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Show News Note My From All Porta of Western Brevities from the Many Western States IDAHO San Francisco. John Swanson, by an unusual dispensation of justice will, for a period of a year and three months, give half of liis monthly earnings Jo Mrs. James Bolt for having run dwon (and tilled . her (husband trith his automobile. los Angeles for the saving of two women from drowning, William, Cannon, high school student of Los AngHes, will receive a silver of the national organization of the Boy Scouts of America. Portland. Thirteen wterfront pickets were arrested and fined $15 each for participating In disturbances while, picketing in the waterfront strike now going on here. Portland. The compulsory education bill, put before Oregon voters by was jmBS-initiative a by comfortable majority, in excess .of 8000. 'J'lit- provisions of this hill have been mio li discussed, and also falsely reported, iis enenii. s conteijdinjr that It woiibl vh.so all private schools and eliminate all denominational schools. - Yakima Memaloose island In the Columbia river, for many years a burying ground for Indians, is to be abandon d as a remetary, and bodies already there are being removed. Kansas City. Montana will be represented by twelve head of Hereford cattle fit the American Royal Livestock show to be held here In the new building during November. The llerefords have been entered by A. Ii. Cook of Townsend. Frultland. The Frultland State bank closed Its doors Thursday noon because of a run on the bank, due to the closing of the Payette National lwrnk on Wednesday. F. M. Gardiner, cashier, reports hjkvlng sent for the state bank commlssloneir and stated that he hoped the closing was only temporary. rm' r American Airplanes to (Orde the Globe? . . Twin Falls. Something more than 5 .0.000 Was clipped off the Twin Falls Canal company's annual maintenance charge by action of the board of dl rectors at n meeting liere when It fixed the 1923 maintenance assessment at $1.25 an acre, as against the levy of $1.50 an acre this year. Two years ago the levy was $3 an acre. Boise. the This photograph, taken only last month by the W American radicals colonized at Kemerovo, Russia, "firyASHINGTON. Tentative plan for an attempted flight of army airplanes around the world have been under consideration for some months by air service officials, although the project has not as yet passed the preliminary survey stage. . K. Xieg'feld expedition, shows soniy of the living quarters of Valuable data on available routes In in house. each cf neat front little garden jote the both- - directions have been obtained, ... however, nnd ultimately It is hoped to where the mo'intain is 10,000 feet send a considerable aerial squadron on above the sea, snd we ascended the the voyage: Tie project will not be remaining 4.0(0 feet to the top of the laid before Secretary Weeks lor apAndes on mules and finished the ascent proval. It was said, until it takes much r Is First Woman to Scale Andes the borne city of Frank governor, Steuni nberg, is up in arms over even consideration by the state board of pardons of the application of Harry Or chard, fantous murderer, incarcerated In the Idaho state penitentiary. Business men of that city voted to close their places of business, come to Boise en masse and protest to the state board against liberating Orchard. Caldwell, on foot. But we had to descend nearly 14,000 feet from fhe ice and snow-cla- d Jungle, peaks to the heated, oven-liknnd it was due to these changes and the hardstiip which caused my husband's Illness. He got better when we obtained better food from the natives, and his improvement continued when ."e got him into a big canoe afloat on tk Napo river." the Indian guides charged about 15 certs a day for the sendee of each member, and each carried a pack Mr. and Mrs, 75 pounds. welghli Howarth always picked an open spate in the jungle for their nightly camp, where they kept protective fires going, with an Indian acting as guard, and their crude beds covered with heavy cets to protect them from snakes. Insects and enormous bats. "The largest and most terrifying bats I had ever heard of were encountered in this Journey," said Mrs. "According to the stories Howarth. told by the Indians of these bats they appeared to be a sort of