Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1911-10-26
IDAHO STATE NEWS

Wanted in Canyon county to an
swer 70 charge Of felony. Louis A
Ruehl and Augusta Ruehl have
been arrested in Illinois and will be
returned 10 Idaho for trial
The Lone Tree school district No.
50, four miles from Nampa, is to have
new school building The people
Of the district recently voted a bond
issue Of $1,000 for that purpose.
Nick Beller. a Hungarian. IS in the
county Jail at Weiser. charged with
robbery. and the condition Of his VIC
tim, another Hungarian. is so serious
that it may be changed TO q charge
Of murder
G. L. Horsley Of Boise came near
losing his life when he lost control
of his automobile. which plunged fifty
feet into gulch, wrecking the ma
chine. Mr.. Horsley managed 10 leap
out Of the machine Just in time
The question Of an eight-hour law
for all domestic servants. as well as
other wage earning women, was the
cause of an animated discussion
among the women Of the Second dis
trict federation OF clubs at it's sssion
at Mountain Home.
Open war against race track gam
bling through the auctioning of pools
and the sale of parimutuels has
started a fight in Boise involving the
management of the Idaho Intermoun-
tain State Fair association and Men
G. Religious Movement Representa-
tives.
Boise has won the polo champion
ship of the northwest. The honors
were brought home to the capital
city on October II, when the polo
team representing Boise defeated
Portland in the third game of the SER
les of three played to decide the
championship.
Nampa may become the smelter
city OF this state, for It has been des-
ignated as the home of the North
western Smelter G. Refining company,
which has just filed articles of incor-
poration at Boise with the secretary
OF state, showing that 1t is capital
lied at s10,000,000.
To enable the courts to pass upon
the provision of the local option law
as 1t applies to drug stores, COM
plants have been filed against the
seven druggists Of Lewiston on the
charge of selling alcoholic spirits
without such sales being based upon
a physicians prescription.
The sale of state lands as author
lied by the state land board was
held at Orofino last week and out of
a total of 9,120 acres disposed of at
the morning session the Potlatch
Lumber company secured all, not
one one bidder out of the twenty-five
persons present competing.
Mining men in this state and gen.
orally over the northwest are greatly
interested in the installation of the
Northwestern smelter at Nampa, be-
lieving 1t will be great boon to the
mining industry, especially the low
grade properties which can now be
handled on a profitable pasis.
All of Bosses Chinese residents
are to be called into a big pow WOW
to determine the best way to elimi-
nate any chance Of feud breaking
out between the tongs, and to deter
mine that the first Chinaman that
starts anything will be promptly es-
corted back to his native land.
The Second District Federation of
Women's clubs, at the Mountain
Home session, Endorsed national
park for Idaho, compulsory medical
inspection in the public schools, an
the teaching of patriotism among
the parents Of the school children.
The first untoward incident to mark
the strike of the federated shopmen
at Pocatello occurred on the 18th,
when gate Waterman at the rail
on the head by a spike thrown by
some person unknown. About 125
men are now employed in the shops.
Idaho Falls, Blackfoot, Pocatello,
Jerome, Wendell, Gooding and other
North Side tract towns have agreed
for Potato day at Chicago.
G. BENEFITS, 81 years of age, was
caught in the mechanism of a wind
mill which he was putting up at Col
lister, three miles from Boise, and his
right hand was jerked off before the
machinery could be stopped
That the rush to higher attitudes,
or change of climate of any kind, is
absolutely unnecessary and waste of
time in the treatment of tuberculo-
sis, but that Just as good results can
be obtained right at home, was the
startling declaration of DR.. A. E.
Pierce of Portland before the Idaho
State Medical association at Boise.
Jobus Knowlin. aged SO, a promi-
nent citizen of Idaho Falls, died sud-
denly last week, his death being the
result of breaking an artery when
he was endeavoring to save himself
from falling while crossing over a
mudhole on a plank.