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Show 1 Western Brevities 1 j from the Many E I Western States ! Culver City, Culif.Five world't upecd records were broken hsre during dur-ing the running of the Culver Citj 250-mile claHttic. The event was woe by Frank Klliott, who established new record for 250 miles, with ar average of 127.87 miles an hour. Seattle, Wash. A $1,000,000 ship inent fo silk, the largest consignmeni of lis kind to he carried by ai American oriental liner for sevora months, Is due here on the steamshii President Crant. licsides the silk, tin President (irant has 4000 tons of gen eral oriental freight and 3000 hagi of mall. The vessel is bringing 2GI passengers. Portland, Ore. The Sellwood Me thodlst Episcopal church exhibit mod cled after the Lono Star saloon, i memory of the wet days of the bar room, was adjudged the most unu mil booth at the sixth annual har vest festival of Epworth leaguen here. "Art for nrt's sake," was tin attitude taken by the Judges it awarding the prize, for the old bai was a good bit of work, and the doori swng admirably. The exhibit causec some little consternation among th church people, but was also recogniz ed as tho symbol of an evil day ende! by church forces. Rono, Nevada. Two armed anc masked bandits held up the countrj club at Verdi, 11 miles west of her and escaped with $000 in cash. Thej overlooked $2500 In a drawer of i safe they rifled after binding thre patrons with ropes and forcing the proprietor to open the vault. Idaho Falls. Efforts are being mado by the potato growers of Ida ho to put the Idaho potato before the world by means of advertising. In Rial steps uro to be taken for national advertising similar to that which has made the raisins and oranges of California Cali-fornia famous. The plans were first suggested at a meting of the western regional board of the American Rail way association held here. Los Angeles, Calif. The eleven western slates will speak with one voice to congress at the coming session regarding continuance of federal fed-eral aid for highways. For the firs! time In history the west is organized In the common, cause of good roads. It Is definitely committeed to urge adequate and continued federal aid through the Western Road associatiou which was formed during the all-western road show In San Francisco. San Diego, Cal. The civic auditorium auditor-ium In Balboa park was virtually de-j, de-j, stroyed by fire about an hour before j: the firemen of San Diego were to hold their annual ball in the hall. The building, formerly the southern coun-' coun-' ties building of the Panama-California exposition of 1915-16, was one of the most beautiful of the group of struc-j struc-j tures build for that period. ' ' Seattle, Wash. Funeral services i' for Andrew Montie Bagley, 73, who at one time was a scout in the United States army and took part in several Indian raids with Colonel William Cody, known as Buffalo Bill, were held here. He also was a rider for i the pony mail between Cheyenne, i Wyo., and Deadwood, S. D., Bagley served a number of years in the legis-! legis-! Iative department of the Oregon Short Line at Spokane, retiring in 1907. Los Angeles, Calif The four railway rail-way brotherhoods on the California system of the Santa Fe demanded, through the state industrial accident commission, that the railway return $190,000 of hospital funds alleged to have been used in treating injured employees, whom the brotherhoods declare should have been treated free under the state compensation law. Prescott, Ariz. The Prescott state bank and an affiliated institution, the Commercial Trust & Savings bank, failed to open their doors last week. The closing was made by order of the state superintendent of banks, who gave "frozen paper" as the cause. Los Angeles. A 2000-page bill of exceptions bound in ten volumes, was filed in federal court here as the first step in zi. appeal from prison sentences sen-tences and fines imposed upon John R. Osborne and C. C. Fitzpatrick, convicted of using the mails to defraud de-fraud investors out of about $2,000,000 in a cemetery scheme to relieve the "crowded condition of southern Cali fornia burial grounds." Wenatchee, Wash. Washington State Forest Supervisor Sylvester has received the weather-worn remains of an overcoat which he left on the summit sum-mit of Overcoat peak in the Cascade mountains twenty-eight years ago. The garment was forwarded to him in an envelope." Sylvester said he left the coat buttoned around a rock for use as a signal when he complet-' complet-' ed surveying that region in 1S97. The peak was named from the coat. i Reno, Nev. Two armed and masked mask-ed bandits held up the Country club at Verdi, eleven miles west of h?re, and escaped with $900 in cash. They overlooked $2500 in a drawer of a safe they rifled after binding three patrons with ropes and forcing the proprietor to open the vault. Hollywood, Calif. Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks are planning another European trip together. They plan to leave Hollywood as soon as their latest pictures are completed, sailing from New York for Genoa on February 2. |