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Show x Western Brevities from the Many Western States j 4 Klamath Falls, Ore. Eight vents emitting natural gas have suddenly opened in the dry beds of Tide laki thirty miles east of here. Tests by J. D. Howard a local geologist, show the gas to be of paraffine variety Flames more than a foot in length burning with intense heat, are re ported to have been obtained in tests Tlie vents or chimneys range in diameter di-ameter from six to thirty inches and are several feet deep. Ely, Nevada, Official certificatee bearing the personal signature ol President Coolidge and the great sea' of the United States, are to be form, ally presented to the Piute, Shoshone and Washoe Indian tribes of Nevada in recognition of the enlistments which they supplied to the natior during the world war. Salem, Ore. A new method ol harnessing natural power is undei consideration in remote areas of Lake county. Live steam issuing from geysers and deep hot wells may be the source of electric power whici may mean the development of lumbei and other industries through the availability of cheap power. Seattle, Wash. Ezra Meeker, M year old pioneer has announced he intends to file as a candidate for re. presentative from the Forty-seventh district in the state legislaure. His purpose in seeking a seat in the house of representatives, he said, is to support the Nachelis Pass state highway to secure an appropriation to build a state highway through Chinook pass. Meeker came west through Nacahes pass. Billings, Three guests at Aldridga lodge a summer resort about 26 miles from Cody, Wyo. are dead and several others sick as a result doctors believe of eating ripe olives according to a special dispatch received by the Billings Bill-ings Gazette. The dead are Mrs Paul Ache and Paul Ache, Jr., wife and son of a prominent oil man of Pittsburg, Pa., and a Yale university student named Gillespie. Red Bluff, Cal. Two men suspected suspect-ed of being those who robbed the Bank of Tehama county of i?GO00 were arrested -at Lyman iSprings, 40 miles east of here, in an automobile belonging to Sam Hermansoff. United States forest ranger, whose body later was found riddled with bullets. San Francisco, Seven British bat tle craft, the first large British squadron to enter an American port for forty years, steamed through the Golden Gate last week to pay a' visit to the United States on the way home from a tour of the British dominions do-minions the world over. They were' headed by the battle cruiser Hood, mightiest of all fighting craft afloat. Idaho Falls, Idaho, Buyers in this section predict the price of $20 per ton for hay on acocunt of the general gen-eral shortage the coming year. Baker, Ore., At the Gold Hill mine Spokane people under the title of the Durkee Gold Mining company are erecting a ball mill of 125 tons capacity per day for treatment of ore from the old Gold Hill mine and it is expected the plant will be ready foi operation by July 15. San Luis Obispo, Cal. Stanley Brown of Fresno, driving in an 1U-mile 1U-mile preliminary automobile race here July Fourth, was killed ' when his car skidded through the fence and turned over several times. Rockaway, Ore., Junior Schutte 7, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. Schutte, of Portland, died here as the result of being struck on the head by the propeller of an airplane. The boy was under the plane trying to find his ball, and the pilot started the motor and did not observe the lad. Seattle, Wash. Equipped with a radio position finder and a sonic depth measurer, the steamer Guide of the United States coast and geodetic geod-etic survey, which has recently entered en-tered upon the task of mapping the waters off the Pacific Coast to a depth of 1000 fathoms, was pronounced pronounc-ed in the offices of the survey here to be the most up to date vessel for her work in the world. Anchorage, Alaska. Residents' of Rock Springs, Wyo. Juan Lopez, Mexican is in the Wyoming general hospital here with a bullet wound iD his right arm and another bullet through his right lung as the result of a Fourth of July altercation at Green River. Two of his countrymen have been arrested as a result of the shooting. |