vampire. The Indians said these bats would kill a person quickly by puncturing veins In wrists or feet and drawing off the blood, and we were warned about At other times sleeping arrangements. we scared off the bats with shots." e Mrs. Marjorie Howarth of New serious, she said, as they were tben2T0 miles from Quito and nearly 700 miles York Makes Trip With Her from their objective, with a trail behind them over which it was almost Husband. car- The state of Idaho bad between $25,000 and $2Ci,000 in the two GAME AND FRUIT banks which closed their doors in LIVES Payette to recthe county, according Mont. ords of the state's office. Thena was Covers a Wild Trail 885 Miles Long El Paso. Ignacio Habedi), 5 years either $f000 or $0200 in the Frultland Saw No Monsters but Many State is on or from bank, old, whether depending Injuries received suffering Snakes and Bats Huswhen be was attacked by a lion in a not that institution paid a sight draft band Sick on Trip. Mexican circus showing here. The which. the state drew against it Noanimal, according to employees of the vember 15. There was $19,400 In the New York. The first white woman circus, was being starved, to fight a Payette National bank. to cross he highest peaks of the third bull in the Juarez arena nest Sunday Pocatello. Idaho's daily allotment range of the Andes mountains, 14.G00 afternoon. of refrigerator cars In which to ship feet above sea level, and then to deGait, Cal. Rising suddenly in Jus- perishable fruits and vegetables will scend and proceed over the dilllcult be nearly three times what it has been, trail extending over land nnd water tice court, where ids suit for $S1 wages was being heard, R K. Crookham, according to word received at the offor 885 miles from Quito, Ecuador, to laborer, shot and killvd E. L. An- fice ot the public utilities commission, Ifiuitos, Peru, on the upper reaches of drew, prominent real estate man and and announced by E. M. Sweeley. a the Amazon, Is Mrs. Marjorie Howew York business promoter, just as the luttex had taken uitmber of the commission. Where in arth, wife of a the past 54 cars have been the daily man. the stand. "I had no Idea of making such a allotment, the total number wjll be Ukiah, Cal. .lust after he had comwhen my husband nnd I left New increased to 143. trip pleted a Sermon at the funeral of York lasMnrch. planning merely for Pocntello. From July 1, 1921, to a pleasure outing In South America." Zechary Iiartloti. his late friend of fifty years, the Rev. C. E. Pettis, a Nov. 1, 1922, the inspection service of said Mrs. Hownrth at her homo. "But the Idaho state department of agri- when we decided to go over what is retired minister of the Methodist route, church, died here while be was on the culture issued certificates of Inspec- known as the Pupallacta-Napway to the cemetery to read the burial tion on 20,276 cars of fruit, vegetables the American olmrge d'affaires at and hay, according to a summary of Quito, Harold Denne, gave us all the over the body. the 10 months' work. assistance possible. He advised us as San Francisco. As a result of the to guides, who were Indians, of course, Pocatello. An industrial conference and several groups of these, who were Argonaut mine disaster, in which men lost their lives because of commercial, civic, financial and ag- changed at different points for new of the lack of proper escape and ricultural Interests from 18 counties In guides, were the only human beings facilities, a new get of laws southern and southeastern Idaho met we saw during most of the rip. governing the deep gold mines of the at the chamber of commerce hall FriFirst Woman to Make the Trip. Mother Lode country may be adopted. day afternoon and organized the Idaho "It was pointed out to us that the Reduction asochrtion. The ob- trip might be dungerous to any one, San Francisco. George W. Mullen, Freight of the association will be l educespecially so to a woman because of ject house detective for the Fairmont tion of freight rates for Idaho ship- - the hardship, and that legend bad not hotel, was shot and wounded and recorded that a white woman had ever IT8. i rank Terry, cashier of the hotel, was attempted the task. That decided me robbed of $2400 by three men near the ns I Pocatello The Oregon Short Line to accompany - my husband, entrance to the hotel. railroad