Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1912-05-02
IDAHO STATE NEWS

ullSSlOHeT anu examiner.
The state w. c. T. u. of Idaho will
Introduce bill at the next session OF
the legislature asking that capital
punishment be abolished
The third annual Chautauqua will
be held in Boise. June 10 to 20, and
the directors and committee are hard
at work completing the details.
While playing with a group of play.
mates on the turntable at the o. S. l..
roundhouse at Boise, Mildred Street.
err aged II years. had both feet badly
crushed.
BY vote of 205 to 10 the taxpayers
of Boise have expressed their wish
that the 100000 city improvement
bond issue recently declared null and
void by the district court be reissued
A shipment of SO5 dairy cows
reached Wendell recently from Wis
consin. This is said to be the larg
est shipment of dairy stock ever
made from east to west across the
continent.
Don H. Bank, engineer in charge OF
tons in Idaho, has devised a measur
ing box or weir to cost not owe! $3.50
that will measure exactly the water
that is used.
Boise will be a veritable garden
this summer if all Of the plans of the
various improvement associations
materialize within the next few
weeks. Prizes have been offered ag.
gregating $3.50
While attempting to put the weapon
In its scabbard, Staten Moss of Pay
cite was accidentally shot in the calf
of the right leg last week. The bullet
followed the bone down to the foot
where it lodged.
Work is progressing on the big irri
cation canal along the west side of the
Salmon river, in the Challis valley
The water is being taken from Chal
lis creek, and the ditch will reclaim
a large tract of farming land.
Track laying on the Idaho Northern
extension north of Emmett is proceed.
ing rapidly The grade to Horseshoe
Bend is complete and the track-laying
machine and large force of men will
soon have the rails laid to that place.
The sheriff has brought back from
San Francisco, Harry Sprague, the
self-confessed safeblower of Monk G.
CO.'S store at Salmon in December
l9O9. Sprague talks freely of his
deeds and appears to be deeply pen.
itent
Idaho's growing dairy industry has
received fresh impetus in the estab.
lishment of cheese factory at Bull
and in the promise of others at other
points in the state as fast as enough
COWS can be shipped in to supply
them.
Mrs. Lee Miller, who committed
suicide in Spokane. was a bride Of but
few months. Prior to her marriage
to a Wallace restaurant man last
1all, she was known as Beatrice
Fairfax, a name which she took when
she began stage career.
There is universal mourning among
the trainmen and old time travellers
over the death of Mrs. Ryan, who for
years managed the eating house at
Glenns Ferry, later going to Coke.
vile, Wyo, where she was in charge
OF the station eating house.
Several thousand acres of land in
Bannock and Bear Lake counties
which have been withdrawn from all
forms of entry because of the pres
ence OF phosphate deposits may be re.
stored TO surface entry if a bill now
pending in congress is approved.
Orchards in Twin Falls, Fremont.
Bingham and Lincoln counties are in
excellent condition, and indications
point to an unusually large fruit yield
IN all the fruit-growing sections in
southern and eastern Idaho, accord
ing to ]. U. Mcpherson, state horti-
cultural inspector.
Andy Shaw and Louis Stephenson
the two Soys arrested for breaking
into the Luxton meat market and Ida
no Falls Junk company at Idaho Falls.
were found guilty. Shaw will pass
SIX months in Jail and Stephenson
VIII remain in the training school
until he attains his majority.
L. D. Blackwell, resident of South
Boise, who had been missing for six
weeks, and who had been given I'm as
uead by his family, has returned TO
MS home, and claims he has no recol.
lection of his doings from the time he
disappeared from his home until he
awoke in San Francisco hospital.
A new concrete bridge to cost sew.
eral thousand dollars will be con.
structed in the west end of Idoha
Fails, over Crow creek this summer
the span will be sixty feet This i'm.
provement, together with other work
OF a like nature in and about Idaho |
Falls, is fast making of it city bean.
tiful.
w. F. Morton. one of the men work.
.ng in box factory at Caldwell. had
MS right hand taken off by one of the
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