The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-06-04
In THE GEM STATE

| United states land once, at halleyi
has assumed his duties.
After several months work in
clearing up the many slides in the
| Payette canyon, train service has
| again been established as far as DON
nelly.
For half an hour the Hotel Wash
! ington at Weiser was threatened by
| fire when a blacksmith shop, just 10
feet from the hotel, burned to the
ground.
Four Greek section laborers were
fined SO each at Nampa. it being
charged they had given a 1O-year-old
boy sufficient hard cider to result in
his intOxication.
Lorenzo Bacon, farmer of George
town, was instantly killed in a run.
away He was thrown from the wa.
gon and caught by the feet, his head
being pounded to a pulp.
Favorable action has been taken on
the application for the establishment
Of a rural free delivery service from
Caldwell on Route No. 5, which will
commence on the LIST of June.
The establishment of a canning
plant at Deary to take care of the
strawberries and small fruits is a GER
tainty as result of meeting of the
growers of Upper Potlatch fruits.
The new street lighting seystem In
The business district of Boise will be
in full operation and the lights all
burning by the first of August, accord
ing to the plans of the city council.
Senator Borah was instrumental in
getting a favorable report from the
subcommittee on judiciary on the res
olution proposing the prohibition
amendment to the federal constitu-
ton.
1t is reported at Three Creek that
the Lost Shepherd mine has been
found. 1t is located at the head of the
east fork of the Bruneau river Jar
oidge, New, is at the head of the west
fork, IA miles distant.
The death of Miss Vonetta Secrist
of st. Anthony. who was found dead
on the bank of the river, is to be in
vestigated, as there is some reason
to believe that suicide may not have
been the cause of death.
U, G. Bearup, who was killed in an
attempt to escape from the state pen
ltentiary, shot and killed Deputy Sher
Inf McFadden at Grace, Bannock coun-
". as the officer was trying to arrest
aim on charge of bootlegging.
A stranger walked into the office
of the Loux-McConnell Lumber com.
pany at Pocatello and while the man.
ager was busy with one of the yard
wagons for a moment tapped the safe
and walked out with 800 in cash
Bankers coming from the north
west to attend the meeting of the Ida
40 Bankers association to be held at
Twin Falls on June 8, 8 and 10, will
De in Boise June Z, and will make the
trip around the Boise valley interur.
ban loop.
While enjoying an outing with his
two motherless babes at the Bear
Lake hot springs, on the shores of
Bear lake, Melvin Hart, 80 years oil
age. prosperous young storekeeper
of Raymond, was struck by lightning
and instantly killed
When a runaway team of horses
dashed into window at Boise, the
occupants of the room, Robert No
BILE, president of a bank, and ]. F.
Calvin had narrow escape from ser.
ious Enjury, while the horses were Sc
serely cut by glass,
The Civic club of Pocatello has de.
cided to shoulder the burden of ST..
600 debt in buying ground for city
park, owing to the inability of the
city council to do anything because
OF the fact that the close of the fiscal
year finds the city funds low.
A clever check artist in the person
OF woman has swindled number
of Boise merchants out of amounts
ranging from $40 to $50 through pass
Ing bogus paper to which she had at
fixed various names, some of promi-
nent business or professional men OF
the city.
Practically every one of the fifty
persons who attended the opening of
the Crystal Lake irrigation project
was a purchaser of land. Five
thousand acres we're sold at the open.
ing, thirty of the buyers being resi-
dents of the Dakotas and the remain.
der of Idaho.
The construction of the belt line by
the Oregon Short Line through the
upper Snake river valley win be car.
ried forth now as fassfas the Utah |
Construction company can secure la,
borers enough for the work. The |
headquarters of the company during |
this construction will be at Rexburg. |
The great north and south state |
road from Twin Falls via Shoshone. |
Richfield and the Little Wood river. |
to Picabo. where it will intersect with |
the east and west route to be bull: |
from Boise through Gilmore. Blaine |
and bingham counties to Blackfoot, /
at the latter point with the |
park road. is an /
assured fact
The Wasatch Grading company OF !
Salt Lake was awarded the contract
for building fourteen miles of rail.
road grade up Moore creek for the
Boise-Payette Lumber company and |
viii begin work at once. having the
grade completed not later than DC
toher l.