The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-06-16
news OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE. =
Happenlngs That Are Making History
information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In q Few Llnes.
INTERMouNTAlN.

The Jackson lake reservoir is -.
ported full for the first time In Ave
years says an Idaho Falls report. The
surplus water will allowed to spill
and will increase the high watermark
at this place. The river IS higher than
since 1919.
Francis G. Matson Of Salt Lake,
formerly city editor of the Salt Lake
Herald Of that city, has been recon-
mended to be deputy internal revenue
commissioner, 1t was rumored at Wash
ngton Friday. The appointment has
1ot yet been made, but official informa-
lion Is that it will soon be announced.
AS a result of recent floods Mackay,
Idaho is without lights and power. j.
D. Carr, manager of the Mackay Light
& Power company, announced that the
damage could not be repaired in less
Than four or five days.
The safety box vault of the Bank
Of Aberdeen, forty miles southwest OF
Blackfoot, Idaho was blown open last
Thursday night by yeggmen using
aitroglycerin. Eighteen boxes were
robbed, but the amount of the loss has
Demand will be made by the county
commissioners Of Salt Lake County,
Utah on W. WI Barton, formerly coun-
~ treasurer, and his bondsmen Tor
b4,34669, which Is the amount as de-
termined by the Goddard-Abbey COM
,any, special auditor, Of the shortage In
The redemption department of the
county treasurer's office during the
previous administration. q
The proposition to bond Cache
county, Utah for 100000 to be used
npon the roads Of the county went over
BY majority of approximately 400 In
tuesdays bond election. The vote Of
thirty-six out Of forty-one districts had
been computed Tuesday and, as the
remaining districts are small, the final
majority is expected to remain about
as it is at this time.
A bill to provide anaddihonal fed
eral judge for the northern California
district has been introduced by Senator
shortridge, Republican of California.
Placing of an order. for 100000
pounds of copper wire by the Pacific
Gas and Electric company Of San Fran
cisco was announced Tuesday. 1t was
said to be the largest single order for
copper wire ever made. The wire will
be shipped here from Black Eagle,
Mont, It is said, and will require 27O
railroad cars for transit.
DOMESTIC.
Six hundred miners who were trap
ped in the Cherry mine Of the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul railroad at Mark,
ten miles south of Peru, Illinois, when
fire started half mile from the shaft
shortly before noon, Friday escaped
via emergency shafts. The state res
cue crew sealed the burning tunnel.
Attornys for six Elaine Ark, neg
roes, whose electrocution sheduled for
Friday was ordered held up pending
hearing of an application for writ of
habeas corpus, agreed to postpone the
hearing until the supreme court next
week acts on a petition filed by the at
torney general for writ of prohibit
ton against interference by the chanc-
cry court here.
"Uncle Bill Thomas, 76 years of age,
IF San Francisco is here at Milwau-
zee, Wis. attending the convention OF
he Associated Harvard clubs. "Uncle
Bill" has crossed the continent and
each time he comes "east" he makes a
strong comment on college life.
Fire which started shortly before
Friday night destroyed nine
buildings at Fort Niagara, with an es-
imated loss Of $4,000, officers said,
Several soldiers of the Twenty-second
Infantry were overcome while fighting |
he fire, but only one, private John
). Zely was in a serious condition.
PATIENTS in the fort hospital, one OF
he first buildings to catch fire, were
.arried out to safety.
e. B. Orr of st. Louis, director OF
civilian relief for the Red Cross for the
western division, who arrived Monday
rom st. Louis, has made tour OF the
Iooded district of Pueblo and declared
hat the damage appears to equal or
.xceed that of the Corpus Christi,
Texas, disaster"
Airplane police 10 regulate aeriai
rattle, assist in hunting down bank
obbers and auto bandits and to patrol
n the lake front for persons and ves-
els in distress will be added to the
Evanston police department. 1t was
Tuesday.
Three members of the Hop Suey tong
ire dead and four others Of the same
ong were probably fatally wounded
tuesday in a tong outbreak at Fresno,
Jal. The police say the Hop Suey
men were attacked by Bing Kong men.
Six of the Chinese were shot and one
vas stabbed.
Business revival within thirty days
That's what some of the leading Pitts
,urg steel manufactures expect as
eSult of the cut in steel prices by the /