The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1914-08-27

out the night 60 complete the job
Jack Brennon's outfit on the r. Sui
livan place, south of Moscow and west
Of Genesee, blew up and burned from
what is supposed to have been smut.
Frank Scharback's separator on the
Mat Carbon ranch, two miles east OF
| Uniontown, also burned.
| Standpoint Suit WAS started against
the Kane Mining company, of Priest
River, by Rueben Hablitzen, foreclos-
ing a lien to collect $l720. 80 alleged
to be due on five separate accounts,
practically all for labor performed by
the plaintiff, his wife, Cleah Hablitzen
and Fred Rowlander.
Moscow Three more threshing ma
chimes were burned between Genesee
and Uniontown, according to informa-
tion brought here by II. A. Morgan.
who drove four miles west and assisted
in stamping out the fire and saving
grain threshed on the Henry Luders
place by Moreshark & Kasper, who
were owners of machine which
burned.
Lewiston The Federal court has
remanded back to the District court
for trial the case entitled Elizabeth
Smith, administrator of the estate Of
Charles Smith, deceased, versus the
Camas Prairie Railway company, in
which the widow seeks $685. for
the death of her husband, who was
killed by railroad train in the COM
pany yards November II, 1918.
Weiser--A relic that is attracting 8
great deal of attention here at present
is watch received by Charles A.
Braun from a jeweler in Gallup New
Mexico, who sent it here to be re-
paired. 1t is nearly $50 years old and
of exceedingly delicate construction.
1t is Of ordinary size and in addition to
the regular mechanism 1t strikes the
hour, half-hour and quarter-hours. The
watch Is valuable heirloom.
Twin Falls--As the result of drink
ing water from newly filled cistern,
10 people of party of 80 were strick-
en- with typhoid fever, one of whom
died in the Twin Falls hospital. The
30 were members of the German Luz
theran Young Peoples league. They
gathered at the HI. F. Beecher home
just south of the city about six weeks
ago for a social event, at which time
all of the party drank freely from the
Oh ar - - a. L.
party, succumbed to the attack, and
Miss Bertha Polzin lies at the point of
death. The others are seriously i'll
but physicians think they will recover.
Boise-Another big irrigtion project
in this state is to be lifted to it's feet
In the North Side Twin Falls tract,
of some 10, 900 acres.
The State Land board, at meeting
this week, approved the new contract
offered the settlers by the North Side
Twin Falls Land e. Water company,
the affairs of which are now in the
hands of trustees appointed by the
oondholders.
Approximately s700, 900 will be
spent by the trustees in completing the
project, which is the companion to the
South Side Twin Falls project, one of
The most successful Carey act irriga-
ion enterprises ever launched in the
United States. State Engineer F. P.
King has been ordered to make COM
olete investigation to determine the
amount of money required to complete
t.
The North Side project was origin
lily launched by the Kuhns, of Pitts
burg. When they failed year ago,
he bondholders organized to protect
heir interests, and r. B. Shepherd, of |
Mont, was made their agent. |
When the project was first launched |
he kuhns invested 5000, 1000 in the |
Jerome reservoir. Attempts to i'm
POUND water in it, however, failed.
satisfactory negotiations were then
uttered into with the government to
'nlarge jackson Lake reservoir in Wy
ming, SO that 10000 acre-feet of
water could be stored there for the
North Side project. The bondholders
will spend $400, 900 on the Jackson
lake improvements.