The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1912-02-19
IDAHO STATE NEWS

ing trouble in securing their licenses.
the city and county authorities having
disagreed In the matter.
Livestock growers Of the upper
Lemhi met in Leadore on February
3 for the purpose Of comforting with
representatives Of the forest service
to discuss matters OF range apportion
ment.
The treasurer of Latah county IL
busy preparing to call for every war
rant outstanding against this county.
Latah county is thought to be- the only
county in the northwest that will be
absolutely out of debt.
A new $4,000 hotel is being built
At Downey as fast as possible with
the hopes that 1t will be occupied by
the first of April. This will be one
of the handsomest buildings between
Salt. Lake and Boise.
There remained 80 cases of small
pox in Boise at the close Of the month
Of January. At the beginning Of the
month there were in quarantine IS
cases. and though so new cases were
reported. So were discharged.
The church building at Nampa
which was vacated by the Catholics
when they moved into their new edl.
flee has been purchased by the Lat.
tar-day Saints and will be moved to
ut owned by the organization.
The third annual exhibit Of the
Idaho State Poultry association at
Boise was a highly successful one.
Although there we're birds from three
different states shown in competition
the Idaho birds won the two silver
cups.
Idaho's laws on weights and meas
ures are ineffective and inadequate,
and will have to be remedied If the
state sealer is to do any really i'm
pOrtant work in that department, ac-
cording to James H. Wallis. the state
inspector.
A reward has been offered for the
recovery of the body of the mail car
rier who lost his life in a snow slide
between Atlanta and Rocky Bar sew.
eral weeks ago. Nineteen men dug
for several days in search of the body
without result.
G. o. Carlson, fireman, fell from
his engine near Mountain Home and
sustained injuries which may prove
fatal. Carlson was standing on the
platform between the engine and the
tender and lost his balance when the
train lurched.
Caught by revolving shaft, ]. H.
Adkins was whirled to his death in
the Morning mill at Mullan. He made
four complete revolutions with the
machinery and when his clothing
finally gave way. his chest and arms
had been crushed.
Almost every report of wardens and
prison superintendent in, the eastern
states shows that Idaho Is far in ad-
vance of these places in the matter of
prison reform. Things for which the
eastern experts are working. Idaho
has had for years.
The news comes from Mountain
Home that Ex-Governor James H.
Brady has paid to the receiver for the
Great Western Beet Sugar company.
the sum Of $14.125, the same being the
stipulated rs per cent OF the price at
which the property of that defunct
company was bid in.
The passenger station at Wendell
which will be entirely completed by
the 1st of March. is not surpassed in
this part of the state. The building is
128 feet long. 1t has large separate
waiting rooms for men and women
agents office, baggage room and a
freight room 30x47 feet.
Deer hunters In the northern part
Of the state are learning that 1t is q
costly diversion to kill deer during
the closed season. Two hunters. one
at Standpoint and the other at Lew
iston, have been fined $50 and costs
each, through efforts OF the deputies
In the state game department.
The constitutionality OF the insur
apce law passed at the Eleventh SEES
sion of the legislature was determined
and established In decision handet
down last week by the supreme cour
in. the case of the Continental Life In
sdrance and Investment compan.
against J. G. Hattabaugh. ipsuran ;,
commissioner of Idaho.
'Bopnie Star. who took chloral will
suicidal intent at Butte. is deS. sSh
was respondent because she coult
not nay the board OF her baby. whicl
she left recently in Spokane. He
husband is said to live in st. Marie
Idaho. and shs herself had live
During the present year vigorou
campaign against blight. codling mot
and scale will be waged by the stat
Inspector and the deputies In the VI
ripus districts, this work to CON
mence Immediately. according to tn
decision of the state horticulture
board.
Manuel Silva must serve Jail Sci
tence of Ave months and pay a I'm