Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-10-23
IDAHO STATE NEWS

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Harry Ross, 4~.year-old son Of Mr..
and Mrs. Jerry Ross of Pleasant View.
was Kicked by a horse and Is In Q
serious condition.
j. S. Norris, charged with stealing
three horses at Caldwell. has been
brought back from Prineville. Ore.
where he was captured.
New books have been purchased for
the Haley public schools with the
$3.50 bequeathed to the school by
Leopold Wertheimer, who died in
1918.
Floyd Gilbert, captain OF the
G~rangeville high school football team,
died at a hospital at Moscow from q
broken neck sustained In q game at
Nez Perez.
Arrangements have been completed
for the floating of the $4,000. 900
power merger in Idaho with the ex-
ception of the selection Of a name for
the corporation.
The Oregon Short Line railroad has
been granted permission to put In ef-
feet on November l its former pas
senger rate of 4 cents a mile over the
Burley-Marshield branch.
Clifford Rhodes, a we'll known and
highly respected barber Of Blackfoot,
has disappeared and 1T Is feared he
has suicided, as he left a note saying
he was going to take his life.
For two hours a bull held Mr.. and
Mrs. Ed. Geissler and their three sons
and niece prisoners in a granary at
Fruitland. The animal was shot with
a 30 several times before 1t could be
driven away.
w. ID. McReynolds Of Boise has
been appointed by Judge Frank 3.
Dietrich to be clerk of the federal dis
trict court for Idaho. Mr.. Mercy
nolds succeeds Len Richardson. who
died recently.
John McGary of Shelley is conduct
ing a search for his longlost brother,
Ira McGary, last heard from twenty
five years ago, but reported to have
died somewhere In western Idaho
September 81 of this year.
The shipment of fruits from the EN-
nett section is fast drawing to a
close. The price received have been
considerable more income to the PEG
low, but ON the whole have brought
pie than in any previous year.
An order has been issued by the
public utilities commission granting to
the village of Aberdeen. a GER
tifcate OF public convenience and
necessity to construct a water system
within the limits of the village.
After a visit to Mackay, the state
veterinarian announced that there ID
no scab in that section, and every
band OF sheep passing through the
section has been examined. No traces
of scab have been found, he said.
While riding in a car loaded with
household goods and stock, near Bur
ley, Floyd M. Cooper Of Pendleton'
Ore, was thrown with great force
against a cows horn when the car
gave a lurch, causing serious injury
The town OF Council voted on the
matter of bonding for the sum OF $780,.
GOO for the installation Of a munich
pally owned, water system FOR thai
place on the 18th instant and the
bonds carried by. practically unani
nous vote.
Formal demand has been made by
the. state on the National Surety com
pany for reimbursement on the bond
of o. V. Allen, former state treasurer
on account Of the shortages in lbs &C
counts with the state. The sum de-
manded was $133 GOSSIP.
The report that fish in the Black
foot and Wood rivers are dying by
thousands of the epidemic among
suckers is denied by the HALEY
Times, which says there is no cpl
demic among the fish and that there
Is not a sucker in Wood river.
Four dogs we're poisoned during the
past week in Caldwell, and the fact
that so many suffered points to some
human agency. An effort is being made
to discover the source OF the cQntami
nation with the hope that 1t will lead
to some clue to the person responsible
An automobile, without lights, raI
into Roxie Goss, who was driving
horse hitched to a buggy, near Fruit
land. Mr. Goss was thrown out o.
the buggy up onto the auto and rem
dered unconscious for several min
utes, but no permanent injury was re
ceived.
w. f. Kasiska, proprietor OF tht
Bannock hotel at P~ocatello. has beer
fined $2,43S for maintaining a com
mon nuisance" he having pleaded
guilty. The court has SO far not RAISED
the injunction against the Bannocl
hotel, and it will no doubt be closet
for some time.
A petition has been presented t
District Judge Gwinn asking that OF
fetal to call a grand jury to probe
into the civic and financial affairs o
the city of Idaho Falls. The petition
has been signed by all Of the count,
commissioners and other county off
GERS, Mayor Edgington nj a number
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