American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1914-03-05
IDAHO STATE NEWS

Another new lumber eompanv
entered the field In PocateIlo aas
the name of the Fairview I'M uef
company.
Fire supposed to have or,v,....
from an overheated fue. destroved :.
ranch house Of James-Bedal "s
Boise. Nearly all the furnitnr. -ea'
also burned. :"
Roy McCabe Gilman, over .,
years of age, died in Pocatello AZ m
general hospital, cancer of the stoma1,
being the cause. He was an old.,im.4
and well known IA Pocatello.
The constitutionality of the nd.
tax law of Idaho, which was !.
tackled in the district and suDro~
courts, is upheld by the latter tr,t.
nal in an opinion handed down q ~.
days ago.
The joint committees of the G..
thern Idaho Producers association :"
the Society of Equity met at poca,a,'
and formed plans for uniform nsas
and grade rules for the shipDirS
potatoes.
w. A. Pershall, an old and resnao,
ed citizen of Arco, passed awav l.,,
week, at the ripe old age of 80 va.r.
Mr.. Pershall has been a resident -
the Lost River valley for about a.
teen years.
Wayne Braley, a young man n
about IL years of age, is in the nos
pital in Pocatello in a serious condi
ton on account of an encounter with
two masked thugs, who held him M
and beat him badly.
The fruit growers OF the Payeis
valley are getting well advanced with
the pruning. Orchardists report IN.
d%ications of a heavy yield for the com.
ing year, with a large acreage Of new
bearing trees coming in.
The teachers of Bannock county mot
in Pocatello last week and perfected
the Bannock County Teachers asse
citation. The purpose of the move
ment is for cooperation and effciency
and a county institcte will be proyd
ed for.
The Rejuvenated Sons Of Jove. an
organization of persons engaged in the
electrical business, held a rejunYens
ton at Twin Falls on Saturday. An
parts of Idaho were represented at
the meeting and fifty candidates were
initiated.
Alec Fisher and Lester Very Of
Haley, last established what is belier
ed to be a record for size Of fish caught
III that vicinity when they captured
two enormous trout while fishing At
the Magic dam. One weighs loa
pounds and the other 10k.
Idaho will profit by the travel to
ward the coast at the time Of the
Panama-Pacific exposition at San
Francisco in 1915. Already letters
are coming to the Boise Commercial
club from persons who are planning
to make the trip by automobile. I
Forest Supervisor Mccoy of the Min
idoka national forest has Offered The
farmers on the Ninidoka project Who
have more young cattle than they ce
sire to keep on their farms during The
grazing season, an allotment on lie
Black Pine reserve sixty miles souIA
east of Burley.
The report comes from Aberdeel
that the jack rabbits are destro!ns
many thousands of dollars worm O
hay, grain and orchards in that VICE
ity. Many haystacks have been pfae
tically destroyed end Others are e'
en- around the base for many i"
toward the center.
A sweeping reduction in rates enas
ed for electrical energy furnished y
the Great Shoshone & Twin f~,
Water Power company to the CITY =
Twin Falls and the Twin Falls eu
pany is ordered by the public uunua
commission of this state, in a "~'
handed down last week.
Through a letter received by ~
chief of police, the body OF a you'
mar recently found in a Boise TIVE
ing house was positively identlheu
that of John James Wilson, son
Mary A. Wilson, Newark, n. j.
mar is said to have died from an
Indulgence in liquor and drugs
The Southern Idaho Water fOss
company. which operates in the Sv.J
eastern part of the state, is requD.s
by an order issued by the pubic w
tiles commission of this state W
with it a supplemental schedule rev.
-ng rates for lighting at 'Ame
Falls, Pocatello, Fort Hall ana ~
foot.
Miss Maude Sackett is danselvs
i'll at Pocatello as a result OF
bichloride of mercury tablets =" 4,
take for tablets for stomach uO u
She Immediately became uneoH
and was taken to the hospital a.
after vigorous treatment by wv
tors she has an even chance L"
life.
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