Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1923-08-03
TE[EGRAPH|C TALES
FOR BUSY READERS.
a RESUME OF THE WEEKS
oOINGs IN THIS AND OTHER
COUNTRIES
important Events of the Last Seven
Days Reported by Wire and Pre-
pared for the Benefit OF the
Busy Reader
WESTERN

Father Walter A. Grace, pastor
Catholic church al Arvada. a subj
OF Denver. on trial In the United dj
trict court on charges OF forging
permit for an application to sh
liquor into Colorado. WAS found gull
Wednesday. The jury deliberated Of
ty ten minutes.
Cioudbursts have caused the BI
Horn River 10 leave its banks floot
ing the entire country along II
course In Wyoming The town {
Thermopolis was flooded to dept
OF three feet. and outside communica
ton wac shut off. Nuemrous rail
road bridges were swept away by tn
flood waters.
Idaho. according TO the postoffic,
department, now has PIT rural FREE
delivery routes. aggregating 5,81'
niles OF service. One new route wa.
added last year and 10 routes were
extended for total OF PIT miles.
Daily reports on the potato mar.
kets OF the country with special ref
erence TO southern Idaho and also
crop conditions and miscellaneous
shipping information will be broad =
casted from Caldwell. Idaho begin
ming about August l. by the federal
department OF agriculture
The state OF Idaho sold 236.27 acres
OF state land In Canyon county Thurs
day, II was announced Friday by
II. Nash. state land commissioner.
The proceeds OF the sale were 81
S69l2 Part OF the land is located in
the alkali bottoms II miles south and
west OF Caldwell and the remaining
portion is along the Snake river. Mr.
Nash said the bidding was fair.
Some OF the land sold for $3.50 an
acre.
The appointment OF f. ]. Baird OF
Soda Springs. Idaho MS a deputy com
missioner OF reclamation was an
nounced Saturday by w. c. Swendsen
state commissioner OF reclamation
Mr., Baird viii also act as water
master on the Bear river Az deputy |
commissioner he win have charge OF
the distribution Of the stored waters
In Bear Lake.
GENERAL
Stormfield-the home OF Samuel |. |
Clemens MARK Twain) in the clos
Ing years OF his life--a picturesque
villa on ridge at Reddlng, Conn.
was burned Wednesday. II was I'M
occupied for many years after Mr..
Clemens death and was bought las
December by Mrs. Margaret Il. Givens
Of New York.
Twelve hundred persons charged
with violating DetPoit's traffic laws
constituting the largest docket In
court history. faced judges at Detroit
" Wednesday. Eight hundred of the
accused are charged with speeding.
The provincial police. securing on
'aric for the six bandits who fought
pistol battle with dozen bank
messengers in Toronto's financial
district and escaped with $4,000 af-
er wounding three employees. receiv. I
~ word that the ashes OF TOURING !
ar. believed 10 be that In which tho /
'ebhers fled. were found on the Gar
'ison road between Buffalo and Fort !
Erie. Dat.
Nobody In Texas slept under blan- D
tets Wednesday night The night G
eemed as hot as the day refore and q
thursday seemed about to repeat o
ueh soaring temperatures OF as 10
Wichita Falls. los at TEMPLE rnd q
larshali Io7 al Paris and Omaha n
e1as; JOG az Gainesville. iO5 al u
exarAana. 100 az Fort worth and y
'aeo. and io3 ar Austin aud Dallas. n
lost Of these figures were records n
y the year. n
An explosion in the plant II the "a
nifed States Fireworks Manufac. n
ring company az Cardington. lust q
itside tie western limits o. Phns-
sipnia. IL reported 70 have killed ~
least one person and injured q 0f
imber d Ofhers ~
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,rk fecerai courts by I1sirlcf A.
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