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Show ! Western Brevities ; from the Many j Western States Denver. An expenditure of approximately approx-imately .SI.Cuki.K'O in the Oilorad metal met-al mining districts has been authorized authoriz-ed by the American Smelting anil Refining Re-fining company, it was learned here Thursday. Yellowstone Park, Wyo. The American Amer-ican antelope is threatened with extinction, ex-tinction, according to officials here of the department of the interior. Unless extensive protective measures are taken, tak-en, officials declared, an animal widely wide-ly admired for its coloring, delicate proportions and zephyr-like movements, move-ments, soon will be seen only in museums. mus-eums. Tacoma, Wash. For three days Mrs. Johanna Ryan has held her berth in the county jail here rather than give in to an order from the superior court under which she would relinquish relinqu-ish title to certain property. She shows no signs of weakening. Mrs. Ryan was sent to jail for contempt of court when she refused to attach her name to legal records for the purpose pur-pose of dividing the community property prop-erty of herself and her recently divorced di-vorced husband. Portland. Republicans of Oregon held here the first state convention in 12 years that has been in the state. The convention will merely adopt a declaration of principles, and hold an open forum for discussions. The reasons rea-sons no party conventions have been held in Oregon in recent years is that the direct primary has oeen in effect, whereby all nominations are made. Sheridan, Wyo. Joe Trombello, an Italian miner charged with the s'.aying Saturday night of Fred Hoffman, 15 years old, at Kleenburn, Wyo., a cortl camp near here, was captured by a posse at Decker Montana, after a running run-ning fight extending over two miles. Port Townsend, M ash. Several families fam-ilies were homeless, the Port Town-send Town-send water system was menaced and $300,000 worth of fogging equipment and timber had been destroyed as the result of two forest fires which were swept before a strong west wind. Kansas City, Mo. Booze bandits and police fought a gun battle near here, after one man had been killed in a raid on a fashionable home. Anaconda. All miners, smeltermen and craftsmen of the mining companies compan-ies operating in Butte, with plants at Anaconda and Great Falls, Mont., will receive a wage increase of ."0 cents a day. About 12,000 men will profit by the increase. The new wages will give miners and smeltermen .f-l.To a day and craftsmen $5.50. San Francisco. Dr. Albert Ah rams of San Francisco,' who has evolved a system whereby he claims he can establish es-tablish the parerntage of an infant through vibratory blood tests, may be called into the trial in South Fiend, Ind., of Harry Potilin, haberdasher, charged with being the father of a child of Mrs. Augusta Tiernan, according accord-ing to an announcement from Dr. Abrams' offices here. Dr. Abrams left for Chicago to open a school for instruction in-struction in his system, and was advised ad-vised that he may be called upon for an expert test in the Poulin case while east. . Ogden, Utah F. F. Thomas, cattle buyer, filed suit in the district court against John Spiers, son of John K. Spiers, wealthy Ogdenite, seeking damages dam-ages totaling $31 ,232. He charges that Spiers beat him with his fists, knocked out his teeth and rendered him unconscious. Furthermore, he alleges al-leges that in the attack the sum of $732 was knocked nut of his clothing and never recovered. Zicn, 111. Arrested for beating bis horses until the blood ran down the animal's sides, Clarence C. Ells, a farmer, was sentenced to receive ten lashes with his own whip. The sentence sen-tence was carried out by Theodore Becker, chief of police, after which the man was set free. Denver, Colo Two tool dressers were burned to death, another workman work-man was so seriously burned he is not expected to live, and two others were Injured less seriously In a fire that destroyed a -rig in bhe Salt Creek oil field, near Casper, Wyo. Tellowstone Fark. The American antelope is threatened with extinction, according to officials here of the department de-partment of the interior. Unless extensive ex-tensive protective measures are taken, tak-en, officials declared, an animal widely wide-ly admired for its coloring, delicate proportions and zephyr-like movements, move-ments, soon will be seen only in museums. mus-eums. Phoeuix Ariz. Cattle in New Mexico Mex-ico are dying by thousands and the loss in that state to the cattel interests inter-ests already has been heavy, according accord-ing to a message received by Governor Thomas Campbell from Governor Mer-ritt Mer-ritt C. Mechein of New Mexico, who asks that Arizona lift the qunrantin on cattle and permit the stock to be moved o er to Arizona ranges. In hia telegram, Governor Mechen stated that the cattle were starving becauss cf lack of teed on tbt ranges. |
