Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1914-09-10
IDAHO STATE NEWS

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| Tuesday, September Is.
The War Bonnet Roundup and
Bonneville fair opened Monday at
Idaho Falls and will continue five
| days.
The senate has passed Senator
Brady's bill increasing the cost limit
of the Pocatello public building from
$1C0, 900 to s125,OOo.
The total registration OF Canyon
county for the primary election was
| 1850 voters. OF this number 2,044
were new registrations.
Caldwell potato growers face a
shortage of cars for moving their crop
that at present bids fair to deal a Sc.
rious blow to the potato industry OF
the section.
The Bear Lake county fair will be
held from September 20 to October l.
Besides the usual exhibits of the coun-
ty there will be horse races and other
amusements each day of the fair.
A wood rat which started to make
a feast off the insulation on the
wires at the south mill rock house OF
the Baker Hill & Sullivan put the city
of Kellogg in darkness for about Is
minutes.
Clifford NJ. Carpenter. a resident OF
Hailey's underworld, was stabbed to
death by l.. H. Gadd, one of his asso
ciates, as the result of a quarrel the
two had over one of their women &C.
quaintances.
- to- ~ al< ,INr y, r@n
of five thousand cars of fruit and veg
etables shipped from southeastern
Idaho this year. This is an estimate
which has been made by G. J. Sinsel
commission merchant of Boise.
The Twin Falls Railway company is
now running the electric storage bat
terry cars to Shoshone falls on regular
schedule From 1880 in the morning
until Z 80 in the evening the cars will
run to the falls every three hours.
Not finding her japanese husband
all that she expected him to be in the
way of liberal provider, Emma Taku-
mi, an American, has filed suit against
Frank Takumi, Japanese whom she
married August 4. 1913, in Weiser.
At meeting of the farmers of Ada
county. held in Boise, it was decided
to ask the county commissioners to
make an appropriation for the purpose
of making an exhibit OF the products
of the county in the state building at
the Panama-Pacific exposition.
Members of the tug-of-war teams
from the Ada county grange and
from the Boise labor unions. who are
to contest at the celebration in Co
every day in an effort to get into con
dition to beat the other fellows.
Tom Byers, shift boss at the Hecla
mine at Wallace, came to his death
while riding the cage to the surface
Though the cage was carrying nine
passengers at the time, little is known
of the accident, 1t happening some
where between the 1900 and 900-foo
levels.
Judging from the crop reports. the
soil and climatic conditions of ths
Deer Flat section, south of Caldwell
are ideal for potato growing. With
favorable market and transportation
means many of the growers anticipate
a return of 5000 per acre from theil
spud acreage.
William Trout was gored by bull
at his ranch near Standpoint, receiving
a lengthy cut on his right thigh. Trou
was in the act of leading the ANNA
to water when 1t attacked him, and h
escaped further injury by crawlinl
to the house. followed by the still
threatening bull.
The clerical force at the state audi
tors office has just completed the tai
ulation of the amount of the tax to b.
, raised by each of the counties for tn
purpose of meeting all general eN
penses of the state. The rate is 81
mills this year as against a rate O
LAS mills last.
tentative contract between tn
NampaIMeridi Irrigation distric
and the United States reclamation
service for reclamation and drainag
work to the estimated amount c
s3.3O4 800 on lands within the sal
district. has been submitted for al
proval to the state engineer.
Harvest of grain rs in progress /
the elevated regions of southeaster
Idaho. and third crop alfalfa is bein
cut in the Southwestern localitie
Conditions have been favorable fc
this work and the yields are goo'
There is now prospect of some fourt
crop alfalfa in favored sections.
\ Prune picking in the southern Id
u no district began Tuesday and it
j estimated that by Thursday shippin
j will be in full swing throughout til
1 Boise and Payette valleys. f. V. Ma
1 tin local agent of a Chicago fru
4 company which buys heavily in tn
| section of the country estimates tn
| total crop 10 be in the neighborhoc
| of 456 cars.