Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1912-02-22
IDAHO STATE NEWS
JEROME
IDAHO

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John Morgan. who shot and seri
ously wounded Patrolman Alfred
Hunt at Boise. has been bound over
to the district court for trial.
DR.. Frank T. Cary of Gooding, con
:victed OF illegally selling liquor. has
been fined $500 and sentenced te
three months in the county jail
Arthur T. Engh, operator for the
Oregon Short Line at Bull died al
a Salt Lake hospital last week from
appendicitis. Engh was 80 years OF
age.
A straw vote taken at the Lincolr
banquet at Boise showed that 164 Of
those present were for Taft; So fol
Roosevelt, and La Toilette sup
porters.
With the voting of 100000 in bond.
for high school building fund il
Gooding the question of the location
of the structure is the next important
consideration.
Idaho will be largely represented a.
the annual convention Of Elks al
Portland this coming June. North
Idaho is making great preparations tc
participate in the festivities.
Willie Whiting, aged 20 years, was
stabbed to death at Harrison. The
sheriff's office is searching for Everett
Black, aged Is years, who lives on
Half Round bay, lake Occur d'Alene
]. U. Mcpherson, the state horti
culturist, has returned from the south
eastern part of the state where he has
been holding some very enthusiastic
schools for the agricultural and horti
cultural devotees of that section.
Sheepmen in the vicinity of Idaho
Falls are jubilant over the outlook
for this year. They believe that con
ditions are such that 1912 will prove
the best year that wool growers in
Idaho have had in their business for
some time.
Railroad rumors are to the effect
that the Oregon Short Line Railroad
company will begin active operations
on their new extension from Elva up
through Fremont county not later
than June, at which time grading will
be started.
Self-confessed yeggmen, George and
Harry Lester, brotehrs, pleaded guilty
Mt Boise to the charge of dynamiting
and robbing the safe in the postoffice
at Kimberly, Ida, and were sentenced
to serve terms in the federal prison
at Fort Leavenworth.
While under the influence of toe
much liquor, George Hutton, employed
In Boise, believed himself the muir
derer of Governor Steunenberg. He
asked repeatedly if the officers who
had arrested him wanted him to kill
another Steunenberg."
, Boise was captured by storm when
200 members of the Associated Boys
clubs of Idaho and eastern Oregon
gathered there for their annual SEES
sion last Friday, Saturday and Sun
day. Representatives from almost
every town in the district were pres
emit
The Twin Falls County School
Trustees association will convene in
Twin Falls for two days session
February 1920. The gathering will be
an important one and many prominent
educators from over the state will
give addresses on various pedagogical
subjects.
Reports from Jarbidge state that
the big camp is Disguised with their
mail service since 1T was changed
from Bull to Deeth, New, and that the
mail carriers are meeting with serious
difficulty in transporting the mail
over the mountain trails, owing to
snowstorms.
Because an unexpectedly large
withdrawal of funds from the bank
was made by depositors who wished
to purchase liquor licenses, following
the recent wet election in Idaho coun-
ty. Is the reason ascribed for the clos
ing of the Elk City bank, at Elk City,
a short time ago.
H. G. King, president of the First
National bank of Salmon City, was ar
rested last week under an Indictment,
charging him on nine distinct counts
with making false entries and falsify-
ing his reports to the comptroller of
the currency, which was returned by
the federal grand jury.
Carl o. Carlson, the Oregon Short
Line fireman who was killed near
Mountain Home, February 6, met his
death through his own carelessness
and not through any negligence or
carelessness on the part of the rail-
road company, according to the board
which investigated the accident.
A daily average of forty-five car
loads of hay were loaded on the Twin
Falls branch of the Oregon ShC7t
Line last month. The hay is being
shipped to all parts of the United
States, some going into the New
England states and some as far south
as Florida.
young man of that section, committed
suicide last week at the home of his