has a crew of men at Mackay thought It was time an American building new stock yards, located on woman should venture tver the trail, San Francisco Sixty-fiv- e building higher round They will be much which follows closely the line of the contractors, some of them the most larger than those that have been in equator. promlent of this city, were held to Use for several years. "I want to say right here that we answer to the superior court on a (nme across no monsters or nny other Moscow. Agnes Shubert and Leona etrange creatures of the Jungle, though charge of violating the state antitrust law. The complaint charges that Stoddard of Twin Falls, who were there were plenty of animals, but they conspired and combined to prevent trained ns canning experts under the did not approach us closely, and I shot direction of the university extension other contractors from getting buildnone, nor did I make any scientific disservice, will go to Chicago next month coveries. ing materials. to compete with canning teams from "The snakes were a terror to me. Helena When a revolver the sher- all parts of the United States. They were everywhere, and It was not iff was cleaning was accldently diseafe to move about without using care. Pocatello. J. Stevens of Seattle had At night the guides used a light in one charged the wife of Sheriff Thomas both legs severed here In attempting band and stick In the other to 11. Sprutt was instantly Killed. to alight from a train at a street frighten the snakes away whenever Iloseburg The biggest timber sale crossing. He died shortly afterward they had to go a few steps." For two days Mrs. Hownrth nnd her In the history of the land office has at Die general hospital, where he was traveled on mules from Quito. taken. husband been recorded. Eighty million feet From that point on to the Napo river. tributary to Coos Bay and Coquille Hupert. With the enamel of the 135 miles, they went on foot, and the were sold. teeth still bright, a number of pieces trail was so rough and through such Seattle Public officials throughout of petrified jaw bones have attracted Jungles that progress on foot was often hazardous and always slow and dillthe state of Washington, who have much attention here for the past The specimens were unearthed lcult. Near the end of this hard hike been following with Interest the course Mr. Howarth became 111 with fever of the telephone rate controversy in some months ago In Owyhee county nnd Mrs. Howarth took command of trregon, are finding some points that and the supposition Is that they are the expedition. The situation looked of of the human prehisbeings on parts the niayhavo important Influence toric g. reparations to resist the increase In rates proposed of this telephone Meridian. A careful check has been IS state. kept on the dairy products, milk and Salem Revision downward of tho cream alone, without counting the In- :how Curious Interest in Opera motor vehicle licence, consolidation ot crease In number and value of dairy the ofrico of state seale"r of weights ! rattle throngli.ut O.o I'oiso valley am tions at Geneva. ' and measures with the state dairy during the inst nine months the total and food dej ailment, slowing down gales have amounted to ?2.10",7'!.". IK of the state highway program and Caldwell. Plteclors of C;o Cem Americ.ns Lead in Bombarding Secretightening up of the hanV.Ing and State Poultry tariat cf League cf Nations With a' tho laws of tli? BMte. :ro on'y a All Kinds of Impossible commercial chili to make up tho few of the rhanres s'lggostel in the arrange deta'.ls of the see. Proposition!. pre ;ri! t hi s for consider, t' n of the i n annual poultry show to be held in urn at its nut in 'vcinlier ofliees of tlie Geneva. The Boise. : Impossible that Howarth could be ried, and It was at his suggestion that his wife determined to continue. Mr. Hownrth lost weight and got worse day by day, despite every effort with such simple remedies they happened to have taken along in the stores. The hike became a slow moving column, with frequent halts for the benefit of the sick man. Lived on Game, Fish and Fruit. "Our food supplies were nearly all gone, and we were living on what the guides could get in the way of game or fish, fruits and fried bananas, which we gathered as we proceeded daily." said Mrs Howarth. "We feasted for a number of days on five chickens and si.me eggs we got In an Indian village. My health continued good, but I would not care to risk it again In a Journey over that trail. "An auto had carried us on the last lap to our starting point, at Quito, OUT AFTER SIXTY YEARS WINS o en-Ic- Veteran of Civil War A Last Gets His Pension. Woman Sends 42,000 Cents to Pay Greenwich Taxi Bill forty-s- ewn fire-fighti- Jew-day- t LEAGUE lei'i-Ia- t se.