The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1915-10-01
IDAHO STATE News

Prospects are excellent for goo
prices for apples this season, accort
ing to State Horticultural Inspecto
Graham.
Il There are FIVE thousand acres of r.
claimable land adjacent to Boise, a.
cording to the United states surve!
or generals office.
L. E. Ihrig and Andrew Anderson
4 were arrested in Nampa while in pos
session of an automobile that ha'
been stolen in Boise.
The school levy decided on for tn
Nampa district this year is to be S
on each 500 valuation OF property
Last year the levy was 80 cents.
Harry Douglas, rancher who live.
about three miles from Star, came
near receiving fatal injuries wher
struck by an interurban car in Star.
Probably not less than eight thou
sand people were on hand to- witness
the parade which marked the opening
of Nampa's fifth annual Harvest fes.
tival.
A modern hospital, under the ID
rection and management of the Sis
ters of Mercy of the Roman Catholic
church, is to be established in Sho.
shone
Otto Hansen Leflang committed sui.
eide at his home in Ketchum. Failing
health is assigned as the cause. Mr..
Leflang was 80 years of age and
leaves widow, daughter and two
sons.
Shade Field, who shot and killed
Wayne and Edward Ward at the Lin
genfelter ranch, near Donnelly, came
into Boise last week and voluntarily
surrendered, declaring the shooting
was in self-defense.
The Nampa highway district COM
missioners report that they have
agreed on levy of 40 cents this year,
rs to go for roads and Is for bridges.
Last year the road levy was 20 cents
and the bridge levy 10.
McKeeth's Ferry is to be the loca-
ton of the Ada-Owyhee bridge over
Snake river. Commissioners OF both
counties have decided on that point in
preference to Grand View. Both
points have asked for the bridge.
Arrowrock dam, that arrests the
low Of the Boise river just above the
;ity of Boise, that gigantic vault door
If reserve bank in which is to be |
stored each year mighty treasure in |
liquid millions. has been completed.
Nampa sends out challenge to the |
tate of Idaho to produce a larger,
I'LL OF potatoes than that on exhibit |
ion in that city. The hill contained
s spuds, a number of them of unusual
ize, and the total weight is 20 pounds.
All southern Idaho has of late shown
n interest In the national guard, and
be latest indication of 1t is an appli-
alton received at the adjutant gen.
rails office from the town of Eden,
lincoln county, for battery of light
rtillery. II
Purchasing clothes4basket to serve
8 a cradle for his month-old mother
'ss babe. R. E. Hiatt last week began
lie journey from Eagle to Sidney, Ia,
here the infant is to be placed In
lie care of its grandmother Mrs.
iatt died month ago.
Almost before the cement floor of
le new jail at American Falls had
irdened, five prisoners were placed
ehind the bars. Two of these were
'rse thieves caught with the goods
and three caught in the act of
Imbling with the worries.
DR.. E. E. Laubaugh, state bacteri-
ogist, has returned from his eastern
ip, during which he attended the
invention of the American Public
ealth association in Rochester, N. III
of which he was elected a mem III
r OF the advisory board. Il
Joe Clark, Salt Lake boxer, put up
great battle at Boise against Frank III
tteau Canadian champion. Bat II
III won in the ninth round of a II
leduled ten-round go, when Clarke's
'onds threw up the sponge. despite
arke's protest for them not to. II
Voluntary manslaughter was the
dict In the case of William Nya-
ntes, who instantly killed Mike
'xepous and mortally wounded Pete
rzis in a cigar store at Pocatello a
nth ago. His sentence Is from one
ten years at the state prison.
Judge Edgar C. Steele at Lewiston |
handed down decision reversing
action of the board of county com
sioners of Nez Perez county in ap-
priating the sum of $1,000 for the
OF the Northwest Livestock show.
ling that the constitution forbids.
IS showing the growth and I'D
ding OF an entirely new commune
a new school house at Kimama.
station on the Short Line where
dry farmers have been settling
"a year or so, has just been erect
The building Is rs by 40 in d.
lsions.
complaint has been fled at HALEY
INST w. F. Horne, chairman OF the
d OF county commissioners, in JUS
Bertsch's court, charging him
forgery in having raised the
unit OF county warrant to the III
mt of 500 In excess of the true
value. The alleged offense WA