Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1914-01-29
IDAHO STATE NEWS

. "ooi SioWers attended
the annual wool growers convention IN
Salt Lake last week.
On the east side in Pocatello gas +.
used fSr Illuminating PURPOSES Will
On the west side electricity is utiI,god
The estate of the late Iaono,,
Wertheimer, of Haley, has been IN.
rised at slOl ,642. of which s73 500 T..
personal property.
The two national banks OF Caldwau
wri make application to join tha 70
gional reserve system recently created
by act OF congress.
John II. Smead OF Boise has beer
chosen by Judge McClear as hi,
first deputy in the office Of he uni,ed
States district attorney.
Joe walker was arrested at HALEY
IN the act OF breaking into a second
hand store. He confesses a mania for
burglary and admits having served a
prison term.
Walter A. Grant, convicted AT pocs.
tello of c~onspiring to burn the home
OF County Attorney c. Douglass Smith
IA been taken TO the penitentlary IN
begin a twenty-five year sentence.
The report OF the weather bureau
Tor the Idaho section OF the climate
logical service for the month OF De.
cember, which has just Deen issued.
states that the snowfall has been be-
low normal.
with the Lewiston creamery paying
thirty-three and one-half cents for bur.
ter fat, and the article scarce al mat
price. the quotation is crowding I'D
close to h best figure ever paid In
this market. 34ts cents.
Richard Hawkins. employed as a car.
penter foreman with a force OF men
constructing d new water tank for the
Oregon Short Line at Cleft. fell from
the top OF the tank and sustained in
ternal injuries from which he died a
short time later.
Harry l. Day OF Wallace. president
OF the Federal Mining company. was
elected president OF the Idaho Min.
Ing association. Just before the final
session OF the convention at Boise,
and Boise was selected as the mex,
meeting place.
Senator James H. Brady informed
the people OF Pocatello last week that
the contract had been let by the treas.
ury department for the construction OF
the long promised federal building for
that city. The contract went TO Palm
berg * Matson OF Astoria. ore.
Charles Reeves. convicted In Poca.
tello OF receiving stolen goods and sen.
fenced to six months to Ave years in
the penitentiary. has been granted a
pardon on the condition that he re-
frain from the use OF liquor and re-
turn To his old home In Kentucky.
According to the Pocateilo Tribune,
that city is % to have the new fed
eral building. as Senator Brady. who
has been particularly active In the
matter. has wired Pocatello that the
contract for the building has been let
TO an Ogden firm. The construction Is
to be OF Idaho sandstone.
The convention OF the Seedgrow.
ers' association and the Pure Seed
mgr closed at Pocatello. Janu'
airy 81, after the most important
meeting In the history OF the organi'
cations. The exhibits were from
every county In the state and were
exceptionally good. over $500 was
given In premiums.
State Pure Food and Sanitary In
spector Wallis. In q statement pun
lished In the Boise papers. shown 10
the people OF the state that the cost
OF the operating OF his department Is
paid back to the people In fui weight
butter and that there is not a snort
weight pound OF butter sold In inc
state OF Idaho under present cohur
lions.
Resolutions adopted by the idaho
Mining association at the boise meeV'
Ing last week oriticise the cohse''"
ton policy OF the government ~,
withdrawing vast areas OF minerai
lands in forest reserves from miner
al entry 80 that their mineral depo
sits could not be mined. and the gov
policy Of prosecuting III"
Ing IN lnio oN"tN
ting timber for mines.
l.. A. Martin. president OF the Nun"
| Savings bank. was fatally wounded y,
| the 5-year-old son of Joseph fo"e"'
near Kuna. Mr.. Martin was "' y"
Powell home on business matters "",
while writing the child loon a re'oa
yer from his fathers coat, pointeu "
at Martin, and nred.
The King Hill irrigation proJe0s
will be sold at public auction ave
March 1. unless the King Hin iTilsS
| ton & Power company, or some -
, in it's behalf. pays to the Contihe"'a'
and Commercial Trust q sa'lnes
bank. as trustees. the several anou'
held as due.
August Kung. who jumped ne"s
first from a Short Line paSse"eN
train going forty miles an hour yea
Nampa, and m~iraculously escapes
death. was not insane as hrst eur
posed. but had been "doped' preSa Sa
| ably for purposes of robbery III NV