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Show ! Western Brevities f from the Many ? Western States f Oklahoma City.- Damages to the Oklahoma peach crop as a result of the recent cold spell are estimated at $2-00,000. Lewiston. Charles Jarrett was found guilty of murdor in the second degree by the Jury in the district court here. Walla, Walla, Wash. Thomas Robertson, Rob-ertson, 90, is serving a sentence of from six mouths to five years in the penitentiary here for threatening tha life of his TG-year-old son iu law. Waco, Texas. Roy Mitchell, negro was setuenced to pay the death penalty pen-alty here by a Jury iu district court for the slaying of Mrs. Fthel Dens-camp Dens-camp near Waco. Oakland. Fradulent chock passsrs iincreasod -10 per cent in California In 922, compared with the previous year, according to Hart Schrader, Jr., handwriting oxpert. Phoenix, Ariz. Action to recover a total of nearly ifHoO.OOO from the Big Jim Gold Mining Company of Oat-man, Oat-man, Ariz., hag been instituted in federal fed-eral court here in the filing of an equity income and excess profit tax suit. Spokane, Wash. Frank Needles of Seattle will be 1924 basoball captain at Gonzaga university, it was announced an-nounced here. Los Angeles. Tommy Milton, automobile auto-mobile race driver, In tests on tha Los Angeles speedway, made 110.32 miles an hour in his new 122 cubic inch piston displacement motorcar. Seattle. A rifle invented by a Seattle Seat-tle man uses air under 600 pound pressure to propel spherical bullet at greater velocity than small callbra rifles using powder. Albany, Ore. A burial ground of what is pronounced to be an ancient group of mound builders has been unearthed un-earthed directly across the river from Albany by Clyde Peacock. Wells Nevada. Isador nandalman, :he 17 year old youth, who was arrested ar-rested here on n charge of stealinir & watch is being held for the distriot court. Carson City, Nev. Governor James-G. James-G. Scrugham has vetoed the senate bill designating the Lincoln highway as the primary route across Nevada. Seattle. Plates, from which close-to close-to 15,000 bogus $20 bill were made, were found behind a log in Madrona park by federal agents. Los Angeles. Prohibition officials announced they had secured confessions confes-sions from bottleggers who have been supplying Hollywood movie society. so-ciety. The evidence will be placed before be-fore a grand Jury. Ely. Fifty-one miners arrived from Montana this week and were added to the force at the Consolidated Copper Cop-per mines property at Klmberly. Leadville, Colo. Fire of underter-mlned underter-mlned origin completely destroyed St. Joseph's Roman Catholic church here. Salt Lake. The Union Pnciflc railroad rail-road announced here that all coal burning engines would ee supplanted by oil burners on the Los Angeletf and Salt Lake railroad. Ogden. C. Ballard, who is alleged to have passed about thirty forged checks in Ogden during the. past two weeks, w-as arrested In Evanston, Wyo. Pocatello. A hearing on wool rates will be held in the United States district court room in Boise, in April, before Interstate Commerce Examiner, Exam-iner, W. A. Disque. Elko, Nev. Explorations for water at the China ranch property of tha city of Elko have resulted in augmenting augment-ing the city's water supply by nitout one-fifth of the present amount. Baker, Ore. John Hllton; forinei resident of Baker, died In Long Beach from the effects of injuries received when he was struck by a street oar. Los Angeles. -Eight alleged members mem-bers of the Industrial Workers of the World were found guilty of criminal syndicalism by a jury in the superior court here. Denver. Ben Englander, federal federal investigators from Washington federal investgators from Washington pending an inquiry Into alleged "'Irregularities," "'Ir-regularities," according to announcement. announce-ment. Fresno, Calif. Captain R. F. Do Winton, world war veteran leaped to death from a window of a hotel here. Ogdent, Utah. Fred Johnson, of Superior, Wyo., dropped dead on tha street within twenty minutes after h arrived in this city. I . Helena, Mont. Thomas C. Power( former United States senator, pioneer merchant stockman and banker, died at his home In Helena, after an illness ill-ness of several months. I Metropolis, Nev. The Metropolis hlh school has won the state championship cham-pionship in debating. Six schools pap ( tlcipats4 lu tha debate. I |