The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1912-02-12
IDAHO STATE NEWS

for public building at Payette.
: The new revenue law provides that
cash value and 40 per cent valuation.
shall be entered on all tax lists in;
parallel columns, and taxes levied or
40 per cent
Robert Proudfit is wanted in Boise
for the embezzlement of $4,000 from
the Intermountain Auto company O.
that city in the past two years. 1t ii
believed Proudfit has gone to Canada
E. E. Rork was convicted in the
probate court at Gooding Of shooting
the eyes out OF colt belonging to J
w. Matthews. The two men are
neighbors, living within a few mile.
of Gooding.
The Pacific & Idaho Northern rail
road has fled in the federal land of
flee its set Of maps, plats land appli
cation for right of way thirty-fivs
miles from Meadows to a point nea,
higgins, Idaho county.
Jack Downey of Salt Lake wa,
awarded a decision over Slick Merrill
Bosses BLACK Panther" in a ten
round go at Boise. Downey had the
better of it all the way, although he
fought mostly on the defensive.
Work is still being prosecuted OF
the Nampa Caldwell line. The recens
cold weather hindered the contract
ors, but did not cause them to stop
The company now expects to be run
ming oars over the line by May i. ..
Hiram Caswell tells thrilling tall
of escape from a snowslide which
struck him as he was going out tt
his camp in the mountains near Sal
mon. YCaswell was buried for fourteen
hours, but finally managed to dig him
self out.
To stimulate an interest in interna
tional peace, the American Schoo'
Peace league has announced a prize
contest in high schools and norma;
schools throughout, the country. which
it is hoped Idaho pupils will be inter
ested in.
Iva Child. 8 years old, daughter o.
Herbert Child of Shelley, was killed
instantly by freight engine as she
was returning, from school. She was
standing on one track and watching 8
train go by on another. when the en-
CINE struck her. ~
Presumably because his. 17year-old
daughter Della confessed that she hat
been sustaining improper relations
with him, her father, ]. M. Foster
shot himself through the head 'severa,
days ago,>the body being found in his
home near Moscow. 4 -. s,..> :. :.
Thirteen prisoners awaiting trial fol-
felonies or serving sentences for minor
,offenses, escaped from the, Bannocb
county jail at .Pocatello on the 30th
The jail break was discovered half an
hour after Il occurred and, seven Of
the prisoners recaptured.
Smallpox, which has apparently
taken 4 firm hold Of Kellogg. has now
jumpedr to Burke. But one case hat
been itaported in this latter town, but
the h@aath authorities anticipate more
vanced fbefore it was discovered. h
The liquor license question is. still
the disturbing factor in sLemhi coun
ty. At recent meeting of the city
council an ordinance was passed fix
ing the cost of city saloon licenses al
$187.0 per quarter, and making reg
ulations for the operation of saloons
A special from Washington : an.
nounces that Notwithstanding Score
tary Stimson's recommendation tha'
Boises barracks be abandoned, suct
action is not at all probable, for prac
: tically every member of the senate is
opposed to Stimson's proposed sweep
Ing economy.
If there is a timber trust In thu
United States the federal government
Is it's most mighty factor, according
to Senator Borah who, in his speech
In the senate, vigorously denounced
the present policy of the government
In the matter of disposing of timber
In forest reserves. ~
Senator Hepburn Of Idaho on Thurs
day effectually, blocked the effort Of
Senator Lodge and the other mem.
bers of the committee ON foreign re
Iations to have the senate grant unan
,mous consent to the fixing ct day
for the vote on the arbitratioNstrea-
ties with Great Britain and France.
Representative French has intro
duced a bill providing that the Law
requiring labor and improvements tc
be done annually upon mining claims
be SO amended as to provide that i'm
provements made upon roads or high
ways leading to the mining claims
shall be accepte! aS labor expended
upon the claim itself.
Oil burners which can be installes
in any kind of kitchen stove, and
which will reduce the fuel cost more
than one-half, is an invention which
will soon be put on the market. and
for which Boise will be the manufac
turings'point. !.
Sportsmen throughout the state
have been notified by the state game
and fish department that the -epeo