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Show I ! Western Brevities I from the Many Western States I rimenix, Ariz., Hundreds of acres of bleak desert land, nrroyos In the hills and mountnin canyons ea-st and west of Phoenix were under water Thursday as the result of heavy rains in central Arizona during the last two days, which sent many small rivers out far over their banks. Water was rushing over the tops of sove'ral small dams. Denver, II. B. Westover of Denver was appointed narcotic agent in charge of the Denver division, comprising com-prising Colorado, Utah and Wyoming, effective January 1. He has boen acting In this capacity since Septem. ber 1 last. Green River, A hobo by the name of Ray Drewek of Milwaukee, 31 years of age, fell under the wheels of a passenger pas-senger train just west of here, lioth legs were cut off above the nnkles and in this condition, bleeding frightfully, fright-fully, he dragged himself a half a mile to Green River before he found assistance. Miami, Ariz., Ted Grosh, University Univer-sity of Arizona athlete, was shot to death and his companion Miss Maxine McNelly of Globe Ariz., is in a Globo hospital In a serious condition as the result of an attack by a negro. Fort Collins, Colo., State's Attorney Attor-ney General Russell W. Fleming of Colorado died hers Tuesday from blood poisoning which had infected his arm the previous day. Seattle, Six lives were taken find damage roughly estimated Tuesday night at ?20O,000 done by a tempest that accompanied Christmas day to the north Pacific ocean and the parts of AVashington and British Columbia adjacent to Puget sound find Gray's harbor. Portland, A sentence of 20 years in the penitentiary was Imposed on Claude Carlln, who was convicted of a statutory charge involving his 14-year 14-year old stepdaughter. Tuscon, Ariz. Driven frantic by a fly that entered his ear and kept up a continual buzzing, nenry Pettus committed suicide by shooting. San Francisco, One thousand public pub-lic school boys of San Francisco, from 12 to 18 years old, have been organized into a traffic reserve force. Like the regular traffic policemen they are posted on the corners surrounding sur-rounding schools. Tonopah, Nev. News of an important import-ant strike of high-grade in the Crown Point-Globe mine at Johnnie, Nev., has reached Tonopah. Seattle, Wash., A storm which wrecked the tug Tyee with the loss of five lives Monday night in north Pacific waters and in which the wind reached a velocity of sixty-six miles an hour, the highest set down in the thirty-three years that the United States government has kept record here. Oregon City, Ore., Deep in the original ori-ginal channel of the Williamette river here was found recently "a stone fish," which has been added to a collection col-lection of relics of prehistoric life in the possession of O. A. Hollingsworth. The stone was uncovered when excavation exca-vation was being made for an addition to a local paper mill. ' Pendleton, Ore., Tom Lenhart, member of the Hermiston pig club, has been awarded the silver medal offered of-fered by American meat packers for the best bred Duroc-Jersey pig exhibited ex-hibited by a pig club member at the 1923 Pacific. International livestock exposition. St. Anthony, Idaho, Pea growers of Fremont, Madison, Jefferson and Bonneville counties, who claim they have been raising peas at a loss, held a meeting at Rigby. Idaho, at which time they passed resolutions petitioning petition-ing the seed companies for an advance ad-vance in the price of peas. Casper, Wyo., Floyd B. Evans of Shreveport, La., and H. C. Briggs of Parkerton, Wyo., were killed and J. J. Speck of Casper was seriously injured in-jured when an automobile Speck was driving plunged through a bridge eight miles east of here. Cheyenne, Wyo., James F. (Dinty)' Moore, mall pilot whose plane crashed crash-ed to earth near Burns, Wyo., Monday morning died in a Burns hospital a few minutes after a plane sent from here and carrying Dr. C. Y. Beard, reached Burns from Cheyenne. Winnemucca, Problems of the livestock industry, including range and tariff questions, were discussed at the meeting of the Nevada Stock-growers Stock-growers association recently at Winnemucca, Win-nemucca, Nev. The meeting was one of the largest and most enthusiastic ever held by the association, according accord-ing to Salt Lakers who attended. Boise Iduhc "Great Wool Production Produc-tion is the caption which appears at the head of publicity matter which the Bank of Manhatten New York City, is spreading through the west. Underneath the head of an Idaho ram . the bank has printed industrial facts concerning the state. Ely, Nevada, James Mellas, prominent prom-inent rancher in Butte valley showed his faith in American made confectionery confec-tionery when he shipped $125 worth of candies to relatives in Greece, fof Christmas. |