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Show Western Brevities from the Many Western States , t : . Los Anjreles. Wallace Held, motion picture actor. Is reported by relatives to be seriously Jli', Dorothy Devenport, his wife, rt the lsedslde la the'r home here, confirmed reports- of her husband's hus-band's collapse, n 1th Mich the nature of the Illness was not revelled other than it wrs a "complete nervous breakdown." , Tnnner. The fact that thirty-one Industries s'towed a gain in the number of hands e tiployetl Indicates that tha Industrial revival is here to stay. The Tie .test increase, 15.8 per cent, appears ap-pears in car building and repairing. Cotton finishing hud tin Increase of 11.3 per cent and woolen of 11 par cent Salt La';e C!ty. The Interstate com. merce commlss'on has Issued a certificate cer-tificate of public convenience and necessity authorizing the Los Angeles & Salt Lake rallrood to build n thirty-two-mile branch from Lund, on the mn!n line, to Cedar City, in Iron coun-:y, coun-:y, Utuh San Francisco. Charles Buckley, sl&ctr'cl'in, who while In an intoxicated intoxica-ted condition, police charged, ran down ind killed Marlon Newton 4 years of re, !n his automobile Wednesday i:;ht, Monday offered to give his own ch Id, Isabel S jw.trs of age, to th parents of the dead child to compen lute them for their loss. ' Houstm. The Rev. Joseph Madison bvans 85, pastor of Evans Memorial Presbyterli n church here, and said to be the oldest minister In the United States actively engaged as pastor of a churcn, U dead here He had told friends he Jiud preached about 20,000 sermons and made upward of 10,000 converts. , Little Rock, If J. D. Young, recently recent-ly convicta l of murder In Monroe county, coun-ty, Ark., and sentenced to die In the electric chair, shall at any time make an attempt to the commutation of his death sentence to life imprisonment granted by Governor T. C. Mcllae becomes be-comes void, and the death penalty will be Inflicted. Pocotello, Ida., After being out for practically 11 hours, the federal Jury In the VVooley insurance case failed to agree. Belllngham Wash. Emigration of Russian loggers to work on concessions conces-sions In their native country is cause-lng cause-lng a shortage of skilled labor la Vigging camps of the state of Washington. Wash-ington. Cripple Creek. Old timers of this race famous mining camp are seeing visions of a revival of those prosperous prosper-ous days when this section was the greatest gold producer In the world. Since 191 H there has been little or no activity anl Cripple Creek.s Long Bencn Cupid, taking on a merry chase the minions of the law here who seek to lnforce the antl-spooning antl-spooning ordinance led policemen up a tree. As a result there appears on the police blotter the names of a young couple, with the charge "tree spoon-ers" spoon-ers" registered against them. Denver. Twenty persons were In Jured, several seriously when an Inbound In-bound street car from Berkeley, a suburb, sub-urb, loaded with workers, crashed Into In-to another shreetcar which bod derailed de-railed while turning a corner. Bakersfleld. About 100 members of the motorcycle clubs from L s Angeles, Pasadena and Orange will stage a coyote hunt on the Famoga flats near here. The feature of the hunt will be the fact that none of the hunters will use a gun or dbg to run down the beast. B'-itte VnoraMn. whiskey le raising rais-ing the death mark in Butte at aa ahirmlrg rute and unnatural causes huve Joined with illicit liquor, In sending send-ing 10 more local poople to their graves d iring the first nine months of this year than during the sains period in 1021. F.'igene, Ore. -The lower Slualaw river Is alive with salmon, said Louis E. Bean, state game and fish commissioner, commis-sioner, who has returned from Cush-mun, Cush-mun, Ore. Te big fall run Is on full blast. Omaha, Neb A Jury In the county district court found Fred Brown, alleged al-leged "chair man," guilty of kldnar intr with intent to commit criminal assault as-sault and recommended life Imprisonment Imprison-ment os his penalty. J-orUiind, Ore., Suspended sentences senten-ces of ninety days' each were Imposed Im-posed Thursday by Municipal Jwlgs William Ekwall upon '-fil inc arrested arrest-ed by the police fallowing announcement announce-ment by Mayor Ceorpo L. J'.aUer that tlu; police had been ordered to round Uj filleted Ileds. Walla Wlillrt, Wash.-I'mil Staren, ' coQvl.-t'l of murder In t first d J iri'dn and sentenced to execution at ' he state penitentiary on November j '0. ended his life In his celL |