The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-08-27
In THE GEM STATE

| sacks
There we're seventeen separator
| fires. due to smut or some unknown
cause, in the vicinity of Moscow one
| day last week.
A special election has been called
for August 2s when It will be decided
by the people whether the Cooling
district shall be made independent
Word has been received in Moscow
| of the arrest Of an Austrian, caught
in the act Of placing matches IN
wheat shocks in the Garfield section.
The creamery, cold storage plant
| and ice factory at Nampa was total
ly destroyed by fire about midnight
Sunday. The origin Of the fire is IN
| known.
Serious forest fires are reported
from the Big Creek country. A force
OF men, with six pack horses, has
| gone out TO help the rangers in that
district.
| Idaho real and personal property
values shrank eighteen million dol
by the returns made to the state au-
dtor and the tax commission by the
county assessors.
Alexander Biebner Of Avery. c. s.
Webb OF Kootenai. E. II. OBrien of
Boomers Ferry, Edwin c. Mohr OF
| Occur d'Alene and George Harshman
Of Herrick have been appointed seal
ers in the forest service.
George Clevidence is suffering from
broken ribs and bruises. the result OF
| an accident on the Gibbonsville hill.
| The rear wheels Of his wagon left
the grade as he was turning out to
make way for another rig.
Excitedly trying to tell her mother
| of the good times to be had at the
merry-go-round from which she had
just come, the 6-year-old daughter OF
Mr. and Mrs. John Perpisch choked
to death while eating supper at her
home in Kellogg.
Good progress is being made on
| the work of building the Intermoun-
tain railroad into the Boise basin,
according to one of the officials OF
the company who has just returned
from a trip of inspection and two
days visit at the camps.
| The Roman Catholics Of Pocatello
have decided to send request to the
bishop of the diocese to build a hos
pital which would be under the super
vision Of their church. If the re-
quest is granted the building will be
modern and well equipped and will
cost about $4,000
One of the allegations tending to
show a motive for the crime charged
again Rev. ]. d. Crooks, who is held
| pending preliminary hearing to
answer for the alleged murder of his
wife, Eliza Crooks, at Troy, is in con-
nection with insurance policies car
ried by them.
Many mills of the Occur d'Alene dis
trict are installing a new flotation
system that seems destined to revolu.
tionize methods in the district. The
system is said to have proved valu.
able in recovery of waste ore in
shines where numerous experiments
have been made.
Another big building contract has
been let in which the specifications
call for the use of Boise stone. The
building is the new passenger depot
to be constructed in the immediate
future Mt Pocatello. The structure is
to be two stories in height and the
circumference is $50 feet.
Ralph Anderson, president of the
Payette-Oregon Slope Irrigation COM
pany. was instantly killed when he
came in contact with a live wire car.
rying 440 volts. He had been in poor
health for some time, which is be.
lieved to be the reason he was un
able to withstand the shock.
The price paid for early potatoes
l. o. b. Caldwell ranged from s1.10
70 $1.39, the general average being
approximately $l,25. The total yield
OF the early varieties has been esti.
mated at $50 sacks per acre, or $4,000
pounds, returning to the grower ap-
proximately $l75 net per acre.
That the section tributary to Cald.
well is rapidly becoming potato
growing center of Importance is be-
ing evidenced daily by the large num-
Der of eastern buyers who are on the
ground, buying of Independent grow.
ers, and Ia the activity of the Pota,
TO Growers association In dispatch.
ing its product to ready markets.
| The discovery OF Mrs. Lucy A.
Ti6bs OF Three Creeks. Idaho, of an
old river bed and waterfalls of a
mighty river. lying north and ada.
cent to the rim Of the Great Basin
IN Nevada, indicating the Columbia
and Humboldt rivers were once one
connecting the Great Basin and the
Columbia plateaus. has Just been
made public.
! window curtain coming into con
tact with lighted lamp as a result
Of sudden blaze started a fire which
destroyed a cottage occupied by w
L, Brown at Nampa
A company has been incorporated
70 buy and operate the Salmon aou,
mill, and the plant will be ready 70,
business next month. Sixty ranch
owners have taken stock In the new
enterprise, and It Is believed thai
enough wheat IS grown in the vale,