Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1913-03-06
IDAHO STATE NEWS

Jesse Stitt, local sportsman,
week, when he landed 10-pound ma,
tive trout, measuring 16 inches in
girth and 81 inches in length
The landscape plans of the site OF
the state home for Odd Fellows az
Caldwell, have been approved by the
home board, and work of beautifyins
the grounds will begin soon.
Idaho has declared a quarantine
upon the alfalfa of Wyoming and
Utah, to go into effect at once. 1t
was the first provision of the horti-
cultural bill just enacted to be put
into operation.
A movement is on foot having for
its object the organization into a new
state of the six counties of northern
Idaho with that part of eastern
Washington lying east OF the Cas-
cade mountains.
The supreme court has decided that
the county commissioners of the sew
eral counties do not have the power
to make a contract for the recording
of instruments at a less price than
that fixed by the statute.
Idaho is now the possessor of 5S4,-
1877 acres of land, practically lying in
one body, besides owning several
thousand acres of the finest white
pine timber lands in the state, which
are accessible to the market.
VIM. Nanny, we'll known rancher
of Grace, has been arrested on a
charge of obtaining money under
false pretenses. 1t is said a county
warrant was made out to Nanny by
mistake, and that he cashed it.
In the hope of charging the mem
bership of the Nampa Commercial
club the monthly dues has been re-
duced from $3.50 per month to S1.O0
A rate of s1.00 per year was also
made for members residing outside
of the city.
Assessments for taxation purposes
against the property of the Wash
ington Water Power company, a Spo-
kane corporation, in Kootenai county,
were held to be exorbitant by Judge
F. S. Dietrich in the United States
district court at Boise.
The Pocatello Waterusers' associ-
alton has entered vigorous protest
against the proposed compromise
with California regarding the alfalfa
quarantine, whereby Bannock county
together with Bear Lake and Oneida
is to remain under the ban.
The advocates of the Black law
for Pocatello were showed under in
the election by a majority of 3S1
in a total vote of only 947, the re-
suit being 2S3 for commission and 664
against. The fight was warm from
opening to closing of polls.
Ten acres of good Missouri farm
land for one acre of Idaho land, an
80 acre farm in Stone county, Mis-
souri,, for an acre tract in the Boise
valley-that is the basis on which a
deal was negotiated a few days age
by Middleton firm.
The battle for life commenced by
Horace X. Hatch fifteen years age
when a tree fell on him in a ..ttle
canyon near Wayne, fracturing his
spine, and in which the best surgical
skill aided, ended last week, when
he died in a Salt Lake hospital.
The Mountain States Telephone &
Telegraph company has recently put
a second crew upon the improve
ment work at Emmett in order thai
1t may finish it's work as speedily as
possible. Forty men are now a
work on the Emmett bench and OF
the slope.
When the new power house of thu
Idaho Consolidated company began t.
produce current last week it marked
an epoch in the history of Idah,
Falls. The plant is owned by tn,
Kuhn interests of Pittsburgh A
present one unit of 5000 horsepowe
is in operation.
The snow fall in the mountains
adjacent to Boise up to date ha
been a little below normal, and un
less there is heavier fall during
the next month the season for place
mining will not be so good and tn,
storage waters for irrigation not 81
plentiful as in recent years.
For the first time in the memor,
of the oldest inhabitant, Lake Pen,
d'Oreille froze over last week be
waters of the lake are very deep a
this point and usually, no matter hov
cold it is, the ruffling of the waite
will keep ice from forming.
Owing to the fact that Alonzo jude
williams, who died in Standpoint il
December, was buried without prope
Identification, in the minds of tn
head officials of the Modern Brother
hood of America to pay his $1,000 in
surance policy to his widow, his re
mains were disinterred last week.
Clarence Hood, carpenter o
Pocatello, and Mrs. w. H. Dean o
Twin Falls, are in the county Jail a
Pocatello in default of bail of $3.50
and $1,000 respectively. They wer'
arrested in a room at hotel, at tn
fbo Wnnan'c husband