The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1915-02-04
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dock have been chosen as counsels for
the North Side companies.
Company D Of Twin Falls is busy
with plans for rebuilding the armory
at that place which was destroyed by
fire January 10.-Twin Falls Chronicle
Rupert is to have a modern passen-
ger station. Also freight house and
extension Of tracks and general depot
Improvement
The Pocatello Academy is to debate
with the Albion Normal. the College
of Idaho and the Fielding Academy
on the subject of government control
of telephone and telegraph.
A volunteer fire department was or
ganized In Ashton the past week. The
town has good water pressure, two
carts and a thousand feet of hose. So
with the general interest shown they
feel secure against fire.
]. j. Sorenson tells in the American
Falls Press of the first elections In
the Idaho Snake River valley at
Neeley. He also saw the first perma-
nent school started there and he plant
ed the first orchard.
Mr.. and Mrs Robert NJ. Terrell are
back at home in Pocatello from Flor
ida. They made the trip from Denver
t. Tampa in an auto and visited in
the course of their outing most of the
southern states, and made about 1000
miles in the car and had two tire
troubles.-Ex.
Suit was filed at Boise by the Boise
Development company against the city
of Boise, asking twenty thousand act
ual and five thousand punitive dam
ages because of the action of the city
in damming up the Boise river to
make Julia Davis park-Twin Falls
Chronicle
Jerome Van Gale of Filler. fearing
that his wife was going to leave him.
followed her to neighbor's house
and there fired four shots at her. none
of them taking serious effect. He
then shot bullet through his own
brain and died in the Twin Falls hos
pital on Tuesday, Jan. rs.
Building of road which will open
a lead region richer that the Couer
d'Alenes, to say nothing of the other
minerals. through the Deadwood coun-
try to Edwardsburgh. and near that
point tapping the Thunder mountain
and Warrens district, is being dis
cussed at Boise.-Ex.
Former Governor Haines, W. l.
Clifford, former secretary of state.
StaN auditor Huston and the Idaho
Trust and Savings bank were exoner-
ated from completely in the manipula-
ton of o. " Allen of the s25,ooo bond
issue, in a report made by the grand
jury at Boise.-Shoshone Journal.
George Harter had a narrow es-
cape from death at Gooding when a
horse which he was endeavoring to
break struck him down while he was
adjusting the blind over the horses
head The animal struck at him again
as he lay on the ground. but the hoofs
merely grazed his head.-Ex.
POCATELLO. Ida. Jan. 25.-What
is claimed to be the largest steer ever
raised in Idaho is on display here at
one of the local markets. The steer.
which was a three -year-old, weighed
Just 22O0 pounds and the market paid
s122 for him on foot 1t was grown
and fattened in Gooding county.-Ex.
The Idaho Falls team won in the
rabbit hunt Sunday. About four or Ave
times as many hunters reported from
the Idaho Falls district as from New
Sweden, but the sides were divided UP
ard all started out The hunt was
very excitinf and several thousand
rabbits are estimated as having been
kllleQ. llt NEW - Cdtu hSoiiA i'O
owes the Idaho Falls team a grand
banquet and dance, which will be CIV
en- in. the New Sweden schoolhouse at
an early date-Ex.
A new game law should be passed
by all states and contain the following:
Book agents may be shot between
October 1. and September 1; spring
poets from March /. to June /; auto
speed demons from Jan. to Jan ]:
road hogs from April Is to April Is;
amatuer hunters from September (,
February /; war takers, no clossd
season: any man who accepts paper
for two years and then. when pre-
sented with a bill, says: never or
dered it, may be killed on sight and
shall be hurled face downward into
quicklifne to prevent the spread Of the
infection."-Ex.