The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-04-04
Brief REVIEW OF
A Weeks EVENTS
ACCORD OF THE IMPORTANT
HAPPENINGS IN ITEM.
lied FORM
Home and Foreign News Gathered
From Al Quarters Of the World,
and Prepared for Busy Men
INTERN MOUNTAIN.

oNTERMoUNTAlN.
A bill providing for the use of lethal
gas in executing the death penalty in
Nevada hassbsen signed by Governor
Boyle.
Thermopolis, wyoming, faces the
prospects Of being without water,
lights Or electric power for several
days as result Of destruction by fire
of the Thermopolis Electric company's
plant.
Sale of the Denver & Rio Grande
railroad to the Western Pacific rail
road for 100000 last November to
satisfy Judgment of the Equitable
Trust company of New York was con-
firmed In federal court at Denver by
District Judge Robert e. Lewis.
Livestock stolen in Montana dur
ing 1920 was valued at $149,59O, &C
cording to figures compiled by Frank
G. Lavigne, chief deputy state inspec-
tor. Rustling, said Lavigne, is as
prevalent as in the old frontier days
though not SO bold.
Isom White, convicted Of the muir
der Of Lee Linton, taxicab driver, will
be hanged at Everett, Wash, May 20.
Date of execution was fixed by the SUI
perior court.
Joseph Poeschl was convicted at
Portland of the murder of Charles j.
Schnabel, an attorney. Poeschl shot
the attorney at the courthouse Feb
ruary 4, claiming his act was due to
Schnabel failing to press a lawsuit
for him. Insanity was the defense.
Preparations are being made for an
airplane meet to be held in Denver
May Is. Thirty airplanes are expect
ed to be entered in the contests. Trick
flying, racing and parachute jumping
are included in the program. Prizes
will be given the winners In each
event.
DOMESTIC.
Prospects for 1921 crops of oil kinds
in the twelfth federal reserve district
are exceptionally favorable, said
statement issued by the federal re-
serve board at San Francisco.
That the remedy for the lack of
million homes in the United States
lies in providing better transportation,
abundance of fuel, credit for loans
and full information on the best meth
DDS of construction, is contended by
Senator William NJ Calder of New
York, chairman of the senate commit
tee on reconstruction, in a report
made public March %.
Two children were Killed and sew
eral injured at Ell Paso, Texas, when
a cave which they had dug and in
which they were playing collapsed.
Two unidentified Cinnamon were
found dead from pistol wounds in
Chinese lodging house in San Fran
cisco, the result, according to the
police, of new tong war outbreak.
A pistol was found beside each man
and the police believe they shot each
other.
Whilc cleaning windows on the
eleventh floor of building in Chicago,
Thomas Wahl fell to his death, the
safety rope breaking.
'Fighting Bob Lafollette stood up
in the assembly room of the capitol
at Madison, Wis, Saturday, where his |
war record was condemned, three
years ago, and hurled defiance at |
those who attacked him then. This |
was while addressing a farmer-labor
conference there. II wouldn't trade |
my war record with any living man."
he Numbered.
Hljmar Johnson. messenger for the |
Drinks Express company; was riddled
with bullets and killed by four pay
roll bandits, who seized two packages |
of money he was delivering at Chi
cago.
Two armed bandits held up George |
Stanley & Co., brokers, in the loop
district at Chicago, and escaped with |
$500 in currency and $4,000 in jew
elry.
Two hours after he had expressed
the wish that his life be taken if he
had made statement attributed to
him by witnesses in a suit over the
sale of cattle, Mark Dillon dropped
dead at Welch, w. Va.
The California State Building
Trades council has adopted resolu-
tion calling for appointment of COM
mittee to work out plan for Great
ing building and loan fund under the
councils direction.
Four bandits seized payroll of
$13,500 Saturday when they held up an
automobile right outside of the busy
loop district in Chicago and made a
clean getaway.
New indictments have been returned
against eighteen men as result of
the second investigation into the al
legged throwing of the 1919 world series
by Chicago White Sox players. Eight
players were indicted, the others be-
ing men who gave the brides, gamblers
and go-betweens.
A heavy gale, which attained
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