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Show I Western Brevities from the Many J Western States I i Bend, Ore. Fire destroyed several business houses in Madras, Ore.: north of here, with an estimated loss of ?200,000. Los Angeles. Held in jail more than seven hours awaiting the opening open-ing of the bail clerk's office, 20 members mem-bers of Hollywood's movie colony were released after a sensational raid on what the police called a wild house party in a Laurel canyon residence. Salt Lake City. The diking ol Utah lake and the reclamation of the Provo Bay area are promiment parts in the first unit of the proposed Great Lake basin project as recommended recom-mended by the committee of three appointed by the Utah Water Storage commission. Elko, Nev. Reports come from the northern part of the county of a big strike of silver ore made in the Van Duser district by Ray Hage, who has been prospecting' in that district foi many years. He came to town the forepart of the week declaring that he had finally found the continuation of the Mt. Laurel vein from which was shipped considerable high-grade during the boom clays of 1872. Santa Barbara, Cal. Heat prostra. tion suffered while crossing the Mo-jave Mo-jave desert from Needles to Barstow was responsible for the death here of Mrs. Margaret Gilberti, 37, of Springfield, Mass. Edward Gilberti, the victim's husband, and their 13-year 13-year old son, are in a critical- condition condi-tion at a local hospital. San Francisco. A five mile section of wooden highway that can be stacked stack-ed up like a deck of cards and tucked tuck-ed away when the shifting sa.ids that it will traverse threaten to overwhelm over-whelm it, is nearing completion at Pittsburg, Contra Costa county, and will be ready to place along the desert des-ert highway route between Indio and Yuma within a few months, it was announced by the state highway commission's com-mission's San Francisco office. Reno, Nev. A herd of 300 young antelope being kept in Reno by E. P San.- as3istant biologist of the United Uni-ted States' biological survey, until, they are old enough to stand trips to various national parks, were stampeded stam-peded by a prowling house cat. One of the kids was killed in the frantic fran-tic plunge of the animals against the wire enclosure. Los Angeles Senora Maria Anton-ia Anton-ia Masiho Verdugo de Chavoya, who wa sborn in Los Angeles when the place was still known by its leisurely name of El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora Se-nora Santa Maria La Reina de Los Ahgeit-.s, and wiio has not been out of Los Angeles county in more than a century, celebrated her 120th birthday birth-day anniversary at her adobe home in the Verdugo hills, near here. Sacramento, Cal. Mrs. Lydia Mc-Pherson Mc-Pherson of Los Angeles won a $250 diamon ring as a prize here for having hav-ing the longest hair of any woman at the California state fair. Mrs. Mcpherson's Mc-pherson's hair is seven feet long Mrs. Anna Olwell of Oakland hasn't bobbed her hair by any means. She-won She-won second prize with h-er six-foot tresses. Missoula, Montana. Richard and Maurice Keller, brothers, age 23 and 21, respectively, of Davenport, la., lost their lives when their car went over a grade, thirty-eight miles wes"i of here and plunged to the bottom, a drop of thirty feet. They were tour-'ng tour-'ng the west. Butte, Mont. A childish desire to smoke is believed to have caused the death here of the three young sons jf Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Daugh erty, whose charred bodies were recovered re-covered from the ruins of a barn on the Daugherty ranch twenty miles east of Rygale. Spokane, Wash. One full city biock consisting of eight buildings in the business district of Rathdrum, Tda., 30 miles east of here was burn 3d to the ground. The blaze started in a hotel. The building of the telephone company was destroyed, cutting all outside communication. The fire departments of Spokane and also Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, rushed aid. San Antonio, Tex. Dr. J. A. Newman, New-man, who said he was one of the alienists in the Leopold-Loeb murder case in Chicago, is under arrest at San Marcos, Texas on a charge of forgery. He was arrested on advices from Detroit. Mich., after he had arrived ar-rived in San Marcos to examine Mrs. Anne Hauptrief, who is under indictment indict-ment for poUoning three of hr step children. |