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Show Western Brevities ' from the Many Western States i- i I.os Angeles All United States will lie broken by California th's year, according ac-cording to a Ktatement issued by the Los Angeles chamber of commerce. Kegistrattuns at present total 837,000 fir the stale, ne:irly one-third of which are la Los Angeles county. Sun Francisco. Thirteen year-old Ignatius Greneru Tuesday confessed, police announced, to having set fire to twenty-nine buildings In the Russian hill district here within the past sev-erul sev-erul montlu ' Portland. First violence In the longshoremen's strike occurred when loo or more strikers and sympathizers, including niuny women, who hud gathered ga-thered ut AInsworth dock, clnshed with strikebreakers going to and returning re-turning from their noon meal Denver. Two persons dead, two missing, several Injured and property damage upwunls of' $50,000 was the toll reported in the wake of a series of tornadoes and thunderstorms which gripped southeastern Colorado. Iteno. That Arthur C. Robinson, mining engineer und geologist, whose ; body wus found with throat cut in a canyon near San Diogo was murdered for his money is the belief of Grant Miller, who was associated with ltab-insun ltab-insun In a mining enterprise. Santa Fe. Mack Bennett,' a negro "trusty" convict escaped when he commandeered com-mandeered th automobile of Governoi Mochum on thccupltol grounds and drove off. He was working at the cap-itol cap-itol at the time. Dallas, Ore. Mry Metcalf, the last surviving member of the old Grund Itonde Indian tribe, died on the, Grand Uonde Indian reservation, according to word received here. Sun FrunclHOj. -The United States Immigration station at Angel island, In San Francisco bay, will be abolished und new quarters established in San Francisco, according to plans annouo ed by Secretary of Labor. Salem, Ore. Mrs. Jesse French of Salom advertised in a newspaper that Rhe would like to udopt a baby gtrL The next night smieone rang the doorbell at the French home. When Mrs. French opened the door in Bight was a pretty baby girl of 9 months lying on the door step. Kl I'au Ter. General Francisco Murguiu was executed by a firing squad, according to a telegram from Mexico City, received at the customs house in Juarez. 1ms Vegas, Nov. Callente, a little ru'Jroad town near here, was almost a deserted village when Its leading citizens were In Lns Vegas, arrang Ing bond for release from bootlegging charges. Joplln, Mo. One person is dead, all are In a hospital and several are mis sing In a tornado which struck m two parts of Webb City, seven miles northeast north-east of here. San Francisco. Princess Moto-Ka Otanl hal arrived here, under strict orders from her father, Prince Keon Otanl, leader of Buddhism In Japan to emulatte all the customs of th American flapper. San Francisco. An order to deport Miguel Sequlera, alleged adventurer, who Is charged with attempting ta foment a revolution In this country to overturn the government of Nlcar ague and make himself president ot that republic. Fort Bayard, N. M Fire practical ly destroyed the woman's building at the government hospital here. Scores of nurses, maids and other women employees em-ployees of the institution escaped it their night clothes, losing practically nil of their effects in the building. Kl IViSO, Tbxas. FrauclMo Villa Ciintutillo farmer and former rebel chief, was shot and slightly wounded while trying to put down an uprising on his ranch, headed by Jemis Lopez aged father of the late Martin Lopez, for years Villa's rlght hnnd man. according ac-cording to reports In anti-Obregon circles in El I'nsi. The first of a series of proposed rate modifications by which the railroads rail-roads traversing New Mexico are seeking seek-ing to assist the cattle Industry In the emergency occasioned by a long summer sum-mer drought, was approved by the Interstate In-terstate commerce commissi n which Is expected to give approval Inter to similar applications from the other roads concerned. Heno, New llattllng the first snow, storm of the year over the Nevada deserets, with darkness sett'ng in, the do luxe ulr limousine of the Vnited States air mall official was wrecked sfter being forced to land on a rutty highway at Valmy, New Seattle George I loos, ooie associated asso-ciated with Knssell K. Jlnrilsiin, sn i "f former l'reslilent Keninmin Harrison, Harri-son, In publishing the Montana Journal nt Helen, M nt., was found (lend in 'he bath room of his ap.irtment. |