The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-04-25
BRIEF REVIEW OF
A Weeks EVENTS
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
HAPPENINGS IN ITEM.
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iNTERMouNTAiN..


automobile belonging to his mother
on the road near the mouth of Ogden
canyon, the police are confronted with
the task Of determining whether the
young man, whose home is in Salt
Lake City, was murdered or suicided
Hemenway was shot through the head
and death must have been instantan-
eous.
Two hundred and fifty shopmen of
the Denver & Rio Grande railroad
have been returned to work at their
regular scale of pay and prevailing
seniority. The men have been idle
since March 16.
Edmond "A. Book, former city audi
tor of Salt Lake and later mayor of
the city, who few months ago con-
fessed the embezzlement of city funds
amounting to about $4,000 while he
was auditor, has been paroled from the
state prison. Book made restitution
of the amount stolen.
Miss Christiania MacConnell, for
fifty-nine years continuously school
teacher and for forty-two of those
years in the Portland schools, has ten
dered her resignation.
Mute evidence of long forgotten
tragedy, probably enacted in the days
of early settlement Of The Dalles, Ore,
was brought to light when workmen
engaged in the construction of the Co
lumbia river highway near the Des-
chutes river unearthed six skeletons,
each with the skull crushed in.
Reduction of 20 per cent in salaries
of officials and employees paid on
other than daily basis has been an
nounced by the Utah, Ray, Chino and
Nevada Copper companies which re-
Gently suspended operations. The de-
crease becomes effective May /.
DOMESTIC.
One hundred and fifty men, all job
less, homeless wanderers, were driven
from the Salvation Army industrial
home at San Francisco at an early
hour Monday morning, when fire de-
stroyed the building.
Early betting in Wall street on the
Dempsey-Car fight makes the
champion 3 to 2 favorite. The largest
known bet SO far is $4,000 to $1,000 that
Dempsey knocks the Frenchman out
in twelve rounds.
James A. Farrell, president of the
United States Steel corporation, is eX-
pected by high administration officials
to be named as chairman Of the new
shipping board.
Chicago socialists have voted in
favor of the bolshevist program as
in the third International
at Moscow.
Sixty persons were killed and prop
erty damaged to the extent of mil
lions of dollars in billiards. and tor
nadoes which covered the entire Cen
trail West on April 16. The windstorm
did the most damage in the south.
west, where many lives were lost. A
tornado hit portions of Arkansas and
Texas, leaving death and
destruction in it's wake. Twelve were
killed in Texas and at least forty in
Arkansas.
AbrogatiOn of the national agree
ments between the railroads and Their
announced April IA by the
labor board, was officially ac-
cepted by the executive council of the
shop trades in statement which
nailed the decision as a great victory
FOR labor, declaring it did not impair
abOr's economic or social status.
Bebe Daniels, motion picture star,
was comfortably settled in the Orange
county, California, Jail Saturday, serv-
ng a ten-day sentence imposed on her
'or. speeding.
Sam Cardinella, brains of the worst
gang in Chicago, according to the po-
ice, was hanged at Chicago, April 10,
or the murder of Andrew Bowman,
Cardinella collapsed when the time
'Or his execution came, and was I'M
conscious when taken from his cell.
Four bandits held up two messen-
gers for the Chicago clearing house
IN Friday and escaped with $63S, 900
n checks.
Lester Candy, "a years old, convicted
If having robbed and murdered his
,oyhood companion, Cleveland Row,
vas hanged at Wainesboro, Miss.
Arthur Ihlenfeld, 20, confessed muir
lerer of Mabel Foote and Louise VOL,
Ugh school teachers at Cleveland,
,eaten to death February 16, was
ound criminally insane by a jury of
tx men and six women.
A series of explosions destroyed
welve buildings of the united States
'ireworkS company at Randolph.
lass, and caused other heavy prop
.rty damage. The force of the eX-
,losrn was felt more than six miles
way.
4, tEflve aliens for whom deporra
~. warrants are held by federal Of
'c4.'I 1T Detroit have disappeared, 1t
as announced Friday The aliens