Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1912-09-19
IDAHO STATE NEWS
IDAHO

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tic hoodlums with crate of eggs.
faulty tire on one of the wheels
Of the derailed car is held response.
Bile for the derailment of an o. w. R..
& N. baggage car near Weiser on Au.
gust 81.
The total enrolment in the Boise
schools on the second day of this
school year was $3.50, which is just
200 more than enrolled on the second
day last year.
An investigation of potato diseases
that have baffled farmers in the irri-
gated regions of the west, will be
made soon In Idaho by the department
of agriculture.
Katie Summers, 10 years old, was
drowned in a canal near Rigby. The
young lady was out riding when her
honse ran away and threw her into a
large canal.
James Alexander grown son of
Mrs. M. G. Alexander, a widow, of
Hepburn. accidentally killed himself
in taking gun from a wagon while
Settling OUT 10 nuuL DUCKS.
The report comes from Van Wyck
that work on the Idaho Northern is
progressing nicely. The grading will
be completed September Is, and the
rock work by November l.
Responsibility for the failure of the
Boise State bank, which went to the
wall year ago, will be placed by a
special federal grand jury, called to
convene in Boise September 20.
Because he forged a money order
for SIS in order to get funds to send
to his sick wife in Salt Lake, Charles
L. jackson was sentenced to a term
of five months Imprisonment in tho
county jail at Boise.
Fruit storage houses will be built
in Boise. Caldwell, Nampa, Payette.
Emmett and several Eastern Oregon
points, by the Smith Currier Fruit
company of New York The storage
houses will be completed next sum-
mer.
Mining companies incorporated to
transact business in Idaho. some 1900
In number, are being notified by w. L.
Clifford, secretary of state, relative to
the filing of annual statement with
the secretary of state before October
/, 1919.
Paul GLADSTONE, who ran for the Re-
publican nomination for governor at
the primaries July 80 and was defeated
by narrow margin by John NJ. Haines
has declined the appointment as a
vice chairman of the executive COM
mittee
The 1912 state and county levy of |
$2.65 on each 500 valuation of prop
erty in Ada county as fixed by the |
board of county commissioners will |
raise an amount approximately $685.
354.39 less than was raised by the
1911 levy.
Charles Kell. age rs, formerly a
wealthy Minneapolis merchant, and |
Friederike Keil. his wife, met death |
at his hands in an isolated mountain |
cabin six miles north of Murray. The |
tragedy was evidently the result of a |
suicide pact.
Through an opinion rendered from |
the department of the interior at
Washington the state land department |
was advised last week that an entry |
man under the Carey act cannot &C
quire more than 100 acres of land |
under the provisions of that act
Aside from the number of hotel,
rooming house and restaurant keepers
that have been hailed into court at
Pocateiio and fined, three local drug
gists faced the justice last week for |
with the state law rela- |
tive to the sale Of liquors and drugs.
Lincoln county commissioners have
made the annual levy, fixing rate at |
$2.55, Of which various state levies |
foot up 60 cents, current expenses
rs cents. roads and bridges AZ cents,
county bond interest SLIT, county |
bond sinking fund 3 cents, schools 60 |
cents.
The board of county commissioners |
has fixed the Bannock county tax levy |
at ~ mills for state and county pur- |
poses. The levy is on s9,376,O the |
cash value this year being placed at |
over s23.000,O0O. The sum to be real
lied is s239,407, of which s5S,4O7 is
for state purposes.
The Payette street fair and fruit
carnival to be held September II to |
FL, promises to be one of the biggest |
and best things of its kind ever held |
in the state. A liberal premium list |
has been assured and the fruit grow. |
ers and farmers are responding liber- |
ally with entries.
The police of Salem, Ore, are on
the lookout for an unidentified man |
who represented himself as Wallace |
3. Pierce of Boise and procured 5000
through the Western Union. from
John M. Haines, a business patron
Of Mr.. Pierce.
Ben White committed suicide at
Mountain Home by shooting himself
through tie heart with "A Colts re-