Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1914-09-03
IDAHO STATE NEWS.

Kid Portland was knocked out IN
w Se'ehth round Of a boxing contest
Win battling Dane at Pocateno.
Candidates for the senate from
'uaho' James f. Alshie, Republican.
III John +. Nugent Democrat have
"''u preliminary primary expense ac-
counts in the senate.
A private telephone line is being
constructed from Bellevue to Muldoou
ana from Muldoon to Carey. II with
De great convenience to the ranch
ers on Little Wood river
Kat the government will undertake
ihe construction Of the Black CANYON
irrigation project as soon as congress
authorizes loan to the reclamation
luna Is practically assured.
II has been finally decided that the
TOUR successful aspirants to the nom
NATION Tor governor Of Idaho will be
invited to address the Labor day
throng at Boise September :.
A nine-year-old boy named Near
thur was electrocuted near Chester.
The boy was playing with a guy wire
swinging loose from pole. when the
wire came in contact with live wire.
AS the result Of drinking water from
newly filled cistern near Twin Falls,
ten people OF a party Of thirty were
stricken with typhoid fever, one of
whom died in the Twin Falls hos
pital.
Hans W. Hochbaum. county farm
adviser and instructor in the Boise
hlgh school, was seriously, though not
dangerously injured when a horse
which he was riding stumbled and
threw him.
All the mill binds and miners en-
plOyed at the Independence mines and
mill at HALEY were laid of last week
10 await reopening of the market
for ores Only two men will be kept
~ the mine.
Tire body Of Max Coolidge, the
spokane young man who was drown
ed IL Lake Pend d'Oreille August 4,
VAS recovered last week by two fish
ermcn who CHANGED to be in the vi
entity OF Sunnyside
r. W. sherman. who was charged
with grand larceny. pleaded guilty al
HALEY. and was sentenced to four
teen years in the state peniientiary.
sherman confessed to robbing d guest
III the Arco hotel OF So.
al. a. a oh . ku.
surface OF the new federal building al
Pocatello to stone instead OF brick,
and work has to some extent been
suspended while this proposition is
being decided at Washington
PhoeniN-like Boyill is rising from
the ashes Of the Fourth of July fire
into Well-ouiit brick town Cntracts
for brick Dusi-ess blocks having i
frontage OF 800 feet nave been let and
the work is now We'll unser way
over u quarter OF million dol
lars worth OF sheep changed hands
AT Mccall on the south beach Of Pay
cite lake. during the last itte,. days
Most OF this buying and selling d
sheep was betwe cen growers and deal
crs.
+. II. Parks. field entomologist FOL
the Idaho Agricultural college. ha!
been in Bear Lake county inspecting
the alfalfa for the presence OF weevil
lie reports that Up to the pr sen
time there has been very little weevi
found in that section.
The report OF the state tax com
missioner on railroads in Idaho sho"
that. II II Is adopted, the assessed va
uation of the roads in Idaho will b
raised five million dollars. The stat
board OF equalization has taken III
report under consideration.
The Idaho Millers' association me
in Pocatclo last week for the pun
pose of determining what action I
take regarding securing uniforr
rate to coast points. The millers stat
that they do not anticipate that fiou
will raise in any appreciable price.
The biggest showing Of first elias
ore that has been developed in tn
Wood River valley since the early 81
has been opened in the Nau Au
q mine on Deer creek. The body is 81
feet wide and the ore shoot is 10
feet long. The width is solid stee
galena
The infant child OF Adrian Pa
sons of Thomas met death by drowl
ing while the parents were preparin
supper. The baby crawled to an irr
cation canal which passed near III
house. When missed a search was II
stituted and the body was found MOI
than 100 yards from the house.
Engineer q. 5. Osborn Of the Or
gon Shor' Line. who has charge
the work on the loop that is BEN
built from Idaho Falls around by II
foothills to st Anthony. has sent tN
=. carloads of laborers out within Il
4 mast few days and the laying of ste
= is now going on at rate of near
1 TWO miles per day.
> Afflicted with the rabies. having,
j. { believed. been bitten by coyo'e.
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