Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1913-02-27
IDAHO STATE NEWS

Mrs Rigdon, a widow with fou
children, was left destitute last weel
when her home in Boise was de
stroyed by fire.
Eagle Heights, the orchard trac
site north of Boise, is to have an ad
dition of 800 acres of young orchard
next spring.
H. Louis Jackson, the new state
chemist comes from the University
of Kansas at Lawrence, where he
has been engaged in similar work
Under the investigation and promo
ton of F. A DeClark of Emmett
plans have been formulated whereby
an irrigation project covering $500
acres of land contiguous to Sweet will
be put under water.
John Hoganson sentenced to serve
sixty days in the county Jail at HALEY,
for petty larceny, is now attempting
to sue the county for $4,000 damages
for alleged injuries received when in
Jail by falling plaster.
Idaho's state insane asylum at Black
foot is under the fire of the present
legislature. The senate has ordered
an investigation of the alleged unlaw-
full commitment to that institution OF
Carl Machold, a newspaper man OF
Blackfoot
The third annual baked potato
breakfast of the Twin Falls CONNER.
cial club was held on the 18th. A
special program was prepared with
clever people to speak. The menu
cards. unique in form and color, rep.
resent potato.
The state land board has authorized
the Mountain Home Irrigation com.
pany to sell water rights for $3.50
acres of additional land under the con.
tract which it has with the state for
the construction of the Mountain
Home Irrigation project.
A herd of fifty-five thoroughbred
Duroc Jersey hogs. the finest ever
seen there, have arrived at Nampa and
many farmers have selected animals
which are expected to be the basis OF
first-class thoroughbred hog industry
in that vicinity.
A franchise for the construction Of
the Sturm electric road from Clarks-
ton to Asotin and from Charleston to
the Charleston heights section mas
been granted by the Asotin county
board of commissioners in a special
session at Asotin.
Two of the three men who invaded
the room of Horace Tebbett at Poca-
tello and dragged him from his bed,
beat him and painted him with black
paint, were fined s25 each in police
court. The third offender received a
sentence Of thirty days in the county
Jail.
According to the statement of I. G.
Hattabaugh, retiring insurance com
missioner of Idaho, profit of 1928.
$3.50 is shown in the insurance de-
partment for the past two years. Three
hundred and thirty-fve state licenses
have been issued, bringing a revenue
of $16,750.
The forestry department OF the
state university recommends the fol
lowing trees for various planting pur.
poses in Idaho: Black locust, Norway
maple, silver maple, black walnut, box
elder, white ash red oak, purple and
American willow cuttings and Aus.
trian pine
Harry Cannon, druggist and prom
1nent man of Ashton and Sid Robin
son, a carpenter and contractor, OF
that city, are in the Idaho Falls nos.
pital, suffering from wounds in the
abdomen made by a revolver in the
hands of city marshall Oliver Spark.
man, of that place.
The body of Franklin H. Lackey
who before his disappearance ad.
dressed a letter to a Miss Locey. in
which he notified her that he had made
his will in her favor and closed by
saying she would never see him again.
lies in the morgue at Boise, dragged
from the Boise river.
Twenty of the big business men of
Pocatello have formed an organization
for the purpose of conducting a Wig
orous campaign against the establish.
ment of the commission form of gov.
ernment, for the purpose of which a
special election has been called for
Tuesday, February %.
The Boise Statesman announces
that ]. F. Shellworth, former CAPTAIN
OF police, who was summarily dis.
missed by the city council several
weeks ago because he was sick and
could not perform the duties of pa.
trolman, will be nominated for the
city council by his friends.
Representative French has intro
duced a bill providing for the crea,
ton of a national park to be known
as "Sawtooth National park" located
in the Red Fish lake section of Idaho
in lands now embraced within the
Payette, Sawtooth, Challis and Boise
national forest reserves.
Burt French severed the main ar.
terry of his left wrist while engage,
In manual training work at the public