Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1915-03-26
IDAHO STATE NEWS

near Emmett six weeks ago, mas
been recovered.
Much the greater portion OF the
state highway between Nampa and
Meridian has been completed.
map showing Caldwell as the
center of a great agricultural section
has been prepared and printed under
direction of the Commercial club.
At the suggestion of the state live
stock sanitary board the governor has
issued a proclamation for the purpose
of protecting Twin Falls county from
infected hogs.
The University OF Idaho debate
team won a unanimous victory at
Moscow over the Agricultural college
at Logan, Utah. The question debat
ed was that of permitting railways
to pool their earnings.
Entering a plea of guilty immedi
ately after being indicted at Pocatello
Peter Swensen, 68 years old, was sen
fenced to Is months at McNeil's
island, for running an Illicit still and
making counterfeit money.
The justices of the Idaho supreme
court have appointed Mrs William
Balderston state law librarian, te
succeed Mrs. Minnie Priest Dunton
who presented her resignation to be
come effective on April 1.
The body that was found in the
Snake river, near Payette has beer
fully identified as that Of John J
Lane of Tunkhannoch, Pa, who was
drowned January 80, 1915, While work
ing on the bridge near Nyssa.
State banks will be in position
to take advantage of the federal re
serve act when the laws passed al
the Thirteenth session Of the Idaho
legislature go into effect, in the~opin
ion of State Bank Examiner Hit.
Fred Barrett. alias Frank Jenkins
apprehended by the sheriff's depart
ment and held at Shoshone On a mi
nor charge, is found to be wanted in
Monroe county, Tennessee. whence he
is alleged to have escaped six years
ago.
The Twin Falls North Side irriga
ton project applied to the land board
last week for permission to substitute
a sliding scale Of water rights for the
present fiat rate of $50 per acre fol
land as yet unsold, or which may be
resOld
Using the same tactics ne had pur
sued in handling the Kings Hill ap
preparation bill, the governor trans
mitted the Gem irrigation distict ap
preparation measure to the secretary
of state with the amount practically
cut in two.
The fight against hog cholera il
southern Idaho to prevent the ruin Of
a most profitable industry, carried or
comparatively between the producers
the state and the federal government
has been productive of results during
the past year.
Fred Gossett, one Of the prisoners
who escaped from the county jail al
Caldwell while awaiting sentence fol
lowing his conviction on a charge Of
grand larceny, has been sentenced t.
serve from six to fourteen years X
the penitentiary.
Voters OF Pocatello have left NJ
doubt as to their desire for new
school. At a special election, held Il
decide whether or not the city should
be bonded for $125,G0O for high scb0o
purposes, the bond issue was carried
by vote of 541 to 20.
A Caldwell firm of horse buyer;
has given out the information thai
in the past four months they have
put into circulation as the result Ct
their purchase and resale of horses II
The market there the sum of three
hundred thousand dollars.
The small son of John Schlager O.
Canyon Greek was badly injured by
he explosion of dynamite caI
which he had placed in the stove
Two fingers and the thumb of the
light hand were taken off at the frs
oint and he also received a bad cut
'ver the right eye.
A link connecting the east and wesl
IDAHO Pacific and north and soutt
daho central state highways, which
ntersect at Twin Falls, with the ma
ional highways of Nevada, will be
ompleted when the work begun las
week on the road between Twin Falls
nd the Nevada state line is finished.
Announcement that no special ses
ion of the legislature would be
allied, is made by the governor. He
aid he had ceased to consider suct
proposal since deciding to sign the
preparation bills, and will not issue
call for an extraordinary session Il
he appropriation bills work out any
here hear in accordance with hi.
ieas- ~ aiSNA
The first car of freight other thar
lat for the railway company's own
Sc, was shipped to the Boise basin
st week by the Idaho Intermountaiu
lilway
A new turbine water wheel was in
-alled at the HALEY Electric power