Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1913-05-22
IDAHO STATE NEWS


Nay 13.
The printing plant Of the Junction
City News, published at McCammon
by A. E Haines. was destroyed by
fire May u, the loss being $1,000.
The Commercial club OF Caldwell
has indorsed the plan of holding week.
ly band concerts and appointed a com.
mittee 10 raise the funds necessary
TO assure at least 20 concerts this
season
The last of the large irrigation en-.
terprises on the Twin Falls tract was
completed last week when water was
turned on to the Oakley project. put.
ting 10000 acres of land under irriga.
ton
After June 3 Bosses military res
ervation will be deserted save for
solitary care taker. who viii repre-
sent the United States government
and have full charge OF the aban-
doned post.
AT Boise, movement was launched
at meeting of the good roads con
vention committee, through which il
Is hoped that the federal government
will be persuaded TO open Yellowstone
park to automobiles
Denied a new trial by Judge r. y.
Dunn at Occur d'Alene on a charge OF
falsifying accounts of the defunct
State Bank Of Commerce Of Wallace,
B. F. O'Nen has filed an appeal to
the supreme court
D. c. MacWatters of Boise has an
nounced that he will give as a prize
TO the boy who raises the best corn in
the school club contests one of his
fine thoroughbred Duroc prize-winnins
hogs valued al 800.
Officers are seeking Earl Snyder,
who escaped the marshal at Eagle. II
Is claimed that he married a girl y
years old, and two weeks later placed
her in disorderly house The charge
against him is white sb,very.
Dale Howard Bruce, of Boise. -
years old, has just been made the first
Juvenile humane office of the state
and carries imposing credentials. 10
which the clerk OF the supreme court
and number of other notables have
attested.
MAJOR Fred P Reed will draw his
>
as commissioner of immigration. Ia
DOR and statistics in spite of the at
tempt of the last legislature to abolish
the office, owing to decision of the
supreme court
Idaho should worry over an over.
production of potatoes. 1t is under.
stood that representatives from the
large potato tracts of this section will
be sent to Germany to investigate that
country's methods of dealing with an
over-production of spuds.
Boise will soon be made a CITY Tn
De stunned by Migrants and other
undesiraoles. if a plan outlined by
Mayor Hodges can be successfully
carried out. The agency proposed by
the mayor for use in handling the un.
desirable element is a rock pile.
A physician, an attorney, a mer.
chant, capitalist and farmer and
minister of the gospel have been of.
fcially designated by Mayor Hodges tc
represent the city of Boise at the
fourth annual convention of the In.
ternational Good Roads association
The Middleton village council has
ordered the construction of a new
bridge across Wilson creek on Main
street The bidge will be sc feet long
and rest on concrete buttments, and
VIII replace a structure which has
for some time been considered un.
safe.
A fatal shooting took place near
Devils creek, some fifty miles south
OF Twin Falls, in which Jesse HAYES
an unmarried man about % years OF
age. was killed by John Gray. a well.
Known and highly respected sheen
man of the creeks. Gray claims self
defense
McCammon is to have a new flour
milling company Articles of incor
poratlon have been filed in the office
oil the county clerk for the Idaho Rose
Manufacturing company, with Nc.
Cannon as the principal place of
business. The capital stock is placed !
at SIS 1000
The United States government is
now carrying on a series of investi. |
cations in water.ogged and alkau |
lands which will prove oc great bene. |
Mt to ranchers, since there is at pres.
ent large number of acres of sucn |
iand In the southwest, due partly to
excess of irrigation.
The twelfth Idaho legislature was
not vested with the power to abolish !
a constitutional office or that of com. |
missioner of immigration, labor and
statistics. by refusing to make a BIZ /
ennial appropriation for it, according
to an opinion handed down by the su. |
preme court of the state.
Using a case knife as a pick and
crowbar. ID. F. Kelly dug through the
walls of the Washington county Jail
and made his escape. He kept his
liberty for more than two hours and
then voluntarily returned. He was |
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