Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1912-01-25
IDAHO STATE NEWS

there being thirty charter members
Members of the legislature are TO
have free use of the telephone system
all through the state during the spe-
cial session
In the event the bill introduced by
Congressman French becomes a law.
Weiser will be one of the first towns
IN Idaho to secure a government post
office building under that law.
Darby ORrien and c. H. Crook
fought a ten-round draw before a
crowded house at Glenns Ferry.
Crooks is a Short Line fireman. while
D'Brien is professional pugilist.
Immediately after the morning roll
Fall in the house on the 18th, the
startling discovery was made that
The house had transacted its entire
business the day before without a
chaplain.
A call has been issued for the Re-
publican state convention to select
eight delegates to the Republican ma
tional convention to be held in Chi.
cago June 49, The state convention
will be held in Lewiston May 16.
The social service committee of the
Columbian club is convinced of the
fact that the dance halls of the city
are a menace to the young girls and
boys of Boise and has taken steps to
effect an improvement in their condi-
ton.
The commissioners of Adams coun-
ty, one of the new counties of the
state, have offered six prizes to be
given to the successful contestants in
the potato clubs which have been or
ganized in the school districts of that
county.
After adding one more indictment
to their list of eight previously re-
turned, Shoshone countys special
grand jury concluded its investigation
of the failure of the defunct State
Bank of Commerce on the 10th, and
was discharged.
Federal authorities in Boise believe
that they have located Edward Rus
sell, supposed to be one of the rob-
bers of the postoffice and store at
Picabo on November FL, in the man
that the officials of Salt Lake have
arrested and are holding.
The special session of the legisla-
ture now in assemblage will see no
enactment of laws not pertaining to
revenue, if the legislators take heed
to an opinion as expressed in a let
ter from the office of the attorney
general to Governor Hawley.
Constant care in order to prevent
the beginning of an epidemic among
the poultry fiocks of the state is the
bacteriologist at Moscow, has issued
in recent bulletin to the farmer and
to the chicken raiser of Idaho
w. A. Snyder of Twin Falls holds
the state record in corn raising, 126
bushels to the acre. He secured this
wonderful yield from a patch of
ground about mile out of the city
of Twin Falls during the last season,
Cassia County Flint being the variety
selected.
Representative French has intro
duced bill extending the pension
acts of 1890 and 1907 to survivors of
the Indian wars between 1865 and
1890. This will place Indian war vet
Grams and their widows on the same
basis as survivors Of the civil war.
Fred Miller, believed to be insane,
has been arrested at Boise, accused of
having threatened to assassinate the
governor Miller asked two men on
the street what they thought of the
proposition to blow up" Governor
Hawley, and was promptly dragged to
the police station.
The fortnightly club of Richfield
was formally organized last week, as
an adjunct to the social life of the
town and country. 1t is to meet every
two weeks through the winter and
spring, from October until May, and
once a month during the summer
for purely social sessions.
BY decision rendered in the fed
eral court OF Idaho, Joseph E. Game
secretary of the Salt Lake CONNER
cial club, loses his famous suit
against Frank Hagenbarth for $50,
900 and interest on an option contract
involving mining property in Nevada
valued at about s1,000,000.
Supervisor Grandjean has received
no word from any of his forest rang
ers on the Boise forest since the bic
storms. They had instructions from
him to write the main office at Boise
once week, but it has been three
weeks in several instances since he
has heard from any of them.
The proceedings of the state board
of equalization at its meeting in Au
gust have been compiled and printed
In neat booklet form. The minutes OF
the entire board are given as well as
Invaluable tables of figures and stats
tics relative to all kinds of taxable
property and the value put upon the
same by the board.
The supreme court of this state re-
Gently decided that pure alcohol could
be sold by druggists in local option
territory upon the written application
of the purchaser and that it was not
necessary for the annlicant IN hove