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Show I Western Brevities S m from the Many S I Western States 1 Los Angeles. Rev. W. W. Atter-biiry, Atter-biiry, G5, formerly of Bozeman, Mont, was arrested here charged with embezzlement em-bezzlement In connection with his operations op-erations as head of the Home Finance company of Alhambra, near here. Shortly after his arrest, Atterbury ; was removed to the prison ward of the general hospital owing to the condition of his health. Spokane, Wash. Ten thousand dollars dol-lars reward for finding Ernest Boh-man, Boh-man, 23 years old, Troy, Idaho, youth, believed drowned In the Tlhuk creek In Alaska, last month, or recovery of his body, has been offered by hi", father, Ole Bohmun, a banker of Troy. Kugone, Ore. Ileforestration In the Mt. Ilebo Douglas fir area of the Siu-slaw Siu-slaw national forest la western Ore-, Ore-, Kon has proved successful. Trees planted from 1912 to 1916 are eight to sixteen feet bight, the averago I height being ten feet. Wrangell, Alaska. The last boat of l the season to come down the Stiklne river from the Casalar gold region In northern British Columbia has arrived ar-rived here with a capacity passen-' passen-' ger list, including miners, engineers j and prospectors. Many of the pas- engers left for Seattle and Vancou ver, B. C, for the winter. 1 Sacramento, Calif. Tony LaZerre, ; Salt Lake shortstop has established a new world's record for home runs. In the seventh Inning of the closing game of the season Tony hit his sixtieth six-tieth of the season, thus excelling by one the record set by Babe Ruth In 1921. There was wild rejoicing ' among the Bees when Tony achieved bis feat. Rock Springs, Wyo. What is believed be-lieved to be the "holdout" of an old cattle rustling gang of the early days of Wyoming was found recently by Walter Roberts of Sweet Water while prospecting on Beaver creek In the Wind River mountains. It was an old cave and among the relics he found were an old muzzleloading rifle, a can of cartridges, so corroded by age i that the caliber was not discernable, ' an old shoe last and a broken hand axe. Klamath Falls, Ore. Thousands of wild ducks are dying In the marsh lands of Tule lake, suffering from 1 botulinus poisoning. This was the belief expressed here by county health officers after an autopsy on J eight of the stricken birds. Coincident with his announcement of the postmortem post-mortem examinnation, Dr. Newsom issued a country-wide warning not to eat ducks from the Tule lake district until a more thorough analysis of the strange malady has been made. Rock Springs, Wyo. No longer can 1 a taxpayer in Wyoming step up to the window of his bank and pay his tax bill. This is the content of an order recently issued by the state examiner of Wyoming to the county treasurers of the state. Formerly the taxpayer could pay his taxes at an authorized bank, but now he must send a bank I draft, certified check or money order. I San Francisco, Calif. A police riot I squad was called to break up a crowd of irate women in a dry goods store i here after the proprietor had caused the arrest of a supposed property ! stricken mother of five children for ' the theft of a 29-cent scarf. Women i shoppers who heard the mother's plea j to the store owner threw merchandise far and wide when he refused to re-i re-i lease her. j Los Angeles. It was but a little j while ago that Arnold T. Nichols, , director of the recent Atlantic City beauty pageant, dropped a remark in Seattle to the effect that his exper- ( lence with beauty shows had taught him the witticism "beautiful but dumb" was, as the saying goes, a ! mouthful. Nichols, who is in Los An- ! geles, is now a crushed and chastened man. Pasadena, Calif.- -Mrs. W. P. Thir- kield of Chattanooga, Tenn., for the past twelve years president of the ' Home Missionary society of the Meth odist Episcopal church, was relected as a session of the annual conven- j tion of the society , ! Rock Springs, Wyo. The Union j Pacific Coal company has during the past week notified lessees of coal I company ground in the district known j . as Dry Creek, In the center of Rock j Springs, to vacate the ground to make way for a proposed city park. i Reno, Nevada. Glenn D. Cook, 37, ; mining engineer and geologist, was i blown to pieces at the Golden Eagle ; mine, sixty miles southeast of Fallon, Nevada, when a box of 5000 fuse caps he was carrying exploded just at the j mouth of the tunnel. He was gener- i al manager of the mine, which is own- . ed by Kansas City capitalists. ! Rock Sprinks, Wyo. The skin of a ' 700-pound brown bear, killed on Big i Sheep mountain on the upper Green ! river, has been placed on exhibition In Rock Springs. The bear was killed kill-ed by Morris Haggerty with a .25-35 j rifle after Haggerty had gone unarm- I ed into the bear's den and awakened j it from its winter slumber. Haggerty's partner. Jack Farrington, who last year killed a 1100-pound grizzly in i the same district, stood to one side and watched Haggerty shoot down the 1 big animal when the latter was less tha ctwenty feet from the hunter. i 1 i |