Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-10-16
IDAHO STATE NEWS

tire business section,
The new school building at Shelley
Is now ready for occupancy. 1t is an
imposing structure.
w. NJ. Gilmore of Payette is the
grand champion corngrower of Idaho,
with a record of lao bushels to the
acre.
The contract for the erection Of the
Church-White building, which is to be
erected at Pocatello, has been
awarded.
Last week closed with the largest
shipment of prunes that ever went out
Of the Fruitland vicinity. In all there
were 50 cars.
Report from the state asylum at
Blackfoot is t the effect that the
largest wheat crop ever raised at the
institution was grown this year.
Ray Berch has been arrested at Pc
catello and is being held ON suspicion,
The officers believe him to have
knowledge of several robberies there.
The Idaho Day celebration at the
Panama Pacific International exposi
ton was one of the most satisfactory
of any held SO far by any of the
states.
A total of $~1,459.75 in fines were
collected in the Pocatello police court
during the past month. The number
of DRINKS led the list of ~offenses with
a total of sixty-fve.
William Riding, said to be a mem
Der of an ogranized gang OF horse.
thieves which has been operating In
Idaho. Oregon and Washington, has
bten arrested at Boise.
Louis Hanson, the young son of Pa
trolman Hanson, was struck by an al,
tomobile at Pocatello while attempt
ing to cross the street. He was
d~faggered for several feet, but NJ
bones were broken.
The large malt house in connection
with the Idaho Falls brewery was
burned to the ground last week. Meth
er the brewery nor malt house had
been used for about three year. The
caust of the fire Is unknown.
The heavy rains Of the past weel
have softened the soil and made |
necessary for the farmers at Shelle.
either to postponetheir operations, 0
to employ extra horses in order t
draw their outfits from the fields.
A fire did damage to the extent 0
nearly $1,000 to the home of Jane.
| Bolts of Pocatello. 1t started in a shel
nearby and quickly spread to the Bot
| home and was burning fiercely upor
the arrival of the fire department.
The police department OF Pocatello
last month transacted the largest bust
ness of any month for several years, a
total of TIA offenders passing through
the grind of the police court mill. Tho
cases of intoxication, as usual, headed
the list with 65 for the month.
If the increase OF enrolment in the
| public schools is an index to the
growth of a city, Pocatello has also
this evidence that it is flourishing. The
enrolment in the city schools thi
year will exceed the 1000 mark, which
will he nearly 300 more than last
year.
Charged with transporting liquor
into dry territory, Tom Karpas and
Pete Mackay were arrested by the
sheriff at Pocatello. The men had
charge of a truck, it is said, upon
which was loaded fifteen cases OF
whisky and a dozen sacks of beer.
The goods were confscated.
Professor Carl e. Johnson, field
dairyman of the department of agri-
culture at the state university, has
resigned his position and gone to
Mountain Home, where he takes up
his new work as manager of the com.
munity farm being established there
by Senator James H. Brady.
A collision on the outskirts of Boise
between an interurban street car run.
ming into Boise and an automobile
driven by Oscar Card, resulted in the
death of both Mr.. and Mrs. Card. Mr..
Card was killed instantly. Mrs. Cards
skull was crushed, and she died two
hours later at a local hospital.
Arrangements are being made for
ne holding of union eyangelistic serv
ices in Twin Falls, beginning January
t conducted by DR.. French e. Oliver
Of Kansas City, assisted by Miss Nc
Claren. an evangelistic worker, and
Mr.. Butler, a noted singer, who has as
sisted Bill Sunday, Torrey and Chap
man.
The Boise Payette Lumber company
is making arrangements to open lum-
Der yards in Twin Falls, Bull, Roger
son, Burley and Rupert in the near fu-
ture. 1t is reported that these new
yards are but five of a chain of thirty
or forty retail distributing yards
which this company plans to establish
soon in this part of the state.
Sam Mallicoat, of Shoshone, caught
in one month no less than 102 coy
otes. viii Keefer, who acts as a dep
uty for the payment of bounties OIL
predatory animals, reports that In
one week he defooted 1853 coyotes and
one bear.
The work on the Brady irrigation