The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-01-22
In THE GEM STA

The Caldwell Commercial Cha
begun a new membership camn
working for 200 members befor,
annual meeting.
The formal dedication Of the
Methodist Episcopal church at AZ
ton, south of Caldwell, took
Sunday, January II.
Between TOO and 500 rabbits !.
killed at the big rabbit drive on i.
| Flat. southwest Of Nampa, last "
Over 100 men and boys particius
in the sport.
| Democratic free wool was bran.
as unfair, unjust and unreasonable
sheepmen In attendance at the ann
session of the Idaho Woolgrowers
ISOLATION, which opened at Boise
| Monday.
| A local branch of the Farmers
ciety of Equity was organized at @
net last week by w. s. Pankhurst
Richfield and George E. Carpenter
Aberdeen. About fifty members Vi
taken in.
| Representatives of the ciffere3
Sunday schools of Caldwell have
gained a Sunday School Athle. F.
league. The league will place i
ketball, baseball and football tea
In the local field.
Canyon county will ship over $50
900 worth Of hogs in 1914, In d
opinion of a veteran hog raiser, ID
with the industry in the hands
practical men the amount will mo.
| than double annually.
| The coroners jury impaneled to d
anime into the killing of Ezra Nd
son at Preston found that he met ii
death through accidental discharr'
of shotgun knocked from the hand
of David Davis, city marshal.
The Progressive state central CON
mittee has passed a resolution q
| put full state and congressional
| tickets in the field for this year,
elections, and to make nominations
| for every Office from United State
senator to constable"
All arrangements are complete fot'
the big dairymen's institute to b.
held in Meridian Saturday. JanuarJ
II, and the program is one that al
sures those attending, one OF .hs|
most interesting meetings of the kind
ever held in this part of the valley
Miss S. Belle Chamberlain, former
ly Idaho superintendent of public I'M
struction, was married in San Fran
cisco December 81 to Wilbur WIZ
liams, a Montana man. They first
met in Honolulu. Mr. Williams In
tends to engage in business in San
Francisco.
! Idaho farmers will receive IL cents
| per hundred for their hogs at the
| Portland market within the next SIX
months, is the prediction of v. d
Hannah, veteran hog raiser of the
Boise valley and one of the best post
ed men on MAJ ket conditions in Can
| yon county.
Directors of the Snake river irri
cation district, on the Oregon side d
the Snake river adjoining Weiser
have accepted from ContractoI
George Cooley the construction worl
for the project, which has just beer
completed. 1t affords water to ESQ
acres of fertile land.
The most extensive tree planting
In the fourth district of the fores
service in the past year was that car
ried on In the Pocatello national for
est, where 100000 trees, mostl,
Douglas fir, were set out, according
to statistics given out at the head
quarters Of the district.
That her husband had only giver
her partial support for herself ant
child and that she had assumed tn,
role of shoplifter to keep from starv
ing were the facts brought out in on.
of the most pathetic cases the police
of Boise have been called upon t.
handle in many months.
The Boise traffic bureau has filed
complaint with the public utilize.
commission, asking that the rate
on hay from points in Long val
ley on the Idaho Northern be re
duced tp basis equal to the exist
ing rates from Twin Falls and Ketch
um to northwestern points.
p. p. Dawson, former Virginia
planter, is preparing to plant tobacco
on his ranch near Weiser this veal
and to cultivate a crop for profit
Past experiments with the nicotine
weed he asserts have copvioned hfrr
that the crop is ore which will grow
as well here as in Virginia.
Lincoln Day, February IL. is to be
celebrated this year in Idaho on a
more extensive scale than ever be
fore, according to the plans now be
ing formulated by the officers and di
rectVrs of the Lincoln Day Banuue,
association.
State Auditor Huston reports that
the receipts from Inheritance tax for
the entire state for the year from DC
tober l, 1912. to October /, 1913
amounted to s11.1245S. This tax is
collected by the counties and turned
/ over to the state.
The movement to erect a fitting
memorial in honor OF Governor Steu.
nenberg, murdered by Harry Orchard.
Is meeting with the hearty approba.
ton of citizens from the different
sections of the state.
The will of the late Leopold Wer-
theimer. who died at HALEY Deem
Der 20 last. has Just been made rub