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Show l Western Brevities j t from the Many Western States I -.. Fairfield. Ida. After cheering his horse, Junior, in n relay race, Char, es (Charley) Burnett, GO, veteran daho horse racer, dropped dead when lie saw the animal forging down the home stretch to victory. Physicians said death was due to a hemorrhage of the brain. I.os Angeles, Night automobile racing will he inaugurated at the Ascot As-cot speedway of Lns Angeles when the dirt track re.opens. Work has begun be-gun on the installation of the light system to transform the plant into night racing condition. Fallon, Nevada, News of a rich gold strike at Gold Basin near Fallon, Is reported In a wire received from Fallon. It is stated that the Hidden Treasure property, owned and operated oper-ated by Hunt and Miller, cut a vein of free gold ore that, runs from $000 to $1200 per ton. The discovery was made in sinking a shaft, at a depth of 100 feet. Twin Falls, Ida., Prediction that actual construction of the American Falls reservoir project would begir. before the first snowfall thi3 yeai was made at the offices of the American Ameri-can Falls reservoir district at Ameri. can Falls, following receipt of word from district Judge J. It. Bothwell, attorney for the district, that pro-cedure pro-cedure in connection with the district's dis-trict's two million seven hundred thousand dollar issue had been approved ap-proved by AVood & Oakley, Chicago bond attorneys, and that the bonds would be sold September 12, next. Nampa, Idaho Definite information informa-tion as to the date on which construction construc-tion will commerce on the $450,000 car repair plant to be erected at Nampa by the Pacific Fruit Express company is expected to be forthcoming forthcom-ing within the present week. Los Angeles. After only twenty-five twenty-five minutes deliberation a jury in Superior Judge Charles Crail's court acquitted Charles W. Dorris, Long Beach realty operator of the charge of having murdered his wife, Theresa, There-sa, and Henry D. Meyer, Pasadena, capitalist, last June. Los Angeles, Ca. Mrs. Kate Dei-trich, Dei-trich, 79, who is in the city jail on tuspicion of grand larcency in connection con-nection with a series of alleged department de-partment store thefts here, has a shoplifting record tha tstretch.es over more than twenty years, and links her to records in Chicago, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, San Francisco Francis-co and other cities, according to detectives. de-tectives. Pendleton, Ore. Little Hawke, Cayus-a Indian, said to have participated parti-cipated in the Whitman massacre in 1847 is dead on the Umatilla reservation. reser-vation. He was about 95 years old and among the Indians was known as Tam-A-Pio-Kouch-Kouch. Hoquim, Wash. Five hundred men are out of work and damage estimated estimat-ed at $1,000,000 resulted from a fire which destroyed the National lumber and planing mill and 8,000,000 feet of lumber. Sparks from a dry kiln caused the blaze. Great Falls, Mont. Trial of United Uni-ted States Senator B. K. Wheeler of Montana, vice presidential candidate with Senator La Follette's independent independ-ent ticket on a grand jury indictment charging him with violation of section sec-tion 113 of the United States penal code, will be heard in the federal court here about the middle of September, Sep-tember, unless motion should be made by Senator Wheeler himself for a continuation it was stated by United States District Attorney John L. Slattery. Klamath Falls, Ore. Mrs. Rebecca Stewart, 105 years old is dead here. She is survived by four of her e'even children. Mrs. Stewart and her son. I Stewart, spent last winter -lear Medford, Ore., and came here recently recent-ly in a prairie schooner. She was born in London, August 17, 1899, and came to the United States in 1861. Pocatello, Idaho. A nest of twenty-five rattlesnakes was found on Mink Creek by Eli Ritzman and Mar shall Dodd, local nunters. m. hunting in that section the men saw one large rattler and followed it to a pile of rocks. A gun was shoved into the holes a-d after one shot wai fired the rocks were turned over and the rattlesnake family was discovered. discover-ed. Los Angeles. Fred Thompson, winner of the decathlon championship champion-ship during the 1912 Olympic games and more recently motion picture stunt man, sustained a compound fracture of the left leg here when he fell under the wheels of a heavy stafre coach during the filming of t western "thriller." Yosemite, Cal. Bowers cave resort, re-sort, on the Merced river, near the entrance to Yosemite national park, was destroyed by a forest fire which forest service officials believe incen- dlSsn Francisco. The United States forest service has sent a representative represen-tative to Reno to offer the Nevada authorities au-thorities any assistance that may be required to fight the forest fire raging rag-ing in Truckee river canyon on the Nevada side of the California-Nevada boundary. |