Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1913-07-17
IDAHO STATE NEWS

Inc ailalla meal mill At Filler
owned b. q stock company. was sold
at referee sale last week. being
bought il for $4,000
John Wilson. a young man of -. in
the penitentiary under conviction o;
stealing = horse in Bonneville, has
been declared insane
Grin Christensen OF Lewiston had
three 6ngers amputated when his
hand caught in a pulley while stack
ing hay with a derrick
Bumper crops ia the slogan in Bear
Lake county this year. Never before
have prospects looked better for big
yields in all farm products.
j. H. Farrell has been arrested at
Payetts On \ charge OF bigamy, it
being charged that he already had
wife whea he married a young lady
residing near Payette.
At the Morgan shearing plant on
the Blackfoot river q few days ago r.
o. Sharp sheared twenty-six sheep in
thirty minutes. according TO reports
from the shearing plant
Contrary to expectation the recent
heavy rains have not injured the cher
~ crop OF the north. Tho present
season is witnessing the marketing OF
more cherries than in any past year.
Silver City now faces a potato fam
inc. ]. n Neil OF Oreana. better
known as the "Spud King" was in
Silver City recently and closed a deal
for 4 Q9a ,f
hundred.
The batueship Idaho attained the
highest final merit in gunnery OF the
twenty-ons vessels competing in the
battieshiD class during the last year
and has been awarded the gunners
trophy
While attempting to NJ her little
sons gun that he might go rabbit
hurting, Mrs.. Adolph Oleson of Stone
killed her coy. the gun going OF and
the charge lodging in the region of the
abdomen
The violent thunder storm that
crossed Latah county few weeks
ago is said to be responsible for the
insane condition OF Mamie Kindland.
about 81 years of age. whose home Is
at Princeton
The general store building and
contents. elonging to 10y H. Lee at
Leadore we're destroyed by fire. Loss
on the stock is estimated at $4,000:
on the building. $1,000; partially Gov
cred by insurance.
One million acre feet of water is
now flowing in the Snake river past
a given point every thirteen DAYS.
That means about 1900 acre feet per
day, a record uneQualed by any other
stream used for irrigation in the west.
The new pool hall ordinance which
has been snder consideration for sew.
eral weeks has been passed by the
Nampa council. IL requires local pool
and billiard halls to CLOSE their door.
at midnight and remain closed until
G a. m.
Despsadent over the treatment ac-
corded her by her husband and over
serious injuries received recently by
ner child, Mrs. Flora Usadel attempt
ed suicide near Nampa. suffering
frishtful burns from the carbolic acid
which she swallowed. but it 10 be-
The work of making the road suit
able for sutos from Fort Hall to Soda
Springs via the Blackfoot reservoir Ia
beng done by Ras Hansen. who has a
specially tuilt device for attaching a
oloV to the gear OF 4 wagon so il can
be operated to cut down the high CEN
ters
But fer the bravery OF his vito who
attacked an Infatuated bull with only
the help Of \ dog, Gus Anderson. a
prominent rancher near Boise, would
have been killed. Mrs. Anderson sue
ceedc- in dragging her husband out OF
the corral while the dog was worrying
the bull
A carload of wool. containing 10000
pounds, was shipped last week from
Wendell to St Louis. Owing to the
fact that the farmers had punched
their small holdings at one point they
were enabled to obtain a cent more
per pound than they otherwise would
have received
A force OF TWENTY-FIVE men 1. ar
work on the Clear lakes power plant
southwest of Wendell Work is beine
pushed on building penstocks, diver
ting dam, installing headgates and
other necessary adjuncts The plant
is expected to be nomp;sted and in
operation by Janu..y
The only one OF the entire number
of projects in which the Kuhns are
directly or indirectly interested in
Idaho on which obstruction work has
not been completed is the Crane creek
project at Weiser. The Kuhns, sew
eral weeks ago. purchased the $500 900
bond issue of this project
Present indications are that the
Boise city council may have its exca-
walton work done under the day la
Dor plan and the remainder of the
paving done by contractors, although
the mode OF procedure yet remains to
be determined
Herbert Brice, resident Of Mid
vale, was arrested at Weiser when