Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1914-04-02
IDAHO STATE NEWS

OuhoAnb di Luc dndina CApObiliOn.
Senator Brady has introduced a
bill appropriating 100000 for the pur-
chase OF site and the erection Of |
a public building at Payette.
Work is progressing in splendid
shape on the site for the federal build |
Ing for Pocatello, and about 80 men
are employed In the work Of excavat-
Ing.
The preliminary survey OF the rail
road to be built by the Boise Payette
Lumber company into the timber 1t
bought recently from the state win be
started in few days.
I. S. Matthias entered a plea Of
guilty to the charge OF bigamy at
Mountain Home and was given a
| sentence of six months to five years
in the state penitentiary.
The fourth annual conference for
the boys of southern Idaho and east
ern Oregon, held under the auspices
Of the Young Mems Christian associa
| ton. was held IN Nampa last week.
Jas. Bradshaw. on account OF the
death OF his baby has filed a $4,000
case against DR.. Kelley, at Challis
for an improper diagnosis Of the
case. and an overdose OF antitoxine.
The Gooding Leader reports that
jack rabbit ran in front OF railroad
motorcycle. causing the machine to
be derailed, badly injurying the rider,
X. ii. smith. signalman for the rail
road company.
The state sanitary board had no
right to offer or TO pay bounty on
the heads of predatory wild animals
though this has been done for three
years or SO past This was the ruling
made by Judge Davis at Boise last
week
J. ID. Browning, representing an
eastern syndicate, announces that
work is to be commenced with as lit
tie delay as possible on construction
of the street railway for Pocatello.
the city council having granted a fran.
chise.
Using a rock with effect. but fail.
ing To find his mark with bottle of
carbolic acid. some unknown fiend
made a dastardly attempt on the life
OF Mrs. Robert Mckinley at Boise,
when she answered a ring from the
doorbell
George H. Stewart, justice OF the
state supreme court. was stricken
with paralysis at Occur d'Alene on
March 20. The court was In session
there at tn. time. Justice Stewart
was rendered completely helpless by
the stroke.
The Michigan-Idaho Lumber com
pany is preparing to open its mill in
Payette about July l. A drive Of
about 100000 feet OF logs will be
brought down the Payette river on
the first high water for the summer
, and fall run.
II has been learned that an unfa
vorable report has been made by the
engineer who made the government
: survey OF the St Joe and St Maries
banks OF these streams by the wal
department
The governor has appointed seven
teen representative citizens to attend
! the conference OF representatives a
the irrigation convention to be held II
Denver April in response to the sug
gestion of Secretary Franklin X. LAM
of the interior department.
, Arrangements have been made fo
. the holding OF big field day at Wei
ser some time this spring. PROBES
, sor Bresnahan has communicated
, with several neighboring schools an
It is hoped to have at least five o
: six represented in the contests.
: In a telegram to George w. Perkin
, Of New York. John p. Vollmer u
. Lewiston announced that he woul
run for governor OF Idaho on the Pr;
: gressive ticket If drafted. Volln.er
banker and money lender. He
- the heaviest individual taxpayer 1
Idaho.
Enthusiastically marching throus
the downtown business section G
Boise on March &c. forming a parad
u between six and seven blocks Ions
500 prohibitionists made demon
stration which has never before bee
duplicated in Idaho Among thel
we're both men and women.
n Idaho launched a new scheme
i solve the convict labor problem whe
| the Land board and the prison boar
1 in joint meeting decided to emplo
convict labor in the reclamation {
i 10000 acres of state land in the Gen
Irrigation district in Owyhee count,
| about thirty lAiles from Boise.
II Eight cents pound live weigh
was paid for a carload of fat hoe
Il shipped from Juliaetta last week.
is said this is the highest price pal
] there for hogs for many months.
II The Salmon river was open fc
navigation on the Sth inst Accor'
Il ing to Captain Guleke. the river pilo
this is abost the earliest that tn
river has become clear OF Ice.
Tuesday March "a, was made hol