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Show News Happenings of the Great Iniermoiffiiain States Billings. Tlie crest of the infantile paralysis epidemic in Billings has passed, pas-sed, and a few good frosts with 9 itile cold weather will probably check the disease entirely, according to a statement made by Dr. George II. Jackson, Jack-son, the specialist sent to study the Billings situation by tlie Mayo clinic at the suggestion of Dr. Charles Rose-now, Rose-now, famous infantile paralysis expert ex-pert and originator of the Rosenow serum for its treatment. Billings. Arthur G. Hanson, one of tlie best-known and most successful trappers in the United States bilogi-cal bilogi-cal survey, lies dangerously injured at Buffalo, Wyo., after falling from a ledge of rock nearly 100 feet high. Salt Lake. The workroom of the austoffice took on a somewhat tropical aa.pect when a live baby alligator arrived ar-rived by way of parcel post. Tho am-ihiblan am-ihiblan was sent from Greenwood, Fla. ind was delivered to O. Acord, West Seventh South street. Salt Lake. Bishop George Graham, marriage license clerk in the office of the Salt Lake county cler.:, was a busy man one day this week. Thirty-two ?ouples, most of them from the country, coun-try, called upon him for licenses to wed and one of these couples insisted that he complete the job by marrying them, which he did. Richfield. Lane Bertelsen of Marys-ville Marys-ville had a narrow escape from death when an Oriole airplane which he had recently acquired and in which he was giving exhibition flights and also taking passengers up, plunged to earth and was totally wrecked. Bertlsen and his passenger, Dr. Heath, escaped injury. Bertelsen is said to have made ?ix flights over the mountains and had not examined the gas supply. On the seventh flight, with Dr. Heath as passenger, pas-senger, the motor stopped when the plane was flying over the Deer Trail mining property. At that elevation Bertelsen thought he could volplane to his landing field, but the machine settled into a tail spin and to a wing live before the field was reached and crashed to earth. Salt Lake. Following close upon the advance in wages granted to the miners by the Utah coal producers, the re'ail prices of coal at Salt Lake was raised $1 a ton by all of the dealers sell'ng to the general public. Detroit A speed of 200 miles an hour, the highest ever attained by man will be recorded here during the Pulitzer Pul-itzer air races, October 14, according to predicitons made by army and naval officers who have made arranements for the event. Nogales. Postmaster Josiah Bond and his wife, Minnie, were iiiBtantly killed by a single bolt of lightening. Bond and his wife were riding horse-i horse-i back in the Santa Rita mountains when overtaken by a fierce electrical storm. Their horses were also killed. Calgary, Alb. The city council has ratified an agreement with the Imperial Imper-ial Oil company calling for the establishment estab-lishment of a '2,500,000 oil refinery in Calgary. Ail that remains is the plebiscite of citizens to Indorse the project. Work will be strated on construction con-struction this i'all. Seattle. Two men and a girl were ground to death when a Northern Pacific Pa-cific train backed into their automobile automo-bile on a grade crossing ;t Auburn. The dead are : J. H. Peterson, 35, proprietor pro-prietor of an Augurn garage ; J. P. Sweeney, 24, bookkeeper for a condensed con-densed milk plant at Auburn ; and Miss Jessie Barnett, 2J, waitress, Auburn. Au-burn. Minneapolis. Alfred J. Uuyette, 78, whose desire to ease his conscience led to the arrest in Seattle of his son, G. Delbert Guyette, as the alleged slayer slay-er of Joseph Breining of Minneapolis, He died at the ofd soldiers' home. He succumbered two days after he had unburdened himself. Spokane. Mrs. Eeatrice Saut, who is accused of giving purjured testimony testi-mony at the trial of Maurice Codd, acquitted on a murder charge here last spring, will be tried in superior court, September 27, according to the criminal crim-inal docket recently announced. Spokane, Wash. Six men appeared rece'itly at the municipal employment agency to qualify for the position of African dodger" at 00 cents an hour. Alter determining the size of their heads and tlie amount of bene den-j den-j sity shown it was found that none of j ;!io applicants could qualify. The "Af-'iran "Af-'iran dodger" spends his wonting hours i ehind a canvas wall thidging Sails thrown at his head. |