Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1913-02-13
idaho STATE NEWS


He took ninety-six out of a possible
100.
To date 1850 carloads of potatoe!
from Bingham and Bonneville countie.
have been shipped east, and $500 car
loads remain to be sent to the eastern
consumer
At Bowman's camp of the Idaho
Northern railroad in the canyon near
Van Wyck. the crew has been com
PEELED to discontinue the rock work on
account of deep snow and bad weather.
]. B. Stay, convicted of forgery, was
taken to the penitentiary from Cald-
well last week. Stay, who pleaded
guilty to the forgery OF several small
checks, will serve from one to four
Teen years.
The city of Nampa will save S7.99S
on its light and power bills during the
next twenty-five months, due to the
new contract entered into by the coun-
ell and the Idaho Railway Light &
Power company.
AS a result of the recent action OF
the council in calling for competitive
bids for the city's light and power
contract, the monthly electric light
bills of the city OF Caldwell will be
practically cut in two.
Reports received from the rabbit-in-
tested districts of Lincoln county in
dictate the wholesale destruction of the
pests as the result of the paris green
campaign begun under the direction
Of the county commissioners.
State Engineer A. E. Robinson of
Wallace has resigned, giving as his
reason that he had been verbally re-
uuested to do so by Governor Haines.
The term of office of the engineer
would not have expired for two years.
John Tinsley, young miner, and a
husband of but a few weeks, was
fatally injured near Wallace, when he |
attempted to board a freight train on |
the Burke branch OF the o. W. r. L. |
N. His young wife witnessed the ac-
cident.
State Game Warden Barber has an
bounced the appointment of w. n.
Stephens, former state game warden.
as chief deputy of the department.,
and R. c. West of Moscow as assist
ant chief deputy for the southern end
of the state.
Paul Cotton, dope fend, broke the
big plate glass window in the front OF
q pharmacy at Idaho Falls because the
of the store refused him
audanum, and after he had attempted
70 break the show cases and had been
elected from the store.
DR.. Harvey w. Wiley, the former
thief of the government bureau OF
'hem1Stry, who was making a lecture
our Of the United States in the in
crest OF pure food education, was
stricken i'll on his arrival at Idaho
Falls and has left for home.
That the average daily overdrafts
or the State Bank of Commerce of
Wallace for four years prior to its fail |
ire were s116.663 or SIG 63 more than
ne capital stock of the bank, was the
estimony at Occur d'Alene of L. c. {
uson, receiver of the bank
At meeting in Boise Of members
I the Sons of Jove, an organization
f electrical workers numbering 5000
lemDers In America, one of the prin-. {
lpal speakers was John A. Upper. a ,,
loneer in electrical development, who ,
lstalled the first arc light in Salt !.
axe.
Members OF four Pocatello women's
Tubs have mailed protests to the Ban.
ock county members of the leIsla-
Ire asking that they oppose the bill
ltroduced by Col. H. V. A Ferguson
nd known as house bill No. IA, Ell
'cting the property rights OF married
omen.
sam Poulous, a Greek, confined in
lie Jail at Pocatello, awaiting trial on
charge of murderous assault, is
legged to have murdered six prison
Yards in his native country and as
sted In the escape of many prison
IS. Cablegrams have been sent to
le Greek government
j. d. Browning and L. r. Martineau
Salt Lake have filed two surety
onds aggregating $500 with the city
'uncil as guaranty of good faith in
irrying cut the provisions of an cleo
1c street railway franchise and an
ectric lighting franchise recently
'anted them at Pocatello.
In one of the shortest opinions
inded down by the supreme court
the state in many years. the Ore
IN Short Line Railroad company Is
to pay the sum of $3.50 to
ebert w. Lott of Rexburg for the
SIS of two horses at a crossing in
e northern part of Rexburg. /.
Seventy-four carloads of Idaho pota-
es in two special trains, the largest
ngle shipment of potatoes ever r
Town in the west, passed through the I
'catello gateway on February 5 from @
ngham and Bonneville counties for 7
e eastern and southern marl,o.o [