The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-03-07
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for an alleged blackmailer who at
tempted to extort $4,000 from G. A.
hoffman, Olympia, Wash, merchant
and former mayor, under threat of
dynamiting his department store.
Charles J. O'Hara, newspaper cir
culation solicitor, has been convicted
on charge of robbiAg the Littleton
(Colo.) State bank on January IA.
The penalty is five years to life i'm
prisonment. The bandit obtained $4,000
and escaped in an automobile.
Following the adoption of the anti
cigarette bill in the Utah legislature,
1t is announced that a bill will be pre-
sented prohibiting the use of tobacco
In any form in the state of Utah, and
would make the use of tobacco in the
state crime.
Discovery of plot by the bandits
who were involved in three bank rob-
berries in Utah to escape from the Titan
penitentiary has been made by the
warden, and as result the ''honor"
system at the prison has been tenn
porarily abandoned, the guard has
been Increased and all prisoners are
Kept within the walls.
A blue Sunday bill has appeared in
the Utah Legislature. 1t provides for
the closing of all places Of amuse-
ment on Sunday and would bar Sun
day baseball games. Theatre men de-
clare that should the measure be ap-
proved, it would mean the ruin of
owners of moving picture and vaude-
Vile theatres as well as owners of
baseball plants.
DOMESTIC
! Warden Fenton of the Nebraska
Ipenitentiary said friday he would t.J-
ltify all sheriffs of the state to send
no more men convicted of crimes to
the prison for the present. Warden
Fenton said the penitentiary was
crowded to the doors with 612 inmates,
200 more than normal capacity.
Thomas Martin, said to be the son
of Detroit coffee dealer, was arrest
ed at Chicago in connection with
theft of $4,000 from the Moline, ILL.,,
Commercial Savings bank last July,
when seven men were shot in a fight
between bank employees and the ban
dts. .s.
Service in the American army dur
ing the world war does not entitle
japanese to American citizenship, the
district court of appeals ruled at Sac
ramento, CAL, in denying the applica-
ton for citizenship of Ichizo Sato,
Japanese.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Creason, parents
of lola Creason, 16-year-old telephone
operator who disappeared from Ko-
komo, Ind, are offering a reward of
everything they possess for definite
news of her. The offer includes
cottage home valued at $1,000 and 500
in cash. Cresson is laborer.
One hundred and sixty miles over
frozen and desolate snow waste
George Miller drove a dog sled on
which lay his wife, unconscious, suf-
fering from nervous collapse. He
has arrived at Dawson, Y. T., from
Mayo and has placed her in hospital
following a seven-day journey.
Fire partially destroyed the city hos
pital at Riverside, CAL, the eighteen
patients on the, two floors being car
ried to safety. Defective wiring was
assigned as the cause of the blaze.
Stefano Varesco, a shoemaker,
walked into the police station at Santa
Barbara, Cal, and calmly announced
that he had just cut off his wife's
head. Officers went to the mans
home and stumbled over the headless
body of the woman. The crime was the
result of a family quarrel.
A sermon on cooperation, not only
between sections and parties, but be-
tween individuals, was preached by
President-elect Harding in three
speeches delivered at Jacksonville.
Fla.
A congressional investigation Of Fox
Hills hospital on Staten Island, a gov
eminent Institution for disabled SOL
diers, was recommended in the pre-
liminary report of a committee of the
American Legion.
Fishing on Sunday would be pun
ishable by fine of $50, under bill
introduced In the Arkansas legislature.
Another bill offered would provide
prison sentence of from two to five
years on persons found guilty of brib-
ing baseball players to throw game.
Police Of Chicago are searching for
William Dalton, aged II, who is
charged with having disappeared with
nearly million dollars worth of
Liberty bonds belonging to a bank, by
which he was employed.
Jacob Haussling, four times mayor
of Newark, N. j., died of knife wound
self-inflicted, police said. Haussling's
body was found in bed by his wife. A
soda fountain equipment company, OF
which he was head, went into bank |
ruptcy recently, costing the former
mayor much of his popularity.
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