The Filer record. (Filer, Idaho) 1919-1930, 1924-12-11
Short News Notes
From All Parts of
IDAHO

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held for disposal now totals 4,762, s44
acres, situated along rivers anc
streams in twenty states, it was
! shown in a compilation by the interior
I department. Arizona, with 1,O49,96s
acres, has the largest reserved area
California is second with 976,09s
acres, and other states totals are
Utah, 46S,67s; Oregon, 467,237; Ne
yada, 300,270; Colorado, 298,376; Ida.
no, 266,659; Montana, 214,S30, anf
! New Mexico, 207,54S.
Moscow,-vernon Stivers, quarter
back on this seasons University OF
Idaho football team and regarded by
many as the best quarterback in the
Pacific coast conference, played
through the entire season after break
ing his neck. In one of the frs
practice scrimmages of the season
Stivers, carrying the ball, was jam
med between linemen with head down,
so that his head was forced violently
against his chest. He fell unconsci-
Gus and when taken to- hospital II
was discovered that two of the verte
brae in his neck had been forced apart !
and showed out of place. An X-ray
photograph showed that one or the
vertebrae was touching the spinal
cord. For two days Stivers lay para
lyzed in the hospital and then phy-
sicians succeeded in swapping the dis
located vertebrae back into place
Following this Stivers recovered from
the paralysis. The fact that Stiyers
had broken his neck was kept secret
by Coach Robert Mathews of the
Idaho team, and in every game Sti-
vers neck was tigatly bandaged with
tape to prevent a recurrence of the
injury.
Pocatello,-T. J. O'Brien and Jack
Croft have been taken to the peniten-
tiary to serve 80 years, each on bur
glary and robbery charge.
Pocatello,--Mrs. Irene Welsh Girls
som, poet laureate of Idaho, read a
number of her poems at the monthly
meeting of the high school Parent
Teacher association at the high school
auditorium.
Boise,-John F. Williams of Ririe, ?
was injured severely and Mrs. VIII a
hams, Bishop David Hughes of Sa- 0
maria, Idaho, and Mrs. Hughes were
bruised and lacerated when the auto
mobile In which they were riding
turned over on the Oregon Short
Line crossing near Collinston.
Boise,-Advanced proof sheets Of
he proposal to present to the legis-
allure a resolution for the introduc-
ON OF Bible reading in the public
ehoois are being sent out to patrons
y the state board of education. it
'as announced at the office of the
GARD in the statehouse. A thousand
ersons IN the state, selected by the
GARD, will receive the advanced
neets, the forword says, and all are !
rged to give the matter considerable i
sading. =
Twin Falls,-James Wilson Snod- 3
rass, aged so, frontiersman and 5
lend of Jim Bridger and Kit Car o
IN has Just been buried. He was S
resent at the beginning of construc. s
on OF the first Snake river ferry. +!
Boise,-Suit to recover s1s,ss0.65 D.
ON Bonneville county was filed in W
e United States district court by s. it
Mittry and George Mattey, doing 70
lsiness under the name of the North a.
acme Construction company. a Cali. tr
rnia corporation. The company al M
ges that the county is this much A.
orr IN paying for the construction OF,
new courthouse OF Idaho Fall, =
veral years ago.
Idaho Falls,-Miss Dorothy cars IN
left for Washington, d. c.. where m
has accepted position in the fill. y
department of the United States
Wy. Miss Cage is the only daugh-
OF John Cage, pioneer resident of
mo Falls. She is a graduate of the
lverstiy of Idaho and last year was
ployed on the staff of the Lewis.
! Normal school.
Boise Rt. Rev. II. II. Fox
fragar bishop of Montana. will
'e Episcopal jurisdiction over Ida w.
until the election of a new bishop.
baby at the general convention Of -
Episcopal church in New Orleans j
October 25, 1925. according TO word
sived by Dean Paul Roberts from
RI. Rev. Ethelbert Talbot. presid-
bishop Of the church.
oda Springs.-Perch are 10 be ha,
ited in the reservoir Of the Utah wiz
~ 4 Power company near Soda bla
'ngs. This assurance was receiv. r.,
asst week by Representative c. B.
son, who recently took up the
ter with X. E. Thomas, state gams