Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1914-04-09
IDAHO STATE NEWS

tello will have another large theater
and playhouse, costing more than
100000.
Recently a delegation of live citi-
zens got together at McCammon and
organized a commercial club for that
enterprising town.
Justice George F. Stewart, of the
Idaho supreme court. who was strick
en- with partial paralytic stroke at
Occur d Alene, is slowly improving.
A bull trout weighing twelve and
quarter pounds was recently caught
in the Salmon river by b. S. Brown OF
Challis. Fishermen in the Lemhi river
report good sport with white fish.
Francis Olson. a young man aged
20, met violent death near Deary.
He was engaged with a companion.
Harry Clark, in blowing out stumps
with giant powder. Olson was hor-
ribly mangled.
The board of pardons has refused
to grant pardons to John Lockwood,
sentenced from Shoshone county for
murder, and Charles II. Allen. one Of
quartette who killed NJ. J. Crowley
in music hall at Haley.
The women OF Idaho have been the
prime movers in the Home Industry
week there, originating the idea in
Twin Falls two years ago. Last year
it was made state fair and now IL
is established as an annual event.
mill Of baa CT bn
met in Pocatello last week and per
fected an organization which will be
| known as the Idaho Nillers' associa
ton. A committee was appointed to
draft a constitution and make a re-
port at the next meeting.
The name of the new baseball
league recently formed at Blackfoot,
consisting of teams from Pocatello,
Blackfoot. Bancroft and Idaho Falls,
is the ''Three-B league" This is from
the fact that the counties represented
are Bannock, Bingham and Bonnie
Vile.
Public spirited citizens of Twin
Falls. working for the good of the
city. have conceived the plan of hold
ing free entertainment in the high
school auditorium each Sunday after.
noon. between the hours of 3 and 5
o'clock. The plan is proving very
popular
Secretary George Stoll OF the Poca-
tello Commercial club is formulating
a plan whereby a federation of all
southeastern Idaho commercial clubs
may be formed. A number Of the sur
rounding city clubs are anxious tc
come in. and McCammon has already
voted to do so.
Idaho has only one named peak hav
ing an altitude greater than $4,000
feet. that is Hyndman peak. near the
BlaineCuster county line. The eleva
ton of this mountain is l2.07S feet
There are. however. several unnamed
peaks near Hyndman peak whose ele
vations are greater than 10000 feet.
Joseph Siciliano, sentenced to i'm
prisonment from thirty-five years tC
life for killing one Vaughan at Poca
tello. and for whom clemency was rec
commended by all of the officers o
Bannock county. has had his sentenc,
COMMITTED TO ten years. which. will
good time. will liberate him in les
than six years.
Believing that her son was dead
not having heard from him for twelv,
years. the mother of John Lockhart
an inmate Of the state penitentiary
serving a life sentence for murder
who did not learn until recently tina
he was a prisoner in that institution
!. has arrived at Boise from Californi
to make a plea for his pardon.
Representatives from Pocatello, Ida
, no Falls Bancroft and Blackfoot me
at Blackfoot a few days ago. and pei
Z fected plans for four-team base
. ball league. including the said cities
| The schedule was partially arrange
| and all towns will as far as possibl
!, play home talent
D What IL known as the Sweene
p building. three-story, 75x100-fot
4 structure at Idaho Falls, which hs
a stood unfinished for over two year
} is now to be finished at once. Befor
its completion William Sweeney, III
q owner, fell and broke his back, an
a after lingering for nearly forty day
died
V Free milling ore impregnated wit
gold and showing assays runnir
from 5000 to $1,000 ton, was unco
y, cred a few days ago in the Ruth mil
on War Eagle mountain at Silv,
City, the strike being the create
!, In that camp since its early day
y when 1t produced millions In go
20 and silver.
Former United States Land Cor
70 mission w. r. Stevens. who was take
is to Boise from Burnley few days as
by deputy United States marshal
: answer serious charges. has been IL
I able to furnish bail and is held in ia
F.! at that place. Stevens, is 1t charge
| entered land under several assume
| and fictitious names.