Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1912-11-07
IDAHO STATE NEWS

license and fined $50 and costs.
The Commercial club of Payette is
working very hard in an effort to ere
ate sentiment in favor Of county divi
sion.
A large force of men began work
last week on the new depot for Black.
foot, which is to be the equal of the
best in the state in size and their su
perior in arrangement.
The issue of irrigation bonds fol
drainage and other purposes carried
at the election at Caldwell by a vote
of 752 for and 1863 against. 1t required
two-thirds vote to carry it..
The city of Nampa is to sell $685.
SGT worth of bonds. AS soon as the
money is received it will put the NUM-
cipal business on a cash basis, bring
Ing all city warrants to par.
Oliver Bates, who escaped from the
county Jail at Albion several months
ago and was captured near Cardston.
Alberta, has been landed in the Ada
county Jail to await his trial in the
federal court.
While deploring the existing car
shortage and making every possible
sffort to alleviate it, officers of the
Oregon Short Line declare that the
shortage means better prices for the
non-perishable crops.
John Cary, a young brakeman who
was injured in the Gooding yards and
taken to Boise for hospital treatment,
died following the amputation of his
leg. He fell between the cars while
trying to couple them.
John Alisantis, a Greek section nand
In the employ of the Short Line at In
kom three miles south of Pocatello.
was run over and instantly killed by
a passenger train. There were no eye
witnesses to the accident.
The city of Emmett has created a
sewerage improvement district. The
estimated cost of the work is placed
at s17,S32. This work will be done
this fall and winter and will give en-
ployment to a good many men.
A net gain of s1S,1s7.4S in interest
earnings in the state treasury for a
period of twenty-one months over
any previous records for a similar
space of time, is reported from the
office of State Treasurer Allen.
Farm girls came to the rescue of
T. E. McCowin of Idaho Falls vicinity.
going into the potato fields and earning
vel SIS a day each and their board,
harvesting potatoes. McCowin had ex-
perienced a great deal of trouble in
getting help.
With the greatest crops Of fruit,
hay, grain and other farm products
in her history, and a veal of marvel
GUS industrial development to her
credit, Washington county and the
surrounding sections are enjoying I'M
usual prosperity.
The Short Line has finished the lay
ing of steel or the Salt Lake & Idaho
railroad, or the Raft river road, as far
as Marshfeld, IL miles east of Burley.
There is a question as to whether the
road will be put through into the Raft
river valley this winter or not.
Fred G~ustafson, a prominent far
living near Idaho Falls, has re-
Gently completed the successful opera
ton of a combined potato harvester,
sorter and sacker, which has been put
in practical operation in some or the
biggest potato fields of that vicinity.
A new general hospital plan has
been financed at Idaho Falls, and a
fund to insure the Inaugural
ton of a 40-room hospital has been
secured. The building erected there
Odd Fellows orphans home, has been
secured.
The Oregon Short Line car shops
at Pocatello burned to the ground on
the 2Sth, entailing a loss of more than
$3.50, 900. The fire was discovered at
5 o'clock and owing to the highly in
fiammable contents of the building
spread rapidly and was 1901 beyond
control.
Idaho came in for much prominence
at the International Dry Farming con-
gress at Lethbridge, when it vas an
nounced that nine firsts and three sec
ond prizes for agricultural exhibits
had been awarded to the Gem state
in addition to the $500 sweepstakes
won by the Lewiston high school.
David O'Neil, the counterfeiter, was
found guilty by a jury at Pocatello
of raising two five-dollar bills to fifty
dollar bills and passing the same in
Mackay. He was sentenced to two
years in the federal prison at Fort
Leavenporth, Kan.
The Boise Commercial club has
withdrawn its application for a liquor
license and the deadlock upon the
motions for and against the granting
Of the permit which existed IN the
board of county commissioners will
doubtless never be broken.
The interstate commits
sion has decided that the advance in
rate on lemons from California to