The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-06-18
IN THE GEM STATE

The senate has cOnnrmed the HOlnF
nations of r. S. Story as postmaster
at Burley and Joseph F. Whelan, post
master at Wallace.
Strawberries and sweet cherries are
ripening in the lower valleys, the yield
Of the latter having been considerably
reduced by early trosts.
The present bonded Indebtedness o.
the city OF Caldwell totals 1888 ,88S,7O,
according to the report for the fiscal
year ending May l, 1914
1t has been definitely decided to
hold a Fourth OF July celebration in
Pocatello and general arrangements
committee has been appointed
Contracts for the construction OF
silos have been let by half dozen or
more farmers in the immediate vicin.
ity of Meridian the past week.
Robert Nance, a representative o.
a Philadelphia clothing company, wal
taken from Leadore to Salmon by the
sheriff and is being held for an exam
nation into his sanity.
Further steps are being taken by the
short Line to commence operations on
the new depot at Pocatello and all
preliminary work is being finished
as rapidly as possible.
The sundry civil bill reported last
week carries $4,000 to continue the
work on the Occur d'Alene public
building and $4,000 to complete the
public building at Idaho Falls.
The Bingham board of county COM
missioners have filed an appeal in
the case of the five deputies of Bling.
ham county whose salaries were cut
by the board in their January session.
Crushed and mangled between the
skip and the shaft walls, after which
he fell 1900 feet to the shaft bot
tom, Andrew Finley, an employe OF
the Hecla mine at Wallace, was kill
ed
Prospects for good crops in Idaho
are excellent, according to the week
ly report just issued by the Boise of
ice OF the United States weather bu,
reau. Little damage from frost is
noted.
George Tracy has been returned to
the Oregon penitentiary He was
given a parole a year ago and has
been in Weiser, his home, ever since
A few weeks ago he was taken UP
for bootlegging.
During heavy electrical storm, two
horses belonging to Oscar Carlberg
were struck by lightning and instant
ly killed while feeding in a pasture
on the Carlberg ranch four miles south
Of Nampa.
A merchants association is being
organized in Salmon. The objects OF
the association will be to establish a
credit rating system for Lemhi coun.
ty the collection OF accounts and the
advertising of the resources of the
district.
A buckskin pouch containing gold
dust estimated to be worth $4,000 was
recovered by five Caldwell lads on
Canyon hill, near the wagon bridge
over the Boise river. The find is evi.
IDENTIFY the cache of some early day
The superintendent of schools OF
Lemhi county states that the number
of eighth grade graduates In tho
county schools as compared with last
year shows an increase of more than
$50 per cent, the figures being twenty.
one and seventy-fve.
Seven gallon jugs of whisky and
three kegs of the same, spoils of sew
eral raids made by the sheriff and his
deputies in enforcing the local option
and search and seizure laws in Can.
yon county. were emptied into the
sewer one day last week at CaId-
we'll.
The official canvass of the vote by
precincts in the present local option
election held in Nee Perez county,
made by the commissioners, disclosed
he fact that in all hut a few of the
twenty-four precincts in the county
the returns were incomplete. irreg.
llaF ana inadequate.
Quite a number OF farmers in Idaho
ire taking advantage of the dull sea.
son between spring work and haying
IN putting up farm buildings of enc
Kind OF another. With bumper crops
low assured there will be great |!
amount of building in the state dur
ng the summer and fan.
The two-yearold child of f. WI. |
hanson ftE, into Montpelier creek |
While playing along the bank. The /
'hiids eight-year-od brother hapnep.
ii TO be near, and. with remarkable
presence Of mind jumped in and
ayed the little tot
Pleasure seekers are rapidly taking
advantage of Bear Lake hot sprinss
his year large auto parties daily
nd nightly visit the springs. partly i
or the delishtfu. eighteen mile auto
ide along the lake and partly for the
win at the springs.
At a meeting Of the Progressiyes
Lewis county held in Neg Perez
was decided to place no county
'eke' in the field in that county.
While attempting to climb over a
aroed-wire fence the 11-year,old
aughter Of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
rimm. residing north of Nampa had
or right ear almost torn from her
eaa- The child lost her footing on
he lower wires ~ a.. .-