. Erickson of Montana and George H. Dern of Utah, the first three representing the states in which the great playground lies and the latter being the executive of the gateway gate-way state through which a major part of Yellowstone travel enters. Although Dr. Frank R. Loope of Seattle, Wash., has been a bedridden invalid for fourteen years and is compelled com-pelled to lie motionless, he took a twenty-two-minute ride in an airplane. air-plane. A hand mirror held in his hand reflected the earth below as Dr. Loope cannot even turn his head. Despite De-spite the fact that the sights were backwards and upside down, Dr. Loope declared he got as much fun out of the flight as a small boy gets on his first trip to the circus. Authority to make a non-stop flight from Seattle to San Diego 1400 miles, in a six tor. modified torpedo plane, was received from Rear Admiral Moffett, chief of the bureau of aeronautics, hv Lieut H H- Wyatt, flight officer of the naval air station at San Dieeo. |