, 1925-02-11
Western Breyities
from the Many
Western States

raised the quarantine against ship.
ments of livestock, shrubbery, live.
stock feed and dairy products into
Colorado from Texas The embargo,
which was enforced late last summer
following outbreak of the foot and
mouth disease in Texas, leaves now
only the restriction that incoming
shipments comply to regulations laid
down by the federal bureau of animal
~husbandry.
Denver, Colo.-Ben B. Lindsey,
judge of the Denver juvenile court
refused to give up his office to Ro-
val S. Graham, Ku Klux Khan oppon-
ent, whom he defeated in the Novem-
Der elections. Graham formally de
manded Lindsey's office, ~contending
that he is entitled to the office on the
face of election returns, but THAT he
was deprived of it by alleged irreg.
larlties in the vote counting.
Los Angeles, Cal.-Andrew H. Pey-
all, former president of the Long
Beach Glass company was arrested at
his home here on an extradition war
rant for Toronto, Canada, where he
is under charges of ~embezzling $685.
900 Pepall was arraigned before a
United States Commissioner and his
hearing was set for February Ii. The
commissioner denied an application
for bail.
San Francisco, Cal.-The eclipse of
the sun last Saturday exerted an I'M
usual influence on tides in the Pa
cific ocean. The Preside tide station
reported Sunday morning a tide of g.
feet, approximately two feet above
normal. The extreme low tide will
be Is beet below normal, making a
difference of eight feet between low
and high tide.
San Francisco, Cal.-Five men
were arrested and $4,000 in counter
felt currency and a co~unterfeiting
plant were seized here. The United
States secret service agent said he
believed the currency had been made
to pass on rum runners on the high
seas He said the men had bought
two consignments of liquor and that
the rum runners, when they discover
ed they had received counterfeit cur
rency, refused to deal with the men.
Los Angeles.-Two men and two
hptyS trn,a arrt.I l~xa .n..L -E nnn
pennies, after a policeman had no
ticed the boys and men carrying
small, heavy sacks into a rooming
house. Later the pennies were iden-
titled as the property of a weighing
machine company. 1t was said the
pennies represented four days re
ceipts from sidewalk weighing ma
chimes.
Everett, Wash.-Percy Tyler, far
mer-labor party nominee for con.
gress wv years ago and chairman of
the grievance committee during the
recent coal strike, was found guilty
of murder in the first degree by the
jury which returned the verdict after
All alllllSHl utllDtTdllOU
Tuscon. Ari.-F. D. Hastings, post
master at Red Rock, Ariz., thirty
three miles from Tucson, was shot and
killed as he sat in the postoffice. De
tails were not available here, but a
railroad agent at Red Fork said that
Hastings was killed while working at
his fNnnNUpftar ard afsA- H. Lul -.
fused food to two men who said they
were without funds.
Ogden, Utah.-A dead lynx, mea-
surfing about forty inches from tail
to nose, was found by Deputy Game
Warden w. II. (Buck) Anderson on
the Lewis property in Ogden can
yon. The dead animal was found n
few feet from the dead body of a
young deer which had previously been
killed by predatory animals. The
deer meat was poisoned in efforts to
kill the predatory animals preying
upon the deer.
Pasadena, CAL Mr.. Elizabeth
Boynton Herbert, for sixty years n
worker in the field of woman suf.
frage is dead. She was one of the
founders Of the Woman's club of
Evanston, ILL.,, where she lived for
many years, and held office in various
%natnonal organizations of women dur
ing her long career.
Los Angeles, Cal.-William S.
(Bill) Hart, two-gun film hero, who
has shot his way to numerous "happy
endings" on the silver screen, failed
to register in superior court here
when his wife, Winifred W~estover
Hart, from whom he is separated,
took the decision in their legal battle
over her right to return to work be-
fore the camera.
Tacoma, Wash.-AThe state bonus
TO veterans Of all branches Of the ser.
vice in the World war amounts to
80 kOO OOO 10 hna hoo, a.,a,na,l L.,