The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-12-07
IN THE GEM STATE


The scarlet fever situation at
Ustick is lluch improved Of late,
there being no new cases outside of
the houses already quarantined.
w. l.. Rose, who had charge of
the Shoshone & Twin Falls Power
company business at Wendell, came
In contact with a live wire and was
killed instantly.
The new Christian church at Boise
was dedicated last Sunday. The
church represents an investment of
$4,000, the building itself having
cost about $4,000.
Defective wiring is said to have
been responsible for $4,000 fire at
Pocatello, one of the occupants of
the building being severely burned
about the head, face and body.
Idaho potato day was the biggest
success of the Chicago Land show
or any other land show There were
over $4,000 paid admissions. Over
$4,000 packages of Idaho potatoes
were given out.
Leo Cramer, former president of
the Idaho State bank of HALEY, con-
victed of receiving deposits at that
bank when Re knew it was insolvent,
was takeI to the penitentiary ON
the 25th to begin his sentence.
N. s. Sage, former cashier of the
Shelley Banking company of Shell
ley. was found guilty by a jury at
Blackfoot on the charge of embez-
cling $4,000 from the bank and Of
classifying the accounts of the bank.
Robbers again made big haul at
Picabo last week, when they got
away with $500 in cash, 5000 in
stamps and $215 in pay checks,
which they took from the safe and
cash register of the Fitzpatrick
Bros. store.
James H. Wallis. state dairy, food
and sanitary inspector. has con,
demned the county Jail at Pocatello
and ordered the commissioners to
build another within ninety days
that would meet the requirements of
the state department.
The secretary of the interior has
placed his stamp of approval on the
Tom Heating Carey act project To-
Gated in Lemhi county, which, when
completed, will reclaim $500 acres
of land, adding to the rapidly grow
ing irrigated area of Idaho.
A heavy drinking glass, such as
is used on the table of the average
restaurant, was classed as a deadly
weapon when Gust Mugios was given
a preliminary hearing in Boise on a
charge of having used such a glass
with telling effect on the Uranium Of
Jim Vahlos.
Samuel Adams Swauger, one of the
best known citizens of the valley, died
last week at his home in Weiser, after
very brief illness, due to old age,
resulting in heart failure. He came to
Idaho from California in 1883 and in
1890 was elected to the legislature
from Custer county.
Twenty-three fuel dealers of Nam
pa, Caldwell. Boise and interurban
towns. met at the banquet board at
Boise last week and organized the
Southern Idaho Fuel Dealers asso-
citation. the main object of which
will be to secure destination
weights on all coal.
John Rhorer, aged 10, was instantly
killed while playing with a com.
panion near the substation of the
Great Shoshone & Twin Falls Power
company at Mountain Home, when he
came in contact with a high tension
wire. The other boy, although
knocked down, escaped injury.
Southwestern Idaho is promised
direct railroad communication with
Coos Bay, Oregon. This promise be-
came more positive last week, when
officials of the Oregon Short Line,
who declined to be quoted, gave out
the information that work is to be
pushed on the Oregon Eastern.
Leo Cramer, convicted banker of
Haley, may not have to serve a SEN
tence in the state penitentiary for
the crime of accepting funds for de-
post in bank which he knew to be
insolvent, OF which he has been de-
clared guilty by both the district and
supreme courts, as his attorneys are
to secure a reharing.
That the orchardists In northern
Idaho have solved the problem of get
ting the maximum benefit out of their
water supply and that practically all
loss by percolation, evaporation and
seepage has been saved to use ON
the fruit trees Of the district, is the
belief Of experts.
Bud Jones, a local character, was
arrested at Mountain Home, charged
with an assault on Mrs. Jerry Cron-
IN. He will plead guilty. The pen
atty Is from one to fourteen years in
the penitentiary. Jones is said to
have been intoxicated when he COM