Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1912-12-26
IDAHO STATE NEWS

There are 1871 Indians in Idaho
according to figures compiled at the
office of the state immigration bu
reau.
The number of farms in Idaho re
porting dairy cows on April 10, 1910
was 23,l16, but only 16,442 reported
dairy products in 1909.
GoSernor-elect Haines has an
nounced the appointment of Col. L. V
Patch, Of Payette as adjutant general
OF the Idaho National guard.
The school district embracing Bon
ners Ferry defeated bond issue for
$4,000 to build a new schoo1 build
ing, at an election held last week.
The boxing bout at Twin Falls be-
tween George Kelly and the Battling
Dane resulted in a victory for the
Dane, who put Kelly out in the tenth
round
The total lumber of sheep of shear
ing age in Idaho on April 10, 1910 was
2,11O,oO0, representing an increase Of
IA per cent as compared with the
number on June l. 1900 (1,965, OO0).
jury composed entirely of women
heard the evidence submitted in
petty larceny case in Boise. This is
the first time in 10 years that a women
jury has sat on a case in Ada county.
The Oregon Short Line has put
INTO operation the newly completed
Teton branch of its system. running
from Ashton to briggs. both in Ere
mont county, distance of almost 10
miles
Reductions Of SIS per acre are to be
made in the rates for furnishing wa
ter to land on the land around Noun
tain Home embodied in what was the
Great Western Sugar Beet company
project
OF the 1891 Indians in Idaho, there
are 1921 males and 1870 females.
and only 1,471 of the entire number
are citizens of the United States.
Adults in the grand total number
2,473, and the children 1913.
The state of Idaho will probably
ask for a receiver to take charge of
the irrigation systems in southern
Idaho known as the Kinghill and the
Kinghsll Extension projects, repre-
senting an estimated value OF
$4,000
The coroner's inquest over the body
OF Charles Vaughn, who was shot and
instantly killed in restaurant at Po-
catello, resulted in a verdict to the
effect that his assailant, Joe Cecilino,
fired the fatal shot with murderous
intent and without justification.
The action of the Idaho Traction
company in taking up the three and
cne-haE miles of track between Nc
Dermot and the new line junction
point is bringing out considerable pro-
test from Nampa business men and
farmers who will be directly affected.
Senator Perky has been assigned
to membership on six senate COM |
mittees as follows: Civil service.
education and labor, expenditures in
the department of justice, geological
survey. industrial expositions and
transportation routes to the seaboard.
Under the decision OF the interstate
commerce commission, Boise jobbers
VIII no longer enjoy a monopoly of
the trade in Odds Ferry. Weiser and
Payette, Idaho. and Ontario and Vale.
oregon, but will be obliged hereafter
to meet competition from Baker City.
Adeline Hansen Trainor, the young
girl wife held at the state industrial
school at st. Anthony, was ordered
released from that institution follow
Ing the hearing upon a writ of habeas
corpus before Judge ]. NJ. Stevens of
rno Sixth judicial district, at Black
loot.
AS result of a stabbing ARRAY
that occurred in the Trestle creek
camp of the Tri-State Cedar company,
Charles Rainey is in the hospital with
an ugly cut in the breast, just above
the stomach, and Murdo Mckenzie.
the man who did the stabbing, Is IN
jail at Hope
After having found F. J. Robinson
and Fred D. Meilcke guilty Of steal
Ing chickens from the chicken COOP
Of Ernest Avery, of Boise, the first
Jury OF women empanneled in Ada
county within the past Is years Of
Tered to pay the fines of the men it
had just convicted.
j. G. Buchanan, charged with the
murder of Thomas Fisher last fall.
whom he Shot during a brief quarrel
over hayrack that he had borrowed
rom Fisher, was acquitted by a jury
1t Twin Falls.
Walter Willis, under sentence from
fifteen to thirty-five years for murder
n the second degree, and Mike Maley,
sentenced to serve term in the state
for cattle stealing, at
empted to saw their way out of the
ounty Jail at Pocatello, but were
aught.
Dave Stahl, well known resident
4 Gibbonsville, died last week, aged
z. He came to Lemhi county in the