-si- mnir-bp-r- Two Toppenlsh vontMs YaMma Oamlo 1i;hol anu illio OIK Wiled Instantly ween they v oce hr a Northera lWi, trc ! nee- - T,-.- - illPetitions are bin I asVn-that the government p; :" t!:: (OllO' tion of w;iter iliar '.m I ember I. owing to the f!; ist Kirinvjnry exictlnx on t! e M !. The irr:'in-(f pr roontr an fmeklns the pMb Ion :andi o ' 1l.cy tire twin.; i1' ! ' ' entell'-.- n'l i58 " Greenwich," Conn. A wealthy woman residing In a fashionable section of Greenwich moved to her winter home In New York city last week leaving a bill of $420 owing the Greenwich Cab A company for taxlcab fares. representative of the company had visited her estate on two occasions In an effort to collect the bill before she left, but was unsuccessful. Yesterday the woman sent a taxlcab from New York to the cab company's office here with a large keg containing 42,000 one-cepieces. With It she sent $1 to pay for the taxi that had made the two trips to her home here for the purpose of collecting the money, and her photograph, under which was written "O la la." It took four men to carry the keg into the Putnnra Trust Company offioi' nid place It In a e, Liberty, N. I. After a wait of nearly sixty years In which he passed the age of seventy-fivGeorge W. Garrison, Green county veteran of the Civil war, will be permitted to lire the remaining days of his life on a government pension, denied to him all these years because his war service fell short of the required 90 days by less than a week. Fifty dollars a month has been granted to him In a bill Introduced In the house of representatives recently signed by Presie, dent Harding. Garrison's case Is probably without parallel. Mnrch 22, 1865, just ns soon as his age would permit, he enlisted In Kingston, N. Y., as a private In Company C, One Hundred and Twentieth regiment of Infantry, New York volunteers, for three years. lie left Kingston at once and soon was at tjie buttle front, fighting with the Union forces on the Virginia bnttlellne. Exposure left him with severe Ill- private very largely . 8 -'' lUil-Mioof ?.. per .. in or.U'iv.l of li e r, 1 ' " squadron could start The question of air navigation by pilots of one country over the territory of another nation has been by the council of the League of Nations In order to establish of Tirtsctlce. Army flyers conceived the flight plan. In line with the reasons which prompted President Roosvelt to send the fleet around the world in 1908, it was said. It woulti have value both aa a step In providing aerial defense through training and in giving the world a better understanding of American post-wa- r developments. Possibly a special act of congress to authorize a flight and make necessary appropriations would be required should administration olhclals approve the scheme. general l.eiigiie of Xnliiili receive daily an enormous number of letters frmn nil . The mail i lerks are the wVid I), y Piilivldimls, fi r theirs t the duty of sorting mill redirecting. Countries mi .vide the lengue produce the largest n inher of eorre.jui. dents. The United Klnles Is fur In ;he lend, and ihe cranks in Atiiricn who feel (idled on to tel tin league what do are st'emlngiy without It should nun hr. Hut Germany mid vlet ulso aid generously in keeping clerUa orrunl4.fi Iiu-si- a world-circlin- g "Stormv Petrel" Sims on America's Naw DR navy was not prepared for war In 1017, is no better prepared today than It was then, and never will be prepared under the present organization plan, declares Admiral. WJJlirtm S. Sims, recently retired ,fton the " navy. The Navy department at Washington bungled and mismanaged the fleet during the war, and since the war there has been no clear Indication of a disposition to put the navy in fighting trim, Admiral Sims asserted. "The navy has not been properly handled," Admiral Sims said, "because of mistakes made at Washington. Yon know nothing