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Show 1 Western Brevities 1 I from the Many g I Western States ( San Francisco. Announcement that plans were in the making for a test flight from London to Tokio via Alaska with the object of seeking out a commercial air route, was made here by Haakon Hammer, formerly aide to Roald Amundsen, explorer. The 5000-mile flight can be made in fifty flying hours with only two stops for refueling, Hammer said. Hammer has just returned from Japan, where he stated he succeeded in securing the promise of cooperation of the Japanese government in the enterprise. enter-prise. Hollywood, Cal. Jack "Shorty" Hamilton, 37, motion picture actor, was killed here when the automobile he was driving crashed into a steam shovel standing in the street. He was a native of Chicago. San Jose, Cal. One and one-halt million dollars was distributed to the members of the California Prune and Apricot Growers' association, according accord-ing to an announcement made here by President I. O. Rhoades. This sum is a second payment to prunegrow-ers prunegrow-ers for prunes of the 1924 crop, being be-ing marketed through the association this year. Santa Rosa, Cal. Luther Burbank celebrated his seventy-sixth birthday last week by working as usual in his experimental gardens. He was the recipient of congratulatory messages from all over the world, among thost who felicitated him by wire being Thomas Edison and Henry Ford. Salt Lake. Automobile stage and passenger lines operating on dirt roads of the state will be exempt from special road taxation and district dis-trict and supreme court judges will not be given any increase in salary or any extension of term, the state senate decided in a session at which these questions were the points of interest. in-terest. Great Falls, Mont. Request that the trial of United States Senator B. K. Wheeler, under indictment in federal fed-eral court here on a charge of having hav-ing represented a client before the department of the interior after he had taken office as a senator be set as soon after March 15 as possible was made of United States District Judge Charles N. Pray here by S. C. Ford of Senator Wheeler's counsel. coun-sel. Reno.- Threats of lynching of A. Decosta, a Mexican who shot and killed a deputy sheriff at Elko and who has since pleadea self-defense, have led seventy-five Mexicans of Elko El-ko to form an association to retain a layer for Decosta. Reports that the Mexicans had formed a guard around the jail was denied. It was said that while there is some race feeling evident, evi-dent, no talk of fighting or serious trouble has been heard. Phoenix, Ariz.' A bill was Introduced Intro-duced in the state legislature that would impose a tax on all forms of tobacco sold within the state. The proceeds would go Into the state highway fund. The amount of tax is fixed at one cent for every 15-cent tobacco sale and 10 per cent on sales over that amount. Sacramento, Cal. The assembly soldiers and sailors' committee has recommended for passage the bill authorizing a $20,000,000 bond issue to further the work of the veterans' welfare board in the purchase of homes and farms. The measure originally orig-inally introduced provided for a $10,-000,000 $10,-000,000 bond issue, but was amended twice that amount in the committee. Denver, Colo. Following the failure fail-ure of the conference between representatives repre-sentatives of the Great Western Sugar Su-gar company and sugar beet growers of Colorado, officials of the sugar company com-pany made a statement in which they said the company will exert its "every resource to maintain the operation of the sugar factories and the planting of a normal acreage of beets." Rock Springs, Wyo.-A coyote measuring 6S inches from tip to tip' was trapped recently in the vicin' uy of Elkhorn and Big Sandy by Martin Murphy who is employed by he Bndger-Washakie Sheep Associa-tion Associa-tion to trap in the country to the whl h 0t SPrinSS' The anl. hich 1B beheved to be one of the largest of its kind ever caught in this tTod ymeaSUr6d " ta |