Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1912-04-25
IDAHO STATE NEWS
JEROME


Governor Hawley is exerting eyeI
effort to secure the 1913 session
the International Dry Farming CO
gress for Boise.
That motor car service will 500
be in active operation between Idah
Falls and the several towns adiacer
In the very near future is a foregon
conclusion.
North Idaho is second in the Unite
States in tho production of lead, thi
year, according to the annual advanc
statement of the United States gee
logical survey.
indicative of interest in the move
ment for better educational facilities
figures show that $25O,OOO is to b,
expended in northern Idaho this yea
for school buildings.
Work on the Burley sugar factory
Is progressing very rapidly Over 100
men are now employed on the build
ing, and twenty-five carloads of ma
chinery have been received.
"Hamp" q. HI Peacock, a printer,
aged 40, died at McCammon from
Heart failure last week Peacock
had worked in a number of printing
offices throughout the state
Several of the negroes who have
been giving the police department of
Boise all kinds of trouble lately have
been escorted to the city limits and
SHOWN the way out of town.
More than 21,O4O acres of land in
the dry farming belt of Ada, Boise
and Canyon counties have been added
to the enlarged homestead classified.
tons of the interior department.
The comptroller of the currency
has authorized the payment of a sec.
ond dividend of 10 per cent to the
creditors of the First National bank
OF Salmon, which was closed last
June.
That Bonneville county will soon
have a home for her officials is evi.
denced by the act that the county
commissioners are already figuring on |
such a building, says an Idaho Falls |
dispatch.
HS OCuo Gun |
Is urging the county commissioners
of Bannock county to appropriate ST..
bOO for the construction of a road
from Soda Springs through the Tin
Cup country.
The last of the work of grading the
salt Lake & Idaho railroad has been
completed. The roadbed is now ready
for the steel for the entire sixty-ive
miles from Burley to Kelton Summit.
near the Utah line.
Mike Davis, who held up Mike
Ryan at Mountain Home and robbed
him of $3.50, must serve term in
the penitentiary. The sheriff heard
OF the robbery and ran out in his
night clothes and arrested Davis. /
William Martinsen of Idaho Falls {
who owns extensive ranch interests q
near Grant, has been shipping baled {
alfalfa to the st. Louis markets and {
has received a price ranging from t
S24.5O to $26 per ton for it there.
The village board of Burley has b
had prepared an ordinance calling an Il
election for voting upon the question v
of bonding for $4,000 to extend the n
electric lighting and power station. 4
and put in water works and sewers. a
Legal authorities in Adams county V
nave requested an opinion from the p
'nlce of Attorney General McDougau =
is to whether the question of remov-
ng the county seat from Council to b
'ome other city within the county e
nay be submitted to the people at I
he general election this fall. =
Notice of intention to circulate De-
ltions for vote on the question of
moving the county seat of Cassia r
ounty from Albion to Burley has
zen published, and the petitions will
70 circulated within a few weeks.
nd the question will be settled at the
oils in November
The interior department notwith-
landing the action of the attorney
eneral in dismissing the criminal
lits against the Barber Lumber
ompany, says a Washington dis.
atch, has recommended and urged
lat an appeal be taken to the SUI
RENE court in the civil cases against
lis company.
After waiting nearly ten years for
alter, the people of Dead Ok Flat
st week saw water lifted 10 feet
gh at the rate of twenty cubic feet
second and running in three of the
tches, one fifty, one eighty, and one
U feet lift. 1t is estimated this
elton will now furnish homes for
ON 500 to 1000 families.
Mrs. Mary A. Rich, widow of
'ostle Charles c. Rich of the Nor u
On church, prominent and
'althy woman of that region, died r.
her home at Paris, April II. aged nc
twenty-five years. General debility r.;
is the cause. a.
NJ. A. Thometz received a check for We
1880 for a single car of Idaho
ral potatoes, last week, grown on \
ranch at Goodwin station. near ,ee
ulster. H. Landing of Kimhar,v ~,