of these except that those In control at Washington wanted yon to know. A congressional Investigation was made after the war and alF the Republicans were certain the majority rciort was correct and all Democrats unhesitatingly accepted report. "But the people as a whole were not Interested. There was no one, no greut newspaper. Interested enough to dig out the facts of the evidence from behind the great smoke screen of irrelevant matter. "Pon't blahie congress for American nnprepnredness. Congressmen do only what their constituents want them to "Under the arms conference agree ment we are allowed 86.000 men to man a nnn-- that requires 120,000 men," Admiral Sims continued, referring to a merchant marine. "This next congress will have before It a bill to remedy some of these things, but unless public opinion Is crystallized to support an efficient navy and marine we will never have It. "We must also have an efficient merchant marine- - to support our navy because they are interdependent. A merchant marine Is jnst as Important to a navy as motortrucks, wagons nnd s trains are to a army. Without It our navy Is only fit for coast defense. "Today we have a merchant marine carrying 20 per cent of the world's tonnage. In 1914 we had only 5 per cent. However, we are losing $50,000,-00annually nnder the present system of operation and this cannot go on." y first-clas- 0 U. S. Court of Claims to Be l TR'lll. the Journey to his home In Freehold, ness. He was removed to the Columbian hospital 'n Washington, where he N. V.. hy easy stages. There he was under the are of his family lay for Weeks, and his case was finally plur'! health never reconsidered hopeless. He rallied, but physlchin Con meanwhile Lee had surrendered, ifnd turned. his physician, without solicitation from GHrrison. secured for him an Mnrghnl Focli and Mhrshal Joffre ol honorable discharge. France ure wearers of the .'.'ervlee order ni the American Still weak from his serv'ce and ill ii ess, Garrison was compelled to niak- - Leg on. pli-t- e Kept Busy pedoes, wireless and radio apparatus, contracts for engines and guns, military and naval supplies and ammunition, appropriation of camp sites and naval bases, together with contracts for manufacturing and acts of commandeering of almost endless diversity. The petition of one Inventor claims $1,000,000 for the little pocket books of stamps which are sold at every post office. Another claims that as early as 1005 be Invented a gliding machine United States Court of Claims Involving the principles upon which has a large calendar of Important every airplane operated by the cases for the winter term. Actions inIs constructed nnd If successvolving approximately $350,000,000 ful he may recover $10,000,000. About arising out of the country's activities $1,000,000 Is asked for Infringement In during the World war are pending the manufacture of torpedoes and and the Indus of these enses has hardabout $.10,000,000 for radio apparatus. ly begun. Tho nltlmuXe aggregate of One test case Is brought by a savsuch claims estimated by the attor- ings bank to determine the liability of ney general at between $2,000,000,000 the government for stolen government and ,000.000,000. bonds nnd coupons, and If successful These actions are brought iiito the will result In other suits which It Is court by plaintiffs having claims estimated will sw"ell the government's against all departments of the govern- iliiblllty to $150,000,000. ment. Including actions for requisitionOther claims are made for Injuries to persons and property by mall trucks ing of ships and railroads, transportation of troops, ammunition and sup- and reimbursement is claimed by farmplies; Infringement of patents for high ers for destruction of land and crops explosives, submarine bouts ami tor by alighting mall planes. anti-aircra- ft Caenar !gfx rpiw LHstln-gilhhe- Secret Passages Under the Capitol? remnry 'There "have been "pOIt legends of the secret passages and concealed apartments f the old Ciipl-to- l building. The other day a piece of masonry at the cnpltol became dislodged nnd showed nn opening, wholly A unsuspected by the superintendent. n 'vi tal Americans of this si cries havtrted lo use toe seereta.