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Show Western Brerities'lj X from the Many : Western States j Omaha, Neb. Crazed by liquor aEJ angered because his son Ralph -2, had taken his sisters and mother motoring, mo-toring, Raffaele Bonacci, 5S, fractured his wife's skull with an axe, and tried to aitack his son, who escaped him. Kansas Citj Christopher Girdine, 10, was killed while cranking his father's fa-ther's nuto. The hoy was hurled to the pavement and suffered a fractured frac-tured skull when the car back fired. Aberdaen, S. D. Ten persons are said to have perished and scores of others were injured when a tornado laid waste wide stretches of prosperous prosper-ous forming country. Salt Lake City The price of sugar took another drop of 20 cents a bag on the local market Tuesday, following follow-ing information that a similar reduction reduc-tion had been made in San Francisco. Cheyenne, Wyo. Governor W. B. Ross issued a call for special session of the Wyoming legislature, beginning July 10, to renaet an amended state farm loan act. Leavenworth, Kan. Eight ot twenty-four I. W. W. members who recently re-cently received commutation of their sentences from President Hardin? were released from the federal penitentiary peni-tentiary this week. Provo, Utah. Transcontinental "knights of the road" will find Provo a good place to leave out of their itineraries it the occasion arises wherein the edict issued by Judge James B. Tucker is put into effect. Rexburg, Idaho Paul Harris, age 5, had the flesh torn from his arm when he caught that member in his mother's power ringer. Stockton, Cal. Four men were killed in gun battles at Tracy, eighteen eigh-teen miles south of here during a quurrell between themselves and a fourth, who escaped injury. Salt Lake City. Charles Stevens, of Bremerton, Wash., gave himself up to Salt officers, claiming that he was wanted in Charleston, Wash., for an attempted robbery of a bank December De-cember 16, 1922. Reno, Nev. Forty-six men wersj arrested in Nevada in two days for alleged violations of the national prohibition pro-hibition act, according to advices re ceived here. Jackson, Cal. The eighty-foot sump at the Argonaut mine has been thoroughly cleaned out and no trace found of the body of William Fessel, missing miner of the disaster of a year ago. Moab, Utah The Arizona-Utah Oil company has unloaded a new No. 30 Star rig at Cisco and will at once proceed to spud in a new test well, to be located fifty feet west of the old test well sunk by the company. Sacramento, Cal. Governor Richardson Rich-ardson announced he will not sign a bill known as the foreign language school bill. The governor said the bill probably is unconstitutional. San Francisco The China Mail Steamship company's liner Nile, built at a cost of more than $1,000,000, was sold at auction for $47,800 to the Moore shipyards at Oakland, Cal. The sale was ordered to satisfy creditors. Seattle, Wash. A launch with a rated speed of eighteen miles an hour arrived here from Norfolk, Va., to be used by Millard T. Hartson, collector col-lector of customs, in catching rumrunners. rum-runners. Sawtella Cal. Barbara Lesler, aged 2 years, and William Prupan, S were burned to death and Minne Lesler, 6, was seriously burned by fire of unknown origin wheh destroyed destroy-ed the Lesler home here. Lincoln The Nebraska state railway rail-way commission has issued an order reducing freight rates on grain from Nebraska points to Omaha on an average of 10 to 12 per cent. Washington. The interior department depart-ment will soon restore to entry 21,000 acres of land in Emery county, Utah, near Woodside, after the state has made such selections from the tracts as are covered by Its grants. Boise The state bureau of highways high-ways will soon close the necessary contracts with the United States bureau bu-reau ot public roads to complete the paving between Payette and Fruit-land, Fruit-land, according to an announcement. San Francisco Urbain Chaudeur, oldest known survivor of the United States-Mexican war of 1846-48, died in the French hoBpitnl here two weeks after attaining the age of 100. He had been in the hospital since 1011. Rupert, Idaho The H. F. Laabs Cheese company has purchased the local cheese factory. The company has ordered a new vat with a capicity of 14,000 pounds of milk. Pierre, S. D. A heavy storm struel; Dry Run township, causing considerable consider-able damage, according to word re. ceived here. One schoolhouse was taken from Its foundation. Quebec Forest fires in the eastern section of the province of Quebec, except in Rimousski county, have been extinguished officials Bald. |