The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1915-01-28
IDAHO SIATE NEWS.

The postofFice department has re-
newed for ten years. beginning March
/. its lease OF the postofiee quarters
at Wallace.
As the result OF a coal war now be-
ing started. number OF town in south
ern Idaho are going TO get cheaper
fuel, IL is said.
DeForest Page. a Boise boy, who
was arrested. with two Oregon boys
and charged with branding and steal
Ing two horses, was acquitted At Vale.
ore.
At mass meeting held In the Club
az Commerce rooms at Idaho Falls.
action was taken toward adopting tha
commission form Of government for
the city.
Miss Betty EzeIi OF Blackfoot has
been appointed assisting enrolling |
clerk for the senate. Miss Ezell for.
merly was with the county clerks OF?
fee, Blackfoot
Dr. b. b. swan. q aentist who was
one OF the well known men OF Noun |
tain Home. was found dead In the |
basement OF bis home. death being due
to heart failure.
The oregon short Line has notinsd
the public utilities commission II will
comply with the order Of the commits.
sion on It's three-cent rate order on
the St Anthony branch.
Practically the entire site OF the
village OF Hagerman is to be sold By
the sheriff OF GoodinE county on Feb
ruary is to satisfy three judgments
to the total OF nearly $4,000.
| d. w. Robb, formerly a clerk in the
office OF the state auditor, against
whom an indictment on the charge OF
smbezzlement was returned by the
| grand jury last week. was arrested
at Great Falls. Mont.
The Commercial club at HALEY has
| appointed committee TO take up with
CONGRESSMAN smith the question OF
securing from the government herd
OF elk for the proposed Sawtooth m.
tional park.
The county commissioners Of Ban
mock coupnty rejected all OF the bids
which were submitted by local doc
tors for conducting the office OF coun-
/ ~ physician, on the ground that all
bids we're too high.
The Oregon short Line is wholly
exonerated from responsibility for the
accident in the railroad yards Of
Nampa January IA. when j. w. Staples
OF Glenns Ferry, an o. s. L. fireman.
was fatally injured
Several electric lighting companies
in PocateIio united last week In q
demonstration OF electric devices and
fixtures at the electric fair" Many
, excellent machines for saving labor at
, home and on the farm were shown.
The electors Progressive party OF
Idaho will be kept intact and remain
a separate and distinct political unit
in Idaho politics This was In con
crete the unanimous decision Of the
party leaders In conference at Boise.
Two men. Willis and Andrew Glib
| son, brothers, were killed when huge
avalanche OF sRcw, rocks and debris
swept down upon them In a canyon
near Franklin. The men were cutting
timber when overwhelmed by tbs
slide.
| The Rev. Arthur Saunders OF tbs
| Episcopal church at Poeatello hal
| Just issued neat volume Of history
| bearing especially on hammock county
| The history is written In the narrativ,
1 form and deals with a number Of th'
i pioneers.
The board OF trustees has decided Z
build an additional ward school TO
4 the grades on property acquired re
Gently on the east side Of Idaho Fails
y and remodel the central building
q which IL used at present as bot
\ grade and high school for high schoo
purposes.
Fritz Hezzler. the 5.year-old son Q
4 Mr.. and Mrs. William Healer O
\ Nampa. has lost the sight OF his RICH
d eye as a result Of an accident whic
occurred while the boy and his 3-yeai
d. old sister were at play. the shar
point OF a lead p,Ncil being drive
- into his eye.
The churches. fraternaI organic
tions and city and county govern
ments have decided to pool issues an
= form a United Charities associatio
for the relief of the poor OF Twi
Falls city and county and do ava
with the present method OF indisorlu
mate charity by individuals and q
sociations.
II In future competition among publ
utilities in Idaho will be permitte
by the public utilities commission an
regulated monopoly Sill not exist, II
commission having reversed itself c
its prior ruling barring eompetitic
from given electrical fields on Il
grounds that II would bring abol
81 wastefui competition,
4 After two years Of bitter conflict
courts and otherwise. the eisctr
power war waged In western Idal
and eastern Oregon was ended wi