Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1914-11-28
IDAHO STATE NEWS

accidentally inflicted while hunting.
At banquet given in the FRS
Presbyterian church at Twin Falls b.
he trustees and their wives, the en-
tire church debt of s3,250 was wipet
out.
There is considerable interest in The
Seed growers convention and Pure
Seed congress, which is to be held a
Twin Falls he first of the coming
month.
About one hundred thousand votes
we're polled for governor in the re
cent election. OF these Mr.. Alexan
der received 1852 and Governor
Haines 36,S19.
John w Graham, lawyer of Twin
Falls, has been appointed member
of the public utilities commission to
succeed Judge d. W Standrod of Pc
catello, VINO resigned i'll October.
Grover Meachem and his wife
charged with having stolen number
OF horses and having held up Sheriff
Jones Of Bingham county, have been
landed in the county Jail at Pocatello
TO handle the large crops of beets
OF Gtah and Idaho, some of the fac
tories OF the Amalganlated and Lew
ist0n sugar companies are grinding
beets in excess of their guaranteed ca
pacitles
All the recent meeting of the state
board of education, it was decided tC
take over the school club work anG
add 1t to the departments under the
supervision of the extension depart
merit OF the state university.
One of the most important safety
first" movements of the Oregon Short
Line railway in Bannock county will
be the construction of two more sub.
ways, one near McCammon and one
rear Pocatello on the south.
The excitement over the discovery
of gold in Hagerman valley continues
to increase. Farm land has been filed
on by mining claimants and reports
from various places indicate that the
rush for claims has only begun.
There will be no cat department in
the Idaho State Poultry & Pet Stock
associations show in Boise in Janu
airy, but arrangements are now being
made for one to be held about the last
Of February or the first of March.
Mrs. William Fuller of Emmett was
injured in a runaway accident on the
Emmett mesa last week. A large weed
was caught by the wind and rolled
over and over under the team of colts
she was driving, frightening them.
Two men, who gave their names
as Thomas Baca and Macello Lavato,
were arrested at Salt Lake, and are
held on suspicion of having been i'm.
plicated in the murder of Marshal La.
fayette Hampton at Shelley last week
A number of voters in the Miner
precinct in Twin Falls county have
filed a complaint with the county can
vassing board, charging irregularities
in the methods employed in their pre-
cinct in the conducting of the election
thele.
1t is announced that for the first
time in many years, the six state edu
oational institutions, which have been
under the management of the state
board of education for little over q
year, will all come before the legisla
ture without deficit.
The department Of agriculture has
undertaken the investigation of a Sc
rious disease which is affecting the
Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep anC
the mountain goats, and is reported as
existing on the Lemhi national forest |
in Idaho.
Practically all arrangements are
made for community Christmas tree
and festival in Twin Falls ON Christ |
mas night One of the features of the
evening will be huge Christmas tree
decorated with electric lights, tinse,
and all Christmas-tree accessories
Mrs Sarah L. Anderson, a pioneer
woman of Emmett, died in Portland, |
Ore, where she had gone for medical
treatment. Mrs. Anderson and her
husband Elias Anderson were among
the early pioneer settlers of Emmett |
coming to Idaho about forty years
ago.
Fred Diggs, the Deer Flat rancher
living five miles south of Nampa, who
recently was evidently the intended
victim of a blackmailing scheme, re.
ceived second summons last week
to come through with the coin"
Digs and his neighbors have been
under arms for some
time.
Five negroes have been appointed
by Governor Haines to represent the
state of Idaho in the work that is be
ing done by the Afro-American league.
The men are S. K. Bailey, Elmer T.
Smith, r. B Smith, Boise; H. T. Ow.
ems, Occur d'Alene; John S, Pierson,
pocatello.
The government is advertising for
fine blooded brood mares with which
to stock the Fort Hall Indian agency
farm pppatpllp Thie 10 ono pf