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Show Western Brevities from fie Many J I Western States i Denver, Colo. The Denver & Rio Grande Western railroad will be sold at public auction October 20, according accord-ing ito an announcement here by Casa K. H-rrington, special master to con. duct the sale named by Jurge J. Fos. (er Symes. The minimum bid to be received, under the direction o( the court, will be $17,935,700. Casper, YVyo The body of an un. ' Identified man. badly decomposed and believed to be a victim of the Cole creek disaster of September 27, 1023, to Burlington train No. 39, was found in the Platte river near Park-erton, Park-erton, eight miles below the scene of the wreck, according to advices re. ceived from Douglas. Pendleton, Ore. Before a crowd of 4.",000 roundup spectators, Hugh Strietland won the world's steer roping rop-ing championship roping two steers in one minute 2-5 seconds. P.uck Uueas took the bulldogging championship, champion-ship, throwing two steers in 50 1-5 seconds. Los Angeles. Harry Conner, alia3 Harry Gafbutt, ex-convict of Joliet penitentiary sought in connection with the slaying at Pasadena of Mrs. Clifton R. Hunn, wife of a wealthy Chicago manufacturer, continues to elude authorities of southern California. Cali-fornia. Seattle, -Wash. C. A. McCarthy, former United States prohibition agent in Florida, arrested here by federal authorities on his arrival aboard the steamship President Grant, on advices from Florida officials, of-ficials, swallowed poison after packing pack-ing his clothes aboard the vessel and died a short time later. Moscow, Idaho. The architect's conception of the Idaho Memorial building, to be erected with funds from a statewide drive this fall, has been submitted to the board of directors di-rectors of the Idaho Memorial association. asso-ciation. Rudolph Weaver, architect for the university, is the designer of the edifice that will honor Idaho's war dead. Denver. The Moffat tunnel commission com-mission has passed a resolution inviting invit-ing officials of one of the largest oil producing and refining companies of the country to come to Denver and open negotiations for the construction con-struction of an oil pipe line through ' the Moffat tunnel. The action of the commission was taken in response to a proposal laid before it several weeks ago by Newman Erb, New York financier and former president of the Denver & Salt Lake railroad. The name of the oil company was not made known. Salt Lake City. Arthur L. Thomas, Thom-as, 73, years of age, fourteenth territorial ter-ritorial governor of Utah, active in education, irrigation, mining and state and national politics, passed away quietly in his sleep at the home of his son, Arthur L. Thomas, Jr. His son, entering the room to call him for breakfast, found the elderly Utah leader in his bed, the covers undisturbed and his father's face passive and calm in death. Twin Falls, Idaho. Indian Jim, known to be between 105 and 110 years of age, is confined at the Twin Falls county hospital and according to his own words is "heap big sick." He was taken sick at his home on Cedar Creek and brought to the hospital hos-pital by J. Blair Langford of Roger-son. Roger-son. Indian Jim, representing about the last of the Shoshone tribe, has seen over a century pass in the Snake river valley, and before taking up his abode on Cedar Creek was counted with the residents of Rock Creek. Indian Jim's son, who is over 90 years old, has come to call on his sick father. Wallace, Idaho. The company of 38 players which has been screening "Frivoios Sal" in this vicinity com pleted its work last week and left for Hollywood, where the finishing touches will be put on the picture. The picture will be releas-ed in. the larger cities in November. San Antonio, Texas. Eighteen Mexican soldiers, who were acting as guards on the passenger train running run-ning between Jalapa and Teooelo, Vera Cruz, were killed by rebels w"o robbed the train, according to a Mexico City dispatch to La Pronza, n Spanish language newspaper hove. Glendale, Cal. Evading the vigilance vigil-ance of her nurse and a woman visitor, Mrs. S. V. Tuppcr, 30. of T.os Angeles a patient at the Glendale sanitarium, jumped to her death from the roof of a six-story building. When hospital attendants reached ed her after the leap she was stil1 alive, but died soon aft-cr. Phoenix, Ari:-.. Two Indian girls were killed and several were injured near here when they fell from a bus carrying a score of Indian school students to Phoenix to participate in a Defense day celebration and were thrown under another automobile. Los Angeles, Only the faculty mechanism of time bomb, set t" explode' shortly after two bandit who robbed Ins store disappeared, saved the life of George Caldwell Vroduce merchant. |