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At a recent local option election
Salt Lake. Ogden and Park City, Utah,
went wet by heavy majorities. Provo
and Logan are dry.
An explosion on the oil barge Gum
BILE in the harbor at Port Arthur, Tex
as. caused the death of the captain
and loss by fire of 100000.
Aviator Lemar was probably fatally
injured at Coshocton, Ohio. when his
biplane, flying low, struck the roof oil
house.
Fire of unknown origin. starting in
the rear of a saloon at Hawthorne,
Mineral county, Nevada, caused loss
OF $4,000.
Fifty men are working desperately
to rescue two miners imprisoned in
the Whirwind tunnel at American
Fork. Utah. by an earth cave.
Elijah Clambit. OF ottumwa. Ia,
aged 10. while demented, shot and
killed his mother. fatally wounded his
young sister and attempted suicide.
The crushed bodies of three men
were found near the bottom of 4
freight car loaded with lumber at Sc
ward. Neb. The men had been steal
ing ride.
Dick Miller. balloonist. giving a
street carnival in Weiser. Ida, was
drowned in the Snake river. As he
dropped with his parachute. the wind
carried him to the middle OF the river.
Helen Rumbel. Il years old. beaten
for neglecting a task, is dead in her
home near Gridley. Cal. Her step
mother and her stepbrother. were held
by a coroner's jury to answer 10 the
charge OF murder
While the hearing Of Frank Jack
son. charged with passing counterfeit
money. was in progress before United
States Commissioner Coohsey in Kansas
City, Kans., the prisoner stole Cook
sey's gold watch.
Buried alive when a bank of earth
caved in on him as he was hiding
from his comrades when playing in
the sand pits at West Fifth avenue, in
Denver. Everett Lefbom. 5-year-old
son OF Mrs. Elma Lefbum OF 554 Lipan
street, lost his life.
Steamers down the lake from Du-
mth are sending wireless messages
stating that they are late because they
have been held by a snowstorm this
side OF the Canadian 500. Forty-one
degrees with a stiff east wind through
the city streets brought about winter
wraps in Duluth.
The first section of the Oregon eN-
press on the southern Pacific railroad
was held up and robbed at West
Forks. Ore. in Cow Creek caion
Three masked men stopped the train.
ordered the express and mail cars
separated from the passenger coaches
and dynamited the express car.
Harvest Of wheat and oats has be
gun in Nebraska along the southern
tier of counties and by another week
will be in full swing through the
South Platte country. Women are
displacing men as harvest hands.
They are more reliable. quicker and
do the heavy work as well as men.
over Kansas. Missouri and Okla
homa a scorching wind from the south
has blown. greatly damaging growing
crops and sending temperatures to
new high records. Reports from but
one county in Missouri tell Of rain
This was at Ha=tville, in Wright
county. At Salina, Kans., the tenn
perature reached 1I6 degrees.
Mrs. ortie Mechanical. whose hus
band is in jail in Los Angeles under
charge OF murder in connection with
the dynamiting Of the Los Angeles
Times building October /. last, ap-
peaTed before the grand jury and on
advice OF attorney Darrow. chief coun-
sci for John J. Mcnamara and his
brother James. who are under like in
dicIments. refused to testify.