The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-09-17
IN THE GEM STATE


Inc grand total assessed valuation
OF all the counties In the state OF
Idaho. exclusive OF personal property,
Is tS9l.0s6.3s5.2
practically all the physicians OF
Pocateilo have signed a resolution
agreeing not TO prescribe alcoholic
beverages unless absolutely neees-
sary.
A contract has been let for poles
TO transmit power to Salmon from
the site on the Salmon river where
the new power company Will build It's
plant.
The l.. ID. s. amusement hall, an old
landmark and the hrst Mormon
church built In Pocatello. was de-
sroyed by FIRE OF mysterious origin
ON September s
Council Is sending out a fine cror
OF watermelons and cantaioupes, and
II appears that there will be total
OF from thirty TO thirty-fiye cars OF
melons in the 1914 crop.
Robert BrandenberE. who has beaa
a familiar character about Montpelier
for the past several years. died last
week in the shack In which no lived
In Huiftown. lie was about 60 years
OF age.
The registration at the teachers
joint institute of Ada, Adams. Ell
more, Blaine, Boise. Canyon. Good
ing, Lincoln. owyhee and Washington
counties almost reached the one thou
sand mark,
Mrs. Davis. wife OF Mayor Ben
Davis of Bellevue. met with a painful
accident when she accidentally
knocked a revolver from shelf. the
weapon being discharged. the bullet
striking her in the right leg.
Prune picking and packing in the
Boise and Payette valleys is on in
full blast The fruit Is of fine quail
lily. but the crop Ii about IS per cent
OF the normal. The price Is good.
though: about the same as Il was last
year.
A J, Mcintosh. % years Of age,
who Was part owner OF one OF the
restaurants at Pocateilo. was
drowned In the Portneuf river while
bathing. II Ia believed he was atrick-
en- with cramps. The body was re-
covered.
Henry u. CoonE, veteran conduc-
tor on the Oregon short Line. met
death when he fell beneath the wheels
OF freight cars. while switching In tho
yards of Lakeport--the Payette
Lakes terminus OF the Idaho North.
ern extension.
The body Of Mira Garfield Bond OF
Blaokfoot, for which a diiigent search
had been maintained for two weeks.
was found september by Carl Brad
ley and ID. l.. Ceilings entangled In
pile OF brush In Snake river, about
seven miles below Blaekfoot.
The state game department will
send 10 Blackfoot It's exhibits and
aquariums Of various kinds. The
displays are sent at the request Of
the Southern idaho Fair association
and are 90 be shown ut the fair at
Dlaokfoot September Is. l6. IL and
Is.
Glenn Sheets, n i5.year-old boy,
was severely injured In a runaway at
Moscow, the boy being thrown
through a barb wire fence and the
wagon piling on top Of him. Ills
flesh was torn from his right arm
and he suffered Commissions on the
head.
Mrs Il. J. Frawley. wife OF Boise
attorney. was fatally burned as the
result OF gasoline explosion at her
home, caused by a eolored servant
using gasoline to clean the doors.
August BaHso. young man who
came 10 Mrs Frawley's aid. was SER
iously burned.
Superintendent Jewell Of the Port.
land nah hatchery. who has charge
OF the salmon seinlng operations AZ
Salmon. captured a salmon last week
which bore marks showing that it
had been turned loose from a Port
land hatchery Ave years ago. The
nsh weighed thirty-aye pounds
Don H. Bark. irrigation engineer.
has returned from attendance upon
the convention Of the Western Can
AdiaL Irrigation association held at
Penticton. British Columbia. Mr..
Bark was invited TO attend for the
purpose Of making an address on the
Actual Problem That Confronts an
IrrigRior"
Pledging their candidates for state
and county office for statewide pro-
hibitioB and launching them on the
political sea aboard a platform that
Is distinctly dry" the Prohibition
party OF this state. In convention at
Caldwell. nominated a full ticket.
from United States senator down to
mine Inspector.
The War Bonnet" Roundup and
Bonneville fair opened Monday a.
Idaho Fails and viii continue ave
lays
Harvest Of grain Is In progress In
the elevated reEious OF southeastern
idaho And laird crop alfalfa IS being
cut in the Southwestern localities.
Conditions have been favorable for
this work and the yieLds are good.
There Ia nov prospect o. some fourth
crop alfalfa In favored sections
Members OF the tug of.war teams
fr.., th. ANa county grange and