Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1913-07-03
IDAHO
IDAHO STATE NEWS

The HALEY city council has reject.
ed the proposition of the Idaho State
Life Insurance company to sell the
present water system for $4,000.
The first arrest under the new
lnine-hour law for women was made al
Boise last week, when the woman
manager of hotel pleaded guilty tc
violation of the act and was fined SIC
and costs.
The four-year-old daughter OF Mr.
and Mrs. w. D. Crabtree, living near
Cambridge. died of poisoning last
week It is supposed that the little
one received the poison from eating
colored stick candy.
Arthur Eakins, the man who is al
legged to have attempted to take the
life of Max P. Splinter by cutting his
throat, at Splinter's ranch about foul
miles south of Nampa, has been cap
tured and lodged in jail.
Fifty dentists from various towns
In the southern part of the state
were in Pocatello last week in at.
tendance upon the annual convention
of the state dental society. Mayor
Turner welcomed the visitors.
A. Elgin, a young man, while riding
the carriage at a sawmill near Sand.
point, attempted to put his foot on
board, missed it and the saw caught
his foot. He was taken to the hos
pital and four toes were amputated
The long-talked of Boise, Butte and
Winnemucca railroad has filed arti
Giles of Incorporation with Secretary
of State Clifford with a capitalization
OF $40.000,000, the stock being divided
into 100000 shares at 500 each.
B. ]. Johnson, postmaster at Fish.
erie, has received word from the gov
eminent that the postoffice would be
discontinued. Mr.. Johnson sent in
his resignation not long ago and nc
one there seems to care to act as
postmaster.
Strawberries are being shipped in
large quantities from Twin Falls. A
carload was shipped to Kansas City
las. week. The first carload OF
Strawberries ever shipped from this
part of the state was sent out from
Twin Falls last year.
Ada county, of which Boise is the
county seat, on June 20 voted a $780,.
600 bond issue for good roads. The
city went overwhelmingly in favor OF
the issue. The country vote in favor
of it was not so heavy, but substan.
tial majorities were given.
During the year 1912 there were
271O teachers employed in the public |
schools of the state. Of these, $50 |
were male and 2,O21 female. The
average monthly salary paid the men
was 1921 and that paid the women
$6S.SS, the general average being |
$7S.04
At the urgent recommendation OF |
Senator Brady, the commissioner OF |
Indian affairs has recommended that |
maintenance charge on the Oneida ir. |
irfgation lands on Fort Hall reserva |
tion be fixed at so cents per acre |
this year, one-half of what it has
been heretofore
1t is announced that the Barber |
Lumber company will spend $4,000. |
600 in Idaho in the next year in the |
purchase of additional timber and in |
construction of a railroad to its
present holdings. The P. & l. N. road |
will probably be put in shape for
handling this traffic.
The Pocatello Tribune states that |
the matter of the building of the cleo.
trio inter-urban line out of Idaho |
Falls has again been taken up by in. |
terested eastern capital and the fran.
chises and the right-of-way tracts |
which have been permitted to lapse
will be taken up again.
Five thousand dollars worth of beer
and whiskey, confiscated by the
sheriff Of Bannock county since the |
first of the year and held as evidence
in cases where convictions of viola.
lions of the local option laws have
been secured, were poured into the
gutter one day last week.
Success crowned the efforts of the
well drillers working on the property
Of the Union Stockyards Sales com.
pany at Caldwell, when a strong
flow of artesian water was struck at
depth of 247 feet. The water is
cold and pure and the strike is hailed
with delight by officials of the com,
pany.
Following a complete shutdown for
nearly seven years, the Barber Lum,
Der company, involved in expensive
litigation with the government at.
lacking the title to 10000 acres of
valuable timber lands in the Boise
basin, is preparing to resume opera,
lions near Boise and in southern
Idaho.
With his throat cut four times M.
r. Splinter. a rancher living four
miles south of Nampa, lies In q local
hospital the victim of night attack
made on him supposedly by Arthur
Eakin, man with whom he had pre-
viously had trouble.
The Grand Army of the Republic OF
the state of Idaho at its final days en-.