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Show 1 Western Brevities I from the Many g I Western States 1 a Denver, Colo. C. F. Hartman, 72, for forty-three years chief inspector for the state livestock commission, pleaded guilty to charges of embezzling embezzl-ing state funds and was sentenced to from two to three years in the state penitentiary. A recent recheck of his accounts which resulted in his arrest showed shortages of more than $1G,-000. $1G,-000. Pueblo, Colo. Because the state considered him too old to face a murder mur-der charge in court and possible conviction con-viction and execution for the killing of his wife, Juan Fugueroa, 80, has been deported to Mexico, District Attorney At-torney J. Arthur Phelps announced here. Elko, Nev. The Fairview hotel, Contact's $110,000 150-room hostelry, completed and opened for business a year ago, was sold for the sum of $1500 to Robert Weir, Jr., of Los Angeles, An-geles, by Majorie Tolemie, receiver for the Contact Construction & Investment In-vestment company, now defunct. Los Angeles, Calif. Prison terms of from one to 300 years faced H. D. Hibbs and Thomas Hennessey, "10 to 1" rail merger swindlers, as a result of their conviction in superior court on thirty counts of larceny by trick and device. Los Angeles, Calif. Charles Ray Productions, Inc., organized several years ago to produce motion pictures featuring the actor Charles Ray was adjudged bankrupt in federal court here and an order was signed for the company to file a subject of its assets and liabilities within 10 days. Vale, Ore. Another step went forward for-ward on the Vale irrigation project, when Governor Walter Pierce wrote Elwood Mead, commissioner of reclamation, recla-mation, that the state would be in a position to meet the requirements of the government, regarding settlement of the land after the project had been completed, for the reason that federal aid in the Vale project is much desired de-sired throughout Oregon. By the time the government is in position to complete com-plete the necessary construction, which is expected to consume three years, the state will meet the requirements. require-ments. Phoenix, Ariz. An embargo against the shipment of livestock, hay, straw, grain, or grain bags from the entire state of Texas into the state of Arizona Ari-zona was put into effect by order of the state veterinarian. The quarantine was put into effect to guard against tha trr nnA - . ...... uuu muuuii uiseustj, now prevalent pre-valent in parts of Texas, the state veterinarian vet-erinarian said. San Diego, Cal. Flames starting in the Vernon club in Tijuana swept through an entire block that included some of the best known resorts in the border city, causing a loss that business men of the town estimated would total nearly $1,000,000. San Francisco. Proposal to increase in-crease the areas of Yosmite and Sequoia Se-quoia national parks in this state by addition of 700,000 acres of national forests will meet opposition from California's Cal-ifornia's livestock, power and irriga-tion, irriga-tion, mining and lumbering interests. Helena, Mont. Dame Nature added a finishing touch to the weather phenomena phe-nomena which visited Montana last week in the form of snow, earth tremors tre-mors and brilliant electrical displays furnishing residents of the state with an unseasonable glimpse of the aurora borealis. Florence, Ariz. Will Lawrence, Oklahoma Ok-lahoma outlaw, under sentence of death for the killing of a Phoenix policeman, and two other convicts in the Arizona state penitentiary were thwarted in an attempt to escape under un-der cover of darkness. Elko, Nev. Missing from her home since August 2, when she departed during the absence of her father in a sheep camp, Catherine Horn, 15-year 15-year old daughter of Barney Horn prominent stock man of the northern section of this country, was finally located lo-cated in Caldwell, Idaho, in the company com-pany of Ralph K. Bradley, and Bradley Brad-ley is being held on a charge of kidnaping, kid-naping, under the Nevada statutes. Kelso, Wash. George H. Norris superintendent of the Kelso waterworks, water-works, was arrested on a warrant sworn out by A. Ruric Todd, ex-mavor of Kelso, charging first-degree murder, mur-der, and was released a few hours later when the warrant was declared invalid The murder charged was that of Thomas Dovel, Kelso editor who was shot down in the street June 19. Todd and Norris were known to be political enemies. |