The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-03-17
brief REVIEW OF
A Weeks EVENTS
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
HAPPENINGS IN ITEM
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Home a-d Foreign News Gathered
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lNTERMoUNTAiN.

INTERMouNTA,N.
The sixteenth Idaho legislature ad,
jOurned Sunday morning, March 6, the
closing scenes being witnessed by
hundreds of spectators.
David Peterson was helping roll a
l1O0-pound iron pipe at Portland when
one end slipped from the grasp Of an.
other workman. caught the point OF
Petersons boosting stick and flipped
it through the air to his jaw. Peter.
son died on the way to the hospital.
When the steering gear of an auto
mobile broke while the machine was
being driven at a rapid rate near Og
den, Utah, five men were injured, the
car turning over and the occupants be-
ing pinned underneath.
Violet Mckle, aged 10, announced
at the inquest at Greeley, Colo, over
the body of William Purvis, aged 81
who had dropped dead, that she was
his common law wife, and would claim
a portion of his $15O,O00 estate fol
herself and her unborn child. She had
been housekeeper for Purvis.
The Washington state senate has
passed the anti-alien land bill, which
prohibits aliens not eligible TO citizen.
ship from owning or leasing land In
the state, and prohibits all persons
from engaging in land deals with
such aliens.
Essie Rich, aged Is, was shot and
killed by her S-year-old brother, al
Lowell, Wyo., while the boy was play
ing with rifle, supposedly broken
and unloaded.
DOMESTIC.
Mrs. Joseph Silva, aged 81, and her
husband, aged "a, were shot and killed
near Lindsay, Cal X. K. Connolly sur
rendered to theh sheriff, who said Con
molly told him he, shot and killed the
Silvas after a quarrel over family mat
tiers. So. ...4.ts
Claims Of the state Of New Mexico
to certain lands filed on by it In lieu
Of tracts owned by the state within
the limit of a national forest have
been upheld by the supreme court.
As an additional punishment, and SC
the public will know them, the chief Of
police of Juarez has ordered the heads
Of all pickpockets shaved when they
are released from prison.
Five armed robbers In an automo
bile held up mail truck, kidnapped thu
driver, drove the truck through crowd
ed streets of Chicago to an outlying
section, picked out six pouches Of
registered mail and escaped, leaving
the driver locked in his own truck.
Interior Alaska soon will be using
exclusively, home grown and home
ground grain, a flour mill having been
established at Fairbanks. Wheat from
the several farms in the Tanana val
ley will be brought to the mill and the
flour will be sold at island points.
Two clerks in motorcar transport
ing mail from the Santa Fe depot to
the postoffice at Sugar Creek, Mo.
were held up by four bandits, who
escaped with two bags of mail.
A general strike was called on the
Atlanta, Birmingham & Atlantic rail
road Saturday as a protest against
wage reduction. Approximately 2OE
are affected. ...
Cash and bonds totaling more than
100000 were announced by postal
officials as part Of the loot of bandits
who held up and robbed mail truck
in the downtown section of Los An.
geles.
Plans are being considered for a
mammoth, continuous, double-span
bridge across San Francisco bay, to
carry both railroad and vehlcular traf'
fic.
Liquor ceases to be property when
it can be shown that the pOssessOl
had it stored in a place which cannot
be considered his home, under a ruling
made recently by Superior Judge II
D. Gregory, Oroville. CAL, when foul
boys were brought before him on 9
charge Of stealing 200 gallons of wine
from a Hindu resident of. Gridley.
A bill has been introduced in the
Texas legislature providing that an,
person who may have heretofore helt
the office of governor Of Texas, OF
may hereafter hold that office, shall
be ineligible to. hold the office o.
United States senator from Texas.
Indiana coal operators under indict
ment on charges of violating the Sher
man antitrust law through con
spiracy with miners and retailers tt
increase soft coal prices, have sur
rendered to the United States mar
shall at Indianapolis, and each gave
bond of $4,000 and was released.
Charges of cruelty to prisoners
Encouragement, carelessness and In
efficiency on the part of the manage
lnent of the South Dakota penitentiary
a, Sioux Falls, under former Warden
G. G. Redfield, are contained in the
report of the legislative investigating
committee submitted to the legisla
ture.