The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1915-01-14
IDAHO STATE NEWS


enough Italian prunes to feed the en-.
tire standing army of the United
States for FIVE years.
The insurance adjuster has allow.
ed insurance on the burned Pocatel
10 high school building 10 the amount
OF $41.250. or the full amount of the
policy.
Boise has been prospecting accord.
ing to the postal records for the past
year Both postal receipts and stamp
sales were larger during 1914 than
during the previous year.
Joe Sabich. who was accused OF as
saulting Nick Millich with a knife al
Boise. has been dismissed from Gus
tody. Millich was stabbed in the bach
with knife on December IS.
The bonded Indebtedness OF the
state at this time is $2,390,250, most
OF which is in per cent bonds. There
are few issues Of per cent bonds
two of AZ per cent and one OF 6 pei
cent
Idaho boasts the only woman banb
president in the northwest and one OF
the few in the entire United States OF
in the world She is Miss Ina N. An
thes, president of the Citizens Bank
Of Pocatello.
Judge Edward A. Walters, senior
district judge of the Fourth judicial
district for the past eight years, an
nounces that upon retiring from the
bench he will resume the practice OF
law at Twin Falls
Murlin, four-year-old son OF Don C..
Stallings, met with a frightful death
at Lewisville by fire. II Is supposed
his clothes caught fire at the kitchen
stove. but 1t Is mystery as the child
was alone at the time.
The Wood river section OF Blaine
county has mined and shipped $50.
900, 10000 in round figures OF silver.
lead product to the smelters during
an active period of production cover.
ing about 10 years.
Some OF the depositors OF the Idaho
State bank at HALEY win be partially
recompensed for their losses by the
American Surety company of New
York, which bonded William q. Cruise
former bank examiner.
There are about thirty thousand
acres of what is considered CONNER.
cial bearing apple trees in the state.
A part of this acreage is under seven
years Of age, and cannot DE expected
TO be heavy producers.
II. J, Mccain, aged Go years, living
on a ranch near the Lone Star school
dropped dead from heart failure while
assisting his son toss hay on rack
Mr. Mccain was In good health up
TO the time OF his death.
1t is the intention of Game Warden
Gowen TO ask the legislature for the
repeal OF the present regulations re
garding the game of the state and to
propose an entirely new law. lie IL
preparing such a bill at this time.
Nine years ago New York 1886
Frank Steuenberg, then governor OF
Idaho, was killed by the explosion
of "A bomb planted near the gate OF
his home by Harry Orchard, self-con.
fessed slayer OF men by occupation.
A special grand jury was impaneled
in the district court at Boise to in.
vestigate the state treasury steal and
other state departments to determine
whether or not there is sufficient
evidence on which to return indict.
ments
The total production of apples for
the state this year aggregates. In all,
twenty-four hundred cars. Twelve
hundred cars were commercial packs,
about six hundred cars being sold for
domestic consumption within the
state. and about the same amount fol
by-products.
Representative Addison 4. Smith
has introduced a bill authorizing the
appropriation OF two hundred and
fifty thousand dollars for making a
suitable addition TO the federal build.
ing at Boise. and appropriating fifty
thousand cash TO begin the work OF
enlargement
Thomas Leonard, blacksmith of
Pocatello, is In the county Jail charg.
ed with beating his wife. The hear.
ing was to have taken place several
days ago, but the condition OF Mrs.
Leonard made II imperative that the
hearing be postponed until sha was
able TO appear as a witness.
Something entirely new In the way
Of community development will be
proposed at this session Of the legis.
lature when Power county asks for
a law permitting the creation Of an
independent railroad district says the
Boise Statesman Senator Houtz OF
that county will propose such law.
OF the funds at the disposal OF the
states schools for the past biennium.
there remained al the end Of the year
slightly more than $4,000. Part Of
this amount will revert to the state
treasury and the remainder will re.
main in the endowment funds Of which
II Is a part
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