The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1915-09-17
In THE GEM STATE


) BY the state parole board at its NEE
t ing last week.
Idaho gets $105,911 as her shat
from national forest receipts for II
past fiscal year.
Three barns and a number of win
mills were upset by windstorm Q
Camas prairie last week.
Premium lists for the Idaho Stat
| fair, scheduled for Caldwell on Sci
TENDER q, %, 20, 80 and October
are being distributed.
The conflict between Minidoka an
Lincoln counties over the indebtedness
OF the former county to the latter wa
carried to the supreme court
After much agitation OF the propo
sal, the Boosters club director
decided to drop the idea OF holding
precinct fair this fall at Meridian.
The new $4,000 Lincoln schot
building at Montpelier will be compile
ed in short time, which will give tn
city three up-te-date school buildings
The stike OF prune packers at thu
Mayfeld Fruit company plant q
Eagle. in which 33 of the .35 womeI
employed walked out, lasted just Q.
hours.
in the embezzlement of state fund By
former State Treasurer Allen, viii
make application for pardon at the
next meeting of the state board Of
pardons.
Fred Coleman, former deputy state
treasurer, and who is serving sen
tence in the state penitentiary at
Boise on account of the part he took
SIX-Department
A mad bull completely demolished
the Ford automobile OF Mrs. Thomas
Stephens OF Montpelier when the two
met in q head-on collision near St.
Charles a few days ago.
Delegates have been appointed to
represent Idaho at the thirty-fifth an.
nual session of the Farmers National
congress, which will meet In Omaha,
September % to October /.
Dairymen and farmers Of the Teton
basin and Bear Lake valley. in Idaho,
are enjoying one of the finest years
in the history of dairying and agri-
culture in this section OF the west.
Lee MoOrehead of Boise died on the
Lakeport train as the result of an
accident which happened last week
In Long Valley, where the young
man was working on threshing ma
chine.
Kuna wants to incorporate as vii
lage. 1t has a population OF 227. ac-
cording to the detailed census report
accompanying the petition for incor-
poration filed with the county com
missioners.
A suit involving the water right of
an entire town as we'll as all the prop.
erty holders therein. has been filed
in the district court of Lincoln county
by the Idaho Irrigation company and
Lee ]. Mott.
Harry w. Larson has entered suit
In q justice of the peace court at
Shoshone against the Oregon Short |
Line to recover damages claimed for !
the loss OF weeks washing and a
suit case containing the same.
Governor Alexander paid his re-
spects to the president Friday, con-
ferred with the secretaries Of the |
Interior and agriculture regarding the |
exchange OF state school lands for |
government lands, and left last week I
Tor home.
Patronage at the city market one
lay last week dropped OF to such an
sxtent that the farmers who have
oeen bringing their produce to the sale
grounds at Columbia park, Boise,
Turing the past Two months are some
What discouraged.
Fifteen cases of whiskey, twelve
sacks Of beer, one auto truck and two
men are in charge Of the sheriff, ar
'ested by Deputy Thompson of Black
DOT. Thompson overlook the truck on
he macadam road south of Blackfoot
md stopped 1T.
An examination was conducted In
o the sanity of Mrs. Jennie Culp, Of
boise, but was not completed. Mrs
,ulp's mind Is said to have become
ffected by severe ivness some time
go but as she Is not considered In
ane, the judge hesitates to send her
0 the asylum.
Idaho's amendatory local option Law.
aid to be one of the most stringent in
he United States, operative now In
rohibition counties and which will ap
ly to this state as q whole after
anuary l, 1916. is constitutional in
very form. according to supreme
curt decision.
An amended decree in the suit In
hich Henry B. Purl was recently
ranted divorce at Boise, from II
aura M. Purl has been filed and ap Ij|
roved by the court. The decree II
wards to the mother the custody of II
leir daughter, Virginia. and gives II
Or SIS month allowance for care II
I'd maintenance Of the child. III
The district court at Duchesne II
tab, has granted Mrs. zelda Mead: Il
vs. an absolute divorce from John WI:
eadows. who was recently sentenced
the Idaho state penitentiary for life :.
r being principal in an attempted -
II delivery in which one Of the =