The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-04-12
Western Brevities
from, the Many
Western States

Los Angeles. = Policemen with
drawn revolvers kept back crowd
of several hundred who menaced
Markers Carter, a negro, after his au-
tomobile had run down and killed
Mrs. G. Harrison.
Denver.-Thomas McCabe, secre.
larry to Washington Rinker chief of
detectives, was shot and possibly
fatally wounded by holdups.
Spokane.-Twohy Bros. have been
awarded a $1,50O0,000 contract to con-
struct twenty miles of logging road
for the Long Bell Lumber company.
San Francisco.-Eighteen persons
were injured here when Market
street railway company street car
overturned.
Ogden.-Fire of unknown origin
caused $4,000 damage at the Her.
mitage resort In Ogden canyon.
Salt Lake City-TwIce us many
animals as were received last year
have been entered in the sixth annual
Intermountain Livestock Show, which
opened Tuesday at the Salt Lake
Union stockyards.
San Francisco.-Water consumers
In the Nampa and Meridian irrigation
district of Idaho must pay the gov
eminent a drainage charge of 81 for
each irrigable acre. the United States
circuit court of appeals held.
Manti-Reports from the west
desert, where most of the sheep from
this vicinity were wintered, are not
favorable. Due to the heavy SHOWS
and the long cold period since the
middle of January, sheep are weak
and poor.
Denver.-The will of United States
Senator Samuel d. Nicholson, opened
here, disclosed an estate estimated
to be worth $1,00O,00O. largely in
bonds.
Long Beach, Cal.-Miss s. +. Ep.
pelium of Denver, shot and killed her
| self here. Ill health is believed to
have been the cause.
Los Angeles.-A group of San Fran
cisco and Los Angeles capitalists
have purchased Grauman's Metropoli-
tan threatre building with the ground
on which it stands, for 100000.
Walnut Grove, Cal-The first car
load of asparagus of the 1923 Cali
fornia crop had moved from this
point for the East.
Seattle.-Suspension Of mining ac-
tivities in union coal mines of the
Gle Elum Roslyn field OF Washington
has been ordered.
Sacramento.-A bill in the legisla.
ture to abolish foreign language
schools in California by 1880 and to
curtail their operation meanwhile
was reported out of the senate CON-
mittee on education.
Seattle.-The Seattle school board
has voted salary increace of sec
each to teachers Of the public
schools.
Rock Springs, Wyo. = Another
chapter in the Fertile murder case
was written in Green River, when
Ira Rushford, J. K. Mcclellan, Evan
Harris and Joseph GARLIC were ar.
raigned in the court of Justice of the
Peace f. ]. Lenhart on charge of
murder in the first degree.
Unionville, Nev.-The Unionville
Mining company plans the building
af q cyanide plant ON it's property in
the Star Peak range near Unionville,
New, according to company an
nouncement.
Brigham City, Utah.--After suf-
fering from commissions for approx
mately an hour as the result of eat
ing a wild parsnip which he found
growing on the banks of an irrga-
ton ditch, Delbert 1ingey died here.
Sandy, Utah. Leo Edward OF
Sandy, was accidentally killed in the
railroad yard at Oroville, Cal, ac-
cording to a telegram received here.
Salt Lake.. l.. Schettier, j. Y.
Hoyt and George Baker. federal pro-
hlbition officers for district No. 16,
were removed from government SER
vice by direction of John Madden.
Denver-Miss Frances KIDD, Japan
csc school girl, won 800 prize for
turning in the only perfect paper in a
statewide spelling contest.
Elko. A model Indian village,
equipped with sewers, electric lights
and ample water supply, together
with other modern conveniences, will
displace the Indian village that now
exists within mile and a bali of
Elko
Los Angeles.-Gloria Swanson, mo.
| ton picture actress, was made de-
| PENDANT in a divorce suit by Her.
bert X. Somborn, her husband. The
complaint charged desertion.
Boise.-Senator Mark A. Means Of
Lewiston, will succeed Miles Cannon
of Weisor as commissioner of agri-
culture, Governor C. c. Moore an
nounced.
Ogden.-The Utah Construction
company has been awarded contract
for double tracking the Southern Pr.
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