Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-03-13
idaho STATE NEWS bad BOYS WIN Y. c.

The Caldwell city council has voted
to pay OFF ten thousand dollars of its
bonded Indebtedness.
There were l,256,T29 hogs raised In
the sixteen counties In Idaho In 1914,
and $3.50 hogs lost from cholera.
A consolidation of the high schools
In the districts of Tendavis, Roswell
Apple valley and Parma Is being
planning.
Fire destroyed the home Of M. w
Keller in the south part of Meridian
The blaze seemed to have originated
from defective flue.
Boise women are adopting the sug'
gestion made elsewhere to utilize corn
meal instead of wheat during the high
prices of the latter commodity.
Oregon Short Line agents and
freight agents from the southeast
gathered at Pocatello on March 3, to
talk over the business OF the coming
year
The Pocatello Chronicle will soon
begin publication as full-fedged
morning daily. The paper Is now pub
.ished as Sunday morning weekly in
magazine form.
County agriculturalists will be in
stalled In number of counties in the
near future, according to II. w. Hoch
oaum, OF the agricultural extension
)ureau OF the university
Removing a steel plate that had
cen riveted over a weak place in the
anyon county jail, at Caldwell. three
,risoners dug through the brick wall
,eyond and made their escape.
While holding sagebrush for her
brother to cut, the little daughter OF
Mr. and Mrs. Amos Stitsel OF the Clay,
.onia neighborhood had three fingers
)f the right hand ell but severed.
Jesse Rifle of Fruitvale suffered .
ainful accident last week when one
i his fingers was caught In gaso
line engine and SO badly crushed that
It was necessary to have 1t amputated
At the district l. O. 0. +, convention
leld at Caldwell last week, perma
.ent district organization was effect
d. There were rs visiting delegates
nd local Odd Fellows at the meeting
md banquet.
After fight which has been waged
FOR six years the Academy Of Idaho
aas been officially changed to the Ida
no Technical institute by the state
legislature, and the governor has Civ
en- his sanction.
At Soda Springs, recently, farmer
hauled nineteen sacks of wheat tx
market, receiving therefor $46.63. The
local paper commented: This Is the
highest price ever paid for wheat In
this section of the country"
A change In the districts of the
Mountain States Telephone G. Tele
graph company will result In the dis
continuance of the district headquar
sion from six to five districts
According to the monthly recapitu
lation report of State Treasurer Eagle
son, Idaho has $1,839, 49499 cash bal
ance at present. During the past
month the state has been enriched
s4,31O.31 by interest earned on state
funds.
The president has signed Represen
tative Smiths bill, providing that q
preference right of entry under the
enlarged homestead law shall be given
10 persons who first apply to have the
lands designated for enlarged home
stealing.
The report Of the Nampa Associat
ed Charities, Just made public, shows
that the organization during the pas
year collected $511.71 and disburset
to needy persons $432.62. In addition
to this sum of money, the society re
ceived and disbursed many substan
tial donations of coal, clothing, etc.
The assistant attorney general hal
decided that unjust discrimination
must exist between competing linei
when one of the lines refuses to pu
into effect joint through passenger ant
freight rates between competing
points, before the public utilities com
mission can force such rates to b.
made.
Tshe census of 1910 showed the STATE
has a population OF 325,594 and there
we're cast at the November election Of
that year 86,159 votes for governor
which would be approximately 3.8 pei
cent OF the population.
The question Of adopting the com
mission form OF government wal
voted upon at Idaho Falls on Marcel
8. The vote was very light, only
about so per cent OF the people voting
The result was 651 against and 2S1 IL
favor.
Engineer Parmalee and Fireman
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