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Show I Western Brevities J from the Many X I Western States f i Carson City, New Forty thousand license plates to be issued in the registration re-gistration of motor vehicles next yeai have been received at the office of Secretary of State W. G. Greathouse, but they will not be issued until the end of this year. The plates have white numerals and lettering on a blue background. There are 10,500 sets of two plates each for passenger cars, 3o00 for commercial cars, and one hundred sets of dealers' plates. ' .Salt Lake, Alumni of the University Univer-sity of Utah paraded through the main streets of the city in celebra-ion celebra-ion of their homecoming and the seventh-fifth anniversary . of the founding of their alma mater. Every class, beginning with that of '75, was represented with autos bearing the class numerals and the graduates attending at-tending the reunion. Pocatello, Idaho. The announcement announce-ment that the board of county commissioners com-missioners had voted in favor of withholding with-holding further aid from the Bannock County Farm bureau and county agent came as a complete surprise to Pocatello and county residents, and it is expected that the commissioners will be asked to rescind their action. Rock Springs, Wyo., Admirers of President Coolidge among Wyoming cow punchers Friday presented a plainsman's five-gallon hat to Herb Moore of Plymouth, Vt., boyhood play mate of the chief executive, when the Coolidge - Dawes caravan pas s e d through here. Seattle, The Seattle baseball team has been declared the winner for 1924 of the Pacific Coast League. The teams of the league finished in the following order: Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland. Salt Lake. Vernon, Portland and Sacrmento. Kemmerer, The body of Frank Tunko, the last of the 39 ill-fated miners who met death in the terrible explosion at Kemmerer Coal Co.'s No. 5 mine at Sublet, was recovered from the debris last Monday evening after nearly a month's search. Jackson, Wyo. The deep snow in the mountains has forced the elk down into the lowlands and they are now being slaughtered by hunters, many having been killed from automobiles. auto-mobiles. Authorities can do nothing to protect them as it is now open season. Spokane, Wash., F. W. Curran paid with his life for a joke. Riding in an automobile driven by C. Martin, he pulled Martin's cap down over his eyes and the car went over a thirty-foot thirty-foot embankment near Fort Wright, killing Curran instantly. Martin and another passenger in the car were -ot hurt. Curran was a logging contractor. con-tractor. Los Angeles, Three bandits in a nrge automobile held up Bert Cowan, messenger for the Merchants' National Nation-al bank here, and escaped with $25,000 'n currency. The bandit car drew alongside Cowan's machine, the trio covered him with pistols, forced him "0 drop the money satchel, recovered it and fled. Fallon, Nevada, T. C. Hart, judge of the eighth judicial district of Nevada, Ne-vada, comprising Churchill and Lyon counties, died in Fallon after an illness ill-ness extending over a period more than a year. Apoplexy was the cause of death. San Francisco. The Paiik of Italy, one of the largest financial institutions institu-tions of the Pacific coast startled the banking world with tin announcement of a plan whereby its ownership wil! pas:- to its employe's. Sioux Falls, S. Dak. O. II. Oien, 81, ami his wife, who is S3, came hert from their farm house near Dall liapids and saw their first motion picture pic-ture show and they don't care 1! they never see another. After the-sbow, the-sbow, which contained a western feature and a short comedy, they expressed ex-pressed the opinion that the feature fea-ture was too violent to offer any recreation. re-creation. The comedy, they agreed, was more enjoyable. Blackfoot, Ida. Construction work on the greater Fort Hall project between be-tween Blackfoot and Pocatello at thi3 time includes reconstruction of the Tyhee siphon and on the main canal of the Fort Hall-Michaud branch.. Bids for the Typhee siphon work, involving in-volving 10,500 square yards of reinforced rein-forced cement gunite were opened at the office of the supervising engineer,. C. A. Engle, United States reclam-etion reclam-etion service, at Blackfoot. Cheyenne, "Beat Texas to it" Is the campaign slogan adopted by the democratic party in Wyoming, following follow-ing the nomination of Mrs. William B. Ross, as gubernatorial candidate, to succeed her recently deceased husband. hus-band. Wyoming passed the first suffrage suf-frage law in 1869 and now seeks to hold the honor of electing the first woman governor. San Francisco, The board of supervisors su-pervisors of San Francisco have enacted en-acted an anti-smoke ordinance which will require the smoke emitting fac-l"ories fac-l"ories of the city, and all buildings which emit smoke, to raise the level of their smokestacks above the windows of adjoining buildings. The board alio al-io prohibited any person from allow-ng allow-ng clouds of smoks to issue from a stack and cinders or noxious fumes. San Francisco, Genevieve McDonnell, McDon-nell, salesgirl in a large department store here, has received notice that she had interited $85,000 from her godfather, the late James Connor, who died here September 3. The bequest be-quest was made as a reward for her kindness to Connor. She is one of a family of seven. Her father was a San Francisco policeman. . Elko, New A new saving factor for the cattlemen of this section who are hard-pressed at the present time to solve the problem of feeding their stock for the winter with hay at a premium, has arisen in the shape of the -lowly cotton seed which has turned out to be a most excellent feed for livestock according to George Kussell Jr.. prominent stockman of this section. Reno, New, Regular operation of in airplane in connection with the business of mining, believed to be the first attempt of this sort, is the plan )f C. I. Eastman, general manager of i gold property near Minden. East-nan, East-nan, an ace of the British flying orps during the World war, said he hoped to use the plane not only to ravel 60 miles to the mine electric plant, but also for other "errands." Tacoma, Wash., Judge E. E. Cush-man, Cush-man, in federal district court here, refused to grant a restraining order against the Tacoma board of censors in its attempt to prohibit Roscoe E. (Fatty) Arbuckle from appearing at a local theatre this week. The theatre management announced that Arbuckle Arbuck-le will appear as scheduled despite the unfavorable decision. Los Angeles, Officials of the Los Angeles chamber of commerce have denied reports that they were backing back-ing a move to construct a new railroad rail-road line from here to Casper, Wyo., via Nevada, Utah a-d northern Co'o rado. They said they believed the Union Pacific system already adequately ade-quately covered the territory. Bingham, Utah, The Highland . Boy mine, it is reported will still I further curtail production about No-: No-: vember 1. The low price of copper I is said to be the cause. |