Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-08-14
IDAHO STATE NEWS

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laughter Is II.
Since the open-house plan for tn
winning pool at the Pocatello Y. n
| :. A. has been In practice, approx
nately 600 boys week are takin
jaths at the local tank.
Judge Lawrence Hansen OF Roc
Jreek was elected president of til
twin Falls County Jeffersonian clu
1t Its regular annual business NEE,
ng held in Twin Falls last week.
Mrs. w. l.. Brigham, 4S years OF age
lied of heart failure at her home ne;
ryhee. She was working at her se'
| ng machine when she expired. Ht
husband and nine children survive.
Three of the four Basques whit
we're arrested at HALEY for sellint
| iquor without license, pleaded gun
y and were fined $3.50 and costs, The
ourth Basque decided to stand trial
Mike Bagiad, Greek section han,
vas struck by the pilot beam OF lt
;omotive near Pocatello and instant
killed. He was reported to be wal
ing away from the train and evidentl
did not hear it coming.
Though eight different parties hav'
been in communication with the sec
| retary of the Nampa Chamber of Con
nerce with regard to the establisi.
ment of canning factory there,
definite action has been taken.
Mrs. George, the wife of rancho
living about two and half m.lt
northwest Of Star, met death viii
she was assisting her husband In TAX
ing the casing out of a well on the
homestead. A bar slipped and struc.
her.
On Friday, August 20, people of Poo
atello will assemble in general celt
bration attendant upon the opening
the new Short Line station, which wa
erected at the cost of $350000, an
which is nearing completion at thi
time.
Theodore Turner and Harry Va
Slooten, United States commissioner
of Bannock county, have been notifie
by the department of the interior tina
they have been exonerated OF al
charges of irregularity or overcharg
on final proof matters in land cases.
There is great deal OF trouble this
summer over the scarcity OF water in
Wood river. All water taken from
Wood river under decree granted
since 1884, has been ordered shut off
because of its scarcity. Below the
Glen bridge there is only 1000 inches.
Ross B. Carter, aged rs years,
assistant professor OF zoology
at the University of Idaho, at Mos
COW, Idaho, is at Salt Lake hospital
with a fractured skull and fractured
right thigh, the result of the overturn-
ing of an automobile, In the Utah cap
ital.
On complaint of Bessie Mcdonald,
a negress, Pocatello officer arrest
ed Coal Oil John Williams, negro,
for beating Miss Mcdonald. After
taking a gun from Williams and pro-
ceeding to the stating, Williams made
a dash for liberty and was shot in the
right leg.
The Lemhi county commissioners
are having a survey made of the pro
posed state highway through Lemhi
county from Challis to the Montana
inc. The Montana part of the road
has been built, and survey made of
the road from the Montana line to
Gibbonsville.
The city clerk of Pocatello last
week made out warrants for the city's
bills and the total cost for running tbs
city for July was $9,60411. One Of
the large items was the pay for volun
teer firemen. In the past month the
city has had great number of fires
and the damages are heavy.
During the year 1914 the Idaho ship
ment of wheat aggregated 4,575 car
loads; oats 1928 carloads; barley, /,
}29 carloads; potatoes, 9,776 carloads
lay, 3,199 carloads beets, 5,331 car
Dads; making a total shipment OF
arm products from this state las
year of $4,000 carloads.
The latest thing in the line of build
ing activity in Pocatello is the def
nite announcement that e. C. Whit
and d. w. Church will build a new
two-story business block The wall
will be constructed for a four-story
building, and the building will be 10t
feet and 40 feet in dimensions.
Benjamin Barrus, part owner of
threshing machine operating neal
3urley, was mangled to death in tn
,ylinder of the thresher when, as h
tempted to dislodge a bundle O.
rain with his foot, his body wa
'rawn into the machine up to his
houlders.
An automobile belonging to W. L
Elliott who resides near Boise, wa
entirely destroyed by fire, only the
right front tire being saved 1t is un
lerstood that the engine stalled an
hat the driver investigated the trou
re with a match which touched of