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Show I Western Brevities ji from th Many ' l! Western States i; Salt Lake City. Frank Proudfoot suffered a fractured pelvis, when he fell from an electric car on which he was working In a repair shop. ! Stockton, CaL One man wai killed and fifteen persons Injured In a fire which sturted In the Pbllson hotel here. The fire was one of the most spectaculur and disastrous in the city's history. .1 Alameda, Calif. One person , was instantly killed, another died several hours hiter and three others were seriously Injured when the automo. bile in which they were riding was struck by a Southern Pacific electric train.. Sun Francisco Thomas E. Flynn, former publisher and editor of The Wasp, a San Francisco periodical.. shot and killed himself In the locker room of the Olympic club. He left a note saying that ill-health was the cause of his act Washington Sale of 8O.0O0.UK) board feet of timler of the Mormon lake and Sawmill springs unit on the Conconin national forest in Arizona at an average of $2.25 per thousand feet was approved by the department of agriculture, Ogden, Utah Myron B. Niles, an employee of the postofflee department in Ogden for the past ten years, lias been appointed a postofflce inspector for the states of Washington. Oregon, Montana and Idaho. Mahid, Ida. Seven car loads of beef cattle were shipped last week from Mulad to Ogden. Phonelx, Ariz. Property damage estimated at more than f75,O00 was done by a terrific wind and rain storm In the vicinity of Olandale, Ariz. Ilenefer, Utah. Opal Itichins, died of burns suffered when a con. from which she was pouring coal oil on the kitchen range, exploded. Cheyenne, Wyo. Injuries received by Eddie Burgess, full blooded Creek Indian of Schulter, Okla., In the Chey. enne frontier days contest, proved fatal. , Snlem, Ore. James Arnold, one o( the four prisoners who escaped from the Oregon penitentiary returned vol. nntarlly to the Institution. Sacramento. A sixty-story lodge building to cost 7f0,000 Is to he built here by the Sacramento lodge of Elks. Petaluma. Calif In connection with the Sanoma county fair, this city, known as the world's egg basket, will celebrate egg day on August 18. Martinez, Cal. The smelter furnac,. here of the Mountain Copper Mining company, having mines In Shasta county, California, were lighted for the first time since 1918, prepanitory to resumption of activities. Blverton, Wyo. W. C. Whltnker, one of the best known stockmen In Wyoming, and Lloyd Jennings an em. ploye, lost their lives in the flxd when the waters swept away the house In which Jiey were sleeping. Mexleali, Mexico Conditional re. lease of six of nineteen men accused of murder and mansluaghter In con. nectlon with riots here on July 14. ha been ordered by the oourt-martla; convened In the case. Ogden, Utah Marlon Jamln, 1, years of age, of Grand Island, Neb., had his right foot crushed he. nenth the wheels of a UnKtn Pacini freight train at Castle Rock. Utah. San Francisco. The passenger steamer W'almea and the freiKQtet Susquehanna wero in collision t"ic entrance to San Francisco harbor, the Walmea suffered slight dumage. Pueblo. Colo. Seven cars of a westbound freight train were derailed on the P. A R. O. W. railway near Shoshone, a few miles east of Glen-wood Glen-wood Springs, Colo. Spanish Fork, Utah. Word has been received here to the effect that Nathan Clayson, Jr., aged about U.'t years, had been acclilsntally killed at I-os Angeles. No particulars of the tragedy were received. j Monte Rio, Calif. Joseph Peering, hotel manager, was wounded by holdups .who escaped with toot of over $.1,000 alue from the River view hotel here. 1,0s Angeles William L. Cross an aerial photo&rapher, and a lady com. panlon were killed at Santa Fe Springs, when the plane Cross was driving suddenly went into a nose dive and clashed. Salem, Ore. Four convicts escaped from the state penitentiary brick yard here hy concealing themselves in a freight car which was shunted out of the prison grounds. Plackfoot, Idaho Mls Dtlna Stf. fens, Was seriously injured when thrown frm a wagon hitched to a! tfnm that ran away. I.os Ansoles A new federal grand ,1ury impaneled here was Said to have begun an invcHtlgntton of allesei ol ' stock frauds in southern California. |