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Show I Western Brevities 1 1 from the Many I Western States i I &! E3iiiaaii?iPja5!gii3i3iiara'araiE?ia3i5ra Pasadena, Calif. Mrs. W. P. Thir-kield Thir-kield of Chattanooga, Tenn., for the past twelve years president of the Home Missionary society of the Methodist Meth-odist Episcopal church, was relected as a session of the annual convention conven-tion of the society. Rock Springs, Wyo. The Union Pacific Coal company has during the past week notified lessees of coal company ground in the district known as Dry Creek, in the center of Rock Springs, to vacate the ground to make way for a proposed city park. Reno, Nevada. Glenn D. Cook, 37, mining engineer and geologist, was blown to pieces at the Golden Eagle mine, sixty miles southeast of Fallon, Nevada, when a box of 5000 fuse caps he was carrying exploded just at the mouth of the tunnel. He was general gener-al manager of the mine, which is owned own-ed by Kansas City capitalists. Prescott, Ariz. George Dixon Suj-yamie, Suj-yamie, Walapai Indian, paid the extreme ex-treme penalty on the gallows here for the murder of Arthur K. Cavell, Prescott taxicab driver, last April. The trap was sprung at 11:54 a. m. and the Indian was pronounced dead ten minutes later. Alamosa, Colo. Two Mexican workmen work-men were crushed to death in the Denver & Rio Grande Western rbund-house rbund-house when a locomotive boiler being be-ing fitted into an engine frame broke from its chains and fell on them. Their deaths leave 10 children child-ren fatherless. Sacramento, Calif. Mrs. Suzan M. Dorsey, city school superintendent of Los Angeles, has come to the conclusion conclu-sion that the undraped figure of gods and goddesses of Greek and Roman, mythology are out of place in reference refer-ence books intended for use in school libraries. The opinion that such illustrations, il-lustrations, including one of Cupid and Psyche, are too suggestive for boys and girls of high school age was expressed in a letter to the state board of education. Los Angeles. Cruelty and failure to provide are grounds named in the divorce suit filed in superior court by Anna Q. Nilsson, motion picture actress known in private life as Mrs. Anna Gunnerson, against J. Marshall Gunnerson, wealthy shoe manufacturer, manufactur-er, who married her here in February 1923. Green River, Wyo. Another week will see the city of Green River with its business transactions upon a cash basis. The outstanding indebtedness of the city, amounting to $19,500, has been met by an issue of funding bonds. The first three of these bonds amounting to $1500, will fall due in 1926, with a payment of $2000 to be made every year until 1935. Oakland, Calif. One man was burned to death and another was seriously se-riously injured in an explosion and fire that partially wrecked the plant of the Trojan Powder company at Robert, about twenty miles from here. The loss is about $3500. Vancouver, B. C The Canadian American halibut commission, it was announced here, has decided that the closed season enforced on taking of this fish commercially the past year shall continue for at least two years more. This prohibited season is from . November 15 to February 15. . Berkeley. Calif. Students of the University of California, who answered answer-ed questions on matters of common dispute recently distributed by a campus cam-pus publication, are decidedly against Bible teaching in public schools and think that the fundamentalists are wrong on the evolution controversy. Seattle, Wash. Mrs. M. E. Taylor, wife of a Seattle fireman, reported to the police that 'two women and a man broke into her home while she was alone and sleeping, bound and gagged gag-ged her and branded the letter "T" on her left arm with a chemical. When Taylor, who was working a night shift, returned home, he found a note on the front door formed out of words cut from a newspaper, reading: read-ing: "T stands for thief. Your wife stole you. I've made up my mind to punish. I will." Oakland, Cal. Federal and county coun-ty officers raided a warehouse adjoining adjoin-ing the home of City Marshal Edward Carey of Emeryville, a suburb, and seized 750 gallons of grain alcohol and 300 50-gallon barrels, which they said had been emptied within the last few days. No one was found in the warehouse, but officers said they knew the owner of the property and that they expected shortly to arre3t him. |