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Show 7; 1 Western Brevities from the Many ! Western States Winnemucca, Nev. Another great cattle ranch -is doomed by the encroachments en-croachments of shep and barbed-wire fences, it was made known by a public pub-lic notice, which stated that the -Old Dunphv R.-.nch," one of the largest larg-est and best known in the state of Nevada, will be sold by the sheriff of Lander county at public auction the latter part of June. Pueblo, Colo.-Dr. Caleb W. Prest-nall Prest-nall of Trinidad, who was charged with the murder of his wife near Trinidad last July, hanged himself at Wood Croft sanitarium here. Prest-nall Prest-nall recently was examined as to his mentality by physicians at Johns Hopkins Hop-kins university hospital, Balitmore. Wrangell, Alaska. Two boats loaded load-ed with prospectors and 150 tons of freight have left here, up the Stik-ine Stik-ine river for the Carriar country of northern British Columbia, where gold was struck over the winter. Numerous Nu-merous Canadian officials have arrived ar-rived at the new diggings and a post-office post-office is planned. Santa Barbara, Cal. A suit has been filed in the superior court against Mrs. Elizabeth Robaine, president pres-ident of the League of Women Voters Vot-ers of Santa Barbara, by Mrs. Ada M. Clarke for $100,000 for the alleged alienation of the affections of Mr. Dumaine several months ago, hiving come out here from New York where they were said to be socially prominent. promi-nent. Los Angeles, Cal. Oliver S. Short of Baltimore, state emploment commissioner com-missioner of Maryland, was elected president of the civil service commission commis-sion of the United States at the organization's or-ganization's eighteenth annual assem- i bly here. Philadelphia was named 1S26 convention city. Lewiston, Idaho. Boise was awarded award-ed next year's convention of the Idaho funeral Service association, at the concluding session here. Alice C. Vassar of Lewiston was elected president; pres-ident; Wr. S. Mateer, Meridian, vice-president; vice-president; L. B. Gallogly, Burley, sec-retary-treasiuer; Harry Krebs, Boise, delegate to the national convention, and Alice C. Vassar, alternate. San Francisco. Figures compiled in the office of Samuel F. Rutter, federal fed-eral prohibition director, disclose that northern California residents legitimately le-gitimately consumed 1,200,000 pints of liquor in the twelve months ending end-ing May 1. This represents the amount of distilled spirits prescribed by physicians. There are 7300 physicians phy-sicians in California who have the right to prescribe liquor but proceedings pro-ceedings are under way to revoke the licenses of forty-five of these. San Jose, Calif. Concealed in steel irums labelled "linseed oil," 2500 gallons gal-lons of alcohol was seized aboard a freight carrier on its arrival here. The liquor was in 50 50-gallon containers. con-tainers. The shipment was purport ed to have been billed by the Erie Refining company of Cleveland, Ohio, to E. Maffey of this city. The officers of-ficers were unable to locate Maffey but held five suspects. Boise, Idaho. With a hid of several sever-al thousand dollars under what the state estimated the work would cost, H. E. Cornell, Boise contractor was awarded the contract to construct the new route of the Mountain Homo road into Boise. He bid $36,933.37, which was the lowest of five submitted. submit-ted. The high bid was $42,371, whilo the state's estimate was in the neighborhood neigh-borhood of $50,000. Los Angeles, Calif. While a lono bandit was holding up the First Exchange Ex-change bank here, John Durant, a teller, stepped on a hidden button which Set off a burglar alarm and when the bandit emerged from the bank with $3400 in cash lie had scooped off the counter, he was confronted con-fronted by a posse of armed citizens who held him at bay until police officers offi-cers arrived and took him into cus-tody. cus-tody. American Falls, Idaho.-A pageant embracing many picturesque features including an exhibition of progress from the earliest times in Idaho, n,ne bands, a semi-barbecue at which provision pro-vision will be made ror f 000 persons, natural and artificial sheltered and shaded spots, inc uS es, an Ind.an exhibition of trib-,1 beauty and thrills are included I tentative plans for the great can Fans darn celebration Tn U a"' cording to announcement from te general committee, dependent "e financing of a 'budget 0 Vo concerning the success of which h! committee expressed no doubt |