The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-03-28
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iNTERMouNTAiN.
Not to be Outdone by Colorado
Wyoming will invite President Hard
Ing to spend his vacation in that state
this summer and attend its silver an
Iniversary celebration the last week ir
July.
Northern Idaho residents, fostering
formation of the new state of Lincoln
which would comprise ten counties o
north Idaho, a part of western Mon
tana and eastern Washington, are tt
raise fund to be used for propaganda
purposes.
/ W. H. Ball, aged &c, a farmer OF
Pauline, Idaho, shot Ed. Brandt in the
forearm and seriously injured Deput!
Sheriff Torrance when the officer at
tempted to arrest him. Ball was later
arrested, after a fight with posse
and is in Jail. 1t is believed that the
man is insane.
Federal agents raided state head
quarters at Denver of the American
Federation of Labor and cOnfiscated
twenty-one gallons of whisky and ar
rested two members of a committee
named to provide entertainment for
the national convention of the order to
be held at Denver next summer.
Claude w. Blackman, logger,
walked into the police station at Ia
coma and announced that he had killed
his uncle, Bethel Blackman, in Wood
county, Texas, October %, 1919. He
will be taken back for trial.
w. r. Callicotte, former state fish
and game commissioner and candidate
| for United States senator was de-
capitated at Denver when runaway
automobile crashed downhill into a
street In the business section. Two
other persons were fatally injured.
DOMESTIC.
A jury at Williamson, w. Va, has
acquitted the sixteen residents OF
Matewan tried for the killing of Al
bert G. Felts, a private detective, in
the street battle at Matewan last
May.
The Methodist Episcopal church
made net gain of 191,559 members
in 1890, and 81 ,237 in Sunday school
enrolment, according to a statement
issued at Chicago by. the committee
on conservation and advance. +
Sam Hall and his wife, living near
COrinne, Okla, were murdered in bed
early Monday. A small child sleeping
between the couple was uninjured.
A section of the California work
mems compensation law, providing
that workmen who are residents Of the
state, but are injured outside the state
while working under contract of
labor signed within the state shall be
entitled to the benefits of the act, has
been in effect held constitutional by
the supreme court.
A campaign by the Women's Chris
tian Temperance Union. for strict
Sunday observance and against to-
bacco has been announced by Miss
Anna A. Gordon, national president, to
start April 3.
A jury at Cleveland, O., composed of
one woman and eleven men acquitted
Mrs. Maude Miller Of the charge of
her husband, whom she
shot, believing him burglar.
The Chicago Tribune's column con-
ductor-Bertram Lesion Taylor-one
Of Americas foremost humorists,
known and loved by thousands of |
newspaper readers, died March 10.
Lying across a trunk which con-
tanned the ashes of her husband, who |
died year ago, Mrs. Frances Schrie-
ner was found asphyxiated by fire
man who responded to an alarm Of |
fire at Chicago.
Clara Smith Hamon was acquitted
by jury at Ardmore, Oklahoma, Of
the murder of Jake L. Hamon, million
aire politician, who was shot by the
woman last November. The trial last
ed week, the Jury returning verdict
after being out but forty minutes.
Long known as the richest village
In the world" due to it's ore values,
Mimi, has new cause for
pride, it's birth record. During the
first seventeen days of March the
stork presented twelve boys and five
girls to the village.
Charles Smith, aged %, has con-
'essed at Los Angeles that he and his
father, G. w. Smith, murdered Pete
SEIZURE on October in rOoming
house at Akron, Ohio.
Harry S. Black, New York multi
was placed under arrest
It Miami, Fla, following raid on
lis private railroad car by police Of
icers, who declare they found fifty
hree cases Of whisky aboard.
Representatives of the principal
rain growing states will meet at Chi
ago, April 6, to consider the Ameri-
an Farm Bureau federation's coop
ative grain marketing plan.
An income taxpayer whose total tax
8 cents and who insists on paving