-'a- t to help them nut with their passoor trouble. Among the r st freipten" appeals Afrlcms nnd Asiatics, an well as ..re these: That the league make Ktiropearm and Americans, find Ihe (the world bone dry; that It suppress most extraorilln.'i v excuse for ;1S well dl :,uW :in(J with the league showing jtoh.l.e,, t institute t.at .Uriel's; universal : In re world-widIs a miscom-ep- FLOODED BY CRANKS .'ati-uar- Caldwell Honey prl'iceis ' western Idaho and eastern Ore ..!. of the Idaho-'- . rig. n lloiir: I'r dm'er-;- ' nsso'-iati- i n. will pvo'wMy d: m.u i: peso of l." onrVraJs ot ban through tho efforts of W. ) Pale who recently made n trio Omahn. New York Man, Now Past Seventy-FivServed One Week Lets Than the Required Ninety Day Special Act la Required. more definite form. Two of the routes considered are that from theAtlantic coast via Iceland and Ireland, and that from the Pacific via Alaska, the Aleutian do. - CaH-wel- flight be ordered, ". martyred - the lected,- should and "if would then become necessary to obtain permission of each of the countries to be traveled before the Twin Falls. The season's record for sugar beet production in the Twin Falls district goes to George A. Ben der of Itickel, who obtained a yield of -- i tons per acre on six acres of land, it was announced by officials of. me Amalgamated Sugar company. Idaho's va Islands, Siberia and home, via Ireland and Iceland. ,, Air service officials said the route offering the most favorable conditions as to prevailing winds would be se- -- ing small block of masonry dropped from place and disappeared; According ion lo nil reasonable calculations the ,.,,-,,,,.(J,;,, , r. f,,,.,., as to vv l ilt the league is ale! what t stone should have fallen hito a known ii 't.si'rme n universal i... language,; p "as set up to do. below. If did not, hut crashed 1:n,i 'ht- ''! iviiieii the passa'-The secretariat gets n .;ist uniount wiTl-- in c! through (he ((lling of a room on n of lower Hour. To do so It must have .... Hr. William Thornton, tne architect The putter that .,iu:lit t go to the Miens nr. m,,!i fottie fallen fiiioiigli a shaft the existence of the part of the spitol built foreign .odices of diiTerer.'. govern-lueots- '"'lr' " "" .,,:!,. am of the builder a was the (Ire, llowing It receives bad" of which not it in been known. The idso a gi enter .cm! ,l.s. Ii'n soaiecorfespondeiils want old school and doubtless followed old imi'iber of suggest (ins. uppueiilioiis jto show tin. league how accident has started Investigations universal which leaned strongand petitions "Hint unlit to p. no- pence ran ,e restored through the gen-- i which nre now In progress and which lOngllsli traditions secret pns'i:' ,ini1 of to Idea the ly to where. Jlen ninl v.'oioen hniig to the nil adoption of are reveal few a of the expected re- particular has long been s There upnrtments. lengue In nil languages of ihe world, iijjoii. wn:it to design a new world structural secrets of the building. thnt somewhere benenth the legend their heiirlm lies, their headaches ,,rid l.ag, er make the league, all over Is The a vast cnpltol structure, poragain great ternice on the west side of the the lu lling voids In their pocketbooks. alter their fashion. tions of which have been constructed j there Is a secret chamber cnpltol The is us'. ed fo' the miThe league Ip often asked to sett'e at diff;cnt periods. It will be recalled which contains treasure secreted there ll! esses of reliable and also to ftrlkes the that British doctors; hegged lo pneffy divided by overy schoolboy were marching on iiii lost hiishHnds nnd burned the old cnpltol In the War of when the British nppmled lo to families. Washington. settle domestic w well as oilier qunr-- ! Tho latest curious demand was from ISli:. A new building was reared on Is 'Ihe requests' foi funds come n romancer who wnnted materiel to the old foundations. Any person who will go Into the These were exwill The league write nn exciting novel about the nloiig In a sternly str-nitended wind utilised and the new most nndent part of the capltol I' is not even heen Immune from the league; lie was referred to the Nest mingled with the old In such a way readily understand how It Is possiblen hcgiiilejiieuis of the coUlUhnce men. East section, that nn plans exist which show the en- for the mnsslve walls to contain passageways and sttircasea, tire scop of the masonry, e ItH t , leli-io:- ;; rr ni.-ii- l (.,. I i.r t l kid-de- |