The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-03-26
In THE GEM STATE

Fifty different sets of plans for as
many buildings are now being drawn
by Pocatello architects.
Prohibitionists OF the state of Ida
no Will gather in Boise. March 70, rs
and p in convention.
The first county convention OF the
Farmers Society Of Equity to be held
Canyon county Will be held in
Sampa, March %.
On April the following postoffices
in Idaho will be made domestic money
order offices: Belmont. Falcon, HaW'
kins, Magic and Melba.
Mrs. Naomi Mcdonald Phelps, aged
70, died at MountainhOme last week
She came to Idaho in 1879. She was
engaged in evangelistic work for
years
All teachers of the Caldwell public
schools making application for re.
election have been retained by thu
school board to serve for the year
1914-15.
Lyman Fargo, president of the Ban
mock National bank, has commenced
the work pre- iminary to the construc.
tion of an apartment house at PCca'
tello that will cost about $4,000.
The wife of T. Tanaki, prominent
Japanese farmer, was killed by an
Oregon Short Line train south of Ida
no Falls. Her husband and other
Japanese claim that it was suicide.
Three children, aged and 2, and
Is months. belonging to Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Bisaw. at Collins postoffce,
three miles from Boville, were burned
to death In their house while the par.
ents were away.
An effort is to be made at Nampa tc
enforce to the letter law created by
the last legislature which prohibits
every minor person" from using
cigarettes, cigars or tobacco in any
form in any public place.
Secretary Childs, of the Idaho State
League of Commercial Bodies, has is
sued call to the secretaries OF the
various allied organizations over the
state to meet in Pocatello on April 20,
to discuss problems common to all the
organizations
A complete atlas of Canyon county
Is being prepared. The compilation
Of the work will require about Is
months and will include a complete
description of every parcel of prop
srty in the county, together with the
owners name.
According to estimates of the Noun,
tain States Telephone & Telegraph
company, in the plan for scheduling
the possible business of the future, 1t
will require 81 houses or apartments
to make PocatelIo a city of $4,000
within five years.
To convey $4,000 acres of land to
the forestry department of the Uni
versity of Idaho is the purpose of a
bill Just introduced in congress. Its
Intention is that the government shall
deed the land to the forestry school
as an endowment
William NJ. Morgan, of Moscow, one
of the best known Idaho attorneys,
long identified in public life, has an
ncunced his candidacy under the nol.
partisan judiciary law. as a primary
candidate for a position on the SUI.
preme bench to succeed Justice ALL
SHE.
Passengers arriving on the trains
from Riparia, says the Lewiston Trib-
une. report the lower river orchards
now in bloom, the sight being a most
welcome one to passengers coming
from eastern sections, where but a
few days ago they left mid-winter
conditions.
Once again the Mackay dam in the
Lost River just above the town of
Maekay is under fire. This is the
key TO the Big Lost River irrigation
project. An enormous amount of
money has been expended in its con-
struction and it is now contended that
the dam will not hold water
Kootenai county, one of the largest
counties In northern Idaho, voted
dry by 405 majority. according to
looms, six Wholesale liquor houses and
one brewery must close within ninety
days.
Work upon the building of the up
per Snake river valley belt line
through Fremont and Madison coun-
ties, Idaho, will be begun as soon as
the SHOWS melt and the seyenty-four
miles of trackage will be completed
in the fall.
Mayor Theodore Turner and the
city council have petitioned the secre.
tary of the interior of the United
states for the grant OF part of tn.
forest reserve lying on the bencn.
lust west of the city. for a city park
for Pocatello.
+. p. Taylor, field horticulturalist
OF the University Of Idaho. has Is.
sued a circular to the fruit growers
OF the state advising them to clear
their orchards of the varieties OF
fruit trees which he calls "drones
and boarders"
A large colony of Finlanders com,
prising about thirty families from the
Slack Hills country of South Dakota.
awe arrived at their new homes near
springfield. where they have purcnass
ID a large tract of land under the Alb
erdeen-S Springfield ditch.
An attempt was made at Pocateuo
to burn the residence of Allen Tram