The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1922-09-01

Kansas City.-Smoking in public
cost Mary Helm, 81 years old, fine
of $500 and a sentence of six months
in Jail here. Che was arrested on
charge OF vagrancy while smoking a
cigarette in park.
Seattle.-Four policemen are
thought to he dying and a street car
operator was seriously hurt as re-
suit of a collision between high
powered automobile driven by one OF
the policemen and the street car ON
a downtown street.
Seattle.-The Ninety-first division,
representative of the Far West in the
and other great events
of the World war, held its third an
nual reunion here. For the first time
one general reunion was held, the for
mer affairs having been arranged so
that simultaneous meetings were held
in several Pacific coast cities.
Los Angeles.-Use of automobile
inner tubes by sea bathers at Hermosa
Beach, a suburb, has been forbidden
by ordinance. Recent narrow escapes
from drowning convinced the Hermoca
Beach council the custom was danger
Gus, as 1t was said, the tubes soon rot
ted in the water and often collapsed
at greater distance from shore than
the bather was able to swim.
Spokane.-Plans have just been an
nounced for the establishment of
Spokane valley apple packing school
in the warehouse Of the Spokane Val
ley Growers union at Opportunity,
will be under the direction of experts
and those completing the work in a
satisfactory manner will be given a
certificate of graduation from the col
lege.
NORTHWEST
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS papers
have been filed with the secretary of
state here by the Mammoth Oil COM
pany of Delaware, capitalized at $780,
100000 and organized by the Sinclair
Oil interests to develop the Teapot,
dome naval reserve under a contract
secured from the federal government
The company paid a filing fee Of
$4,000.
Butte.-Sam Protine, the 9S-year old
Butte policeman, whose love affair
with a Ga year old former circus
rider brought him to public attention
here recently, Is dead. He was born
at Barnegat, N. j., and claimed to
have been body guard for President
Lincoln during the Civil war.
Seattle.-Proceedi of the Veter-
ans Of Foreign Wars at their national
annual convention, were featured by
bestowal OF the French Legion of Hon.
or on Robert G.. Woodside of Pitts
burg. COMMUNICATIVE chief, and Ruel w.
Elton, New York, adjutant general.
The ceremonies, conducted by Chris
tion Vocher Corbierre, French consul
here, were held in Woodland park,
while a crowd estimated at $4,000
stood at attention.
Ogden.-Excellent roads are being
constructed through federal aid in the
states Of Wyoming and Idaho for the
Yellowstone auto tourists, according
to Nj. ID. Williams, senior highway
engineer for the United States bureau
OF public roads, who returned TO
Ogden from an inspection trip through
the north. The trip included a visit
to the following projects: Montpelier
Alton, Warm River-Y ellowstone, Ho-
back canyon and the Dubois AIonida.
Elko.-The interstate commerce
commission has authorized the South
ern Pacific to abandon a branch line
OF railroad eighty miles long running
from Tulasco to Metropolis in Elko
county, New. This line is owned nv
the Central Pacific and has been oper-
ated by the Southern Pacific under
lease since 1911. The Nevada public
service commission opposed the aban.
donment of this road, which is wholly
intrastate, but. as II is a part OF an
interstate system. the interstate com.
merce commission assumed iurisdic.
ton. This road in six years has ham
died only 1908 tons of freight, If
operates trains only twice a month
And as no improved business il in
sight the commission authorized
abandonment OF the road. especially az
there is now a daily bus service in
operation.
San Francisco.-Forty young Rms.
sian students. including six women
nave come to America to secure an
education as ammunition with which
to rout the holshevik armies and az
tablish government on the Amsr,
can plan. They were recently gues,.
OF the University Of California whoro
a special reception was held in a.
honor. A large nnu,har -,