The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-02-24
BRIEF REVIEW OF
A Weeks EVENTS
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
HAPPENINGS IN ITEM.
lied FORM
Home and Foreign News Gathered
From All Quarters Of the World,
and Prepared for Busy Men
NTERMOUNTAlN.


escaped with Liberty bonds, stamp
and cash, the amount of which has no
been made public.
The anti-cigarette bill has passed tn
Idaho senate by vote of 20 to Il
The measure now goes to the house
Charles Harris, convicted of tn
wholesale theft of automobiles in Sal
Lake, escaped from the state prison
while working in thhe warden's apart
ments under guard. He eluded thu
guard and is at liberty.
Two masked men attacked the nigh
matchman at the Orem station a
Ogden, Utah, beat him into uncon
seriousness and rifled the ticket office
obtaining small sum of money.
The mail boat Venus, recently re
ported missing in Alaskan waters, ha.
arrived safely at Unga, Alaska, accord
ing to message received at Seattle.
Following a sixtyday fast in Jail
George F. West, alleged wife murderer
Is dead at Dallas, Ore. West came
to Dallas last December from Willows
GAL, and went to the nearby ranch
where his wife, fiom whom he had
been separated, was working as q
housekeeper. A quarrel ensued and
West is alleged to have shot and killed
his wife.
Between $1,000 and $4,000 was stolen
by masked bandits, who entered a
pool hall at Dietz, Wyo., held up
eighteen men who were playing pool
and ransacked their pockets, the cash
register and the safe.
DOMESTIC.
Definite announcement that Harry
NJ. Daugherty of Ohio had been chosen
tor the attorney generalship under the
coming administration was made at
st. Augustine, Fla, by President-elect
Harding +s
Unless the Mexican government
rescinds its ruling requiring payment
of $40 to the Mexican consul at San
Diego, Cal, for the viseing of per-
manent passports and 81 for temporary
passports, the Tiajuana race track will
be closed, it is announced.
That John D. Rockefeller had total
income Of from 100000 to $45,OOO,-
600 in 1917, and that his income in
1918 was at least $37 100000, and pos
sibly as much as S40,OOO,OOO, are de-
auctions made after study of
the statistics of the internal revenue
bureau for those years.
Two men believed to have robbed
the mail car of the North Coast Linn
tied on the Northern Pacific of $780,.
OOO were captured at Little Falls,
Mimi, after a running revolver fight
with deputies.
Selection Of Charles Evans Hughes
Of New York to be secretary Of state |
was definitely announced Saturday at |
st. Augustine, Fla, by President-elect
Harding. Mr.. Hughes has accepted.
Charges of inhuman treatment of en-.
listed men have been lodged with con.
gress against officers of the U. s. S.
Michigan by the municipal department
Of public welfare, it was announced
Friday at Philadelphia.
Typhus may break out in any part
Of the United States as the result of
vermin infested European immigrants
being admitted by federal officials, &C.
cording to DR.. Royal s. Copeland, New
York City health commissioner.
Newton w. Rowell, formerly presi-
lent Of the privy council of Canada
and delegate to the league Of nations,
declared in the house of commons FRI
lay that public opinion will eventually 7
'orce the United States to enter the
eague.
Farmers Of Wisconsin are feeding {
heir potatoes to livestock, while near
y twO-thirds of WiscOnsin's spud
'rop remains unshipped and prices I
nave dropped from $1.l5 hundred '
weight to 60 cents.
Enrico Caruso is believed to have Il
won his fight against threatened death b
and to be on the road to recovery at 1t
his home in New York City. The |c
world famous tenor has been near
Heath from pleurisy.
Six thousand bales of cotton were d
ost at Ennis, Texas, in fire which 2
destroyed three warehouses. The loss y
S estimated at $4OOOOO q
With three-fifths of the primeval
orests gone, the United States must +
urn to the growing and harvesting of
imber crops, Colonel w. B. Greedy, h
'hief Of the United States forest SER p
ice, told the Massachusetts house of h
representatives. in an address. "
Arthur Pelky, former heavyweight
ugilist, died at his home in Ford City, r
mt, Friday, death being attributed to o
leeping sickness. Pelky participated Il
! bout with Luther Mccarthy in Cal II
airy, Canada, May "a, 1918, that re- G.
lifted in McCarthy's death. O.
Protesting his innocence to the very
st moment when the trap was sprung 7
nd his body dropped to death, Ernest q
axis was hanged at San Quentin, Cal, 3,
II the murder Of Edwin Taylor, in d.