Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1912-04-18
IDAHO STATE NEWS
JEROME
IDAHO

The senate has passed the Frenc
bill granting an extension of time TO
one year for the payments by settler
on the Occur d'Alene reservation.
The Elks of Pocatello are plannin,
to build lodge building which is t.
be one of the most beautiful ant
modern fraternal structures in the
northwest.
The first cheese ever turned out b,
an Idaho factory was made at Buh
last week by the Glover Leaf chees,
factory, which has a capacity of 10,
900 pounds of milk daily.
Over 60 acres of land, including the
heart of Parma, have been released
from litigation and given clear title
through the amicable settlement of
the Fouch-Bates claims, says the Par
ma Herald.
The natural site for lake at Bliss
Is being tested, and if it is found that
few crevices can be sealed with
concrete, lake covering twelve
acres will be formed at once and Dor.
dered with trees.
The action of the authorities In
driving 100 members of the Industrial
Workers of the World out of San
Diego a few days ago was holly con-
demned at meeting of the Boise So
,ialist local held last week.
B. F. O'Neil, former president OF
he State Bank of Commerce of Wal
lace, Idaho, will be brought back from
Vancouver, B. c., to stand trial for
violation of the banking laws of Idaho
and embezzling the funds of the in.
stitution.
Looming through the darkness like
myriads of fiery eyes, several hundred
sagebrush fires nightly herald the
rapid disappearance of the sagebrush
from the Marsh valley and proclaim
the reclamation of what was once
deemed worthless land.
The contract for the framing of the
portraits of Idaho governors. past
and present, which are to be hung in
the new capitol, has been let by the
capitol commission to Horace Myers
at a price of $SS for each frame.
There are twenty portraits.
Headed by the mayor, a heavily
armed posse of citizens searched the
point Of the mountain above Wallace.
IN the vicinity of Buena Vista heights.
for several hours, trying to pick up
the trail of monster cougar that was
seen by a number of persons.
In a running rife battle between
Max Smith, chief of police and a
Mexican, the latter was killed near
Blackfoot. The shooting was the re-
suit of the arrest of a Mexican for
drunkenness, the man who was killed
row following the arrest.
Two prominent Idaho. women. Miss
Permeal French, dean of women Of
The state university, and Miss Grace
NJ. Shepard, state superintendent OF
public instruction, were guests at
he banquet given in honor of Ella
Flagg Young at Spokane last week.
E. N. Davis, a well-to-do resident
Of Wendell, fell from rim rock at
he Thousand Springs power plant
md was killed. He was climbing
tut of the canyon in the dark and
ell so feet. Davis was over so years
If age and is survived by three chill
lren.
At meeting of the Business Mems
association at Mountain Home, it was
definitely decided to hold a county
air in that town this fall. Purses ana
premiums will be guaranteed by the
BUSINESS men and citizens from all
arts of Gilmore county will be inter.
sted
Providing themselves with a com.
lete cowboy equipment, including
addle, chaps, lariat and bride.
ohnny Brassfield and Lee Crawford
Boise have departed for the wilds
I the state, leaving one man minus
horse ard another minus the eouit-
lent
Three prisoners, Ed Keeps. Earle
hane and Peter Cannon, escaped
'om the Pocatello Jail by saving the
on bars of one of the windows. The
rst two were cowboys held on the
barge of horse stealing and the last
AIMED was a Mexican, charged with
ootlegging.
Boise is to have a new and mod.
rnly equipped bowling alley that will
Ink with the finest alleys in any of
le coast or northwest cities. Bowl
g Is a favorite sport in Boise, and
is expected that with the installa-
ON of these new alleys the game
Ill take decided squirt.
A. ]. Sucker, one of the Oldest
aho pioneers, dropped dead almost
after luncheon, at the
'me of his daughter in Boise. He
as "a years old and had been a res.
ent of Idaho since 1866, coming
ON California.
The semi-annual examination of i
e state board of medical examiners
rs held at Boise last week. There
ere twenty-six candidates to be ex.