Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1912-05-30
IDAHO STATE NEWS

The election in Twin Falls county
Oh the local option question failed to
change present conditions. the voters
deciding that the county should re-
main dry"
Arthur Hodges, formerly promi
nent business man of Oregon. has
the honor of being elected the first
mayor OF Boise under the commission
form OF government.
letter asking for an Idaho exhibit
at the New York land show, to be
held November Is 10 December >.
1872 has been received by the gov
ernor from the nations metropolis.
Governor Hawley has appointed
thirty-siX delegates from various
parts Of the state to attend the North
western Development congress to be
held in Seattle, Wash. June to 8.
Arthur B. Cults. the convicted de-
faulting cashier of the Idaho State
bank of HALEY, has been sentenced
to serve an indeterminate term in the
state penitentiary of not less than six
months nor more than ten years.
While playing near an irrigating
ditch, the three-year-old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs Schaub. living near
Nawpa, fell into the water and was
drowned. The body was found a mile
below the scene of the accident.
From present indications it appears
that when the Western Governors as. !
Cnciofinn
week of next August nearly all the
chief executives of western states
who are members will be in attend |
ance.
James NJ. Bishop, who came across |
the plains with his wife and six chill |
dren and settled in Albion in 1879. |
died on the 18th at Ray, after an i'll |
ness of two days. at the age of so. !
His body was brought back to Albion
for burial
Another effort is being made to or.
ganize an irrigation district to in
elude $4,000 acres surrounding the
town of Sunnyside in Elmore county
A petition for the organization of the
district has been prepared and is now
being circulated.
When asked by other senators if
he would enter into an agreement to
bring about an adjournment by June
10, Senator Borah said: There will
be no adjournment if l can prevent
II until the three-year homestead bill
is finally passed"
Rev. David NJ. Hand, pastor of the
Baptist church at Moscow, has been
on the charge of having
~ronged 17-year-old girl, a member
Of his church. The pastor, who has
wife and four children, Indignantly
ienies the charge.
There are twenty-three potato clubs
n the state Most of the clubs have
been formed in rural schools and if
S evident that many of the girl stu
tents have joined in with the BOYS
n combined effort to promulgate
he starchy vegetable in Idaho.
Sixty-five hundred pounds of dan
iellons were gathered by forty-four :
boys and girls and delivered at the r
hree dandelion stations at Boise one
lay last week, where they were cart
n away IN great wagon loads to the
liver. The greatest number gathered :
" any one individual was 800 {
POUNDS. 4
Mrs. Nellie Bennett Stuart of Twin /
Falls has received word that the su. :
irene court of Utah has affirmed tho
over courts in case in which she
'as plaintiff against John Douglas
concerning patents on the
bennington pump gun. Her late hus-
and, A; L. Bennett, was one of the
.yentors of the gun.
Phenomenal crops are assured this
ear IN all the orchards of Washing
On county and the Weiser valley ac-
ording to reports being received
rom all sections.
A report from the office of the sec.
etary of war shows the total cost of
oise barracks to date to be 1898. O49.
which 330,l90 has been spent on
uildings and s6S.221 on the water
lpply. The land has been apprais-
a anu 10 toNlludlGu HOW 10 De worth
S2O,663
Despite his effort TO make the Jour
ey from Salem to Boise on horse
lck with as little attention as DOS
bic, Governor Oswald West of Ore
IN will not cross the state line into
Iaho at Weiser without a formal re-
option, if plans of the Commercial
ub reach maturity.
The annual convention of the Sew
nth Day Adventists of southern
aho and eastern Oregon COM
enced at Nampa on Sunday. The
inference will last ten days, attend
by about 100 church dignitaries
ON all over the west and lay mem u
RS of this section. q
A meeting of the former residents u
Indiana, who live in Boise, was -
I'D in that city last week, at which
ne Hoosier society, with a char