The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1921-03-11
NORTHWEST NOTES

vention nj Spokane. |
The members of the Nevada legis- |
lature now have before them for con |
sideraflon a bill proposing 10 abolish |
corporal punishment In the schools.
A skeleton. believed Ia be the re-
mains OF Jack Livingston. former
resident Of Sparks, New. has been
found In the canyon east of Sparks.
Baseball men from Denver, Casper
and Greybull, Wyo.. and Sterling,
Colo. will meet In Cheyenne To dis
cnss plans for organizing six-cluD
league.
The Atlantic-Pacific highway and
electrical exposition tn be held nj
Portland In 1925 has been given the
Endorsement of the advertising bu-
reau OF the Salt Lake Chamber OF
Commerce.
The salaries OF Legislators In the
state of Washington will be Increased
from s. u day 10 SIS day and the
sessions extended from Cd days to 20
days II a bin introduced In the house
becomes effective.
Flagging fast train with matches
before daybreak. George Burns, aged
30, probably prevented himself from
bleeding To death after both legs had
been cut off beneath another train
near Pasco. Wash.
While adjusting the mechanism OF a
moving automobile from the running
board of the machine. Louis Schawt
slipped and fell from the auto. near
Reno, New, and suffered u broken jaw
and other injuries.
| DIR. Geo. c. Rafter. known through
out the west for nearly half century
as rector and later as rector emeritus
OF ST. Marks Episcopal church of
Cheyenne, died February 70. DIR.
lsafter was 81 years old.
A Montana tax report says slso0o.-
600 was added 10 the assessed valua-
ton of that state last year. on ac'
count OF the oil discoveries aud oil
development that followed. thereby
reducing the tax levy for other indus
tries.
| III 1tun anu tHHUp. WIN
are said to have much feed on hand
are urged IN appeals being sent out
by the Ogden Packing X Provision
company and the Union stockyards Il
again take up the matter OF raising
hogs.
George Strickland, who has beer
confined In the Nevada state prisoI
since last July, committed suicide b,
cutting his throat with a razor. Strick
land held up the Desert cafe In Tono
pah when about forty men were II
the place.
The s-year-oid son OF John Hen
hickman, an Austrian miner, wa
, killed by train nj Mullan Idaho. "
was coastlng uoan hill from the schao
house. and the sled stopped on III
railroad track just as the train reaches
. the crossing.
Because his wife threatened 10 I'll
suit for divorce James Carlson, T.
shot and instantly killed her AT For
Z Collins, Colo. and then turned the gu
upon himself inflcting fatal wount
, messed the shooting.
I A coroner's jury has exonerate
e Jack Blanda, l6. (Young Grlffo) fror
+. blame In connection with the death a
E Pueblo. Colo, of John Shank. Jr., l.
young CorbetD when Shank fell I
, the floor In the fourth round OF
4 boxing match, dying soon afterwar,
( A near riot occurred In the count
g hospital AT Ely. New. one night la,
a week, In which the sherifrs office wn
Z enlisted 10 restore peace and orde
a The trouble arose over the assignln
To the ward of one Grant Dorset
!. who snored SO violently that the stun
bers OF the others was disturbed
: Teachers and pupils In schools Z
( Washington are barred from wearIn
n high heels and transparent clothln
2 and the superintendent OF public II
a struction Is empowered To fix n
maximum amount which they ma
q spend for clothing. under the pr
4 visions OF bin introduced IN II
|. house of the legislature
D.. About 80 employees Of the Pocatei
r shops OF the Oregon Short Line raj
o road at Pocatello, Idaho. were laid o
d of the payroll on March J. This
the second big layoff since the perie
n Of business depression began on II
4 railroad. and. including the list {
= February -. about 707 men have bee,
laid off al the Pocatello shops ia Il
n last two months.
l. Sheepmen aud cattlrmen at n
il Colorado Utah line are reported
d have renewed their feud. Two o.
identified men called nj the Bit
N Mountain sheep camps. IS miles -soutl
a west of Grand Junction. Colo. recen
a ly. and held up two sbeepher,ler
4 saturated the outfit with oil aud a.
: piled a match.
]. Not less than six months nor MOI
I. than one year In the state penlential