The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-03-03
NORTHWEST NOTES

seattle was Selecfed as the meeting
place n aXt year by the Northwestern
Retail Credit Mems association in con.
ventiOn at Spokane.
The members of the Nevada legis-
lature now have before them for con-
sideration bill proposing to abolish
corporal punishment in the schools.
| A skeleton, believed to be the re-
mains Of Jack Livingston, former
resident of Sparks, New, has been
found in the canyon east of Sparks.
Baseball men from Denver, Casper
and Greybull, Wyo., and Sterling,
Colo, will meet in Cheyenne to dis
cUss plans for organizing six-cluD
1 league.
The Atlantic-paciiic highway and
electrical exposition to be held at
Portland in 1925 has been given the
Endorsement of the advertising bu-
reau of the Salt Lake Chamber of
Commerce. 4s
The salaries of legislators in the
state of Washington will be increased
from So day to SO day and the
sessions extended from 60 days to 80
days if bill introduced in the house
becomes effective.
Tagging fast train with matches
before daybreak, George Burns, aged
80, probably prevented himself from
bleeding to death AFTER both legs had
been cut off beneath another tram
near Pasco, Wash.
While adjusting the mechanism of a
moving automobile from the running
board of the machine, Louis Schawt
slipped and fell from the auto, near
Reno, New, and suffered a broken jaw
and other injuries
DR.. Geo. c. Rafter, known through
out the west for nearly half a century
as rector and later as rector emeritus
of st. Marks Episcopal church Of
Cheyenne, died February 26. DR..
aafter was 50 years old.
A Montana tax report says $1S,o00,-
600 was added to the assessed valua-
ton of that state last year, on ac-
count of the oil discoveries and oil
development that followed. thereby
reducing the tax levy for other indus
tries.
Farmers of Utah and Idaho, who
are said to have much feed on hand,
are urged in appeals being sent out
by the Ogden Packing & Provision
company and the Union stockyards to
again take up the matter of raising
hogs. -..t
George Strickland, who has been
confined in the Nevada state prison
since last July, committed suicide by
cutting his throat with razor. Strick-
land held up the Desert cafe in Tono.
pah when about forty men We're in
the place.
The S-yearold son of John Hen
hickman, an Austrian miner, was
killed by train at Mullan, Idaho. He
was coaSting down hill from the school
house and the sled stopped on the
railroad track just as the train reached
the crossing.
Because his wife threatened to file
suit for divorce, James Carlson, As,
shot and instantly killed her at Fort
Collins, Colo, and then turned the gun
upon himself, inflicting a fatal wound.
Mrs. Carlson's two small children wit
messed the shooting.
A corOners jury has exonerated
Jack Blanda, 16, young Griffo) from
blame in connection with the death at
Pueblo, Colo. of John Shank, Jr., II,
young Corbett) when Shank fell to
the floor in the fourth round of
boxing match, dying soon afterward
A near riot occurred in the county
hospital at Ely, New, one night last
week, in which the sheriff's office was
enlisted to restore peace and order
The trouble arose over the assigning
to the ward of one Grant Dorsett
who snored so violently that the slum-
bers of the others was disturbed.
Teachers and pupils in schools Of
Washington are barred from wearing
high heels and transparent clothing,
and the superintendent Of public in
struction is empowered to fix the
maximum amount which they may
spend for clothing, under the pro-
visions of bill introduced in the
house of the legislature.
About 5S5 employees of the Pocatel1o
shops Of the Oregon Short Line rail-
road at Pocatello, Idaho, were laid off |
Of the payroll on March /. This is |
the second big layoff since the period |
Of business depression began on the |
and, including the list on
February %, about 707 men have been
laid off at the Pocatello shops in the
last two months.
Sheepmen and cattlemen at the
Colorado Utah line are reported to
have renewed their feud. Two un-
identified men called at the Blue
Mountain sheep camps, IS miles south
west of Grand Junction, Colo, recent
y, and held up two sheepherders,
saturated the outfit with oil and ap-
oiled match.