The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-03-19
In THE GEM STATE

A.
Mrs. Mildred McRea, aged 81 years
OF Aberdeen. has filed suit for di-
vorce from NJ. F. MeRea, aged 70
years.
Charles Nelson, colored, is in jail
at Shoshone charged with stabbing a
Japanese named Moriko, owner of a
pool hall.
A. G. Draper has been appointed
special deputy bank commissioner for
the purpose of closing the affairs OF
the Leadore State bank.
By the report of the tax commits
sion just ISSUED for the state of Ida
no during 1913 It is found that the
total taxes levied were $S,6l9,637.27.
According to the announcement
just issued from the Boise office OF
the reclamation service, 1856, 649 is
available for work on the Boise pro
1ect during the year 1914.
A trunk being unloaded from a bag.
gage car at Idaho Falls was dropped
and stream of liquor poured forth.
The trunk contained twenty-nine
quarts of liquor No one has called
for the trunk.
The Idaho Intermountain Fair as
ISOLATION, which for a number of
years conducted the intermountain
fair in Boise and aspired to become a
state fair, has been placed in the
hands of a receiver.
Captain John E. Yates, one of
Bosses leading citizens for the past
twenty years. died March 4, of aneur-
ism of an artery of the heart. About
two months ago Captain Yates ex-
perienced his first attack of the trou-
| BILE.
Ground has been broken for the
new federal building and postoffce
at Pocatello. The work will be
pushed to completion as fast as labor
and material can be secured. Poca-
tello material will be used in the con-
struction.
| Many charges of high cost of state
educational institutions have been
made in Idaho, but the report of The
tax commission shows that the man
who pays tax of 500 only pays to
the four state educational schools
S2.31.
The residence of Jesse Crow at
Ammon, six miles east of Idaho Falls
was burned to the ground on the 7th.
The water ditch being frozen over,
little could be done toward saving the
property, but neighbors saved a large
portion of the furniture.
! The Pocatello city council has
passed an ordinance creating a clus.
! ter lighting district and providing
that the cost of the first installation
may be paid in separate installments
and that the city will bear the ex.
4 uense of the lights.
Adopting the means that were sue,
cessful in eradicating the disease
known as scab among sheep In Ida
no, the farmers of Gooding county
have combined to stamp out hog chol,
era which has taken such heavy toll
already in the state.
The coroners jury of Minidoka
county has decided that the death OF
Mike Moultrie of Burley, killed by
falling from an Oregon Short Line
special train one mile west of Ru.
pert, was due to his own carelessness
and that of the train crew.
The Commercial club of Haley
raised approximately $500 in twenty
four hours to pay for eighteen pages
Of text. illustrations and advertising
4 N fhn lob "a ttA IL
book to be issued soon by the Inter.
Mountain Good Roads association
Officials at Burley have received
notice that maintenance charges
against land on the Minidoka project
would be added to construction
charges. This will mean a saving to
the farmers around Burley on the
Minidoka project of at least S165, 900
Lemhi county has received an ap.
portionment of forest reserve re,
ceipts amounting to $2e797S. This
money is made up of 25 per cent OF
timber sales from the Salmon. Chal
lis, Lemhi and Beaverhead forests
and may be applied TO school and
road funds.
H. w. Dorman. president OF the
state board of horticulture has sent
out to a number of the fruitgrowers
Of the state and to others interested
in the industry, a letter urging co
operation with the state inspectors IL
he matter of spraying and caring fol-
the orchards.
1t is reported that the potato bus
mas appeared In the northern part OF
he state. In Latah county the in
sect has been reported to quite an ex
tent, but as yet 1t has not appeared
in the south. The bug is quite com
mon In the east, but has never ap
peared out here to any extent
The district schools cost an aver
age of S3s.4s for every 500 taxes
levied. and the total cost Of the edu
cational work CT the state, includinl
salaries, is about $40 for every $lJ9.
SIl.30 per hundred OF taxes gees fol
roads; s15s3 for towns or cities: ..
cents for state departments: s5.05 Tor
police department; s29l for judicia
department
Bee raising has come TO be a rec
ognized industry in the state Of Ida
no. The first special report eve,
rnada the SvhFors ~,