Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-04-17
IDAHO STATE NEWS

George G, Wentz, aged 76, is dea
at Salmon, where he had made h
home for forty-eight years.
The business district OF Council, tn
county seat of Adams county, wa
swept by fire last week. Seven bull,
ings were destroyed.
w. A. Broadhead of HALEY was 8,
lected chairman of the new stat
highway commission at it's first NEE
ing, held last week at Boise.
While driving four-horse team t
a loaded hayrack, at Middleton, L. "
Thomas was tipped off in such mar
ner as to fracture his right arm.
| Acceptance of the new power rate
for southwestern Idaho has been file,
by the Idaho-Oregon Light & Powe
company with the public utilities com
mission.
Herbert Wing, former state engi
neer, has been employed by Attorne,
General Peterson to act Temporarily
as an assistant In the attorney gen
erals office.
While there Is little cholera in an,
section OF the state, the government
agricultural workers want all trace.
of the disease swept out and ar
working to that end
The 3-year-old child OF Mr.. an(
Mrs. Howard Williams was burned
death near Riparia when their famil
home was destroyed. The mother, al
invalid, was rescued with difficulty.
Gooding is now secure as the coun
ty seat of the new county of tina
name, according to stipulations file,
In the district court where a suit wa
pending by the town of Wendall con
testing for that honor.
Isaac Warren, negro, was convict
ed of murder In the first degree TO.
the killing of William Jackson at Pc.
catello last January and a sentence
of life imprisonment in the state pen
itentiary was given the prisoner.
President M. A. Brannon of the Uni
versity OF Idaho has rendered his res
ignation, to take effect July /, due
1t is said, to dissatisfaction with tn
action OF the conference committee o
the legislature on appropriations In
reducing his salary
The Payette business men have re
Gently organized, in an effort to mar
ket for the farmers the products O:
the lower Payette valley. They ar,
holding regular market days and offe
inducements to the people of the SUI
country to get real bargains
Miss Della Lundgreen, who wa
raised in Idaho Falls, but has bee
in the state engineer |
office for two years, was the success.
ul bidder for transcribing the record |
If Boundary county, against the bid.
If several Portland parties.
Dean A. Wilson, junior In thu
Nampa High school, was the WHINE
II the gold medal in the essay con
est conducted under the auspices O.
he Idaho society, Sons of the Ameri
an Revolution. His essay was EMIT.
ed Frontier Days of America"
A Shoshone dispatch says Mrs.
'eck, mother Of Francis Peck, com
litted to the penitentiary few days
go, died on Wood river, aged sci
ears. The mother was not appraised
the trouble of the son. She was
| long time from tuberculosis.
w. H. Colyar, who went under the
las of w. W. Reene while in Idaho,
nd who was taken back to Visalia
ounty, California, in February,
harged with failure to provide for
linor children, has been sentenced to
Tree years, after pleading guilty.
BY the consolidation of the Idaho
RECON Light G. Power company, the
laho Railway Light 4 Power com
any and the Idaho Power & Light
'mpany the costly competition the
Iree companies have engaged in for
le past two years in southern Idaho
to cease.
April 1918 has been designated as
ONE Industry week In a proclama-
on issued by the governor. In the
reclamation he urged that the week
} observed by all citizens of the
ate and special efforts be made at
at time to encourage the principle
patronizing home industries.
That there is big deal pending
hich, II successfully closed, means
,thing more nor less than that the
oney necessary has been raised for
of the Boise Butte San
'ancisco railroad its entire length
ON Butte via Boise to tidewater al
IN Francisco, Is the information that
mes from Boise.
AS the result of the arrest OF Mar
ret Conway, and several witnesses
40 are held in jail at Pocatello, of.
ers believe that the murder Of Ed /.
White at Mackay over two years
o will be cleared up.
Walter Smith, youngest son OF one
the oldest families of Pocatello
ed Sunday evening as a result of an
erdose of strychnine taken for
art trouble with which he suffered
failed to revive him.